New Perspectives Theatre

Address
456-458 West 37th Street
New York, NY United States Get Directions

Events at this venue

Today

  • Socialism or Barbarism? (and Existential Despair)

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The four panelists will address the existential moment we are all navigating in the face of the multiple crises facing us in the light of the multiple tipping points that threaten existence yet are necessary to further accumulate capital. Following presentations from the four panelists, the audience is invited to enlarge the discussion with their own questions and comments.

    $6 – $15

  • The Orient: Foucault’s Achilles’ Heel

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This talk will explore the intellectual sources of Foucault’s anti-humanist approach to non-western cultures as it documents his personal disorientation and struggles in Tunisia, Iran and Japan.

    $6 – $15

  • Hispaniola in Revolt

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    he panel will look at the current Haitian political crisis and popular revolt; the Haitian revolution, its emancipatory legacy of liberation and contradictions; the lessons of the 1946 and 1986 revolts in Haiti; race and class in Santo Domingo; the 1965 Dominican revolution as well as prospects for cross-border and international solidarity and revolution on the island and beyond.

    $6 – $15

  • Spectatorship and Embodied Expression

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    “ritical art is a type of art that sets out to build awareness of the mechanisms of domination to turn the spectator into a conscious agent of world transformation,” writes philosopher Jacques Rancière in Aesthetics and its Discontents (2004). When as dance artists we decide to work critically with and through the body, and at the same time enter the contested field of the history of psychiatric diagnosis, our aim is to initiate spectator’s transformation. The intention is to make him/her into an active observer of the world outside a given theatrical event. For this to occur, the spectator is asked to remain attentive during a relatively short time of a theatrical event.

    $6 – $15

  • Commie.con

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Respite from the huge comic.con at the Javits Center is this Commie.con. Panels you can hear and easily ask questions during. Interesting vending. Supports a vital theater and The MEP.

    $5 – $10

  • Noam Chomsky’s Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Noam Chomsky’s articles, public talks, and correspondence have provided a critical voice on political and social issues crucial not only to the region but the entire international community, including "humanitarian intervention," the relevance of international law in today’s politics, media manipulations, and economic crisis as a means of political control.

    $6 – $15

  • Premonitions

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Thompson combines scholarship and grassroots grit to disabuse us of cherished certainties. Whether uncovering the unrealized promise buried in mainstream cultural offerings or tracing our course toward the moment of reckoning ahead, the essays in Premonitions are both practical investigations and provocations.

    $6 – $15

  • The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The talk will examinethe historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. A surreal meal will be the last part of this event.

    $6 – $15

  • General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This presentation will look at the General Law of Capitalist Forms of Accumulation and their relevance to the underlying global economic crisis that took place in 2007 and what tendencies there are for a similar or more profound crisis than that of 11 years ago.

    $6 – $15

  • Small Is Necessary

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This new book advocates not only for smaller dwellings in compact settlements but for shared spaces and facilities. Anitra presents a range of practical options from co-living in a household to co-housing and eco-villages. DUE TO A GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION, THIS IS NOW A FREE EVENT!

    Free

  • May Made Me

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Published on the 50th anniversary of those days in the spring of 68, “May Made Me” presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed the individuals who participated and their lives as lived since then.

    $6 – $15

  • Politics of the Unconscious and Surrealist Brunch

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Over brunch, discover some of the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era), and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). Dada and surrealism will not be left behind. We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and witnessed art makers.

    $8 – $12

  • Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions

    Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions
    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    We will look at the images of the mental patients in the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. In light of day one, during the following Sunday, over a Surrealist Brunch,

    $15 – $35

  • Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    We will explore the potential for our own insurgent mapping projects, seeking to understand how supply chains are resilient yet vulnerable and fragile—and to identify where working-class solidarity has the greatest possibility to spread up and down the chain, across sectors, borders–and even oceans.

    $6 – $15

  • Is Another World Really Possible?

    Is Another World Really Possible?
    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    We need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet in the year 2117.

    $95 – $125