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March 21, 2006

Now Playing:

Danceoff Terry Dean and Katie
Avant-Garde-Arama Love Insurgency

Avant-Garde-Arama For The Whole Family

Junta High The Pumpkin Pie Show

Coming Soon:

Hell, The Opera People's Opera and Beth Morrison Projects

Schoolhouse Roxx Dangerous Woman

Special Events & Offers:

SAVE 35% OFF TICKETS* TO LYSISTRATA! A SPECIAL OFFER FROM NEW YORK CITY OPERA

Only 6 more performances of "Total Faith in Cosmic Love" at the Brick

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Dear P.S. 122 Friends,

We have yet another spectacular week at P.S. 122! Upstairs, Stan Won't Dance's production of Sinner premiers on Wednesday followed by an opening night after party at Via Delle Zoccolette. "Intoxicating, full of power and urgency... everyone should see this!" -Dance Europe.
Meanwhile downstairs The Pumpkin Pie Show's Junta High weaves a story that's politics not-as-usual. Imagine a skewed "twilight zone" pep rally in the age of the War on Terror, where cheerleaders are suicide bombers and teachers get taken hostage by the a/v club. Take advantage of the two special post-show events!
Junta High was featured in the Village Voice's Spring Arts Preview:
"Social anxieties, competing cliques, and the rival pressures to stand out and conform can certainly make high school feel like a battlefield. But arch-monologuist Clay McLeod Chapman replaces the figurative with the literal in this tale of warrior football players, terrorist cheerleaders, and guidance counselor hostages. Hungry March Band supplies the music."

So buy tickets now and don't miss these very exciting shows and events. OH! Once again - the ticket price is the same no matter where you buy it - online, over the phone, or in person. So buy tickets online at Theatermania ahead of time and avoid long lines at our box office!!

Thanks and we'll see you soon!

All of us here at P.S. 122
www.ps122.org

Danceoff
Terry Dean and Katie

March 21, 22
8:00 and 10:00pm

Tickets:
Regular $15

Members $10

Way before there was "So, You Think You Can..." there was DANCEOFF! Fierce, imaginative, and often funny, DANCEOFF! is NYC's only full-contact, non- competitive, not-really-a, dance competition. Continuing to present the best and brightest in emerging and emerged dance/theater artists, Terry Dean & Katie along with PS 122 bring you the critically acclaimed DANCEOFF! Following Sold-Out runs at Symphony Space in February and PS 122 in April, and two fabulous, free DANCEOFF! shows in Riverside and Union Square Parks this summer, DANCEOFF! is back at PS 122 for 4 mind-blowing shows, over 2 nights! It's "What's Up" in Downtown Dance!

March 2006 Danceoff will feature work by:
Katie Workum
Skyler Sullivan
Cynthia Hopkins
Palissimo
Will Rawls
Jonah Bokaer (motion capture video)
Ani Weintstein w/ Russ Salmon

Check danceoff.net for more info

Avant-Garde-Arama
Love Insurgency

March 24, 25
8:00 p.m.
Sunday March 26
4:00 and 7:00 p.m.

Tickets:
$15 ($10 Members)

Avant-Garde-Arama is P.S. 122's longest-running series. This biannual multi-disciplinary mini-festival showcases short, new works from both established and emerging artists. In a fun, festive and informal atmosphere the best breakout dance, music, theatre, performance, video and more is presented in eight minutes or less.

Hosted by Mark Mitton with James Godwin. Featuring Installation by The Love everybody Movement and starfish Liberation Army.
Two nights equal downtown's definitive multi-disciplinary festival of the best in breakout performance, dance, music, theatre and more.

Friday: Iris Rose, Lumberob: A Mighty Mouth Music, Jeremy Wade, Judy Elkan's Playstation, and Jeffrey Lewis.

Saturday: Immediate Medium, Jonathan Zalben, Ursula Eagly, Brendan deVallance, and The Sun Is Alone and on Fire. Plus ongoing performance installations by Juan Souki and Sylvia Bofill

Curated by Salley May and the Avant-Garde-Arama Committee

Avant-Garde-Arama For The Whole Family

March 26
4:00, 7:00 p.m.

Tickets:
$5, $3 kids 12 & under, kids under 2 free

AGA for the Whole Family is downtown performance for children of all ages that doesn't talk down to them because it's by them. An instant classic launched in Fall 2005, AGAWF ushered in a new generation of alternative performance. The whole family will revel in an afternoon of eclectic multi-disciplinary performances by, for, or about kids!

Hell, The Opera
People's Opera and Beth Morrison Projects

March 31 - April 9
Opens Friday, March 31

Tickets:
Regular $20

Members $10

A lurid new opera by poet Eileen Myles and composer Michael Webster, HELL employs frank and lyrical language and an exalted baroque style to tear away the veils obscuring corporate silence and global disaster. Inspired by Dante's Inferno and post 9/11 events, HELL takes up an elegiac and musical cudgel on behalf of free speech and sings out against the endless waging of war.

For more info visit the official website, www.helltheopera.com

Schoolhouse Roxx presents
"Dangerous Woman" A Performance Art Double Bill

March 30-April 1,
9 p.m.

Tickets:
$15

From March 30 to April 1, P.S.122's Schoolhouse Roxx Series presents a double bill of dangerous women. Internationally known performance artist Nao Bustamante will be performing her new work, entitled Hero and rising downtown art star Dynasty Handbag brings her own peculiar blend of music and deranged monologue to the P.S. 122 stage.

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, video, pop music and experimental rips in time. Hero works live performance, Video projection, and karaoke. Bustamante's character transforms, via video, from a gentle princess who has lost her puppy in a lush fall forest into an icy nefarious hag trudging through the snow.

Dynasty Handbag is the one woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron (of the indie rock bands Dynasty, The Roofies, Camp Winnarainbow). Originally from San Francisco, in 2005 she relocated to NYC to escape an obsessed prisoner pen pal. Within 5 months, with a little hard work and a lot of heart, she was crowned Miss Lower East Side. On stage Cameron performs with a backing track containing original songs and dialogues of her innermost personal thoughts and horrible feelings.

For more info check schoolhouseroxx.com

A SPECIAL OFFER FROM NEW YORK CITY OPERA
SAVE 35% OFF TICKETS* TO LYSISTRATA!

A new production at New York City Opera, Mark Adamo's Lysistrata makes its New York debut on March 21^st! Based on one of literature¹s greatest comedies and political spoofs, this raucous musical battle of the sexes tells the story of the women of Greece, who, sick of their men being away at war, agree to place a total sanction on sex until the men agree to stop the fighting. What will ultimately prevail the battle for love or for war?

ONLY 5 PERFORMANCES FROM MARCH 21 APRIL 5!

Tickets must be purchased by April 1, 2006. To take advantage of this exclusive offer either:

1. Call CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 and mention code YLPC when selecting your seats.

2. Click here and enter code YLPC when selecting your seats.

3. Or, bring a printout of this offer to the New York State Theater Box Office at W. 63rd & Columbus Avenue.

*Discount valid on tickets priced $65 and up to Tuesday Friday performances and $45 and up to Saturday and Sunday performances. Offer ends April 1, 2006. All casts, programs, and pricing subject to change. Limit 8 tickets per order. Ticket offer based on availability. Discount cannot be combined with other offers or used on previously purchased tickets.