Special Events at Performance Space 122
FREE and open to the public
"Contemporary Performance and God"
Tuesday, October 20 7pm
11th Street Bar (between Avenues A & B)
Email artsdevelopment@ps122.org to RSVP
Performance Space 122 is pleased to announce the premiere of a new program titled "Conversations with Culture," a series of public panel discussions engaging non-performing arts community members in a dialogue about the art, politics, and life that happens on our stages. These discussions endeavor to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it has recently largely been excluded.
On October 20th, PS122 will inaugurate this series with the panel discussion "Contemporary Performance and God," presented in advance of Morgan Thorson's run of Heaven, a new ensemble work exploring emotional and physical manifestations of ecstatic perfection, gleaning forms and concepts from religious practices as strategies for creating the same state through dance. The discussion aims to trigger wider cross-community debates about the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as critique of, complement to, and replacement for other religious practices.
October 20th Participants include:
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JAY WEGMAN Director of the Abrons Art Center and and former Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine www.henrystreet.org/arts
MORGAN THORSON choreographer: HEAVEN premiering at Performance Space 122 on October 25: http://www.ps122.org/performances/heaven.html
JOHN MERZ Diocese of New York Episcopal Chaplain to NYU http://www.ecnyc.net/
MICHAEL DE DORA JR. Executive Director, Center for Inquiry - New York City http://www.centerforinquiry.net/
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.
Photo of Americana Kamikaze by Temporary Distortion. Photo by John Weiss
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
6-7:30PM: Cocktails at TELEPHONE BAR (2nd Ave & 9th Str) with PS122 Season Artists
7:30 - 9PM: Your choice of show.
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World Premiere 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)
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N.Y. Premiere 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: 2 tickets for $122
Choose your show
(either Americana Kamikaze OR Heaven)
Chose October 29 on our ticketing calendar, enter code 122
Single tickets for $65 also available.
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. (@ E. 9th St.)
New York, NY 10009
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