Curated by the teenaged Avant-Garde-Arama Committee:
Devon Beckford, James Dennin, Lucian Buscemi, Gabby Smith,
and Stella Jones.
Hosted by TeaM D (A.J. Ortiz and Vincent Santvoord).
Saturday: Dear Son (spoken word from LaGuardia HS),
BHSEC Step Team, The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team,
films by Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang,
and LEGS (band).
Sunday: Dancewave, Inc., Dear Son, BHSEC Step Team,
The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team, films by
Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang, and the Crayons (band).
May 19 and 20, 2007
Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
$10 ($5 Members)
Internationally-acclaimed Toronto-based experimental company Volcano’s production of Goodness was the recipient of the Carol Tambor “Best of Edinburgh” award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In Goodness Playwright Michael Redhill provides the audience a less-than-reliable version of himself as narrator. After a brief, uncomfortable visit to Poland to explore the loss of his family in the Holocaust he meets a mysterious stranger on a stopover between Warsaw and Toronto. The stranger persuades him to make a phone call which leads him into a world of intrigue, love, jealousy and murder.
Visit the Volcano website for more information about Goodness.
“One of downtown’s most intelligent, anarchic new additions”
– David Cote, Best of 2006, Time Out New York
The multi-award winning theatre troupe and creators of The Sewers, Banana Bag & Bodice concoct their own alter ego in the form of a concept punk band by the name of The Rising Fallen.
With their guitar steel and drum-tense electro-dense lyrics, The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen catalogs these mythological legendary failures and tells tall tales of fateful, prodigious gigs on Scandinavian oil rigs where they unwittingly begat their own brand of rousing idolatry.
Banana Bag & Bodice is: Peter Blomquist, Mallory Catlett, Jennifer Wright Cook, Jason Craig, G Lucas Crane, Miranda
Hardy, Rod Hipskind, Peter Ksander, Jessica Jelliffe, Casey Opstad, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Heather Peroni, Jamie McElhinney, Morgan Murphey.
PLAYING AS PART OF
COIL FESTIVAL 08
SHOWTIMES: Jan 10th at 6.30pm, Jan 11th at 9:40pm, Jan 12th at 3.30pm, Jan14th at 9.30pm and Jan 15th at 9.30pm
Extended Run: Jan 17, Jan 18, Jan 19 at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
“Emotionally raw dispatches from an angry mind”
– David Cote, Time Out New York
“Gutsy – taboo-busting”
– New York Magazine
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. This is a church of celebration, designed to test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike. Come to CHURCH – an uplifting, joyous and inspirational event that may be Lee’s most miraculous – or devious – experiment to date.
Performed by Greg Hildreth, Karinne Keithley, Weena Pauly, and Katie Workum
Set by Eric Dyer, Lights by Mark Barton, Sound by Matthew Tierney, Costumes by Normandy Sherwood, Choreography by Faye Driscoll, Production Stage Management by Sam Seymour
CHURCH is co-produced by the Vienna Festival 2008, Wexner Center for the
Arts at The Ohio State University, and Performance Space 122. Additional
co-producer BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. CHURCH is a National Performance
Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Walker Art Center, in
partnership with The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe, and
the National Performance Network. NPN and the NPN Creation Fund is
sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation,
Nathan Cummings Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the
Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.
This project is supported by Jerome Foundation.
For more on Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, visit youngjeanlee.org
Zustiak’s world is full of “striving, sweating bodies, but beyond what they actually do lies another, more enigmatic kind of “doing.””
-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Choreographer Pavel Zustiak teams up with famed video artist Tal Yarden exposing postmortem ecstasy somewhere between a dream and a memory entitled Le Petit Mort. Raw, unsettling, emotionally charged images ask questions that are ultimately unanswerable – questions of the matters of the end. Scenes of disquieting stillness and agitation, haunting traces of life past living, will leave a residue that can’t be washed off.
Direction and Choreography by Pavel Zustiak
Created with Performers Benjamin Asriel, Gina Bashour, Ellen Cremer, Saar Harari, Marya Wethers and Pavel Zustiak
Video Design by Tal Yarden
Dramaturgy by Rachel Chavkin
Set and Costume Design by Nick Vaughn
Theatre Lobby Photo Installation and website photo by Jose Aragon
This work was commissioned by Performance Space 122 and was made possible in part by the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York City Department if Cultural Affairs, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Click aboveto watch Le Petit Mort teaser video
World Premiere
Resceduled from December 2006
April 12 – 15, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)
