Brothers and Sisters and Motherfuckers

Dynasty Handbag

“It’s like an inner-spirit ventriloquism; the exchanges are real, her timing is perfect.”
– Paper Magazine

This year Dynasty Handbag is hosting the family holiday dinner that is sure to be a messy mash up of passive-aggression, fart jokes, personality meltdowners. Everyone has something to bring to the table, and when all become deathly ill, everyone is suspect of bringing in the virus. But who is the motherfucking asshole sibling who would infect everyone? It must be Dynasty…she is the HOST after all. Find out when a family secret is revealed and an antidote must be found… or else!
Using live performance and 4 on-stage projections of family members, all performed by Ms. Handbag, BSMF is a tour de farce of comedic acting skills as well as a film editor’s nightmare.

Written, Directed and Performed by Jibz Cameron
Camera, Edit, Animation by Amy Von Harrington
Produced by Jibz Cameron and Amy Von Harrington
Sound by A.V. Linton and Jibz Cameron
Video display and Set Design by Lauren Brown
Costumes by Hayden Dunham
Hair n’ Makeup by Holli Smith
Photo: Ves Pitts

Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) is a performance/video artist, musician and actor who lives and works in New York. Her work has been presented internationally from the dirtiest dives to the cleanest art houses and theaters. Dynasty Handbag performances have been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and a “crackpot genius” by the Village Voice. She is the recipient of the 2007 Fresh Tracks Artist in Residency Award at Dance Theater Workshop and the 2008 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for the performing arts, and the 2010 Mondo Cane! Commission. She is currently an adjunct professor of Performance Composition at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her second Dynasty Handbag record is due in the spring of 2011 on Lovepump United Records. She is proud to be cast in the ongoing role of “Agent Steph” in the live lesbian soap opera, Room For Cream.

Made possible with commissioning support from Performance Space 122 and the Jerome Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE | Theatre, Live Art, Solo Performance, Comedy | Upstairs

Wednesday, December 15 –
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
Sunday at 6PM,
LATE SHOWS: Friday & Saturday at 10PM

Red and White Party 2010

Red and White Party

Downtown’s Definitive Holiday Bash takes over Le Poisson Rouge

Our biggest most badass bash to date featuring Musical Delicacies so sweet they could make you dance on glass plus a mindfucking array of Live Entertainments and Assordid Cultural Stimuli.

Starring Hank and The Cupcakes, Roxy Cottontail, Caveman, Michael Magnan, Die J! Mars, Jomai Etu, Maga Bo, and Joro-Boro

With Special Guests Epiphany & Gazelle as “The Red Queen” & “The White Queen”, Brandon Olson, and more…

The Red & White Party turns 6 and turns it UP with its signature cross-section of subversive and seductive underground sounds, costume culture, and international artists designed to cross-pollinate tastes and tongues from all walks of NYC nitelife.

At Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street

Evening Overview:
IN THE LOUNGE:
8 – 9PM: Happy hour with FREE drinks from TANTEO TEQUILA
and $6 well drinks, wine, & beer.
8PM – Midnight: Jomai Etu
and surprise pop-up performances and guests
12a – 1a: Maga Bo
1a – all the way home: Joro Boro

MAIN STAGE:
9p: Caveman
10p: Hank & The Cupcakes
11p-1230a: DJ Roxy Cottontail
1230a – 2a: DJ Michael Magnan
2a – all the way home: Die J! Mars

Special thanks to Jason C. Tsou for sponsoring Red & White Artist Tickets

Attire: Festive (Dancing shoes & drinking helmets recommended)

Tuesday, December 14
Time: 8pm til Late

Location:
OFF-SITE: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street

Knead

KNEAD

An original performance work created in collaboration with the performers with workshop nudges from Tim Miller

“This week-long performance workshop I have led here at PS122 has been an exciting and charged exploration into creating original performance work from our lives, dreams, obsessions, peeves, memories and desires. It has been a great pleasure and inspiration to create our tribe for a short time and jump into this original ensemble work KNEAD.

The search for the narratives of the body is a crucial beginning to knowing ourselves and can be a juicy motor for creating original performance material. I want to thank the artists for diving in so bravely and being ready to dig that extra foot (or mile!) into these gnarly, moist and tricky terrains!”

(signed)
Tim Miller

WRITTEN, EMBODIED, CONCOCTED and PERFORMED by

Nadia Awad, Lucas Brooks, Kirk Duval, Ariel Federow, Alexa Gruber, Aisha Jordan, Sara Lyons, Kamelle Mills, Brigham Mosely, Sade Namei, Katie O’Sullivan, Adam Pinti, Stephen Michael Rondel, Alisa Roost, Stephanie Skier, Chris Tyler, Candace Younghans

Sunday, December 12, 2010
5:30
70 minutes
$10

Lay of the Land

“Passionate, witty, endearing, furious, and fabulous!” – Critic’s Pick, Backstage

“A vivid, must-see achievement.” – David Nichols, The Los Angeles Times

Performance Space 122 co-founder Tim Miller’s sharp-knifed, saucy look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy’s throat, Lay of the Land friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! Lay of the Land is a “lay” in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller’s favorite way-down-the-list definition for “lay”!).

Supported in part by the National Performance Network

NY PREMIERE | Theatre, Solo Performance | Downstairs

Wednesday, December 1 –
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30PM
Thursday Night Social: December 2

Queer Spaces Town Hall
A conversation about Queer Spaces and how they have transformed the East Village over the last 30 years. Hosted by Performance Space 122 and Pride Goes East with Tim Miller as guest moderator. Friday December 3rd directly after performance.

Tim Miller will conduct a week-long workshop at PS122 culminating in KNEAD, a public ensemble performance on Sunday, December 12.

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Lay of the Land program online!

Now and Nowhere Else

“It’s 1977. It’s 1973. It’s 1958. It’s 1962. It’s 1979. And I’m going to ask you the same damn thing people are always asking me, like ‘how did you end up here?'”

Jamming, cramming, sucking and fucking off with dance, live music, theatre, and video: an unkempt, bleached and bludgeoned fake take on Beckett and Sartre, and Cage, and Cunningham, and Barfly and chance. You are now here. You are nowhere.

Made in collaboration with Diane Madden, Joey Truman, Peter Warren, Pål Asle Pettersen and Jim Dawson.

Developed through a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center and is a co-production of Touscene and RAS in Stavanger, Norway and is generously supported by Norsk Kulturrad, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, FFUK and Stavanger Kulturbyfond. Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest. Additional residency support provided @ the Collapsable Hole by the Collapsable Giraffe.

Photos by Minna Suojoki

NY PREMIERE | Theatre, Dance | Upstairs

Wednesday, November 10 –
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
Sunday at 6PM
Saturday at 10PM (Sold-Out)
Thursday Night Social: November 11

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your now and nowhere else program online!