Spring At A Glance

the TEAM
Architecting | Jan 22- Feb 18

"Wake up in 2009 in the hands of a theater company who knows what it's doing" - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Architecting is an exhilarating saga that weaves through past and future to create a requiem for modern America. A collision of horses, sex and hoop skirts, burning plantations and nasty hurricanes, this musical, time-bending, multi-media epic rockets between reconstructions, real and imagined, of citizens and nations.



Okwui Okpokwasili
Pent Up: A Revenge Dance | Feb 8 - 22

"Moves beautifully, with stunning expressiveness." -- N.Y. Times

Pent Up sheds new light on traditional spells and third world brothels, and transforms every scratch & win ticket into a lucky one.

Photo by MLO



the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA! | Feb 21 - Mar 15

"The National Theater of the United States of America left me stunned and breathless and completely in awe." -Malcolm Gladwell (author)

Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray Award honoring innovative theatrical vision, NTUSA zeros in on High Culture and the Mass Mind.

Photo courtesy of NTUSA


David Levine & CiNE
Venice Saved | Mar 21 - Apr 5

Theatre, performance art, torture, outsourcing, anorexia, Israel, Palestine, charismatic leadership, the financial crisis, the Shock Doctrine, theanyspacewhatever, Blackwater, and the TCG. Seminar format (ugh). Participatory format (ugh). Totally bitchen (ugh).

Artwork courtesy of Annerose Shultze




Sally Silvers & Dancers
Yessified! | Mar 22 - 29

"One of the most beloved of downtown choreographers." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

Iconoclassical choreographer Sally Silvers returns to P.S.122 with her first new group dance since 2005's Puppy Skills.

Photo by Jenny Woodward



MEI-BE WHATever
Cinderella Toe Jam II: Royal Pink | Apr 2 - 5

Dancers contend with extreme concepts of corporeal perfection, questioning the motivation and vulnerable psychology of the female performing body.

Photo by Steven Schreiber





Banana Bag & Bodice
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage | Apr 1 - 18

Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical.

Artwork courtesy of Banana Bag & Bodice





Object Collection
Problem Radical(s) | Apr 25 - May 10

"Problem Radical(s) is an experimental theatricalist opera just the way such things should be and rarely are. The spectator is swept away in its delirious mix and emerges clear and emotionally refreshed." - Richard Foreman

Photo by Danielle Colburn





Jennifer Miller
Apr 25 - May 10

"Miller wows 'em" - The Village Voice

Jennifer Miller is widely recognized for her work and is the recipient of awards including the Obie, Bessie, BAX 10, and most recently the Ethyl Eichelberger Award.

Photo by Karl Giant




Megan Sprenger / mvworks
...within us. | May 16 - 24

"...eruptions of movement burn themselves into your brain--the residue of lives you can't quite grasp but which you suspect might be your own." -Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

mvworks examines the raw unfiltered human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict.

Photo by Megan Sprenger



International Contemporary Ensemble
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES | May 22 - 23

"One of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music" - The New York Times

The musicians of ICE team up with performer/composer Corey Dargel's new art-pop song cycle inspired by psychological delusions.

Photo by Liz Linder



Marie Brassard
Jimmy | Coming in May

"Vital, world-class theatre not to be missed" - Ian Kilroy, The Irish Times

Have you ever had a dream where you were on the verge of having an orgasm?
'Jimmy' is genie Award nominee/Critics Prize and Chalmers Award winner Marie Brassard's first solo play.

Photo by Simon Gibault



The Amoralists
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side | June 5 - 28

"'The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side' is the most exciting theatre I've seen in quite a while. The Amoralists are making theatre here that really does have the capacity to lead their audience towards some meaningful social change." - NYtheater.com






Yanira Castro + Company
Dark Horse/ Black Forest | Ongoing

"Castro's duet takes voyeurism to a precipice...it doesn't happen on a stage but in a bathroom like yours" - Lori Ortiz

These privately booked performances are available exclusively through Performance Space 122. For reservations please email darkhorse@ps122.org
Photo by Yanira Castro