> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Romance, Dance, Drag, and Day-After Performance Art for New Year's 2018 - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-new-years-2018-event-picks/ - Published: 2017-12-27T21:30:11.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:56:07.000Z - Description: From a high-caliber drag show to a daylong performance art marathon on the subway, there's a lot to do in New York City around the New Year. - Author: Benjamin Sutton - Tags: Art, Alvin Ailey, Events, Metrograph, Nate Hill, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3) ![Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey's Revelations (photo by Gert Krautbauer)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2017/12/alvin-ailey-nye-2018.jpg) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations (photo by Gert Krautbauer) The week between Christmas and the New Year is always a slow one in New York City — perfect for catching up on about-to-close museum shows — and come December 31, there’s always the same pressure to plan something special and unique. Herewith, a few ideas for New Years Eve soirées with some cultural cachet, from a Classical Hollywood romance to a night of drag performances. ## Head Over Heels for Katherine Hepburn The Lower East Side’s boutique cinema Metrograph is showing the classic Cary Grant-Katherine Hepburn romantic comedy [*Holiday*](http://metrograph.com/film/film/1222/holiday?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1938) on Saturday, December 30, and New Year’s Eve. In it, Grant’s character Johnny Case dreams of adventure but his fiancée hopes he’ll follow in her bank father’s footsteps. His future sister-in-law (Hepburn), however, is similarly free-spirited; you can probably imagine how all these tensions will come to a head during — appropriately — the film’s climactic New Year’s Eve bash. **When:** Saturday, December 30 at 8pm and 10pm; Sunday, December 31 at 7:45pm and 9:45pm **Where:** [Metrograph](http://metrograph.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (7 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) ## Celebrating Season’s End with Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey’s 2017 season culminates on the last night of the year, with [a double bill](https://www.alvinailey.org/performances/repertory/special-season-finale?ref=hyperallergic.com) featuring short pieces and excerpts from longer works performed earlier in the season and then, after the intermission, Ailey’s seminal ensemble piece [*Revelations*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelations%5F%28Alvin%5FAiley%29?ref=hyperallergic.com) — the modern-dance equivalent of the Times Square fireworks. **When:** Sunday, December 31 at 7pm **Where:** [New York City Center](https://www.nycitycenter.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan) ## Counting Down with Sasha Velour If you watch *RuPaul’s Drag Race*, you’re already familiar with the host of [this evening of drag performances](https://nationalsawdust.org/event/sasha-velours-nightgowns-new-years-eve-2018/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at National Sawdust, the amazing [Sasha Velour](https://www.avclub.com/looking-for-the-performance-of-the-year-watch-2-minute-1821318303?ref=hyperallergic.com). For those who don’t, Sasha won the ninth season, and for New Year’s Eve she has invited eight drag performers to help ring in 2018 in the most glamorous way possible. **When:** Sunday, December 31 at 9:30pm **Where:** [National Sawdust](https://nationalsawdust.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) ## In 2018, Performance Art Takes the Subway ![Nate Hill performing on the subway (courtesy the artist, via performanceoftheweek.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2017/12/nate-hill-subway.jpg) Nate Hill performing on the subway (courtesy the artist, via performanceoftheweek.com) While most people like to take it easy after New Year’s Eve, the intrepid artist [Nate Hill](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/nate-hill/) is doing the opposite, spending 24 consecutive hours beginning at 11:59pm on Monday, January 1 [performing a series of gestures](https://www.performanceoftheweek.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the subway system. The durational performance will reprise previous performances from a 12-week cycle, but here condensed to a marathon of two-hour increments. If you can track him down between 6am and 8am, you’ll find him “sitting on the L trains,” but from 6pm to 8pm he’ll be “dancing with the train.” **When:** Monday, January 1, 2018 at 11:59pm–Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 11:59pm **Where:** The New York City subway system (text Nate Hill at 347-742-2293 for his location)