Performance Space 122

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• In order to foster the spirit of inquiry and openness necessary in a generative society, Performance Space 122 (PS122) invites audiences to engage in live experiences that can have profound and unpredictable effects. We produce these experiences by providing contemporary artists who represent diverse genres, cultures, and perspectives with the resources and platforms to develop and present new works.PS122 began in 1980, emerging from a city struggling with high rates of poverty, crime, racial strife, and drugs, as well as the deaths of many vital artists and thinkers in the AIDS epidemic. In our theaters PS122 was able to foster an open and accessible culture of aesthetic risk-taking and social experimentation by providing artists working in performance with a safe space to test their own creativity, express revolutionary ideas, and share artistic practices with adventurous audiences. Challenging and fun, PS122s Open Movement created a social glue that nurtured many of the choreographers, dancers, performance artists, and anyone inspired enough to join in. It demonstrated PS122s capacity as a laboratory for not just art, but community. The first decades of PS122 also succeeded in connecting audiences to vital provocateurs like Tim Miller, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, Ethyl Eichelberger, Spalding Gray, John Leguizamo, Carmelita Tropicana and many others who catalyzed debates and social change at national and international levels.As decades passed the city became cleaner, safer, greener and more expensive, and the neighborhood gentrified. Although PS122 became an institution during this time, we also managed to retain our gritty non-conformist character and engage artists in a dynamic and supportive environment. PS122 continued to invest in ground-breaking artists and build our local, national, and international reputation, all the while navigating the waters of a recession, shifting expectations, and a major capital renovation of our home.
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  Headquarters:150 1st Avenue , New York, New York, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 212-477-5829

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  Website: https://www.ps122.org

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  Employees:14

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Performance Space 122

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• |  NAICS Code: 711410  |

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