soloNOVA ARTS FESTIVAL celebrates innovative individuals who push the boundaries of what it means to be an artist, aims to redefine the solo form and uniquely invigorates the audience through the time-honored tradition of storytelling. This year's festival features comedy, dance theatre, storytelling, music, multi-character thrillers, musical comedies, bilingual cabaret, animation, multimedia, and puppetry.

terraNOVA Collective honors NILAJA SUN
soloNOVA ARTIST OF THE YEAR
MAY 21 at 8
$30
Join us as we celebrate the career of Nilaja Sun as a performer and arts educator, featuring performances by students, clips from her Obie Award winning solo play, "No Child...", food and drink, and special surprises.

NILAJA SUN is the solo writer and performer of the Off-Broadway smash No Child..., which concluded its run at the Barrow Street Theatre in June 2007. For her creation and performance of No Child..., Nilaja garnered a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Theatre World Award, an Obie Award, the John Gassner Playwrighting Award, a Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award, a Black Theater Alliance Award, the Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance, and was named the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Over the 2007-2008 season, Nilaja toured No Child…to several regional theatres including the Lookingglass Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre; these national engagements earned her both the IRNE Award for Best Solo Performer and the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. A native of the Lower East Side, she has worked as a teaching artist in NYC for eight years. She was the recipient of the 2004 Princess Grace Award (Acting).

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MAINSTAGE FESTIVAL SHOWS

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WANTED
storytelling and song
MAY 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM
MAY 8 at 2PM
Written and Performed by Shontina Vernon
Directed by Kamilah Forbes
90 minutes

Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Shontina Vernon merges childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

Shontina Vernon's voice is "Blood chilling."- The Oregonian

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BINDING
dance theatre
MAY 5, 7, 12, 15 at 9:15
MAY 8 at 4:15

Conceived and Performed by Jesse Zaritt
Directed by Basmat Hazan
Produced by Theatre C
45 minutes

Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt's movement-based quest for love, connection and the self.

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REMISSION
verse storytelling
MAY 6, 8, 10, 18 at 7
MAY 15 at 2

Written by Kirk Wood Bromley
Performed by Daniel Berkley
90 minutes

For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story.

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MONSTER
multi-character thriller
MAY 6, 8, 10, 18 at 9
MAY 15 at 4

Written by Daniel MacIvor
Directed by Steve Cook
Performed by Avery Pearson
Produced by Really Sketchy
90 minutes

Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the New York stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, MONSTER dissects the true nature of evil.

"Monster is Mr. MacIvor's suggestion that the dark side is as intrinsic to our natures as consciousness itself. It not only aspires to creeping you out, it also wants you to examine your own voyeuristic impulse to keep staring after the ax falls"- The New York Times

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ROOTLESS: La No-Nostalgia
bi-lingual theatrical cabaret
MAY 11, 14, 16, 20 at 7
MAY 22 at 2

Written and Performed by Karina Casiano
60 minutes

Sexy. Bold. Bilingual. Take a journey through the emotional life of migrants with songs ranging from tango to rock. Unraveling the psychological toll of displacement, Casiano ferociously and personally criticizes the role of newcomers and probes their responsibility toward their own countries.

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THE W. KAMAU BELL CURVE: ENDING RACISM IN ABOUT AN HOUR
comedy
MAY 11, 14, 16, 20 at 9
MAY 22 at 4

Written & Performed by W. Kamau Bell
Directed by Paul Stein
60 minutes

Black President or not, racism continues to make a comeback. And W. Kamau Bell is here to make (non)sense of it all. Irreverent and thoughtful, The W. Kamau Bell Curve skewers pop culture, news pundits and the man himself, Barack Obama. According to Comedy Central, Kamau told the very first Obama joke way back in 2005

"Smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho."- San Francisco Weekly (though he was more excited that they called him "handsome.")

"W. Kamau Bell is the most important guy doing comedy right now. Do yourself a favor and go see him. He's got the most astute, hilarious and completely righteous material going and he's going to be a legend in his own lifetime like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce. Think Bill Hicks but slightly taller." - Margaret Cho

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THE ADVENTURES OF ALVIN SPUTNIK: DEEP SEA EXPLORER
puppetry & animation
MAY 13, 17, 19, 22 at 7
MAY 16 at 2

Created and Performed by Tim Watts
45 minutes

Alvin Sputnik is Earth's last hope. He must venture to the bottom of the ocean to find his wife's lost soul and save humanity.

"An endearing Australian solo show...A seamless blend of live drawing projected on a round screen accompanying simple animation, Mr. Watts creates a vivid new theatrical world on a slim budget" -Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

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PUPPY LOVE: A STRIPPER'S TAIL
musical multi-character comedy
MAY 13, 17, 19, 22 at 9
MAY 16 at 4
Written and Performed by Erin Markey
60 minutes

Attempting to enter the "real world," new college graduate Bridget is rejected from employment at Chuck E. Cheese and hired as a stripper at DejaVu in Ypsilanti, MI. Everything seems trashy, unfair and exciting until she falls for a co-stripper named Sky. The irreverent and poetically charged Bridget learns to sell her body while buying what her irresistibly midwestern competitors have to offer. And there's pole dancing.

"Bizarre, character-shifting performance artist Erin Markey is so totally out there that she fits in perfectly with the OHP (Our Hit Parade) aesthetic. Key song: A funny-creepy version of Jeremiah's 'Birthday Sex,' performed in the diaper, bonnet, bib and voice of a newborn baby." - Adam Feldman, Time Out NY

terraNOVA's 2010 Annual Benefit
Tuesday, April 13
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
Doors at 7PM, Show at 8PM
Single Tickets - $35
terraNOVA Benefit ticket & 2 tickets to soloNOVA - $60
(Chose any 2 Mainstage Shows)

INDIVIDUAL MAINSTAGE TICKETS:
$20, $15 students/seniors



FESTIVAL PASS: $100 (value $230 - over half off!) Enjoy 1 ticket to each Mainstage show and all 3 Ones at Eleven parties

TWO SHOW DISCOUNT DEAL:
See any 2 Mainstage shows for only $25 (value $40)

PS122 PASSPORT:
See any 5 shows or bring a group of 5 to one show with the PS122 PASSPORT
Only $55 (value $100 - almost half price!)

Packages and Special offers are not applicable to the Nilaja Sun soloNOVA Artist of the Year Celebration

ONES AT ELEVEN
Saturday Late Night Parties at 11

Can't get enough solo performers? Get your fix way into the wee hours and stick around the theater on Saturday night for parties featuring music, comedy, storytelling, and spoken word.

SAT, MAY 8 Music
SAT, MAY 15 Comedy
SAT, MAY 22 Storytelling & Spoken Word

Admissions for Ones at Eleven is $10


*Line-up subject to changes & additions. Check www.terranovacollective.org for recent update

[Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists to emerge from American experimental theater in the past decade." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"Richard Maxwell is a master of surprise." - Jason Zinoman Time Out New York

"What is novel -- and perhaps provocative -- is the notion that theater can take place without the direct participation of live people. Artists have been incorporating video and taped performance into theatrical works for many years, in many different ways, but there is usually some live component. Here the only one is the audience. "Ads" resembles a video installation in a modern-art museum more than a traditional stage piece, but it suggests in its quiet way that you can create humane, affecting works of theater without the literal presence of human beings."
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Bozkurt Karasu (The Wooster Group), Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?

Whether in the realm of theater, music, or video, New York City Players (founded 1999) rigorously strip away the habitual identities that may encumber a work, thereby allowing pursuit of the power of language, of story, of image, and of what happens when people gather in a room. Individualism is celebrated by collaborating with performers and designers from all backgrounds and levels of experience.

The Cast of ADS includes:
Ramin Bahrani, Lakpa Bhutia, Jerimee Bloemeke, Sophia Chai, Janet Coleman, Keith Connolly, Ginger Corker, Richard Dundy, Bob Feldman, Rosie Goldensohn, Anita Hollander, Rosalie Ann Kaplan, Lou Kuhlmann, Michelle A. Lee, Walid Mohanna, Philip Moore, Farooq Muhammad, Christian Nunez*, Nicole, Louis Puopolo, Mark Russell, Katherine Ryan, Rafael Sanchez, Monica de la Torre, Ariana Smart Truman, Kate Valk

Under The Radar Festival 2010 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and is held in conjunction with APAP Conference NYC 2010. Major funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The Festival is produced by Mark Russell and The Public Theater. www.undertheradarfestival.com

World Premiere
Jump to Trailer
60 minutes

EXTENDED:
Wed, Jan 20 - Sun, Jan 31
Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sun at 6pm
LATE shows: Sat, Jan 23, Sat, Jan 30 at 10pm
EXTENDED AGAIN:: Feb 3-6
Wed at 8, Thu at 8, Fri at 8, and Sat at 8 and 10

Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 2010
In association with Under the Radar

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Pictured: Ariana Smart Truman, Rosalie Ann Kaplan, Rosie Goldensohn, Nicole, Kate Valk, Ramin Bahrani
Photos: © Paula Court

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your ADS Program online!

The Board of Performance Space 122 and
Honorary Chairs BAZ LURHMANN & CLAIRE DANES invite you to attend

The Spring Gala 2010
Honoring John Leguizamo

Emcees: Carmelita Tropicana & Marga Gomez
With special guests: Rosie Perez & Spike Lee
Video performance by Eric Bogosian
Inaugural SHINING STAR AWARD recipient: The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Foundation

Evening Overview:

• 6:00 Cocktails & Hors d'oeuvres / Silent Auction
• 8:00 Performances and Tributes
• 9:30 Live Auction, Dessert, Special Surprise Guest (stay tuned)!
• 10:00 Party with DJs Andrew Andrew

Gold Sponsors
CAA, East Village Community Coalition, TheaterMania, Patty Adams & Ivan Martinez, Dominique Bravo & Eric Sloan, Heather Thomas & Chet Kerr

Benefit Committee
Peter Askin , Chiara Clemente, Mark Russell,

Steering Committee
Patty Adams, Winsome Brown, Patti Costello, Gaby Darbyshire, Michelle Kim, Sasha Lewis Megan Marshall, Jason Tsou, Tanya Selvaratnam Scheib



Lists in formation

Sponsorships & Tickets

$10,000 PLATINUM Sponsorship

• 12 Premium orchestra seats
• Table at the pre-show reception
• Entry to pre- and post-show parties
• Full-page advertisement or acknowledgement in the PS122 Gala Program
• Contribution listing in Gala program and on PS122 website

$5,000 GOLD Sponsorship

• 10 Premium orchestra seats
• Table at the pre-show reception
• Entry to pre- and post-show parties
• Half-page advertisement or acknowledgement in the PS122 Gala Program
• Contribution listing in Gala Program and on PS122 website

$1,500 Benefit Committee Sponsorship

• 4 Premium orchestra seats
• Business Card size advertisement or acknowledgement in the PS122 Gala Program
• Contribution listing in Gala Program and on PS122 website
• 4 entries to pre- and post-show parties

$325 Single Premium Seat

• 1 Premium orchestra seat
• Contribution listing in Gala Program and on PS122 website
• Entry to pre and post-show parties

$200 Single Seat

• 1 Orchestra seat
• Entry to the post-show party

Visit our 2010 Gala Ticketing page to purchase sponsorships and Tickets

Visit our 2010 Gala Donations page to make a Donation

For more information, please contact Ms. Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Director of Development, at morgan@ps122.org or 212-477-5829, ext. 307

Attire: Festive

Performance Space 122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization www.ps122.org; tickets, contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent by law.

Date:
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Location:
The Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
Lower Manhattan

Richard Maxwell/NYC Players - ADS
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, VIDEO

Co-presented as part of COIL 2010 with Under The Radar - Extended at PS122 through January 31, 2010
Wednesday, January 20 - Sunday, January 31
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late shows: Sat, Jan 23 + Sat, Jan 30 at 10PM
No show: Thu, Jan 21
Added shows: Thu Jan 28th, Friday Jan 29th at 10PM

[Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists to emerge from American experimental theater in the past decade." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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BodyCartography Project - 1/2 LIFE
NY PREMIERE | DANCE, THEATRE

Wednesday, February 10 - Sunday February 14
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM

"The pleasure of viewing is so intense here, so fun as to be nearly guilty." - Lightsey Darst, MSP magazine

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Marisa Olson - WHEW! AGE
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE

February 12 - 14
Fri at 7:30PM, Sat at 7:30 + 10pm, Sun at 5:30PM

Ultimately, stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

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Radiohole - WHATEVER, HEAVEN ALLOWS
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE

February 20- March 14
Thu - Fri at 8PM, Sats at 8PM + 10:30PM, Sun at 6PM

WINNER OF THE 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD

"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent, anarchic work . . . cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." --Time Out

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Tom Murrin & Lucy Sexton - THE TALKING SHOW
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, SOLO PERFORMANCE

Thu Feb 18 - Sun, Mar 7
Thu - Sat at 7:30PM, Sun at 5:30pm

"His performances explode like Rube Goldberg contraptions or car accidents...you can't take your eyes off his chaotic energy. The performances are exhilirating and unsettling, like a walk down Broadway. They're about the risk of running into drama - possibly coherent, possibly fragmented - as soon as you put your foot out the door." - Laurie Stone,Vogue

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AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA!
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, X-MEDIA, LIVE ART

Friday, April 16 + Saturday, April 17 at 8PM

PS122's longest-running series, this multidisciplinary mini-festival features an exuberant and eclectic line-up of the wildest experimental performance shorts to be found in N.Y.C.

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Reid Farrington - GIN & "IT"
NY PREMIERE | THEATRE, VIDEO
Co-presented as part of COIL 2010 with Under The Radar in association with 3LD Art & Technology Center in January 2010

Saturday, April 24 - Sunday, May 9
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM Late Shows: Sat, May 1 + 8 at 10:30PM

"What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington's work." - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

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Vaginal Davis - ORIFICE DESCENDING
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, CABARET

Saturday, May 15- Sunday, May 30
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Shows: Sat, May 22 + 29 at 10PM

WINNER OF THE 2009 ETHYL EICHELBERGER AWARD

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Adrienne Truscott - BERMUDA
WORLD PREMIERE | DANCE, THEATRE

Sunday, May 30 - Sunday, June 13
Wed - Sat at 7:30PM, Sun at 5:30PM
Late Shows: Sat, June 5 + 12 at 10PM

"Bawdy, bold, and bizarre movement; an exercise in existentialism befitting of Beckett."- Venessa Manko Dance Magazine

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LEWIS FOREVER - Tyrant Destroyed
Art Consumption Internalization Personalization and Re-manifestation As Your Own So That a Deeper Connection with Oneself and the World Can Be Made
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, DANCE, Interactive Performance

Sunday, June 6 - Sunday, June 13
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Show: Sat, June 12 at 10PM

"Anarchic creative energy pervades" - Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times (On LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room)

"These Lewises have got talent to burn." - Eva Yaa Asantewaa

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins & Gavin Quinn - THE OCTOROON
AN ADAPTATION OF THE OCTOROON BASED ON THE OCTOROON
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE

Friday, June 18 - Saturday, July 3
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM

An American playwright and an Irish director team up for an adaptation of nineteenth-century Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's notorious nineteenth-century melodrama about Americans. (And slavery.)

PS122 Passports (5 tickets for $55) Good through June 30, 2010
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Single tickets $20, $15 (student/senior)

An American playwright and an Irish director team up for an adaptation of nineteenth-century Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's notorious nineteenth-century melodrama about Americans. (And slavery.) A bombastic, super-theatrical, full-scale investigation of the sweetest of intersections--theatre and identity politics--this play with real actors and real sets and real costumes seeks to understand why New York audiences can't seem to get enough of plays about Irish folks and black people and racism and, um, America?

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Playwright) is a former playwriting fellow at the New York Theatre Workshop, an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Public Theater's Emerging Writing Group, and a member of the ArsNova Playgroup. He is the recipient of the 2009 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and the 2009 Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellowship. His full-length plays include Appropriate, The Change, and Neighbors, which will be presented in Feb 2010 as apart of the Public Theater's PublicLab.

Gavin Quinn (Director) is joint artistic director of Pan Pan which he co- founded in 1991 with Aedin Cosgrove. Gavin is also joint Artistic Director with Aedin Cosgrove of The Pan Pan International Theatre Symposium, founded in 1997. (Nominated Special Jury Award, 2001 Irish Times Theatre Awards) Gavin is a grant recipient of the New York Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Gavin is a Board member of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, The Irish Theatre Institute, Irish Modern Dance Theatre and the National Association of Youth Drama.

This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

WORLD PREMIERE
THEATRE

June 18 - July 3
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM Thursday Night Social June 24

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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The audience is ushered into the space by LEWIS FOREVER members in small groupings. The space is arranged like a large conference room with tables creating a ring around an empty center space. There are individual place settings that are the tools of a hyper-stylized arts and crafts session. Using the structure of a workshop as the overreaching fiction, Dance-artist Isabel Lewis in collaboration with LEWIS FOREVER will create a performance situation that moves from the two dimensional and static to the three dimensional and ephemeral. The performance begins with the small scale and individual and works towards the communal and infinite. Along the way LEWIS FOREVER deliver instruction, spoken vignettes, and moments of song and dance that both admire and critique the art world on a journey ultimately to love and self-actualization.
http://lewisforever.com/home.html

This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

WORLD PREMIERE
THEATRE, DANCE, INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

June 6 - 13
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Show: Sat, June 12 at 10PM

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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"Bawdy, bold, and bizarre movement; an exercise in existentialism befitting of Beckett."- Venessa Manko Dance Magazine

In bermuda Adrienne Truscott, Neal Medlyn, and Carmine Covelli will occupy the interior and exterior of the downstairs theater, courtyard, and street at PS122, developing movement and reasons to move, for themselves and the audience, in spaces that feel, in their liminality, endless in their possibilities and impossible to define. The piece will also investigate why a roomful of husbands watch football in secret storage rooms, surrounded by toasters; what it feels like to live in a camper on the street in NYC; and how to get day laborers to replace 3 American dancers. What is edited out of the dance will be stored at a Brooklyn storage facility for the same month, for the low-price of $79.95.

This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

May 30 - June 13
Wed - Sat at 7:30PM, Sun at 5:30PM
Late Shows: Saturday, June 5 & 12 at 10PM
Thursday Night Social June 3

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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WINNER OF THE 2009 ETHYL EICHELBERGER AWARD

Orifice Descending is loosely based on The Balcony by Jean Genet. The performance consists of a series of manufactured images, video projections, tableaux, movement and burlesque routines whose purpose is to illustrate the arbitrary nature of gender rules and how, once unmoored from their fixed positions they can liberate us from our narrow and stereotypical conceptions of male and female roles.

In the Vaginal Davis cosmos there is no such thing as masculine or feminine, it's all commercial hype. Ms. Davis, as the grand doyeanne of outsider art, will prove this as she turns PS122 into a living, breathing installation piece with assistance from prolific New York based artist Jonathan Berger who will act as production, set + costume designer, as well as Downtown treasure Jennifer Miller, the bearded lady, and a bevy of art damaged youth hand picked from some of Manhattan's most enchanted olde money families.

In Orifice Ms. Davis will function as Madame/Matriarch of a male brothel or "boydello" where the audience will interactively explore the notion of gender as a continuum and not a binary model. Vaginal Davis is an originator of the homo-core punk movement and a gender-queer art-music icon. Her concept bands -- including Pedro Muriel and Esther, Cholita! The Female Menudo, black fag, and the Afro Sisters -- have left an indelible mark on the development of underground music. Like Ron Athey, Ms Davis made her name in LA's club performance scene, and has earned herself a similar notoriety as a cultural antagonist and erotic provocateur.

The Ethyl Eichelberger Award was created by Performance Space 122 and made possible with generous support from The Gesso Foundation in honor of seminal performer, landmark and legend Ethyl Eichelberger. The award is given to an artist or group that exemplifies Ethyl's larger-than-life style and generosity of spirit; who embodies Ethyl's multi-talented artistic virtuosity, bridging worlds and vitalizing those around them. http://www.vaginaldavis.com/

Saturday, May 15 - Thursday, May 27
Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sun at 6pm
Thursday Night Social + Ethyl Eichelberger Award Celebration: May 20

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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4 STARS "As long as Murrin's willing to talk, there's reason to listen. - Paul Menard, Time Out New York

"Perhaps a sequel is in order. Anticipate another Alien invasion." - Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice

"His performances explode like Rube Goldberg contraptions or car accidents...you can't take your eyes off his chaotic energy. The performances are exhilarating and unsettling, like a walk down Broadway. They're about the risk of running into drama - possibly coherent, possibly fragmented - as soon as you put your foot out the door." - Laurie Stone, Vogue

"Each performance is an electrifying frenzy of information as Murrin scrambles through a maze of carefully positioned props and costumes. . . . His rapid-fire delivery riddles the audience with a barrage of entertaining social commentary so mesmerizing and playful that the unsuspecting hordes may not even realize the full impact of his message." - Paper (G. Ray & Carlo McCormick)

Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and of his travels though avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! Murrin has been there from the beginning and lived to tell the tale. Speaking with wild-eyed excitement, Murrin hits you with history, hilarity, and his extraordinary generosity of spirit and innocence. It must be seen and heard to be believed.

Written & performed by Tom Murrin. Directed by Lucy Sexton.
Produced by Lori E. Seid. Lighting Design by Melissa J. Mendez.
Featuring: Kate Benson; Laurie Berg and Heidi Dorow.
Special guests: Mike Iveson (feb 18-28); Salley May and Mimi Goese (Mar 4-7)

WORLD PREMIERE | SOLO PERFORMANCE

Thu, Feb 18 - Sun, Mar 7
Thu - Sat at 7:30pm
Sun at 5:30pm
85 minutes

$20, $15 (students/seniors)



Free Post-Show Celebrations & Events
for ticket-holders:
THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL: Feb 18
OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Sun, Feb 21
THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL: Feb 25 + Annual Spalding Gray Award Party
ARTIST TALKBACKS: Sunday, February 28 and Thursday, March 4

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Talking Show Program online!

"Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables...Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, [AGA] always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party." - Flavorpill

Sources confirm that The Wooster Group is excited to guest curate Performance Space 122's longest-running multi-disciplinary mini-festival and that this spring's Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature artists who the Group calls upon, in their own words, "sometimes late at night, sometimes when we haven't seen them in a while, sometimes lonely, sometimes drunk, and sometimes we when we've just got nothing better to do."

Evening MCs:
Eric Dyer of Radiohole's "Outrageous" New Yorker 'Whatever, Heaven Allows'
Jibz Cameron the "Crackpot genius" Village Voice

Performances by:
Cynthia Hopkins
Daniel Pettrow
Yvan Greenberg
Andrew Schneider
Kaneza Schaal
Jamie Poskin
Installation by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty

With The Wooster Group curating the latest installment of Avant-Garde-Arama! one can expect two evenings of performance shorts and a nightly party that will "simulate the effects of a finely graded hallucinogen on a hyper-intelligent brain" - Ben Brantley The New York Times (on The Wooster Group). Each evening, of course, will be meta-framed by A.G.A! co-founder Salley May's customary extravagant introduction and welcome.

Founded in 1976, The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theatre, dance, and media. The many young people who intern there and sometimes move into positions in the company have long been their lifeblood. They are often artists in their own right who go on to make their own work.

Friday, April 16 + Saturday, April 17
Doors open at 8PM

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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WINNER OF THE 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD
NY PREMIERE | THEATRE

"INSPIRED" - NY Times
"OUTRAGEOUS" - The New Yorker
"MARVELOUS" - Voice
"BOISTEROUS" - Flavorpill

Excerpts from Ben Brantley's review in The New York Times: "I enjoyed it"... "'Whatever' includes some funny video sequences (love that chain-smoking deer!), clunky karaoke-style musical numbers (the Jane Wyman stand-in sings 'I Am Woman') and one inspired routine involving haka, a traditional Maori dance form...

But you have to admit that Radiohole is a great leveler. It makes Milton sound like a Brill Building songwriter, and Sirk seem as on-the-surface as 'Melrose Place.' Culture don't get no respect from Radiohole, which may not be enlightening, but for a generation that's so over postmodernism, it is kind of liberating."
Enjoy the full review

"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent, anarchic work... cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." -Time Out

Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.

The Spalding Gray Award supports gifted writer/performers who fully realize both aspects of Spalding's legacy, who are fearless innovators of theatrical form, who reach into daily experience and create resonant, transcendent work that makes us all bigger, wider, wiser and, somehow, more than we were when we entered the theater. The award is a special commission created in Spalding Gray's honor by Performance Space 122 in New York , UCLA Live, University of California, Los Angeles' public performing arts program,The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

RADIOHOLE EXTENDED! Added shows!

Saturday, February 20 - Sunday, March 21
Thu - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Shows: Saturdays at 10:30PM:
Feb 27/Mar 6/Mar 13/Mar 20
Spalding Gray Award Celebration + Thursday Night Social: Feb 25

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Whatever, Heaven Allows Program online!

Artist of the Year 2007, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages

"The pleasure of viewing is so intense here, so fun as to be nearly guilty."
Lightsey Darst, MSP magazine 2008

"We are treated to unobstructed views of a cast of extraordinary movers."
Mary Hodges, Brooklyn Rail, 2009

"Visually stunning, intricately choreographed...scenes of tense calm and silent impact."
- Justin Schell, mnartists.org, 2008

"a concentrated sense of emotional truth."
Roslyn Suclas, New York Times 2009

1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand. A contemporary ritual to address our dormant nuclear nightmares. Dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad bring together an extraordinary collaborative team including composer and harpist Zeena Parkins, visual artist Emmett Ramstad, physicist Bryce Beverlin II, performer Takemi Kitamura and a critical mass of twelve including Sinan Goknur, Becky Olson, Taja Will, Jennifer Arave, Kimberly Lesik, Emma Rainwater, Melissa Birch, Laressa Dickey, Melissa Guerrero, Sharon Mansur, Laura Grant and Nick LeMere.

1/2 Life was made possible with support from the Rockefeller MAP Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the Archibald Bush Foundation, Arts International, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Moore Family Fund

More about 1/2 Life can be found at http://www.bodycartography.org/

NY PREMIERE
DANCE, THEATRE

February 10 - 14
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Thursday Night Social Feb 11
Talkback with Clarinda Mac Low
Friday February 12

70 minutes

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

ONLY $11 with a PS122 Passport
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Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your 1/2 Life Program online!

For tickets to this Special COIL 2010 Celebration - select the performance that you wish to see and purchase the "Special Event! Cocktails & Show".

• Single tickets $65
• 2 tickets for $122 available with code 122for2
  Enter discount code when purchasing the "Special Event" ticket

Ads on Sunday, January 10 at 10:00PM

Jerk on Sunday, January 10 at 9:30PM

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