DANCE
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 & 19, 2018
7:00 & 9:00 PM

Crossing the Line Festival
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$20
http://thekitchen.org/event/trajal-harrell-caen-amour

Trajal Harrell isn't so much a dancer/choreographer as a meta-dancer/choreographer.  His works represent and comment on dance, and explore its cultural ramifications.  (He also does great drag.)  Here, he revives/reimagines/deconstructs the hoochie-coochie, a Middle East-derived dance form that was presented and popularized in turn-of-the-20th Century Europe and America as clandestinely erotic.  This show looks so great that it's no surprise it's all sold out; hope for cancellations.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Early shows, let's get over to The Golden Hour -- the wonderful (and insanely popular:  reserve ahead) outdoor restaurant/bar at The High Line Hotel, operated by the Maison Premiere team -- while it's still warm out.  Late shows, good-if-overelaborate cocktails and edible-but-pretentious food at Bathtub Gin.