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genesis, no!

Genesis, no!

“Adrienne Truscott’s they will use the highways begins, and I’m instantly smitten.”
-Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice

“A fresh, engaging voice. Bring on her next eruption.”
-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

In this new evening-length piece, Adrienne Truscott and her dancers explore the anarchy of artifacts, the problem with primitive, and the conflation of epic timelines as they consider the possibilities and absurdities of a museum. Once their museum was curated, artifact, evidence, primitive man, overheard phrases, modern man and Kelly Clarkson collided. No matter how uninvited and unwelcome, theme and narrative, both biblical and mundane, began to assert themselves. They visited six museums and on the seventh day, they rested.

Performers include: Natalie Agee, Carmine Covelli, Neal Medlyn, David Neumann, and Adrienne Truscott. Set design, sound design and video by Adrienne Truscott and Carmine Covelli.

Photo credit: Karinne Keithley

March 22 – 25, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

RrrrrrrKILLKILLKILL

” has the potential to yield the most interesting and original developments in European Dance.”
– Mike Dixon, Dance Europe

Based in Dublin and renowned for its assertive and original style, IMDT collaborates with two maverick choreographers to create an arresting double-bill. Together with Bessie Award-winning Brooklyn-based choreographer Chris Yon, they create the anarchic and quirky RrrrrrrKILLKILLKILL . . . to infinity (MAKE IT LOOK REAL) and explore a mutual fascination with randomness and meaningful
chaos.

‘It is better to . . . ‘ is their collaboration with celebrated German choreographer Thomas Lehman. They respond to the human struggle to make things better – from better sex and better politics to being a better person or telling a better joke. Commissioned by IMDT for ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2004, it was nominated for both “Best Production” and “Sexiest Show.”

Irish Modern Dance Theater appears through the support of Culture Ireland (www.cultureireland.gov.ie).

Each dance runs approximately 45 minutes plus 10 minute intermission.

March 15 – 18, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

Five in the Morning and Doublethink

5 in the Morning and Doublethink

DOUBLETHINK

★★★★&#9733 “A fascinating exercise in psychological puppetry… a supurb deconstruction of notions of relationship… a triumph of technological and conceptual prowess, in the guise of bare-bones avant-gardism.”
– Irish Times

Two completely unrehearsed guest performers – different every night – follow instructions from a recorded voice, with a divider between them. They can’t see each other; the audience sees both sides, and their differences. Twisted and mischievous, Doublethink is an epic story-experiment about freedom, the farce of self-knowledge and the times we prefer being told what to do.

FIVE IN THE MORNING

In Five in the Morning, three willing guests take instructions from the loudspeakers of Aquaworld, an enormous swimming pool complex. Clothed in swim suits, clutching towels, they do what they’re told. At first hilarious and fun, their predicament transforms slowly into a strange and powerful reality. Teeth-grinding, disturbing, hilarious and addictive, Rotozaza’s ‘minimal masterpiece’ explores the thin line between theatrical illusion and deceit.

DOUBLETHINK
March 29 – April 1, 2007
Thursday – Saturday 8pm
Saturday and Sunday 5pm
$20($10 Members)

FIVE IN THE MORNING
April 5 – 8, 2007
Thursday – Saturday 8pm
Saturday and Sunday 5pm
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

Tim Miller’s 1001 Beds

“Miller has matured without losing either his inquisitive ardor or wicked humor. the nonpareil explorer of self and spirit”
– David Nichols, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Join Tim Miller in his hotel room during his two-week stay at Performance Space 122. Co-founder of P.S. 122 and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, member of the “NEA 4,” and internationally acclaimed performance artist, Miller checks in with his latest critical achievement based on his brand new book.

From a gay teen’s head-on collision with life in a sleazy hotel across the street from the Hollywood Bowl to an ecstatic vision of a sex-positive future on a mattress in a police holding cell, Tim Miller takes us on a raucous and rowdy, kinky and funny journey through all the beds he has been in – and will be – during his fiercely lived adventures in love, politics and art.

Approximate running time: 70 minutes

Photo by Thomas Strand

1001 Beds is published by The University of Wisconsin Press – order now

March 8 – 18, 2007
Thursday – Sunday 8:30 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

Particularly in the Heartland

“Explosive youthful energy…sheer intelligence…sense of history…radical theatrical vision… willingness to express idealism and hope, as well as cynicism and despair, gives their work its special richness, and its political edge… new heights of controlled madness.” -The Scotsman

What if Robert F. Kennedy had survived the assassination in 1968? Why would citizens most harmed by domestic policies empower their government further? What happens when outsiders are allowed in? Following their sold-out run in London and the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The TEAM presents a play about losing sight of America and trying to fall back in love with it.

Approximate Running Time : 1 hour, 45 minutes

Want to know more about the TEAM? www.theteamplays.org

EXTENDED RUN: Jan 23-27
Wed – Sun at 7:30 pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)

PS122 Premiere
February 26 – March 18 2007