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DANCE
Andrew Garn / Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Vermelha chair designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana, manufactured by Edra, Italy, 1993; steel structure, hand-woven dyed cotton rope.
FLAMENCO FLAIR The Joyce SoHo presents a performance by the flamenco dancer Nélida Tirado, a Bronx native who trained in the classical style in Spain. Ms. Tirado dances the world premiere of "Delirio," a work commissioned by Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, an arts organization. The program features an appearance by a guest male artist and musical accompaniment by an ensemble of seven musicians who play original compositions. Tonight through Sunday, 8 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St., between Houston and Prince streets, 212-431-9233, $25 general, $22 students and seniors.
FILM
DESTINY FULFILLED Flora Gomes's musical "Nha Fala — My Voice, My Life, My Destiny" has a screening as part of the Films on the Green series. In it, a young girl living in Cape Verde yearns to sing as her neighbors do — music accompanies everyday happenings from breakups to government elections — but is forbidden by a family curse that promises death to any girl who dares to croon. When Vita meets and falls in love with a musician, her will is tested. Friday, sunset (about 8:30 p.m.), Morningside Park, 110th Street at Morningside Avenue, 212-439-1453, free.
MUSIC
COOL DOWN P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center hosts the third installment of its summer music series, Warm Up. A Brooklyn-based female trio, Au Revoir Simone, performs songs from its indie-pop albums "The Bird of Music" and "Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation." Also on the lineup is musician Dorit Chrysler, who sways above her theremin, an electronic instrument that is played without being touched, instead producing sound by responding to hand motion. A trance producer and DJ, Danton Eeprom, and the Icelandic percussion group Egill Sæbjörnsson & Flis also perform. The concert takes place in an outdoor urban farmland, P.F.1 (or Public Farm One), created by the WORK Architecture Company, winners of P.S.1's 2008 Young Architects Program. Saturday, 3-9 p.m., P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, $10.
PIANO MAN The Village Vanguard hosts the jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, who is accompanied each night this week by the British drummer Tony Oxley. At his most recent solo appearance at the JVC Jazz Festival, Mr. Taylor's sound "seemed inspired by Ornette Coleman's definition of free jazz," Will Friedwald wrote in the June 23 New York Sun. Mr. Oxley has worked and performed with Mr. Taylor for the past 20 years. Through Sunday, doors open at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Ave. at 11th Street, 212-255-4037, $35.
READINGS
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE Central Park SummerStage presents a reading by the novelists Aleksandar Hemon and Junot Diaz, the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A discussion moderated by a Columbia University professor of sociology, Saskia Sassen, follows. Both Mr. Diaz and Mr. Hemon were born on foreign soil — the Dominican Republic and Sarajevo, respectively. They discuss how their experiences as young immigrants in America inspires their writing. Tonight, 7 p.m., Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, enter at East 69th Street at Fifth Avenue, 212-360-2777, free.
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