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...within us

“It is both striking and antiseptic. You think of office spaces, study halls, waiting rooms; the places in between the action.”
-Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times

“…eruptions of movement burn themselves into your brain-the residue of lives you can’t quite grasp but which you suspect might be your own.”
-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers …within us. examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau’s visual artwork and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, the performers act as both aggressor and inflicted. Creating palpable tension and relief, …within us. continues mvworks’ investigation of kinetic transfer through movement.

…within us. is choreographed by Megan V. Sprenger and features Tara O’Con, Kendra Portier, Alli Ruszkowski, and Richert Schonorr with Lighting by Joe Levasseur, Sound by Jason Sebastian, Set by Brad Kisicki, and Costumes by Mary McKenzie.

mvworks, a contemporary dance company based in New York City, was founded in 2005 by Megan V. Sprenger. mvworks strives to engage viewers in dance through an intensely kinetic, unpolished movement style that is driven by clear emotional intent, creating powerful performance that connects with the audience beyond their viewing experience.

Running time: 40 minutes. No late seating is allowed for this performance.

Presented as part of COIL 2010
Wed, Jan 6 6:30pm
Fri, Jan 8 9:30pm SOLD OUT
Sat, Jan 9 4:30pm

Original Spring 2009 Dates:
Sun, May 17 – Sun, May 24

Red and White Party 2009

Karl Giant, Elizabeth Hodur & Michael Wiener, Earl Dax, Nik Quaife, Andrew Andrew, Maedhbh McCullagh & Jonathan Jacobs, Ilan Bachrach, FLAVORPILL, CRUMPLER and HOBNOB Wines Cordially invite you to

RED & WHITE PARTY 2009

Downtown’s definitive holiday bash

FEATURING DJs JORO BORO and ANDREW ANDREW and “Lost Acts of Crime or Emergency”

Don’t miss PS122’s annual bacchanal!

Let your hair down and get your spirits up alongside season artists, performance-lovers, dance-freaks, gypsies, supporters, friends with benefits & passport holders, the PS122 board and staff etc, etc.

EVENING OVERVIEW

8-9: HOBNOB Wine Bar Friends with Benefits and Passport Holders
(Note: Your PS122 Passport does apply to the Red & White Party)
8-10: FLiPBOOTH interactive media installation – with instant digital flipbooks as keepsake party favors for guests
9-LATE:Doors open to all ticket-buyers
Click here for tickets
Live music / DJs
Drink Specials
10: Exclusive “Lost Acts of Crime or Emergency” Cabaret

Ms. Sibyl Kempson & Mr. Mike Iveson take past performers involved in the evolution and development of “Crime or Emergency” and hold them hostage, forcing them to relive their parts in a weird and festive Stockholm Syndrome-inspired atmosphere surrounded by the infamous debauchery of the PS122 Annual Red & White Party.

Star Hostages: Kate Benson, Kourtney Rutherford, Jason Schuler, Andrew Dinwiddie, Eben Moore, Eleanor Hutchins, Susie Sokol, Jim Fletcher, Johanna S. Meyer, and more to come. THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE.

(More about “Crime or Emergency“, playing in full with a highly distilled cast at PS122 Dec 4 – 20)
1030 – LATE: Live music / DJs

DRESS: Anything goes

(Dancing shoes and / or drinking helmets recommended)

21+ with I.D. to enter

Tues, December 15
TIME: 8PM ’til 2AM (and likely later)

LOCATION: OFFSITE at MEHANATA
(a.k.a. Bulgaria Bar)
113 Ludlow between Rivington and Delancey

Special Thanks to:
MEHANATA
JORO-BORO
ANDREW ANDREW

Conversations With Culture

“Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse”

December 9th at 7pm
Location: Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 550 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street)
Free with RSVP

On December 9th, PS122 will host the second discussion in its new Conversations with Culture series, “Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse.” The conversation uses as its launching pad PS122 artists Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s work Terrible Things, a new collaborative work exploring the multiverse though personal narrative, particle physics, and a shifting “set” of 600 marshmallows that stand in for particles, potential energy, and the sub-atomic realm. Panelists will discuss the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as a mode of articulating scientific theory and expressing our human experience of the laws and mysteries of the physical universe. These events are free and open to the public and endeavor to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it has recently largely been excluded.

Participants Include:

David Z. Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance
Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl – co-creators of Terrible Things, which premieres at PS122 on December 4th.
Brian Schwartz, Director of the Science & The Arts program at the CUNY Graduate Center and 2009 winner of the Andrew W. Gemant Award, given annually by the American Institute of Physics to recognize significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics.
DJ Spooky, creator of Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica playing at BAM
Dec 2 -5. https://djspooky.com/
Richard Easther, Professor of Physics at Yale University

“Contemporary Performance and God”

October 20th we are hosting our first Conversation with Culture @ 7pm – 11th Street bar (11th Street b/w Avenue A & B).

Participants include:

JAY WEGMAN, Director of the Abrons Art Center and and former Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
MORGAN THORSON, choreographer: HEAVEN premiering at Performance Space 122 on October 25th
JOHN MERZ, Diocese of New York Episcopal Chaplain to NYU
MICHAEL DE DORA JR., Executive Director, Center for Inquiry-New York City

Rabih Mroue’s Gift To New York

Mroue

A surprise reading for New York by Jim Fletcher (Saturday) and Okwui Okpokwasili (Sunday), followed by a selection of Mroué’s video works.

“Mr. Mroué belongs to a tight-knit generation of artists, writers and filmmakers that has put Beirut back on the cultural map since the end of the civil war in 1990…With a string of formally inventive, astringent performance pieces to their credit, they are to Beirut what the Wooster Group is to New York: a blend of avant-garde innovation, conceptual complexity and political urgency, all grounded in earthy humor.” – Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The New York Times

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, and playwright. Continuously searching for new and contemporary relations among all the different elements and languages of the theatre art forms, Mroue questions the definitions of theatre and the relationship between space and form of the performance and, consequently, questions how the performer relates with the audience. His works deal with issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon and he draws much-needed attention to the broader political and economic contexts by means of a semi-documentary theatre.

Co-organized by Defne Ayas of Performa, as part of Performa09, third visual art performance biennial.

Performa 09 (November 1 – 22, 2009) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
www.performa-arts.org

Nov 7, 8 2009

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Rabih Mroué program online!

Symphony n.1

For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson (currently representing Iceland at the Venice Biennale with “The End”, a non-stop performance which began on June 5th) will present “Symphony n.1”, a live and multimedia piece based on joy, infinite profound joy. With the structure of a symphony it is a set of actions repeated in loops mixed chaos, synchronicity and digital found material on one hand, and the theatricality and endurance aspect of performance on the other.

In 2007, Alterazioni Video held a solo show at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York and participated in “Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind”, at the 2007 Venice Biennial, curated by Robert Storr. In 2008, they took part to the European Biennial of Contemporary Arts Manifesta 7. They are represented in Italy by Prometeo Gallery.

Curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Caroline Corbetta. Co-presented by Performa and Performance Space 122. Produced by Performa. Supported by Luhring Augustine, New York and Prometeo Gallery, Milan.

Mon, November 2, 2009
8:00 pm
Free
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