To celebrate a frightful all-Hallows Eve, Here Arts Center, the starting point of the Village Halloween Parade, will host two very special curtains on Halloween night. After the performance of ARIAS WITH A TWIST, spooky sounds will be provided by DJ Flotilla DeBarge and Joey Arias, the creature of the night himself, will judge a petrifying pumpkin carving contest. Prizes will go to the most creepy, creative and cringeworthy costumes.
HERE Arts Center also recently announced that ARIAS WITH A TWIST has been extended to run through December 31, 2008. The CD ARIAS WITH A TWIST was released on October 3.
Created by Joey Arias, a New York performance artist, drag artist, actor and singer, and
Basil Twist, a noted puppeteer, ARIAS WITH A TWIST is a 70-minute collaborative play featuring Arias performing with virtually unseen puppeteers who handle marionettes and hand puppets. It premiered on June 12, 2008 at the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre at the HERE Arts Center in New York. Arias sings several songs, including Kashmir by Led Zeppelin, All By Myself by Eric Carmer and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles. The New York Times wrote, "Eat you heart out Madonna." TimeOut New York said that the play is an "eye-popping, delightfully transgressive lysergic fantasia." The New York Post called it "gleeful anarchic fun." The New York Press said it is "a glittering, trippy fantasia." The puppeteers are Oliver Dalzell, Randy Ginsburg, Kirsten Kammermeyer, Mat Leabo, Jessica Scott, Lindsay Abromaitis Smith.
Joey Arias, a North Carolina native, arrived in New York in the mid-70s. He was a fixture of the 80s New York performance art scene, developing a successful career in cabaret. He portrayed
Joan Crawford in New York productions of CHRISTMAS WITH THE CRAWFORDS. His film credits include BIG TOP PEE-WEE, MONDO NEW YORK, ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK, FLAWLESS, TO WONG FOO: THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!
Julie Newmar and WIGSTOCK: THE MOVIE. Before ARIAS WITH A TWIST, he played the role of the Mistress of Seduction ZUMANITY, A Cirque du Soleil show which ran at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on the famed Las Vegas strip.
Twist was recently selected by TimeOut New York for the "The New York 40," a group of important New Yorkers featured with interviews to celebrate the 40th anniversary of TimeOut. He is the recipient of an Obie Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, and is the founder and director of the Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE Arts Center.
Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York's most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at the forefront of the city's presenters of daring new hybrid art. HERE supports multidisciplinary work that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda. HERE's aesthetic represents the independent, the innovative, and the experimental: HERE has developed such acclaimed works as
Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues;
Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique;
Hazelle Goodman's On Edge;
Trey Lyford &
Geoff Sobelle's all wear bowlers; and original musical and dance works created and directed by HERE Co-Founder and Artistic Director
Kristin Marting. HERE is located at 145 6th Avenue (between Spring and Broome), New York (entrance on Dominick Street). For more information, call 212-647-0202 or visit
http://www.here.org.
To purchase tickets to ARIAS WITH A TWIST, call the HERE Box Office at 212-352-3101 or visit
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/219. For ticket information, email tickets@here.org.
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