Dances of Vice Tribute to Die Dreigroschenoper 4.26

This Saturday, April 26th, I will be performing a live broadcast of an audio theatre piece I wrote in the mode of old-time radio drama at the Dances of Vice Tribute to the Three-Penny Opera. The event features the Weillian vocal stylings of Daniel Isengart and an exhibition of the photography of Adrian Buckmaster. The radio drama, entitled The Mystery of Fraulein Franziska Festkleid and the Dance of the Seven Fabric Samples, is an aural-literary striptease spectacular. I will have the distinct privilege of having live musical accompaniment provided by Grandpa Musselman and his Syncopators. Jeremy James Thompson and Lucas Lanthier will perform advertisements spots in "A Word From Our Sponsors" duing intermission.


OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION & DETAILS

This Saturday, April 26th (8PM), Dances of Vice collaborates with The Montauk Club to present an exclusive "Dark Victorian" evening at the venerated private Victorian clubhouse - The MONTAUK CLUB - featuring:

- the musical talents of cabaret sensation ISENGART and GRANDPA MUSSELMAN & His Syncopators in a spectacular tribute to The Threepenny Opera

- as well as a thrilling cabaret radio drama by the lovely and enigmatic MASHINKA FIRUNTS, entitled: The Mystery of Fraulein Franziska & the Dance of the Seven Fabric Samples!

- plus a Baron von Munchausen feature animation introducing the next Dances of Vice Festival by esteemed artist ADRIANO!

- and JEN ZAK's signature vintage Polaroid photo booth!

Dances of Vice is also pleased to feature the following fantastic vendors offering an exciting array of curiosities, art and fashions inspired by a forgotten era:

- CHA CHA's HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE: Beautiful Custom & Ready-made Vintage-inspired Fancy hats

- PUREVILE!: Original Oddities & Curiosities crafted from vintage & unique items

- MOLLY CRABAPPLE: Fine Art Illustrations & Dr. Sketchy's

- GLITTERY BLUE: Original Steampunk & Vintage Fashion Jewelry

- GHOST'S ATTIC: Hauntingly Beautiful Custom Marionettes, Dolls, & Poppets

- KENNETH KUDULIS: Vintage-inspired Photo-Paintings



The event is free to Montauk Club members, and $15 for non-members.
For details, please visit: http://www.dancesofvice.com/


NEWS FLASH:

Look for your picture in the most recent issue of SPIN Magazine, which spotlights the fashions at our previous festival in February 2008! The full spread can be accessed at the following link: http://community.livejournal.com/dancesofvicenyc/

Dances of Vice was also covered this month in the New York Times - the article can be read HERE.

Finally, stay tuned for information regarding the next Dances of Vice Festival, to take place from August 22-24, 2008, featuring live harpsichord and Baroque music, a historical costuming "fashion theatre", 18th century fencing demonstrations, art, and much more!

Columbia University

Columbia University Butler Library c. 1934

I've been admitted for graduate study in the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in the Modern Art: Curatorial Studies MA programme. I intend to explore contemporary exhibition venues like Deitch Projects and Bricktops that have encouraged a model of spectatorship with alliances to turn-of-the-century World’s Fairs, cabarets, and other incarnations of late 19th and early 20th century visual culture. The chief concern of my studies will be the potential of quasi-carnivalesque spaces that engage play, participatory spectatorship, and stylized interior design to reconfigure the relationship of the viewing subject to the work as well as to the institution within which it is displayed.

The Collegiate Stomp & The Lindbergh Hop

On April 1st, Jeremy returned from an excursion to Florida where he guest taught two courses at the University of Miami, graduate and undergraduate, respectively, on the theory and practice of self-publishing, bookbinding, and democratic media.

On April 3rd, a postcard he designed and printed entitled Some Never Never Lands showcasing sovereignties no longer extant was included in a set compiled, bound, and offered for sale by the New York Center For Book Arts at the 2008 Annual Benefit organized around the theme of travelogues, aeroplane adventuring, and transatlantic excursions.