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Kiki Ball

 
Icon Snookie & Legendary Shy Juicy Couture presents
🍬🍭🍬🍭CANDY LAND🍭🍬🍭🍬
 
Houses: Juicy, Mulan, Dusse, Playboy, Mattel, Marciano, Pinklady, Oldnavy, Versace, Louboutin, Wang, Dior, and Gabbana.
 

Pick a color from the original pack of skittles from head to toe (footwear doesn’t count).

Bring it in a pair of candy dazzled gloves.

Sneaker must match your candy.

Note: Realness is the only category broken down into the following point structure…Any other category will be determined by the last person/house standing in each category to get that respective point.
 
School Boy (10pts) – You are trying to raise money for your basketball team selling candy on the train (you can choose any box of candy you want)
 
Legendary (10pts) – You gotta keep your reputation on the block as a legend, come with your candy bling edible jewelry of your choice
 
Pretty Boy (10pts) – your a pretty boy with a hat today, candy dazzle any hat of your choice.
 
Butch/Transman (10pts) – come as a pastry/sweets treat chef with a special sweet or pastry treat
 
Thug (10pts) – Your girlfriend is upset at you for staying out late last night, bring her a colorful cupcake to say sorry and to cheer her up.
 
Executive (10pts) – Bring a candy plan on a new flavor of candy and name your trying to create
 
Femqueen (10pts) – Bubble gum can be sticky and tasty So tonight come in All pink. (Footwear doesn’t count)
 
Drags (10pts) – Tonight I wanna see your nails designed with different candies of your choice .
 
(All REALNESS winners will Battle at the end for an extra 5 pts )

Tonight you are the club kid Candyland king and Queen of the sweetland …Tonight come dressed as a royal candy Queen or King, but don’t forget your crown must be made with candy or chocolate or both… its all up to you. (MF vs. FF)

The Oompa Loompas are in charge of helping run the Willy Wonka chocolate factory .Tonight I want you to bring your own feminine interpretation of the Oompa Loompa. (women ,drag, fem-queen)
 
$$WOMENS PERFORMANCE IS FOR $100 cash

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Willy Wonka allowed a few kids to come take a look inside his chocolate factory. When Charlie got picked to attend, he started to sing “I got a golden ticket.” Tonight remix that into a chant.

Licorice twizzlers and it’s stretchy texture has been around for decades. Tonight bring me Best dressed but 1 secret weapon piece must be made out of twizzlers. You can use any color or any flavor you choose.(MF VS FF)

The Almond Joy candy bar vs The Reese’s cup chocolate. Twisters bring it in all Blue and white effect (footwear don’t count). Sisters bring it in a all orange & white effect footwear don’t count)

Cotton candy is a classic for its fluffiness and sweet melting texture. Tonight bring me a cotton candy inspired effect. Male figure vs Female figure. (Last male and female standing will battle for a extra 3 points)

Lollipops are one of a child’s most requested candy to eat, tonight come down the runway with one of the biggest lollipops you can find…Go big or go home. The look is up to you.

Bring a candy or a chocolate that compliments your fit.

Hershey kisses are known for its silver wrapper. Tonight bring it in any silver and white inspired effect style. (footwear doesn’t count)

 
Mask and hand sanitizer will be given out. Free and Confidential HIV testing will be available on site! Free cotton candy and popcorn too!

Virtual 40th Anniversary Gala

If you’re able to, we ask that you make a donation to support the future of Performance Space at one of the levels below or at any amount you wish.
 
 
Host
Jeremy O. Harris
 
Honorees
Dona Ann McAdams, Chet Kerr, and Roxane Gay
 
40 One Minute Performances by 40 Artists
Adrienne Truscott, Alan Cumming, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens with Katie Bush, Carmelita Tropicana and Ela Troyano, Charlotte Brathwaite, Claire Danes, Coco Fusco, Charles Dennis, Eileen Myles, Eisa Davis, Hannah Black, Holly Hughes, John Kelly, Jonathan González, Julie Atlas Muz, Julie Tolentino, Kate Bornstein, Kembra Pfahler, Kia Labeija, Ligia Lewis, Lucy Sexton, Lori E. Seid, Mariana Valencia, Martine Gutierrez, Mike Iveson, Monica Mirabile, New Red Order, Nicky Paraiso, Pamela Sneed, Penny Arcade, Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, Princess Nokia, Reggie Watts, Ron Athey, Sarah Michelson, Tim Miller, Vaginal Davis, Yasuko Yokoshi
 
Cocktails
Precious Okoyomon, Okwui Okpokwasili, SK Lyons and Casa Dragones
 
Creative Direction and Editor
Lauryn Siegel
 
Web Concept and Design
Alicia Mersy and Cyrus Lognonné
 
 
Live Captioning and ASL will be available.
 
 

Tickets

-Access to our Virtual 40th Anniversary Gala.

Tickets

-Access to our Virtual 40th Anniversary Gala.

Tickets

-Access to our Virtual 40th Anniversary Gala.

Tickets

-Edition by Kerstin Brätsch and Sarah Ortmeyer
-Access to our Virtual 40th Anniversary Gala.

 
Committee
Vera Alemañi, Sarah Arison, Todd Bishop, Kerstin Brätsch, Sammy Chadwick, Kathleen Chopin, Alex Da Corte, Ken Dale, Bridget Donahue, Fairfax Dorn, Nicole Eisenman, Urs Fischer, James Fuentes, Vallejo Gantner, Suzanne Geiss, Michael Giordano, Meaghan Gragg and Hanna Liden, Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak Foundation, Debbie Millman, Jessica Mitrani, Daniel Mitura, Modica Carr Art Advisory, Sophie Mörner, Natalie and David Neubert, Laura Owens, Sheri Pasquarella, Russell Piccione, Poppy Pulitzer, Andrea Rosen, Chris Salgardo, Tanya Selvaratnam, Cindy Sherman, Amy Sillman, Sokoloff + Associates, Jill and Bill Steinberg, Heather Thomas, Arden Wohl and Jonah Freeman 

Communal Shrine

 

Following a year of grievances and uprisings, Performance Space’s Staff has organized a Communal Shrine intended as a place for collective mourning, remembrance, healing, and organizing.

We invite you to bring objects and offerings for wake and futurity in the hopes of engaging in life-affirming interactions. Whether a  picture, an art piece, a vow or a wish, a plant, an object of remembrance or release, a book, a letter, or a manifesto.

WORK THE ROOTS

 
With: Belinda Becker, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Charlotte Brathwaite, Jennifer Chambers, Eisa Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Deadria Harrington, Kamala Jefferson, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, Robyn Rodgers, Kaneza Schaal, Nzinga Williams, Amelia Workman, Kara Young, others, and you.
 
Throughout ​spring, AFROFEMONONOMY—a supergroup of Black femme theatermakers—takes over Performance Space’s theatres to explore themes of healing and care guided by the work of literary foremother Kathleen Collins​​. The artists–who have been ​collaborators and friends for years but never worked together as a group–use the residency​ as a sovereign space​ to translate​ the ease, free expression, and non-compulsory ethos of their informal gatherings to their working conditions and aesthetic.
 
WORK THE ROOTS introduces audiences to Begin The Beguine, a quartet of Kathleen Collins’ unproduced one-acts from 1984. Collins, a visionary writer, director, and professor with a prodigious output of films, plays, novels, and short stories, died of breast cancer at the early age of 46. Her premature death, mirroring those of writers Audre Lorde and June Jordan, begs the question of black women artists and their endangered health.
 
Along with Collins’ one-acts, WORK THE ROOTS also explores Eisa Davis’ The Essentialisn’t, in its overlapping concerns regarding Black women, art, health, and balance.
 
The four-month-long residency interacts with the public in multiple forms: a website broadcasts AFROFEMONONOMY’s investigations and process for ​a global​ audience, a ​synchronized ​world premiere of Collins’ texts takes place outdoors in​ ​​locations​ in New York and California​, and ​projected films and ​an installation with the occasional live sound interaction will unfold ​outside and ​inside Performance Space’s theatre.
 
Additional outdoor offerings of the Begin the Beguine One-Acts supported by Performance Space New York include: Begin the Beguine on El Barrio’s ArtSpace Front Lawn (May 15 and 16); Remembrance in lower Manhattan as part of Downtown Live, presented by the Downtown Alliance in association with En Garde Arts and The Tank (May 16, 22, 23); and The Healing at Herbert Von King Park (May 15 and 16).
 
Digital offerings created by the artists of AFROFEMONONOMY and supported in part by Performance Space New York can be found at http://www.eisadavis.com/afrofemononomy/
 
Please consider making a donation to Black Women’s Health Imperative, the first non profit organization created by Black women to help protect and advance the health and wellness of Black women and girls.
 

Afrofemononomy // Work The Roots  is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Co-production support provided by Deadria Harrington and New Georges.

Photo: Santiago Felipe
Pictured: Jennifer Harrison Newman in Last night, I dreamt I danced in the image of God.

FRAGMENTED BODY PERCEPTIONS AS HIGHER VIBRATION FREQUENCIES TO GOD

 
Wet ash falls from the ceiling. It slowly empties into an algae filled stream surrounded by moss covered boulders and gravel. Responding to last year’s brutal mood of apocalypse and rapture, Precious Okoyomon’s installation creates an ecosystem that seeks to hold grief. Visitors are invited to sit or stand or lay down in the uncomfortable space of mourning that we so often avoid.
 
An important material here is the ash from the incinerated kudzu, grown for Okomoyon’s most recent exhibition, Earthseed, at the MMK in Frankfurt. The vine, originally from Japan, was used to prevent soil erosion resulting from the cultivation of cotton during slavery; a bandage intended to cover up the environmental tolls of slavery, it instead proliferated, and became known as “the vine that ate the south.”
 
With FRAGMENTED BODY PERCEPTIONS AS HIGHER VIBRATION FREQUENCIES TO GOD Okoyomon creates a new world in the Keith Haring Theatre, a wake for death allowing for catharsis, celebration, and closing: “2020 was the reckoning of death, and we’re still living in it. We have to face it and live in it and allow it to change us and be changed by it.”
 
Medium: moss, gravel, soil, ladybugs,crickets, mud, anoles, kudzu ash, wildflowers ❤️
 
 

Weather report

Today i wake up still the assemblage associated distortions bewilder me

IN THIS WORLD I AM A SHAPESHIFTER

FRAGMENTED BODY PERCEPTIONS AS HIGHER VIBRATION FREQUENCIES TO GOD

In the supernatural sky

I was restful as I had reached my place of salvation

The surface as a material structure neither heaven nor solace

Only the wind

Only quenched light

Lulled into covering until everything was the same

soul object well formed

the irreducible always already truth

Hidden in the trees

It is nothing i am here i am still here

desire dissolves away

glug glguhhh guhhhh i drink gulps of light

Putting myself back together

The rain pushes all the glyphosate

and

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons down into the ground

industrial operation rehearses suffering its moves the world with terrible momentum shift me into dimensional alienation

CONSTRUCT AN OBSTRUCTION ALREADY WEAPONIZED WITHIN

THE SURFACE IS THE LOSS OF WHAT IS ALREADY MISSING WITHIN

I look up at the sky bathed in pink

longing for a liberated psyche I could rinse of any meaning into light no former shape

Like the word, the world is dying in flames

Like rapacious gloom in the empires burning afterlife

Like looking out the window a hollow flower

Like falling into the wind

Like falling into the heavy air

Like falling to limitless love

Made into air returning into the membrane of the real high shit

Pathogenic pleasure

Like we gotta make a new world

Like fade up reform resound

Open association vacate

Reframe

Like the surprising sun is blossoming somewhere and here i am blown away into the paradox of smiling

 
 

Precious Okoyomon, FRAGMENTED BODY PERCEPTIONS AS HIGHER VIBRATION FREQUENCIES TO GOD is made possible in part by grant from the National Performance Network.

Sean-Kierre Lyons, Creative Consultant

Dion McKenzie (TYGAPAW), Sound Designer

Michael Hernandez, Sound Engineer

Jørgen Skjaervold, Lighting/Effects Engineer

Michael DeCaul, Alexander Setzko, Gabriel GarcĂ­a, and Robin Ediger-Seto, Scenic Carpenters

Jørgen Skjaervold and Michael Hernández, Technical Sculptors

Scenic Rock Towers by Quinn Stone, StoneDog Studios

Clay, Mulch, Delaware River Rock provided by Landscape Materials Inc.

Installation Photography by Da Ping Luo

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