free things in NYC

This week I found quite a few free entertainment in the city to go to, and turn out pretty fun.

Summer Stage- went there on wednesday for a dance and live music performance. Comtempary company, with a diverse talent and characters. Their world premiere for "dream child" was a piece with live band and dancing. the music was written for that dance, play with instruments from Africa, Western, and India etc. fun piece, and is beautiful. The company's mission is to break the sterotype for black dancers, and they did just that. The diverse style, age, music, choreography show just that.

Movement Concert- went there because Jon Foreman from Switchfoot tweet about it this afternoon. Turns out, Nesha and some folks from the intern Bible study are going too. We end up sitting together. This is nevertheless, a church based event, with the intro band playing worship music. Kinda didn't expect that, and it's also very weird to have age ranging from middle-school to parent etc. Very odd. Anyway, the whole thing ends up being 2.5 hours long, and the special guest (Jon Foreman) section is specially fun. We were standing at the edge of the stage, 8 feet away from the guest star. Everyone knows he is a super nice dude, fun and easy going. How does he mange 14 years + in music and still passionate about meeting friends is very cool.
We went to pinkberry right after the show ends, and it was just down the block, super close. After refreshment we went back again to meet Jon, and that was fun to see who are his fans, and what they do to appreciate their influence figure. How does he travel that much and meeting new strangers everynight but still not get paranoid from fans? But he shows nothing of that, instead being supportive and just flat out friendly. Thing is, if you make music and play, you are already his friend. Even if you don't, it is still cool. Gotta say he is no country music thou, attempt unsuccessful. lol.