Performance | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

Season Launch 2014

PS122 SEASON LAUNCH PARTY 2014

Kicking off the 2014/15 Season, we’re returning to Gawker Media’s Rooftop in Nolita for a dance-infused, musically raucous evening with choreographer/musician Steven Reker curating the night. Having tenderly straddled the worlds of contemporary dance and indie rock for the last few years, Steven just released a new album with his band People Get Ready whose members along with other special guests will be making cameos throughout the evening. Join PS122 staff, board and artists in toasting the year to come!

Tickets: $30 in advance | $35 at the door All tickets include open bar + hors d’oeuvres

Special Thanks to our Season Launch Committee Members: Enrico Ciotti, Seth Hamlin and Maedhbh Mc Cullagh

Food generously provided by Vbar, beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery with tequila tastings from Casamigos.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steven Rekerhas been jamming either as a dancer, choreographer or musician since coming to NY in 2006. He founded the band / performance group People Get Ready in 2009 and has presented his work at The Kitchen, New York Live Arts (DTW), Baryshnikov Arts Center, Death by Audio, BAM, Skirball Center (LA), Glasslands Gallery and many other venues and performing art centers. He has worked as a musician-composer and/or dancer-choreographer with artists Yoshiko Chuma, David Byrne, Robert Wilson, Jodi Melnick, Bill T. Jones, Yasuko Yokoshi, Miranda July, and Annie-B Parson. He is currently celebrating the release of PGR’s new record Physiques.

September 16th, 6:30pm
atop the Gawker Media Roof
210 Elizabeth Street
SoHo, Manhattan

$30 in advance | $35 at the door
All tickets include:
open bar + hors d’oeuvres

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Get a Good Night’s Sleep at Dream of the Red Chamber

Jim Findlay, a PS122 artist whose performed on our stages more times than we can count, closes up shop this weekend at his newest installation work Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience presented by The Time Square Arts in production with 3-Legged Dog and Collapsable Giraffe. If you haven’t experienced it yet, we urge you to run to this absolutely FREE performance event.

Dream of the Red Chamber is created to be a dream play. The audience is invited to experience and partake in the work meanwhile they fall in and out of sleep. The set creates an inviting environment that facilitates sleep, while the live performance inspired by Cao Xueqin’s 18th century Chinese novel “Dream of the Red Chamber” — an epic love story between a stone and a flower – is performed, gently trying to shape the audience’s dreams

If you’re around Times Square this weekend stop by, hop in, & take a nap.

Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience.
by Jim Findlay
Brill Building / 1619 Broadway (between 49th and 50th)
May 16 – 5pm to 12m
May 17 – 5pm to 6am

Help keep this event free to the public!

Gala 2014

at the Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel
235 W 46th Street, Manhattan
Co-chairs Justin Vivian Bond and Michael Stipe invite you to
celebrate freedom of expression by honoring
Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Tim Miller
with Shining Star Awarded to Clara Miller

Appearances and performances by

Monica Bill Barnes & Co featuring Ira Glass, Ben Cameron, Nath Ann Carrera, Lena Hall, Lance Horne, Khorikos, Amber Martin, Okwui Okpokwasili, Andrew Ondrejcak, Duncan Sheik with Jason Hart, Elizabeth Streb, Olaf Triebel/Les 7 doigts de la main, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, Windmill Factory with Leah Siegel and Shara Worden
Live Auction Conducted by
Ck Swett

House DJ
DJ Acidophilus

2014 Spring Gala Committee:

Marina Abramovic, Jane Alexander, Alhia Berger, Steve Bodow and Katherine Profeta, Bill Bragin and Lisa Philp, Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels, Linda Brumbach, Rodney Christopher, Cecilia Dean, Olga Garay-English and Kerry English, Suzanne Geiss, Thomas O. Kriegsmann and Shanta Thake,David Leslie and Celest Villanueva, Josephine Linden, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Miller, Adam Whitney Nichols, Lionel Ohayon and Tamara Levy, Russell Piccione, Jennifer Rubell, Eli Scheier, Lucy Sexton, Mary Skinner and Troy Selvaratnam, Kambiz Shekdar, Frank Spelman, Jimmy Van Bramer, Lina Viktor

Sponsors:

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33 rpm and a few seconds

33 rpm and a few seconds
Lina Saneh / Rabih Mroué

Co-presented by Asia Society, PEN World Voices Festival and Performance Space 122.

A turntable sits on a stack of amplifiers, an ensemble that evokes the pre-CD hi-fi era. A telephone is on the floor. A bulky television. Books are scattered about. A laptop and printer, a mobile phone in its charger. Behind looms the wide screen.

Known for their experimental and controversial works, acclaimed Lebanese theater artists Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh reconstruct the final moments of a person’s life. A young Lebanese man takes his own life, and in a farewell letter, declares that his reasons are personal and have nothing to do with politics. The young man is dead but everything lives on, vibrating with transmissions in his bedroom: the television, the answering machine, the computer. Time pauses and begins anew; history is pieced together—never constructed, of course—from so many fragments of communication.

60 minutes

April 29, 8pm
April 30, 7pm & 9pm

at the Asia Society
725 Park Ave in Manhattan

Text and direction: Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh
Set design, graphic and animation: Samar Maakaroun
Director of photography: Sarmad Louis
Assistant technical production: Sarmad Louis & Thomas Köppel
Translation: Ziad Nawfal
Casting and production: Petra Serhal
Editing: Najib Zeitouni & Sarmad Louis
With: Nagham Abboud, Samir Abou Jaoudé, Thomas Bowles, Edy Gemaa, Raseel Hadjian, Colette Hajj, Wadad Hneine, Paul Khodr, Ibtisam Kishly, Eliane Mallat, Muriel Moukawem, Elie Njeim, Antoine Ozon & Najeeb Zeytouni
Voices: Abdallah Al Machnouk, Gheith El Amine, Raphael Fleuriet, Charbel Haber, May Kassem, Nesrine Khodr, Victoria Lupton, Diran Mardirian, Rabih Mroué, Ziad Nawfal & Lina Saneh
Chanting: Fatima Bazzi
Music: Mohammed Abdel Wahab & Jacques Brel

RAMP Rundown

For the past six weeks, PS122’s new residency program RAMP has been full roll at The Chain Theatre in Long Island City. We gave three New York City based artists – Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith, Glass Ghost, Kaneza Schaal – money, time and space to start creating new work.

The results were greater than what we imagined. Not only were the artists able to expand on thoughts or try out risky new ideas, audiences were able to see the seedling of a new work. PS122 presents fully produced works from all over the world, yet RAMP allows us to support the beginning stages of a piece of an artist from our home city.

Thanks to you for coming out, sharing a beer and your opinions with us. Special thanks to the artists for sharing their work at such an early stage. Below are some highlights from the residencies. Share yours on our facebook, twitter or instagram. (Feel free to just tag us in everything @PS122 #RAMP)

Hyperallergic Review on Glass Ghost’s RAMP showing Welcome to LYFE™.