Check out this weekend’s top event picks for the Upper West Side!
Midsummer Night Swing: Meschiya Lake & Dem Little Big Horns
When: Friday, June 29th at 6:30pm
Where: Damrosch Park
Meschiya Lake has been a runaway, train-hopper, professional mud-wrestler, glass-eater in the traveling circus, and cross-continent traveler. From singing in the streets of New Orleans with the influential Loose Marbles to founding her own all-star ensemble in 2009, Lake has reenergized the traditional jazz and dance scene with her distinctive, contemporary, smoky, bluesy style. More Info
Midnight Movies: Lifeforce
When: Friday, June 29th at 11:59pm
Where: Walter Reade Theater (70 West 63rd Street between Broadway & Columbus)
In this spectacular, deliriously over-the-top, sexed-up, and compulsively watchable adaptation of Colin Wilson's The Space Vampires, London is overrun by rampaging, energy-sucking zombies after a trio of humanoids in a state of suspended animation are brought to earth after being discovered in the hold of an abandoned European space shuttle. More Info
Cultured and Beautiful 2012
When: Saturday, June 30th at 4:00pm
Where: Symphony Space (2537 Broadway Avenue between 94th & 95th)
The LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre returns to Symphony Space with an exhilarating and diverse program of dance styles: African, tap, ballet, modern, jazz, and drumming. Featuring the new faces of talent 2012. More Info
Sunday Story Hour
When: Sunday, July 1st at 11:30am
Where: New York Historial Society (170 Central Park West between 76th & 77th)
From the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of NYC and the people who made it great. Every Sunday at the DiMenna Children's History Museum. More Info
SummerStage: Limón Dance Company
When: Saturday, June 30th & Sunday, July 1st at 8:00pm
Where: Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield
Join SummerStage as we celebrate the 65th anniversary of the José Limón Dance Company and the “Summer of Limón” series. The company will premiere Come With Me, a specially commissioned dance piece set to live music by world-renowned GRAMMY® Award winning, Cuban composer, Paquito D’Rivera and choreography by Rodrigo Pederneiras of Brazil’s Grupo Corpo. This new work is Pederneiras’ first commission for a U.S dance company and D’Rivera’s first dance commission. More Info