PS122 NYC: SEATTLE EDITION Plays 9/5-6 At The Seattle Center
By: Gabrielle Sierra Aug. 27, 2009
Performance Space 122, N.Y.C.'s hotbed of contemporary performance, exports a multi-artist touring program to be presented at Seattle's legendary Bumbershoot Festival. PS122 NYC: SEATTLE EDITION is a live bento box teeming with delectable performance bites from Witness Relocation, Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith, LeeSaar The Company - plus a live art installation by 31 Down and Japanther. Best to come hungry.
Combining dance and theatre with the energy of a rock concert, "The Panic Show" attacks mass hysteria, hyper-ventilation, stress, and self help techniques. Dark confessions, confetti, and real time performance tasks will whip the audience and performers into a lather. Co-commissioned by Dance New Amsterdam. Reggie Watts / Tommy Smith: Radio Play
Sonic auteurs Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith model "Radio Play" after radio programs of yesteryear, gathering a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a surreal sonic entertainment - performed in the dark! LeeSaar The Company: Geisha
A woman and man are locked in a sensual duet interwoven with a surreal concert performance by an over-the-top Celine Dion-esque diva. Navigating a world that is alternately disturbing and seductive, intimate and extroverted, Geisha opens the door to an intensely voyeuristic and hypnotic experience.
A startlingly cathartic installation of alt-punk proportions: 31 Down challenges you to The Scream Contest, with music written by punk band Japanther and performed live by the duo Breelah (featuring members of TacocaT). Sign up to read a short radio theatre scene ending with a blood curdling scream provided by YOU. Like a sideshow at a county fair where people test their strength by pounding a hammer and ringing a bell, The Scream Contest rewards the best set of lungs. The winner is decided by the SCREAM-o-METERTM. The 39th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, Presented by Samsung Mobile will showcase a wide range of arts over Labor Day Weekend (September 5 - 7). The Festival stretches across the 74-acre Seattle Center, located beneath the city's iconic Space Needle, and programs 20 indoor and unique outdoor venues. This progressive Festival features a comprehensive arts program including live music, comedy, visual and literary arts, theatre, dance, film, and urban crafts. Complete Festival lineup and ticket information are located at bumbershoot.org.
Single day-specific and three-day Festival passes are available NOW at bumbershoot.org, and Ticketmaster outlets. Single day-specific tickets are $50; three-day passes are $120. For more ticket information visit bumbershoot.org/tickets.htm.
More about Performance Space 122Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. PS122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists who explore innovative form and provocative content and who rigorously challenge the boundaries contemporary performance; PS122 is committed to a steadfast search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures, nations and beliefs.
For thirty years, Performance Space 122 has been a hub for contemporary performance and an active member of the East Village, as well as the wider cultural community in N.Y.C. and across the globe. In just the past 4 years, under the curatorial vision of Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner, PS122 has opened the curtain on more than 2,100 performances, welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, and supported the work of more than 1,800 artists, performers, choreographers, playwrights, directors and designers.
Performance Space 122 passionately advocates for U.S. artists in New York and across globe. Our organization and the artists we present are reclaiming their relevance to wider social discourse by engaging artists, audiences and other community leaders in cultural, economic, and environmental debates about what it means to live in contemporary society. www.ps122.org.
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