Ariel is also an arts worker with Creating New Futures Phase 2 and Creative Producer for a canary torsi. As a performer, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with, Jacob Peter Kovner, Elisabeth Motley, Jessica Gaynor, Lea Fulton and Joanna kotze. Ariel’s work has been presented by Triskelion Arts, WaxWorks, STUFFED at Judson Church, The Jack Crystal Theater (SWELL 2.0), The Footlight, Ruth Page Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL), The Floor on Atlantic and The Wild Project/HRAF FESTIVAL. Brilliant You uses installation to manipulate the materiality of mylar paper and invites the public to interact with the mylar through proposed scores as a means of accessing personal consciousness and reflection. Her recent work, Brilliant You, explores political science professor, Jane Bennet’s theory that objects are vibrant knowledge systems that teach and exchange with the viewer. Through performance scores, embodied improvisation, installation, and video Ariel develops environments for performer and witness to question the presence of the physical body, to decenter the assumed, and reflect on our collectiveness as humans. Now it's just become a trendy place that's a pain in the ass to live in.Ariel Lembeck (she/her) is a dance artist and dance maker based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Addiction is a complex disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Now what do they come for? CUPCAKES AND LAME FIRST DATES AT SOME SWANK ASS RESTAURANTS? Give me a fucking break!!!! New York used to be a place that had alot to offer and was worth dealing with the drawbacks of quality of life. Understanding Addiction: Pathophysiology, Withdrawal, and Intoxication. Young people used to come to New York for loud-ass underground rock music played in dark holes in the wall. How the HELL did that happen? How did New York City, the biggest bad-ass town in the world, the town that walked it like it talked it, turn into such a BIG FUCKING PUSSY?! And don't even get me started on what young people now come to New York for. It's amazing to me that we are the ones to unfortunately witness the end of something that lasted for, I don't know.a century or more? And at one time looked as if it would never change. We saw the end of a very long and very interesting cycle. What we've seen in the last decade is the end of that notion. People all over the world knew that if you wanted to live in a freaky, weird, mysterious place New York City was the place to go. What's so aggravating about this situation and all those similar to it is this: NYC had really been an unique entity unto itself and had been so for decades. a real estate agency.Ī great bookshop becomes a body waxing salon. And it's the same old story: A decades-old, essential New York place vanishes, taking its unique personality with it, and the space gets filled by. The Footlight Club’s members have sustained the organization's mission: To present the best in non-professional theater to a broad-based audience, and to preserve and maintain Eliot Hall as a community resource. 12th has been gutted, renovated, and sitting empty. The Footlight Club is America’s oldest community theater and has produced performances every year since 1877. You can still order through their website, which also went through a crisis, was nearly lost, and then saved.īut the point of this post is that since 2005, the former Footlight space on E. Now there's a computer with 10,000 songs on it-what's to get excited about? And anyway, most new collectors want the same thing: 20 different languages of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' 'Les Miz,' and 'Rent.'"įootlight then became an online-only business. You know, it used to be you went to your college dance and someone was spinning 45s. there aren't a lot of collectors like years ago. At the time, owner Ron Saja told Backstage, "right now, the industry sucks. Opened in 1978, after three decades in business, Footlight closed its doors in 2005. New York magazine described it well: "On a typical Sunday at Footlight Records, you’ll see hipsters snatching up Italian lounge CDs, hip-hop artists trolling for new beats among the vinyl movie soundtracks, seniors browsing through the Broadway cast recordings, a Liza impersonator scoring Cabaret on DVD." See upcoming events, and support Footlight Underground at the. Mostly, I liked the place for its atmosphere. Quirky community art space, Brooklyn adjacent, made of art, magic, laughter, music and love. I went for CDs by obscure ukulele players, for crooners and torch singers, and for soundtracks. After several years of lying empty, the former space of a classic record shop has been filled-and it's not with another record shop.įootlight Records on E.
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