Dance | Performance Space New York Spring Gala

Moopim 2006

MOOPIM MOOPIM

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

September 27 – October 8, 2006
Wednesday – Saturday 8:30 p.m.
Sunday 4:30 p.m.
Additional Performances during the
COIL Festival 2007

Cleansing the Senses

Co-founder of P.S. 122 Peter Rose returns here to premiere a solo infused with the spirit of Open Movement, the seminal free-form performance discipline he introduced to NYC in 1979. Rose tests his limits as a performer in order to cleanse the senses and in turn, live and create more fully. This transfixing journey inward ultimately connects him to the other. Movement is incorporated with text and song performed in English, German, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew, in a thematic frame of forgiveness, creation, love, prayer and redemption.

Join us for a talkback with the artist after the performance Sunday May 21

“A riveting, affirming, transforming experience” -NYTheatre.com click to read the full review

May 18 – 28, 2006
Opens Thursday, May 18
Wednesday – Saturday 8 p.m.
Sunday 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

Danceoff Spring 06

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!

March 2006 Danceoff will feature work by:
Katie Workum
Skyler Sullivan
Cynthia Hopkins
Palissimo
Will Rawls
Jonah Bokaer (motion capture video)
Ani Weintstein w/ Russ Salmon

March 21 – 22, 2006
8:00 and 10:00pm
$15($10 Members)

Sinner

Sinner Sinner

Sinner is a self-destructive “solo for two men” featuring sensational former DV8 performer, Liam Steel and Ben Wright, who originated the role of The Prince in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Designed to shatter the limits of physical and emotional endurance, the U.S. premiere of Sinner begins with the events surrounding ‘the Soho Bomber’, and pulls no punches as a nervous pub flirtation becomes a suffocating psychological thriller. Interwoven dance and text indict a society that desperately constructs icons of good and evil but lacks the ability to tell them apart.

Directed by Rob Tannion and Liam Steel.

Opening Night Party: Join us at Via Delle Zoccolette for complimentary wine &bruschetta after the show. Upstairs Lounge. 95 Avenue A, Corner of 6th Street.

March 15 – 19, 2006
Wednesday – Saturday 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

Thousand Years Waiting

Three simultaneous realities converge in the world premiere of Chiori Miyagawa’s Thousand Years Waiting. Intricately weaving together the history of storytelling like a spider’s web, a woman from present-day New York City steps in and out of real and fictional worlds from the past: Japan circa 1000 A.D. and The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel.

This unique Trans-Pacific collaboration, conceived and directed by Sonoko Kawahara, features Otome Bunraku Puppet Master Masaya Kiritake, one of only three women in the world who professionally perform this rare 17th century traditional Japanese art form and marks the first time a Master will perform in an American play.

Original music by Bruce Odland.

Approximate running time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

February 23 – March 12, 2006