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You Belong to Me: Death of Nations Part V

Death of Nations: Part V

“Fox is one of the most adventurous impresarious of the New York avant-garde. Hallucinatory. Chilling. Stunning.”
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

“At once abstract and visceral, You Belong To Me: Death of Nations Part V is a fascinating and surreally beautiful exploration of war and its social context, with a particular focus on violence, eroticism, and fantasy… Fox and company present a collage of striking images, fractured narrative, and sung sequences that make for a bold, original, and utterly compelling theatrical experience.”
– Dan Bacalzo, TheaterMania (full review)

The International WOW unveils a new, global collaboration between Josh Fox and Frank Raddatz, former dramaturg to Heiner Müller. Traversing the Civil War’s finale, the campaign of Native American genocide, Germany’s fall after WW II, and climaxing at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (the largest U.S. military hospital outside the country and primary care provider for all U.S. soldiers seriously injured in Iraq), this erotic and phantasmagoric epic is an intensely physical and musical rollercoaster ride of love, betrayal and murder throughout the ages.

Approximate Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes including intermission

January 5 – 23, 2007
Opens Friday January 5
Wednesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Jan 18 – 23: Additional performances during the COIL Festival 2007

Three Minutes of Pork and Shoving

FETISH

“One of my favorite dances of 2004.”
-Tere O’Connor on Fetish

“The joining of HIJACK with Heron resulted in a wonderfully madcap exploration”
– Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine

3 Minutes of Pork and Shoving is an eclectic evening of inventive and humorous contemporary dance from New Orleans-based PS122 veteran Scott Heron and Minneapolis-based choreographic collaborators HIJACK (Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder). All met up in Russia in 2002, bought black market high heels, made a dance in a coat room, and called it “3 Minutes of Pork and Shoving.”

The evening includes Fetish, Speculum, inspired by the voyeuristic photography of Sophie Calle; the premiere of Stacked, Double Cow in which movement patterns emulate the pathways of florid script; and Louisa Street, a minimalist solo against a slide show of every house on the even-side of New Orleans’ Louisa Street one year after Katrina.

Approximate running time: 75 minutes

Photograph by Morgan Thorson

December 14 – 17, 2006
Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

Carrie

“The story’s big prom-night finish has never been more fun than in the deliberately cheesy comedy version of “Carrie” at Performance Space 122.”
-The New York Times

A brand-new spin on the classic novel by Stephen King, Theatre Couture’s Carrie delivers an eye-popping, rib-tickling comic horror thrill ride. Outcast teen Carrie White’s dream comes true when she gets invited to the prom–but that dream turns into nightmare when a nasty prank unleashes her telekinetic fury. Starring Sherry Vine and featuring thrilling visual effects by Basil Twist, Carrie is filtered through the uniquely twisted sensibility of the critically acclaimed Theatre Couture (creators of the Off Broadway hits Charlie!, Doll and Tell-Tale). Carrie is a uniquely theatrical, bloody-good time!

Photo by Aaron Cobbett

Read Anita Gates’ rave review in The New York Times (.pdf viewable in Adobe Reader).

Read Brandon Voss’s interview with Sherry Vine in HX Magazine.

December 2 – 30, 2006
Previews Dec 2-8
Opens December 9
Wednesday – Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
$18($10 Members)

Red and White Party

RED AND WHITE PARTY

Downtown’s definitive holiday celebration!
Monday, December 11
7pm – 4am

The reservation page is now closed – however, if you are a member – don’t worry – we know who you are – so just come on down and you’ll still get free admission and your drink tickets at the door. And for friends who are not members, they can get $10 tickets at the door. See you all soon!

Including:

Open bar from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. sponsored by award-winning Krait Beer and General Bilimoria Wines.
All star DJ line-up:
– DJ Joro Boro spinning signature ethnomesh mixodelica: brass freakout, slum funk carioca, bangin bhangra, percussion insurgency, and cumbia from south of the wall

– The Vintage DJ spinning his sexy and eclectic mix of vinyl from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s

– DJ Shotnez (a.k.a. Ori Kaplan from Balkan Beat Box) spins Mediterranean beats and other illegal hybrids

– The Ballerinas doing what they do best
Live performances including:
– Stumblebum Brass Band and their old jazz gems, from Screaming Jay Hawkins to Satchmo, with the lo-fi energy of a marching band and the punk aesthetics of the Lower East Side

– The Mickey Finn Band – recently voted one of the TOP 10 bands of 2006 by U.K. music magazine, Beatzine. “Relentless riffing, insistent, hypnotic, sexy shrewd music” —David Silver
Non-stop dancing
Drink specials
And an all-out, all-night celebration with fellow culture-lovers, gypsies, and PS122 members, season artists, staff and board

You will get down and dirty – wear your drinking helmet and your dancing shoes!

Location:

The all-new Mehanata (a.k.a. Bulgaria Bar)
113 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
(between Delancey and Rivington)

Tickets:

$10 in advance
$15 at door

Free admission plus 2 complimentary drink tickets for PS122 members

Already a PS122 member? RSVP for the party here.

Not a member yet? Join now!

(If you are RSVP’ing as a member and bringing non-member guests, just add them to your reservation and we’ll extend the $10 rate at the door!)

Remember, PS122 members receive free admission and two complimentary drink tickets, plus your membership benefits keep adding up! You receive 2 complimentary tickets to any season performance (a $40 value) as well as $10 member tickets (that’s 50% off regularly priced shows). You also receive a one-year subscription to Time Out New York (a $39.95 value)—with membership starting at only $60, you can see how being a member more than pays for itself.

Check out what’s happening on New Year’s Eve at our home away from home, Mehanata:

RED AND WHITE PARTY

Bait

A Festival of 4-English Language
World Premieres

Buenos Aires is renowned as the playwriting epicenter of Latin America. Particularly over the past decade, new theatre from Argentina has captured the attention of South America, Europe, Australasia and now, the United States.

BAiT (Buenos Aires in Translation) epitomizes true international theatrical collaboration, bringing together four of the most dynamic playwrights from Buenos Aires and pairing them with four cutting-edge U.S.-based directors to present a repertory program of English language world premieres. This is the first time that any of these remarkable playwrights will have their plays presented in the United States.

BAiT will publish these plays -translated by Jean Graham-Jones – in the winter of 2007.
Subsequently, BAiT will select and send four emerging U.S. playwrights to Buenos Aires and partner them there with translators and similarly acclaimed experimental theatre companies – culminating in four Spanish language world premieres.

Shoshana Polanco, Creative Producer

Photos by Rachel Roberts

WOMEN DREAMT HORSES
by Daniel Veronese, directed by Jay Scheib
At a meeting to discuss the demise of the family business, three brothers and their wives play a zero-sum game in which all will be losers.
Approximate running time: 70 minutes

A KINGDOM, A COUNTRY OR A WASTELAND, IN THE SNOW
by Lola Arias, directed by Yana Ross
In a cold country where it is always night, two sisters, Luba, young and tough, and Lisa, older and easy prey for love, hunt and breed hares. When they end up catching a man – Reo, a wild orphan – and bringing him home, family chaos ensues.
Approximate running time: 75 minutes

PANIC
by Rafael Spregelburd,
directed by Brooke O’Harra with her company,
The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf
Infused with the aesthetics of low-budget horror movies, Panic follows a mother and her two children, remnants of an unclassifiable family, as they attempt to recover the key to their safety deposit box and the life savings within – from the hands of the dead. Their pursuit is a fatal cocktail of desperate measures: from legal, religious, and psychotherapeutic tactics to the paranormal.
Approximate running time: 120 minutes

EX ANTWONE
by Federico Leon, directed by Juan Souki
This hyper-fragmented text imagines a dreamlike encounter with the past, navigating a labyrinth where memories, fantasies and being overlap in an unconscious way. Leon excavates a mental state in which reality, an ex-reality, and a wished for reality converge.
Approximate running time: 60 minutes

BAiT is a Performance Space 122 Production, an initiative of Salón Volcán, with the support of
Instituto Cervantes, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center,
and the Consulate General of Argentina in New York.

November 4 – 19, 2006

	Downstairs	Upstairs
Sat Nov 4	A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Sun Nov 5	Ex Antwone 7 p.m	Panic 8:30 p.m.
Tue Nov 7	Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Panic 8:30 p.m.
Wed Nov 8	A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Thu Nov 9	A Kingdom 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Fri Nov 10	Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Panic 8:30 p.m.
Sat Nov 11	Ex Antwone 3 p.m. A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Panic 4:30 p.m. Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Sun Nov 12	A Kingdom… 3 p.m. Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 4:30 p.m. Panic 8:30 p.m.
Tue Nov 14	Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Panic 8:30 p.m.
Wed Nov 15	A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Thu Nov 16	A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Fri Nov 17	Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Panic 8:30 p.m.
Sat Nov 18	Ex Antwone 3 p.m. A Kingdom… 7 p.m.	Panic 4:30 p.m. Women Dreamt Horses 8:30 p.m.
Sun Nov 19	A Kingdom… 3 p.m. Ex Antwone 7 p.m.	Women Dreamt Horses 4:30 p.m. Panic 8:30 p.m.