5 Issues to Do This Weekend

Flying Lotus’s headlining efficiency at Carnegie Corridor marks a brand new stage of mainstream approval for a beat maker who got here up by means of Los Angeles’s hip-hop underground. It’s a profession first, however not a household first: FlyLo (whose actual title is Steven Ellison) is, in spite of everything, the grandnephew of John and Alice Coltrane.

On Saturday at 8 p.m., Ellison takes the stage of Manhattan’s premier live performance corridor as a part of a multimonth series celebrating Afrofutrism, an expansive motion that anticipates futures formed by Black thought and cultural manufacturing. His inclusion within the lineup displays his place as a brand new torchbearer for a style that his great-aunt helped pioneer.

Ellison’s oeuvre extends past the stressed, cosmic-jazz-indebted digital compositions from which he made his title. His latest work in TV and film demonstrates his curiosity in world constructing, and in live performance, he seeks to impress visually in addition to sonically. Tickets for what’s sure to be an immersive multimedia present begin at $17.50 and can be found at carnegiehall.org.
OLIVIA HORN

For its seventh iteration, the Women in Theatre Festival gave the next directions to the 5 feminine playwrights it commissioned: Create a two-hander that an viewers may take pleasure in each in particular person and on-line.

Sadly, this yr’s in-person performances have been canceled due to the unfold of the Omicron variant, however due to the competition’s directive to provide hybrid performs, its lineup may shift seamlessly to a digital setting — from “Rigged” by Georgina Escobar and “#GirlPowerHour” by Kaaron Briscoe, which function common folks in search of connection on digital mediums, to Amina Henry’s “Blackbox,” by which two actors should bear in mind the way to be onstage once more. Eliza Bent’s “In Service of Reminiscence” examines how forgetting can really feel like medication. And within the shifting “Center C” by Erin Mallon, a piano instructor involves phrases with how a lot she has realized from her favourite pupil.

These quick works, together with a collection of monologues, shall be accessible on demand by means of March 18; go to eventcombo.com and seek for “Girls in Theatre Pageant 2022.” Streaming passes, which value $25, grant per week’s entry.
JOSE SOLÍS

Classical Music

At-Dwelling Immersions

In case you’re nonetheless cautious of attending the few in-person classical concert events that haven’t been postponed, tuning in to livestreams can show to be a useful workaround. Even so, you possibly can really feel such as you’re lacking out on a key operate of the stay expertise. One option to mitigate this disconnect is to enterprise into the realm of acousmatic composition — since these performances use audio system moderately than stay instrumentation.

One of many main composers on the up to date acousmatic scene is Natasha Barrett, whose works I’ve enjoyed at Empac, an experimental performing arts heart in Troy, N.Y. Her newest full-length recording, “Heterotopia” (after Foucault), is a headphones-listening extravaganza, and provides an exhilarating sense of her talent with immersive, surround-sound designs. “Talking Areas No. 1” might at first come throughout as a area recording of a nature stroll — full with birdsong and woodpecker percussion rolls — till the piece appears to wander into an industrial panorama. The album, currently available to download on Bandcamp, presents beautiful musique concrète.
SETH COLTER WALLS

Dance

‘Unusual Fruit,’ Revisited

The Seattle-based choreographer Donald Byrd has at all times made dances with an eye fixed towards historical past: They reply to the previous and doc the current to take care of the long run. Amongst them is “Unusual Fruit,” from 2019, which takes its title from the haunting protest poem Abel Meeropol wrote in 1937 and changed into a music that Billie Vacation recorded in 1939 and memorably carried out all through her profession. Drawing on the music, the dance delves into the often-overlooked historical past of lynchings in America whereas connecting them to fashionable racial terrorism; it’s a uncommon work that belongs to the style of horror.

Byrd’s firm, Spectrum Dance Theater, will carry out the piece this weekend on the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State College in New Jersey as a part of the Peak Performances collection. The dance runs 40 minutes and is adopted by a 30-minute dialogue — Byrd considers communal processing an integral a part of the manufacturing. Reveals are at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, at 8 on Saturday and at 3 on Sunday. Tickets are $50 and accessible at peakperfs.org.
BRIAN SCHAEFER

KIDS

Getting Animated

You don’t should be a Francophone — or perhaps a Francophile — to benefit from the French Institute Alliance Française’s winter competition. It helps, although, to like animated motion pictures.

They’re the topic of Animation First, which runs from Friday by means of Sunday in particular person on the institute’s Manhattan headquarters after which on-line — with a largely completely different slate — from Monday by means of Feb. 21.

Adolescent filmgoers are more likely to be drawn to the opening-night function, “The Crossing,” about two younger folks migrating by means of a menacing, war-ravaged panorama, in addition to titles like “The Tower” (on-line solely), which focuses on an 11-year-old Palestinian refugee.

A lot youthful viewers have choices, too, reminiscent of “Princess Dragon” (Saturday), a couple of woman being raised by the fire-breathing creatures, and “Wonderful Wacky Wolves,” a fur-filled streaming shorts program. (A whole schedule is on-line.)

A full-festival cross is $80 to $120; an online-only cross, $25. Tickets for particular person in-person packages vary from $10 to $25, and a few are free, together with panel discussions and Sunday’s closing function, “The Summit of the Gods,” a teen-friendly paean to mountaineering.
LAUREL GRAEBER