Downtown’s definitive holiday throwdown packs new punches…
DJ Rich King (of SNAXX, Special SNAXX, and Summer SNAXX parties) is on deck from 9,30 PM ’til who knows when… John Cameron Mitchell (who directed Meow Meow in her last sold-out show at The Highline) is slated to do some spontaneous spinning and a late night carol or two with Meow Meow…
So wear your dancing shoes and drinking helmets, and let’s ring in the Holiday Season in true Performance Space 122 style.
Can’t come to ‘Meow to the World!’‘ on the 17th but still want to party with us?
Pay $10 at the door starting at 9:30pm
(remember to bring I.D. to access bar!)
And for our Members:
The Red and White is always free for you…
Reserve your ‘Meow to the World!‘ tickets for only $15 and stay for the party afterwards,
or come to the show another night, and join us at 9:30pm on Wednesday for FREE
RSVP for the Meow to the World! + Party or Party Only by emailing membership@ps122.org
photo by Harmony Nicholas
WED, DEC 17 2008
8pm
This event takes place at:
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM
431 West 16th St
btw 9 and 10th Avenues
“The purpose of life explored through the lens of a camera… One hell of a performance!”
– Le Soir, Belgium
The definitive spy-ware performance – a voyeur’s paradise. Kaldor invites the 19-year-old Nada to present her large collection of photographs – for years she has been observing people, taking ‘spy-photos’ of them, capturing their private moments. The core of Nada’s interest is to trace the various life-strategies that people follow. Driven by curiosity, she becomes witness to a wide range of – at times excessive – human behavior. Together with the audience she autopsies the images, implications and patterns that emerge. She aims to get a comprehensive overview and reach the ultimate conclusion: the vision of a life worth pursuing.
Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest. At the age of 13 she immigrated with her mother to the United States, where she lived for ten years. After receiving her degree in English and Theater at Barnard College (New York) and University College (London), she worked for 6 years with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York), collaborating on numerous theater performances and filmscripts. She then enrolled at DasArts (the postgraduate performing arts center in Amsterdam), where she started making her own theatre pieces, which soon received international acclaim.
She currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Brussels and makes theater performances that tend to integrate the use of digital media, like Or Press Escape (2002), New Game (2004), Drama (2005), Point Blank (2007). In the past years she has been invited to perform her work in about 30 countries around the world.
Produced by Filter (Antwerp), Productiehuis Rotterdam, Kata (Amsterdam)
Executive producer: wp Zimmer (Antwerp)
Co-produced by: KunstenfestivaldesArts Brussels, Sophiensaele Berlin, Parc la Villette Paris (Residences d’Artistes 2007), PS122 New York, Votnik Brussels
This project is supported by: Vlaamse Overheid, VSBFonds, Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten, Theater Instituut Nederland
Thu, Dec 11 – Sun, Dec 14, 2008
Thursday- Saturday at 8:00pm
Sun at 6:00pm
What happens when we freak the fiction of cultural and familial identification? There is play and fantasy. There is sex and violence. There is an impostor. Words seem to come out almost right. Reactions test their relationships to actions and everything appears as more than it seems. LEWIS FOREVER’s home lies between continents, identities and meanings – Performance Space 122 is their living room, and they will freak it.
LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room features George, Jr., Isabel, and Sarah Lewis, and Eric Green.
LEWIS FOREVER (George Lewis Jr., Isabel Lewis, Ligia Manuela Lewis, and Sarah Lewis), a family collective of two Berlin-based artists and two New York based artists create performances, installations, and videos that provide opportunities to embody ideas and questions surrounding collective versus individual vision, emigration, post-American identity, transient identities, “trans-nationalism”, belonging, longing, and dislocation.
George Jr. is a performance artist/musician based in Brooklyn who blends Rock n’ Roll, theatre, and visual art in his work as an artist jack of all trades; also based in Brooklyn is Isabel, a dance artist and curator. On the Berlin side of the family, there is Ligia Manuela Lewis and Sarah Lewis. Ligia Manuel has worked with esteemed dance artists including Tere O’Conner, Davis Dorfman, Gisele Mason, and the Supremas. Sarah has worked with Todd Fletcher choreographing original musicals “William Tell” and “Streets of Wedding,” and presented two plays at the English Theatre of Berlin. Eric Green is a performer living and working in Berlin, where he has produced several collaborative performance projects and books of poetry; he is the co-founder of ARK, a multidisciplinary organization which develops collaborative initiatives and projects; and he is co-curator of the “Epic” series of performing arts events.
Freak the Room is part of Best of Boroughs: as part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, PS122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance from the five boroughs.
Original Run: November 30- December 14, 2008
Also playing in the COIL 2009 Festival
“The Debate Society’s theatrical brilliance can’t be argued with.” -John Del Signore, Gothamist
The Debate Society’s 4th full-length play transforms the upstairs space at P.S. 122 into their own version of a Drive-In theater to present an intimate and absurd perspective of classic Americana. The Brooklyn based play-makers invite audiences to experience the Feature Presentation from the comfort of their own private 4-seater, equipped with a cooler, speaker box, and a close-up view of the action. Like an evening at the Drive-In, Cape Disappointment starts with a “cartoon” and proceeds to the feature: a road-trip epic populated by characters racing across the crumbling landscapes of bygone hey-days. There’s even an intermission tossed in just long enough to grab some popcorn.
The Debate Society is a Brooklyn based company that creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler. Joining co-writers Bos (Gothamist Best Actress of 2007) and Thureen (Hostage Song) onstage is actor Michael Cyril Creighton (The Vietnamization of New Jersey) and acclaimed NY actress, Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award winner and Emmy nominee Pamela Payton-Wright, who is also the mother of Cape Disappointment director Oliver Butler.
Saturday, Nov 22 – Sunday, Dec 7, 2008
Mon – Saturday at 8:00pm
Joe Silovsky woke up on his birthday in 2001 and read the paper. What he discovered dramatically affected how he would spend the next 7 years. Now the man behind the curtain steps out in his first full-length solo theatrical production. Stories diverge, money is invested, fish are bombed out of the water, and Stanley, Silovsky’s brilliant robotic creation, explains it all to us in his own words. With 20 suitcases we travel to the island nation with Silovsky who masterfully merges his first hand knowledge of Jesse Dean, the Jester of Tonga, with his love of technology.
Joseph Silovsky has been performing and making machines for the theater since 1990. He has performed solo work at St Anne’s Warehouse, PS122, Tonic’s Little Theater and Pete’s Candy Store in New York, as well as various venues in Chicago and at the Kananahk Performance Art Festival in Rakveres, Estonia. Joseph has collaborated with Victor Morales as Tutto and the Ragman as well as the Radiohole, The Builders Association,Lucky Pierre, HMS, and the Cook County Theater Department. Joseph has contributed to other theater companies by constructing robotic and/or mechanical devices for their shows: the mechanical moon for Radiohole’s Fluke; the contest winning robot in NTUSA’s What’s That on my Head?; and the human-sized R/C robot for Richard Maxwell’s Joe.
