Performance Space 122

Performance Space 122's first annual "Summer Season at Spiegeltent," serves up a streamlined roster of the latest, most exciting performance artists in the laid-back and festive environment that is Spiegeltent. It's the perfect match: P.S. 122, the most innovative American performance space, delivers the cutting-edge while The Spiegeltent, the world's most treasured traveling performance venue, takes the edge off with its signature beer garden.

All performances take place in the 1920's-style traveling beer garden tent located at the Fulton Fish Market, Pier 17, South Street Seaport.

One Ring Zero and "As Smart As They Are"
Monday August 7 at 8 p.m.

Special screening party and concert by NYC's favorite literary rock-stars.

One Ring Zero presents songs from their hit album As Smart As They Are, featuring lyrics written by 17 of North America's bestselling and prize-winning authors including Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, and Dave Eggers. This unforgettable night's entertainment includes readings by authors Amy Sohn, Ned Vizzini, Mike Daisey and Clay McLeod Chapman and a special preview screening of As Smart As They Are: The Author Project, a documentary of these unusual and ongoing collaborations, directed by Joe Pacheco.

$20, $10 P.S. 122 Members
Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or online: spiegelworld.com or at Spiegeltent Box Office, open 12-8 Daily

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Chicks and Giggles
Monday August 14 at 10 p.m.

Sizzling comedy by the choicest female stand-ups in the city.

Chicks and Giggles is downtown's edgiest and most off-the-wall all-girl comedy variety show. From surreal to sublime, from the raunchy to the radical, Chicks and Giggles has been pushing the envelope and making a name for themselves in the New York comedy scene for the last two years. August 14th line-up features Michelle Buteau, Rachel Feinstein and Jess Wood with music from Adira Amram, Mindy Raf and Free to Be Friends. Hosted by: Carolyn Castiglia

$15, $10 P.S. 122 Members
Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or online: spiegelworld.com or at Spiegeltent Box Office, open 12-8 Daily

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Leonardo Suarez Paz
and the Cuartetango String Quartet
Monday August 21 at 8 p.m.

Festive milonga/concert by the world-class innovators at the forefront of New Tango

Leonardo Suarez Paz and the Cuartetango String Quartet is the only string quartet of its kind entirely devoted to the music of tango, Cuartetango incorporates all the expressions of the art form, including music, poetry, song, and dance, and is said to be particularly close to Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo Tango style -- an outgrowth of traditional tango often characterized by the infusion of jazz and classical music elements. This evening of tango and milonga will be a benefit for Performance Space 122's Buenos Aires In Translation Project (BAiT) scheduled for November, 2006.

Tickets: $25
Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or online: spiegelworld.com or at Spiegeltent Box Office, open 12-8 Daily

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Zenith Five
John Moran
Monday August 28 at 10PM

Exciting contemporary music-theatre by Philip Glass' revolutionary protege.

Zenith 5, the latest genre-defying work by award winning composer/choreographer John Moran, presents a series of absurd moments, spliced, diced and reassembled into fascinating musical and choreographic patterns, in a style that has become Moran's artistic signature: a faux 'animatronic' fun-house, of sound and music against intricate gestures and choreography. If you've not seen a Moran 'opera' before, well...you've not seen anything like this.

Tickets: $12, $10 P.S. 122 Members Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or online: spiegelworld.com or at Spiegeltent Box Office, open 12-8 Daily

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An opulent and wondrous venue of canvas, cut glass, teak, mirrors, billowing velvet and brocade, the SPIEGELTENT will be located at the site of the former Fulton Fish Market at the South Street Seaport. Since Marlene Dietrich first sang "Falling in Love Again" on the SPIEGELTENT stage in the 1930s, the site has traveled the globe and housed some of the world's greatest performing artists.

Adjacent to the SPIEGELTENT is the beer garden, which is one of the most exciting parts of the entire venue and integral to this unparalleled entertainment experience. The beer garden will offer an impressive selection of handcrafted beers from New York City's premiere brewpub, Heartland Brewery.

Featuring cabaret, music and performance, the SPIEGELTENT will run multiple shows every day for 60 days, including hilarious and imaginative acts that are geared toward families and children. The entire Spiegeltent season runs August 3-October 1, 2006, at the Fulton Fish Market, on South Street under the Brooklyn Bridge.

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