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- Justin Bond Presents Lustre: A Mid-Winter Trans-Fest
- Iodine: A New Work by Celebrated Choreographer Deganit Shemy
- Temporary Distortion: Welcome to Nowhere
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Democracy in America
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA PART I
As we speak Democracy is on sale. At least in the context of this show. Why? Because everything in this performance can be bought. In fact, we're going further: our entire budget comes from what we sell. The whole event is powered by your purchases. If you don't buy, the set doesn't get built, the lights don't go on, and the actors don't get paid. Furthermore, if you don't buy, there is no performance: no words, no actions, no design, no nothing – just a loooong silence in the dark. With your participation, The Foundry Theatre and Annie Dorsen will premiere DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA at Performance Space 122 from April 1 – 20, 2008.
Skeptical? This is how it works...
From November 26, 2007 through February 14, 2008, anyone may visit www.buydemocracy.com and buy any item listed for sale – or any item that is NOT listed. Our suggested items are only that: suggestions – we hope and expect that people will have many ideas that we haven't thought of. We guarantee that every purchase will be incorporated into the performance (limited only by what is safe and legal). We won't create anything of our own unless it's absolutely necessary. After the selling period is complete, we'll work with all the material that people have paid for to create a full-length performance collage.
Anything and everything that can be imagined. Buy the inclusion of a strobe light, a song, a dance, a kiss, a cartwheel, a painting, a poster, a video of your high school prom. Maybe you're looking to send a special message to someone you love – or send an even more special message to someone you used to love. Want to warn an audience about an impending ecological disaster? Or perhaps you'd just like to remind us all that Jesus saves. Whether you have a recurring dream that you'd like told to a group of avid listeners, or you're looking for a unique form of advertising, or you'd just like to hear your name mentioned in a play, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA is the opportunity you've been waiting for. Words, actions, design elements…literally anything that can go into a performance is for sale. And we mean anything.
Co-presented by P.S. 122 and The Foundry Theater
Justin Bond and Friends Presents
Lustre: A Mid-Winter Trans-Fest
Featuring: Our Lady J, Glenn Marla, Nathan Carrera ...and The Pixie Harlots; plus special guests
Heat up your winter nights with Ethyl Eichelberger Award recipient and Tony Nominated performer Justin Bond and friends as they serve up a heady mix of Glamour, Gender Queer Cabaret, and Sexy Provocation.
More about Justin Bond: Tony nominated performance artist Justin Bond is an Obie winner, Bessie winner and the 2007 Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner, and was recently named by Time Out London as one of England's 50 Funniest People. As one-half of the Performance duo Kiki and Herb, Justin has toured the world headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and has starred in successful runs On (The Helen Hayes Theatre) and Off-Broadway (The Cherry Lane Theatre). His most recent solo show, Glamour Damage, had its world premiere at London's Soho Theatre and was hailed by the Evening Standard as "A glittering walk on the wild side." He regularly Emcees the performance series "Weimar New York", performs with his band The Freudian Slippers, and as a featured vocalist on the London Readers Wifes' Nostalgia, had a top 20 single on the UK alternative chart. Recently, he appeared as Valerie Solanas with Matmos at the Whitney Biennial. Bond toured internationally with avant-garde noise/cabaret band Pantychrist. Film credits include a starring role in John Cameron Mitchell's feature Shortbus as well as Imaginary Heroes. In 2006 Bond completed his MA Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Justin credits his career as a queer performer to Kate Bornstein who cast him as Herculine Barbin in her ground-breaking play Hidden: A Gender in 1991.
Lustre: A Mid-Winter Trans-FestWednesday, February 20th-
Sunday, March 9th
Wednesday-Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
Additional shows Saturday at 11 p.m.
Tickets from $25, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)
Special Event: Thurs, Mar 6
2008 Ethyl Eichelberger Award Ceremony
Join us for a special post-show celebration and the announcement of the 2008 Winner.
P.S. 122 members only.
Current members may purchase member tickets by emailing Natalie;
Or to join and use your two complimentary tickets for this show and event email Natalie.
Deganit Shemy's Iodine
The work of Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy has been leaving New York audiences awestruck for years. It comes as no surprise considering her impressive resume of achievements. Winner of both the Choreography Award and the Gvanim Behmacho contest back in Israel, she is currently an artist in residence at several important studios around the city including the 92nd Street Y and the Tribecca Performing Arts Center where Iodine was developed.
Her success comes in large part from her inspiring ability to depict the many powerful conflicts that rule our lives. In Iodine five women move between control and abandon, between being victims and victimizers, as well as between vision and blindness, dependency and individuation. They long to be a part of something larger but also fear losing their identity in the throng. As these sad characters desperately try to evaluate themselves through the reflections of others they find themselves constantly on the precipice of becoming lost altogether. Using her talent for small, meticulous, sometimes awkward movements and deeply emotional choreography Shemy erases the line between motion and emotion.
IodineTuesday, February 5th-
Sunday, February 10th
Tuesday-Saturday at 8 p.m.
Sunday at 6 p.m.
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
Temporary Distortion's Welcome To Nowhere (Bullethole Road)
"Equal parts installation art and surreal montage."
- New York Magazine online
"A daring performance about memory and identity. Welcome to Nowhere captures beautifully the psychic haziness it takes on as a major theme."
- Village Voice
Part road movie, part fractured memory, part love story...Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) is a hybrid of theater and cinema. During the performance, a constant stream of video is projected above the cast. In scenes of prolonged stillness, silence and impassivity, doppelgangers of the characters we meet onstage navigate a hyper-real cinematic landscape as if lost in a dream, creating parallel narratives that echo, reflect and refract each moment of the play.
Staged in one of Temporary Distortion's signature, claustrophobic boxlike installations, the live performers' softly spoken words are amplified by microphones. Referencing filmic styles of performance, underplayed and restrained, they tell the story of a man who is haunted by his past and drifting across America. There is blood across the dashboard, headlights in the rearview mirror and the vague memory of a hitchhiker who may have been a dream.
Welcome to NowhereTuesday, February 20th-
Sunday, February 24th
Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
Jay Scheib featured in Helen Shaw’s “Radar Roundup”
“Luckily, the American avant-garde set had a piece in the festival as well, and it was a jaw-dropping doozy. Jay Scheib's "This Place is a Desert," down from Boston after years in development, sports the director's customarily savvy use of video (by designer Leah Gelpe) and superb deployment of faux-amateurish sets (by equally crackerjack designer Peter Ksander.) Mr. Scheib seems to have swallowed an entire Whitney Museum catalog. But while Mr. Scheib has occasionally married unsteady content to his solid aesthetic, here his cast (including stars like Sarita Choudhury) and his text (a pastiche of imploding marriages) actually match him.“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. Tickets on sale now -à link to his performance page
Read the full New York Sun article here
The P.S. 122 Crumpler Western Lawn Bag
For Emerging Artist's and above… the latest, coolest, head-turning perk at P.S. 122. It's handy and it's not for sale (like us) and it's for members only.
If you haven't joined already, now's the time—join as an Emerging Artist or above and claim your very own limited edition P.S. 122 Western Lawn Bag by the devilish minds at Crumpler. Form meets function and fashion meets performance.
Note: If you've already joined this season at this level or above, you'll soon be united with your bag.
Thank you Crumpler!
We love them—they're crazy—no really, they're crazy.
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- Invitation to 2008 Spring Gala
- A 12-month subscription to Time Out New York (a $39.95 value) or Time Out New York Kids (a $9.95 value)
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YOUR MEMBER DISCOUNT NOW APPLIES TO TWO TICKETS PER PERFORMANCE!*
Enjoy a P.S. 122 Crumpler Bag when you join at the following levels:
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Limited edition P.S.122 Crumpler Bag
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Limited edition P.S.122 Crumpler Bag
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Private Party: 10 Complimentary tickets to the performance of your choice plus private pre- or post-cocktail reception with the artists and the Artistic Director, Vallejo Gantner, hosted by P.S.122.
Artistic Leadership Circle ($5000+)
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Oh, The Humanity and Other Exclamations
5 Short Plays by WILL ENO Directed by JIM SIMPSON Starring BRIAN HUTCHISON and CHRISTINA KIRK
One of the year's 10 Best Plays! "In Jim Simpson's appropriately spare production, Eno's wittily heartsick dialogue is brought to aching, hopeful life. BRIAN HUTCHISON is a master of subtly shell-shocked candor. (He's like Will Ferrell transposed to a minor key)." — TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Will Eno's unmistakable voice—stylized, compassionate, wry—rings out with authority once again in these short plays, POWERFULLY ACTED by BRIAN HUTCHISON. A playful and thoughtful hour of theater about the lonely wilderness inside us all." —THE NEW YORK TIMES
For friends of P.S. 122, The Flea is pleased to offer $25 tickets (normally $40) for performances on Tuesday through Thursday at 7pm, and matinees on Saturday at 3pm. Use code PS25 when purchasing tickets at www.theflea.org, via phone at 212.352.3101, and in person at the Box Office, which opens one hour prior to showtime. This extended run MUST end February 2nd, so get your tickets today!
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