Performa has announced that its benefit party “Relâche” will now happen on Nov. 29. The party, an “an evening of performances and perpetual movement” that reimagines the 1924 Surrealist ballet Relâche ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career. Credit...Photo12/Universal ...

Promising a “multi-sensorial experience” redolent of the most anarchic Surrealist events, Performa saluted that pioneering movement last night at its annual benefit ball with a tribute to Relâche, the ...

Thank the gods of funny, then, for the French composer Erik Satie: surrealist, satirist, top-notch eccentric and a man whose output is joyously impossible to categorise. These days Satie, who was born ...