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AGA Wrecking Ball

Avant-Garde-Arama
Wrecking Ball

Performance Space 122’s longest running series kicks it up a few notches for this demolition derby of theatre, dance, music, and video installation as part of the 30th Anniversary RetroFutureSpective Festival.

Join us for hard core performance during what “always ends up exploding into an all-out party.” – Flavorpill

FRIDAY 6/17:
Hosted by Murray Hill
Performances by Salley May, Alien Comic, Tigger!, John Kelly, Andrew Schneider, The Factress aka Lucy Sexton, The Dazzle Dancers, Julie Atlas Muz, Urban Bushwomen, Joe E Jeffreys, Miss Joan Moosey, Gina Vetro, Jacqueline Zahora, Annabel Sexton Daldry, Louise Belle Ethyl May
Music by Hank & Cupcakes, Rockman

SATURDAY 6/18:
Hosted by Uncle Jimmy
Performances by Lisa Kron, Rose Wood, Peggy Pettitt, Flawless Sabrina, Karen Therese, M Lamar, Koosil-ja with Lance Blisters, Edgar Oliver, Joe E Jeffreys, Miss Joan Moosey, Gina Vetro, Pezzettino, Jacqueline Zahora, Annabel Sexton Daldry, Louise Belle Ethyl May

Music by Bad Buka, Cudzoo & The Faggettes

PLUS:

Expect the unexpected as the LES Lounge comes alive around 7pm nightly in the downstairs space, providing a cozy atmosphere for personalities of the past, present, and future to come together to mingle, reminisce, perform and subterfuge with Lounge Host, legendary Stage Manager to the stars, Lori E. Seid. The lounge will feature a slideshow of 20 years of performance photography by the renowned Dona Ann McAdams as well as signature refreshments, music and more!

June 17-18, 2011
8:00pm

AGA Spring 2010

“Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables…Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.” – Flavorpill

Sources confirm that The Wooster Group is excited to guest curate Performance Space 122’s longest-running multi-disciplinary mini-festival and that this spring’s Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature artists who the Group calls upon, in their own words, “sometimes late at night, sometimes when we haven’t seen them in a while, sometimes lonely, sometimes drunk, and sometimes when we’ve just got nothing better to do.”

FRIDAY:

  • MC: Eric Dyer of Radiohole’s “Outrageous” New Yorker ‘Whatever, Heaven Allows’
  • Stiven Luka & Jean Coleman
  • Cynthia Hopkins
  • Daniel Pettrow
  • Esra Chelen
  • Andrew Schneider
  • Live Music by: Light Asylum


SATURDAY:

  • MC: Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag the “Crackpot genius” Village Voice
  • Yvan Greenberg’s Laboratory Theater
  • Enver Chakartash
  • Jamie Poskin & Daniel Jackson’s Haptic Response Team
  • Maurina Lioce
  • Jim Findlay
  • Live music by: Kelley McRae

Installation by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty

*Line up subject to change
Line producer: Mashinka Firunts

With The Wooster Group curating the latest installment of Avant-Garde-Arama! one can expect two evenings of performance shorts and a nightly party that will “simulate the effects of a finely graded hallucinogen on a hyper-intelligent brain” – Ben Brantley The New York Times (on The Wooster Group). Each evening, of course, will be meta-framed by A.G.A! co-founder Salley May’s customary extravagant introduction and welcome.

Founded in 1976, The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theatre, dance, and media. The many young people who intern there and sometimes move into positions in the company have long been their lifeblood. They are often artists in their own right who go on to make their own work. The Wooster Group’s Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature some of these folks, people who have been drawn to the Group and in some sense share its artistic spirit.

Friday, April 16 + Saturday, April 17, 2010
Doors open at 8PM

AGA Spring 09

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“Theatre Askew is queer in the best sense of the word: self-consciously outside of the mainstream, looking in with intelligence and wit.”
– Julia Wallace, The Village Voice

Queer duckling Theatre Askew joins forces with Performance Space 122 to present Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Askew. Drawing from across the rainbow spectrum of LGBT culture, the evening features dance inspired by Margaret Cho and the notorious Alphabet City after-hours club Save the Robots, trannie dominatrices, and severed heads. Hosted by Downtown legends Bianca Leigh and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s Everett Quinton, it’s guaranteed to get your sap flowing this May.
Hosted by Bianca Leigh and Everett Quinton. With performances by Bianca Leigh, Karen Grenke, Theatre Askew company members, Irene Ruiz-Riveros and BLISS dance-theatre, GERALDCASELDANCE, Isengart, and The Din (Matthew Pritchard and Isam Rum). Featuring new writing by Polly Frost, Stan Richardson, and OBIE-winner William M. Hoffman. Installation by Peter Cramer & Co of Le Petit Versailles community garden. Queer experimental film & video presented by Stephen Kent Jusick, executive director of the MIX Festival

Theatre Askew’s inaugural production, Bald Diva! earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Play. Their follow-up show was the hit serial I, Claudius Live. Last year they received their second GLAAD nomination for the world premiere of Jason Schafer’s i google myself. They were named 2007 People of the Year by nytheatre.com. Their most recent production was the world premiere of William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland’s Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor.

Fri, May 15 – Sat, May 16, 2009
7:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Guest Curated by:

Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Clubbing

Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Clubbing

“Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.”
-flavorpill.net

P.S. 122’s longest-running series (25 years) is an action-packed, eye-popping multi-disciplinary mini-festival that always culminates in a DJ dance party. The latest eruption of breakout dance, music, theatre, performance, video/film and more are presented in 8 minutes or less. The ever-popular “40-Second-Street” segment invites the audience to sign-up and present their own express performance contribution, be it prepared or made up on the spot.

Hosted by Hattie Hathaway and HapiPhace!

Curated by Club Curators of the past and the present along with Salley May, Joe E. Jeffries, Ande Whyland, Miss Joan Marie Moossy and Henry Baumgartner, this very special AGA is a celebration, remembrance and current snapshot of the vital role clubs played and play in the world of NY performance.

Starring club legends including:

Friday, Oct. 5th:

  • Alien Comic
  • Factress
  • Duke Lafayette
  • “Nelson Sullivan Goes Clubbing 1985-1989”
  • Rose Wood
  • “Nelson Sullivan The Pyramid Years 1985-1989”
  • David Ilku
  • Paul Zaloom

Saturday, Oct. 6th

  • Carmelita Tropicana
  • “Nelson Sullivan Goes Clubbing 1985-1989”
  • Flawless Sabrina
  • Scott Matthew
  • The World Famous *BOB*
  • “Nelson Sullivan The Pyramid Years 1985-1989”
  • Rose Wood
  • Phoebe Legere

Featuring photo installation and slide show by by Ande Whyland

Video by Nelson Sullivan, edited by Robert Coddington and produced by Joe E. Jeffreys;
and capped off by a dance party with a mix by DJ Dany Johnson.

October 5 and 6, 2007
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Tickets from $15, $10 (members)

AGA for the Whole Family Summer 07

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

Curated by the teenaged Avant-Garde-Arama Committee:
Devon Beckford, James Dennin, Lucian Buscemi, Gabby Smith,
and Stella Jones.

Hosted by TeaM D (A.J. Ortiz and Vincent Santvoord).

Saturday: Dear Son (spoken word from LaGuardia HS),
BHSEC Step Team, The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team,
films by Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang,
and LEGS (band).

Sunday: Dancewave, Inc., Dear Son, BHSEC Step Team,
The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team, films by
Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang, and the Crayons (band).

May 19 and 20, 2007
Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
$10 ($5 Members)

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