{"title": "Breaks: A Solo Performance by Jessica Cook (Night 1)", "start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Breaks: A Solo Performance by Jessica Cook (Night 1) is a solo dance and performance work presented at Roulette in Brooklyn. Choreographer and performer Jessica Cook shares new material developed as part of her Roulette Commission. The piece is a physical exploration of nonsense-making through fragmentation, compression of sound, and movement scores, using improvisation scores paired with constructed sound costumes and \"toys\" created by the artist. Cook is a Brooklyn-based choreographer who has worked for over two decades, combining movement, sound making, and sculpture in absurdist and strained worlds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/breaks-a-solo-performance-by-jessica-cook-night-1-55469/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/jessica-cook-night-1/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Breaks: A Solo Performance by Jessica Cook (Night 2)", "start": "2026-11-20T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"Breaks: A Solo Performance by Jessica Cook (Night 2)\" is a solo dance and multimedia performance presented at Roulette in Brooklyn. 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Cook, a Brooklyn-based choreographer for over two decades, combines movement, the physicality of sound making, and sculpture to create absurdist and strained worlds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/breaks-a-solo-performance-by-jessica-cook-night-2-55470/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/jessica-cook-night-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ef58fcb1f2e5376aab27a8564c53c9771d4c5d254c810a8e5de49ed7018ab15-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Breaking Down the Dance Call", "start": "2026-11-14T12:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance"], "description": "Breaking Down the Dance Call is an interactive workshop that simulates an ensemble dance call for a summer stock theatre company. 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Conceived as a celebratory postscript to the COIN COIN recordings, part of which began at this venue, it makes space for ideas and questions beyond those recordings. 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It also explores 'dance-ness' and 'performance-ness,' rooted in a process that draws source material verbatim from recorded improvisations by each performer. The choreography is by Neil Greenberg, who performs alongside Jennifer Lafferty and Owen Prum, with music by Zeena Parkins and James Lo, lighting by Michael Stiller, and costumes by Walter Dundervill.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/next-dance-56457/", "official_url": "https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/neil-greenberg-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b96a61391c9dc5c9edb26ffc801e899a4925950040df4ff53194839e58a843c7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Turn. Turning. TURNT.", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $40", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": null, "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Turn. Turning. 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Humor, surreal imagery, and sharp physicality move through memories, fantasies, and imagined futures colliding with the push and pull of expectation, as joy and despair sit side by side.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/as-if-everything-was-perfect-75163/", "official_url": "https://baryshnikovarts.org/performance/as-if-everything-was-perfect/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14e71d94fdf8461c454eb63c2d4652978e9c2af91aa511536f47fd0d556a39fe-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Broken Robots", "start": "2026-11-12T21:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "The Broken Robots is a live music show at Pete's Candy Store, a small venue on Lorimer Street in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn-based band plays everything from hard rock to psychedelic jazz, performing fully improvised sets. Their new album, IN THE HEART, was recorded live and fully improvised in Brooklyn and released on Adhyâropa Records. Their music moves from chaos to communion, pulling listeners into the band's search for the profound in the profane, mundane, and insane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-broken-robots-54792/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Do Not Try This At Home", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New Victory Theatre", "address": "", "price": "USD 28", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "28.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Do Not Try This At Home is a dance action show at the New Victory Theatre, recommended for ages 7 and up, running 50 minutes with no intermission. It is choreographed by daredevil Elizabeth Streb and performed by the fearless Action Heroes of STREB EXTREME ACTION, who fall, flip, fly and crash in a marathon of physical fortitude. Across a series of action events, they harness invisible forces such as gravity, velocity, momentum and impact to propel their bodies where most would never go, slamming to the ground and exploding into the air. The show is playing Off Broadway, and as its title warns: do not try this at home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/do-not-try-this-at-home-71555/", "official_url": "https://www.newvictory.org/events/2627-live-performance-do-not-try-this-at-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f155fe599f0e328f71458bc9c931fc7fdee2cdb57d0b4c977279ac1d30daaf3b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Just Keep Waiting", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Tank", "address": "West 36th Street 312", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A dance performance in its fourth edition, staged at The Tank. It is created by choreographers Sara Pizzi, Aika Takeshima, and Katia Tubini with a cast of six dancers, scenography by Grady Shea, and lighting by Audrey Paige Robinson. The piece explores the shared human experience of waiting—for something to begin, to change, to arrive—through evocative physicality and emotional honesty. Developed across New York, Italy, and Japan, each edition evolves with its new place and performers, so the work exists only in the moment it is created.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/just-keep-waiting-56939/", "official_url": "https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2026/10/5/justkeepwaiting", "image": "https://noky.io/images/607a8a14caf3eb3f2ab40044345dcff41035b5d47d49eff7612c09c1d5923b59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DURATIONS: Ballet: buttechno, Klein, Matana Roberts & Lesley Mok, Significant Other", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "$37.08", "price_from": "37.08", "price_to": "37.08", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "DURATIONS is an evening of experimental music at Public Records, presented by Ballet, an ambient and experimental performance showcase based in Brooklyn. The curation brings the US debut of buttechno's endless Xpire, Klein's melding of noise and R&B, saxophonist Matana Roberts' improvisational playing with Lesley Mok, and Significant Other, with live audiovisual performances. The event is for ages 21 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/durations-ballet-buttechno-klein-matana-roberts-lesley-mok-s-55053/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/778b0ac9da8c0c29e7acc6588815593ccecbc907fad1a847210fdd9aa23b32e3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DURATIONS: An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz [Live Piano] + Conversation with Ciarán Finlayson", "start": "2026-11-15T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$42.23", "price_from": "42.23", "price_to": "42.23", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/house"], "description": "An evening of live solo piano followed by a public conversation at the Roulette venue, part of the Durations Festival. The performer is Terre Thaemlitz, also known as DJ Sprinkles, a house producer, DJ, and writer presenting her first composition for solo piano. The piece belongs to a series begun in 2024 of acoustic performances on a grand piano, using improvisational systems and occasional prepared-piano techniques. Afterward, Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson joins Thaemlitz to discuss her music and her criticism of a culture industry that offers artists exposure instead of wages.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/durations-an-evening-with-terre-thaemlitz-live-piano-convers-55467/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/durations-triple-canopy-terre-thaemlitz-ciaran-finlayson/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8bb3d707c10e17e36f85cee6601ef6c7d776b93dfa287f4cf045b95b40d2ad2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "HopeBoykinDance", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "HopeBoykinDance is a dance performance at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria. The ensemble was founded by Hope Boykin, a two-time Bessie Award-winning choreographer, writer, director, and filmmaker and a former member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, PHILADANCO!, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. The program presents works spanning more than two decades of her creativity. Her movement-language melds modern-contemporary movement, spoken word, and storytelling for the stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hopeboykindance-51066/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/hopeboykindance", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d4a3bc99c203b236b84cd19963d4a90bc6b4384876c8880b4017309906674eb-2000.webp"}]}