THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

On PURIM, it's a Mitzvah to get drunk. On ST. PAT'S, you're an outcast if you're sober. Two cultures, united in inebriation. For one day, everyone's JewIrish.

Celebrate these two great traditions of two immigrant groups that made America great as they collide in one very American tradition. Participatory, punchy and playful. With live music, karaoke, comedy, tricks, acts, delights, snacks & the story of Purim...of course.

Leprechaun: $5
Blarney Stone: $10, 2 drinks
Queen Esther: $25, DRINK ALL NIGHT
St. Purim Superstar: $50, drink all night + Tank membership

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LINE UP:

8pm Comedy
Comedians KATIE HALPER and HARRY TERJANIAN MC the Megillah -- the story of the Book of Esther.

9pm
DEATH MASK
http://www.myspace.com/deathmask

10:30pm
RUSSEL PATRICK BROWN
http://www.russelpatrickbrown.com
Lady Gaga meets Irish step-dance performance with song and harp. Yes, you read that right.

Karaoke Ever-After.
Special thanks to KARAOKE CHAMP for their generous donation! We couldn't make fools of ourselves without you! http://www.karaokechamp.com

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Look for more details at http://www.stpurimsday.com.

Direct from Japan
US TOUR

A unique that mixture of short pieces from traditional Japanese dance, drum and contemporary performance with professional dancers from alumnae of the University.

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Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102991

Conceived and directed by Chris Masullo.

Performers: Adam Berry, Leslie Gauthier, Jess Howell

Sound/Video: Chris Masullo

MUSIC FOR THE ARRIVAL GUESTS was initially inspired by a personal bout with musical gluttony. (Working consistently in a fine dining establishment to the same tune of the same 26-song play list). Around this time was an encounter with Musicophilia, the bestselling collection writings on music and the brain by lauded neurologist Oliver Sacks which offered definitive insight on the collision between the human psyche and the presence of music and the vocabulary needed to explore this experience.

One moment clinical and the next sentimental, the piece explores tasks timed by music, a life dictated by Major motion picture soundtracks from 1994-96, and a classically trained pianist with a phantom limb. In this first phase of a work in progress we're taking a closer look at the covert and very new ways in which we soundtrack our waking life along with our memories. We're curious to see if we can scrape away at big questions about the deeply rooted yet very fresh presence of recording in modern culture. By exploring both the gifts and betrayals of music we will dwell on the implications of our current experience and fantasize darkly about a world completely void of it.

CHRIS MASULLO is an actor and co-founder of Three Sciences Theatre for which he writes, directs and designs. Past Three Sciences productions include: There Will Be Snacks (Ontological-Hysterical), LAKE (Zipper Factory), and Parkspace (Various). Recent performance credits include: NTUSA's Chautauqua! (PS122), Sheila Callaghan and Daniella Topol's Water, or the secret life of objects (HERE Arts Center), The King in Exile (The Tank) and performances with the comedy group Newsdudes at Upright Citzen's Brigade Theatre and The Magnet Theatre. He is a graduate of the Fordham College Lincoln Center Theatre Program and Interlochen Arts Academy.

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NEW WORKS presents the new work of emerging choreographers and facilitates dialogue through feedback sessions and Q&A. New Works is curated by Alexandra Albrecht and Jeso O'Neill.

$10 student tickets at the door

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100158

RIGHT/LEFT BEHIND

A recipe for splintered wholeness, an antidote for easy-bake love and a quick-fix for real-hard hurt. Through smashing movement, savory text, sugary pop-culture innuendo and exquisite sets and props, the work dissects common tropes of individuality, independence and separation, and stirs us back into the doughy batter of “how we really feel.” RIGHT/LEFT BEHIND is directed by Saifan Shmerer, and choreographed in collaboration with performers Lillie DeArmon, Cory Antiel and Emily Skillings. Original score by Cecilia and Panda Teeth.

SAIFAN SHMERER is geographically located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, emotionally trapped between fantasy and logic and psychically road-tripping between matter and the moon. She and her work are concerned with “the state of things” in any and all of the following departments: the world, love, dreams, the economy, drag, academia, gynecology, language, history/herstories, sex, imaginary domains, time, power, (mis)representation, performativity, sugar and bodies. Saifan graduated from Eugene Lang College in May 2008. She was the 2008-09 recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship at Dance Theater Workshop. She is currently performing and perambulating under the moniker SASSON.

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NEW WORKS presents the new work of emerging choreographers and facilitates dialogue through feedback sessions and Q&A. New Works is curated by Alexandra Albrecht and Jeso O'Neill.

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$10 student tickets at the door

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100376

KARL CRONIN is a NYC-based movement artist who is creating and performing a Somatic Natural History Archive of the USA. Each day he spends time with a different plant or animal species, and then brings his experiences back to the studio where he creates a movement sketch. New archive entries are presented in a weekly, free performance offering. This work is a direct result of creative research support provided by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance (iLAND- NYC), Movement Research (NYC), and the Santa Fe Art Institute (NM).

He is also the founder of Dancing Outside, a NYC-based research laboratory dedicated to exploring the intersections of dance and environmental science, which he participants in with his colleagues Deborah Black, Sasha Welch, Laurie Berg, and Cynthia St. Clair. Karl’s choreographic development is guided by mentors Deborah Hay (independent choreographer) and JoAnna Mendl Shaw (The Julliard School).

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NEW WORKS presents the new work of emerging choreographers and facilitates dialogue through feedback sessions and Q&A. New Works is curated by Alexandra Albrecht and Jeso O'Neill.

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$10 student tickets at the door

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100380

SPACE GARBAGE

Space people with fabulous hair respond to trash intrusions in their environment.

A collaborative creation of San Francisco artists in contemporary dance, video art, electronic music, and sculpture.

Choreography: Lizzie Karr and dancers
Dancers: Lizzie Karr, Aaron Jurgens, Gabriel Darling, Bryce Vinnicombe, Carly Mayer, Saeed Siamak
Video: Jason Bahling
Costumes: Crystal Dizon
Sound: Audo, Ratatat, Nine Inch Nails, Collaboration Station, Jason Bahling
Hair and Makeup: Andi Victorine
Set: Geoff Scoville

http://www.lizziemoves.org

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RESURRECTION brings your short-lived dance back from the dead. Re-present it and engage in an artist/audience Q&A about the evolution of the work. Resurrection is curated by Alexandra Albrecht.

$10 student tickets at the door

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100157

Ticket price includes 1 free drink!

Panel Discussion will precede Sunday's show @ 7:30.
$15 for both Panel and Performance

Boys with booty, bumpin' bass, and lots of lip-stick mark this luscious, politically bent event! Artistic Director MATHEW HEGGEM curates an evening of serious sex & debauchery by experimental cabaret artists.

Performance highlights include: ASHLEY BROCKINGTON & MONSTAH BLACK with stars of the infamous CABARET CATAPLEXY, the notoriously naughty EMMA BATMAN, the band SEA GLASS, boasting its’ futuristic shamanism under the visions of WENDELL COOPER, and a world premiere of Heggem's Gay Wars - a portraiture of dueling American queer archetypes.

GAY WARS, a new cabaret dance work, deconstructs Gay American culture in conflict with the self and society. Each character - from the P***y F****t to the Closeted ‘Publican - represents a dialogue between identity and the culture that perpetuates it. Are these characters claiming victory for self-expression - or playing pawns in a game of oppression? What deeply embedded structures in American culture are shaping the expression of our freedoms?

GAY WARS is accompanied by a series of images, designed by Heggem, that explore the visual deconstruction of pornographic fantasies en vogue.

www.matheggem.com.

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97630

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MATHEW HEGGEM, Artistic Director/Curator of Bushed, Brooklyn-based artist: Gay, naughty - sometimes nice - and always a little nasty, Heggem delves into the cross currents of gender politics, pop culture, and truth-seeking to uncover the unusual circumstances of this American life.

Heggem has presented work at Joyce SoHo's Performance Mix Festival, Dance Conversations @ The Flea, Dixon Place, Movement Research’s Open Performance Series, The Gowanus Arts Center, and Sublet Series in New York, and the National's Theater in D.C.

ASHLEY BROCKINGTON, sensual, evocative and twisted, is a producer of small theater and a hostess extraordinaire. She co-curates the Cabaret Cataplexy, a sexy glittery and glamorous cabaret emphasizing politically and socially charged experimental performance and burlesque; is the creator of an annual performance project called Black Girl Ugly, a meditation on Black Girl-ness & self-esteem; and, is a member of the Rivers of Honey performance team and the WOW café Theater collective.

MONSTAH BLACK brings his gender fuckery, falsetto vocals, digitized beats and elevated shoe clad persona to the stage. Black co-presents and co-hosts with his glam partner Ashley Brockington at Cabaret Cataplexy. He has received generous support from Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Topaz Arts Center, Thelma Hill Performing Arts, Mason/Rhynes Productions, DC Commission On the Arts and Humanities, and The Field.

EMMA BATMAN is a dance artist and performer. Today, she is based out of New York City and has worked with Roger C. Jeffrey, Illana Webber Dance, Banana Peel Dance, and Mathew Heggem (a.k.a. Artifice Hunting). Internationally, she has presented work at the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, & the House of Dino in Cortona, Italy.

WENDELL COOPER is modern shaman and creative artist based in Brooklyn. A graduate of the George Washington University (Dance/Religion), he is also a certified practitioner of energy bodywork and Thai Yoga Massage. He has taught, performed, and choreographed in China, Kenya, Russia, and the Netherlands. His interdisciplinary multimedia works include both choreographed and improvised dance, original music, and video installation. He has worked with Nicholas Leichter Dance, the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Grisha Coleman, and the Magpie Music Dance Company. Wendell also collaborates with Mathew Heggem (as Kinaeathesia), Monstah Black, and Yozmit. Sea glass is his latest collaborative project. www.complexstability.com

Panel Discussion @ 7:30
Performances @ 9:30
$15 Panel & Performance (includes 1 free drink!)
$5 Panel only

Sunday’s panel discussion will explore the conversation between politics and art. Moderated by BRIAN McCORMICK, a cross-section of artists, activists, and politicos will unravel the significance of LGBTQ performance in affecting social change.

McCORMICK is an award-winning arts writer, editor, & educator. He has written for The New York Times, The Advocate, Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life, Classical TV.com, Movement Research Journal, and Encore Publications, and is the long-time contributing dance editor for Gay City News. McCormick teaches digital performance theory, media concepts, and digital photography & design at The New School Media Studies MA. Brian has been a panelist, moderator, guest curator, and/or adjudicator for New York Foundation for the Arts, Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, Brooklyn Arts Council, Hunter College Dance Department, Kinetic Cinema, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Young Dance Makers, Movement Research, and others. He is a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies) committee.

www.bmacmedia.net

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GAY WARS, a new cabaret dance work, deconstructs Gay American culture in conflict with the self and society. Each character - from the P***y F****t to the Closeted ‘Publican - represents the dialogue between the self-proclaimed identity and the culture that perpetuates that identity. Explore the visual deconstruction of pornographic fantasies en vogue.

GAY WARS imagery & other events related the project, can be found at www.matheggem.com. Contact gaywars@gmail.com for more information.

Megan Byrne, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, and Laurie Berg are enthusiastically creating THE APOCALYPSE together.

Episode sketches of The Apocalypse have been shown at The Hudson Guild, Movement Research’s Open Performance, AUNTS, and the Salon Show at Ulla’s House. As producers and curators these three Brooklyn based artists collaborated on FACTORY/MARKET, a performative economy event through the Movement Research Spring Festival 09: ROLL CALL (co-produced by Megan Byrne, Michael Mahalchick, Will Rawls, and Regina Rock) and AUNTS (directed by Liliana Dirks-Goodman and Laurie Berg with JMy Leary).

Laurie Berg works in several different mediums including dance/performance, 2D collage, and jewelry generating. Megan Byrne is a choreographer, lighting designer and producer. Liliana Dirks-Goodman is an architect, graphic designer, installation and video artist. Megan and Lili collaborated on FEELLEEF, an idea that manifested into a live performance with five dancers and animated wooden set panels, a parade, a video animation, and a dance for ten dancers. FEELLEEF was shown at Dance Lab-NYC, Dixon Place, AUNTS, and The Cunningham Studio and down 8th Avenue. Laurie and Lili’s video/performance/installation, the Human Diorama Project, or HDP has been shown in different incarnations at several AUNTS events, Body Blend at Dixon Place, the Salon Show at Ulla's House, several rooftops in Brooklyn and at Monkeytown as part of the Internet Killed the Video Star Screening for the Movement Research Spring Festival 09.

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NEW WORKS presents the new work of emerging choreographers and facilitates dialogue through feedback sessions and Q&A. New Works is curated by Alexandra Albrecht and Jeso O'Neill.

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$10 student tickets at the door

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100383