Live: Wonder Girls Perform In Close Range At The iHeartRadio Theater
Wonder Girls
iHeartRadio Theater
Wednesday, September 6
Better than: Trying to figure out the exact location of the iHeartRadio theater. I've been there before; still got lost.
The iHeartRadio theater is a small space for poppossibly too small. The 200-person capacity Tribeca venue hosts short, invite-only concerts; in one instance, I saw Scott Weiland there, articulating Christmas songs through a bewildering winter glare. There's no distance between performer and audience except in the slope of the stage, and so K-pop group the Wonder Girls on Wednesday night performed supermassive pop music from a distance that read as "punk"that is, immediate, palpable. They executed choreography in the fullness of three dimensions. The members of the group laughed to themselves between dances, during verses, appearing ecstatic, leaflike. When one made a mistakemisnaming an album or incorrectly identifying the remaining number of songs, of which there seemed an unsure infinity aheadthe rest corrected and reassured them, like a body of water in displacement.
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