Animal Train Happening #7: The Party

Animal Train Happening #7: The Party, Glasslands (289 Kent, Williamsburg), 10pm, $7. Featuring DJs Name Names AKA Ian Svenonius of Weird War World and Mr. Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train, live set by Services, performance art by Micki Pellerano, go go dancing by The Marmaladies, projections by Secret Project Robot, and decor by Live With Animals Gallery.

Dear Members of The Party,

In the wake of Fidel Castro’s resignation last week, we the international revolutionary working-class Animal Train movement throws a Communist Party at the Glasslands - a grassroots multimedia dance super-spectacle which we refer to as simply “The Party.” This month’s guest of honor, DJ Name Names of Weird War World, AKA Comrade Ian F. Svenonius, author of The Psychic Soviet and Other Works, and mastermind behind revolutionary manifestos in such youth leagues as Make-Up and Nation of Ulysses, spins a dialectical dance floor juxtaposition of the Red Army Choir, Oleg Gazmanov, and The Dicks against John Phillip Sousa, Michael Jackson, and The Germs. New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin’s turntable labor compliments Svenonius’ with socialist realist sonic representation of the proletarian revolution. The program also includes a live set by A Touch of Class Records’ Services - whose two-man keyboard assault on the cruel hypocrisy of contemporary capitalism is as experimental as any of the early Bolshevik era’s most challenging futurist offerings. Comrade Micki Pellerano, who, perhaps more than any other in his vocation, has tugged the Williamsburg waterfront directly onto the front lines of International struggle with his performance art, this time explores the subtleties of plastic surgery and socialized medicine. The Marmaladies, both trained since their early youth at Moscow’s Bolshoi ballet school, and both walking proof of sexyness and stylishness completely independent of the latest commodities, demonstrate the official dance of The Party, the “Go Go,” before defecting to the New York City Ballet. The Mighty Robot AV Squad provides moving imagery evocative of the grand Soviet experiment – yet educating the masses with such excessive employment of the Kuleshov Effect that their work makes Potemkin (1925) look like Rope (1948). Last but not least comrades, the proletariat at Live With Animals Gallery prove once again that The Party isn’t a party without mad décor. Also, expect a surprise guest DJ set by a punk rock legend. Hint, it probably won’t be Castro.

In the egalitarian spirit, as always there will be no advance tickets so get there early. The Party starts at 10 sharp.