World Premiere Of 'LEWIS FOREVER: Freak The Room' 11/30

Performance Space 122 presents the world premiere of LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room. LEWIS FOREVER is the incredibly talented, hyper-charismatic multinational performing family - think the Von Trapps - but infinitely hipper. Depending on how you slice it, LEWIS FOREVER is comprised of three sisters and a brother; a director, two dancers and a musician; a family living half in New York and half in Berlin; half Dominican and half Jewish American; a performance collective and a bloodline. What happens when these sexy siblings get together and create performance events is highly combustible. This time out, they fuse dance, theatre, music and video to investigate and subvert the fiction of cultural and familial identification. In other words, they freak it - and just about anything that is or isn't nailed down. In LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room, there is play and there is fantasy. There is sex and violence. There's even an impostor who tests their relationships to each other and to their actions. LEWIS FOREVER's home lies between continents, identities and meanings - Performance Space 122 is their living room, and they will freak it. Individually they are George, Isabel, Sarah, and Ligia but together they are a performance collective fusing theatre, dance, experimental music, visual and performance arts. They embody ideas, and questions that surround collective versus individual vision, emigration, post-American identity, "transnationalism", belonging, and dislocation. LEWIS FOREVER has been presented by AUNTS in Brooklyn and by Epic, FUEL, and LaborGras in Berlin.

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Isabel Lewis is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She formed The Labor Union in 2004 with Erika Hand and has presented work at Dance Theater Workshop and the Kitchen, such as the long-running series Dance and Progress, as well as other NYC venues. Isabel also performs on tour with Ann Liv Young and Miguel Gutierrez. She has been a Movement Research (MR) Artist in Residence, Fresh Tracks Residency Recipient, was selected to participate in the Meeting Points Artist Exchange in Budapest, Hungary. Lewis is the curator of Body Blend at Dixon Place and has also worked as a curator for MR Festivals 2004 and 2007.

George Lewis, Jr. is a performance artist/musician based in Brooklyn. Formerly the front man for the Boston-based band Mad Man Films and formerly of DRUG RUG, George Lewis Jr. has toured the U.S. and playing major rock venues. Boston Metro calls 'Hold Me,' the latest album released by Lewis, "Soulfully sinister" and his songwriting style "lyrically and instrumentally intimate." He has performed his solo work in NYC, Berlin, and Copenhagen. George also works as a composer, musician, and performer for LEWIS FOREVER and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Sarah Lewis received her BFA in Theater Production and Management with a focus on directing and producing theater and dance events at Emerson College in Boston, MA. While in Boston she worked for the Cambridge Arts Council and Dance Complex. Since relocating to Berlin she has directed and adapted two plays at the English Theatre of Berlin, Salome and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, as well as curated an experimental performance lab series entitled "Raw Materials Assembledî.

Ligia Manuela Lewis received her Bachelors in Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Upon graduating she relocated to Berlin and has presented her own work in such venues as Dixon Place (NYC), Ballhaus Ost (Berlin), and at Labor Gras studios (Berlin). Since moving to Europe she has also worked with the theater/dance company Superamas (France) and in the fall will join Les Ballets C de la B for a new creation, directed by Koen Augustijnen.

More about Performance Space 122

Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and cross-media. Founded in 1979, Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of dance, theatre, music, and performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view.

LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room runs Sunday, November 30 - Sunday, December 14 on the following schedule: Wednesday - Saturday at 8:30pm/Sunday at 6:30pm. Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members). Tickets may be purchased online at www.ps122.org or via phone at (212) 352-3101. Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009. www.ps122.org.

 

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