Gala chair EAST VILLAGE COMMUNITY COALITION, Honorary chairs MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV, JO ANDRES & STEVE BUSCEMI, JOHN LEGUIZAMO, YVONNE RAINER and the PS122 BOARD OF DIRECTORS invite you to St. Ann's Warehouse on Thursday, March 15

PS122 Spring Gala 2012
Nowhere to go but everywhere - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Honoring LUCY SEXTON

Shining Star Award presented to PHIL HARTMAN

Hosted by MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND

Performances by ANNE IOBST as THE NAKED LADY / SARAH MICHELSON & MIKE IVESON / JULIE ATLAS MUZ / BOB HOLMAN

Short film by STEPHEN DALDRY

Excerpt from Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell performed by JONATHAN AMES / ERIC BOGOSIAN / MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM / AIN GORDON

Excerpt from TURNING a new film by CHARLES ATLAS featuring ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS

Live Auction with ISAAC MIZRAHI / RICHARD MOVE as MARTHA GRAHAM

Platinum Sponsors
East Village Community Coalition, Heather Thomas & Chet Kerr

Gold Sponsors
Nathan Gill, Patty Adams Martinez & Ivan Martinez, Howard Spector, Jason C. Tsou, Naomi Usher, Kate Larkworthy Artist Representation, TheaterMania, Westside Fragrances

Silver Sponsors
The Lower East Side Girls Club

Event Sponsors
Brooklyn Brewery, The Jackie Factory, Monsieur Touton, Terra Fossil, St. Ann's Warehouse

Gala Committee Chair Kambiz Shekdar

Gala Committee Andreas Argyrides, Gabriel Beaton, Steve Bodow & Katherine Profeta, Sarah Bromley, John M. Burns, Dominique Camacho, Enrico Ciotti, Gillian Fallon, Rosalind Grush, John Hoffman, Marin Ireland, David Leslie, Caro Llewellyn, Helena Martinez, Salley May, Annabelle Meunier, Tom Murrin, David & Natalie Johnsonius Neubert, Jeffrey Robinson, Eli Scheier, Cheryl A. Young.

Tickets & Sponsorships

$25,000 Nowhere to Go but Everywhere Sponsorship

• 14 front and center premium seats beside honoree and performers
• Roundtrip airfare for 2 to an international arts festival with PS122 Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner
• Portrait with a select gala performer
• Listing as a 2012 Season Sponsor on all PS122 materials and complimentary season passes for you and and your guests to our 2012-2013 Season
• Full-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program and Season Programs, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party

$10,000 Platinum Sponsorship

• 10 premium seats
• Portrait with a select gala performer
• Complimentary season passes for you and and your guests to our 2012-2013 Season
• Full-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party

$5,000 Gold Sponsorship

• 8 seats
• Complimentary PS122 Passports for you and your guests to Spring 2012 performances
• Half-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party

$1,500 Silver Sponsorship

• 4 seats
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party
• Business card size advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program, and a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website

$350 Single Ticket

• 1 seat
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party
• 14 front and center premium seats beside honoree and performers
• Roundtrip airfare for 2 to an international arts festival with PS122 Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner
• Portrait with a select gala performer
• Listing as a 2012 Season Sponsor on all PS122 materials and complimentary season passes for you and and your guests to our 2012-2013 Season
• Full-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program and Season Programs, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website
• Entry to the pre-show reception & post-show party

Tickets on Sale March 1

Every House Has a Door
Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.

Time Out Chicago praised the show for "..the meticulous way that the piece invites comparisons--between film and theater, between Croatian and English, between Stephen Fiehn's delicate hops up the aisles and lanky Mislav Čavajda's long strides right behind him--and for its potent tonal blend of pedagogy and ominous revelation."

"Let us think of these things... keeps viewers hooked with scenes and images that suck you in, hold you close and turn you loose. For every bawdy or slapstick gesture there are equal parts silence and reflection." - Chicago Art Magazine

Lin Hixson & Matthew Goulish, co-founders of performance group Goat Island, propose a cultural encounter via the films of Serbian filmmaker Dusan Makavejev and the work of American philosopher Stanley Cavell, through responses to an unlikely, "equidistant" third entity, Ingmar Bergman. Film becomes a basis for choreography, a catalogue of abandoned practices offers a degree of humor, and theater frames an encounter of difference and engage the histories of utopianism and revolt in an unjust world.



The creation of this performance has been supported by a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. It is a co-production with OOUR and Centre for Drama Art with further support from the City Office for Culture Zagreb, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, ekscene platform in collaboration with CeKaO "Zagreb", The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, FACE Croatia, commissioning support from The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster, UK, and a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship. This work is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by Performance Space 122 in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,Fusebox Festival and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The Forth Fund is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org

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FREE presentation of Malika Bass' Waking Things (co-produced by and featuring ensemble members of Every House Has a Door) with your ticket to any COIL Show.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival

Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

January 5 - 9
Jan 5 - 6 at 8pm; Jan 7 at 6pm, Jan 8 - 9 at 3pm
1 hr 20 min

PS122 Passport 5 tickets for $75*
COIL Pass 10 tickets for $100**

Single tickets On Sale Dec 1
$20/15 (students / seniors)

"Mr. Mroué belongs to a tight-knit generation of artists, writers and filmmakers that has put Beirut back on the cultural map since the end of the civil war in 1990...they are to Beirut what the Wooster Group is to New York: a blend of avant-garde innovation, conceptual complexity and political urgency, all grounded in earthy humor."
- The New York Times

Actor, writer, and director Rabih Mroué's intricate narratives unwind with projection and live video feed as he explores questions of presence, absence, and documentation in the context of personal and societal responsibilities.

Mroué traces a troubling case of a missing employee through newspaper clippings, radiating outward from the very personal story to its wider political and economic implications. Based on true events.

Winner of the 2010 Spalding Gray Award, The Pixelated Revolution is a lecture performance aimed at unpacking the advice and directions regarding the taking of photographs on mobile phones during the events of the Syrian revolution, as shared via Facebook and other means of virtual communication.

From the artist, Rabih Mroué: "My works deal with issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon. From theater practice to politics, and from the problem of representation to my private life, my search for 'truth versus fiction' begins via documents, photos and found objects, often fabricating documents and other 'truths.' The work becomes a dissection table for the dubious processes of Lebanon's war society."

Commissioned by the 2010 Spalding Gray Award (Performance Space 122 in New York, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On the Boards in Seattle, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis).

Presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of BAC Presents Series and Performance Space 122 as part of the 7th Annual COIL Festival

Baryshnikov Arts Center's
Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY

Looking for a Missing Employee
Jan 6, 7 at 7:30pm
Jan 8 at 5pm
1 hr 40 min

The Pixelated Revolution
Jan 9 at 7:30pm
60 minutes

PS122 Passport 5 tickets for $75*
COIL Pass 10 tickets for $100**

Single tickets On Sale Dec 1
$25, $20 (students / seniors)

Looking for a Missing Employee


The Pixelated Revolution

"The most intimate and liberating performance experience I have ever encountered."
- Rachel Zeharin, Live Art Development Agency

"Starts there where most performances end...The peep show of your dreams"
- Elke Van Campenhout

A carousel of identity and illusion, Too shy to stare breaks the barrier between performer and audience through highly original and entirely unrepeatable means. Davis Freeman creates an intensely intimate environment where you sit down, relax, and discover who is left confronting you at the end of the day.

Please note: Audience is limited to 10 people per performance and ticket buyers must make an appointment to have their photograph taken at least 48 hours in advance of attending the performance. Why? It's a secret.

Musicians:
Brian McCorkle, Ed RosenBerg, Hahn Rowe

Performers:
Maya Orchin, Nora Petroliunas, Lauren Garson, Andrew Broaddus, Matthew Morris, Hope Davis, Megan Harrold, Winnie Ho, Laura Hicks and Paul Singh

Co-produced by Random Scream. Made possible with support from Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Koen Kwanten, Kaai theatre, Damaged goods, and the VGC. Created in part at the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011.

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Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival

The Old School
233 Mott St.

January 6 - 14
Jan 6, 7, 9-11, 13, 14 at 5pm and 9pm
2 hr 30 min

All performances of Too shy to stare are sold out. Please add your name to the waitlist to be informed if tickets become available.

"Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy and, most of all, with the ability to capture an epic psychosis in an unpretentious nutshell." - British Theatre Guide

Damaged photographs pieced together by an indie rock anthem by Of Montreal tell the epic and cinematic chronicle of the lives of four young Argentinians between 1999 - 2009. This record, bittersweet, fragmented, and fast-paced, displays past lives - both true and imaginary - across a slowly revolving stage.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Made possible by the Performing Americas Program (PAP), a partnership between the National Performance Network (NPN) and the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (La RED) designed to increase artistic exchange in the Western Hemisphere. Performing Americas Program is supported by the NPN with funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Co-produced by Grupo Marea, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Festival de Otono de Madrid and Theaterformen.

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Presented by The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival and Performance Space 122 as part of the 7th Annual COIL Festival

The Public Theater
425 Lafayette St., Manhattan, NY

January 7 - 15
Sat. Jan 7th 7pm
Sun. Jan 8th 2pm
Mon. Jan 9th 7pm
Wed. Jan 11th 7pm
Thurs. Jan 12th 7pm
Fri. Jan 13th 7pm
Sat. Jan 14th 7pm
Sun. Jan 15th 2pm
1 hr 45 min

COIL Pass 10 tickets for $100**

$20
Single tickets On Sale Dec 7 at undertheradarfestival.com

"Characters announced in exquisite typeface. . . scurry along paths, dart through doorways and sleep upright. Bass mystifies the work of these plain folk with her own filmic magic."
-(Chicago Sun-Times)

"A house in a forest. Preparations for an archaic ritual. Lights and shadows of an incomprehensible world. Filmmaker Melika Bass directs as if time did not exist, with a rigor that transforms images into still lifes, loading them with a heartbreaking and threatening beauty." (Torino Film Festival)

In a house in a primeval wood, a mysterious, misfit family prepares a seasonal feast for a visiting party of outlanders. As they shuffle through ritualistic preparations, shadows reveal each creature -- one menacing, one wounded, and one worn, stewards of an old tradition, blood for blood.

A short film co-produced by and featuring ensemble members of Every House Has a Door Performance group.

US Premiere - Anthology Film Archives
European Premiere - Waves Section, Torino Film Festival, Italy

16mm to video, color, sound, 2011, 34 mins.

Presented to coincide with Every House Has a Door's Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. at PS122, January 5-9 2012

Named "one of the most promising emergent practitioners in Chicago" by the Chicago Tribune, Melika Bass is the recipient of an Artadia Award, a Media Arts Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and the Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography from the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Her film work has been screened and exhibited in cinemas and art spaces worldwide, among them the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (solo exhibition, February 2011); Torino Film Festival, Italy; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Northwest Film Center; Segal Center for the Performing Arts, Montreal; Hamburg International Film Festival, Germany; and the Split Festival of New Film, Croatia.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival

150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY