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NY SALON RUMBLES:
In Search of The American Dream

Come packing ideas.
A post-show debate and conversation with Ronald Marx (Director of Start Up and GTA Road Theater USA), Mark Seddon (NY Bureau Chief and UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English), James Matthews (Business Consultant, NY Salon), and moderator Alan Miller (Director, NY Salon).

Performance Space 122 is proud to announce their partnership with NY Salon and invites you to join us after the Saturday matinee of Start Up for the first of our “NY Salon Rumbles” in the downstairs theatre.

‘The NY Salon Rumbles’ with Performance Space 122 is an exciting partnership that offers a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to discuss some of the provocative and stimulating ideas that emerge from our cutting edge theatre’s innovative international performances. The NY Salon firmly maintains that – contrary to much that is fashionable today – audiences are smart and perceptive and want to debate the important issues of our time. After all, ideas have consequences.

“In Search of The American Dream”

German Theater Abroad Road Theater USA explores various ideas and themes in Ronald Schimmelpfenng’s play Start Up. After the matinee show on Saturday 13 October, the audience will have the rare opportunity to discuss ideas related to the American Dream and how America is viewed today both here and internationally.

After 9/11 some people asked ‘Why do people hate America?’ and yet it is still the case that America is a popular destination for many people pinning their dreams on a better future. Is America still able to project a confident, anyone-can-make-it outlook or is there a more anxious and defensive position taken today? What does this say more broadly about how we see ourselves in society? While many in the past, such as Arthur Miller, pointed to the shortfalls of the American Dream, there is a sea change today. Is the idea of “The American Dream” relevant today?

The panelists:

Ronald Marx – Director of Start Up and GTA Road Theater USA
Mark Seddon – New York Bureau Chief and UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English
James Matthews – Business Consultant, NY Salon

Moderated by:

Alan Miller – Director, NY Salon

Sat 13 Oct, 6pm directly after the matinee performance of Start Up.

Learn more at NYSALON.ORG

Danceoff Franceoff

Danceoff

Franceoff!

New Yorkers Terry Dean Bartlett and Katie Workum show us what rising choreographers can accomplish in seven minutes with this French take on their popular series DanceOff! In a casual and intimate setting comprised of brief, densely-packed vignettes, seven Francophile dance troupes mix movement, singing, storytelling, and more into “perfect cocktail of comedy and full-throttle artistry” (Dance Insider). Nowhere will you find more talent and whimsy packed into a single night. It’s always fast-paced, often brilliant, and it provides the perfect point of entry into the lively world of downtown dance.

Featuring:

The Fischerspooner Dancers, choreographed by Vanessa Walters with a premiere of “Dance In France”
Geneviève Martel
Beth Kurkjian
Leila Gaudin
Laura Peterson
Rebecca Nettl-Fiol (Illinois)
Nadine Helstroffer
and more!

Photo by Leigh Garrett

Presented in conjunction with Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival.
www.fiaf.org

October 3, 2007
Wed 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Tickets from $15, $10 (members)

The International Show: A Panikk Transatlantique

A powerhouse international interdisciplinary collaboration serves up stimulating performance. Internationally-renowned visual and performance artists Marie Nerland (Norway) and Alexander Gerner (Germany) team up with Collapsable Giraffe’s co-founder Iver Findlay (New York) and playwright/director Young Jean Lee (New York).

This is the second phase in a long-term partnership between PS122 and BIT Teatergarasjen, Norway’s pre-eminent venue for contemporary art, theatre, and dance that began with 2005’s sold out “Norway in New York” festival. Following its presentation in New York, the performance will be presented in October in Bergen at BIT Teatergarasjen’s Meteor Theatre Festival.

Approximate running time: 1 hour

The project is supported by Arts Council Norway, The Foreign Ministry of Norway, City of Bergen, BIT Teatergarasjen, Performance Space 122, Tou Scene and The Norwegian Writers Centre.

September 27-29, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets from $15, $10 (members)

medEia

“A miracle of non-traditional theatre.”
-Patrick Sharbaugh, The Spoleto Buzz

Amsterdam’s trailblazing Dood Paard (Dead Horse) brings its acclaimed contemporary version of the Medea myth to New York. medEia is written in a very simple English, what Dood Paard calls “Euro-English,” a poetic language of common ground. It is liberally laced with lyrics of American and English pop songs- from the Doors to the Beatles to The Cure to Madonna; lyrics that, like Greek mythology, are part of modern society’s collective memory. Co-founders Oscar van Woensel, Kuno Bakker and Manja Topper mine many Medea sources from Euripides to Pasolini, Seneca to Miller, and find humor as well. Set against a stylishly minimalist backdrop of projected shadows and evocative images, and told from the perspective of the chorus, medEia ultimately deals with love, its many truths and its many lies as this timeless tale of horrifying revenge unfolds.

Dood Paard was founded in Amsterdam in 1993. The experimenting avant-garde collective creates brisk, unconventional works stripped of theatrical pretense and is recognized as a thrilling new voice in contemporary European theatre. Their repertoire includes 40 stage productions, various TV films and a television serial.

photos by Sanne Peper

medEia is an English-language production.

Running time: 75 minutes

Dood Paard is subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences and the City of Amsterdam. This production has also been made possible by a grant from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. The US tour of medEia is also made possible by the Dutch Fund for the Performing Arts
and by the Dutch Consulate in New York.

N.Y. Premiere
September 26-30, 2007
Wednesday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors),
$10 (members)
No Late Seating

medEia

(3-D) Dinosaur Death Band

Williamsburg’s favorite noise-rock band Japanther (Ian Vanek and Matt Reily) unveils a new comedic rock-opera of unpredictable scale, repercussions, and decibel levels. Using a high-energy multi-media format – their tool kit integrates live music, dance, an interactive set, video projections plus an animatronic robot dinosaur – the band and their collaborators create a full-immersion theatrical concert experience that sports a a sharp political edge and an equally edgy heart.

What starts as a post-modern funeral becomes an uplifting and entertaining ceremony. The set, designed by conceptual artist Dan Graham, becomes a canvas for simultaneous stimuli: a large optical glass wall not unlike his “pavilions” is situated next to a circular band stage, a la the Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan, where Japanther works their musical magic. While Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs dance up a storm, an animatronic dinosaur narrator, designed and built by industrial artist Doyle, inhabited by the text and voice of peace-punk Penny Rimbaud (spoken word artist and the co-founder of anarchist punk band Crass) lies on his deathbed recanting his belief systems. Darkly humorous intersticial commercials advertise the sunny plight of the American Indian and advocate arresting those who feed the homeless. By daring the audience to laugh at sad truths, Japanther opens up a door to hope and makes it cool again.

A PERFORMA Commission, produced by PERFORMA in cooperation with P.S.122 for PERFORMA07.

Approximate running time: 45 minutes

About Japanther: Japanther was formed in 2001 by Ian Vanek (drums, cassettes, vocals), Matt Reily (bass, Casio SK-1, vocals). They have recorded with Plan It X Records, Tapes Records, and the Menlo Park label. The band appears in the indie documentary film B.I.K.E, which premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival; they created and performed Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30; they teamed with Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, and Tony Oursler to create an abstract video installation for the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Listen to an interview about New York’s underground clubs with Japanther’s Ian Vanek on WNYC’s Sound Check.

November 15-19 2007