Out & About
Thu 12
November StepsGuggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
8 p.m. $40, $30 members, $20 students
Tom Gold Dance reimagines November Steps, a 1973 ballet choreographed by Alberto Burri’s wife, Minsa Craig, to Tōru Takemitsu’s 1967 composition of the same name. In this rendition, dancer from the New York City Ballet perform on the Rotunda Floor as a projection of one of Burri’s Cretti works gradually comes into formation on the stage beneath them.
212-423-3500. www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2015/11/12/november-steps/5248
Mount Sinai Presents The Women’s Health Day of Learning and LuncheonThe Plaza Hotel, 768 Fifth Ave.
10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $200.
Stacy London and eight of Mount Sinai’s outstanding doctors will lead educational seminars at Mount Sinai Health System’s annual Women’s Health Day of Learning and Luncheon.
212-843-9352. philanthropy.mountsinai.org/womenshealth2015
Fri 13
In Our Extreme Present Time with Shumon BasarMetropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street6-7:30 p.m. Free with museum admission, but space is limited
Shumon Basar, co-author of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present is joined by architect Keller Easterling and writer Kari Rittenbach.
212-535-7710. www.metmuseum.org/events/find-events?ed=20151113T235959&sd=20151113&st=Date&rpp=100&pg=1
Mission Chinese Food 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Warburg Lounge
7 p.m. From $32.00
Join Danny Bowien, founder and co-owner of the wildly popular restaurant Mission Chinese Food, to hear about his new book
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/Mission-Chinese-Food
Sat 14
92Y Ceramics Studio Annual Sale92Y Warburg Lounge, 1395 Lexington Ave., 92nd Street
7-9 p.m. Free.
Unique gifts and works of art from 32 ceramic artists.
212-699-7217. www.92y.org/ceramics85
Broadway Dance LabGuggenheim Museum, via the ramp at 88th St and Fifth Ave.
7 p.m. $40, $35 members, Friends of Works & Process
Broadway choreographer and Broadway Dance Lab (BDL) founder Josh Prince shares the culmination of BDL’s most recent eight-week session. Prince and choreographer Marcelo Gomes discuss their creative process with moderator Robert LaFosse and BDL’s 10 dancers perform new works by Prince, Gomes, Camille A. Brown and others.
212-423-3500. www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2015/11/14/broadway-dance-lab/5176
Sun 15
Juilliard Dance: New DancesGuggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 88th Street
7 p.m. $40; $35 members and Friends of Works & Process
Juilliard Dance students perform excerpts from new works by four innovative choreographers prior to their premiere.
212-423-3500. www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2015/11/15/juilliard-dance-new-dances/5183
Gabor Csalog: Beethoven to Bartók, Liszt to LigetiLeonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway.
8 p.m. Free.
Gabor Csalog, former student of Gyorgy Kurtag, Zoltan Kocsis, and Andras Schiff, has long been reputed to be one of the best interpreters of contemporary classical music for the piano.
212-864-5400. www.symphonyspace.org/event/9110/Music/gabor-csalog-beethoven-to-bartok-liszt-to-ligeti
Mon 16
CabaretNeue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Ave.
4 p.m. Free
A showing of the 1972 film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York.
212-628-6200
My Sex Life ... or How I Get Into an ArgumentFIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th St.
4 & 8 p.m. Non-Members, $14; students, $7. Members $3 in advance, free day of the show.
Mathieu Amalric plays Paul Dedalus, a neurotic, Joycean 29-year-old grad student who can neither finish his thesis, nor commit to a girlfriend.
212-3550-6100. www.fiaf.org/events/fall2015/2015-11-17-cs-sexlife.shtml
Tue 17
Ballet Exercise Class for Adults67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St.
2 p.m. Free
Learn basic ballet steps and experience the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. Instructor: Jennifer Grambs, trained in both ballet and exercise for older adults. Wear comfortable clothes.
212-734-1717. www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/11/03/ballet-exercise-class-adults
Celebrating Alvin Ailey92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Buttenwieser Hall
8:15 p.m. From $32
Robert Battle, Judith Jamison, Matthew Rushing, and Rachael McLaren with Budd Mishkin discuss how Alvin Ailey forever changed the perception of American dance when he launched his groundbreaking dance company at 92Y with a performance of his ballet Blues Suite.
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/Celebrating-Alvin-Ailey
Wed 18
Community Board 8New York Blood Center, 310 East 67th St., between First and Second Avenues
6 p.m.
Full board meeting
212-758-4340. cb8m.com/events/full-board-meeting-46
Milton Glaser92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Buttenwieser Hall
7:30 p.m. From $32
Glaser, known for iconic work including the “I Love New York” logo and co-founding New York magazine, talks with New York design editor Wendy Goodman.
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/Milton-Glaser.aspx