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PS122 at Bumbershoot


Presented in association with Bumbershoot

This Labor Day weekend, Performance Space 122 delivers a live bento box teeming with a delectable assortment of technology-infused multimedia, mind-bending dance, inflammatory theatre and addictive live art to Bumbershoot, Seattle’s premiere music and performing arts festival.

Sample bites from five of NYC’s vanguard of genre-defying artists. Come hungry.

Witness Relocation
The Panic Show


“A dance-theater anarchist’s Utopia” – Performing Arts
Journal

Witness Relocation combines dance & theater with the energy
of a rock-show.
The Panic Show attacks mass hysteria, hyper-ventilation,
stress, fight or flight, self help techniques, not to mention “Panic Room”,
that mess of a film starring Jodie Foster.
This wild ride includes dances,
dark confessions, confetti, and real time performance tasks that will whip both
the audience and performers into a lather.
Co-commissioned by
Dance New Amsterdam.

Reggie Watts / Tommy Smith – RADIO PLAY

“Nakedly entertaining! Wouldn’t it be strange if this is what the
future of theatre looks like?”- Variety

“Sharp, wry and elusive … moves seamlessly from skits to songs to
off-kilter stand-up.” – New York Times

Join sonic auteurs REGGIE WATTS & TOMMY
SMITH for RADIO PLAY.
Modelled after radio programs of yesteryear, RADIO PLAY
gathers a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a
surreal sonic entertainment.
Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a
comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes.
Performed in the dark!

REGGIE WATTS (performer) and TOMMY SMITH
(director) create absurd experimental comedic theatricals for modern
performance spaces.

LeeSaar The Company – GEISHA

“LeeSaar’s dances always require
unwavering attention, they are powerful.”
– The New York Times

“This is the kind of work that could awaken a love
for modern dance.” Oregon Arts & Culture

A feminine woman and a virile man are locked in a seething
and sensual duet interwoven with a surreal concert performance by an
over-the-top Celine Dion-esque diva .
Navigating a world that is alternately
disturbing and seductive, intimate and extroverted, ultimately Geisha opens the
door to an intensely voyeuristic and hypnotic experience.

31 Down radio theatre & JAPANTHER – THE
SCREAM CONTEST


Japanther is “A New York-based band whose music conveys what I would call springing life”- Art Forum

31 Down provides “mind-shattering spiritual enlightenment” – Time Out New York

A startlingly cathartic installation of alt-punk proportions: 31 Down challenges you to The Scream Contest, with music written by punk band Japanther and performed live by the duo Breelah (featuring members of TacocaT). Sign up to read a short radio theatre scene ending with a blood curdling scream provided by YOU. Like a sideshow at a county fair where people test their strength by pounding a hammer and ringing a bell, The Scream Contest rewards the best set of lungs. The winner of each day is decided by the SCREAM-o-METER and receives a mystery prize.

The 39th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile will showcase a wide range of arts over Labor Day Weekend (September 5 – 7). The Festival stretches across the 74-acre Seattle Center, located beneath the city’s iconic Space Needle, and programs 20 indoor and unique outdoor venues. This progressive Festival features a comprehensive arts program including live music, comedy, visual and literary arts, theatre, dance, film, and urban crafts.

Single day-specific and three-day Festival passes are available NOW at bumbershoot.org, and Ticketmaster outlets. Single day-specific tickets are $50; three-day passes are $120. For more ticket information visit bumbershoot.org/tickets.htm.

Photos by: Justin Bernhaut, Jules Hil, Rachel Roberts, Jay Ryan

Sept 5 and 6, 2009
Saturday and Sunday at 6pm
The Seattle Center

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Prima

Prima


“LeeSaar’s dances always require unwavering attention” – Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

The physicality and explosive tempos synonymous with LeeSaar’s award-winning choreography mature and ripen in the company’s fourth presentation at Performance Space 122.
In Prima, four arresting performers explore a world of pure sensation and energy. Teasing out the feminine and the virile, they are alternately playful and bashful as they navigate sexuality and temptation.


The company’s process and technique is influenced by the Gaga training of Ohad Naharin. Lee and Saar are recipients of the Six Point Fellowship 2007-2009, the Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography for 2008, and the New York Foundation for the Art Fellowship for 2008.

Featuring: Jye-Hwei Lin, Hsin-Yi Hsiang, Candice Schnurr, Hyerin Lee
Featuring the music of political activist and artist DJ Filastine

A co-production of Performance Space 122, the JCC (Manhattan), Fusebox Festival, and testperformancetest (Austin TX).

WORLD PREMIERE
Presented as part of COIL
2010

50 Minutes
Off Site at the Jewish Community Center
Thu, Jan 7 8pm
Sat, Jan 9 8pm
Sun, Jan 10 3pm
PS122 original Premiere: Nov 18-22, 2009

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Prima Program online!

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

Moopim 2006

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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

Coil 2006

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“Bravo to Performance Space 122 which (in association with the Joyce Foundation) has quietly come up with an intriguing mix of troupes for this six-day festival” -The New York Times Jan 13, 2006.

BalletLab
Amplification
Presented in association with The Joyce Theater

“A raw and powerful work…Amplification is not for the faint-hearted or the prudish.”
-Jane Howard, Melbourne Herald Sun

In their highly anticipated U.S. premiere, Australia’s foremost contemporary dance company unleashes unsettling work utilizing inventive media, fiercely rigorous dance and twisted humor. In Amplification, choreographer Phillip Adams deconstructs a car accident to examine the thresholds of the human body with both scientific fascination and morbid curiosity.

LeeSaar The Company
Herd of Bulls

“…more a delicate martial-arts demonstration than a boot-camp drill or a military stampede. Its exploration of animal instinct ranges past the violent and murderous impulses of the body to the sensual and seductive.”
-The New Yorker

Saar Harari charts an intrepid and haunting journey through violence and its emotional aftermath. Herd of Bulls returns to P.S. 122 after an acclaimed October 2005 premiere. With turbulent grace, visceral impact and arresting precision, four dancers manifest one soldier’s attempt to reclaim his humanity.

Adrienne Truscott
They Will Use the Highways

“A fresh, engaging voice. Bring on her next eruption.“-The New York Times

Founding member of the Obie and Bessie Award-winning LAVA dance company and one-half of the Wau-Wau Sisters, Adrienne Truscott makes a U-turn back to P.S. 122 to continue a free association begun along the New Jersey Turnpike. A madcap existential exercise unfolds as Truscott and collaborators elaborate on the downright weird and ephemeral nature of creating dance.

Helen Herbertson
Strike 1

“An astonishing piece an astute understanding of what triggers our senses to play tricks on us.”- The Herald, Glasgow

Strike1 provides a portal into a strange and shadowy world, a world of apparitions, through an intense language of feverish action and mesmerizing imagery. Helen Herbertson’s movement is subtly sculpted by Ben Cobham’s lighting. Together, the award-winning collaborators deftly blur the lines between reality and fantasy and delve into the realm of the imagination.

January 19-24, 2006

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