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Supergabriela

“Hi, hello my love, I’m so happy you’ve called…I’m happy to hear your voice, I was missing you.”
– Cosmin Manolsecu on the phone with Gabriela Tudor

“Inventive, relaxed and joyful” – Alex Leo Serban, Elle magazine (on Serial Paradise)

Cosmin Manolescu, one of Romania’s leading contemporary choreographers and artistic director of Serial Paradise Company, continues his investigation of and desire to deepen the relationship between performers and audience in SUPERGABRIELA. Alternately sexy, confounding, and dark-humored, this 2-part evening of dance explores expressions of love & loss, heightened sensation, and the illusion of everyday life in Cosmin’s signature satirical style and superb visual sense.

Part 1: dreams.land Directed by Cosmin Manolescu, performed by Camille Mutel & Litsa Kiousi

Part 2: superGabriela Choreographed & performed by Cosmin Manolescu

Cosmin Manolescu, in addition to directing SUPERGABRIELA, has initiated the “Moving Dialogue” series aiming to foster engagement and interaction between both emerging and established American and Romanian dance artists. The project focuses on networking, artistic process, and professional development for performers, choreographers, dance critics and cultural managers through studio research, residencies, classes and workshops, and more. Moving Dialogue is based on the initial commitment of the Romanian Cultural Institute and National Dance Centre Bucharest and is facilitated by both Cosmin Manolescu (RO) and Levi Gonzalez (USA). Moving Dialogue takes place between Movement Research, Dance Theater Workshop and the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York.

The performances of SUPERGABRIELA close a series of memorial events dedicated to Gabriela Tudor, Cosmin’s manager and wife, who set many landmarks in the world of Romanian contemporary art with passion and dedication. Thursday, November 4 celebrates the launch of the Gabriela Tudor Foundation, which focuses on contributing to the development of emerging Romanian cultural managers.

Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest

WORLD PREMIERE PREMIERE in Two Parts | Dance | Upstairs

November 4-5, 2010
Thursday & Friday at 8PM
Thursday Night Social & Launch of the Gabriela Tudor Foundation: November 4
Post-performance talk: November 5

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Supergabriela program online!

Them

Presented in association with the New Museum and tbspMGMT

“One of the most genial survivors of the eighties avant-garde” – The New Yorker

“Mr. Houston-Jones clearly has a strong, sure sense of theater.” – Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“There’s no knowing if the upper hand is what either really wants.” – Burt Supree, The Village Voice (on Them)

Ishmael Houston-Jones, whose intensely physical improvisations have been a staple of New York’s contemporary dance scene for over three decades, sparked controversy in 1986 at Performance Space 122 with THEM. Made in collaboration with Dennis Cooper (text) and Chris Cochrane (music), this incendiary work addressed some of the many ways men could be with men. After a successful run of the work-in-progress at PS122 in 1985 the creators of THEM felt that the urgency of the AIDS epidemic demanded a presence in this piece about men with men. In the 1986 premier of the full-length version for six male dancers at PS122 Cooper read his own provocative words, and Cochrane played cacophonous electric guitar live; frequently violent and exhausting dance sequences, culminated in a horrific duet between Houston-Jones and an animal carcass on a dusty mattress. The production almost got PS122 shut down.

Through a reconstruction residency at The New Museum, the three creators have recast THEM with a new generation of male performers. Rehearsals of THEM at the New Museum culminate in a series of programs collectively titled THEM AND NOW, exploring the artistic impulses that propelled the creation of this “aggressive and vital” (Village Voice) performance work and its reconstruction 25 years later.

As part of PS122’s 30th Anniversary Season, this ground-breaking piece is back and investigating its continuing relevance to dance and to social discourse in 2010.

2010 Cast: Joey Cannizzaro, Felix Cruz, Jeremy Pheiffer, Niall Noel, Jacob Slominski, Arturo Vidich, Enrico D. Wey
Lighting designer: Joe Levasseur

‘Them’ is supported in part by TestPerformanceTest and developed through the RE:NEW RE:PLAY residency series at the New Museum

325 Bowery, New York, NY

Photo courtesy of Dona Ann McAdams

ORIGINAL PREMIERE:
Performance Space 122, 1986
Dance, Theatre | Upstairs

Thursday, October 21 – Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
LATE SHOWS: Saturdays at 10PM
Thursday Night Social: October 21
$20, $15 (students/seniors)

THEM AND NOW
4 special events at the New Museum
leading up to the 2010 premiere of Them

Friday, September 24 at 7
“WINGING IT” IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD

Friday, October 1 at 7
US V THEM: A Showcase of Young Improvisers

Friday, October 8 at 7
SOUND CHECK ’86

Thursday, October 14 at 7
DENNIS AND THE BOYS

THEM TODAY
Open rehearsals of Them
September 22 – October 5
Free with New Museum entry

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your THEM program online!

I Am Saying Goodnight

I am saying goodnight

“She is certainly intense, and she is certainly talented.”
– John Rockwell, The New York Times

Every night I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee and start all over again until exhausted I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee.

A pre-decided game, with an intense physical vocabulary, unfiltered emotions, and an unflinching embrace of fatalism.

Conceived and directed by Amanda Loulaki
Created by Rebecca Brooks, Carolyn Hall, Becky Serrell,
Pedro Osorio
and Amanda Loulaki
Performed by Carolyn Hall, Becky Serrell, Pedro Osorio
and Amanda Loulaki
Sound score by Georgios Kontos with music by Giannis Aggelakas
and Nikos Veliotis with permission by Altogethernow
Visual Context by Joanna Seitz
Lights by Jonathan Belcher

Amanda Loulaki was born and raised in Crete. Amanda Loulaki and Short Mean Lady, a project oriented company was formed in 2001. Amanda’s choreography has been presented at Danspace Project, La MaMa, Dixon Place, PS 122, Joyce Soho, Dance New Amsterdam, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, 11th Biennale of artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, BucharEast.West International Dance Festival, The Mediterranean Contemporary Dance Platform, American Dance Festival and MIT. Amanda was selected for The Barnard Project in 2007 at DTW and was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College of Columbia University during the 2007 fall semester. Since 1998, Amanda has been the Programming Director at Movement Research, and has programmed the Improvisation Festival/NY. www.amandaloulaki.com

Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest, The Jerome Foundation and Dance Theater Workshop’s Suitcase Fund as part of the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnerships Program, with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
DANCE | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, January 7 – 11, 2011
Single Tickets: $20, $15 (students/seniors)

WORLD PREMIERE presented by Performance Space 122 as part of our 30th Anniversary Season
October 13 – 16, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
LATE SHOW: Saturday, October 16 at 10PM
Thursday Night Social: October 14

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT program online!

AGA Fall 2010

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Hosts and guest curators: Bridget Everett & Kenny Mellman

Fasten your seatbelts for PS122’s 2-night interdisciplinary festival — a nightly bento box of performance shorts that “always ends up exploding into an all-out party.” (Flavorpill)

FRIDAY:

Erin Markey, Jenn Harris, Julie Atlas Muz, The Kitty Litter, and Corn Mo

SATURDAY:

Reggie Watts, Erin Markey, Amber Martin, Adrienne Truscott, The Kitty Litter, plus Marga Gomez & Dan Fishback

With more guests to be confirmed for each evening! PLUS, the top of each evening will be meta-framed by a signature extravagant welcome from the epic and glittery Salley May, AGA coordinator.

Tony-nominated Kenny Mellman was the co-creator and “Herb” half of the internationally acclaimed duo Kiki and Herb. His solo show “Kenny Mellman is Grace Jones” has played NYC, London, Portland, Philadelphia, and both Melbourne and Sydney Australia. At Least It’s Pink, the show he co-wrote with Bridget Everett and Michael Patrick King (Sex and The City) was one of TimeOutNY’s top 10 Cabaret shows of 2006. He is an Obie, Bessie, Glammy, Glaad Media and MAC award winning performer. He wrote a children’s musical for the Soho Theatre in London and in 2008 wrote and performed a workshop of his musical “Say Seaboy, You Sissyboy?” at Dixon Place as one of their Mondo Cane Commissions. With Bridget Everett, Neal Medlyn, Brendan Kennedy and Ada Calhoun, he created Our Hit Parade which was named one of the best cabaret shows of 2008 and continues as a monthly show at Joes Pub. He wrote the music and lyrics and played the score for Jennifer MIller’s Cracked Ice at PS122. Recently, he was named one of TimeOut New York’s 40 favorite people in NYC.

Bridget Everett has been dubbed “Wynona Judd meets Melissa Etheridge, via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks” by The Village Voice’s Michael Musto. Having grown up in Manhattan, Kansas, Bridget received her degree in vocal
performance at Arizona State University. Soon after, she promptly abandoned it all to move to New York, sing karaoke and work as a waitress. Bridget played Lynn Chenney in Taylor Mac’s Red Tide Blooming at PS122. She is the cohost of Automatic Vaudeville at Ars Nova, has performed on the Murray Hill show at Mo Pitkins, sung with the Isotoners, with Jim Andralis and Larry Krone, and plays R Kelly’s sister in the show Neal Medlyn Plus Kenny Mellman Equals R Kelly. You can also catch her wearing gold lame in Times Square along side the Varisty Interpretive Dance Squad in Moby’s music video “new york, new york.”

WORLD PREMIERE
Mini-Festival: Theatre/Dance/Music/Art | Upstairs
Friday, October 1 –
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Party after the show both nights

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your AGA program online!

Hotel Savoy

A blendwerk production
Presented in association with the Goethe-Institut New York

“You are checking into an hour of existential angst, with only your spiritual baggage for company…Certainly my hour inside put me in the mood for Halloween.” – Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“The building exerts a strange pull over its visitors” – Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

“I don’t want to give anything away, on the off chance that you squeeze in…I’d recommend simply wandering until they come for you. And don’t worry, they’ll come for you. They always come for you.” – Scott Brown, NY Magazine

“There’s hardly a short age of Halloween attractions this time of year, but few are as haunting as Hotel Savoy“ – Frank Scheck, NY Post

“At only $25 per night, Hotel Savoy provides budget travelers with a distinct theatrical bargain” – Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice

CRITICS’ PICK – Backstage

With its overlapping of Joseph Roth’s novel, reality, and contemporary history, HOTEL SAVOY opens up a world between dream and reality in the history-laden and often unseen spaces of 1014 5th Avenue. Visitors become guests in the empty hotel and encounter past employees: an elevator operator, a young maid, the hotel barber, the concierge, and a barmaid. These gatekeepers lead us into remote corners of the building, into unreal hotel rooms and real salons still haunted by spirits of past occupants. Against the background of this surreal through-station for German exiles, visitors are faced with questions about their own heritage in these restless and unanchored times. Guests play the lead role in their brief stay at the Hotel Savoy.

Concept, Staging, Spaces: Dominic Huber
Artistic Collaboration, Dramaturgy: Anne Hoelck
Sound Design: Knut Jensen
Coaching, Collaboration Script: Lara Koerte

Fabian Offert (Assistant Director, Props and Set Dressing)
Paula Reissig (Assistant Director, Props and Set Dressing, Documentation)
Phillip Gulley (Assistant Cast)

With: Wickham Boyle, Howard des Chenes, Tom Gallucio, Léna Greenberg, Chandler Gregoire, Timothy Hospodar, Michael Simmons, Richard Stein, Issac Taylor, Heather Warner

Co-Producer blendwerk: Dominic Huber
Production Goethe Institut: Philipp Leist

Michael Sanabria (Technical Supervisor Goethe Institut)
Nick Bixby (Technical Producer)
Joe Cantalupo (Light Technician)
Brendan Regimbal (Sound Technician)
Ryan Holsopple (Sound Technician)
Brandon Morris (Construction)
Andrew Scoville (Construction)
Lisa Pfister (Construction)

Thanks to:
Claudia and Daniel Huber, Gian Manuel Rau, Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart

Dominic Huber began working in the theatre while studying architecture at ETH in Zürich. In 2000 he founded the company blendwerk with lighting designer Christa Wenger. In collaboration with the director Bernhard Mikeska, Huber conceptualized and produced a series of scenographically and technically complex performances (Rashomon, Ghosts, Marienbad) under the rubric mikeska:plus:blendwerk which were invited for guest performances by numerous theatrical venues, including Impulse and the Fajr Festival in Teheran. Along with his work as a set designer, Dominic has developed a series of installations and exhibitions. His first large projects took him from Zürich to Theater Basel, and then on to Berlin for numerous jobs at, among others, the Maxim Gorki Theater, where in 2002 he presented a piece he directed, Koppstoff, based on the book by Feridun Zaimoglu. Along with Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer, other venues included Theater Aachen, Theatre de Vidy-Lausanne, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Schauspielhaus in Zürich. He has created spaces for, among others, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Simone Aughterlony, and PeterLicht. Since 2008 he has worked in an ongoing collaboration with Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias. In 2008 he received a three-month stipend from the city of Zürich for a working stay in New York. Dominic Huber lives in Zürich and Berlin. https://www.blendwerk.ch/

Photo by Paula Reissig

WORLD PREMIERE | Live Art | Offsite

All performances at 1014 Fifth Avenue, NY

The uptown site of the Goethe-Institut New York
(opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Thursday, September 30 –
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday – Sunday 5:30 – 9:45

Your personal journey through the hotel lasts approximately 1 hour*
Timed-entry tickets available for the following intervals: 5:30, 5:45, 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45, 7, 7:15, 8, 8:15, 8:30, 8:45, 9, 9:15, 9:30, 9:45

$25, $15 (student/senior)

Thursday Night Social: September 30
6:45pm – Midnight @ Orsay

*LIMITED ACCESS:
Only 1 audience member enters the Hotel Savoy at a time. Due to the precise nature of the performance schedule, you must arrive at 1014 5th Avenue no later than 10 minutes prior to your reservation time in order to check in and use your ticket. Please note that you may be asked to wait for up to 20 minutes in between arrival and entry. There is an indoor waiting area available.

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Hotel Savoy program online!