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CHAUTAUQUA

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“One of the most exciting and eccentric young theater companies in town.”

-The New York Times

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

“…an underground theatrical coup…a triumph of style and stagecraft.”
-Time Out New York

Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the United States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind. Channeling the form and style of the original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic and theatrical rhythm, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, scientific demonstration and tales of explorers with more traditional forms of entertainment such as dance, dramatic recital, feats of strength, and joke telling. The company examines their own role as “entertainers” as well as “artists” and question whether or not the convergence of art and commerce is possible, sustainable, or even good for either party.

Firmly establishing themselves in the New York theatre scene in 2000 with their launch of ‘Garvey and Superpant$: Episode #23, the NTUSA made their Performance Space 122 debut in 2006 with the premiere of Abacus Black Strikes Now: The Rampant Justic of Abacus Black and won a Village Voice OBIE for the production. The NTUSA was awarded Arts International’s DNA Project Grant in 2002 and remounted Episode #23 at the ESB – Dublin Fringe Festival. The NTUSA also offered a one night only special presentation of Jack Russell’s Superconfidence Seminar! at Galapagos in Brooklyn.

Special Nightly Guests (2009 Run):

Fri 2/27/09: Robert Zukerman, Sat 2/28/09 Rollo Romig, Sun 3/1/09: Samantha Hunt
Wed, 3/4/09 The Spalding Gray Award with Vallejo Gantner and Kathleen Russo: This evening’s ticket includes post-performance celebrations and libations
Thu, 3/5/09 Robert Zukerman, Fri 3/6/09 Rollo Romig (+ Claudia La Rocco’s performance club will be in the house); Sat 3/7/09: Greta Byrum
Sun 3/8/09 the NTUSA benefit; Wed, 3/11/09: Zoe Rosenfeld; Thurs 3/12/09 Greta Byrum; Fri, 3/13/09: Samantha Hunt; Sat 3/14/09: Juliana Francis Kelly
Sun 3/15/09: THE SECRET GUEST

Sunday, March 8 2009: Benefit performance + party for NTUSA.
Tickets are available for this date exclusively through the company via this link

Under The Radar Festival 2010 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and is held in conjunction with APAP Conference NYC 2010. Major funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The Festival is produced by Mark Russell and The Public Theater. www.undertheradarfestival.com

Presented as part of COIL 2010

In association with Under the Radar

Thu, Jan 7 -17, 2010
*Offsite – Tickets available through The Public Theater as part of the Under The Radar Festival
CHAUTAUQUA was originally presented by PS122 as part of the ROOM project Feb 21-Mar 15, 2009

Whatever, Heaven Allows

WINNER OF THE 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD
NY PREMIERE | THEATRE

“INSPIRED” – NY Times
“OUTRAGEOUS” – The New Yorker
“MARVELOUS” – Voice
“BOISTEROUS” – Flavorpill

Excerpts from Ben Brantley’s review in The New York Times:
“I enjoyed it“… “‘Whatever’ includes some funny video sequences (love that chain-smoking deer!), clunky karaoke-style musical numbers (the Jane Wyman stand-in sings ‘I Am Woman’) and one inspired routine involving haka, a traditional Maori dance form…

But you have to admit that Radiohole is a great leveler. It makes Milton sound like a Brill Building songwriter, and Sirk seem as on-the-surface as ‘Melrose Place.’ Culture don’t get no respect from Radiohole, which may not be enlightening, but for a generation that’s so over postmodernism, it is kind of liberating.”
Enjoy the full review

” turns out effervescent, anarchic work… cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre.” -Time Out

Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole’s newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk’s 1950s potboilers and Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American “Eve” who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole’s newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.

The Spalding Gray Award supports gifted writer/performers who fully realize both aspects of Spalding’s legacy, who are fearless innovators of theatrical form, who reach into daily experience and create resonant, transcendent work that makes us all bigger, wider, wiser and, somehow, more than we were when we entered the theater. The award is a special commission created in Spalding Gray’s honor by Performance Space 122 in New York , UCLA Live, University of California, Los Angeles’ public performing arts program,The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

This performance was supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

RADIOHOLE EXTENDED! Added shows!

Saturday, February 20 – Sunday, March 21
Thu – Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Shows: Saturdays at 10:30PM:
Feb 27/Mar 6/Mar 13/Mar 20
Spalding Gray Award Celebration + Thursday Night Social: Feb 25

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Whatever, Heaven Allows Program online!

Half Life

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Artist of the Year 2007, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages

“The pleasure of viewing is so intense here, so fun as to be nearly guilty.” – Lightsey Darst, MSP magazine 2008

“We are treated to unobstructed views of a cast of extraordinary movers.” – Mary Hodges, Brooklyn Rail, 2009

“Visually stunning, intricately choreographed…scenes of tense calm and silent impact.” – Justin Schell, mnartists.org, 2008

“A concentrated sense of emotional truth.” – Roslyn Suclas, New York Times 2009

1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean – connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand. A contemporary ritual to address our dormant nuclear nightmares. Dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad bring together an extraordinary collaborative team including composer and harpist Zeena Parkins, visual artist Emmett Ramstad, physicist Bryce Beverlin II, performer Takemi Kitamura and a critical mass of twelve including Sinan Goknur, Becky Olson, Taja Will, Jennifer Arave, Kimberly Lesik, Emma Rainwater, Melissa Birch, Laressa Dickey, Melissa Guerrero, Sharon Mansur, Laura Grant and Nick LeMere.

1/2 Life was made possible with support from the Rockefeller MAP Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the Archibald Bush Foundation, Arts International, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Moore Family Fund

More about 1/2 Life can be found at https://www.bodycartography.org/

NY PREMIERE
February 10 – 14, 2009

Wed – Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Thursday Night Social Feb 11
Talkback with Clarinda Mac Low
Friday February 12

70 minutes

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your 1/2 Life Program online!

Architecting

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“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.

The TEAM is the Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, a theatre company dedicated to dissecting and celebrating the experience of living in America today. 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners (2005 – 2008), 2008 Total Theatre Award, 2007 Best Production Dublin Fringe, and TimeOut New York’s Top Ten 2007. The TEAM’s work has been seen stateside, all over New York, including Performance Space 122; nationally, including the Walker Art Center and Vanderbilt University; internationally, including London’s Battersea Arts Centre, the Bristol Old Vic, Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and the Galway Arts Festival.

Photos by Yi Zhao

Architecting was created with support from the National Theater of Scotland Workshop, the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Battersea Arts Centre in London, and the Orchard Project.

Architecting was developed at the BAC (May 2007), the 2007 CUNY Prelude Festival (Sept 2007), 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York (May 2008), the Orchard Project (June 2008). Architecting (Part One) made its world premiere at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 09 and Under The Radar festivals

Extended at Performance Space 122:
Thu, Jan 22 – Sun, Feb 15, 2009
Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
Tickets from $25

The Crumb Trail

Praise for Oedipus Loves You:

“Wonderful”
– Time Out New York ****

“Unexpected rewards come to those who wait” – Ben Brantley, NY Times

“…approaches the sublime… the songs are first-rate ear candy”
-Variety

“Listen carefully. Go see this show. It’s the future of theatre.”
-Backstage.com New York

“Oedipus Rex? Perhaps. Oedipus Rocks? Definitely”
-Village Voice

The death of the Fairy Tale. Can we live in a world without fairy tales?
I’ll begin with a confession, Let’s pretend. I enjoy telling lies. I wanted to eat a child. All to myself.

They found my fantasies offensive, pathological, be careful what you wish for…… I was not born a bold girl. I became one. Where did being good ever get anyone? Witch fulfillment if you like.

The Crumb Trail is a decamerous contemporary installation/performance piece dealing with the notion of crisis and engagement. It is a play area where theatrical stuff is shown to the public: made up Films/ Live things all arranged and prearranged for different performances.

Pan Pan has created 17 new productions and has toured throughout Ireland as well as Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, U.K, USA, Italy, Norway Sweden, Poland, Austria, Australia and Korea.
The Crumb Trial is directed by Gavin Quinn, text by Gina Moxley, designed by Aedin Cosgrove. Cast: Aoife Duffin, Gina Moxley, Bush Moukarzel, Arthur Riordan. Photos by Oliver Paul. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

Presented as part of COIL 09 January 6 – 13, 2009 and Under The Radar festivals
Extended: Thu, January 15 – Sat, January 17, 2009
Thursday – Saturday 8pm

Additional show: Sat, January 17, 2009 10:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)