PERFORMANCE SPACE 122

Sam Kim
Darling
Wed, June 24 - Sun, June 28
Wed - Sat 8p/Sun 6p
"Ms. Kim is a smart, analytical artist, creating works that challenge personal and cultural assumptions... her choreography, often drawing on deeply personal experiences, relies on a gripping, dreamlike logic." - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
"Undoubtedly smart and talented." -Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice [Placid Baby]
"A miracle of artistic convergence. Think young Steppenwolf." -United Stages
Darling is a black comedy disguised as a horror film disguised as a dance. Inspired by the genre subversion and dysfunctional family dynamics of the 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' Darling exposes killers, cannibals, half-wits and the sexually demented for who they really are - monsters with extraordinary human qualities who must put up with the shaming and nagging of their insufferable families, just like everyone else. Darling answers the burning question, "What do butchers and cannibals do in their off-time? And, how do they do it?" Darling is essentially the story of family - necessary, painful, horrific, and ultimately laughable.
Performed by Inka Juslin, Sam Kim, Ryan McNamara, and Liz Santoro
SAM KIM makes dances that focus on the margins of culture and behavior, creating space for vulnerability while courting danger. Since 2002, Sam has created dumb dumb bunny (The Kitchen, 2007), Cult (Dance Theater Workshop, 2007), AVATAR (Mulberry St Theater, 2006), Nobody Understands Me (Dance Theater Workshop, 2004), Placid Baby (Performance Space 122, 2003) and Valentine (Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, 2002). She has created several shorter works since 1997.
Darling was created, in part, through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and with private funds from the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Darling was created, in part, with support from The Lucky Star Foundation.
Photo by: Ryan McNamara

The Amoralists
The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side
Fri, June 5 - Sun, June 28
Monday 7:30p
Thursday - Saturday 7:30p
Sundays at 5pm
additional show: Wed Jun 24th at 7:30pm
"'The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side is the most exciting theatre I've seen in quite a while. The Amoralists are making theatre here that really does have the capacity to lead their audience towards some meaningful social change." - NYtheatre.com
"The play manages to entertain, educate and titillate. It's the same rabble-rousing theatricality that fueled The Living Theatre, that made Sam Shepard's plays, especially the early ones, a theatre of brutality that electrified audiences." -Backstage
"A miracle of artistic convergence. Think young Steppenwolf." -United Stages
"The Amoralists are proof that some of the best stuff in theater is nowhere near Broadway" -The Greenwich Village Gazette
An extraordinary gathering of young idealists live as a modern day urban tribe above a vegan restaurant in NYC. Billy, Dawn, Dear and Wyatt are an extended sexual family battling their fears and addictions in order to live their utopian dream. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side is a celebration of love and the search for human grandness.
The AMORALISTS is a theatre company that produces work of no moral judgment. Dedicated to an honest expression of the American condition, our actor-driven ensemble explores complex characters of moral ambiguity. We seek to initiate a dialogue between artists and audience, putting theatre at the heart of our community. Rollicking, rebellious, and raw, our work will go home with you...Boom!
Photo by Gail Thacker