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Murder

Personal Space Theatrics presents the New York Premiere of Murder, by Hanoch Levin, Israel’s most renowned playwright. Amidst the carnage of a seemingly endless war, Levin presents an unflinching, provocative and universal look at the cycle of violence and revenge. Murder transcends politics, race, religion and sound bites to tell a haunting and deeply moving story about the struggle between vengeance and forgiveness. This celebrated and controversial play has been produced in over twenty countries and a dozen languages.

“Director-adaptor Michael Weiselberg’s staging probes
at the startlingly graphic realities of human suffering, and his cast’s sensitive handling of the play’s intricate language gives this otherwise bleak work color.”
-The Village Voice. Click to read the review.

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October 15-30, 2005
Opens Saturday, October 15 at 8:30 p.m.
Performs Wednesday-Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30 p.m.

Sunday Afternoon Discovery on October 23,
followed by an 8:30 p.m. performance
$20($10 Members)

AGA FALL 05

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

On October 14 and 15 Performance Space 122 will present the latest installment of its longest-running ongoing series, “Avant-Garde-Arama” (AGA). AGA is a biannual multidisciplinary mini-festival of short works. Showcasing work from new artists and new works from established artists, “Avant-Garde-Arama” features the best and brightest of downtown performance, dance, theater, music, installation and more. Additionally, P.S. 122 is launching “Avant-Garde-Arama for The Whole Family” on Sunday, October 16 at 3:00pm – PS122’s first multidisciplinary mini-festival of short works almost exclusively by kids and for kids.

This fall Avant-Garde-Arama will be hosted by the song and dance team who brought you The New Wonder Twins – Susan Blackwell, Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen and Heidi Blickenstaff – and features a fantastic array of downtown fabulousness spread over two fun-filled nights. Audiences can join in the fun every evening after intermission! Come prepared for “Forty Second Street” during which any audience member can perform anything they want for 40 seconds!!!

Friday, October 14th features the work of Award-winning composer Chris Rael, leader of veteran East Village Indo-pop band Church of Betty, performing two selections from Araby, a song cycle inspired by James Joyce’s Dubliners; dance troupe Dura Mater performing an excerpt from their new work The Bentfootes featuring a live animated short film by noted cartoonist R. Sikoryak; a performance from “the Paris Hilton of Performance Art” Neal Medlyn; Butoh-inspired dance from Leigh Evans; John Roberts (of the band Opti-Grab) performing the comic dance/skit “You’ve Got the Part!” with Gina Varla Vetro; and a musical performance from clubland’s newest sensations Da Lipstyxx!

Saturday October 15 features Nina Mankin’s madcap performance ensemble Kulture Kamp (with Taylor Mac and Rachelle Garniez), queer performance poet Otis Von Darling; conceptual performance artist Andrew Schneider creating live experiments with videotape, dance and dessert; a new dance-theater piece from Kourtney Rutherford entitled “Tiny Parts &Transitions” featuring an international cast of performers crushing Warhol’s idea of fifteen minutes of fame into ten minutes of relentless mark-hitting and nonstop vying for the spotlight; Julia May Jona’ multi-disciplinary company Nellie Tinder performing NEW TRENDS (Nellie Thinks About Motivation); and Kill Rock Stars recording artist Bonfire Madigan.

Both nights will feature an interactive digital playground installation by Jonathan Zalben in P.S. 122’s Classroom Gallery space.

Friday, October 14th

Chris Rael
Dura Mater with R. Sikoryak
Neal Medlyn
Leigh Evans
John Roberts with Gina Varla Vetro
and music by Da Lipstyxx

Saturday October 15

Kultur Kamp featuring Nina Mankin and Taylor Mac
Otis Von Darling
Andrew Schneider
Kourtney Rutherford
Nellie Tinder
and music by Bonfire Madigan

Sunday October 16

AGA isn’t just for grown-ups
anymore! Check out the brand new series:
AGA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

October 14, 15
8:00 p.m.
AGA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Sunday October 16
3:00 p.m.

Danceoff Fall 2005

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!

With:

David Neumann and Andrew Dinwiddie
Katie Workum
Terry Dean Bartlett
Leigh Garrett
Nicholasleichterdnace
Christopher Williams
Tehreema Mitha Dance
Pig Iron theatre
Julian Barnett

October 11, 12 2005
8:00 and 10:00pm
$15($10 Members)

John Moran and His Neighbor Saori

Schoolhouse Roxx

Schoolhouse Roxx
presents
JOHN MORAN and His Neighbor SAORI

Composer and performer John Moran has received theatrical productions of his operas Jack Benny!, The Hospital, The Haunted House, and The Trilogy of Cyclic Existence at La Mama, E.T.C.; The Manson Family at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and Mathew In the School of Life at The Kitchen. Each of Moran’s operas have had an innovative impact on the music/theatre community, receiving notoriety in the press, including two Bessies and an Obie award in 1994. The Manson Family has been recorded on Point Music/Philips Classics with a provocative cast that includes Iggy Pop and Terre Roche, among others. Moran is currently a Columbia recording artist and has recently recorded Mathew in the School of Life, featuring Allen Ginsberg.

October 6-8, 2006
9 p.m.
$15

Christina Olson: American Model

Christina Olson is best known as the woman in the pink dress depicted in Andrew Wyeth’s iconic painting, Christina’s World. What is less known is that she suffered from a never-diagnosed muscular deterioration that left her arms weak and her lower body paralyzed. Fueled by both pride and denial, Christina rejected wheelchairs and found ways to move through the world relying only on her own strength. In this full length solo danced by Claire Danes (who first performed at P.S. 122 at the age of six), choreographer Tamar Rogoff uses her unique body-centric methodology to explore the ideas, spirit and physicality of a woman both rejected and revered. Christina Olson: American Model features music by Rachel’s, video by Harvey Wang and Andrew Baker, costume by Liz Prince and lighting by David Ferri.

September 21-October 2, 2005
Benefit for Tamar Rogoff
Performance Projects:
September 21 8:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Discovery:
September 25 4:00 p.m.
$20($10 Members)