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PERSONAL
‘PROJECT’
Singer tracks life in visual album
She’s got a perfect 10!
Bushwick pop musician Skela
will celebrate the release of her
10-part “visual album” with a
concert at Williamsburg’s Rough
Trade on Feb. 9. The music videos
during a six-day burst of creativity
in the summer of 2018, and the
songs refl ect her tumultuous personal
during that year, said the artist.
“In 2018 I was having a crisis
where there were so many stories
I wanted to tell and I felt these
needed to be out in the world,”
said Skela. “This was a huge period
artist.”
The songs cover a wide range
of styles and themes, including
the dance jam “Holy,” the triumphant
Liquor,” and the quiet “I’m Not
Hungry,” an earnest look at how
she lost her appetite in the aftermath
RED ALERT: Bushwick artist Skela will launch her 10-part visual album “Project
10” at Rough Trade on Feb. 9. Rachel Turley
BY COLIN MIXSON
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
in “ Project 10 ” were recorded
and professional growth
of my life for progress as an
ballad “Heartbreak and
of a break up. The latter
One of these dancers will
get a leg up!
A group of Kings County
jitterbugs will compete in
an epic, two-day dance-off
in a Park Slope church beginning
Feb. 1, where the
audience members will decide
who waltzes away as
the prima ballerina.
song, paired with a video of Skela
dancing around a graveyard in
Queens, resonated strongly with
her audience.
“It processes the feeling in the
actual song,” she said. “It’s not
just a sad song — it turns into
something positive,”
Skela found that revealing her
inner turmoil to the public helped
her come to terms with her experiences.
“I didn’t realize how personal
some of the songs were. I noticed
that when these things comes out,
everybody will know about it and
I was just dropping these truth
bombs. I was able to make peace
with them,” she said.
Despite the dark themes of
some of her songs, making the
videos with her two friends Zoé
Kraft and Rachel Turley was a lot
of fun, said Skela.
“It was just us three, we describe
just take a week out of your life
“It is very democratic,”
said Elise Long, artistic director
at the dance studio
Spoke the Hub, which sponsors
the event.
Each night of the Winter
Follies, hosted at Old First
Reform Church on Carroll
Street, will see between 25
and 35 solo dancers and ensembles
performing fi veminute
it as a summer camp. You
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routines to vie for
the audience’s affection —
and their vote.
The winner will nab
50 hours of free rehearsal
time at Spoke the Hub’s studio
in Park Slope, and more
importantly, will star in a
showcase performance that
is fully produced and mar-
BY COLIN MIXSON
Dozens of federal employees still
out of work and pay due to the
longest government shutdown in
American history swung by the
Barclays Center on Jan. 22 to pick
up free food and toiletries doled
out by a city do-good group.
Standing in line to collect the
complimentary care packages
doled out by the Food Bank for
New York City humbled one of
the furloughed Feds, who said it
was her fi rst time accepting charity.
“It feels really bad,” said Kuwanna
Warthen, a Canarsie resident
employed as a legal assistant
with the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce.
“It makes you think about the
country and the direction it’s going
in. It shouldn’t have to come
to this.”
Volunteers at the three-hour
giveaway, which Food Bank leaders
hosted in partnership with
operators of the Prospect Heights
arena, handed out items including
dried food, milk, meat, vegetables,
and toiletries to more
than 200 people — some of whom
came with kids in tow.
Many folks who showed up
Coney locals petition for a Trader Joe’s
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re hungry for hipsters!
Bigwigs at South Pacifi cthemed
grocer Trader Joe’s
must open a third Kings
County location in Coney
Island, according to thousands
of locals who signed
a petition claiming a local
outpost would help make
the neighborhood “Brooklyn’s
next hipster enclave.”
The store known for its
Hawaiian-shirt–clad em-
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BUST A MOVE: Dancers will
go toe-to-toe at Winter Follies
2019 in Park Slope on
Feb. 1 and 2.
Marcia Bricker Halperin
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Food Bank
feeds Feds
at Barclays
Jonesing for Joe! Hoofers compete in dance-off
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