M Lamar | Performance Space New York

AGA Wrecking Ball

Avant-Garde-Arama
Wrecking Ball

Performance Space 122’s longest running series kicks it up a few notches for this demolition derby of theatre, dance, music, and video installation as part of the 30th Anniversary RetroFutureSpective Festival.

Join us for hard core performance during what “always ends up exploding into an all-out party.” – Flavorpill

FRIDAY 6/17:
Hosted by Murray Hill
Performances by Salley May, Alien Comic, Tigger!, John Kelly, Andrew Schneider, The Factress aka Lucy Sexton, The Dazzle Dancers, Julie Atlas Muz, Urban Bushwomen, Joe E Jeffreys, Miss Joan Moosey, Gina Vetro, Jacqueline Zahora, Annabel Sexton Daldry, Louise Belle Ethyl May
Music by Hank & Cupcakes, Rockman

SATURDAY 6/18:
Hosted by Uncle Jimmy
Performances by Lisa Kron, Rose Wood, Peggy Pettitt, Flawless Sabrina, Karen Therese, M Lamar, Koosil-ja with Lance Blisters, Edgar Oliver, Joe E Jeffreys, Miss Joan Moosey, Gina Vetro, Pezzettino, Jacqueline Zahora, Annabel Sexton Daldry, Louise Belle Ethyl May

Music by Bad Buka, Cudzoo & The Faggettes

PLUS:

Expect the unexpected as the LES Lounge comes alive around 7pm nightly in the downstairs space, providing a cozy atmosphere for personalities of the past, present, and future to come together to mingle, reminisce, perform and subterfuge with Lounge Host, legendary Stage Manager to the stars, Lori E. Seid. The lounge will feature a slideshow of 20 years of performance photography by the renowned Dona Ann McAdams as well as signature refreshments, music and more!

June 17-18, 2011
8:00pm

AGA Fall 09

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“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

PS122’s longest-running series, this multidisciplinary mini-festival features an exuberant and eclectic line-up of the wildest experimental performance shorts to be found in N.Y.C.

FRIDAY:

  • Performances by: Karen Therese & Lizzie Thomson, Joey Arias, M. Lamar, Maria Hassabi, Carmelita Tropicana and Maureen Angelos, Carol Lipnik and Spookarama
  • Band: GoonSquad
  • Video:OBSCENITY, from Sex Crimes Cabaret, By L. Gabrielle Penabaz, with special guest star Nicole Blackman
  • Installation by: Andrew Schneider
  • Party music by: DJ Scott Ewalt

SATURDAY

  • Performances by: Karen Therese + Lizzie Thomson, Jackie Hoffman, Beadz on Nude Illusion, enemyResearch, Adrienne Truscott, Reggie Watts, Andrew Schneider
  • Band: GoonSquad
  • Installation by: Andrew Schneider
  • Party music by: DJ Joro-Boro

*line up subject to change

Fri, Sept 18 + Sat, Sept 19 8pm

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Avant-Garde-Arama Spring 2008

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AVANT GARDE ARAMA KEEPS HOPE ALIVE

“Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party.”
-flavorpill.net

P.S. 122’s longest-running series (25 years) is an action-packed, eye-popping multi-disciplinary mini-festival that always culminates in a DJ dance party. The latest eruption of breakout dance, music, theatre, performance, video/film and more are presented in 8 minutes or less. The ever-popular “40-Second-Street” segment invites the audience to sign-up and present their own express performance contribution, be it prepared or made up on the spot.

Hosted by Yehuda Duenyas, Normandy Sherwood, and Jonathan Jacobs of
the National Theater of the United States of America

Installation by the Love Everybody Movement with
Laminated Love by Cat
Celebrezze
Corridor piece by R.RABBIT
Special appearance by Guerilla Dance Team

Friday, May 9th

  • Red Terror Squad
  • Ryan Trecartin
  • Mr Fashion (Dir. Jacob Burckhardt)
  • DuPree and Friend
  • Leah Meyerhoff
  • Lavinia Co-op
  • Fiasco

Saturday May 10th

  • Martha Wilson / Barbara Bush
  • M. Lamar
  • Natalie Agee & Diana Y Greiner with Baby Blue
  • Bradford Scobie
  • Leah Meyerhoff
  • The Dana Leong Band

Curated by Salley May, Tom Murrin, Henry Baumgartner,
Joe E. Jeffreys and Miss Joan Marie Moossy

Lavinia Co-op photo by Ande Whyland

May 9 and 10 2008
Tickets from $10

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