Dear Friends,
What an amazing end to the year.
Kevin Augustine’s Bride made it on Time Out’s Top Ten List in Theatre.
Rachid Ouramdane’s A Standing Boy was on the New York Times Top Ten List for Dance.
And Meow Meow persuaded audiences members to do high kicks at the Highline Ballroom.
Thank you for coming out in droves and making our season a success.
Each year, we depend on you - our friends, our supporters, our audiences, and our members for your annual financial support. Won't you please support us this year by making a tax-deductible contribution to Performance Space 122? You will sustain our work and the work of hundreds of talented artists this season.
Thank you from all of us at Performance Space 122
Coming Soon in 2009:
- COIL 2009 Jan 6 - 13
8 days. 12 shows. Breathtaking performance. - Yanira Castro + Company - Dark Horse/Black Forest - Private bookings only
Follow this project on Twitter beginning Dec. 2
Recent Press:
- Watch Young Jean Lee and Richard Maxwell get BOMBed at P.S. 122
- Meow Meow is a "cabaret diva of the highest order" - Frank Scheck (NY Post)
- Time Out New York says "Shake up your December with naked men and Meow Meow
- "Meow Meow will have her way with you" - Melena Ryzik (Urban Eye)
- John Del Signore (Gothamist) Pencils in Meow to the World!
- NY Magazine recommends 'Meow to the World!'
- "Baby Jesus would be proud to have Meow Meow headline at the manger." - Sharyn Jackson (Village Voice)
- Meow Meow makes a great stocking stuffer! - Erik Piepenburg (NY Times)
- "She's fabulous" - Megan van Huygen (Buzzine.com)
- "Meow Meow is sure to make you purr" - Gay List Daily
- Meow Meow is "Brilliantly postmodern" - Time Out New York
- Steven McElroy (NY Times) highlights 'Meow to the World!'
- "Kick your holiday cheer up a notch" with Meow to the World! - Megan McGinley (New York Press)
- Click to read more previews and reviews of current and past shows
Special Events and Offers:
- Give Membership: Year round packages to P.S. 122 starting at only $60
- Voodoo Culture Clash New Year's Eve
- Ring in the New Year with Linda Simpson at Joe's Pub
- Caffe Emilia's ongoing discounts for Performance Space 122 friends, patrons, and members
- Marions A-Go-Go - Helping P.S. 122 and you plan fabulous parties for over 16 years
COIL 09
Performance Space 122's Annual Winter Festival
January 6 - 13
8 days. 12 shows. Breathtaking performance.
The COIL pass: $60. See any and all COIL shows EXCEPT 'Architecting', and 'The Passion Project' for only $60 - COIL pass holders should email boxoffice@ps122.org for your dates.
Individual Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)
Click here to buy tickets to any COIL performance online
Presenter Tickets: $10 each with APAP/UTR/business affiliation. Please email shoni@ps122.org
Presenters can download your COIL 2009 form here
Pan Pan - The Crumb Trail
Wed, Jan 7 6:30p | Thu, Jan 8 10:30p | Fri, Jan 9 2:30p | Sun, Jan 11 7p | Mon, Jan 12 3:30p | Extended: Thu, Jan 15 8p - Sat, Jan 17
Joseph Silovsky - Jester of Tonga
Wed, Jan 7 10p | Fri, Jan 9 7:30p | Sat, Jan 10 2:30p | Mon, Jan 12 9:30p
Lewis Forever - LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room
Wed, Jan 7 7p | Fri, Jan 9 10p | Sat, Jan 10 6:30p | Tue, Jan 13 3p
Okwui Okpokwasili - Pent Up: A Revenge Dance
Sun, Jan 11 7:30p | Mon, Jan 12 2:30p | Extended: Feb 10 - 22
Ella Hickson/Tantrum Productions - Eight
Tue, Jan 6 7:30p | Thu, Jan 8 7:30p | Fri, Jan 9 2pm | Sun, Jan 11 2pm |
Extended: Jan 14 - 25
Temporary Distortion - Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)
Wed, Jan 7 10:30p | Thu, Jan 8 2:30p | Sat, Jan 10 7p | Tue, Jan 13 7:30p
The Shalimar - Trash Warfare
Thu, Jan 8 3p | Sat, Jan 10 10p | Mon, Jan 12 6:30p | Tue, Jan 13 7p
LeeSaar The Company - Geisha
Sat, Jan 10 2p | Mon, Jan 12 7p
The BodyCartography Project - Holiday House
Tue, Jan 6 8p | Fri, Jan 9 7p | Sat, Jan 10 10:30p | Mon, Jan 12 10p | Tue, Jan 13 3:30p
Palissimo - Blind Spot
Thu, Jan 8 7p | Fri, Jan 9 10:30p
Reid Farrington - The Passion Project*
Jan 10 - 17: 3p & 9:30p | Jan 13 - 3p ONLY | Jan 14 - 9:30p ONLY
The TEAM - Architecting**
Fri, Jan 9 8p | Sat, Jan 10 1p | Sun, Jan 11 7p | Wed, Jan 14 7p | Thu, Jan 15 7p | Sat, Jan 17 7p | Sun, Jan 18 2p | Extended: At Performance Space 122, Jan 22 - Feb 15
*Reid Farrington's The Passion Project is not covered by the COIL pass. 'The Passion Project' is co-presented by and performed offsite at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Please purchase tickets at www.3LDnyc.org
**The TEAM's Architecting is co-presented by Under The Radar at The Public Theater. It is not covered by the COIL pass and is ticketed exclusively through Under The Radar. To purchase tickets for 'Architecting' please visit undertheradarfestival.com
or call 212-967-7555
Photo by: Jose Aragon
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
Read the Recent Previews and Reviews:
Lewis Forever - LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room
- "Brutally compelling" - Claudia La Rocco (New York Times)
- "'Freak the Room' should be quite something" - Claudia La Rocco (NY Times)
- Gia Kourlas (Time Out NY) interviews Sarah, Isabel and George Lewis
- Araceli Cruz (Village Voice) previews the cooler-than-the-Partridge Family family collective Lewis Forever
- "Fascinating" and "Clever" - Ellen Wernecke (Edge.com)
- "Sophisticated, nuanced and elaborate" - Andy Horowitz (Culturebot)
- CRITICS' PICK: The Debate Society is "among the better experimental companies" - David Cote (Time Out NY)
- "The Debate Society certainly doesn't disappoint" - The New Yorker
- Halley Bondy (Backstage) talks with Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen about their "darkly funny" Cape Disappointment
- Cape Disappointment is "filled with more funny and spellbinding moments than just about any other production on or off Broadway" - John Del Signore (Gothamist)
- Aaron Riccio is "incredibly excited for the upcoming Debate Society show at P.S. 122
- Araceli Cruz (The Village Voice) previews Cape Disappointment
- "This is the palpable sensation of art" - Debra Griboff, Encore Magazine
- CRITIC'S PICK: "Yanira Castro + Company bring high art to your humble abode" - Michael Alan Connelly New York Magazine
- Sweet! NYC local, Debbie Harry, says "P.S. 122 in the East Village always puts on really great shows". We love you too, Debbie.
- Diptyque, and Lewis Forever are highlighted in The New York Times' Fall Dance Preview
- "Performance Space 122's freewheeling spirit has only been fast-forwarded by its artistic director, Vallejo Gantner" - Lori Ortiz The Gay City News
- "It will be an extraordinarily brilliant fall." -George Hunka
- 'Eight' awarded the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
FREE TICKETS + EXTRA SAVINGS = The Perfect Gift
The gift that keeps on giving, P.S. 122 memberships start at $60 and bestows year-round FREE TICKETS, SAVINGS and MORE!
All Members Enjoy
- Two FREE tickets to a season performance*
- 50% off Member tickets to all shows*
- No service charges, no fee exchanges
- Dining discount at local restaurants
- A 12-month subscription to Time Out New York (a $39.95 value)
0r Time Out New York Kids (a $9.95 value) - Invitations to "Members-only" events and parties
Producer's Assistant ($60)
All of the above plus:
Subscription to e-newsletter
Free ticket to Red and White Holiday Party
Invitation to 2009 Spring Gala
Stage Manager ($125)
All of the above plus:
An EXTRA PAIR OF FREE TICKETS- for a total of 4 free tickets ($80 value)
Listing in program
PLUS YOUR MEMBER DISCOUNT NOW APPLIES TO TWO TICKETS PER PERFORMANCE!*
Save at least $20 each time you and a friend see a show!
Emerging Artist ($250)
All of the above plus:
An EXTRA PAIR OF FREE TICKETS- for a total of 6 free tickets ($120 value)
Reserved seating at all performances
Limited edition P.S.122 Crumpler Bag ($125 value)
Ready to join?
Click here to join on-line.
Have someone perfect in mind to give a P.S. 122 membership to? Email Kimberly at kimberly@ps122.org for more information
To join over the phone or for membership questions and reservations call our membership concierge at 212-477-5829 x 307 or email membership@ps122.org.
*Member comps and discounts are subject to limited availability per performance and blackout dates may apply; may not be combined with other offers nor applied to pre-existing sales, and may not be applied to fundraising events.
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.
Visit their site and visit them in NYC and elsewhere:
www.crumplerbags.com
Voodoo Culture Clash New Year's Eve
Gemini & Scorpio and GlobeSonic Entertainment present
Voodoo Culture Clash New Year's Eve
A night of witchy devilry for globetrotting vagabonds
New Year's Eve, Dec 31
8pm-4am (must arrive by 9pm to participate in Liberation Dance)
LOVE, 179 MacDougal St near W8th St
$30 presale or with RSVP / $40 at door, 18+
Tickets, RSVP and details: www.geminiandscorpio.com
Please mention PS122 when you buy tickets or RSVP
Usher in the sunrise of the New Year in joyous celebration where spirits dance, beings sweat, and ancient incantations evoke echoes of our ancestors...A transglobal beats party with ecstatic drums, performance and dancing in one of the best secret hot spots in New York: a cozy club with a state-of-the-art sound system, wall-sized movie screen, cavern-like bar, a waterfall, and a plush climbable chillout room.
GlobeSonic Sound System's Fabian Alsultany and Si*Se's Carol C burn up the dance floor with an epic electrorganic globalbeat melting pot of Arabian Beats, Afro-Latino Grooves, Jamaican House, Reggae, Downtempo and beyond. Parashakti and the GateKeepers guide you through a full Dance of Liberation experience 9-10pm. World-renowned video remix artists Eclectic Method perform two live audiovisual DJ sets at 11pm and 2am. Midnight magic with Parashakti and free champagne toast. All-Seeing Mystik Painteresse Elyzabeth adorns you with glow-in-the-dark tribal face and body painting all night.
Costume suggestions: tribal warriors, witch doctors, gypsy travelers, rattling skeletons, risen spirits
Last Voodoo Culture Clash pics
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Ring in the New Year at Joe’s Pub!
NEW YEARS EVE AFTER-PARTY
with LINDA SIMPSON + FRIENDS
12/31 (on 1/1) at 1:00 AM (Doors at 12:30 AM), $30
at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.
Erotic! Campy! Tipsy! At the helm is nightlife's favorite hostess, Linda Simpson: “A kind of mother superior of the New York drag scene,”
- The New York Times.
Joe's Pub is tickled pink to announce the return of its absolutely fabulous New Year's Eve after-party, starring a bubbly array of entertainers plucked from NYC's gay, burlesque and avant-garde performance scenes. Tonight's show features Whore's Macara, Wendy Ho, Erin Markey, Sultana, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Sequinette, Bertha, Lavinia Co-op, Inbred Hybrid Collective, DJ Baby K. What a thrilling way to spend your first hours of 2009!
10% off at Caffe Emilia
139 1st Ave. between 8th and 9th streets
Flash them a PS 122 program, ticket stub, or membership card and enjoy a 10% discount*
Perfect for dinner before or after a show!
Caffe Emilia is "highly recommended" - New York Magazine
Open daily 8am to midnight
Cash Only
212-388-1234
*valid now through December 31st/does not apply to tax and tip
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