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In Performance: Wooster Group Curates PS 122 Avant-Garde-Arama (NYC)

PS 122 Avant-Garde-Arama
Friday, April 16 + Saturday, April 17
Doors open at 8PM
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
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With The Wooster Group curating the latest installment of Avant-Garde-Arama! one can expect two evenings of performance shorts and a nightly party that will “simulate the effects of a finely graded hallucinogen on a hyper-intelligent brain” – Ben Brantley The New York Times (on The Wooster Group). Each evening, of course, will be meta-framed by A.G.A! co-founder Salley May’s customary extravagant introduction and welcome.

Founded in 1976, The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, make work for theatre, dance, and media. The many young people who intern there and sometimes move into positions in the company have long been their lifeblood. They are often artists in their own right who go on to make their own work. The Wooster Group’s Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama! will feature some of these folks, people who have been drawn to the Group and in some sense share its artistic spirit.

FRIDAY:

  • MC: Eric Dyer of Radiohole’s “Outrageous” New Yorker ‘Whatever, Heaven Allows’
  • Stiven Luka & Jean Coleman
  • Cynthia Hopkins
  • Daniel Pettrow
  • Esra Chelen
  • Andrew Schneider
  • Band TBA

SATURDAY:

  • MC: Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag the “Crackpot genius” Village Voice
  • Yvan Greenberg’s Laboratory Theater
  • Enver Chakartash
  • Jamie Poskin & Daniel Jackson’s Haptic Response Team
  • Maurina Lioce
  • Jim Findlay
  • Live music by: Kelley McRae
  • Installation by Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty
    *Line up subject to change

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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