George Lewis News

The JANE IRA BLOOM TRIO w/ Bobby Previte & Dean Johnson will perform at the Tea Lounge on Saturday, February 6.

Three-years in the making, Ravinia Festival's Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration culminates with the world premiere of the much-anticipated Ravinia-commissioned full-evening dance theater work by choreographer Bill T. Jones, Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, with an additional show at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, closing Ravinia's 2009 summer season.

A variety of music, dance, and theatre performances, and a film series comprise the 2009 fall season for Harlem Stage, a performing arts center and one of the country's top presenters, producers, and supporters of works by artists of color.

Performance Space 122 presents the world premiere of LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room. LEWIS FOREVER is the incredibly talented, hyper-charismatic multinational performing family - think the Von Trapps - but infinitely hipper. Depending on how you slice it, LEWIS FOREVER is comprised of three sisters and a brother; a director, two dancers and a musician; a family living half in New York and half in Berlin; half Dominican and half Jewish American; a performance collective and a bloodline.

Performance Space 122 presents the world premiere of LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room. LEWIS FOREVER is the incredibly talented, hyper-charismatic multinational performing family - think the Von Trapps - but infinitely hipper. Depending on how you slice it, LEWIS FOREVER is comprised of three sisters and a brother; a director, two dancers and a musician; a family living half in New York and half in Berlin; half Dominican and half Jewish American; a performance collective and a bloodline. What happens when these sexy siblings get together and create performance events is highly combustible. This time out, they fuse dance, theatre, music and video to investigate and subvert the fiction of cultural and familial identification. In other words, they freak it - and just about anything that is or isn't nailed down. In LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room, there is play and there is fantasy. There is sex and violence. There's even an impostor who tests their relationships to each other and to their actions. LEWIS FOREVER's home lies between continents, identities and meanings - Performance Space 122 is their living room, and they will freak it. Individually they are George, Isabel, Sarah, and Ligia but together they are a performance collective fusing theatre, dance, experimental music, visual and performance arts. They embody ideas, and questions that surround collective versus individual vision, emigration, post-American identity, 'transnationalism', belonging, and dislocation. LEWIS FOREVER has been presented by AUNTS in Brooklyn and by Epic, FUEL, and LaborGras in Berlin.

NYS ARTS presented four awards for outstanding leadership and advocacy of the arts in New York State at its annual gala Monday, November 17th. at the Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Performance Space 122 is proud to announce the fall 2008 schedule.