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C’est Duckie!

“C’est delightful, C’est divine, C’est trés magnifique!”
The Guardian

“Delicious bite sized burlesque”
Time Out London

The perfect show and nightclub for a swanky holiday night out!
Patrons please note: A dress code of suitably swanky evening wear is encouraged!

Performance Space 122 imports London-based performance troupe Duckie and their smash hit, C’est Duckie!, the Olivier award-winning, interactive nightclub performance experience, for a wild and absolutely outrageous alternative to traditional holiday fare.

Following sold-out seasons in London, Sydney, Berlin, and Tokyo, C’est Duckie!, “London’s Table Top Christmas Performance Palais,” serves up a menu of daring, delectable and devious entertainments that result in tailor-made, table-top shows from a top class talent troupe of soubrettes, hoofers, and starlets from the London performance scene as well as special guest artists from New York City including: Taylor Mac, Jessica Delfino, the Wau Wau Sisters, and Dynasty Handbag!

Armed with Duckie dollars upon entering, guests at each table can order from a show menu of craftily titled “acts” at will. Shows include a variety of theatrical fare – vaudeville, ventriloquism, balloon modelling, broken down burlesque – with over 30 kunst-cabaret turns from the suggestive to the transgressive to the downright offensive.

Pitching popular commercial entertainment against contemporary performance provocation, Duckie prove that Performance Art is the new table dancing in this all-singing, all-dancing shameless crowd-pleaser. At last, whether they’ve been naughty or nice, New Yorkers can experience this swanky showbiz spectacular for themselves.

As featured in the Sunday Times

As featured in Time Out New York

As featured in the Village Voice

Patrons please note a dress code of swanky evening wear is requested.
Recommended for ages 18 and over; 21+ to drink alcohol.

Presented in association with Foster Entertainment.

Supported by the British Council.

Running time: 2 hours

Photos by Hugo Glendinning.

OFF SITE LOCATION: CSV Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street (map)
between Rivington and Delancey

Thursday, December 20 –
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Meow Meow

David Binder, Josh Wood and Performance Space 122 present Meow Meow
in ‘Meow to the World!’

Named one of the Best Cabaret acts of 2007, Meow Meow “Leaves audiences dangling helplessly at her feet”
– Time Out New York

After wowing audiences around the world, and selling out Speigelworld, The Sydney Opera House, The Glamour Room Shanghai, and Joe’s Pub, the “postmodern cabaret diva” Meow Meow brings her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret kitsch and performance art exotica to The Highline Ballroom for the world premiere of “Meow to the World!”

Meow Meow is the recipient of numerous awards including the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art award (2005), DAAD for theatre in Berlin, Adelaide Fringe Festival “Best Cabaret Award” winner 2008, and multiple Australian Theatre Green Room Award winner “Best Cabaret Artist”, “Best Musical Direction”, “Best Cabaret Production” 2007.

She has created numerous full length works for various international arts festivals and venues including “Beyond Glamour: the Absinthe Tour”, “Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix”, “My Mouth is a wonder…”, “Shanghai Demise” and most recently “Insert the Name of the Person you Love” (for Sydney Festival) and VAMP for Sydney Opera House. She is a regular guest with the Spiegeltent’s “La Cirque” globally, and “Absinthe” for Spiegelworld NYC. She is currently performing at Bar Jeder Vernunft Berlin, and will work next with Pina Bausch.
‘Meow to the World!’ will feature Musical Director Lance Horne

LANCE HORNE has received a 2008 Emmy Award for Best Original Song. As a singer and pianist, he has played this season with Amanda Palmer, Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Meow Meow, Nellie McKay, Justin Bond, Alan Cumming, and opened for Death Cab for Cutie, appearing in Carnegie’s Berlin in Lights series, the David Bowie-curated HighLine Festival, Weimar NY at the Green Door, Shanghai, and with Meow in Berlin, Ann Arbor, Sydney, and Edinburgh Festivals, Pina Bausch Tanzfestival, and the Dresden Dolls Tour. More information about Lance can be found at lancehorne.com
To read more about Meow Meow’s solo performances, collaborations, recordings, and upcoming performances, please visit her at
www.meowmeowrevolution.com or
www.myspace.com/meowmeowrevolution

Photo: Harmony Nicholas

Wed, Dec 17 – Dec 21, 2008

The Red and White Party 2008

red and white party 08

Downtown’s definitive holiday throwdown packs new punches…

DJ Rich King (of SNAXX, Special SNAXX, and Summer SNAXX parties) is on deck from 9,30 PM ’til who knows when…
John Cameron Mitchell (who directed Meow Meow in her last sold-out show at The Highline) is slated to do some spontaneous spinning and a late night carol or two with Meow Meow…

So wear your dancing shoes and drinking helmets, and let’s ring in the Holiday Season in true Performance Space 122 style.

Can’t come to ‘Meow to the World!’‘ on the 17th but still want to party with us?
Pay $10 at the door starting at 9:30pm
(remember to bring I.D. to access bar!)

And for our Members:
The Red and White is always free for you…

Reserve your ‘Meow to the World!‘ tickets for only $15 and stay for the party afterwards,
or come to the show another night, and join us at 9:30pm on Wednesday for FREE
RSVP for the Meow to the World! + Party or Party Only by emailing membership@ps122.org

photo by Harmony Nicholas

WED, DEC 17 2008
8pm
This event takes place at:
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM
431 West 16th St
btw 9 and 10th Avenues

Point Blank

point blank

“The purpose of life explored through the lens of a camera… One hell of a performance!”
– Le Soir, Belgium

The definitive spy-ware performance – a voyeur’s paradise. Kaldor invites the 19-year-old Nada to present her large collection of photographs – for years she has been observing people, taking ‘spy-photos’ of them, capturing their private moments. The core of Nada’s interest is to trace the various life-strategies that people follow. Driven by curiosity, she becomes witness to a wide range of – at times excessive – human behavior. Together with the audience she autopsies the images, implications and patterns that emerge. She aims to get a comprehensive overview and reach the ultimate conclusion: the vision of a life worth pursuing.

Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest. At the age of 13 she immigrated with her mother to the United States, where she lived for ten years. After receiving her degree in English and Theater at Barnard College (New York) and University College (London), she worked for 6 years with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York), collaborating on numerous theater performances and filmscripts. She then enrolled at DasArts (the postgraduate performing arts center in Amsterdam), where she started making her own theatre pieces, which soon received international acclaim.

She currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Brussels and makes theater performances that tend to integrate the use of digital media, like Or Press Escape (2002), New Game (2004), Drama (2005), Point Blank (2007). In the past years she has been invited to perform her work in about 30 countries around the world.

Produced by Filter (Antwerp), Productiehuis Rotterdam, Kata (Amsterdam)
Executive producer: wp Zimmer (Antwerp)
Co-produced by: KunstenfestivaldesArts Brussels, Sophiensaele Berlin, Parc la Villette Paris (Residences d’Artistes 2007), PS122 New York, Votnik Brussels
This project is supported by: Vlaamse Overheid, VSBFonds, Fonds voor Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten, Theater Instituut Nederland

Thu, Dec 11 – Sun, Dec 14, 2008
Thursday- Saturday at 8:00pm
Sun at 6:00pm

Freak the Room

freak the room

What happens when we freak the fiction of cultural and familial identification? There is play and fantasy. There is sex and violence. There is an impostor. Words seem to come out almost right. Reactions test their relationships to actions and everything appears as more than it seems. LEWIS FOREVER’s home lies between continents, identities and meanings – Performance Space 122 is their living room, and they will freak it.

LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room features George, Jr., Isabel, and Sarah Lewis, and Eric Green.

LEWIS FOREVER (George Lewis Jr., Isabel Lewis, Ligia Manuela Lewis, and Sarah Lewis), a family collective of two Berlin-based artists and two New York based artists create performances, installations, and videos that provide opportunities to embody ideas and questions surrounding collective versus individual vision, emigration, post-American identity, transient identities, “trans-nationalism”, belonging, longing, and dislocation.

George Jr. is a performance artist/musician based in Brooklyn who blends Rock n’ Roll, theatre, and visual art in his work as an artist jack of all trades; also based in Brooklyn is Isabel, a dance artist and curator. On the Berlin side of the family, there is Ligia Manuela Lewis and Sarah Lewis. Ligia Manuel has worked with esteemed dance artists including Tere O’Conner, Davis Dorfman, Gisele Mason, and the Supremas. Sarah has worked with Todd Fletcher choreographing original musicals “William Tell” and “Streets of Wedding,” and presented two plays at the English Theatre of Berlin. Eric Green is a performer living and working in Berlin, where he has produced several collaborative performance projects and books of poetry; he is the co-founder of ARK, a multidisciplinary organization which develops collaborative initiatives and projects; and he is co-curator of the “Epic” series of performing arts events.

Freak the Room is part of Best of Boroughs: as part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, PS122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance from the five boroughs.

Original Run: November 30- December 14, 2008
Also playing in the COIL 2009 Festival