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The Spring Gala 2009

2009 Spring Benefit

GOLD SPONSORS

Scott Rudin Productions, Creative Artists
Agency, Ivan Martinez & Patty Adams de Martinez, East Side Community Coalition, David Neubert, Heather Thomas & Chet Kerr

SILVER SPONSOR

Proskauer Rose LLP, Jane Friedman

BRONZE SPONSORS

Harry Bond, Anne Dennin, Joseph T. Donohue, Sally Greene, Michelle Kim,
Lynda Logan, TheaterMania and Ovationtix.

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Caterina Bartha, Dominique Bravo, Schuyler Brown, Gaby Darbyshire, Mia Fenwick, Olivia Georgia, David Leslie, Steve Oakes, L. Gabrielle Penabaz, Kathleen Russo, Mark Russell, Howard Spector, Jason Tsou, Lauren Versel

ARTISTS COMMITTEE

Jonah Bokaer, Thomas Bradshaw, Travis Chamberlain, Earl Dax, Yehuda Duenyas, Karen Finley, Ain Gordon, Trajal Harrell, Holly Hughes, Kyle Jarrow, Lisa Kron, Dean Moss, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam,
Ildiko Szollosi, Carmelita Tropicana

Tickets & Sponsorship levels:

Platinum Sponsor: $10,000
10 prestige seats to the show, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, full-page ad and listing in the program, listing in Spring 2009 playbills and on website

Gold Sponsor: $5,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artist, full-page ad in the program.

Silver Sponsor: $3,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, half- page ad in the program.

Bronze Sponsor: $2,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Benefit Committee: $1,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Individual Sponsor: $500
1 premium orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus listing in the program.

Individual Patron: $200
1 orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists.
Limited number remaining

Single Ticket: $100
One rear orchestra seat. Sold out.

Artist Ticket: $40
One balcony seat. Sold out.

Click here to purchase your benefit ticket online now.

*Please note, in addition to appearing in the Benefit program, all sponsors will be listed on the Spring Benefit web-page.

Date: Wednesday, May 27
Location: Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St. (at Pitt St.)
New York, NY 10002

Evening Overview:
*6:00 Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, , performance installation by the Butoh Rockettes
*8:00 Performance & Tributes
“Intermission” with Live Auction & Benefit Boutique
*10:00 Party with DJs Andrew Andrew


Enter to win a rare and fantastic photo of Martha Graham with Liza Minelli and Gloria Swanson at Studio 54 in 1977.
Signed by the photographer, legendary nightlife documenter and performing artist Bobby Miller (Fabulous: A Photo Diary of Studio 54; Wigstock in Black and White).
OR win a pair of house seats to Billy Elliot.

2009 Benefit Sponsors:

Visit the 2009 Benefit Auction Page

Performance Space 122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Jimmy

jimmy

jimmy

“Vital, world-class theatre not to be missed”
– Ian Kilroy, The Irish Times

“Brassard is breathtaking”
– Jo Lendingham, The Vancouver Courier

Have you ever had a dream where you were on the verge of having an orgasm?
Jimmy, the homosexual hairdresser was born in the dream of an American general
in the fifties. As he is about to kiss his lover in the dream, the general dies,
leaving the two in a no man’s land, in a state of pure pleasure. After staying
suspended in time for fifty years, Jimmy starts to live again, but to his
despair, trapped in the dreams of a Montreal actress. A solo performance about
love, desire and the pleasure of the creative process.

Jimmy, Brassard’s first solo play, premiered in June 2001 at the Festival TransAmériques. It has since toured several cities in France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Mexico, The Netherlands and Portugal. The play has been translated and published in German and Italian and produced many times in Germany and Switzerland.

Marie Brassard is an actress, playwright and theatre director. For several
years, she collaborated closely with renowned writer and director Robert
Lepage, in theatre and in film. She co wrote and performed in The Dragons’
Trilogy, Polygraph, The seven Streams of the River Ota and Geometry of
Miracles. She also played Lady Macbeth in Lepage’s contemporary version of
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ariel in The Tempest.

In 2001, she branched out to create her own solo works, winning acclaim
both nationally and internationally. She created her first solo
production, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival de theatre des
Ameriques, in Montreal. In the meantime, she has produced four other works
– The Darkness, Peepshow, The Glass Eye and The Invisible – in which she
has continued to experiment with technology and explore the many ways with
which sound can be manipulated in theater. By interlacing voices and music
and traversing the planes of reality, she leads us to a world where the
boundaries between public and private dissolve and the relationship
between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her unique work has
made of her a singular voice in contemporary theatre, receiving widespread
acclaim in many cities across America, Europe and Australia. She is the
artistic director of the production company Infrarouge. This is the first
time her work is being presented in New York.

Produced by Infrarouge
Written, directed and performed by Marie Brassard
Co-produced by the Festival TransAmériques
Running time: 70 minutes

Wed May 27th – Sun, June 14th, 2009
Wed – Sat at 8pm
Sun at 6:30pm
Plus added late shows: Fri and Sat
June 12-13 at 10PM

Near Death

Near Death

Near Death

“One of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music”
– The New
York Times

“A powerhouse of new-music programming,”
– The New Yorker

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to Performance Space 122 to offer the world premiere of THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, an art-pop song cycle by the sensational young New York composer-performer Corey Dargel. Dargel, who has been called a “baroquely unclassifiable artist” by The New Yorker, takes his inspiration for this genre-defying new chamber piece from a range of psychiatric delusions, with an emphasis on hypochondria. ICE will round out the program with the world premieres of three stunning new short works by the young New York composer-performers Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Stephen Lehman.

Corey Dargel: THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (2009)
For male vocalist (Dargel), flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, trombone, percussion piano/toy piano, violin, and cello/viola de gamba
WORLD PREMIERE, commissioned through the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation

Also featured: New works by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Stephen Lehman, commissioned by ICE

www.iceorg.org

Fri May 22 – Sat May 23, 2009
Friday + Saturday 8pm

AGA Spring 09

AGA

AGA

“Theatre Askew is queer in the best sense of the word: self-consciously outside of the mainstream, looking in with intelligence and wit.”
– Julia Wallace, The Village Voice

Queer duckling Theatre Askew joins forces with Performance Space 122 to present Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Askew. Drawing from across the rainbow spectrum of LGBT culture, the evening features dance inspired by Margaret Cho and the notorious Alphabet City after-hours club Save the Robots, trannie dominatrices, and severed heads. Hosted by Downtown legends Bianca Leigh and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s Everett Quinton, it’s guaranteed to get your sap flowing this May.
Hosted by Bianca Leigh and Everett Quinton. With performances by Bianca Leigh, Karen Grenke, Theatre Askew company members, Irene Ruiz-Riveros and BLISS dance-theatre, GERALDCASELDANCE, Isengart, and The Din (Matthew Pritchard and Isam Rum). Featuring new writing by Polly Frost, Stan Richardson, and OBIE-winner William M. Hoffman. Installation by Peter Cramer & Co of Le Petit Versailles community garden. Queer experimental film & video presented by Stephen Kent Jusick, executive director of the MIX Festival

Theatre Askew’s inaugural production, Bald Diva! earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Play. Their follow-up show was the hit serial I, Claudius Live. Last year they received their second GLAAD nomination for the world premiere of Jason Schafer’s i google myself. They were named 2007 People of the Year by nytheatre.com. Their most recent production was the world premiere of William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland’s Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor.

Fri, May 15 – Sat, May 16, 2009
7:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Guest Curated by:

Cracked Ice

jennifer miller

Jennifer Miller

“Miller wows ’em” – The Village Voice

“Circus AMOK reinventing the circus form, borrowing drag fabulousness from Charles Ludlam’s Theater of the Ridiculous, large scale transformation using whole-body masks from Bread and Puppet Theater, and the outdoor bally and verbal rhythm and repertoire from the sideshow, as well as movement vocabulary from post-modern dance. The troupe balances danger with laughter, slipping its critique between the pies in the face and the surreal, scary, and sometimes gender-bent characters of the charivari.” – Mark Sussman, Disturbing the Peace: 20th Century Radical Street Performance, 2001

In this glittering theatrical extravaganza, the infamous juggling duo, The Liberty Sisters, have been fleeced by an evil ponzi schemer. Sybil and Statua Liberty embark on a mad-cap tour of revenge…but they aren’t the only ones after the greedy crook. Mistaken identities, missed opportunities, star crossed lovers and variety hall numbers all combine to bring East Village high camp back home. It’s tragedy, it’s farce, it’s mystery, it’s mayhem…it’s “Jewels of the Forbidden Skates.”

Starring: Jennifer Miller, Carlton Ward, Ashley Brockington, Rae C. Wright, Sally May, Adrienne Truscott, and Tanya Gagne. Music by Kenny Mellman and Design by Jonathon Berger. With additional text for Bernie Madoff by Deb Margolin. Choreography by Faye Driscoll. Special surprise guest artists each night will include Scott Heron, Jenny Monson, and Jenny Romaine.

Jennifer Miller is the director of the acclaimed NYC political performance troupe Circus Amok, which she founded in 1989. She 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.

*2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award Ceremony*
Join us Wed, Apr 29 for the announcement of the 2009 Winner and a special post-show celebration

The Ethyl Eichelberger Award was created by Performance Space 122 and made possible with generous support from The Gesso Foundation in honor of seminal performer, landmark and legend Ethyl Eichelberger. The award is given to an artist or group that exemplifies Ethyl’s larger-than-life style and generosity of spirit; who embodies Ethyl’s multi-talented artistic virtuosity, bridging worlds and vitalizing those around them.

Also, check out Cirus AMOK! on NY Times Urban Eye

Sat, Apr 25 – Sun, May 10, 2009
Wednesday – Sunday 8pm
Additional Late Show: Sat, May 9 11pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

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