5 Things to Do This Weekend

One thing fantastic is within the air.

After a lot worrying about harmful pathogens floating amongst us, it’s refreshing to be diverted, nonetheless briefly, by what the New Victory Theater is unleashing into its environment: feathers, balloons, umbrellas, flowing cloth, shiny particles and, particularly, pleasure.

All have roles in “Air Play,” a mix of circus, science, comedy and music to savor in individual by means of March 6, or nearly by means of March 20. (Tickets are $20 to $45; on-demand on-line viewing is $25.) Introduced by Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone, the married duo often known as Acrobuffos, this pleasant hourlong revival — the present first ran right here in 2018 — depends on its performers’ kinetic power and Daniel Wurtzel’s air sculptures to maintain each objects and spirits aloft.

What’s an air sculpture? It outcomes from combining fastidiously positioned electrical followers with supplies that may soar. You’ll see silken swaths dance, balloons coyly sway, and orbs and glitter kind a whirling, starry universe.

All of the whereas, Bloom and Gelsone, knowledgeable clowns, play with one another, their props and their spectators, who shouldn’t count on to stay utterly anchored themselves.
LAUREL GRAEBER

Betty White’s demise at 99 on New 12 months’s Eve prompted not solely nationwide mourning, but additionally renewed nostalgia for “The Golden Ladies,” the NBC sitcom White starred in that aired from 1985 to ’92.

That sentimentality may prolong to “That Golden Ladies Present!” as nicely. The puppet parody, which initially ran Off Broadway in 2016, is again on the highway for what’s billed because the “Closing Farewell” tour. With Miranda Cooper as Sophia, Dylan Glick as Dorothy, Lu Zielinski as Blanche, and Samantha Lee Mason as Rose, the present reimagines traditional moments from the sitcom wherein Sophia schemes, Blanche flirts, Rose evokes St. Olaf and Dorothy flings numerous insults.

Really useful for ages 13 and older, “That Golden Ladies Present!” is the primary manufacturing to reopen Queens Theater. Performances are at 3 and seven p.m. on Sunday, and tickets begin at $20. In the event you miss the tour this time, it should circle again to the town with a four-week run at Theater Row starting on April 29.
SEAN L. McCARTHY

“It’s my nature now, to file — to attempt to preserve the whole lot I’m passing by means of,” Jonas Mekas says in voice-over in “Misplaced Misplaced Misplaced.” First proven in 1976, this diary movie is a compilation of footage Mekas shot from 1949 to 1963 capturing his life and buddies in a altering New York, alongside together with his emotions of displacement from his native Lithuania.

A author, filmmaker, champion of the avant-garde and a founding father of Anthology Movie Archives, Mekas died at 96 in 2019; he would have turned 100 this yr. A retrospective of his main cinematic works begins on Friday at Movie at Lincoln Heart and consists of “Misplaced Misplaced Misplaced” (on Saturday and Wednesday). A associated exhibition, “Jonas Mekas: The Digicam Was At all times Operating,” opens the identical day on the Jewish Museum, which is displaying Mekas’s movies in a prismatic, 12-screen set up format, and the place Mekas ran a movie sequence within the late Nineteen Sixties.

On Sunday, Movie at Lincoln Heart will present Mekas’s practically five-hour “As I Was Shifting Forward Sometimes I Noticed Temporary Glimpses of Magnificence,” which stretches from 1970 to 1999. In his narration in the beginning, Mekas says he spliced collectively rolls of movie “by likelihood, the way in which that I discovered them on the shelf.”
BEN KENIGSBERG

Artwork & Museums

Reinventing Appalachia

Final summer time, the singer-songwriter and artist Moses Sumney held a live performance within the Blue Ridge Mountains. It resulted in a 14-track album, “Dwell From Blackalachia,” and a 70-minute movie that’s merely titled “Blackalachia,” a portmanteau of “Black” and “Appalachia.”

Sumney carried out with out an viewers, until you rely the luxurious greenery that created the backdrop for his live performance. At one level within the movie, whereas mendacity in a bath stuffed with flowers, Sumney says, “I’ve wanted an area to articulate my very own loneliness.” He does discover some sense of connection within the Appalachian area, reinventing a spot that bears few traces of the historical past of the Black individuals who as soon as migrated by means of there.

“Blackalachia,” together with stills from the live performance, will likely be on view by means of March 5 at Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea. The movie will likely be screened six instances a day in the course of the gallery’s hours from Tuesday to Sunday. Particulars may be discovered at nicolavassell.com.
MELISSA SMITH

Jazz

Stars on the Hudson

These have been a maddeningly robust two years for pageant planners, however with Covid-19 circumstances on the decline and statewide restrictions lifted, the Hudson Jazz Pageant’s organizers can rely themselves among the many fortunate ones.

Two hours upriver from New York Metropolis, in an previous opera home on the principle drag of Hudson, N.Y., the pageant culminates this weekend with nightly performances from a few of straight-ahead jazz’s best. The vibraphonist Warren Wolf pays tribute on Friday night time to Chick Corea and Gary Burton’s historic duets; the rising-star vocalist Jazzmeia Horn leads a quartet on Saturday; and the tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene closes issues out with a Sunday matinee.

For many of the weekend’s performances, tickets are nonetheless obtainable for tables of two and 4, and begin at $70. Can’t make it in individual? Every night time’s program may be livestreamed free, for those who reserve an area forward of time, at hudsonhall.org.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO