Now Playing:
- John Jahnke/Hotel Savant - The Archery Contest Oct 2 - 18
ENEWS EXCLUSIVE: Use code ENEWS and save - 31 Down - The Assember Dilator Oct 8 - 18
Coming Soon:
- Temporary Distortion - Americana Kamikaze Oct 24 - Nov 14
- Morgan Thorson & LOW - Heaven Oct 25 - 30
- Kurt Hentschläger - ZEE Oct 28 - Nov 15 OFFSITE at 3LD
- SPECIAL 122 EVENT! Oct 29
Explore PS122 this season:
- Read PS122 Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner's Fall Season Statement
- The PS122 Passport is 5 tickets for only $55
Check our our Suggested Performance Itineraries - Red & White goes GREEN! See how you can help us with this campaign
Enjoy your PS122 Program ONLINE anytime - Enjoy PS122 Conversations between Vallejo Gantner (Artist Director of PS122) and John Jahnke, Temporary Distortion, Maria Hassabi, and Cupola Bobber
Recent Raves & Press:
- "[The Archery Contest]'s relationships interweave and untangle, as in a Shakespearean romp." - Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
- "Jahnke immerses us in an unfamiliar, spare, very beautiful world in which many unexpected things occur and many delightful illusions unfold" - Martin Denton, NYTheater.com
- Tom Murrin at Paper Mag says "Word Up" to John Jahnke's "The Archery Contest"
- John Jahnke, Maria Hassabi, Adrienne Truscott previewed in the New York Times
- John Jahnke and Temporary Distortion previewed in the New York Times
- Dance Magazine's New York Notebook highlight's Heaven by Morgan Thorson & LOW
- Culturebot gets excited for Morgan Thorson's Heaven
Special Offers, Events, Partnerships:
Red & White goes GREEN!
In an effort to save paper (and trees!) we invite you to download and enjoy your PS122 Program anytime you like. Before, during (on your mobile device!), or after your next visit
Below are the programs from our season thus far:
- John Jahnke/Hotel Savant - The Archery Contest
- Maria Hassabi - Solo
- Cupola Bobber - Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me
- Avant-Garde-Arama! Fall 09
AND to be as paper-less as possible, Performance Space 122
has elected to not generate a printed brochure/calendar
or postcards this season.
We need your help to make this campaign a success. Obviously you are on our e-news list (thank you!) - please consider inviting a friend to sign up as well and help us spread the news tree-free! www.ps122.org/contact/signup
If you would like to download our season-at-a-glance
Please click on the style of your choice...
Join us - and stay tuned for more information about this new, exciting, and worth-while initiative and send us your thoughts about the efforts via email at green@ps122.org
WORLD PREMIERE
John Jahnke/Hotel Savant
The Archery Contest
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York
"...one of the highlights of the fall season at Performance Space 122." - NY Times
Downtown's enfant terrible delivers a frisky and hyper-stylized sex comedy that shoots straight into the heart of marriage in America. Behind this Technicolor Romantic Pastoral lies a glittering and scathing indictment of rules and regulations, rituals and rites of spring. A foursome and a sexton breach the boundaries of matrimonial shackles and dive headlong into a hedonistic lifestyle with complex consequences.
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Or mention by phone at 212-352-3101
Or at box office
Limited time offer
Restrictions apply; may not be applied to past sales.
Fri, Oct 2 - Sun, Oct 18
Wed - Sat 8pm
Sun 6pm
Post show party TONIGHT - Thu, Oct 8
Single ticket from - $20, $15 (students/seniors)
Photo by Josef Astor
WORLD PREMIERE
31 Down
The Assember Dilator
"31 Down is an amazing and groundbreaking company and their work deserves a broad audience." - Martin Denton
The Assember Dilator is a sonic meltdown of science fiction and perversion focused on the development of x-ray vision and its consequences, obvious and unknown. Through hypnotic aural and visual design 31 Down is confronting issues of medical research, sources of funding and the responsibility of science in the near future. Dealing with themes of transcendence, control and greed, specific notions of human interaction with science and nature are unraveled. This is an intense work featuring a doctor and a nurse's journey, as they become lab rats in their own hallucinogenic medical trial.
Thu, Oct 8 - Sun, Oct 18
Wed - Sat 7:30pm
Sun 5:30pm
Late Shows: Fri, Oct 16 + Sat, Oct 17 10pm
Single ticket from - $20, $15 (students/seniors)
N.Y. PREMIERE
Morgan Thorson & LOW
Heaven
BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
"Powerhouse" - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers will experience HEAVEN's acute force of attraction.
Sun, Oct 25 - Fri, Oct 30
Wed - Fri 8pm, Sun 6pm
Late show: Fri, Oct 30 10pm
Single ticket from - $20, $15 (students/seniors)
Photo by Cameron Wittig
WORLD PREMIERE
Temporary Distortion
Americana Kamikaze
"Discover Temporary Distortion...intimate theater for our time." - Le Mondé
Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 and a sensational sneak preview at Prelude '08, Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures - this time delving into the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and "J-Horror". A theater and cinema hybrid, Americana Kamikaze is haunted by vengeful spirits and doppelgangers, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, creepy sound designs, equally creepy cinematography, bizarrely happy endings - and even the saccharine pop songs.
Sat, Oct 24 - Sat, Nov 14
Wed - Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5:30pm
Late shows: Sat, Nov 7 + Sat Nov 14 10pm
NO SHOW on Sat, Oct 31
Single ticket from - $20, $15 (students/seniors)
Photo by Jon Weiss
N.Y. PREMIERE
Kurt Hentschläger
ZEE
Take a preliminary tour of ZEE
Presented by FuturePerfect in association with Performance Space 122
Produced by FuturePerfect and 3LD Art & Technology Center
Oct 28 - Nov 15
OFF-SITE: 3LD Art + Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, Lower Manhattan
Performance Space 122 creates and cultivates live experiences by living contemporary artists for audiences hungry for the thrill
and challenge of rich and meaningful art. What could be a more central question to our own existence than the question: what
does this live mean anyway?
This season, Performance Space 122 leaps into this issue asking – Can we demonstrate that live performance IS important? Can
we accept theatre that is entirely pre-recorded? Is our ‘live’ experience of an event sufficient? Or do we now need to create
and consume supplemental digital precursors, traces and responses, like so many appetizers on a restaurant menu, without
which the main course would no longer be satisfying?
Click here to read more...
Tour the fall with a PS122 Passport
Pick up a PS122 Passport and explore a new world of performance
All tickets to Performance Space 122 Fall 09
are from $20, $15 (students/seniors)
YOUR PASSPORT TO OUR SEASON IS YOUR PASSPORT TO SAVINGS!
The more Passports you get, the more you save!
For example: use your passport to see five shows on your own, or see one show with 4 friends, or any combination in between.
Check out our Suggested Performance Itineraries
- Whether you are a PS122 novice or a contemporary performance addict, these performance groupings are designed to help you apply your Passports and customize your experience within the season at PS122.
Click here to see our Suggested Performance Itineraries
Visit our website to preview the entire Fall Season.
A Special 122-Event!
Please join us for a very special evening on October 29 celebrating two of our most highly anticipated shows of the Fall season and our new Friends program.
Please see the schedule of events below.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
6-7:30PM: Cocktails at a local watering hole with PS122 Season Artists
7:30 - 9PM: Your choice of show.
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Temporary Distortion - Americana Kamikaze (Theatre/Cinema)
In Americana Kamikaze, Temporary Distortion returns to PS122 with one of their signature theatre-cinema hybrids in a box - this time delving into the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and "J-Horror". (7:30 curtain, Downstairs Theater)
OR
Morgan Thorson & Low - Heaven (Dance/Music)
In Heaven, Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slow-core band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic perfection in a real-time performance ritual.
(8:00 curtain, Upstairs Theater)
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Tickets: $65: www.ps122.org - pick your show (either Americana Kamikaze OR Heaven), chose October 29, and purchase the Special Event! Cocktails and Show
Cambria/Douglass
Presented by Irish Arts Center
To Plays. One Legacy.
The Cambria by Donal O’Kelly
Featuring Donal O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox
Frederick Douglass Now
Created and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith
Thru OCT 25 ONLY
Plays performed on alternating evenings and matinees
For schedule, visit www.irishartscenter.org
Donaghy Theatre - Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
in association with Classical Theatre of Harlem
"Eye-opening. Brilliant. You need to make it your business to go and see this show!" - AMSTERDAM NEWS
"Run, do not walk to The Cambria...a superb evening at the theatre." - NY Theatre.com
"A star turn…a rapid-fire riff, darting among epochs that mix the sounds of poetry slam, hip-hop and the old-style preacher with entertaining conviction." - THE NEW YORK TIMES
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE DISCOUNT TICKETS
PAY ONLY $25 (regular $50) with code PS122
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Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at The Japan Society
Don't miss the the "Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of butoh."
(San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain)
At Japan Society (333 East 47th Street)
October 15-17 only
Shinichi Iova-Koga and Yuko Kaseki dazzle the stage in inkBoat/cokaseki's manic and romantic dance duet.
Discover Fourth Arts Block for access to more culture per square foot than any other block in NYC.
Stop by the FAB Tix Booth at 61 East 4th Street from 1-6PM Thur + Fri or checkout our FAB Deals online at www.fabnyc.org
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. (@ E. 9th St.)
New York, NY 10009
Tickets Online: www.ps122.org
Tickets by Phone: at (212) 352-3101
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Tuesday-Saturday: 4pm - 8pm
Sunday - 4pm to 6pm
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