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Brothers and Sisters and Motherfuckers

Dynasty Handbag

“It’s like an inner-spirit ventriloquism; the exchanges are real, her timing is perfect.”
– Paper Magazine

This year Dynasty Handbag is hosting the family holiday dinner that is sure to be a messy mash up of passive-aggression, fart jokes, personality meltdowners. Everyone has something to bring to the table, and when all become deathly ill, everyone is suspect of bringing in the virus. But who is the motherfucking asshole sibling who would infect everyone? It must be Dynasty…she is the HOST after all. Find out when a family secret is revealed and an antidote must be found… or else!
Using live performance and 4 on-stage projections of family members, all performed by Ms. Handbag, BSMF is a tour de farce of comedic acting skills as well as a film editor’s nightmare.

Written, Directed and Performed by Jibz Cameron
Camera, Edit, Animation by Amy Von Harrington
Produced by Jibz Cameron and Amy Von Harrington
Sound by A.V. Linton and Jibz Cameron
Video display and Set Design by Lauren Brown
Costumes by Hayden Dunham
Hair n’ Makeup by Holli Smith
Photo: Ves Pitts

Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) is a performance/video artist, musician and actor who lives and works in New York. Her work has been presented internationally from the dirtiest dives to the cleanest art houses and theaters. Dynasty Handbag performances have been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and a “crackpot genius” by the Village Voice. She is the recipient of the 2007 Fresh Tracks Artist in Residency Award at Dance Theater Workshop and the 2008 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for the performing arts, and the 2010 Mondo Cane! Commission. She is currently an adjunct professor of Performance Composition at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her second Dynasty Handbag record is due in the spring of 2011 on Lovepump United Records. She is proud to be cast in the ongoing role of “Agent Steph” in the live lesbian soap opera, Room For Cream.

Made possible with commissioning support from Performance Space 122 and the Jerome Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE | Theatre, Live Art, Solo Performance, Comedy | Upstairs

Wednesday, December 15 –
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
Sunday at 6PM,
LATE SHOWS: Friday & Saturday at 10PM

AGA Spring 2010

“Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables…Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.” – Flavorpill

Sources confirm that The Wooster Group is excited to guest curate Performance Space 122’s longest-running multi-disciplinary mini-festival and that this spring’s Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature artists who the Group calls upon, in their own words, “sometimes late at night, sometimes when we haven’t seen them in a while, sometimes lonely, sometimes drunk, and sometimes when we’ve just got nothing better to do.”

FRIDAY:

  • MC: Eric Dyer of Radiohole’s “Outrageous” New Yorker ‘Whatever, Heaven Allows’
  • Stiven Luka & Jean Coleman
  • Cynthia Hopkins
  • Daniel Pettrow
  • Esra Chelen
  • Andrew Schneider
  • Live Music by: Light Asylum


SATURDAY:

  • MC: Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag the “Crackpot genius” Village Voice
  • Yvan Greenberg’s Laboratory Theater
  • Enver Chakartash
  • Jamie Poskin & Daniel Jackson’s Haptic Response Team
  • Maurina Lioce
  • Jim Findlay
  • Live music by: Kelley McRae

Installation by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty

*Line up subject to change
Line producer: Mashinka Firunts

With The Wooster Group curating the latest installment of Avant-Garde-Arama! one can expect two evenings of performance shorts and a nightly party that will “simulate the effects of a finely graded hallucinogen on a hyper-intelligent brain” – Ben Brantley The New York Times (on The Wooster Group). Each evening, of course, will be meta-framed by A.G.A! co-founder Salley May’s customary extravagant introduction and welcome.

Founded in 1976, The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theatre, dance, and media. The many young people who intern there and sometimes move into positions in the company have long been their lifeblood. They are often artists in their own right who go on to make their own work. The Wooster Group’s Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature some of these folks, people who have been drawn to the Group and in some sense share its artistic spirit.

Friday, April 16 + Saturday, April 17, 2010
Doors open at 8PM

AGA Summer 07

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

“Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables…Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, this always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.” – flavorpill.com

Avant-Garde-Arama:
High Octane Ethyl

P.S. 122’s longest-running series is the definitive
multi-disciplinary mini-festival, showcasing a nightly
line-up of bite-sized, eclectic new works from daring
and dangerous artists. A fun, festive and informal
atmosphere frames the best in breakout dance,
music, theatre, performance, video and more – all
presented in 8 minutes or less. Anything can –
and will – happen!

Hosts: Justin Bond and Taylor Mac (Ethyl Eichelberger
Award Winners)

Ethyl Eichelberger costume and memorabilia
installation by Miss Joan Marie Moossy and Joe E.
Jeffreys

Friday, June 1st:

  • Deb Margolin
  • Rindfleisch
  • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Ethyl Eichelberger Video
  • Zeesy Powers
  • S M O (Slink Moss Orchestra)

Saturday, June 2nd:

  • Stanley Love
  • Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo
  • Not Waving But Drowning
  • Ethyl Eichelberger Video
  • Dynasty Handbag
  • TIMBILA

Curated by Salley May and the Avant-Garde-Arama
Committee

Photo Credit:
Ethyl Eichelberger: Dona Ann McAdams
Justin Bond: James and James
Taylor Mac: Simon Phillips

June 1 and 2, 2007
Fri, Sat at 8:00 p.m.

Dangerous Women

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Schoolhouse Roxx

presents
“DANGEROUS WOMEN”
A PERFORMANCE ART DOUBLE-BILL

From March 30 to April 1, PS122’s Schoolhouse Roxx Series presents a double bill of dangerous women. Internationally known performance artist Nao Bustamante will be performing her new work, entitled Hero and rising downtown art star Dynasty Handbag brings her own peculiar blend of music and deranged monologue to the PS122 stage.

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, video, pop music and experimental rips in time.
Hero works live performance, Video projection, and karaoke. Bustamante’s character transforms, via video, from a gentle princess who has lost her puppy in a lush fall forest into an icy nefarious hag trudging through the snow.

Dynasty Handbag is the one woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron (of the indie rock bands Dynasty, The Roofies, Camp Winnarainbow). Originally from San Francisco, in 2005 she relocated to NYC to escape an obsessed prisoner pen pal. Within 5 months, with a little hard work and a lot of heart, she was crowned Miss Lower East Side. On stage Cameron performs with a backing track containing original songs and dialogues of her innermost personal thoughts and horrible feelings.

March 30-April 1, 2006
9 p.m.
$15

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