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Black Holes

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“Number One Progressive Drummer”

– Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll (3 times)

“Best Drummer”
– Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics Poll

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet. Synchronized images and film from Calhoun’s music research expeditions in Africa, Central and South America move in tempo to Calhoun’s rich sonic tapestry.

More about Will Calhoun

A 2-time Grammy winner, widely acclaimed drummer from the Bronx, New York, Calhoun graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Music Production and engineering. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award for outstanding performance by a drummer.

Will Calhoun is internationally known as the drummer/composer of NYC Rock Band Living Colour. In addition to his work with Living Colour, Will has recorded and/or toured with diverse artists including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Mos Def, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, The Allman Brothers, Lauryn Hill, Marcus Miller, Dr.John, Herb Alpert, Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, Wayne Shorter (on the Grammy-winning CD “High Life”), Run-DMC and Public Enemy.

Will Calhoun photo by Bill Bernstein

www.willcalhoun.com

www.myspace.com/nativelands

Best of Boroughs Festival – Bronx

May 1 – May 4

Thursday at 7pm

Friday at 10 pm

Sunday at 7 pm

(no show Saturday, May 3)
More about the BOB Festival
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
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Best of Boroughs 2008

B.O.B.

As part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, P.S. 122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a new and super-charged celebration that takes place at P.S. 122 while taking you on tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance.

Staten Island
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx


Remember this Moment
Gabri Christa and Niles Ford
-Staten Island

In anticipation of their two year-old child’s fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video – part time capsule, part time travel – and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future.

May 1- 4

Thursday at 10pm

Friday and Saturday at 7pm

Sunday at 4pm
More info/Tickets


Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Mayim Rabim / Great Waters
-Brooklyn

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre.

May 8-10
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
More info/tickets


Vengeance Can Wait
Yukiko Motoya
-Queens

Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait navigates Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. A couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted and touching, the couple come to understand the “kinks” in their relationship – and embrace them.

U.S. Premiere

Friday, April 25 – Sunday, May 4

Tuesdays – Fridays at 8

Saturdays at 2 and 8;
Sundays at 4
More info/tickets


Black Holes
Will Calhoun
-Bronx

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet.

May 1 – May 4
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 10 pm
Sunday at 7 pm
(no show Saturday, May 3)
More info/tickets

April 25- May 10, 2008
ALL PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE
AT PS122, 1ST AVE & 9TH STREET

Vengeance Can Wait

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vengeance

Written by up and coming Japanese playwright Yukiko Motoya, Vengeance Can Wait is a kinky comedy about love, submission, and sweet revenge by one of Japan’s leading contemporary
female playwrights.

Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait navigates Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. A couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted and touching, the couple come to understand the “kinks” in their relationship – and embrace them.

Directed by Jose Zayas

Co-translation by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen

Featuring Becky Yamamoto, Jennifer Lim*, Pun Bandhu*, and Paul H. Juhn*

Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Mark Karafin ; Scene Designer: Ryan Elliot Kravetz; Lighting Designer: Evan Purcell; Sound Designer: Matthew Tennie; Costume Designer: Carla Bellisio

This production is made possible through generous support from the Japan Foundation and the David Schwartz Foundation.

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

Web Photo by Gregory Costanzo

BOB 2008
Best of Boroughs Festival – Queens

Presented in association with Queens Theatre in the Park and The Immediate Theatre Company

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U.S. Premiere
Friday, April 25 – Sunday, May 4, 2008
Tuesdays – Fridays at 8
Saturdays at 2 and 8;
Sundays at 4
More about the BOB Festival

Remember this moment

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remember

“Ms. Christa has a way of making dance and theater happen without seeming to lift a finger”
– Jennifer Dunning

In anticipation of their two year-old child’s fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video – part time capsule, part time travel – and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future.

Award-winning choreographers and performers Gabri Christa and Niles Ford have collaborated and danced together for the last 15 years. This evening length multi-media performance incorporates moments from their past and integrates lots of new. Through dance, spoken and sung text, the performers inhabit a vivid and visceral world conjured by video artist and Obie Award winner Marilys Ernst and live accompaniment by Ted Graves of Burnt Sugar.

More about Gabri Christa: Gabri’s work has been performed in spaces in New York and around the country. She is the winner of numerous awards and honors including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and was an artist in residence at Dance Theater Workshop. he currently teaches at the School of the Staten Island Ballet.

Photo by Haim Bargig

https://www.gabrichrista.com

Best of Boroughs Festival – Staten Island

May 1- 4, 2008
Thursday at 10pm
Friday and Saturday at 7pm
Sunday at 4pm
More about the BOB Festival
(in rep with Will Calhoun)
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

Mars

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mars

Taking a cue from the space industry, Jay Scheib pits hard Science against Philip K. Dick in his unpredictable and explosive “antic play – half lab-rat experiment and half sex farce” (The New Yorker). Interplanetary speculation runs amok, the indigenous population gets screwed, and a strange and sexy “anomalous” chick seems to hold all the answers. Developed at MIT with a team of Mars researchers and anthropologists, a mission to colonize the Red Planet is revving up for 2017. Imagining what might happen once we get there, Scheib drops seven performers into a simulated Martian society. Can’t make ends meet on Earth? Consider a one-way ticket to Mars!

With performances by Karl Allen, Dorka Gryllus, Caleb Hammond, László Keszég, Catherine McCurry, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie, Thomas, Balázs Vajna with special on-camera appearances by Waris Ahluwalia, Phillip
Cunio, Kofi Hope-Gund, Henrik Hargitai, Zahra Khan, and Dr. Robert
Zubrin and others…

 

Scenic Design by Peter Ksander, Lighting Design by Miranda Hardy, Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban,
Sound Design by Catherine McCurry, Video Design by Balázs Vajna and and Miklos Buk, Assistant Director Laine
Rettmer,
Dramaturg/Hungarian Project Manager: Anna Lengyel, Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) is made possible through the generous support of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project For New Plays on Science and Technology; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; The Hungarian Cultural Center; Deutsch-Ungarische Industrie und Handelskammer; The Gertrude Stein Repertory Company; Swing Space, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, generously supported by the September 11th Fund, project space donated by Capstone Equities; with special thanks to the Mars Society, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.

April 8 – 27, 2008
Tuesday – Friday at 8
Saturday at 4 and 8
Sunday at 6
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

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