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The Itching of the Wings

Itching of the Wings

An “autopsy of our daydreams,” as conceived by Philippe Quesne, The Itching of the Wings (La Démangeaison des Ailes) explores the desire of men to become birds, flying and falling, desire and disillusion. Quesne, who has been designing projections for opera and theatre, concerts and performances, art exhibitions, music videos, runway shows since 1992, sets the multi-media piece in an artist’s loft replete with film, video projectors and recording booth. This interactive canvas animates a subjective miscellany of found sounds and images drawn from books, recordings, film, internet searches, radio, television, songs and dreams. With music by Stockhausen, Kid Koala, Raymond Scott, Aphex Twin, John Willams and Big Yum Yum, just for starters.
Performed by: Gaëtan Vourc’h, Sébastien Jacobs, Rodolphe Auté, Tristan Varlot, Zinn Atmane.

Performed in French and English.

“Plunk down $20 for Philippe Quesne’s show, which incorporates videos, movement and text, before the celebrated playwright’s work inevitably reappears at the Lincoln Center Festival – for five times as much.”
– Time Out New York

Plus two late night underground concerts.

Direct from France – you won’t believe your eyes – or ears!

Ideal Daim / Thomas Rannou +audio
Assume the attitude of a perfect stag. Ideal Daim, chanson pure, is a program of songs written, composed and performed by Thomas Rannou. The sound process is specific to this program – a dozen small speakers are deployed for the broadcast of the song, affording the listener intimacy and proximity to the words and the voice itself. The style is sober and conspiratorial, the tone off-handed and sincere.

Definitively Frenchy.
45 minutes – in French

Fuckin’ Dirty Birds / Alexia Monduit + Thomas Rannou

The song of Alexia Monduit is a battle of words. Her first English text is a poetic sound journey between a body, a speech, a breath, and image – that of Antigone. A lonely mythical recreation on a musical floor.

25-30 minutes – in English

Free for PS122 members, ticket holders to any performance dates of Push, Itching of the Wings, and Schoolhouse Roxx’s Suicide, The Musical – hold onto your stubs and fasten your seatbelts.

November 9-13, 2005

First performance WEDNESDAY November 9th
Thursday-Saturday at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

Suicide, The Musical

Schoolhouse Roxx

Schoolhouse Roxx
presents
Helen Stratford’s
Suicide, The Musical

“Suicide, The Musical” is a punk rock opera recounting the story of a woman’s decisions to leave the comfort and security of a conventional but self-destructive relationship and her subsequent struggle to survive the challenges of a depraved and nocturnal New York City landscape, relying only on gifts of poetry and music and art. It is the story of the spiritual and artistic odyssey of a female Daedalus, a story of redemption found somewhere between the sacred and the profane, the creative and the degenerative.

Parts of “Suicide, The Musical” have been received with enthusiasm and standing ovations at Cami Hall, Galapagos, Mo Pitkin’s, and Bowery Poetry Club. The PS122 presentation marks the world premiere of the work in its entirety with Choreography and Additional Direction by Julie Atlas Muz and Musical Direction by Joe McCanta. The supporting cast of downtown all-stars includes Taylor Mac, Machine Dazzle, Hattie Hathaway, James “Tigger” Ferguson, and a special appearance by New York’s foremost gender-bending maestro of the theremin, Armen Ra.

Plus two free late night underground concerts after the show.

Direct from France – you won’t believe your eyes – or ears!

Definitively Frenchy.
45 minutes – in French

Fuckin’ Dirty Birds / Alexia Monduit + Thomas Rannou

25-30 minutes – in English

Free for P.S. 122 members, ticket holders to any performance dates of Push, Itching of the Wings, and Schoolhouse Roxx’s Suicide, The Musical – hold onto your stubs and fasten your seatbelts.

November 3-5, 2005
9 p.m.
$15

PUSH

PUSH PUSH

Performer Alexia Monduit and musician/composer Thomas Rannou have adapted New York writer Sapphire‘s classic work Push. Monduit interprets the improbable liberation of Push‘s central character Precious Jones as a creation myth. A sexually abused, HIV-positive, obese, illiterate, pregnant teenage mother, Precious battles these conditions amid the violence, drugs, unemployment and homelessness epidemic in Harlem in the 1980’s. Monduit and Rannou have collaborated on many multimedia theatre pieces combining performance, text, live music and visual installation. Working closely with Push’s French translator Jean-Pierre Carasso, Monduit and Rannou have radically reconstructed this powerful novel of urban poverty, struggle and redemption. An extraordinary sound environment chronicles the
birth of Precious’ voice with churning phrases that shift and gain strength like tectonic plates under extreme pressure. Beats, samples and “found” sounds ricochet in and out of rhythm, slip into stillness and thunder. Echoing, modulating, faltering, repeating, becoming. . . the “amplified reading” is a song in the act of being written.

Performed in French with English subtitles.

Two late night underground concerts.

Direct from France – you won’t believe your eyes – or ears!

Definitively Frenchy.
45 minutes – in French

Click here to Listen to “Rocking Chair” by Thomas Rannou on mp3.

Fuckin’ Dirty Birds / Alexia Monduit + Thomas Rannou

25-30 minutes – in English

Free for PS122 members, ticket holders to any performance dates of Push, Itching of the Wings, and Schoolhouse Roxx’s Suicide, The Musical – hold onto your stubs and fasten your seatbelts.

November 3-13, 2005
Opens Thursday, November 3.
Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 4 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Discovery
on November 13
$20($10 Members)

Dear Land

International Contemporary Ensemble’s

Dear Land, directed by Berlin based Lydia Steier, is an evening of two contemporary works: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies‘ Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) and the World Premiere of Chinese-American composer Du Yun‘s Zolle (2005). Eight Songs for a Mad King portrays the madness of King George III of England who was declared permanently insane ten years before his death. In Du Yun’s Zolle a dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life. Dear Land juxtaposes these two sung monodramas of radically different style, and seamlessly combines sound, text, movement and multimedia images in the examination of the mind when torn from the body.

October 27-30, 2005
Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

Herd Of Bulls

Choreographer Saar Harari trained as a dancer in Israel until the age of 18 when he began his compulsory military service with the Israeli Defense Forces, eventually becoming a commanding officer of a special combat unit. Upon returning to civilian life he resumed his career as a dancer and put his military experience behind him, until now. Herd of Bulls uses the movement vocabulary of the military to inform this intense, muscular and visceral performance. On a bare stage with minimal sound, four dancers physicalize the internal struggle between love and violence of a soldier during conflict. Harari’s powerful, original choreography takes the audience on a journey through violence – the stillness, concentration, weariness, sadness, energy and the silence that comes after.

“The choreographer Saar Harari draws on his service with the Israeli Defense Forces for this new mixed-gender quartet. Despite the title, the movement is more a delicate martial-arts demonstration than a boot-camp drill or a military stampede. Its exploration of animal instinct ranges past the violent and murderous impulses of the body to the sensual and seductive.” As seen in THE NEW YORKER

“The modern-dance choreographer SAAR HARARI has drawn on physical instincts honed during his years as a commanding officer of a special combat unit of the Israeli army to create “Herd of Bulls,” a world premiere that opens on Tuesday at 8 p.m. for a one-week run at PS122.” As seen in The New York Times

“You imagine a soldier…miracles” -Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times. Click to read the full review, “In Soldier’s Violent Journey, Bodies Turn in Martial Fugue”

October 18-23, 2005
Tuesday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Discovery on October 23
$20($10 Members)