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GLORIA

GLORIA GLORIA

GLORIA is Maria Hassabi’s fourth evening-length piece; for its creation, she has worked with several of her longtime collaborators, dancers Hristoula Harakas and David Adamo, fashion designers ThreeAsFour, musician Jody Elf, dramaturge Marcos Rosales, lighting designer Joe Levasseur, and visual artist Scott Lyall.

GLORIA is composed through the layering of three individual solos. Each solo was developed separately and then joined together. As a result, they inhabit a space of quiet stillness and isolation in which the body is viewed as sculpture, dead and alive at the same time. Moving between one iconic posture and another, the dancers invoke a set of fleeting images within their abstract, mobile diagram. GLORIA’s rhythm stretches time across an optical field of perception, allowing each audience member to recall their own references and fantasies.

Named by Time Out New York as one of “25 Ace New Yorkers to Keep an Eye On” in 2006, Maria Hassabi, born in Cyprus, is an independent choreographer living and working in New York City.

Photography by Natasha Papadopoulou

Running time: 1 hour

Co-commissioned by Allison Sarofim and Ballroom Marfa.

GLORIA is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

NOW PLAYING AS PART OF
COIL FESTIVAL 08
SHOWTIMES: January 11, 2008 at 10pm, January 12, 2008 at 3pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
N.Y. Premiere
November 7-10, 2007

Tim Miller’s 1001 Beds

“Miller has matured without losing either his inquisitive ardor or wicked humor. the nonpareil explorer of self and spirit”
– David Nichols, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Join Tim Miller in his hotel room during his two-week stay at Performance Space 122. Co-founder of P.S. 122 and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, member of the “NEA 4,” and internationally acclaimed performance artist, Miller checks in with his latest critical achievement based on his brand new book.

From a gay teen’s head-on collision with life in a sleazy hotel across the street from the Hollywood Bowl to an ecstatic vision of a sex-positive future on a mattress in a police holding cell, Tim Miller takes us on a raucous and rowdy, kinky and funny journey through all the beds he has been in – and will be – during his fiercely lived adventures in love, politics and art.

Approximate running time: 70 minutes

Photo by Thomas Strand

1001 Beds is published by The University of Wisconsin Press – order now

March 8 – 18, 2007
Thursday – Sunday 8:30 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

In The Spirit – For Real

In the Spirit

In The Spirit – For Real is a powerful and compelling one-woman show by acclaimed solo performer Peggy Pettitt. Due to the AIDS epidemic, a feisty older woman with ferocious stamina is left alone to raise her nephew, an urban youth, gifted but on the edge. Pettitt plays multiple characters in a heart-to-heart conversation between generations. Brilliantly written, infused with hip-hop and jazz selections, In The Spirit – For Real is a powerful coming of age story that bathes the wounds of generational separation with a prescription for hope.

Written &Performed by Peggy Pettitt

Directed by Remy Tissier
Jazz Music Composition &Coordination by Harry Mann
Lighting Design by Aimee Schneider
Costume Design by Pascaline Tissier

Rap Lyrics: Malone Block and I Love My Life by Jarrod Pettitt (Jay Pistols)
Back Drop: ‘The Twins’ by Emmanuel Jegede
Set Design &Props by Remy Tissier
Photo by Aimee Schneider

June 15 – 25, 2006
Opens Thursday, June 15
Wednesday-Saturday 8pm
Saturdays &Sundays at 4pm
$20($10 Members)

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)

We Failed To Hold This Reality In Mind

Hooman Sharifi, who moved from Iran to Norway when he was fourteen, established the in 2000to create direct and unpretentious performances that are also controversial and politically charged. In We Failed To Hold This Reality In Mind, Sharifi relates his experience of dislocation and identity in an unconventional, nonnarrative way. Combining classical Iranian music with spoken text and dancing, Sharifi is both confrontational and compelling as he explores memory, identity, misunderstanding, politics, boredom and incomprehension.

December 10 & 11 2005
$20($10 Members)