petitversailles

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October. LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Bareback StarFucker


August 5 Saturday 7pm
BAREBACK STARFUCKER
Directed by Marc Arthur.

Before Eve there was Lilith- the women who refused to have sex with Adam has now been changed into demon. Come explore the Garden of Eden with characters like Ashley Olsen and Craig of Craigslist in Marc Arthur's new installation based environmental theatre piece Bareback Starfucker in collaboration with Inbred Hybrid Collective, sound by Sebastian Alvarez, and aria's performed by Reginald Lemar.

When I was a child I had a series of recurring dreams in which I watched myself die in the apocalypse. In the course of time, this violence has materialized into an atheistic that resists closure. I tell story’s whose structure is repeated at every level, micro to macro.
My work employs the vocabularies of Butoh dance, sculpture, theatre and noise to probe deeply into the human psyche and to create an immersive space where the audience is encouraged to dance with social and physiological issues that arise. I am deeply committed to the collaborative nature of art and enjoy exploring with others.
Here are some ideas which I have been intermingling with lately: Mer, viscosity, coyote tales, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, labyrinths, non-purist music, simulacra and simulation, re-constructing the world with out colonialism, gender and power dynamics, horizon lines, and hermeneutics.

Le Petit Versailles Garden
346 East Houston Street < Avenues B & C >
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
Rain or Shine. FREE or voluntary donation.
Press contact: Peter Cramer 212-529-8815

Monday, July 17, 2006

World Music,Performance & Film



JOIN Us on Saturday July 29th for an evening with visiting artists YSEULT DIGNAN, REINALDO COTIA BRAGA and STEVE SANDBERG from France, Brazil and the Upper West Side!

YSEULT DIGNAN
Graffitiist ,chanteuse,video/filmmaker presents video & audio performance. http://open.your.eyes.free.fr/index.htm Open your eyes project started in March 2003. YZ and Missill initiated the project in Paris and painted fifty or so giant face in the city. The selected locations were crossroads, stations, intersections… They symbolised the web of communities, exchanges and sharing between cultures. Painted on to the network of electrical cabinets, these faces, in turn, constitute a giant face superposed over the map of the city. An evolving fresco which brings the spotlight to all the smaller struggles for global change. A way of saying that little is needed to make oneself heard. Today, YZ is bringing the project internationally and paint big scale faces in places such as the Tacheles in Berlin or 5 Pointz in New York.


STEVE SANDBERG AND REINALDO COTIA BRAGA return with a new collaboration of sound, performance and multi media.

Le Petit Versailles Garden
346 East Houston Street < Avenues B & C >
F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or
J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St.
Rain or Shine. FREE or voluntary donation.
Press contact: Peter Cramer 212-529-8815

Events are made possible by Allied Productions,Inc.,
Gardeners & Friends of LPV,Citizens for NYC, GreenThumb/ NYC Dept. of Parks,
Materials for the Arts; NYC ,Dept. of Cultural Affairs,NYC Dept. of Sanitation
& NYC Board of Education. and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. LPV Programs are
made possible with public funds the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency