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Anger at the Movies

David Levine (NY, Berlin)
ANGER AT THE MOVIES (World Premiere)

“Enraging, engaging.. Levine a savvy rascal who makes theater pieces that bleed into Conceptual art”
– Time Out

A follow up to Levine’s acclaimed Venice Saved: A Seminar, this seminar masquerading as theatre masquerading as film screening asks the audience, “Why is it so frustrating to see your profession represented on film?” You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the spectacle.

Collaborators for ANGER AT THE MOVIES:

Rob Cohen, Lawyer (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP)

Cate Schappert, Photographer

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Writer

Jo Walker, Architectural Designer

Kyoung H. Park, Playwright
Christianna Nelson, Actor

Created in part at the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
Mabou Mines

January 10 – 12, 2012

For this show, please provide a clip to the creative team for the
night of the performance.

You can either:
1) bring a physical DVD with chapter/timecode noted to the night of
the performance
2) find a clip online and copy/paste the url into an email, sent to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org by 12pm the day of performance. If you
can’t find a clip, we suggest looking on youtube, movieclips.com, or
vimeo

3) Upload a digital version of a clip to your favorite cloud storage
site (i.e. dropbox or yousendit). Copy and paste the url and send to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org

4) Bring a clip with you on a flash drive.

If you can’t find a clip that (mis)represents your profession, you’re
welcome to bring clips depicting, inaccurately, a hobby, location,
activity or state of mind you’re familiar with.

If you can only find clips that depict your profession extraordinarily
well, feel free to bring that.

COIL 2011

11 Days. 17 Companies. Theatre. Dance. Live art and beyond.
“How much crazy can you stand?” – Variety

Performance Space 122’s 6th annual winter festival of contemporary performance features the following hits of the past, present and future seasons of PS122…

ANNIE DORSEN – Hello Hi There
“Dorsen’s post-human performance puts our understanding of what it means to be human to the wall.” – Sigurd Ziegler, Morgenbladet
2 chatbots perform a new – as it were, improvised – live conversation inspired by the famous television debate between Foucault and Chomsky.

KIM NOBLE – Kim Noble Will Die
“Shocking, beautiful and profound. It will blow your mind.” – Time Out
Life is tough. Kim Noble will help you get through it whilst laying bare his plans for departing this world.

JACK FERVER – Rumble Ghost
4 STARS – Financial Times
As the flimsy membrane between Poltergeist and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.

VIVI TELLAS – Rabbi Rabino
2 Conservative Rabbis perform their own autobiographies – ranging from jokes to Jewish food to their opinions on Charlton Heston’s “The 10 Commandments.”

RADIOHOLE – Whatever, Heaven Allows
“Outrageous” – The New Yorker
The star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk’s 1950s potboilers and Milton’s epic Paradise Lost is BACK!

ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES, DENNIS COOPER, CHRIS COCHRANE – Them
“Poetic and disturbing, backed by the full force of its history without being diminished by it.” – The NY Times
An intensely physical interdisciplinary work that presents an unblinking look into the lives of young (gay) men and how they interact with one another.

TRAVIS CHAMBERLAIN – Green Eyes
Hidden away for decades, Green Eyes was only just published in 2008, twenty-five years after Tennessee Williams’ death. Erin Markey stars as a ravenous Southern woman determined to satisfy the darkest recesses of her most deviant desires.

AMANDA LOULAKI AND SHORT MEAN LADY – I am Saying Goodnight
“She is certainly intense, and she is certainly talented.” – John Rockwell, The New York Times
A pre-decided game, with an intense physical vocabulary, unfiltered emotions, and an unflinching embrace of fatalism.

PAVEL ZUSTIAK – Bastard
“A vivid, often anguished imagination shines through in work…” – The New Yorker
In Bastard, Pavel Zustiak, in collaboration with composer Christian Frederickson and award-winning Slovak dancer Jaro Vinarsky, tackles the themes of displacement, otherness and transformation.

BRIAN ROGERS – Selective Memory
A real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of “real” sounds and images to confound, distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth.

RANTERS THEATRE – Holiday
“An extraordinary piece of theatre” – Emer O’Kelly, Irish Independent
In a moment of relaxation and quite reflection two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology, and the most inexplicable behavior.

THE BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT – Symptom
Twins, dancer Otto Ramstad and visual artist Emmett Ramstad, examine the human body, investigate notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, and explore the gaps between seeing, knowing and empathy.

SPALDING GRAY – Stories Left to Tell
Starring Ain Gordon, Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman, and Bob Holman
A uniquely personal journey through Spalding’s inimitable perspective and voice, featuring excerpts from his hilarious monologues juxtaposed with journal entries, poems, and other unpublished – and previously unperformed – writing.

THEATRO ALBE – Ouverture Alcian
“This is a remarkable performance, the script superb, irreproachable” – Muriel Mingau, Le Populaire
A fight between the power of the voice and of music, a deep and surprising alchemy that draws the figure of the sorceress, wounded by love, in her iconic immobility.

AIN GORDON – A Disaster Begins
“Seeking order in a life, a war, and a deluge…(with) cleareyed passion.” – The New York Times
A lone woman’s unbreakable bond with the hurricane that devastated the Texas island of Galveston in 1900, taking 6,000 lives in a single night.

JOHN JAHNKE & HOTEL SAVANT – Men Go Down
A strange and provocative theatre work that utilizes the construction of a Greek drama and the sensibility of a classic Fairy Tale to examine the ramifications of antique guilt on the modern conscience.

Michel Groisman Showcase

Michel Groisman – Showcase

“I first saw Michel at the 2002 Intransit Festival in Berlin and was completely transfixed by his pure, inquisitive, and intimate performative games and am honored to present him as part of his first US tour with the support of NPN’s Performing Americas Program.” – Vallejo Gantner, PS122 Artistic Director

As part of his first US tour, Brazilian artist Michel Groisman brings two singular pieces and several interactive and intimate experiences for children and adults to the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

By devising wearable apparatuses and sculpting his body to test the endurance and nature of the solitary human form, Groisman’s soulful performances and investigative group experiences challenge preconceptions of performance and play on the values of confidence and exchange.

Porta das Maos (Door of Hands)
A performance (and a game) in which Groisman explores the possibilities of movement and shape when restricted to two fingers from one hand remaining connected to two fingers on the other. Subtle yet transfixing, Door of Hands is an endless dance to examine and then attempt on your own. Alexander Technique coaching: Gabriela Duvivier
Wednesday 9/21 8PM / Friday, September 23 9:30PM

Transferencia (Transference)
A performance in which candles are attached to Michel Groisman’s body made possible by a series of leather straps and tubing. In one continuous action, candles are lit and extinguished in a constant ritual of fire and breath. Alexander Technique coaching: Gabriela Duvivier
Thursday, September 22 8PM / Friday, September 23 7PM

Sirva-se (Serve Yourself)
FREE – Reservations encouraged
A group experience in which participants are invited to place specially designed glasses on various parts of their body. With the glasses in position, water is used as a mean of communication between people, passed from one to another, the possibilities of such a transfer are explored. Co-created with Gabriela Duvivier
Wednesday, September 21 3 – 5PM (recommended for families w/ children) / Thursday, September 22 9:30PM (for attendees of Transferencia) / Sunday, September 25 2 – 4PM

Polvo (Octopus)
FREE – Reservations encouraged

A card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.
Saturday, September 24 1 – 5PM (recommended for families w/ children) / Saturday, September 24 8PM (for attendees of the Long Table Discussion)

A Long Table on Proximity

FREE – Reservations encouraged

The Long Table is an experimental public forum originally developed by performance artist Lois Weaver. The Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum, and encouraging informal conversations on serious topics. It is literally a very long table set up with chairs and refreshments where anyone and everyone is welcome to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen and watch.

To be held 2 doors down from The Invisible Dog @ 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Saturday, September 24 6PM

More about Michel Groisman
The interdisciplinary nature of Michel Groisman’s work has earned him art research scholarships from several institutions, including Rioarte (2004), Vitae (2002) and Uniarte da Faperj (2000). His work has been shown in museums and performance festivals including: Tempo exhibition, MOMA in New York; II Biennial of Lima; Festival de La Batiê, in Geneve; Festival InTransit, in Berlin; Desviaciones, in Madrid; and Encontros Acarte in Lisbon, among others. Since 2004 he has been developing partnerships with Gabriela Duvivier, improv coach and Alexander Technique teacher, and with Sung Pyo Hung, photographer and video maker. Recently Groisman developed a project that has been awarded by the Rumos Dance of Itaú Cultural and participated in the 29 Biennial of São Paulo.

September 21 – 25, 2011

The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St., Brooklyn NY
Body Installation | NY Premiere | Brazil

All performances and activities in English

Invisible Dog recommends these bars & restaurants in Boerum Hill

Made possible by the Performing Americas Program (PAP), a partnership between the National Performance Network (NPN) and the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (La RED).

Photo of Michel Groisman’s ‘Transferencia’ taken by Marise Farias

2011-12 Season Launch Party

The 2011-12 Season Launch Party

Atop the Gawker Media Roof

Hosted by PS122 Board Member Gaby Darbyshire

Curated with and featuring work by PRAXIS – the collaborative art team of Brainard and Delia Carey

Let us celebrate you!

Join us as we raise a glass in honor of all our friends and supporters and kick off the 2011-12 Season. Mingle, bid in a silent auction, have your portrait taken by Gawker Artist Mark Mann, dance to music provided by DJ Idlemind, “The Appropriate Agent”, and enjoy the 360° view of the sunset over Manhattan as PRAXIS caters with treats and gestures to stimulate and titillate.

Hors d’ oeuvres & refreshments generously provided by VBar St. Mark’s and Mary Queen of Scots.
Artist tickets generously supported by the 13th Step.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:30 – 10:30p

The Gawker Media Roof

210 Elizabeth St, Manhattan, NY
Single Tickets $30 in advance / $35 at the door

The Rehearsal

Cuqui Jerez – The Rehearsal

In this highly original and intriguing US Premiere, Spanish choreographer Cuqui Jerez employs the simple process of the rehearsal, an integral component of traditional theater practice, as a starting point from which she explores and questions the audience’s reality.

“The curtain rises and we see the fiction within the fiction within the fiction within the fiction. The curtain falls.”
– Cuqui Jerez

Directed by Cuqui Jerez. Created and performed by Maria Jerez, Cristina Blanco, Cuqui Jerez, Amaia Urra and Gilles Gentner. Technical director: Gilles Gentner

A Long Table on Performing the Real

Is it true or did we just make it up?

Saturday, October 15 4pm to be held at The Performing Garage
(33 Wooster St., Soho, NYC)

FREE – Reservations encouraged

More about Cuqui Jerez
Jerez studied dance in Madrid and New York. In 1987 she graduated in classical ballet at Real Conservatorio de Música y Danza of Madrid. Since 1990 she has been working as a dancer and performer in several companies,
films and productions. She created the following pieces: “Me encontrare bien enseguida solo me falta la
respiración” (1995), “Digase en tono mandril” (1996), “Hiding Inches” (1999), “A space odyssey (2001)” (2001), “The Real Fiction” (2005); and “The Rehearsal” (2007) as part of the larger project “The Neverstarting Story” in collaboration with Maria Jerez, Cristina Blanco and Amaia Urra.

More about The Neverstarting Story
The Neverstarting Story is a project in collaboration between Amaia Urra, Cristina Blanco, Maria Jerez and Cuqui Jerez – four independent artists who work in a border field between choreography, performance, video and theatre, insisting that their work it is not about mixing all these disciplines but trying to generate a new field that slides “in between”. In this project they looked for a way of collaborating and working together without arriving to consensus, that is to say, keeping the independence inside itself. The starting point was some common material and questions that had been developed inside a principle of non-property of the ideas. Finally they took the decision to accompany each other in four different directions of work proposed by each of them. The result of these four directions are two performances: The Set Up by Cristina Blanco and The Rehearsal by Cuqui Jerez; one film: The Movie by Maria Jerez; one video installation: The Thing by Amaia Urra; and a short film, Cinthy Tuloh, created in collaboration.

More about Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line, the annual fall festival of the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), is conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of significant transdisciplinary artists working on both sides of the Atlantic. It is initiated and produced by the FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions.

More about The Performing Garage

THE PERFORMING GARAGE presents performances and work-in-progress showings curated by The Wooster Group at the company’s home base theater in SoHo. More info on the 2011-2012 season at theperforminggarage.org

October 12 – 15, 2011
Wednesday – Saturday 8pm
NO LATE SEATING

The Performing Garage,
33 Wooster St., Manhattan, NY

Co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival and The Performing Garage
Dance, Performance | US Premiere | Spain

The US premiere of ‘The Rehearsal’ is Co-presented with French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line, The Performing Garage and Performance Space 122. Co-produced by Consejeria Cultural de la Embajada de España en Colombia; Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon – Programme ReRc (résidence de recherche); Beurs- Schouwburg, Brussels; Parc de la Villette (Paris) dans le cadre des Résidences d’artistes; Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Made possible by La Mekánica, Barcelona; La Parrala Centro de Creación Escenica de Burgos; Vooruit, Gent; PACT-Zollverein, Essen; Mugatxoan – Arteleku Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia, San Sebástian – Fundação de Serralves, Porto; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Aula de Danza Estrella Casero de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares; Miguel Jerez and Beatriz Quintana.