DANCE
TUESDAY - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9 - 13, 2018
7:30 PM

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

$20
http://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/world-premiere-juliana-f-may-folk-incest/

Choreographer Juliana F. May's work is corrosive, topical -- but not didactic nor, God knows, sanctimonious.  This work addresses such cheery matters as the Holocaust, sexual trauma, and the fetishization of young girls (you can't accuse May of being timid -- or thinking small).  This stuff isn't easy on the audience.  But with her biting humor and openness to pop culture, May makes sure to find ways to let the audience in.  Another of those shows, then, that you'll walk out of feeling that you've been through something.  And, as I always ask, isn't that we really want from a night out at the theater?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Now that I've been to Randall's Barbecue, I can say that it isn't bad at all.  Maybe I ordered right.  So get what I got (not necessarily what you'd expect to be good at a barbecue joint -- but this one expressly tries to evoke the Ashkenazic foodways of the old Lower East Side):  the pastrami sandwich.  The meat -- well-spiced and not at all dry -- was about a quarter of the way between New York pastrami and Montreal smoked meat:  a good place to be.