ADS Extends Again:
Coming in February:
- The BodyCartography Project - 1/2 Life Feb 10 - 14
- Marisa Olson - Whew! Age Feb 12 - 14
- Tom Murrin - The Talking Show Feb 18 - Mar 7
- Radiohole - Whatever, Heaven Allows Feb 20 - Mar 13
What the critics are saying about Ads:
- "Boundary pushing" "Simple but bewitching" "Provocative" "Novel" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
- "Thought provoking" - Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
- "However one would choose to define it, Maxwell has created in Ads a work of almost unnerving simplicity." - Fred Backus, NYTheater.com
- 5 Questions for Richard Maxwell from Erik Piepenburg, NY Times
- Andrew Andrew interviews Richard Maxwell on Sound Sound
- We are "quite sure that we loved [Ads]" - Andrew Andrew
- "Ads asks the kinds of questions the theatre needs to ask in the 21st century" - Jason Fitzgerald, Backstage
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- The PS122 Passport: Five tickets for $55 Able to be used in any combination to all on-site shows
Example: See five different COIL shows on your own or bring four friends with you to one! Passports are valid through June 30, 2010. - Ads explained by Richard Maxwell interviewed by Monica de la Torre from BOMB magazine
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FINAL 8 PERFORMANCES
Richard Maxwell/NYC Players - Ads
60 Minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
[Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists to emerge from American experimental
theater in the past decade." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"What is novel — and perhaps provocative — is the notion that theater can take place without the direct participation of live people. Artists have been incorporating video and taped performance into theatrical works for many years, in many different ways, but there is usually some live component. Here the only one is the audience. “Ads” resembles a video installation in a modern-art museum more than a traditional stage piece, but it suggests in its quiet way that you can create humane, affecting works of theater without the literal presence of human beings." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Click to read the full review
Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Final weekend:
Wed at 8PM
Thu at 8PM + 10PM
Fri at 8PM + 10PM
Sat at 8PM + 10PM
Sun at 6PM
Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)
Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 2010 with Under The Radar Festival
The BodyCartography Project - 1/2 Life
70 Minutes
NY PREMIERE
"The pleasure of viewing is so intense here, so fun as to be nearly guilty." - Lightsey Darst, Minneapolis St Paul Magazine
1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand. A contemporary ritual to address our dormant nuclear nightmares.
February 10 - 14
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Thursday Night Social: February 11 (FREE reception after the show)
Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)
1/2 Life was made possible with support from the Rockefeller MAP Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the Archibald Bush Foundation, Arts International, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Moore Family Fund
Marisa Olson - Whew! Age
50 Minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
[Marisa Olson is] "Funny and humorous" - Wired
While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help "guru" in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.
February 12 - 14
Fri 7:30PM, Sat 7:30PM + 10PM, Sun 5:30PM
Post show reception: February 12
Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)
Tom Murrin - The Talking Show
85 Minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
"His performances explode like Rube Goldberg contraptions or car accidents...you can't take your eyes off his chaotic energy. The performances are exhilirating and unsettling, like a walk down Broadway. They're about the risk of running into drama - possibly coherent, possibly fragmented - as soon as you put your foot out the door." - Laurie Stone, Vogue
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s!
Directed by Lucy Sexton
February 18 - March 7
Wed - Sat 7:30PM, Sun 5:30PM
Thursday Night Social: February 18 (FREE reception after the show)
Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)
Radiohole - Whatever, Heaven Allows
WINNER OF THE 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD
NY PREMIERE
"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent, anarchic work... cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." -Time Out
Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.
February 20 - March 13
Thu - Sat 8PM, Sun 6PM
Late Shows at 10:30PM: Sat, Feb 27 / Sat, Mar 6 / Sat, Mar 13
Spalding Gray Award Celebration & Thursday Night Social: February 25 (FREE reception after the show)
Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)
This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation
THE PS122 PASSPORT: For yourself or as a gift...
The PS122 Passport is 5 tickets to Performance Space 122.
Perfect for the contemporary performance novice or aficionado.
Please contact the Box Office if you have any questions about your Gift Passport order (boxoffice@ps122.org or 212-477-5288 x. 313 expect your call or email to be returned within 48 hours)
Minetta Street Productions presents
"SAINT HOLLYWOOD" at Ideal Glass Gallery
22 East 2nd Street at The Bowery
www.sainthollywood.com
for reservations call 212.598.3030
January 25 - February 20
Mondays, Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7pm
Fashion Show and Art Installation Opening
Friday, February 5 at 7pm
$10
By Willard Morgan & Jerrold Ziman
Directed by Jim Milton
Comedian Willard Morgan flew to Hollywood to chase stardom and crashed headfirst into the towering studio walls. He was rescued by the dreamers of Sunset Boulevard and he dubbed these do-gooders the "Saints of Hollywood." Somewhere along the way, he discovered that he had become one of them himself.
"A Great Sexy Beast of a piece." - The Sunday Times
*Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
ENTITY*
Concept and direction: Wayne McGregor
Choreography: Wayne McGregor in collaboration with the dancers Lighting Design: Lucy Carter Digital Video Design: Ravi Deepres Set & Costume Design: Patrick Burnier Original Music: Joby Talbot & Jon Hopkins
Thurs. Feb. 11 * 7:30pm
Fri. Feb. 12 * 7:30pm
Sat. Feb. 13 * 8:00pm
Sun. Feb. 14 * 3:00pm
Experience a staggering blend of grace, grit, sexuality, and multimedia technology that confirms Wayne McGregor's place as one of contemporary dance's most versatile and inspiring choreographers. Performed against a pounding soundscape by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and award-winning composer Joby Talbot (/The Divine Comedy/), ENTITY is a thrilling hour-long testimony to originality that defies categorization.
More info and tickets visit peakperfs.org
Co-commissioned by Het Muziektheater (Amsterdam); Sadler's Wells (London); Biennale de la Danse (Lyon); DanceEast (Ipswich); and Swindon Dance/ Bath University ICIA/ Wyvern (HST) (Swindon/ Bath).
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.
Konbit pou Ayiti / Fundraiser for Haiti tonight
PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
- Frank London
- MAGGES w/ Belly Dancer
- Elina graypel
- Cookie & The Madman
- Escarioka
- Alexander
- IVAN LENIN
- Medicines Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders
- international Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Partners In Health
$10 at the door
$5 drinks ALL NIGHT!
MEHANATA
113 Ludlow ( F train- Delancey/Essex stop)
EVERYONE attending will receive a FREE Mehanata's Double CD($20 value)
More Info:
http://www.mehanata.com
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