Emergency PERFORMANCE PARTY

Performance Party & Benefit 

Wednesday, March 17, 7:30pm – Midnight

@ The Invisible Dog Arts Center 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn (F @ Bergen)

To celebrate Ugly Duckling Presse and the launching of its new Emergency Performance series, the editors are hosting a bacchanalia to invoke the spirit of chaos necessary for such an ambitious project, and a wonderful collision of performers, audiences, and communities to begin the process of engagement which this new series will undertake.

This party, already almost legend, will be held at the cavernous 1st floor of The Invisible Dog Art Center, an extraordinary former-warehouse space on Bergen Street.

To celebrate this new series, many artists, musicians, and performers will create events, dances, happenings, music, and experiences to help you party like it’s the fin de siecle!

featuring:

Deville Cohen will install and perform “Flat Tire” a 3-dimensional living diorama;
Ellie Ga will do individualized Card Readings, based on her recent performance lecture “The Fortunetellers”;
playwright and performer Kristen Kosmas will do a one-woman 12-character performance of her play Hello Failure, recently published by UDP’s Emergency Playscript Series;
artist and musician Marisol Limon Martinez (from The Reading) will install and perform “Keyboard Convent,” an interactive keyboard performance;
Urara Tsuchiya will host a Naked Sewing Circle, where guests come naked and (with Urara’s help) sew the very clothes they wear for the rest of the party;
the Ashcan Orchestra will play music for violin, toy piano, glockenspiel, cymbal, floortom, toy organ, and deskbells;
You Nakai (whose scores are forthcoming from the UDP Emergency Playscript Series) will perform “Tria Partio Voki,” a solo musical composition for a party;
Jim Findlay performs a shard from his new work-in-progress “Botanica”;
members of the NTUSA will perform excepts from their new work in progress, The Golden Veil, by Normandy Sherwood;
visual and performance artist Gaël Peltier will perform “The Big Time,” in which the artist changes his own envelope by gaining weight, incorporating classic american comedy.

Also featuring Karinne Keithley singing requests just for you (with a ukelele), interactive pangolins by Jeffrey Joe Nelson, music by Joey Wyoming and Holiday Inn, video installation by Mike Taylor and Iki Nakagawa; films projected by Joel Schlemowitz; occasional dances by Laboratory Theater directed by Yvan Greenberg, an elevator performance by Filip Marinovich, and a new solo work by Japanese artist and punk musician Yoshihito Mizuuchi.

From 1999-2002, Ugly Duckling Presse published the free, biweekly EMERGENCY GAZETTE, a broadsheet of theater matters that avoided insipid, consumer-report theater writing in favor of the analytical, the subjective, the ephemeral, and the impossible. After its end, the Gazette, and its particular blend of seriousness and inclusivity, of excitement and critical thinking, was missed by theater-makers large and small.

Now, ten years later, the editors of the old EMERGENCY GAZETTE are launching a new series of performance books, to be published annually by Ugly Duckling Presse. The Series will be three books: EMERGENCY PLAYSCRIPTS, publishing scripts which focus attention on the relationship between the text and its performance, EMERGENCY INDEX, a yearbook of performance descriptions, wriiten by artists and indexed according to the language artists use; and EMERGENCY ANALYSIS, a long essay of theoretical and analytical writing about performance. The first EMERGENCY PLAYSCRIPT was released in November 2009 (Kristin Kosmas’ HELLO FAILURE). The INDEX and ANALYSIS texts are expected to be released in 2011.

All proceeds from this event to benefit Ugly Duckling Presse and the Emergency Performance Series.

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