Dance | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

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)

Inside Outside

Inside/Outside

YOSHIKO CHUMA & THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS (SOHK) returns to Performance Space 122 with a special program for the HOWL! Festival of East Village Arts.

In Inside/Outside Yoshiko Chuma uses her three-dimensional cubes as canvases and compacted and discrete stages. The works unfold inside and outside of these confined spaces.Inside/Outside has a prologue, epilogue and four episodes. Each episode focuses the audience’s attention specifically on one framed 7ft. x 7ft. x 7ft. cube. The cubes are both moving sculptures and “magic boxes”, which can be transparent or opaque. Black and white silent film images are projected onto the cubes and into the space, creating a black and white 1950’s atmosphere. Four trombone players, four dancers and a singer slide and collide, and move through the light and shadow inside and outside the cubes. The stage is flooded with video projections inspired by the abstract expressionist style of Teiji Kinugasa’s 1927 classic silent film, “A Page of Madness”. The performers &projected images inhabit the moving picture frames, living out personal and historical memories. The overall effect is hypnotic, powerful and richly sensual.

Inside/Outside was conceived and Directed by Yoshiko Chuma and choreographed in collaboration with the performers: Donald Fleming, Irving Gregory, Motoko Ikeda, Anthony Phillips and Ksenia Vidyaykina (singer). It is performed to music composed and performed by Christopher McIntyre for the Trombone Band.

In repetory with: 8 BRAND NEW SHORT DANCES

Each evening will feature two short works by emerging choreographers followed by a full performance of Inside/Outside.

8 BRAND NEW SHORT DANCES performs on the following schedule:

August 25: Chris Yon, Ursula Eagly
August 26: Jonah Bokaer, Rebecca Davis
August 27: Malinda Allen, Bethany Wright
August 28: Christopher Williams, Yoshiko Chuma

August 25-28, 2005
Thu-Sat 8pm
Sun 5pm
$15

The GoTour Road Show

Groundbreaking artist service organization The Field celebrates the first anniversary of its GoTour.org website with The GoTour Roadshow, a weekend-long multidisciplinary mini-festival of independent artists from across the country.The evening runs from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with seatings at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Erin Lee &Marci (MUSIC – New York, NY)

Erin Lee &Marci are New York’s hippest, new singing duo for kids and their grown-ups.Playing acoustic guitars and various percussion instruments and singing in genres ranging from bluegrass to klezmer to ’50s rock ‘n’ roll Erin Lee &Marci will have the whole family on their feet and dancing!

Relative Truth (excerpt)
Jessica Hirst (SOLO PERFORMANCE – Washington, DC)

In Relative Truth Jessica Hirst begins to unpack the fantastical story of her grandmother’s late-in-life affair with a dashing and mysterious Frenchmen by the name of Pierre-Franz Chapou.

Il trionfo della fedelta (An excerpt from Maria Antonia’s 1754 opera)
The Maria Antonia Project/April Lynn James (MUSIC – New York, NY)

The Maria Antonia Project is dedicated to restoring music by historical women composers, especially opera, to the living repertory through performance, lectures, publications and recordings. It takes its name from Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony (1724-1780), a librettist and composer of two operas. Maria Antonia’s 1754 opera Il trionfo della fedelta takes place in Arcadia, that mythical paradise where love, peace and beauty reign.

The Dragons Project (excerpt)
Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp (DANCE/THEATER – Mt. Rainier, MD)

The Dragons Project asks “Who are the Dragons in the fairy tale of contemporary global culture?” Combining the ancient and mythical iconography of dragons with contemporary pop culture and counter-culture personifications of warriors, damsels and demons, The Dragons Project draws from mythologies and folk tales from across the globe.

Akosua Mireku (MUSIC – Oakland, CA)

Akosua Mireku is an Oakland, CA based Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, flutist, and psychic healer. Akosua’s music is fusion of African Folk, American Folk, Jazz, and Latin rhythms.

8:30 p.m.

None of the Above (excerpt)
Jennifer Lanier (SOLO PERFORMANCE – Honokaa, HI)

None of the Above is a solo comic roller coaster about Jennifer’s struggles with identity (racial, gay-straight, gender) as a tail-end baby-boomer.

Spin
Kathy Dunn Hamrick (DANCE – Austin, TX)

Spin is an athletic quartet of perpetual motion, grace and shifting focal points, set to an original score by Austin musician Tim Kerr. Choreographed by award-winning Austin-based choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick with dancers Cherami Conley, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Marlo Harris and Morgan Nutt.

Congregation (excerpt)
Julie Troost (MOVEMENT-THEATER – New York, NY)

Congregation tells the story of a family, God’s presence, and the beauty in death. Developed in collaboration with performers Courtney King and Camilla Maling.

The Shana and Mary Show
Mary-Elizabeth Holby &Shana David (MUSIC – Cambridge, MA and Jacksonville, FL)

Music, comedy and some lovely cake provided by Shana’s grandma.

9:30 p.m.

The Switch (MUSIC – New York, NY)

The Switch is a NYC-based band, combining electronic music with an infectious pop twist. The Switch strikes a delicate balance between computerized beats and the youthful freedom of pure rock ‘n roll energy. With Kai Altair (lead singer), Joe Pepitone (guitarist,keyboardist), Dan Onori (drummer) and Chris Loh (bassist).

Waking Down
Carrie Sargavakian (DANCE – Seattle, WA)

Waking Down is a duet moved by a restless 3am. Tangled in bed sheets hours past the chamomile tea sipping, the steamy bath taking, the sheep counting, and the soft piano music listening we find ourselves wide-eyed and heavy. Performed by Carrie Sargavakian and Katrine Behrend.

Parable
Lotta Lundgren (DANCE – Washington, DC)

Parable speaks of a man who tries to own women’s minds while letting prisoners of his war color their bodies with their own excrement. It speaks of a shape created by one, for all to fit into.

Three Greek Women (excerpt)
Thelos Theater Group (THEATER – Miami, FL)

Three Greek Women works from the classic Greek texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, intertwining the stories of Clytemnestra, Antigone and Medea to create a new story.

This Way That Way
Parallel Exit/Mark Lonergan (THEATER – New York, NY)

Inspired by the films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, This Way That Way is a silent live-action road movie that follows the story of two con men who meet in a train station and choose to travel across the country together.

July 8 &9, 2005
7:30 p.m.
$10

The New, New Stuff

The New, New Stuff
Curated by Natalie Johnsonius

Performance Space 122’s longstanding dance program New Stuff is back and better than ever! We’ve revamped New Stuff and created a brand new multidisciplinary residency program for emerging dance, theater and performance artists.

WEEK ONE: April 28 – May 1

Drama of Works in: WARHOL^TM
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.

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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?

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WEEK TWO: May 5-8

mundane

Choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi
Lighting by Dan Scully
Sound by Pyton Sherwood
Costumes by Sarah Cubbage
Performers: Cynthia Koppe, Christina Shelby, Kathryn Sydell, and Ryuji Yamaguchi

Choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi, mundane is a navigational journey through space, time, and memory. Through linear tracings of points and nodes, mundane surrounds itself with an eerie stillness and a vague clouded atmosphere.

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The Vangeline Theater in: C.A.R.O.U.S.E / L.
Choreographed by Vangeline
Lighting by Pierre Mansire
Video projection by Laurent Briet
Music by The Mitgang Audio aka Ray Sweeten
Dancers: Nicole Baxley, Ayako Sana, Mandy Caughey, Sarah McCollum, kat Mac Millan, Yukiko Yumiwaki, Jessi Peterso, Michele Moritz, Vangeline, Coco, Hadley Nunes, Jeremy Scott, Seth Abramson, Peyton Biederman, Katherine Adamenko, Leslie Katonis, Andrea Keung, Banaue Miclat and Scott P.

Loosely inspired by the cult movie Blade Runner and the French sci-fi thriller La Nuit des Temps, Vangeline’s electronic butoh ballet C.A.R.O.U.S.E./L is a sensual re-telling of the apocalyptic story of a golden sphere buried deep in the Antacrtic ice. Encapsulated in the sphere are the bodies of a man and a woman, survivors of a civilization that perished 900,000 year ago.

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WEEK THREE: May 12-15

Fusion FEED
Choreographed and directed by Sarah Vasilas and Leonardo Smith
Video and sound design by Chelsea Snider

Choreographers Sarah Vasilas and Leonardo Smith’s new multi-media dance piece is a fusion of sculpture, video, original music and dance, delving into the question “What feeds us?”. Through the use of live, improvisational, and set media, Fusion FEED explores the visceral responses people have to their environment, society, relationships and imagination.

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Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins
Choreography by Christopher Williams
Original Music by Peter Kirn
Dancers: Kindra Windish, Vicky Shick, Nami Yamamoto, Deana Acheson, Beth Simons, Wendy Perron, Hallie Glickman-Hoch, Janet Charleston, Jennifer Lafferty, Elizabeth Zimmer, and Derry Swan

Singers: Jacqueline Horner and Susan Hellauer (of The Anonymous 4)
Costumes by Michael Oberle and Christopher Williams

Inspired by the bizarre and gory legends of early virgin martyr saints, Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins combines eleven short solos for women ranging from a young girl to older women in the NYC dance scene. Existent medieval hymns and songs with new original music set the tone for this playfully macabre look at the lives of these mysterious women.

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April 28 – May 15, 2005
Post-performance party: April 28
Thursday – Saturday, 8pm
Sundays at 5pm

mundane

Mundane

Choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi
Lighting by Dan Scully
Sound by Peyton Sherwood
Costumes by Sarah Cubbage
Performers: Cynthia Koppe, Christina Shelby, Kathryn Sydell, and Ryuji
Yamaguchi

Ryuji Yamaguchi’s mundane
mundane is a navigational journey through space, time, and memory. Through linear tracings of points and nodes, mundane surrounds itself with an eerie stillness and a vague clouded atmosphere.

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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May 5-8th
8pm