Dance | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

Divine Comedy of an Exquisite Corpse

“The bemused blond of downtown performance art”
-The New York Times

“Julie Atlas Muz is the quintessence of fabulousness”
-Gay City News

Including post-mortem dance, ballet, mime, endurance exercises, burlesque and jazz, Muz will purposefully create the worst dance ever in hope that audiences will cheer at her tragic death. Her artful, unique and darkly eccentric performance style delivers tender and terrifying, hysterical and heretical vignettes exploring issues of freedom, fame, mortality and sacrifice.

Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006, a 2004 Whitney Biennial and Valencia Bienal Artist, Muz continues to celebrate the ever political lineage of naked ladies in public spaces as set in motion by Lady Godiva.

Approximate running time: 1 hour

Photo by Karl Giant

January 27 – February 11, 2007
Wednesday – Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
$20($10 Members)
SOLD OUT

Edith and Jenny

” penetrates past muscle and bone right to the women’s spirit…”
– Apollinaire Scherr, Newsday, on Christina Olson: American Model

Interwined through Rogoff’s signature choreography, performers Claire Danes and Ariel Rogoff Flavin explore the intimacy that has marked their life-long friendship.

Danes and Flavin encounter their eleven year-old selves on screen, captured in their respective film debuts, Claire as Edith in Dreams of Love, and Ariel as Jenny in Coyote Mountain. Rites of passage unfold in fragments revealing the complexities of two fictional families. The lines between screen and stage, life and art, are blurred as Edith and Jenny, Danes and Flavin, form an alliance, stepping through and beyond their films and the fates of their families.

Approximate running time: 60 minutes

Jan 26: Opening Night Benefit for Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects
Tickets: $75
Post-performance including wine and dessert reception with Tamar, Ariel and Claire as well as auction.

January 28: Post-performance talkback with the artists.

Jan 31: Members-only private performance and post-party with Tamar, Ariel and Claire
Join now and use your two complimentary member tickets to attend. E-mail the boxoffice to place your member reservations.

January 26 – February 4, 2007
Tuesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)
($75 Opening Night Benefit)

Moopim

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Israeli choreographer Saar Harari and Actress Lee Sher craft a compelling coda to the critically heralded “Herd of Bulls,” in which explosive military movement was co-opted to inform one soldier’s journey through the emotional aftermath of violence.

Here, the company’s physical vocabulary implodes, occupying a mental territory torn by the duality of living a life of freedom in a place where others cannot. Underscored by the live accompaniment of composer Brian Prunka on the oud (a traditional Arabic instrument), writhing, undulating bodies unite and collide, ricocheting between manifestations of sensual pleasure, joy and tenderness to anger, fear and madness – engaging the audience in a riveting exploration of humanity and the right to dream.

Made possible in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York.

Featuring: Ellen Cremer, Rossella Fusco, Saar Harari, Rachel Okimo, Brian Prunka, Lee Sher.

Photo by Justin Bernhaut

This show is a featured presentation in both the Impact Festival and The New York Musical Theatre Festival

“Intense emotions and quick-shifting physical states… Ingenious… They fall, rise and inch across the floor as if wounded, slipping through quick bursts of emotions, hunting.”
-The New York Times

COIL 2007 Special Performances:
Friday January 19, 2007 2:30 p.m.
Sunday January 21, 2007 5:30 p.m.
Free, open seating

Faker

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Who is more dead and alive than Elvis Presley? What sustains his image post-mortem? Morgan Thorson dazzles the stage with this sublime dance performance for seven commissioned by the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater in Minneapolis. Packed with astonishing performances, Faker’s exploration of impersonation, obsession and ritualistic behavior exposes contemporary culture’s fixation with celebrity vs. authenticity, and elevating vs. degrading entertainment of all kinds. Faker blurs the lines between behavior and dance, body and image, flattery and stealing.

Approximate running time: 55 minutes

Photo by Sean Smuda

Wednesday January 17th, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday January 19th, 2007 at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday January 20th, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Sunday January 21st, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday January 22nd,2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday January 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 p.m.
Faker is part of the COIL Festival 2007
$15($10 Members)

Danceoff Fall 2006

Danceoff

“FRESH, FIERCE, AND A WHOLE LOT OF FUN!… DANCEOFF! deserves its flamboyant reputation for being one of the most palatable and entertaining, yet sophisticated evenings of performance around.”
– Tom Pearson, NYC Dance Journal

Way before there was “So, You Think You Can…” there was DANCEOFF!, NYC’s only full-contact, non-competitive, not-really-a, dance competition. Continuing to present the best and brightest in emerging and emerged dance/theatre artists, Terry Dean Bartlett (Associate Artistic Director of Streb) & Katie Workhum (co-recipient of Dance in Progress at The Kitchen, an NEA Endowment for the Advancement for the Arts) bring back DANCEOFF! to P.S. 122 after presentations at Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival and Symphony Space.

Photo by Leigh Garrett

October 3, 4, 2006
8:00, 10:00 p.m.
$15, $10 (members)