Now Playing:
- the National Theater of the United States of America - CHAUTAUQUA!
Feb 21 - Mar 15
Spalding Gray Award Night Wed, Mar 4 - Yanira Castro + Company - Dark Horse/Black Forest - Private bookings only
Follow this project on Twitter! - Crumpler 6-Pack Special on sale NOW! Six tickets to the Spring Season AND a Crumpler Courier Bag: Yours for ONLY $100
Coming Soon:
- David Levine & CiNE - Venice Saved: A Seminar Mar 21 - Apr 5
- Sally Silvers & Dancers - Yessified! Mar 22 - 29
- Spring Season is ON SALE now
- P.S.122 "still the Off-Off venue to beat" - Time Out New York
- VOICE CHOICE: NTUSA is "marvelous" - Alexis Soloski, Village Voice
- Venice Saved highlighted in The New York Times Spring Preview
- David Levine interviewed by Christian Hawkey in The Believer - Venice Saved is coming in March to P.S. 122
Raves and Shout-Outs for Okwui Okpokwasili:
See Okwui perform at Little Theater at Dixon Place Mon, Mar 2 8pm
- Okwui Okpokwasili goes from "0 to 60 in seconds" - Aaron Riccio
- 4 STARS: Pent Up is "ruthlessly clean and clever...leaves us in the rare state of wanting more." - Helen Shaw, Time Out NY
- CRITIC'S PICK: Pent Up is "a compelling theatrical journey" - Jason Fitzgerald, Backstage
- "Okpokwasili will likely have you under her spell by the end of the night." - Angela Ashman, Village Voice
- "Okwui is mesmerizing to watch" - 651 Arts
- Okwui Okpokwasili is "Incandescent" - Claudia La Rocco says 'Pent Up' will help "beat back winter blues"
Special Events and Offers:
- What's in your Crumpler? Crumpler 6-Pack Special on sale NOW
- See Tony winners Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen in IMPRESSIONISM and SAVE OVER 45%
- Object Collection's First Annual Partybenefit Fri, Mar 6 9pm
- My Private Politics by Sara Asentic March 5 - 7 at Dance Theater Workshop
- Weddings and Beheadings by Palissimo presented by the 92 St. Y
Opens March 11 - Kisaeng becomes you - Dean Moss & Yoon Jin Kim at Dance Theater Workshop Feb 25 - 28
- Snazlfest Sat, Feb 28
the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA!
"[NTUSA] left me stunned and breathless and completely in awe." -Malcolm Gladwell
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the Unitied States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind. Channeling the form and style of the original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic and theatrical rhythm, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, scientific demonstration and tales of explorers with more traditional forms of entertainment such as dance, dramatic recital, feats of strength, and joke telling. The company examines their own role as "entertainers" as well as "artists" and question whether or not the convergence of art and commerce is possible, sustainable, or even good for either party.
SPECIAL GUESTS NIGHTLY!
Mark Russell,
Rich Maxwell,
the Vintage DJ,
Vallejo Gantner,
Jonathan Lethem,
Robert Zukerman,
Steve Cuiffo,
Kathleen Russo,
Barbara Allen,
Dalton Helms,
Noah Lindquist,
Ethan Lipton,
Rollo Romig,
Samantha Hunt,
Juliana Francis Kelly,
Greta Byrum,
Zoe Rosenfeld,
Edgar Oliver,
Kathlyn Russo,
BOXCAR Billy Burns and his puppet Horizontal John,
PLUS! A grand semi-finale dance valentine to N.Y.C. furnished by Faye Driscoll & Dancers
Check out the CHAUTAUQUA! video here
Feb 21 - Mar 15
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5:30pm
The next Winner of the Spalding Gray Award will be announced on
Wednesday, March 4th during the performance of CHAUTAUQUA!. Join us after the show for drinks to celerate the award.
Join Claudia La Rocco at CHAUTAUQUA! as part of her Performance Club
March 6 7:30p
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photos by Justin Bernhaut
CHAUTAUQUA! is a commission of Performance Space 122, The Walker Arts Center, and UCLA LIVE, and is made possible with grants from the 2007 Spalding Gray Award, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the generous support of friends of the NTUSA.
David Levine & CiNE
Venice Saved: A Seminar
A performance piece that takes theater as its topic. Truly interactive theater (ugh). Performance as education. A performance about the nature of performance (ugh). Potential topics include: theater, performance art, torture, outsourcing, anorexia, Israel, Palestine, Blackwater, the TCG, Charismatic Leadership, the Shock Doctrine, theater vs. performance, the exhibition as school, theanyspacewhatever, learning vs. "learning," talking vs. "talking", performing vs. acting, democracy vs. Authenticity. Totally Bitchen. Simone Weil (100 years). Seminar format. Participatory. On the 100th anniversary of Simone Weil's birth, CiNE takes the philosopher's unfinished play and asks American Theater, "What were you thinking?"
Venice Saved received funding and developmental support in 2006 from the Drama League Directors Project's New Directors/New Works Program. Made possible with the support of Etant Donnés,the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts.
Mar 21 - Apr 5
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 6pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Artwork by Annerose Schulze
Sally Silvers and Dancers
Yessified!
"One of the most beloved of downtown choreographers." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
Iconoclassical choreographer Sally Silvers returns to Performance Space 122 with her first new group dance since 2005's Puppy Skills.
Whiteness is on the hook and down for the hybrid. Silvers answers the seductive call of a stable/single racial life by outing and othering it. Whiteness as symbiotic, open face Blackness. Sudden turns and shocks, bleed-throughs and angularity, pivoting centers, conflict embrace -- a new world is ever unexplored and the night's secret is to make the day swing blue. Jutting and swerving, Yessified is a hyperactivating dance of quirky, fun wired physicality & imagery, a provocative text, and electronica star-crossed with sweet soul music.
Featuring Javier Cardona, Alan Good, Sara Beth Higgins,
Takemi Kitamura, Alejandra Martorell, Miriam Parker,
Julia Planine-Troiani, Keith Sabado, and Sally Silvers. Music
performed live by Bruce Andrews and Michael Schumacher.
Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy, lighting by Carolyn Wong.
Mar 22 - 29
Tuesday - Saturday 8pm
Sunday 6:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo by Jenny Woodward
Available for booking this Spring
Yanira Castro + Company
Dark Horse/Black Forest
"Castro's upcoming duet takes voyeurism to a precipice... it doesn't happen on a stage but in a bathroom like yours."
-Lori Ortiz
"As much an installation artist as a choreographer, [Castro] creates intricate environments in which lighting, costumes and set share equal weight with steps."
- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
Dark Horse/Black Forest expands exploration of audience environments: how an observer and performer connect and how space influences how we participate in a performance. The performers and audience inhabit the space together. Yanira Casto + Company present their intensely performed love story in the most intimate of spaces: your bathroom.
These privately booked performances are made available exclusively through Performance Space 122 and for a limited time only. Please email darkhorse@ps122.org for reservations and more information.
Starting Tuesday, December 2 you can follow Dark Horse/Black Forest on Twitter. It's easy, here's how:
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1. Twitter is a free service and is easy to join. Go to Twitter.com and sign up.
2. Click on each of the following two links, and from their profile pages click the "follow" button:
twitter.com/doghebitme
twitter.com/darkbloom8
To be even more immersed: receive tweets on the go and instantaneously by connecting your cell phone to Twitter. (Twitter doesn't charge anything for this, but be sure to know what your text plan looks like with your wireless carrier.)
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1. Go to Settings. Go to Devices. Add your cell phone number.
2. You will be given a number to text to activate your phone.3. Then go to Profile. Click on "following" above Updates. Turn the device updates on for doghebitedme and darkbloom8.
Photo courtesy of Yanira Castro
What's in your Crumpler?
Snatch up 6 tickets in any combination to P.S. 122's Spring Season and get
a Limited Edition Performance Space 122 Crumpler "Western Lawn" Courier Bag.
For example,
You could book 6 tickets to NTUSA’s CHAUTAUQUA! and make it a party.
Or you could book a pair of tickets to CHAUTAUQUA, a pair to DAVID LEVINE’s VENICE SAVED, and a pair to SALLY SILVERS' YESSIFIED! and make your date(s) very happy.
Or you could gorge yourself on performance and use all the tickets yourself to see six different shows.
ALL YOURS with the Crumpler Bag for only $100.
(a $220 value)
What could be better than a 6-Pack just in time for Spring AND a Crumpler to carry it in?*
That’s $120 worth of TICKETS + the $100 value Crumpler Bag
For only $100
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY.
HERE's HOW:
Between NOW and March 15th
Purchase THE CRUMPLER 6-PACK
Online through our ticketing system,
By phone at 212-352-3101,
Or at the Box Office
And then apply your tickets in any combination to our Spring shows (through May 31).
Not sure what shows you want to schedule right away? No problem.
Purchase THE CRUMPLER 6-PACK now and choose your shows later...
Desire personal hand-holding P.S. 122-style? E-mail boxoffice@ps122.org and our expert team will help you take advantage of this limited time offer. Include your full name and the best number and time to reach you. Keep in mind, the Box Office operates during concentrated afternoon/evening hours, so it may take a day or two to get back to you.
"When a weary-eyed TSA security agent compliments your carry-on bag, you know you've got something special.
The Crumpler Western Lawn is more than a mere aesthetic marvel. This courier bag from Crumpler, the stalwart Aussie bag company, provides all the high-performance details you'd ever want: two external pockets and three internal (one with a Velcro closure); a wide, comfortable strap with an easily adjustable buckle and a "slap strap" loop that keeps the excess strap from trailing behind; and two Velcro lip closures.
The water-resistant 1,000-denier shell and 300-denier ripstop lining keep things dry and durable, and the 854-cubic-inch volume is perfect for lugging all the essentials onto that laborious, long flight or for back-'n'-forth commuting duties.
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SPECIAL UPDATE: The bags are here--no long wait. This year's one-time shipment has arrived and is in the building!
Pictured above: James Stanley in his Crumpler in CHAUTAUQUA! – New York Premiere Feb 21- Mar 15; courtesy of NTUSA.
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IMPRESSIONISM
Only one play could bring Tony Award winners JEREMY IRONS and JOAN ALLEN back to Broadway after 20 years.
IMPRESSIONISM, a new American play by Michael Jacobs.
Set in Manhattan, IMPRESSIONISM is the story of an international photojournalist and a New York gallery owner whose unexpected brush with intimacy leads them to realize that there is an art to repairing broken lives.
Directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien, this remarkable portrait of human nature marks Mr. Irons’ first Broadway appearance since his 1984 Tony-winning turn in The Real Thing, and Ms. Allen’s first since her Tony-nominated performance in The Heidi Chronicles in 1989. The cast also includes Tony Award nominee André De Shields, Michael T. Weiss, Aaron Lazar, Margarita Levieva, Hadley Delany, and four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason as Julia.
SPECIAL OFFER:
$59.50 Select Orchestra & Front Mezz Seats- Mon through Thurs perf.
$69.50 Select Orchestra & Front Mezz Seats- Fri evening, Sat. and Sun. Matinees
$39.50 Rear Mezzanine rows G-K; All performances (except Saturday evenings)
Three easy ways to purchase tickets and save:
1. Click Here or Visit BroadwayOffers.com and enter code IM29MKG
2. CALL 212.947.8844 and mention code IM29MKG
3. VISIT the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Box Office, 236 West 45th Street with a printout of this offer.
Restrictions:
PRINT OUT OF OFFER MUST BE PRESENTED BEFORE PURCHASE AT THE BOX OFFICE. Regular prices: $116.50 (Orch./Front Mezz A-F) and $66.50 (Rear Mezz G-K). All prices include a $1.50 facility fee. Regular service charges apply to online and phone orders. Subject to availability. Not valid for prior purchases or in combination with any other offer. Offer may be revoked at any time. Offer is not valid on Saturday Nights or 3/12/09. Offer expires 4/12/09.
Object Collection's
1st Annual PARTYBENEFIT
Friday March 6, 9pm-late
party. performances. music. films. party. booze. brooklyn. attractive people. booze. party. films. music. performances. party.
$10. includes booze.
L train to Graham Ave/G Train to Metropolitan Ave
hosted by: Sarah Dahlen and Caitlin McDonough Thayer
live performances by:
Aaron Meicht,
James Moore,
Jennifer Walshe,
Kevin Farrell,
Peiyi Wong,
Samara Naeymi/Brendan Regimbal,
Miranda Hardy/Peter Ksander,
Katie Porter Maxwell/Devin Maxwell,
and others tba
remote Skype-performances by:
Eric km Clark (Los Angeles),
Tim Parkinson (London, UK),
John Lely (Bath, UK),
James Orsher/Kerstin Fuchs (Berlin, Germany)
films by Daniel Kötter, Aaron Schimberg, Francesco Gagliardi
Kara Feely/Travis Just/Paula Matthusen collaboration from Art Basel Miami (P Diddy! Dinosaurs!)
OC Gang of 13 Committee:
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Caitlin McDonough Thayer,
Sarah Dahlen,
Francesco Gagliardi,
Peter Ksander,
Miranda Hardy,
Vanessa McDonnell,
Aaron Schimberg,
Jessica Brater,
Avi Glickstein,
Peiyi Wong,
Stacey Berman,
Aaron Meicht
www.listenspacenyc.com
www.objectcollection.us
Object Collection's latest work Problem Radical(s) premieres this April at P.S. 122
Dance Theater Workshop presents
My private bio-politics - Sasa Asentic
Mar 5 – 7 at 7:30pm
Post-Show Talk Mar 5 with Sara Nash and Chase Granoff
Friday Night Toast Mar 6
$10 online/$15 at the box office
Emerging Serbian choreographer Sasa Asentic probes what it means to be contemporary - personally and publicly - in his solo My private bio-politics. Beginning as an investigation of how dance is experienced in transient Eastern European cultures, the work has grown into an actual dialogue with the audience debating the global expectations of a performing body. For more information or to order tickets, visit www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/asentic
Pavel Zuštiak | Palissimo
WEDDINGS AND BEHEADINGS
March 11-15 (Wed, Thu & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)
At The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Please join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the opening night performance and the after-party. Through special arrangements, we are offering $25 combo tickets which include ticket to the show and the afterparty including a toast drink. These tickets are available at www.palissimo.com/news (credit card) or mail check to Palissimo Inc. 875 West 181st Street, Suite 5H, New York, NY 10033. ALL OTHER tickets are $20 - see details below.
Tickets: $20, $17 (groups or 10 and more)
Online www.92Y.org/harkness
By phone at 212-415-5500
In person at the 92nd Street Y box office
Direction, Choreography and Sound Design: Pavel Zuštiak |
Created with performers Elena Demyanenko, Sho Ikushima, Jeff Kent Jacobs and Lindsey Dietz Merchant |
Rehearsal Assistant: Gina Bashour |
Projections Concept and Images: Robert Flynt |
Scenography: Nick Vaughan |
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur |
Projections Design and Animation: Keith Skretch |
Stage Manager: Yi Zhao
Photo by Robert Flynt
Kisaeng becomes you
Dean Moss & Yoon Jin Kim
With Yuree Bae; Jiseon Kwon; Mihyun Lee; Soyeoun Lim and Jeongeun Yang
Original Music by Okkyung Lee
Feb 25 – 28 at 7:30pm
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th St.
212.924.0077
Post-Show Talk Feb 25
Friday Night Toast Feb 27, Free Food and Drink
$10 ONLINE / $15 AT THE BOX OFFICE
"Moss is a master of theatrical halftones.....His worlds have the enticement of whispers; their delicacy makes us pay unusually close attention." - Robert Greskovic, Village Voice
Featuring a performance that asks audience members to echo the lives of the kisaeng - young women trained in the arts for the entertainment of Korean aristocracy from the 10th to the 20th centuries - Kisaeng becomes you contemplates parallels between kisaengs' use of poetry and contemporary artist's use of social networking and videos. Through the work Dean and Yoon Jin engage the audience in an exploration of sincerity, illusion, desire and isolation.
"Snazlfest marks a groundbreaking use of online technology to champion the performing arts." - Daniel Gallant, Executive Director, Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Snazlfest is a three-week, four-venue multi-arts festival sponsored by the Village Voice and new online multimedia sharing interface Snazl.com. The festival marks an unprecedented collaboration among four established cross-genre performance venues to discover, showcase, and promote emerging artists. During Snazlfest, more than 30 artists will perform at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Goodbye Blue Monday, and Sidewalk Cafe. Each venue will also screen dynamic short films curated by PS122; filmmakers include Neal Medlyn, Japanther and Banana Bag and Bodice. Musicians, poets and other artists performing during Snazfest include Airport 7 and Scott Tixier Group (on February 14, at Goodbye Blue Monday); La Bruja and Carlos Andres Gomez (on February 21, at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe) and Dynasty Electric and The Press (on February 28, at Sidewalk Cafe). Rising artists will also be represented during the festival - 12 of the performers featured in the cross-venue lineup have been discover from among Snazl.com users.
Below is a complete lineup; for further information on Snazlfest, visit:
snazl.com/snazlfest
Sidewalk Cafe
February 28 from 8p - 12a
www.sidewalkmusic.net
94 Avenue A (at 6th Street)
Dynasty Electric, The Press, Neckbeard Telecaster
Multimedia Works from Performance Space 122
www.ps122.org
Works by Neal Medlyn, Japanther, Object Collection, Banana Bag & Bodice, Nolan Rosemond, and Keith Skretch will be shown at Snazlfest venues throughout the festival
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. (@ E. 9th St.)
New York, NY 10009
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