New Yorkers: One Week Till Ira’s Dance Show

Image by Julieta Cervantes for the New York Times

Ira writes:

Hi everyone! So next week we premiere this show at Town Hall that combines radio stories and dance. Let me say first of all, I know that sounds awful. Radio stories and dance. But it’s a show that's designed as this very funny entertainment, and it kills everywhere we take it.

You may have seen the dancers – Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass – at some of our live This American Life shows. The New York Times today describes their style as "refreshingly relatable ... equal parts theater, movement, comedy, vaudeville, clowning and spectacle. Think of Buster Keaton in Vegas."

The show has stories about love and middle school and marriage and losing what you love, but as an interviewer suddenly thrown into the world of dancers, some of my favorite parts of the evening are these pieces which combine interviews I did with Monica and Anna about the job of being a dancer ... and dance. So we see Monica and Anna move and glide and turn as we hear them talk about what goes on in their heads while they’re onstage.

The show’s unlike anything else, and a total labor of love. You get only three chances to see it: Wednesday Thursday and Friday next week. Then … that's it! Never again! You'll have to live your life knowing you missed this very rare, fun thing we invented.

Today’s New York Times does a better job explaining the show than I’m doing right now. The story's here.

Tickets are here.

I'm very happy that our media partner for these shows is WNYC.