Pavel Zuštiak + Palissimo Company (NYC)
The Painted Bird (Part III): Strange Cargo

"A vivid, often anguished, imagination shines through in [Zuštiak's] work..."
- The New Yorker

In this capstone of the acclaimed The Painted Bird trilogy, choreographer Pavel Zuštiak collaborates with composers Christian Frederickson & Ryan Rumery to plunge into assumptions of refuge and home. The urge to survive is inherent, the feeling of otherness is universal and yet reality shifts the minute the desire to belong is turned inside out.

• Praise for The Painted Bird Parts I & II
• About the artists
• About the venue

BASTARD (Part I)
"Bastard is searing." -Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

"Bastard earns its emotional extremity - with tenderness and quiet." -Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times ★★★★

"Bastard had both magic and mystery." -Leigh Witchel, DanceViewTimes

2010 Time Out New York Honorable Mention

AMIDST (Part II)
"Mr. Zuštiak, a striking performer who projected an exquisite, unknowable vulnerability. There is the sense that, with The Painted Bird, he has found his material, and will be mining it for a long time to come." -Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times

"And, as always, this artist has chosen forceful performers with the physical skills and courage to follow him into the dark, shuttered spaces of human life." -Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Magazine

"The most disorienting reminders of the terrors of that war, though, came from the emotional impact of the dance, and the audience's own foggy path." -Martha Sherman, DanceViewTimes

"It's worth losing your bearings for a while in the enigmatic atmosphere of this high-art haunted house." -Leigh Witchel, New York Post

About the artists

Pavel Zuštiak is a choreographer, performer and sound designer. 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2009 Princess Grace Foundation Residency Award- and 2007 Princess Grace Award-winner for Choreography. He is the Artistic Director of Palissimo Company, founded and based in New York City since 2004. Zuštiak was named an ambassador of Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, his birth city that was selected together with Marseille as European cultural capitals.

Christian Frederickson is a violist, composer, and sound designer living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MM in viola from The Juilliard School. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed alternative indie-rock band Rachel's and a founder of The Young Scamels with Jason Noble and Greg King. Frederickson has collaborated with a number of theater directors and choreographers, developing a signature style as a musical improviser and composer for the stage.

Performed by Giulia Carotenuto, Lindsey Dietz-Marchant, Luke Murphy, Denisa Musilova and Jeremy Xido.

Live music by Frederickson and Ryan Rumery. Lights by Joe Levasseur, set by Peter Ksander, costumes by Asta Hostetter, and video design by Keith Skretch and Manny Pallad.

Learn more about the Palissimo Company and the The Painted Bird Trilogy Project

Photo © David Kumerman

About the venue
PS122 is proud to present our first production at Synod Hall at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The world's largest Gothic cathedral - and headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of New York - dominates Morningside Heights, just south of Columbia University. Synod Hall is a beautiful building located on the Cathedral's southern grounds.

A Long Table on Migration & Displacement
Lead by Masha Pyshkina

Saturday, May 5 at 5:30pm
at Synod Hall (NE corner of Amsterdam at 110th)

FREE and open to the public.
Limited capacity - reservations strongly encouraged. Reserve online
Light refreshments to be provided, including sweets from the Hungarian Pastry Shop.

The Long Table is an experimental public forum originally developed by performance artist Lois Weaver. The Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum, and encouraging informal conversations on serious topics. It is literally a very long table set up with chairs and refreshments where anyone and everyone is welcome to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen and watch.

This Long Table is held in concurrence with Palissimo's Strange Cargo. Performances are May 3 - 13 Thursday - Sunday at Synod Hall and presented by Performance Space 122 in conjunction with The Cathedral Church of St. John's the Divine.

After eight years as Program Director at CEC ArtsLink, Masha Pyshkina continues to work on international arts projects as an independent producer and consultant. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, she has over fifteen years of experience administering international programs. She holds a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from New York's Columbia University, and BA degrees from State Pedagogical University in St.Petersburg (English, German and Art History) and from Grinnell College (Economics).

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Strange Cargo (Part III) was created with commissioning support from Performance Space 122 and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University and made possible, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support and commissioning funds for this program have been provided by The Jerome Foundation and New Music USA's Live Music for Dance program and additional project support was provided by Greenwall Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Strange Cargo was developed and supported during residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL), Baryshnikov Arts Center, Abrons Arts Center and also made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program through a real estate donation from Capstone Equities.

This presentation is supported, in part, by the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE

Presented by Performance Space 122 in conjunction with The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

Synod Hall
at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Amsterdam Ave. at 110th Street, Manhattan, NY

May 3 - 13, 2012
Thursday 8pm
Friday, Saturday 8pm & 9:30pm
Sunday 8pm
Note: There is no late seating for Strange Cargo

Single tickets $20, $15 (students / seniors)
PS122 Passport 5 tickets for $75*

Opening night hospitality sponsor: Veselka & Veselka Bowery

Honorary chairs Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jo Andres & Steve Buscemi, John Leguizamo, Yvonne Rainer, Gala chair East Village Community Coalition, and the PS122 Board of Directors invite you to

The 2012 Spring Gala honoring Lucy Sexton
Nowhere to go but everywhere

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

When:
Thursday, March 15, 2012

• 6PM Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres with DJ JOHNNY DYNELL
• 7:30PM Performance
• 9PM Dessert & silent auction
• 10:30PM Afterparty at SUPERFINE

Where:
St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water St., Brooklyn, NY

How:
Sponsorships from $25,000 - $1,500
Single tickets from $350


For more information or assistance please contact Lori Vroegindeweylori@ps122.org or phone at 212.477.5829 ext. 302

Can't attend?
Support PS122's Spring Gala honoring Lucy Sexton

• Donate online at ps122.org/support
• Mail a check
  Performance Space 122 Spring Gala 2012
  67 West St. Suite 315, Brooklyn, NY 11222
  
• Donate to the silent auction - email benefit@ps122.org

Preview highlights from the auction

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

everyhousehasadoor.org

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.

randomscream.be

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.

marianopensotti.com

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