PS122 Closes I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT 10/16

Every night I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee and start all over again until exhausted I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee.

Choreographer Amanda Loulaki's eighth work, her fourth full-length evening, does not shy away from emotion, or fatalism, or intensity. Quite the opposite. "I Am Saying Goodnight" is described as a pre-decided game with an intense physical vocabulary, in which she and her co-creators' emotions are unfiltered and laid bare. The piece could be perceived as a desire to say goodbye to a chapter of one's life - the act of swimming to the surface, after nearly drowning in the murky waters of turbulent emotion. What happens when a work is based on a love that never really existed?

Loulaki and her collaborators are known for digging into everyday movements and uncovering their hidden properties and multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings. The performance examines life's stranger moments and walks a fine line between what is real and imagined. At the same time, "I Am Saying Goodnight" is an unflinching embrace of fatalism. After Loulaki and her collaborators say goodnight, we are all left to wonder whether anything will really be different in the morning.

Conceived and directed by Amanda Loulaki. Created and performed by Rebecca Brooks, Carolyn Hall, Pedro Osorio, Rebecca Serrell, Amanda Loulaki. Sound design by Amanda Loulaki. Sound score by Georgios Kontos with music by Giannis Aggelakas and Nikos Veliotis with permission by Altogethernow: http://www.alltogethernow.gr. Costumes by Joanna Seitz. Lights by Jonathan Belcher.

Amanda Loulaki was born and raised in Crete. Amanda Loulaki and Short Mean Lady, a project oriented company was formed in 2001. Amanda's choreography has been presented at Danspace Project, La MaMa, Dixon Place, Performance Space 122, Joyce Soho, Dance New Amsterdam, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, 11th Biennale of artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, BucharEast.West International Dance Festival, The Mediterranean Contemporary Dance Platform, American Dance Festival and MIT. Amanda was selected for The Barnard Project in 2007 at DTW and was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College of Columbia University during the 2007 fall semester. Since 1998, Amanda has been the Programming Director at Movement Research, and has programmed the Improvisation Festival/NY.

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AMANDA LOULAKI and SHORT MEAN LADY's "I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT" runs on the following schedule:

Wednesday, October 13 - Saturday, October 16 at 8PM
LATE SHOW: Saturday, October 16 at 10PM
Thursday Night Social: October 14

Tickets: $20 and $15 (students/seniors), $11 (with a PS122 Passport).
Tickets and P.S. 122 Passports are now on sale and available at www.ps122.org by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101, and at the Box Office in Performance Space 122.
Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue @ E. 9th Street, NY, NY 10009

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