Annie Dorsen
Democracy in America

"Democracy in America is a cunning satire of contempoarary politics that transforms selling out into performance art"
- The New York Times

In Democracy in America "Tony Torn, Okwui Okpokwasili and Philippa Kaye cycle through the merry chaos"
- Helen Shaw, Time Out

Annie Dorsen, critically acclaimed co-creator and director of the hit rock musical on Broadway, Passing Strange, continues to break molds with her new performance event Democracy in America.

An episodic and juicy collage made from the cacophonous jumble of ideas, opinions and attitudes floating in the American ether, Democracy in America is a continually shifting 4-dimensional billboard advertising and animating the desires and dreams of the multitude. As a dynamic, interactive experiment in political performance, Democracy in America is not art about politics or ideology – instead, it is art made in a political way.

As a performance experiment, Democracy in America is continually evolving. During phase 1, the consumers were the creators. Through an online store that was open from November 26 through February 29, the public was invited to imagine and purchase the entire show - part and parcel - including the content. Any and all elements of what would be seen and experienced on stage were for sale. Shoppers submitted text, personal anecdotes, stories and jokes, physical or non-verbal actions, themes and concepts, and all elements of the design. One might've chosen to see a particular image or gesture, or performed a kiss, a dance, a cartwheel. Another may have chosen to buy a costume, a sound cue or a prop.

Now the shopping is over and Ms. Dorsen, together with her creative team, is tying it all together into a live art event that is sure to surprise.

Democracy in America will be performed by three of NYC's most celebrated downtown artists, Okwui Okpokwasili, Philippa Kaye and Anthony Torn. The creative team includes video artist Kate Howard, lighting designer Sarah Sidmon, sound designer Bart Fasbender, and dramaturg Katherine Profeta.

Do you get what you paid for? Yes, you do. This wild ride will indeed include ancient Roman texts, a fan dance to Ride of the Valkyries, a tapioca explosion, and - O.K. people, who ordered the rim job?

Democracy in America makes literal the so-called "marketplace of ideas," in which those with means purchase access to the privately-owned technologies of opinion-making and information dissemination, and those without money are the passive receivers of views which supposedly represent them.

Click Here for images from a Democracy rehearsal.

Democracy in America is a copresentation of Performance Space 122 and The Foundry Theatre

Democracy in America
Sunday, March 30 - Sunday, April 20
Tuesdays - Fridays at 8:30pm
Saturdays at 4:30pm and 8:30pm
Sundays at 7:00pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Jay Scheib
Untitled Mars (this title may change)

"Scheib may be the most acclaimed experimental American director whose work you have never seen"
- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

Taking a cue from the space industry, Jay Scheib's latest work pits hard Science against Philip K. Dick as interplanetary speculation runs amok, the indigenous population gets screwed, and a strange "anomalous" kid seems to hold all the answers. Developed at MIT with a team of Mars researchers and anthropologists, a mission to colonize the Red Planet is revving up for 2017. Imagining what might happen once we get there, Scheib drops seven performers into a simulated Martian society. Can't make ends meet on Earth? Consider a one-way ticket to Mars!

With performances by Karl Allen, Dorka Gryllus, Caleb Hammond, László Keszég, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, Balázs Vajna with special on-camera appearances by Waris Ahluwalia, Phillip Cunio, Kofi Hope-Gund, Henrik Hargitai, Zahra Khan, and Dr. Robert Zubrin and others...

Scenic Design by Peter Ksander, Lighting Design by Miranda Hardy, Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban, Sound Design by Catherine McCurry, Video Design by Balázs Vajna and Miklos Buk, Assistant Director Laine Rettmer, Dramaturg/Hungarian Project Manager Anna Lengyel, Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Untitled Mars (this title may change) is made possible through the generous support of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project For New Plays on Science and Technology; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; The Hungarian Cultural Center; Deutsch- Ungarische Industrie und Handelskammer; The Gertrude Stein Repertory Company; Swing Space, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, generously supported by the September 11th Fund, project space donated by Capstone Equities; with special thanks to the Mars Society, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.

Newsletter headline photo by Kati Stahl
L-R: rear – Karl Allen, Caleb Hammond, Tanya Selvaratnam;
fore – Dorka Gryllus, Natalie Thomas

Untitled Mars (this title may change)
April 8 - 27
Tuesday - Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 4 and 8pm
Sunday at 6pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

We celebrate and salute these stellar individuals who work at every level critical to live performance, who epitomize the vital roles played on stage (Tom Murrin), off stage (our members), and backstage (Lori E. Seid), and who have created and continue to create a legacy at P.S. 122 and in the world of performance.

Gala Sponsorships and Tickets:

PLATINUM $25,000: 10 tickets, full page listing in Gala program, sponsorship listing in Spring 2008 programs, and tickets for 4 to three P.S. 122 performances

GOLD $10,000: 10 tickets, listing in Gala program, and tickets for 4 to two P.S. 122 performances

SILVER $5000: 8 tickets, listing in Gala program, and tickets for 4 to two P.S. 122 performances

BRONZE $1000: 4 tickets plus listing in Gala program

$500: ticket plus listing in Gala program

$250: individual ticket

All tickets include cocktail party, dinner, auction, live performances, and after-party.

The Spring Gala always sells out - save your spot today!
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Gold Leadership Committee
Jane Friedman, Scott Rudin and John Barlow,
Gaby Darbyshire, David Neubert, and Michelle Kim

Silver Leadership Committee
Renate and Hugh Aller, Jo Andres, Steve Buscemi,
George and Peggy DiCaprio, and Blue Man Group

Bronze Leadership Committee
David Binder, Glenda Hersh, Tamara Jenkins, Media Bistro, Lauren Versel,
Steve Holley and Paul Glotzer, and MediabistroCircus.com

Artist Auction Committee
Jo Andres, Jamie Forshaw, David Leslie, Salley May,
Carlo McCormick, Nicky Paraiso,
Martha Wilson, and Vince Bruns

Best of the Boroughs

As part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, P.S. 122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a new and super-charged celebration that takes place at P.S. 122 while taking you on tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance.

The festival runs April 25 - May 10. See below for specific showtimes
Tickets $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

The Bronx

Brooklyn

Manhattan

Queens

Staten Island

THE BRONX AND MANHATTAN
Black Holes; a new work by Bronx-based musician Will Calhoun
Sponsored by Harlem Stage

"Not many artists have the vision and artistic energy to be Grammy winners and contribute to so many genres while continually pushing the envelope"
- Cincinnati CityBeat

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet. Synchronized images and film from Calhoun’s music research expeditions in Africa, Central and South America move in tempo to Calhoun’s rich sonic tapestry.

Will Calhoun is internationally known as the drummer/composer of NYC Rock Band Living Colour. In addition to his work with Living Colour, Will has recorded and/or toured with diverse artists including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Mos Def, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, The Allman Brothers, Lauryn Hill, Marcus Miller, Dr.John, Herb Alpert, Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, Wayne Shorter (on the Grammy-winning CD "High Life"), Run-DMC and Public Enemy.

Check out Will's Website

Genre: Music, multi-media

May 1 - May 4
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 10 pm
Sunday at 7 pm
(no show Saturday, May 3)
(Upstairs, in rep with Gabri Christi)



BROOKLYN
Israeli Jazz singer Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Presented in association with BRIC

“A commanding vocalist” – The New York Times

Gottlieb is an “Israeli jazz seductress” – Rolling Stone

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre. The show combines movement, video projections and Gottlieb’s compositions. All the elements unfold the abstract narrative of the struggles of a woman in love.

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s (Composer/Vocalist) sound reveals a unique improvisational approach infused with elaborate composition, spiced up with Middle Eastern scales and adventurous texts. She currently resides in New York City and was born in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. After graduating from New England Conservatory in ’02, Gottlieb released her first CD Internal-External which was chosen as “Best Debut of 2004” by All About Jazz. In ’06 she released Mayim Rabim on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records to international critical acclaim.

Genre: Music

May 8 - 10 at 8pm
(Downstairs)



QUEENS
Vengeance Can Wait
Presented in association with Queens Theater in the Park

"There's a new buzz in Japan's theaters these days — and she's called Yukiko Motoya"
- The Japan Times

Vengeance Can Wait, a new play by Yukiko Motoya, is a kinky comedy about love, submission, and sweet revenge by one of Japan’s leading contemporary female playwrights. Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait navigates Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. A couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted and touching, the couple come to understand the “kinks” in their relationship – and embrace them.

Directed by Jose Zayas
Co-translation by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen
Featuring Becky Yamamoto, Jennifer Lim*, Pun Bandhu*, and Paul H. Juhn*

Assistant Director: Mark Karafin ; Scene Designer: Ryan Elliot Kravetz; Lighting Designer: Evan Purcell; Sound Designer: Matthew Tennie; Costume Designer: Carla Bellisio
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

Genre: Theatre

April 25 - May 4
Tuesday through Sundays
Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm
Sundays at 4pm
Additional performances Saturday at 2pm
(Downstairs)




STATEN ISLAND
Remember This Moment
A new work by Gabri Christa

“Ms. Christa has a way of making dance and theater happen without seeming to lift a finger”
– Jennifer Dunning

In anticipation of their two year-old child’s fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video – part time capsule, part time travel – and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future. Award-winning choreographers and performers Gabri Christa and Niles Ford have collaborated and danced together for the last 15 years. This evening length multi-media performance incorporates moments from their past and integrates lots of new. In this workshop performance, through dance, spoken and sung text, the performers inhabit a vivid and visceral world conjured by video artist and Obie Award winner Marilys Ernst and filled with music by guitarists Vernon Reid and Greg Tate of the neo-tribal big band Burnt Sugar (The Arkestra Chamber).

More about Gabri Christa: Gabri’s work has been performed in spaces in New York and around the country. She is the winner of numerous awards and honors including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and was an artist in residence at Dance Theater Workshop. She currently teaches at the School of the Staten Island Ballet.

Check out Gabri's website

Genre: Dance, multi-media

May 1- 4
Thursday at 10pm
Friday and Saturday at 7pm
Sunday at 4pm
(Upstairs, in rep with Will Calhoun)

Jay Scheib featured in Helen Shaw’s “Radar Roundup”

“The title "Under the Radar" may imply undiscovered potential. But in the case of Mr. Scheib, we are actually seeing an already major talent coming triumphantly into its own.”

“Untitled Mars (this title may change)” directed by Jay Scheib makes its world premiere at P.S. 122 this spring: April 8 – 27.
Get more info and tickets by clicking here

Read the full New York Sun article here

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