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WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 17
Dance
Philly's wry, Bessie-winning dance comedians, David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith, set their sights on MTV, cross-pollinating it with Dante's Inferno. Britney's Inferno deconstructs the choreography of celebrity culture and integrates local teenagers into the act. ZIMMER
At 7, through Friday, and Saturday at 2 and 7, Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, 212.924.0077
Music
Aveteran of the Ellington and Basie orchestras and the former leader of the Big B-A-D Band, Terry knows
about orchestras, and he is once again in front of a new
one, debuting here this week—quite a feat at this stage
in his life. A brilliant, unmistakably individual trumpeter, Terry has been reborn in the last few years and remains the kind of performer who could convert your maiden aunt to jazz, if you had a maiden aunt. GIDDINS
Through Saturday at 9 and 11, Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, 212.581.3080
He's 50 and has been celebrating in style all month, with a different band, concept, and repertory every night or so. He performs game pieces, including "Xu Feng," on Wednesday; convenes his most admired band, Masada (Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron), Thursday through Saturday; and follows that with the premiere of "Chimeras/Sortilege" on Sunday, duets with Wadada Leo Smith and Susie
Ibarra on Monday, and his Jewish nationalist opus, "Kristallnacht," on Tuesday. GIDDINS
Through Tuesday at 8 and 10, and through September 30, Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, 212.358.7501
Photo
The artist presents an intriguingly elliptical self-portrait, both literally and metaphorically. The eccentric arrangement of variously sized color still lifes, portraits, and landscapes recalls both Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans without seeming in the least bit derivative, perhaps because Iacono has found her own witty, allusive, and assured vocabulary. Pamela Pecchio's terrific nature studies are in the Project Room. ALETTI
Through October 4, Wallspace, 547 West 27th Street, 212.594.9478
THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 18
Books
'TRAMPOLINE'
Stranger Things Happen author Kelly Link hosts a reading of Trampoline, her new anthology of fantastically odd short stories, featuring contributors Jeffrey Ford, Samantha Hunt, Shelley Jackson, and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson. The Voice's Ed Park will read the title of his story and, if time permits, an excerpt. MORALES
At 7, Housing Works Bookstore and Café, 126 Crosby Street, 212.334.3324
Film
'PORDENONE SILENT FILM WEEKEND'
Each autumn, the planet's most devout film buffs gathered at the shrine of movie rediscovery in
Pordenone, Italy. Again this year, Pordenone comes to
us. Treasures include Carl Theodor Dreyer's lost Once
Upon a Time (1922), British comedienne Beatrice Lillie's
1926 film debut, and a 1928 comedy feature irresistibly
titled Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath. HOBERMAN
Today through Sunday, BAM Rose Cinema, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, 718.777.FILM
Music
The ex-wife of both John Barry and Serge Gainsbourg, Birkin is the heavy breather on the hit version of "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus," the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg, and an iconic actress (she was an early nude in Blow-Up). Here she rejuvenates her musical career with Arabesque, a tribute to Gainsbourg that includes his classics rearranged in a surprising but flattering Middle Eastern style. WALTERS
At 8, through Friday, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, 212.355.6160
QUASI+HELLA+FIERY FURNACES
If they ever build a power plant that runs on bitterness, Quasi's Sam Coombs will light up the entire Pacific Northwest on his own—even the slide guitar on Hot Shit sounds like it's carrying a grudge. The frantically time-shifting instrumental guitar 'n' drum duo Hella stick to rockist internal combustion; the Fiery Furnaces are fueled by warped early Fall records and wah-wah wobble. WOLK
At 9, Northsix, 66 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, 718.599.5103; Quasi and Hella also Friday at 9, Knitting Factory Main Space, 74 Leonard Street, 212.219.3006, and Monday at 9, Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, 201.653.1703
Photo
After nearly 30 years, Adams is so at home with his subjects—all friends and relatives in eastern Kentucky, where he grew up—that even the most outlandishly Appalachian of them have a compelling, weirdly seductive presence. His new show includes a number of deftly staged tableaux, but its highlights are a series of individual portraits, many of children, that are never so affectionate that they don't draw attention to every detail of the sitter's face, clothes, setting, and disposition. ALETTI
Through October 11, Yossi Milo Gallery, 552 West 24th Street, 212.414.0370
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 19
Art
Opening after we go to press, The Price (Giving In Gets You Nowhere), a folksy intervention of life-size mechanized marionettes, emerges from a Fort Greene brownstone's third-story windows every hour on the hour—like a giant cuckoo clock with Byzantine automaton pretensions. Enacting an eight-minute narrative based on Arthur Miller's play of the same name, it's presented by the Public Art Fund and BAM. LEVIN
Through October 26, 80 Arts, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, 212.980.3942
Film
'FRANKENHEIMER'
The flashiest of the first tele-trained generation of Hollywood filmmakers, John Frankenheimer proved that given the right material—The Manchurian Candidate or Seconds—he could be the quintessential director of '60s thrillers. Seven Days in May, The Train, and Black Sunday have their moments as well. All the prints are 35mm; many are new. HOBERMAN
Opening, through October 9, Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, 212.727.8110
Music
LYLE LOVETT+MARSHALL CRENSHAW
Brilliant combination! Wordsmiths, pop tunesmiths, acerbic commentators, knowledgeable roots modifiers—and rarely mentioned in the same breath before. Lovett's first new songs in seven years veer back toward Texas twang; Crenshaw's new ones take off from increasingly sophisticated power pop, but they both live and breathe where jazz, pop, country, soul, and cynical girls meet. They ought to be able to sing a few together. With Michelle Malone. MAZOR
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