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The 4th celebrated SACRED season at Chelsea Theatre runs from Tuesday October 26, to Saturday November 20, 2010 and this year joins forces with New York’s Performance Space 122 culminating in an auspicious transatlantic collaboration via a four-week programme of dynamic and innovative, contemporary performance.
Both venues are renowned for showcasing pioneering work. PS122, in the heart of New York’s East Village has been a downtown fixture for over 30 years, presenting and supporting artists who challenge traditional boundaries of dance, theatre, music and performance. Chelsea Theatre’s previous SACRED seasons have been a resounding success, prompting another irrepressible cavalcade of performances, events and artists to experience and savour.
What's on?
Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 October at 8.00 pm – Young Jean Lee
Launching SACRED, New York’s Young Jean Lee presents PULLMAN WA. Lee, originally from Korea is now based in N
ew York, where she receives high praise for her original and brutally honest work. Pullman, WA is, in her own words: “A show about what to do if you're unhappy and everyone around you is kind of an asshole, including yourself. Three ordinary, awkward characters in street clothes address audience members directly in an earnest, frequently disastrous attempt to show them how to live a better life”. Young Jean Lee’s work successfully travels worldwide, Pullman WA at SACRED marks an unmissable UK debut.
"[Lee’s Pullman, Wa] has the deadpan simplicity of the plays of Richard Maxwell and the awkward, secretly suffering angst of a teenage diarist working through an identity crisis…. It is an honest [work] that takes itself seriously, and that is refreshing." — New York Times
Thursday 29, Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October, 8pm - Marisa Carnesky and Rasp Thorne
On a Halloween adventure, Olivier award winning show woman Marisa Carnesky and underground New York performer Rasp Thorne present THE QUICKENING OF THE WAX, a new spectacle specially commissioned for SACRED combining anatomical waxworks by Anthony Bennett with illusions, ritualistic performance and Thorne’s original score. From anatomical effigies to dubious idols, from heretical worship to supernatural sacrifice, view the
newly excavated exhibits from the bizarre 'Dystopian Wonders Collection'. Bear witness to the processes and rituals of cult wax workshop and touch the pumping heart….– Book early for London’s definitive Halloween event!Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November – Sarah Juli
New York’s Sarah Juli, and MONEY CONVERSATION, confronts the artist’s own troubled relationship with money, by giving it all away.. Take it. It’s for you,” she says, inviting audience members to put their hands in her pocket. “How much is it?” she says Juli fuses text, movement, humour, and voice to make fun of universal emotions stemming from her own inadequacies. Her unique movement style and the quirky delivery of her comedic insights make her work engaging and compelling. THE MONEY CONVERSATION premiered at Performance Space 122 and was made possible, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and was first work-shopped at Danspace Project as part of the DraftWork series.
Excerpts on YouTube:
Richard Maxwell interviewed by BOMB magazine about his "Ads" project
For the full programme of events and to buy tickets online:
Web: Programme of Events or To Book Tickets
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