June 8, 2011 | Performance Space 122 E-Mail Newsletter

Dear ,

With just 22 days left in our 30th Anniversary Season, we're encouraging all our friends to spread the word about an action-packed RetroFutureSpective Festival that runs from June 11 - 25 and includes performances by John Zorn, The Wooster Group, Eric Bogosian, Murray Hill, Julie Atlas-Muz, Jack Ferver, Neal Medlyn as well as a look back at PS122 on film featuring rare footage of Spalding Gray, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger and many other seminal artists from the last 30 years of 122.

In addition to all the activities over the next 2 weeks, we are also challenging you to help us raise $70,000 by June 30. Please tell your friends about the many benefits of supporting Performance Space 122 including ticket packages to our performances, and exclusive invitations. We are incredibly thankful for individuals like you who are passionate supporters of the work that we do. Each season brings with it a new set of challenges and our Friends make it all possible.

Please visit our Friends with Benefits page
to learn more and help us reach our goal.

Also, beginning on June 17, the downstairs space will be transformed into the LES Lounge where personalities of the past, present, and future can come together with host Lori E. Seid to mingle, reminisce, perform and subterfuge. You'll want to come for a drink and stay for the night...

For the past 30 years, Performance Space 122 has brought audience members edge-melting contemporary performance, please continue reading to learn more about the upcoming performances this season and enjoy a video that the staff made recently where we each chose one word to describe Performance Space 122.

Warmly,
Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director

A word from the staff of Performance Space 122

June events at PS122

Through June 11
We See Fireworks
We See Fireworks is an ever-evolving installation, an intense archive of voice and light. In room full of shadows, the stories of strangers are whispered into the darkness to reveal hundreds of intensely felt memories of remarkable past performances. From amazing theatre shows to religious ceremonies, fetish clubs, lovers' meetings, fair grounds and accidents, they spin as if the moment were still unfolding, words searing into your consciousness, until their memories become yours. Like a firework, an experience of theatre burns brightly in the moment, yet its traces, like sulphur and smoke, remain hanging in the air.

Saturday, June 11
Tim Miller with Brigham Mosely, Kamelle Mills and Katie O
Performance Space 122 with support from the National Performance Network Community Fund created a seven month mentorship for three emerging queer performers to work with internationally acclaimed performer and PS122 co-founder Tim Miller. This performance is the culmination of their work and there will be a talk-back after the show.

Sunday, June 12
All Day Dance Class
Your don't have to be a dancer to dance the day away with Performance Space 122!
4 back to back classes with Yvonne Meier, Yoshiko Chuma, Jack Ferver, and Sarah Michelson that culminate in an Open Movement celebration and a free screening of FAME caps the evening off. Plus Carla Peterson will be on hand for some Gilda Radner style life-coaching sessions.

Tuesday, June 14
ECHO: A look back at 30 Years of 122 on film
PS122 co-founder Charles Dennis presents a 3-channel video installation exploring 30 years of groundbreaking performance at PS122. Featuring rare videos of performances by Danny Hoch, Spalding Gray, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, D.D. Dorvillier, Anthony, Quentin Crisp and many more...

Friday, June 17 + Saturday, June 18
Avant-Garde-Arama Wrecking Ball!
Performance Space 122's longest running series kicks it up a notch and presents a demolition derby of theatre, dance, music, and video installation.
Hosted by: Murray Hill & Uncle Jimmy
Confirmed performers include: Koosil-Ja, M Lamar, John Kelly, Edgar Oliver, Urban Bush Women, Tigger, Lisa Kron, Janet Clancy, Peggy Pettitt, Karen Therese and many more TBC

Wednesday, June 22 - Saturday, June 25
Old School Benefit
A veritable who's who of NYC performance promises to be on parade for 4 action-packed nights in the style of the original PS122 Benefits.
Luminary MC's: Julie Atlas-Muz & David White (6/22), DANCENOISE w/ Richard Move & guests (6/23), Lane Czaplinski & Sarah Michelson (6/24), Carmelita Tropicana & surprise guests (6/25).

Confirmed performers include: John Zorn, Elevator Repair Service, Penny Arcade, David Leslie, Big Art Group, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Charles Moulton, The Wooster Group, David Levine, Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Maria Hassabi, Temporary Distortion, Jennifer Miller, Jack Ferver, NTUSA, Neal Medlyn, Penny Arcade, Peter Rose, Praxis, Philippe Quesne, the TEAM, Sally Silvers, Mabou Mines, Tom Murrin, Sarah Maxfield, and many more.