11pm-12pm Press Preview————————————————————————————————————————- Lola Lola Dance Theatre At Steampunk 2010
Partnering Performance With 4 pm Fashion Show
Lola Lola Dance Theatre creates collaborative, interdisciplinary, often multi-media works of dance theatre and has been making performances for site-specific and traditional venues since 2003. 
Tethered is a melding of movement and poetry that has seen many iterations, including performance in a loading bay for the Fashion District Arts Festival (2007). The work examines social restraints that bound women in the Victorian era and embodies what it means to be tethered to something or someone, physically (stunning costumes designed by Susanna Conaway) and metaphorically.lolalola.org
Lola Lola Dance Theatre (formerly Odonata Dance Project)
Greenfield & Bon: Purveyors of Fine Dance Theatre
October 24th 11am-8pm
Steampunk 2010 Fashion Show, Shopping, and Exhibition
A Celebration of Steampunk Culture, Fashion and Craftsmanship
DUMBO, Brooklyn-October 24 marks the third annual Steampunk Day at the DUMBO Loft, presented by Brooklyn Indie Market.155 Water Street, DUMBO, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m..SteampunkShopping and Fashion Show at 4 p.m. $20 Victorian/Steampunk portrait sitting with vintage camera by Tsirkus Fotografika $5 entry. Take the F train to York Street Station.
Travel to a re-envisioned Victorian age that features retrofuturistic fashion, brass and copper clockwork, ray guns, jetpacks, bustles and inventions that go far beyond 19th century technology. Think steam-powered mechanical wonders, brass-fitted computers, dirigibles, goggles, airships, and clockwork inspired accoutrements.
What is steampunk you say? Steampunk personality, August Wahnsinger says, “Steampunk is Victorian-era science fiction. Anything that can be envisioned as a part of a scientifically advanced ‘steam’ era can be properly described as steampunk. Steampunk finds its origins in literature, going back to the works of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.”
The highlight of the shopping event is a Steampunk Fashion Show at 4 p.m., coordinated by Brit Frady-Williams of Berit New York and featuring steampunk designers such as:
- Ami Nyitray Designs (www.etsy.com/shop/aminyitray), curiosities and wearable wunderkammer
- Berit New York (www.beritnewyork.com), attire with old world charm and accessories for a new generation
- Kristin Costa (www.kristincosta.com), where unique vestments and wearable art collide
- Lola Lola Dance Theatre (www.lolalola.org), collaborative, interdisciplinary, often multi-media works of dance theatre
Tor Books and Tor.com will host a Steampunk Literary Corner from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., featuring readings from esteemed literary personages such as burlesque star Nasty Canasta and authors G.D. Falksen, Felix Gilman, Leanna Renee Hieber, and N.K. Jemison, book sales by Mobile Libris, and complimentary tea and scones. Visit www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/steampunk-indie-mart for more info.
Some Past Events
New York Independent Designers Roll Out Their Fall Collections Sept 18th
2 pm Fashion Show Presented by Gotham Girls Roller Derby at Brooklyn Indie Market
Brooklyn Indie Market rolls out an unveiling of this seasons independent designers fall collections on wheels, presented by Gotham Girls Roller Derby with a 2pm fashion show. Etsy.com and The {NewNew} take you shopping-within-reach all day long at Brooklyn Indie Market11am-7pm. Take the F/G train to Carroll Street Station, admission FREE.
Sponsored by the NewNew and Better Than Jam Design Coop, 20 designers will showcase the latest in fall fashion from the independent design scene, offering you the opportunity to add the latest fashions to your wardrobe, at affordable prices. Preview the collections of up-and-coming designers under the red and white striped tent.
From tunic dresses by BShorr (www.BShorr.etsy.com), to flirty bags by LolafalkDesigns (www.LolafalkDesigns.etsy.com). “Fashion A La Mode” Fall collections preview puts you in sync with the forefront in design bringing you limited edition styles.
Some of the new collections unveiled include:
Better Than Jam (www.BetterThanJam.etsy.com), screen-printed designs with a bright color palette full of tunic dresses in soft bamboo cotton or more wintry styles with over sized collars and hoods.
Kimmchi’s (www.KimmChi.etsy.com) summer designs now in the muted tones of fall, with some new designs in the mix.
Lingua Nigra (www.LinguaNigra.etsy.com) bold, organic gold jewelry and etched sterling silver all limited edition and handmade in Brooklyn.
September 25 and 26
Steampunk Salon Saloon
As part of the Dumbo Arts Festival please join us for a celebration of steampunk culture, music, fashion and craftsmanship the weekend of September 25 and 26 from 3–9 at The Water Lounge Restaurant Lounge, 66 Water Street, DUMBO Brooklyn
Saturday line up includes:
3 pm G.D. Falksen steampunk 101
4 pm August Wahnsinger Steampunk Panel and Discussion
6 pm Music and Performance by Psyche Corporation
Victorian Sitting Photo Exhibition by Tsirkus Fotografika
and of course, libations all day long
Sunday line up includes:
3 pm G.D. Falksen steampunk 101
4 pm August Wahnsinger Steampunk Panel and Discussion
5 pm “Tethered” dance performance by Lola Lola Dance Theatre
6 pm Music and Performance by Psyche Corporation Victorian Sitting Photo Exhibition by Tsirkus Fotografika
and of course, libations all day long
