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Anger at the Movies

David Levine (NY, Berlin)
ANGER AT THE MOVIES (World Premiere)

“Enraging, engaging.. Levine a savvy rascal who makes theater pieces that bleed into Conceptual art”
– Time Out

A follow up to Levine’s acclaimed Venice Saved: A Seminar, this seminar masquerading as theatre masquerading as film screening asks the audience, “Why is it so frustrating to see your profession represented on film?” You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the spectacle.

Collaborators for ANGER AT THE MOVIES:

Rob Cohen, Lawyer (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP)

Cate Schappert, Photographer

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Writer

Jo Walker, Architectural Designer

Kyoung H. Park, Playwright
Christianna Nelson, Actor

Created in part at the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
Mabou Mines

January 10 – 12, 2012

For this show, please provide a clip to the creative team for the
night of the performance.

You can either:
1) bring a physical DVD with chapter/timecode noted to the night of
the performance
2) find a clip online and copy/paste the url into an email, sent to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org by 12pm the day of performance. If you
can’t find a clip, we suggest looking on youtube, movieclips.com, or
vimeo

3) Upload a digital version of a clip to your favorite cloud storage
site (i.e. dropbox or yousendit). Copy and paste the url and send to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org

4) Bring a clip with you on a flash drive.

If you can’t find a clip that (mis)represents your profession, you’re
welcome to bring clips depicting, inaccurately, a hobby, location,
activity or state of mind you’re familiar with.

If you can only find clips that depict your profession extraordinarily
well, feel free to bring that.

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 Spring 09

AGA

“Theatre Askew is queer in the best sense of the word: self-consciously outside of the mainstream, looking in with intelligence and wit.”
– Julia Wallace, The Village Voice

Queer duckling Theatre Askew joins forces with Performance Space 122 to present Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Askew. Drawing from across the rainbow spectrum of LGBT culture, the evening features dance inspired by Margaret Cho and the notorious Alphabet City after-hours club Save the Robots, trannie dominatrices, and severed heads. Hosted by Downtown legends Bianca Leigh and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s Everett Quinton, it’s guaranteed to get your sap flowing this May.
Hosted by Bianca Leigh and Everett Quinton. With performances by Bianca Leigh, Karen Grenke, Theatre Askew company members, Irene Ruiz-Riveros and BLISS dance-theatre, GERALDCASELDANCE, Isengart, and The Din (Matthew Pritchard and Isam Rum). Featuring new writing by Polly Frost, Stan Richardson, and OBIE-winner William M. Hoffman. Installation by Peter Cramer & Co of Le Petit Versailles community garden. Queer experimental film & video presented by Stephen Kent Jusick, executive director of the MIX Festival

Theatre Askew’s inaugural production, Bald Diva! earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Play. Their follow-up show was the hit serial I, Claudius Live. Last year they received their second GLAAD nomination for the world premiere of Jason Schafer’s i google myself. They were named 2007 People of the Year by nytheatre.com. Their most recent production was the world premiere of William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland’s Cornbury: The Queen’s Governor.

Fri, May 15 – Sat, May 16, 2009
7:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Guest Curated by: