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Rogovoy Report For 8/12/16

The weekend’s cultural highlights in the region include a new dance festival; the nephew of a pop-art icon; a film festival gone to the dogs; the meeting of two creative minds; French-American electro-swing; a season-topping performance of Shakespeare; and a whole lot more.

The third annual Chatham Dance Festival, a month-long celebration of American dance at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y, kicks off this weekend with performances by RIOULT Dance from New York City, tonight and Saturday at 8pm. Upcoming artists include The Chase Brock Experience, Dance Heginbotham, and Parsons Dance.

James Warhola, nephew of artist Andy Warhol and the illustrator of such children’s picture books as “Uncle Andy’s Cats,” will discuss his work and sign books at Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., on Saturday from 1 to 5pm, as part of “Uncle Andy’s Cats and Other Pet Stories,” a family day filled with storytelling, art making, and talks. Uncle Andy’s work can currently be seen in the museum’s exhibition, “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World.”

The first-ever nationally touring Dog Film Festival stops at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington on Sunday for a family oriented screening at 11am and a different program at 1:30pm. The festival celebrates the remarkable bond between dogs and their people and will benefit the Berkshire Humane Society.

Also at the Mahaiwe, two great creative minds will meet when photographer Gregory Crewdson will discuss the making of his most recent body of work, Cathedral of the Pines, in conversation with author Rick Moody, on Monday at 7pm. The evening will include the first-ever projected slideshow presentation of Cathedral of the Pines in its entirety, set to Yo La Tengo’s “Night Falls on Hoboken.”

Ginkgoa brings is unique blend of vintage Paris chic and New York City cool to Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9pm. Ginkgoa composes French songs with an American vibe, and American songs with a French touch, to create a unique electro-swing dance music.

Authors Annie DeWitt, W.B. Belcher, and Chanel Dubofsky will read from their works at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, N.Y., on Saturday at 7pm, as part of Volume, the free monthly reading and music series every second Saturday of the month. The readings will be followed by booksigning and a music set by DJ Shannekia McIntosh.   

Music from High Peaks, featuring soloists with the Catskill High Peaks Festival Chamber Orchestra, will perform works by Bach, Milhaud, Halvorsen and others at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, N.Y., tonight at 7pm. 

And finally, this summer’s production of “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Tina Packer and starring Jonathan Epstein as Shylock, is Shakespeare & Company at its best, combining a skillful presentation of the text with an improvisatory spirit that is true to the history of Shakespearean theater, while signaling the timeless and contemporary nature of the work. It’s also darn funny and entertaining, and it runs through August 21. This is the best thing I’ve seen all summer.

Seth Rogovoy is editor of Berkishire Daily and the Rogovoy Report, available online at rogovoyreport.com

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