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Warhol

Drama of Works in: WARHOL™

Directed by Gretchen Van Lente
Warhol puppet designed and built by David Michael Friend
Sound Design by Jill DuBoff
Costumes by Mary Trumbour

Before the nose job and legal name change, Andrew Warhola was a sweet gifted boy who loved his mother. Society would love to believe he was a sex-obsessed, druggie, party-hopper. But with pop icons, the truth doesn’t really matter, does it? In their latest puppet-theatre piece, Drama of Works probes into the double life of this consumerist icon, where a soup can plays his mother and his life is literally boxed up into his signature Brillo Pad creations.

This performance is presented as a part of The New, New Stuff a three week festival of new and emerging artists. Click here for full festival listings.

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Apr. 28 – May 1
Post-show reception: Apr 28
Thursday – Saturday, 8 p.m.
Sun. at 5 p.m.

The Cardiac Shadow

the cardiac shadow

The Pumpkin Pie Show in: the cardiac shadow
Written by Clay McLeod Chapman
Music by Joshua Camp and Michael Hearst (of One Ring Zero)
Choreography by Blair Bodie
Lighting design by: Sabrina Braswell
Performed by: Hannah Bos, Hanna Cheek, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, Jordan Simmons, and Paul Thureen

Four women were procured from the Ravensbruck concentration camp, hand-selected by SS Second Lieutenant Dr. Sigmund Rascher, Air Force physician. These four women were “volunteered” for a series of experiments that would eventually come to be known as the cold conference — tests specifically designed to determine the endurance of the human body to extreme temperatures. The voices of these four women have since disappeared. Where does the human spirit go when the body must remain behind, frozen inside an atrocity?

This performance is presented as a part of The New, New Stuff a three week festival of new and emerging artists. Click here for full festival listings.

Apr. 28 – May 1, 2005
Post-show reception: Apr 28
Thursday – Saturday, 8 p.m.
Sun. at 5 p.m.

The Mammy Project

Michelle Matlock

Developed by Michelle Matlock and Joan Evans

Direction -Amy Gordon

The Mammy Project confronts the American stereotype of Mammy as a white man’s fantasy, a black woman’s history and a country’s favorite product. As performed by Michelle Matlock this project travels from the life and times of Nancy Green (the first woman hired to play the part of a mammy), through the minstrel show era and silver-screen Mammies, to the present day where Aunt Jemima is still bought and sold from her pancake box prison. The Mammy Project was developed at The Performance Salon created by Joan Evans in New York City.

Michelle Matlock has worked as a clown/variety performer with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Circus Amok, Dare Devil Opera Company and is a member of The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit. The Mammy Project has been workshopped at Dixon Place, The Goddess Festival, Girlsalon and the Palace of Variety.

April 14 – 24, 2005
Post-show reception: April 14
Thursday – Saturday, 8 p.m.
Sun. at 5 p.m.

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

Avant-Garde-Arama is Performance Space 122’s biannual mini-festival of performance, dance, music, film, installations and general mayhem. A.G.A brings together emerging and established artists in all disciplines to show off their newest stuff in 8 minutes or less. It was P.S. 122’s first programmed event and has been going strong for 25 years. This April the theme is “Family Values” and will be hosted by downtown it-boy of the moment MR. MURRAY HILL.

Avant-Garde-Arama promotes a free-wheeling festival atmosphere where anything can happen. A special, trademark event of each Avant-Garde-Arama is “Forty Second Street” where, just after intermission, anybody who wants to perform can get up and do their things for 40 seconds!

The Line up for Avant-Garde-Arama Family Values:

Friday April 8th:

Shufu Theater
Isabel Lewis
Gabriel V. Ortiz
Rachelle Garniez
Beth Kurkjian
With Musical Guest LD and the New Criticism

Saturday, April 9th:

Yvonne Meier with Gogolorez
Tara Madsen
Andy Horwitz
Gina Varla Vettro and Billy Beyond
Raquel Almazan
With Musical Guest Paprika

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Friday, April 8th and Saturday, April 9th, 2005
8:00pm

Danceoff

Terry Dean and Katie Present Danceoff!
The critically acclaimed series of full-contact, non-competitive dance and sometimes non-dance not-really-competitions has a new
home at P.S.122 this season. It’s what’s up in downtown dance! Join Terry Dean Bartlett and Katie Workum for an evening of short works by modern dance’s best and brightest combination of emerged and emerging artists.

Weeny Pauly
Annie-B Parson
Terry Dean Bartlett
Headlong Dance Theater
Leigh Garrett
Amy Larimer, Clare Byrne and Paul Sullivan
Weena Pauly
Carolina and Felipe Telona
Musical Guest: The Isotoners

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Tuesday Apr 5th, 2005
Wednesday Apr 6th, 2005
8pm and 10pm