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Throw People

“A true original..one of the most individualistic dance voices today.”– The New York Times

Choreographer Chris Elam’s dancers negotiate complex relationships – and each other’s bodies -through gravity-challenging physical partnering. His distinct movement blends serious play, jarring tenderness and sincere theatrics in a manner that manages to be simultaneously other-worldly and innately human. Informed by extensive international residencies from Cuba to Indonesia, , this evening of new work is an entertaining investigation of social and interspecies interplay.

Visit the company’s website at Misnomer.org

May 11 – 14, 2006
Thursday – Saturday 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

At Said

“Not since Circle Repertory have we seen playwrights in New York forging a home for each other.” – 2005 Obie Citation

In Gary Winter’s haunting and darkly humorous new play, AT SAID, a mother, Sybil, writes out the experiences of her childhood spent under an oppressive regime, trying to convey her story to her daughter Darra. Set in a tenement that might be Brooklyn but could be anywhere, the mother and daughter negotiate the treacherous waters of memory, history and family. As Darra’s boyfriend plays Baby Doc in the tenement hallways and a mysterious super, Mr. Carlos, lurks nearby, Darra’s world spirals into nightmare.

Working with designers Sue Rees, Meghan Healey, Jody Elff and Andrew Hill, Winter has created an environment for the play that is evocative and abstract, yet grounded in reality. Formal experimentation meets visceral emotion in this compelling family drama.

AT SAID features Lia Aprile, Gilbert Cruz, Marissa Echeverria, Vedant Gokhale, and Anita Hollander. The set design is by Sue Rees, the costume design is by Meghan Healey, the sound design is by Jody Elff and the lighting design is by Andrew Hill. Mariana Newhard is Producer for P#4 and Maria Goyanes is Supervising Producer for 13P.

13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) is a collective of playwrights that realizes full productions of new plays. The plan is to produce 13 plays, one by each member of the group, who serves as the company’s artistic director during the production of his or her play.

13P is Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Madeleine George, Rob Handel, Ann Marie Healy, Julia Jarcho, Young Jean Lee, Winter Miller, Sarah Ruhl, Kate E. Ryan, Lucy Thurber, Anne Washburn, and Gary Winter.

Join us for a talkback after the performance Thursday May 25

May 13-June 4, 2006

The Spring Gala 2006

The Board of Performance Space 122, Gala Co-Chairs Kathleen Russo, Lucy Sexton, Stephen Daldry, Scott Rudin &John Barlow, and Donald Guarnieri invite you to attend:

Gala Gala

THURSDAY, May 4th
Location: The Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street

Featuring…
the exclusive preview of
“Leftover Stories to Tell”
from the work of Spalding Gray

Performed by:
Jonathan Ames, Eric Bogosian,
Hazelle Goodman, Judith Ivey, Jay McInerney,
Rosie O’Donnell, and James Urbaniak

and The Inaugural Spalding Gray Award

6:30 Cocktails &Silent Auction,
7:30 Dinner,
8:30 Performance &Award Ceremony,
9:30 Live Art Auction

Our fantastic annual Art Auction will include creations and contributions from:

Renate Aller
Laurie Anderson
Matthew Barney
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Alexandra Eldridge
Philip Glass
Fergus Greer
Gia Grosso
David Leslie
Dona Ann McAdams
Pat Oleszko
Lori Seid
Adam Stennett
Laura Taylor
John Waters
William Wegman
Ezra Wube

Thank you to our generous sponsors Bedell Cellars, Corey Creek Vineyards and Cobra Beer.

TICKETS: R.S.V.P. to carleigh@ps122.org or purchase your tickets on-line now

$350 – Patron
Includes individual ticket for cocktail party, dinner, and exclusive preview of “Leftover Stories to Tell”

$3000 – Gold Table Sponsor
Includes reserved table of 8 persons in Gold section, cocktail party, dinner, exclusive preview of “Leftover Stories to Tell,” and after-party, plus sponsorship listing in Gala program, and complimentary tickets for 4 for two P.S. 122 performances during the 2006 season

$5000 – Platinum Table Sponsor
Includes reserved table of 10 persons in Platinum section, cocktail party, dinner, exclusive preview of “Leftover Stories to Tell,” and after-party, plus full page ad in Gala program, sponsorship listing in Spring 2006 playbills, and complimentary tickets for 4 to three P.S. 122 performances during the 2006 season

The proceeds from this evening will directly support Performance Space 122 and The Spalding Gray Award.

Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of dance, theatre, music, and performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view. The proceeds from this event will directly support the mission and future of our beloved and vital institution.

The Spalding Gray Award is a new commissioning award created in his honor by Performance Space 122 and the UCLA Live Arts Program. The Award will support gifted writer/performers who fully realize both aspects of Spalding’s legacy, who are fearless innovators of theatrical form, who reach into daily experience and create resonant, transcendent work that makes us all bigger, wider, wiser and, somehow, more than we were when we entered the theater. The recipient will be announced at The Gala and receive a full production of his or her work during the upcoming season at P.S. 122.

Absence and Presence

This acutely intimate work by internationally acclaimed Andrew Dawson, co-founder of the Mime Theatre Project, was honored with the Best of Edinburgh Award and the Herald award at the 2005 festival and makes its U.S. premiere at PS122.

Dawson’s father died in 1985 and his body lay undiscovered for ten days. The trauma compelled Dawson to craft this non-vocal dialogue with his grief, guilt and loss using sculpture, video, mime and the emotionally articulate movement for which he is known.

Click to read an interview with Andrew Dawson in this issue of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence by RoseAnne Spradlin.

Join us for a talkback with the artist after the performance Wednesday May 3

*Sunday April 30 at 2 p.m: Private Performance &Reception to Benefit Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation. For more information and invitation, visit www.bestofedinburgh.org or email carol@caroltambor.com.
Best of Edinburg

On Wednesday, May 3 please join us immediately following the regularly scheduled performance of Absence &Presence for a very special presentation of Andrew Dawson’s Space Panorama – a sparkling recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Standing behind a large black clothed table, accompanied by a narrator and music from Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, we explore this surface and the spaces above it using only hands, arms and upper torso to create a constantly entrancing documentary of the entire mission. Andrew dextrously takes us from Houston to the Moon and back down to Earth again, conveying the colossal distances and risks involved simply through the arrangement of one hand in relation to the other, with the odd facial expression thrown in for good measure.

The moon landing was a tele-visual event. Space Panorama triggers the memories if those pictures, the massive rocket at launch, the moments before landing, the helicopters and aircraft carriers on their return to Earth. In Space Panorama we can also create the shots that no camera could ever see and together they convey a sense of the eternity of space, and the triviality of our exploration of it.

Created in 1998, Space Panorama was conceived as a miniature piece of theatre but over the last ten years it has toured worldwide.
Performed by Andrew Dawson
Narrated by Gavin Robertson
Directed by Jos Houben

April 27 – May 7, 2006

FLUKE

FLUKE FLUKE

“…they keep the performance ahead of the art.” – Village Voice

“Never, under any circumstances, invite them to dinner.” – The New York Times

Recognized as one of the most unpredictable and adventurous forces in American theatre Radiohole revels in and reinvents both new and archaic technologies through unexpected and inexplicable applications. Created with proprietary PEEK-A-BOO™ technology, Fluke dives into an entire ocean on stage. This strange and thrilling tale atomizes reality, magnifies perception and is poised to usher in a new era of “Oceanic Times.”

Join us for a talkback with the artists after the performance Sunday April 30

Friday, April 21: Join us for The Underwater Party

So much to celebrate… Taylor Mac’s aquatic extravaganza… Opening Night of Radiohole’s Fluke… the announcement of the 2006 recipient of the Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Dive in – the party begins in the upstairs theatre immediately after both shows.

Member Exclusive: Underwater After-Party

PS122 Members will get complimentary admission to the new nightclub Element for their exclusive party Just Dance!

Benny Soto In Association With Robbi present…
JUST DANCE!
FRIDAY, APRIL 21ST!
MUSIC BY…ANTONIO OCASIO, FRANKIE FELICIANO, MR. V, MKL

element
225 East Houston St
@ Essex St / Avenue A
Directions: F and V Trains to Second Avenue
Info &Tables 212.254.2200 | reservations@elementny.com
Doors at 10pm, 21+
www.elementny.com

April 21 – May 7, 2006
Opens Friday, April 21
Wednesday-Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
$20($10 Members)