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PS122.tv is live!

We’re psyched to announce that PS122.tv is now live!

PS122.tv is a look inside the artists, ideas, personalities, places, work and discussions that drive contemporary performance. Moving beyond PS122 and the work we present and into a broader context.

In the first batch of videos, Alex Reeves and I Skype interview artist Ant Hampton about the source material behind his upcoming work Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore), Vallejo debuts his ‘Hyperjetlag’ series showcasing the life of an ever-traveling curator, we eat Australian candy and find out Derek used to work in the factory, and a 5’8″ Bevin towers over the new PS122 building to walk us through the who’s who of model figurines….and more.

Stay tuned and bookmark us for more interviews with artists and luminaries, more Hyperjetlag, exclusive performances from around the globe and stuff we haven’t thought of yet…

Global is local. PS122.tv is everywhere.

Avant Garde Arama New Moon Lineup Announced

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.

Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This, the first Avant-Garde-Arama variety show since Tom’s death, will feature a stellar lineup of performances and video, featuring different artists each night!

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Open Call–Volunteers for Fall Performance

Open Call–Volunteers for Fall Performance

Volunteers (ages 18 and over) needed for Pascal Rambert’s upcoming performance A (micro) history of world economics, danced, as part of Performance Space 122’s Fall 2013 Season and co-presented with La MaMa, etc. and the French Institute Alliance Française as part of the Crossing the Line 2013 festival.

Volunteers in the New York City area will be needed for the following dates:
Rehearsals:
at 47 Great Jones Street, first floor studio
Sat Sept 7, 4-6pm
Mon Sept 9, 7:30-9:30pm
Tues Sept 10, 7:30-9:30pm
Wed Sept 11, 7:30-9:30pm
Wed Oct 2, 7:30-9:30pm
Thurs Oct 3, 7:30-9:30pm
Sat Oct 5, 4-6pm
Dress Rehearsals*: at La MaMa, etc. 74A East 4th Street
Mon Oct 7 – Thur Oct 10, 7:30-9:30pm
Performances: October 11-13 at La MaMa, etc. 74A East 4th Street
*Attendance at all rehearsals is recommended but not required

For questions or to RSVP, email programming@ps122.org.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE:

“A (micro) history of world economics, danced”
Pascal Rambert

Created during the height of the European economic crisis, Micro Historie, “A (Micro) History of the World Economics, Danced”… is a large-scale dance piece with performers Clémentine Baert, Kate Moran, Cécile Musitelli and Virginie Vaillant; a professional chorus and non-professional singers including children, youth and adults; up to 30 local participants and 1 philosopher. A (Micro) History… is a non-linear economic history of the masses circulating around the lives of local participants.To develop the piece for New York City, local participants will gather in workshops prior to the performance to share their own economic histories and discuss the larger history of economics as it affects their lives. With the professional dancers, they will recreate their daily actions in “a ballet of raw bodies” accompanied by the vocalizations of the professional choir and with economic history provided by Eric Méchoulan from the University of Montréal. 50 anonymous people with their bodies, their past, tall, short, young, old, of different ethnicities and ancestry on stage as one community making meaning of this crisis together in dance and song.

Info on the New York City presentation

Colin Gee’s New Online Project

Wayne Ashley’s FuturePerfect just let us know about their newest project, I, who am the chorus, by former Cirque Du Soleil performer Colin Gee. It’s a series of character studies shot in Rome and presented on a standalone website. Colin presented From Dakota in PS122’s downstairs theater back in 2005, which also mixed dance and character study and video.

Colin Gee’s I, who am the chorus is a series of seventeen short video character studies mapped onto the powerfully iconic city of Rome. Viewed in any order, each video features an almost immobilized Gee, poised in front of an oddly uninhabited scene from the urban built environment—an ancient piazza, a residential street, the entrance to a door, stairs leading to an unknown destination, a bridge, a crossroads, the ruins of a Roman temple.

Annie Leibovitz’s David Byrne Shoot Are Last Photos in Downstairs Theater

On the day before PS122 handed over our keys to the building contractors, Director of Production Derek Lloyd squeezed in one last photo shoot, with none other than the legendary Annie Leibovitz. Her subjects were Alex Timbers, Ruthie Ann Miles, and David Byrne in a shoot for a Vogue magazine piece about their upcoming show, Here Lies Love. The final photo came out beautifully, highlighting the downstairs theater’s columns and back wall elegantly. The Vogue article can be seen digitally here and will be released in print on March 26th.

While I don’t know if Annie, Alex or Ruthie have been to PS122 shows in the past, we’ve seen David at several shows over the years, most memorably at Japanther’s 3D Dinosaur Death Dance, where I remember him ducking just before nearly being decapitated by the bicycle-powered robotic dinosaur (pictured above).

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