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Hell

Hell Hell

A lurid new opera by poet Eileen Myles and composer Michael Webster, HELL employs frank and lyrical language and an exalted baroque style to tear away the veils obscuring corporate silence and global disaster. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno and post 9/11 events, HELL takes up an elegiac and musical cudgel on behalf of free speech and sings out against the endless waging of war.

Schedule:
Friday, March 31 – 8 PM
Saturday, April 1 – 2 PM
Saturday, April 1 – 8 PM
Sunday, April 2 – 5 PM
(followed by a talkback with artists)
Wednesday, April 5 – 8 PM
Thursday, April 6 – 8 PM
Friday, April 7 – 8 PM
Saturday, April 8 – 2 PM
Saturday, April 8 – 8 PM
Sunday, April 9 – 5 PM

March 31 – April 9, 2006
Opens Friday, March 31
See full schedule below
$20($10 Members)

Dangerous Women

Schoolhouse Roxx

presents
“DANGEROUS WOMEN”
A PERFORMANCE ART DOUBLE-BILL

From March 30 to April 1, PS122’s Schoolhouse Roxx Series presents a double bill of dangerous women. Internationally known performance artist Nao Bustamante will be performing her new work, entitled Hero and rising downtown art star Dynasty Handbag brings her own peculiar blend of music and deranged monologue to the PS122 stage.

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, video, pop music and experimental rips in time.
Hero works live performance, Video projection, and karaoke. Bustamante’s character transforms, via video, from a gentle princess who has lost her puppy in a lush fall forest into an icy nefarious hag trudging through the snow.

Dynasty Handbag is the one woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron (of the indie rock bands Dynasty, The Roofies, Camp Winnarainbow). Originally from San Francisco, in 2005 she relocated to NYC to escape an obsessed prisoner pen pal. Within 5 months, with a little hard work and a lot of heart, she was crowned Miss Lower East Side. On stage Cameron performs with a backing track containing original songs and dialogues of her innermost personal thoughts and horrible feelings.

March 30-April 1, 2006
9 p.m.
$15

AGA for the Whole Family Spring 06

AGA KIDS

Hosted by Ulysses S. Dee and Booker Dee of The
DeedleDeedleDees, AGA for the Whole Family presents the next generation of cutting-edge, alternative performance – by, for or about kids! Featuring

Kid STREB (from STREB Lab for Action
Mechanics, www.strebusa.org)
Butterflies of the Teenage
Mind (Stuyvesant High School Improv Troupe)
The Deeply
Felt Puppet Theatre
and Too Busy Being Bored

The whole family will revel in this fun-filled festival of new and exciting performance! Curated by Salley May and the Avant-Garde-Arama Committee

March 26, 2006
4:00, 7:00 p.m.

AGA Spring 06

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

Avant-Garde-Arama is P.S. 122’s longest-running series. This biannual multi-disciplinary mini-festival showcases short, new works from both established and emerging artists. In a fun, festive and informal atmosphere the best breakout dance, music, theatre, performance, video and more is presented in eight minutes or less.

Hosted by Mark Mitton with James Godwin. Featuring Installation by
The Love everybody Movement and starfish Liberation Army.
Two nights equal downtown’s definitive multi-disciplinary festival of the best in breakout performance, dance, music, theatre and more.

Friday: Iris Rose, Lumberob: A Mighty Mouth Music, Jeremy Wade,
Judy Elkan’s Playstation, and Jeffrey Lewis.

Saturday: Immediate Medium, Jonathan Zalben, Ursula Eagly,
Brendan deVallance, and The Sun Is Alone and on Fire.
Plus ongoing performance installations by Juan Souki and Sylvia Bofill
Curated by Salley May and the Avant-Garde-Arama Committee

March 24, 25, 2006
8:00 p.m.
$15($10 Members)

Danceoff Spring 06

Danceoff

Way before there was “So, You Think You Can…” there was DANCEOFF! Fierce, imaginative, and often funny, DANCEOFF! is NYC’s only full-contact, non- competitive, not-really-a, dance competition. Continuing to present the best and brightest in emerging and emerged dance/theater artists, Terry Dean &Katie along with PS 122 bring you the critically acclaimed DANCEOFF!

Following Sold-Out runs at Symphony Space in February and PS 122 in April, and two fabulous, free DANCEOFF! shows in Riverside and Union Square Parks this summer, DANCEOFF! is back at PS 122 for 4 mind-blowing shows, over 2 nights! It’s “What’s Up” in Downtown Dance!

March 2006 Danceoff will feature work by:
Katie Workum
Skyler Sullivan
Cynthia Hopkins
Palissimo
Will Rawls
Jonah Bokaer (motion capture video)
Ani Weintstein w/ Russ Salmon

March 21 – 22, 2006
8:00 and 10:00pm
$15($10 Members)