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The Spring Gala 2008

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Date:
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Location:
The Angel Orensanz Center
172 Norfolk Street
(btw. E. Houston and Stanton St. in Manhattan)

Honorees:

  • Performer Tom Murrin/Alien Comic
  • Producer Lori E. Seid
  • Members of P.S. 122

We celebrate and salute these stellar individuals who work at every level critical to live performance, who epitomize the vital roles played onstage: performer Tom Murrin; backstage: producer Lori E. Seid; and offstage: our members…

Our honorees this year are integral to the story of Performance Space 122, each contributing over the past quarter-century to build Performance Space 122 into a home to the most inventive and creative performance work in the country. Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, has worked in the space since the mid-80s, both performing his own shows and curating variety nights that introduced hundreds of new artists over the past two decades. Lori E. Seid began stage managing shows when that meant stringing clip lamps with extension cords, and went on to win Obie, Bessie, and Theatre Craft awards for her technical achievements behind the scenes. Off stage we are grateful to our members whose generosity supports a where theater can be reinvented, ideas can take flight, and new voices can be heard.

Live Performances:

  • Blue Man Group
  • Justin Bond
  • Steve Buscemi
  • David Cale
  • Mimi Goese
  • Lisa Kron
  • David Leslie
  • Rosie O’Donnell
  • Johanna Went
  • Plus special video performances by
    Antony and the Johnsons, directed by Charles Atlas
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Hosted by Jonathan Ames
  • Awards presentation by Johanna Went

Get a sneak peek at the items for sale at the 2008 Gala Auction

Gala Co-Chairs:
Stephen Daldry, Claire Danes, Teri Garr, and Jane Friedman invite you to salute our honorees for their tireless and inspiring work in the world of performance.

Evening Overview:

  • 5:30 Cocktails & Silent Auction / 7:00 Dinner
  • 8:00 Live Art Auction / 8:30 Performances and Tributes
  • 10:00 Dessert / 11:30 After-Party (at Vault @ element, 225 E. Houston) )

Gala Sponsors:
Paper Magazine, Element, Kronenbourg, Newcastle, Mouton Cadet & The Centerra Wine Company.

Artist Auction Committee:
Jo Andres, , Jamie Forshaw, David Leslie, Salley May, Carlo McCormick, Nicky Paraiso, Martha Wilson and Vince Bruns

Gold Leadership Committee:
Jane Friedman
Scott Rudin and John Barlow,
Gaby Darbyshire,
David Neubert,
Michelle Kim,
David Neubert,

Silver Leadership Committee
Renate and Hugh Aller,
Jo Andres and Steve Buscemi,
George and Peggy DiCaprio,
Blue Man Group

Bronze Leadership Committee
David Binder,
Glenda Hersh,
Tamara Jenkins,
Media Bistro,
Lauren Versel,
Steve Holley and Paul Glotzer,
MediabistroCircus.com

Attire:
Festive

Attendance:
300

Sponsorship:

  • PLATINUM $25,000: Table of 10, full-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
  • GOLD $10,000: Table of 10, full-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
  • SILVER $5000: Table of 8, half-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
  • BRONZE $1000: 4 single tickets; plus listing in gala program and on invitation*

Tickets:

  • INDIVIDUAL SPONSOR $500: Single ticket, listing in gala program and on invitation*
  • INDIVIDUAL PATRON $250: Single ticket

Trash Warfare

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The Shalimar
Trash Warfare

Winner! The Stage Award for Best Ensemble at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

“The most exciting young American company I have seen up here so far this century.”

– The Financial Times

“Beauty and grotesqueness in one, this is a must see.”
-The List

The Shalimar’s smash hit Trash Warfare returns to New York for eight performances at PS122. Using found text, live music, frenetic dance, raw meat and eight wild performers writer/director Shoshona Currier delves deep into America’s celebrity obsession. A savage send-up of a country hell bent on escapism even when all around it things are falling apart. Flash photography is encouraged.

With text compiled from speeches of General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur,
Winston Churchill, interviews with Lizzie Grubman, Mary Kay Letourneau, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and works by Seneca, Georges Bataille, and Bret Easton Ellis, The Shalimar retells the timeless Phaedra myth. What happens at home when the men are away at war?

More info can be found at the Shalimar Productions Site

Original PS122 Run: May 14-18, 2008
Also playing in the COIL 2009 Festival

Gottlieb

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“A commanding vocalist”
– The New York Times

“Powerfully straddles jazz, cantorial and the avant-garde”
– All About Jazz

“Israeli jazz seductress”
– Rolling Stone

“Avant-garde yet surprisingly accessible”
– Global Rhythm

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre. The show combines movement, video projections and Gottlieb’s compositions. All the elements unfold the abstract narrative of the struggles of a woman in love.

About the Artist:

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s (Composer/Vocalist) sound reveals a unique improvisational approach infused with elaborate composition, spiced up with Middle Eastern scales and adventurous texts. She currently resides in New York City and was born in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. After graduating from New England Conservatory in ’02, Gottlieb released her first CD Internal-External which was chosen as “Best Debut of 2004” by All About Jazz. In ’06 she released Mayim Rabim on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records to international critical acclaim.

Musicians: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Michael Gottlieb, Deanna Neil, Tammy Scheffer- Vocals
Michael Winograd- Clarinet, Anat Fort- Piano, Greg Heffernan-Cello, Ronen Itzik- Drums

Best of Boroughs Festival – Brooklyn

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Presented in association with BRIC Arts Media Bklyn.
Mayim Rabim was developed, in part, through a residency at BRIClab

Website photo by Renate Aller.
Postcard photo by Rachel Gottlieb

May 8-10, 2008
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
More about the BOB Festival
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

Black Holes

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“Number One Progressive Drummer”

– Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll (3 times)

“Best Drummer”
– Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics Poll

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet. Synchronized images and film from Calhoun’s music research expeditions in Africa, Central and South America move in tempo to Calhoun’s rich sonic tapestry.

More about Will Calhoun

A 2-time Grammy winner, widely acclaimed drummer from the Bronx, New York, Calhoun graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Music Production and engineering. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award for outstanding performance by a drummer.

Will Calhoun is internationally known as the drummer/composer of NYC Rock Band Living Colour. In addition to his work with Living Colour, Will has recorded and/or toured with diverse artists including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Mos Def, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, The Allman Brothers, Lauryn Hill, Marcus Miller, Dr.John, Herb Alpert, Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, Wayne Shorter (on the Grammy-winning CD “High Life”), Run-DMC and Public Enemy.

Will Calhoun photo by Bill Bernstein

www.willcalhoun.com

www.myspace.com/nativelands

Best of Boroughs Festival – Bronx

May 1 – May 4

Thursday at 7pm

Friday at 10 pm

Sunday at 7 pm

(no show Saturday, May 3)
More about the BOB Festival
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
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Best of Boroughs 2008

B.O.B.

As part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, P.S. 122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a new and super-charged celebration that takes place at P.S. 122 while taking you on tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance.

Staten Island
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx


Remember this Moment
Gabri Christa and Niles Ford
-Staten Island

In anticipation of their two year-old child’s fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video – part time capsule, part time travel – and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future.

May 1- 4

Thursday at 10pm

Friday and Saturday at 7pm

Sunday at 4pm
More info/Tickets


Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Mayim Rabim / Great Waters
-Brooklyn

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre.

May 8-10
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
More info/tickets


Vengeance Can Wait
Yukiko Motoya
-Queens

Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait navigates Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. A couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted and touching, the couple come to understand the “kinks” in their relationship – and embrace them.

U.S. Premiere

Friday, April 25 – Sunday, May 4

Tuesdays – Fridays at 8

Saturdays at 2 and 8;
Sundays at 4
More info/tickets


Black Holes
Will Calhoun
-Bronx

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet.

May 1 – May 4
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 10 pm
Sunday at 7 pm
(no show Saturday, May 3)
More info/tickets

April 25- May 10, 2008
ALL PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE
AT PS122, 1ST AVE & 9TH STREET

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