Them
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 21, 2010
Closed Oct 30, 2010
Opened Oct 21, 2010
Closed Oct 30, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Ishmael Houston-Jones, whose intensely physical improvisations have been a staple of New York's contemporary dance scene for over three decades, sparked controversy in 1986 at Performance Space 122 with Them. Houston-Jones reconstructs Them through a residency at the New Museum.
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Sensuality and violence collide in Them, a vivid reconstruction of the landmark 1986 performance piece created by director/choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, writer/narrator Dennis Cooper, and composer/musician Chris Cochrane. All three of those artists have reunited for this excellent new staging at P.S. 122, and are joined by a talented ensemble in this moving meditation on youth, sexuality, and death.
As Cooper intones softly into a microphone tales of young men who took their own lives, it's difficult not to think about the recent series of gay teen suicides that have occurred across the country in recent months. The motives for the deaths that Cooper describes are not always clear, [...]