Dance | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

The Money Conversation

Sara Juli is determined to let go of her “money issues” by literally letting go of her life savings and putting $5000 into the hands of audience members every night. While some question her sanity and others her ability to go through with it, all that she has will be up for grabs.

In this high-stakes dance and live art experiment directed by Chris Ajemian, Juli fuses text, movement and cold hard cash to send up and surmount problems of net-worth and self-worth in an unexpectedly rewarding way.

If you’d like to continue The Money Conversation please contact themoneyconversation@earthlink.net

As seen in The New Yorker:
“…a provocative stunt: over the course of six performances, she is giving away her entire savings (five thousand dollars) to members of the audience. Since Juli also provides a way for people to give the money back, if they wish, or to donate more, each show becomes a moral experiment. There’s some movement, some humor, and a lot of audience participation, but a basic idea predominates: a compression of the everyday economic gamble made by all aspiring artists in the big, cruel city.”

February 15 – 19, 2006
Wednesday – Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
Also Performed During the
Coil Festival 2007

Also see: Sara Juli’s show Death.

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

Puppy Skills

Come celebrate with “our favorite queen of eloquent & intelligent quirk” (The New York Times). Featuring: Oven Rack (premiere), a solo for Silvers to the music of Iris DeMent; Puppy-Skills (premiere), a sextet with the incredible dancing of Vicky Shick, Paige Martin, Julie Atlas Muz, Jamie Di Mare, Marion Ramirez and Liz Filbrun; an Improvisation with Pooh Kaye, Cydney Wilkes, a different musician each night and “wearable art” sculptor Anne Katrin Grotepass Flap (1989), a wild splash of extremist on-the-brink movement performed by Carolyn Hall; Rupt (2005), with a cast of 6, the latest in Silvers’ brain-tingling series; “Live Choreography,” making work on the spot with different guest dancers each night and a set design by Yumi Kori. Live original music by Bruce Andrews with Michael Schumacher, lights by David Fritz and costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy.

November 17-20, 2005

Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

$20($10 Members)

Herd Of Bulls

Choreographer Saar Harari trained as a dancer in Israel until the age of 18 when he began his compulsory military service with the Israeli Defense Forces, eventually becoming a commanding officer of a special combat unit. Upon returning to civilian life he resumed his career as a dancer and put his military experience behind him, until now. Herd of Bulls uses the movement vocabulary of the military to inform this intense, muscular and visceral performance. On a bare stage with minimal sound, four dancers physicalize the internal struggle between love and violence of a soldier during conflict. Harari’s powerful, original choreography takes the audience on a journey through violence – the stillness, concentration, weariness, sadness, energy and the silence that comes after.

“The choreographer Saar Harari draws on his service with the Israeli Defense Forces for this new mixed-gender quartet. Despite the title, the movement is more a delicate martial-arts demonstration than a boot-camp drill or a military stampede. Its exploration of animal instinct ranges past the violent and murderous impulses of the body to the sensual and seductive.” As seen in THE NEW YORKER

“The modern-dance choreographer SAAR HARARI has drawn on physical instincts honed during his years as a commanding officer of a special combat unit of the Israeli army to create “Herd of Bulls,” a world premiere that opens on Tuesday at 8 p.m. for a one-week run at PS122.” As seen in The New York Times

“You imagine a soldier…miracles” -Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times. Click to read the full review, “In Soldier’s Violent Journey, Bodies Turn in Martial Fugue”

October 18-23, 2005
Tuesday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Discovery on October 23
$20($10 Members)

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)