Salley May | 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 Summer 07

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.

AGA for the Whole Family Summer 07

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

Curated by the teenaged Avant-Garde-Arama Committee:
Devon Beckford, James Dennin, Lucian Buscemi, Gabby Smith,
and Stella Jones.

Hosted by TeaM D (A.J. Ortiz and Vincent Santvoord).

Saturday: Dear Son (spoken word from LaGuardia HS),
BHSEC Step Team, The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team,
films by Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang,
and LEGS (band).

Sunday: Dancewave, Inc., Dear Son, BHSEC Step Team,
The Order of the Feather Fraternity Step Team, films by
Isaac McGinn and Jonathan Zhang, and the Crayons (band).

May 19 and 20, 2007
Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
$10 ($5 Members)

AGA for the Whole Family Fall 06

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

AGA for the Whole Family is downtown performance for children of all ages that doesn’t talk down to them – because it’s by them. An instant classic launched in Fall 2005, AGAWF ushered in a new generation of alternative performance. The whole family will revel in an afternoon of eclectic multi-disciplinary performances by, for, or about kids!

Hosted by Mark Mitton

Featuring:
Berkeley Carroll Dancers
New Voices and Mirage
New Jersey Youth Slam Team (pictured above)
Save the Kittens

Sunday October 8, 2006
4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
$15, $10 Members

AGA for the Whole Family Spring 06

AGA KIDS

Hosted by Ulysses S. Dee and Booker Dee of The
DeedleDeedleDees, AGA for the Whole Family presents the next generation of cutting-edge, alternative performance – by, for or about kids! Featuring

Kid STREB (from STREB Lab for Action
Mechanics, www.strebusa.org)
Butterflies of the Teenage
Mind (Stuyvesant High School Improv Troupe)
The Deeply
Felt Puppet Theatre
and Too Busy Being Bored

The whole family will revel in this fun-filled festival of new and exciting performance! Curated by Salley May and the Avant-Garde-Arama Committee

March 26, 2006
4:00, 7:00 p.m.

Avant-Garde-Arama: High Octane Ethyl

Avant-Garde-Arama:
High Octane Ethyl