P.S. 122 Announces Fall 2007 Season

Performance Space 122 has announced its fall season, which will include the U.S. premiere of the London hit C’est Duckie, and works by artists Young Jean Lee, John Moran, and Taylor Mac.

The season will kick off as P.S. 122’s home base on First Avenue with the New York premiere of medEia (September 26-30), by the Amsterdam-based Dood Paard (Dead Horse). This English-language production is a contemporary version of the Medea story, liberally laced with lyrics of American and English pop songs. Also starting off the season is The International Show (September 28-30), an interdisciplinary collaboration between Iver Findlay, Alexander Gerner, Young Jean Lee, and Marie Nerland.

The fall programming will continue with FranceOff! (October 3), curated by Terry Dean Bartlett and Katie Workum. In brief, densely-packed vignettes, seven Francophile dance troupes mix movement, singing, storytelling, and more. Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Clubbing (October 6-7) will be a collaboration with club curators of the downtown scene, past and present, from clubs still open or long closed. Next up, GTA (German Theater Abroad) Road Theater USA will present the world premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Start Up (October 7-14). The black comedy postulates that young Germans come to the U.S. to find their by selling German culture — which is exactly what GTA’s Road Theater USA will be doing in this fast-paced farce.

The butoh-based all female troupe Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club will present the U.S. premiere of A Bowl of Summer (October 18-21), with choreography that explores the universe created when life and death mingle with each other in the summer. Composer/theatre artist John Moran and partner, Japanese dancer/choreographer Saori Tsukada will present the world premiere of What if Saori Had a Party? (October 21-November 4), which will explore the back-and-forth relationship between American and Japanese culture in the form of an abstracted Japanese children’s show.

Lhotáková & Soukup Company will present Beethoven Live (October 28-November 3), a documentary dance-theatre piece, which works with non-dancers, “real people,” as inspiration. John Jahnke and The Hotel Savant will present the world premiere of The Archery Contest, a Radio Play (November 8-10), an abstract sex comedy that follows the al fresco adventures of a quintet of players trapped between the Christian rules of the past and the Nihilistic chaos of the future.

Choreographer Maria Hassabi will present the U.S. premiere of Gloria (November 7-10), an evening-length piece composed through the layering of three individual solos. (3-D) Dinosaur Death Dance (November 15-19) is a world premiere by Williamsburg noise-rock band Japanther, which integrates live music, dance, an interactive set, video projections plus an animatronic robot dinosaur. Choreography team robbinschilds will present C.L.U.E. (December 5-8), a live performance installation that explores the intersection between movement and architecture, both natural and manmade.

Chicago’s 500 Clown company will present the New York premieres of 500 Clown Frankenstein and 500 Clown Christmas (December 12-31). Andrew Dinwiddie & Jeff Larson will present their latest installment of the Catch series – CATCH 27 (December 13-22), a festival of emerging artists and downtown luminaries, featuring Asubtout’s Lady Centaurs Show, Laura Berlin Stinger’s Keeping It Down, and short works by Ivy Baldwin, Anna Sperber, Taylor Mac, and The Theater of a Two-Headed Calf.

P.S. 122 will conclude its fall season with the U.S. premiere of C’est Duckie!, presented off-site at CSV Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey), by the London-based performance troupe Duckie. Armed with Duckie dollars upon entering, guests at each table can order from a show menu of craftily titled “acts” at will. Shows include a variety of theatrical fare, including vaudeville, ventriloquism, balloon modelling, and broken down burlesque.

For more information, visit www.ps122.org.