Now Playing:
- the TEAM - Architecting
Presented as part of COIL and Under The Radar | Extended at P.S. 122: Jan 22 - Feb 15 - Okwui Okpokwasili - Pent Up: A Revenge Dance Feb 8 - 22
Opening night party Tue, Feb 10* - Yanira Castro + Company - Dark Horse/Black Forest - Private bookings only
Follow this project on Twitter beginning Dec. 2
Coming Soon:
- the National Theater of the United States of America - CHAUTAUQUA! Feb 21 - Mar 15
- Spring Season is ON SALE now
Recent Press:
- Okwui Okpokwasili is "Incandescent" - Claudia La Rocco says 'Pent Up' will help "beat back winter blues"
- David Levine interviewed by Christian Hawkey - Venice Saved is coming soon to P.S. 122 in March
- Architecting is "True genius" - Two Blind Cats
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times, lavishes praise on "two energizing productions" by Pan Pan and the TEAM: "Two present-tense theater companies who know what they're doing."
- "The Importance of Being Heartfelt" - Gwen Orel, The New York Times
- "Architecting rewards careful attention" - Sam Thielman, Variety
- "The myriad voices, unique structure and surprising content make it rich beyond any expectation." - Harrison Hill, Washington Square News
- "Riveting... beguilingly performed." - Lisa Jo Sagolla, Backstage
- "A fabulous and bright explosion" - Obscene Jester
- "I implore you to go see the theater piece Architecting now" - Loud Paper
Special Events and Offers:
- Give Membership: Year round packages to P.S. 122 starting at only $60
- David Levine hosts a talk show The Gershwin Hotel | Tue, Feb 17 8p
- Memorial Day at IFC Cinemas | Tonight = Last show!
- ZsaZsaLand Feb 6 - 22
- Doug Varone and Dancers at The Joyce Theater | Feb 24 - Mar 1
- Weddings and Beheadings by Palissimo presented by the 92 St. Y | Opens March 11
the TEAM
Architecting
"A remarkable piece of work..." - The Financial Times
"A complex gem. Extraordinary." — The Scotsman
From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans to the mythical South of Gone With The Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road tripping
requiem for modern America. Three-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners the TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment) bend time, hoop skirts, and history in this
musical and wickedly funny epic.
The TEAM is the Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, a theatre company dedicated to dissecting and celebrating the experience of living in America today. 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners (2005 - 2008), 2008 Total Theatre Award, 2007 Best Production Dublin Fringe, and TimeOut New York's Top Ten 2007. The TEAM's work has been seen stateside, all over New York, including Performance Space 122; nationally, including the Walker Art Center and Vanderbilt University; internationally, including London's Battersea Arts Centre, the Bristol Old Vic, Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, and the Galway Arts Festival.
Architecting was created with support from the National Theater of Scotland Workshop, the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Battersea Arts Centre in London, and the Orchard Project.
Architecting was developed at the BAC (May 2007), the 2007 CUNY Prelude Festival (Sept 2007), 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York (May 2008), the Orchard Project (June 2008). Architecting (Part One) made its world premiere at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Presented as part of Under The Radar and COIL festivals
Extended at Performance Space 122: Thu, Jan 22 - Sun, Feb 15
Tue - Sat at 7:30pm
Sun at 5pm
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo by Yi Zhao
Okwui Okpokwasili
Pent Up: A Revenge Dance
"Moves beautifully, with stunning expressiveness." - The New York Times
Bessie Award-winner Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to get a grip, Pent Up sheds new light on traditional spells and third world brothels, and transforms every scratch & win ticket into a lucky one. Directed by Peter Born.
Okwui Okpokwasili has been developing Pent Up with Peter Born through workshops and residencies with 651 ARTS, P.S. 122 and Centre National de la Danse from 2006-2007. She was a collaborator and performer in Achill in Modern Wars and Death of Nations: Heimwehen at the FFT in Dusseldorf, Germany. Most recently she performed in Annie Dorsen's Democracy in America at P.S. 122. A Bessie Award recipient for her work in the final part of Ralph Lemon's Geography Trilogy, "Come Home Charley Patton", she continues to collaborate with Ralph Lemon.
Developmental support for Pent Up: A Revenge Dance was provided by 651 ARTS and presented as a work-in-progress in 2006 as part of 651’s annual Salon 651 series.
*Opening night party Tue, Feb 10
Join Okwui, Peter and all of us after the show for a glass of wine
Sun, Feb 8 - Sun, Feb 22
Tue - Sat at 8pm
Sun at 5:30pm
Additional show Mon, Feb 9 at 8pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo by MLO
the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA!
"[NTUSA] left me stunned and breathless and completely in awe." -Malcolm Gladwell
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray Award honoring innovative theatrical vision, NTUSA zeros in on High Culture and the Mass Mind. Channelling the legendary Chautauqua Lectures, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, and scientific demonstration with entertainments such as dance, dramatic recital, feats of strength, and joke telling. Their national tour culminates here in N.Y.C., where local lore will infuse their inimitable investigation.
Feb 21 - Mar 15
Tuesday - Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo courtesy of NTUSA
the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA! | Feb 21 - Mar 15
"The National Theater of the United States of America left me stunned and breathless and completely in awe."
-Malcolm Gladwell (author)
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray Award honoring innovative theatrical vision, NTUSA zeros in on High Culture and the Mass Mind.
Photo courtesy of NTUSA
David Levine & CiNE
Venice Saved | Mar 21 - Apr 5
Theatre, performance art, torture, outsourcing, anorexia, Israel, Palestine, charismatic leadership, the financial crisis, the Shock Doctrine, theanyspacewhatever, Blackwater, and the TCG. Seminar format (ugh). Participatory format (ugh). Totally bitchen (ugh).
Artwork courtesy of Annerose Shultze
Sally Silvers & Dancers
Yessified! | Mar 22 - 29
"One of the most beloved of downtown choreographers." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
Iconoclassical choreographer Sally Silvers returns to P.S.122 with her first new group dance since 2005’s Puppy Skills.
Photo by Jenny Woodward
MEI-BE WHATever
Cinderella Toe Jam II: Royal Pink | Apr 2 - 5
Dancers contend with extreme concepts of corporeal perfection, questioning the motivation and vulnerable psychology of the female performing body.
Photo by Steven Schreiber
Banana Bag & Bodice
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage | Apr 1 - 18
All performances at The Abrons Arts Center
Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical.
Presented by Shotgun Players
Artwork courtesy of Banana Bag & Bodice
Octavio Campos
BLUE Live | Apr 9 - 19
The Miami-based tanztheater artist delves into the dark and sexually puzzling world of filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Photo by Dale Stine
Object Collection
Problem Radical(s) | Apr 24 - May 10
"Problem Radical(s) is an experimental theatricalist opera just the way such things should be and rarely are. The spectator is swept away in its delirious mix and emerges clear and emotionally refreshed." - Richard Foreman
Photo by Danielle Colburn
Jennifer Miller
Apr 25 - May 10
"Miller wows 'em" - The Village Voice
Jennifer Miller is widely recognized for her work and is the recipient of awards including the Obie, Bessie, BAX 10, and most recently the Ethyl Eichelberger Award.
Photo by Karl Giant
Megan Sprenger / mvworks
...within us. | May 17 - 24
"...eruptions of movement burn themselves into your brain—the residue of lives you can't quite grasp but which you suspect might be your own."
-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
mvworks examines the raw unfiltered human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict.
Photo by Megan Sprenger
International Contemporary Ensemble
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES | May 22 - 23
"One of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music" - The New York Times
The musicians of ICE team up with performer/composer Corey Dargel's new art-pop song cycle inspired by psychological delusions.
Photo by Liz Linder
Marie Brassard
Jimmy | Coming in May
"Vital, world-class theatre not to be missed" - Ian Kilroy, The Irish Times
Have you ever had a dream where you were on the verge of having an orgasm?
'Jimmy' is genie Award nominee/Critics Prize and Chalmers Award winner Marie Brassard’s first solo play.
Photo by Simon Gibault
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side | June 5 - 28
"'The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side' is the most exciting theatre I've seen in quite a while. The Amoralists are making theatre here that really does have the capacity to lead their audience towards some meaningful social change." - NYtheater.com
Photo by Gail Thacker
Available for booking this Spring
Yanira Castro + Company
Dark Horse/Black Forest
"Castro's upcoming duet takes voyeurism to a precipice... it doesn't happen on a stage but in a bathroom like yours."
-Lori Ortiz
"As much an installation artist as a choreographer, [Castro] creates intricate environments in which lighting, costumes and set share equal weight with steps."
- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
Dark Horse/Black Forest expands exploration of audience environments: how an observer and performer connect and how space influences how we participate in a performance. The performers and audience inhabit the space together. Yanira Casto + Company present their intensely performed love story in the most intimate of spaces: your bathroom.
These privately booked performances are made available exclusively through Performance Space 122 and for a limited time only. Please email darkhorse@ps122.org for reservations and more information.
Starting Tuesday, December 2 you can follow Dark Horse/Black Forest on Twitter. It's easy, here's how:
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1. Twitter is a free service and is easy to join. Go to Twitter.com and sign up.
2. Click on each of the following two links, and from their profile pages click the "follow" button:
twitter.com/doghebitme
twitter.com/darkbloom8
To be even more immersed: receive tweets on the go and instantaneously by connecting your cell phone to Twitter. (Twitter doesn't charge anything for this, but be sure to know what your text plan looks like with your wireless carrier.)
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1. Go to Settings. Go to Devices. Add your cell phone number.
2. You will be given a number to text to activate your phone.3. Then go to Profile. Click on "following" above Updates. Turn the device updates on for doghebitedme and darkbloom8.
Photo courtesy of Yanira Castro
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ACE
A talk show hosted by David Levine
Featuring virtuoso mixologist Eben Klemm, novelist Chloe Aridjis, and other special guests with special skills...
Gerswhin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street , New York, NY, 10016
Tue, Feb, 17 @ 8pm
$10
gershwinhotel.com
David Levine & CiNE present 'Venice Saved: A Seminar' at Performance Space 122 March 21 - April 5
For tickets and more information visit ps122.org
MEMORIAL DAY
Presented by International WOW/Josh Fox
"Astonishingly real" - New York Magazine
"Potent, tantalizing...a fearsome tableau of Americana" - Film Forward
Tuesday, Feb 10 is the LAST SHOW
12:30p, 6:10p
IFC Cinemas
6th Ave at 3rd St
Tickets online here
Watch the trailer and learn more here
jill sigman/thinkdance presents the premiere of
ZsaZsaLand
at Office Ops
February 6-8, 13-15 and 20-22 at 8pm
Tickets are $15 and are available in advance through SmartTix (212) 868-4444
A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door.
ZsaZsaLand: Aftermath
A Visual/Sound Installation at Office Ops
Open gallery hours February 26-28 from 6-9pm
LIVE ART EVENT each night at 7pm
Combi-queen Jill Sigman (aka Djurdja Performantsartova), known for her arresting combinations of movement, sound, and potent visuals, premieres the new performance work, ZsaZsaLand-- part dance, part club, part installation. Choreographed, conceived and designed by Jill Sigman, with live sound mixing by the DJ joro-boro and lighting design by Aaron Copp, ZsaZsaLand is a darkly comic commentary on decadence and decay, commercialism and cultural cannibalism, packaging and product.
Thursday through Saturday, February 26-28 the performance transforms into a free visual/sound installation called ZsaZsaLand: Aftermath with gallery hours from 6-9pm and live art events at 7pm.
Doug Varone and Dancers
Feb 24 - Mar 1
"Inspired by words of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl and the Book of Daniel, the work is a spare, piercing denunciation of brutality. Set to American composer Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations, Varone’s newest creation refuses to compromise." - CLEVELAND PLAINS DEALER
Doug Varone and Dancers will present the NYC premiere of Alchemy, 2000's riveting Tomorrow, set to the music of Reynaldo Hahn sung live by mezzo-soprano Theodora Hanslowe and the joyous Lux (2006) to Phillip Glass's propulsive score The Light.
Special offer for friends of P.S. 122
Use code PS122 and enjoy 20% discount*
For tickets joyce.org
212-242-0800
Doug Varone and Dancers invite you to join us for the opening night festivities
For tickets and more information Click here
*Restrictions apply, must use by Feb 20, not valid for $19 tickets
Pavel Zuštiak | Palissimo
WEDDINGS AND BEHEADINGS
March 11-15 (Wed, Thu & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)
At The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Please join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the opening night performance and the after-party. Through special arrangements, we are offering $25 combo tickets which include ticket to the show and the afterparty including a toast drink. These tickets are available at www.palissimo.com/news (credit card) or mail check to Palissimo Inc. 875 West 181st Street, Suite 5H, New York, NY 10033. ALL OTHER tickets are $20 - see details below.
Tickets: $20, $17 (groups or 10 and more)
Online www.92Y.org/harkness
By phone at 212-415-5500
In person at the 92nd Street Y box office
Direction, Choreography and Sound Design: Pavel Zuštiak |
Created with performers Elena Demyanenko, Sho Ikushima, Jeff Kent Jacobs and Lindsey Dietz Merchant |
Rehearsal Assistant: Gina Bashour |
Projections Concept and Images: Robert Flynt |
Scenography: Nick Vaughan |
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur |
Projections Design and Animation: Keith Skretch |
Stage Manager: Yi Zhao
Photo by Robert Flynt
"Snazlfest marks a groundbreaking use of online technology to champion the performing arts." - Daniel Gallant, Executive Director, Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Snazlfest is a three-week, four-venue multi-arts festival sponsored by the Village Voice and new online multimedia sharing interface Snazl.com. The festival marks an unprecedented collaboration among four established cross-genre performance venues to discover, showcase, and promote emerging artists. During Snazlfest, more than 30 artists will perform at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Goodbye Blue Monday, and Sidewalk Cafe. Each venue will also screen dynamic short films curated by PS122; filmmakers include Neal Medlyn, Japanther and Banana Bag and Bodice. Musicians, poets and other artists performing during Snazfest include Airport 7 and Scott Tixier Group (on February 14, at Goodbye Blue Monday); La Bruja and Carlos Andres Gomez (on February 21, at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe) and Dynasty Electric and The Press (on February 28, at Sidewalk Cafe). Rising artists will also be represented during the festival - 12 of the performers featured in the cross-venue lineup have been discover from among Snazl.com users.
Below is a complete lineup; for further information on Snazlfest, visit:
snazl.com/snazlfest
Goodbye Blue Monday
February 14 @ 8p
www.myspace.com/goodbyebluemondayinc
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
Airport Seven, Ava Luna, Ching Chong Song, Susan Hwang, The Marionettes of Satan, Phfat Raskals, and the Scott Tixier Group
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
February 21 @ 12p
www.nuyorican.org
236 East 3rd Street (between Aves. B & C)
Advocate of Wordz, La Bruja, Carlos Andres Gomez, Francesca Harper, Aja Monet, and Matt Okin
Sidewalk Cafe
February 28 from 8p - 12a
www.sidewalkmusic.net
94 Avenue A (at 6th Street)
Dynasty Electric, The Press, Neckbeard Telecaster
Multimedia Works from Performance Space 122
www.ps122.org
Works by Neal Medlyn, Japanther, Object Collection, Banana Bag & Bodice, Nolan Rosemond, and Keith Skretch will be shown at Snazlfest venues throughout the festival
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