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The Red and White Party 2005

The Red and White Party

The definitive downtown holiday celebration. Featuring:

DJ Joro-Boro: Resident DJ of the Bulgarian Bar Mehanata, Joro-Boro spins ethno-mesh songs from resistance ska, Arab turbo dub, balkano gitano brass to gypsy dancehall, ninja reggaeton and sleaze bhangra. Headliner of The New York Gypsy Festival
DJ Shotnez (Ori Kaplan) of Shotnez and Balkan Beat Box, formerly of Gogol Bordello
Guignol “Guignol serves up a combination of punk, jazz, folk, tango, klezmer, cheap red wine, woolly pinstriped suits, newsboy caps and one waxed moustache.” – Times of London.
DJ Chris Walters (PS122 house DJ)
Hallucinogenic floorshow outtake from Ken Nintzel’s TWAS
Endless Dancing

Spring secrets.

…and more

Members get free admission, including 2 free drink tickets.
General Admission $10

Join PS122 today and join in the festivities. Come to “The Red &White Party” for free, get 2 free season performance tickets, half-price tickets, a free Time Out New York subscription and more…

Monday, December 19th
7PM – 2AM
$10(Members free)
Mehanata 416 B.C.
(a.k.a. The Bulgaria Bar)
416 Broadway at Canal

‘Twas The Night Before The Twelve Days Of A Nutcracker Christmas Carol

'Twas The Night Before

Theatre artist Ken Nintzel (Pageant, Lapse) returns to Performance Space 122 with ‘Twas the Night Before the Twelve Days of a Nutcracker Christmas Carol, an unparalleled holiday spectacular featuring the brightest underpaid talent of downtown theatre and dance. This rollicking reinvention of the British Pantomime tradition features the words of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker with a narration of with a narration of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and beloved Christmas carol The Twelve Days of Christmas – all performed simultaneously! With a company of over twenty performers including David Neumann, Johanna Meyer, Beth Kurkjian, Leigh Garret, Eric Dyer, and the voice of Richard Foreman.

December 15 – 30
2005

We Failed To Hold This Reality In Mind

Hooman Sharifi, who moved from Iran to Norway when he was fourteen, established the in 2000to create direct and unpretentious performances that are also controversial and politically charged. In We Failed To Hold This Reality In Mind, Sharifi relates his experience of dislocation and identity in an unconventional, nonnarrative way. Combining classical Iranian music with spoken text and dancing, Sharifi is both confrontational and compelling as he explores memory, identity, misunderstanding, politics, boredom and incomprehension.

December 10 & 11 2005
$20($10 Members)

Un-Do-Three

The Norwegian performance company Baktruppen has been an integral part of the European performance scene over the last 15 years. Un-Do-Three is a clever, humorous movement performance that playfully subverts conventional notions of modern dance. The seven performers- middle-aged and in tights – frankly imitate the codes of modern dance and gymnastics without worrying about their physical limitations. Their work has been called “Absolutely childish, absolutely not simple and rather a little ingenious.” (Dagens Nyheter 02.05.04)

December 3 &4 at 8:00 p.m.
FREE

Prophet

Prophet Prophet

“Fasten your seatbelts. ‘Prophet,’ Thomas Bradshaw’s lacerating satire, has begun.”-The New York Times

Emerging playwright and provocateur Thomas Bradshaw (Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist) has had his work produced at venues such as Walkerspace, Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theatre and Bard College. In his new work Prophet, Bradshaw continues to provoke and intrigue. A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done). After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination. Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw’s Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways.

Photo: Daniel Rhatigan

Click to read the rave review in The New York Times.

November 30-December 17, 2005
Wednesday-Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30 p.m.
$20($10 Members)