Dance | Performance Space New York

What if Saori Had a Party?

(a.k.a. Saori’s Birthday)

Created by John Moran
in collaboration with:
Saori Tsukada, Katherine Brook
and Joseph Keckler

“I am convinced that there is no more important composer working today, than John Moran. His works have been so advanced as to be considered revolutionary.”
-Phillip Glass

Saori portrays a magical, Anime-Children’s Show-Host, sealed forever inside a protective, computerized-bubble. Trouble begins one day as Saori decides to have a birthday party; and ‘Death’ (Joseph Keckler) arrives to deliver the present of ‘Youth’ (Katherine Brook).

This is Moran trademark style of full-length, high precision music-theater; delivered by 3 masters of the craft: Saori Tsukada, Joseph Keckler and Katherine Brook. This commission by Performance Space 122 also marks the 20th anniversary of Moran’s work, which began at P.S.122 with his groundbeaking techno-opera, ‘Jack Benny!’, in 1987-88.

Click for your sound souvenir from ‘What if Saori had a Party?’

John Moran in the press:

“Moran is a modern-day Mozart, on a mission to revolutionize music and theater.” – The Boston Globe

“…stays in the mind as phenomenally imaginative music-theater: dizzying lipsynch’ theatrics, intricate staging and mournful, minimalist patterns combine to create an operatic world unlike any other.” – The New York Times

“One of most important (and underrated) figures in the avant garde scene.” – Timeout
“Moran is a bonafide, American original. He has forged a path as singular (and enduring) as his electronic, god daddy ” – NY Newsday

Music/Soundscape and Direction by John Moran; Choreography by Moran and Saori Tsukada

Photo by Nolan Rosemond

PART OF
COIL FESTIVAL 08
SHOWTIMES: Jan 9th at 9.30pm, Jan 10th at 3:30pm, Jan 11th at 6.30pm, Jan 12th at 9.30 pm and Jan 13th at 6.30pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)

World Premiere
October 21-November 4 2007

Danceoff Franceoff

Franceoff!

New Yorkers Terry Dean Bartlett and Katie Workum show us what rising choreographers can accomplish in seven minutes with this French take on their popular series DanceOff! In a casual and intimate setting comprised of brief, densely-packed vignettes, seven Francophile dance troupes mix movement, singing, storytelling, and more into “perfect cocktail of comedy and full-throttle artistry” (Dance Insider). Nowhere will you find more talent and whimsy packed into a single night. It’s always fast-paced, often brilliant, and it provides the perfect point of entry into the lively world of downtown dance.

Featuring:

The Fischerspooner Dancers, choreographed by Vanessa Walters with a premiere of “Dance In France”

Geneviève Martel

Beth Kurkjian

Leila Gaudin

Laura Peterson

Rebecca Nettl-Fiol (Illinois)

Nadine Helstroffer

and more!

Photo by Leigh Garrett

Presented in conjunction with Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival.
www.fiaf.org

October 3, 2007
Wed 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Tickets from $15, $10 (members)

C.L.U.E.

“The performance as a whole is a kind of choreographed rainbow, with each band dancing its own dance. And they are wonderful dances.”

– Holland Cotter, The New York Times “Art in Review” March 30, 2007 (C.L.U.E. – the video)

Choreography team robbinschilds are known for creating acutely visual works that explore the intersection of human movement and architecture, be it natural or manmade. C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) seamlessly combines a movement-based video with an acutely visual live dance performance and an original score performed live by Seattle rock band Kinski.

This live performance installation becomes a roving landscape in and of itself as well as a riveting exploration of the intersection between movement and architecture, both natural and manmade.

Photos by A.L. Steiner

Join us for not one but two post-show parties on Wednesday, December 5th and Thursday, December 6th; sponsored by Bass Pale Ale and MyOpenBar.com

World Premiere
Wednesday, December 5-
Saturday, December 8 , 2007

GLORIA

GLORIA is Maria Hassabi’s fourth evening-length piece; for its creation, she has worked with several of her longtime collaborators, dancers Hristoula Harakas and David Adamo, fashion designers ThreeAsFour, musician Jody Elf, dramaturge Marcos Rosales, lighting designer Joe Levasseur, and visual artist Scott Lyall.

GLORIA is composed through the layering of three individual solos. Each solo was developed separately and then joined together. As a result, they inhabit a space of quiet stillness and isolation in which the body is viewed as sculpture, dead and alive at the same time. Moving between one iconic posture and another, the dancers invoke a set of fleeting images within their abstract, mobile diagram. GLORIA’s rhythm stretches time across an optical field of perception, allowing each audience member to recall their own references and fantasies.

Named by Time Out New York as one of “25 Ace New Yorkers to Keep an Eye On” in 2006, Maria Hassabi, born in Cyprus, is an independent choreographer living and working in New York City.

Photography by Natasha Papadopoulou

Running time: 1 hour

Co-commissioned by Allison Sarofim and Ballroom Marfa.

GLORIA is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

NOW PLAYING AS PART OF
COIL FESTIVAL 08
SHOWTIMES: January 11, 2008 at 10pm, January 12, 2008 at 3pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
N.Y. Premiere
November 7-10, 2007

Version 2.0

Version.2.0 is the third episode of an unexpected trilogy. While the first two pieces, MM3 and Woyzeck, explore the public aspect of war, Version 2.0 confronts the private domain.

In Version 2.0, the audience sits on stage between Halogen lights as three performers – one man and two women – thrash it out just inches away, and occasionally over their heads. Bodies smack, yank, collide, and tremble, repelling awkwardly off of each other, disrupting any expectation of “grace.”
Although it may look like contact improv, each movement is carefully choreographed. Director Zsolt Palcza works with performers who have little formal dance training in order to access the “rough visceral movement” he finds so compelling.

Choreography by Zsolt Palcza. By Readymade Dance Theater Company

July 12-15, 2007
Thursday-Sunday at 8:00 p.m.
$20, $15 Students, Seniors

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