Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Friday, September 25, 2026.
Paula González-Nasser and Mimi Davila discuss this portrait of a location scout navigating New York’s homes and film industry on opening night.
Wolfgang Muthspiel brings his solo guitar program Etudes/Multitudes to the Jazz Gallery, drawing on Bach and Paul Motian alongside his own compositions.
Hanif Abdurraqib hosts music from Hurray for the Riff Raff and poetry from Eileen Myles as Pioneer Works considers cities and rising water.
Led by Tsubasa Nishioka, Feathers Dance Company presents Richard Sayama’s work on human connection, with guest choreography by Jesse Obremski and Fumihito Shimizu.
Shanika Brown’s first solo performance combines dance, spoken word and visual storytelling at Gibney; the show begins at 7 in Studio H.
Patrick Bresnan follows students and professors confronting the takeover of New College of Florida; DCTV’s opening-day run brings their fight to the screen.
New York bassist Karina Rykman brings her psychedelic jam-pop to Webster Hall, with Guerilla Toss opening the bill; doors at 6:30, show at 7:30.
Cabaret Voltaire and I Speak Machine take over Knockdown Center for an evening rooted in industrial electronics and stark audiovisual performance.
Lawrence Kramer’s Yeats-based chamber opera follows an Irish rebel offered refuge by two strangers, with Contemporaneous conducted by David Bloom.
Sarah Davachi presents The Will of Tongues in Brooklyn’s First Unitarian Church, an apt setting for her patient attention to resonance and sustained sound.