Tagged With "performance"

Performance, Ritual, Celebration: A fusing of Modern Bellydance, Video Projection, and Sound Meditation to form a collective journey into dance as a shamanic form, presented by Solstice Studio, and the East Coast Tribal Salon. June 25th,...

"COIL '12 represents a Performance Space 122 of which we are all very proud. Across the city, sourced from around the world. Fully realized, but on the bleeding front edge. As we spend the upcoming seasons outside of our home, we are proud to be...

James X from Farcry Productions Ireland Written and Performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn Directed by Gabriel Byrne Evening performances at 7:30pm Matinee performances at 2:00pm An Irish government tribunal of inquiry into institutions responsible for cruel and inhumane treatment of children is in session. In the foyer, James X , one of those children, now a man anxiously prepares to offer the testimony which he hopes will unshackle him from the past. As he waits, James is confronted with the...

Carmelita Tropicana & Ela Troyano (NYC) Post Plastica (World Premiere) "Carmelita Tropicana lights up New York's performance venues with colorful, hilarious, and brain-twisting narratives." -Time Out New York Part live performance, part video installation, this piece offers a glimpse into a future in which celebrity culture has pitched a battle between the primacy of virtual and artistic lives; in which revolutionaries keep bees in a secret underground; and in which a half-woman,...

Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...

UK-based artist Ant Hampton in collaboration with Tim Etchells explore a new type of automatic, self-generating performance (Autoteatro) in two New York premieres co-presented by Performance Space 122 and the PEN World Voices Festival: The Quiet Volume Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells April 29 - May 5 NYU Bobst Library | 70 Washington Square S | NYC Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | 515 Malcolm X Boulevard | NYC Reservations recommended - visit ps122.org Co-presented by...

COIL is Performance Space 122’s annual winter performance festival showing remarkable contemporary performance from local, national and global artists. Full of textured, contemplative, grounded, rigorous, and always very live performance. This year, we turn our gaze inward by focusing on our own: New York City artists working on very intimate, personal stories of who and why we are. COIL14's artists are re-imagining how we tell these stories - with traditional forms juxtaposed against new...

Written by Harrison David Rivers Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges National Black Theatre Inc., 2031 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10035 www.nationalblacktheatre.org Limited engagement October 19 th thru November 20 th Retha and Nina Baker have always been close—folding laundry together, chasing fireflies together, and enduring the summer heat together. But when their mother dies unexpectedly and their neighbor, George, returns home from college, the sisters’ relationship begins to fray and...

Sacred and Profane is a special event that provides a unique experience combining the lure of a cutting edge yet intimate club night with art and performance. $5 cover (at the door). 21+ with valid ID. Doors open at 9PM. DJs: Ana Vice with special guests Johanna Constantine & Zvetschka Art Exhibits: Ana Vice & Niktalope - https://www.instagram.com/niktalope_/ Performers: Shanita Bump - https://www.instagram.com/shanitabump/ & Glitter Macabre -...