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Dark Horse Black Forest

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Dark Horse/Black Forest at The Gershwin Hotel
Presented by Performance Space 122 and Neke Carson

A special Dance Installation: Space is Limited, Book in Advance

What is DARK HORSE/BLACK FOREST?

It’s an intense love story presented in the most intimate of spaces: the bathroom.

It’s designed to be bought and owned for an evening in the privacy of your own bathroom in your home or special event venue.

It’s dance. It’s art. It’s interior design.

It’s critically acclaimed and causing quite a stir.

And… It’s currently being performed in an exclusive engagement in the lobby bathroom of The Gershwin Hotel NOW through Sunday, June 28.

Buy tickets to this special event Click here to purchase tickets online
Act fast – space is limited – only seven spaces are available per night.

If event appears to be sold out, you can come to The Gershwin Hotel one hour before the performance you wish to see and add your name to a waiting list.
The wait list is accessible in person at The Gershwin Hotel Lobby only and must be signed up for on the same day you wish to attend.

Inquire about booking Dark Horse / Black Forest as a private event in your home or selected venue.
Prices begin at $1650 for private home installations and begin at $2500 for corporate events.
Private bookings are available worldwide and include fully edited archival digital documentation of the event for continued enjoyment.

To find out more about private home bookings of Dark Horse / Black Forest, please email darkhorse@ps122.org
These privately booked performances are made available exclusively through Performance Space 122 and for a limited time only.

More about the limited run at The Gershwin…
The W.C. at The Gershwin Hotel in New York City has been transformed by flourescents, mirrors, and video screens. The audience is privy to an emotional and private exchange between a couple that evolves into a formal, sensual dance. There are two casts that rotate bi-weekly: a man and a woman (Heather Olson & Joseph Poulson), and two men (Luke Miller & Darrin Wright).

” as much an installation artist as a choreographer” – Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“Castro’s smart, kooky shenanigans captivate…” – Chris Dohse, The Village Voice

“Castro’s upcoming duet takes voyeurism to a precipice… it doesn’t happen on a stage but in a bathroom like yours.” – Lori Ortiz

Photos courtesy of Charles Houghton, Brett Crocitto and Yanira Castro

2010 Bessie Award

Heather Olson & Joseph Poulson:
June 5-7, 12-14
Luke Miller & Darrin Wright:
June 19-21, 26-28

June 5 – 28, 2009
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Human Company

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human company

“Bold, disturbing and richly imaginative, a vision of otherworldly reckoning that careens with impressive fluidity between heaven and hell. A dense and dreamily luminous meditation.” – Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times. (In reference to HereAfter, created and directed by Royd Climenahaga)

Human Company presents a trio of one-woman shows exploring the shifting ground of identity and the social, personal and bodily creation of self.

I. Is It True What they Say About Dixie, created by Kelly Hanson and Beth Bradford, explores the meaning of truth in a wold of polite silence.
II. Fugue States: The 7 Successful Secrets to Cultivating an Unshakable Character, developed by Connor Kalista, Cara Francis and Susanna Gellert, carries us on an incantatory journney through media swamplands. Bring your boots.
III. Forceps Delivery, developed by Royd Climenhaga and Danielle Fink, follows a woman’s inner monolgue as she labors to deliver an impossible birth.

Human Company is a group of artists challenging the boundaries of performance experience, blurring the distinctions between theatre, dance, image, language, and sound to create a new theatre of engagement. Our pieces are developed in the rehearsal room through process and exploration to create work that is energetic, passionate and playful. We hope to stimulate a dialogue in the performance community about what theatre is and what it can be and make work that evokes what is unique and vital about the theatrical art form: its inherent demand that we bear witness through risk, investment and vulnerability. Human Company was founded in 2006 and has presented work at Chashama, HERE Arts Center, BAX and the Kitchen.
https://www.humancompany.org/

Running time: 75 minutes.

Thu, May 28 – Sun, May 31, 2009
Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm
Saturday – Sunday 4pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

The Spring Gala 2009

2009 Spring Benefit

GOLD SPONSORS

Scott Rudin Productions, Creative Artists
Agency, Ivan Martinez & Patty Adams de Martinez, East Side Community Coalition, David Neubert, Heather Thomas & Chet Kerr

SILVER SPONSOR

Proskauer Rose LLP, Jane Friedman

BRONZE SPONSORS

Harry Bond, Anne Dennin, Joseph T. Donohue, Sally Greene, Michelle Kim,
Lynda Logan, TheaterMania and Ovationtix.

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Caterina Bartha, Dominique Bravo, Schuyler Brown, Gaby Darbyshire, Mia Fenwick, Olivia Georgia, David Leslie, Steve Oakes, L. Gabrielle Penabaz, Kathleen Russo, Mark Russell, Howard Spector, Jason Tsou, Lauren Versel

ARTISTS COMMITTEE

Jonah Bokaer, Thomas Bradshaw, Travis Chamberlain, Earl Dax, Yehuda Duenyas, Karen Finley, Ain Gordon, Trajal Harrell, Holly Hughes, Kyle Jarrow, Lisa Kron, Dean Moss, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam,
Ildiko Szollosi, Carmelita Tropicana

Tickets & Sponsorship levels:

Platinum Sponsor: $10,000
10 prestige seats to the show, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, full-page ad and listing in the program, listing in Spring 2009 playbills and on website

Gold Sponsor: $5,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artist, full-page ad in the program.

Silver Sponsor: $3,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, half- page ad in the program.

Bronze Sponsor: $2,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Benefit Committee: $1,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Individual Sponsor: $500
1 premium orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus listing in the program.

Individual Patron: $200
1 orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists.
Limited number remaining

Single Ticket: $100
One rear orchestra seat. Sold out.

Artist Ticket: $40
One balcony seat. Sold out.

Click here to purchase your benefit ticket online now.

*Please note, in addition to appearing in the Benefit program, all sponsors will be listed on the Spring Benefit web-page.

Date: Wednesday, May 27
Location: Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St. (at Pitt St.)
New York, NY 10002

Evening Overview:
*6:00 Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, , performance installation by the Butoh Rockettes
*8:00 Performance & Tributes
“Intermission” with Live Auction & Benefit Boutique
*10:00 Party with DJs Andrew Andrew


Enter to win a rare and fantastic photo of Martha Graham with Liza Minelli and Gloria Swanson at Studio 54 in 1977.
Signed by the photographer, legendary nightlife documenter and performing artist Bobby Miller (Fabulous: A Photo Diary of Studio 54; Wigstock in Black and White).
OR win a pair of house seats to Billy Elliot.

2009 Benefit Sponsors:

Visit the 2009 Benefit Auction Page

Performance Space 122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Jimmy

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“Vital, world-class theatre not to be missed”
– Ian Kilroy, The Irish Times

“Brassard is breathtaking”
– Jo Lendingham, The Vancouver Courier

Have you ever had a dream where you were on the verge of having an orgasm?
Jimmy, the homosexual hairdresser was born in the dream of an American general
in the fifties. As he is about to kiss his lover in the dream, the general dies,
leaving the two in a no man’s land, in a state of pure pleasure. After staying
suspended in time for fifty years, Jimmy starts to live again, but to his
despair, trapped in the dreams of a Montreal actress. A solo performance about
love, desire and the pleasure of the creative process.

Jimmy, Brassard’s first solo play, premiered in June 2001 at the Festival TransAmériques. It has since toured several cities in France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Mexico, The Netherlands and Portugal. The play has been translated and published in German and Italian and produced many times in Germany and Switzerland.

Marie Brassard is an actress, playwright and theatre director. For several
years, she collaborated closely with renowned writer and director Robert
Lepage, in theatre and in film. She co wrote and performed in The Dragons’
Trilogy, Polygraph, The seven Streams of the River Ota and Geometry of
Miracles. She also played Lady Macbeth in Lepage’s contemporary version of
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ariel in The Tempest.

In 2001, she branched out to create her own solo works, winning acclaim
both nationally and internationally. She created her first solo
production, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival de theatre des
Ameriques, in Montreal. In the meantime, she has produced four other works
– The Darkness, Peepshow, The Glass Eye and The Invisible – in which she
has continued to experiment with technology and explore the many ways with
which sound can be manipulated in theater. By interlacing voices and music
and traversing the planes of reality, she leads us to a world where the
boundaries between public and private dissolve and the relationship
between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her unique work has
made of her a singular voice in contemporary theatre, receiving widespread
acclaim in many cities across America, Europe and Australia. She is the
artistic director of the production company Infrarouge. This is the first
time her work is being presented in New York.

Produced by Infrarouge
Written, directed and performed by Marie Brassard
Co-produced by the Festival TransAmériques
Running time: 70 minutes

Wed May 27th – Sun, June 14th, 2009
Wed – Sat at 8pm
Sun at 6:30pm
Plus added late shows: Fri and Sat
June 12-13 at 10PM

Near Death

Near Death

Near Death

“One of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music”
– The New
York Times

“A powerhouse of new-music programming,”
– The New Yorker

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to Performance Space 122 to offer the world premiere of THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, an art-pop song cycle by the sensational young New York composer-performer Corey Dargel. Dargel, who has been called a “baroquely unclassifiable artist” by The New Yorker, takes his inspiration for this genre-defying new chamber piece from a range of psychiatric delusions, with an emphasis on hypochondria. ICE will round out the program with the world premieres of three stunning new short works by the young New York composer-performers Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Stephen Lehman.

Corey Dargel: THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (2009)
For male vocalist (Dargel), flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, trombone, percussion piano/toy piano, violin, and cello/viola de gamba
WORLD PREMIERE, commissioned through the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation

Also featured: New works by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Stephen Lehman, commissioned by ICE

www.iceorg.org

Fri May 22 – Sat May 23, 2009
Friday + Saturday 8pm

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