Photo Flash: MEOW TO THE WORLD! at PS122 2008/12/20

Photo Flash: MEOW TO THE WORLD! at PS122

Saturday, December 20, 2008; Posted: 10:12 AM - by BWW News Desk

The internationally acclaimed, award-winning, audience-surfing, bustier-clad and uber-bendy singing sensation MEOW MEOW returns to N.Y.C. just in time to deck the halls of the Highline Ballroom for four nights only with her special and sizzling brand of provocative holiday cheerotica in Meow to the World!

Press notes highlight the performances as "fresh from sold out engagements in Berlin, the Pina Bausch Tanz Festival, Shanghai, and Sydney, and teamed with dreamy musical director Lance Horne, Meow Meow climbs the walls and concocts all manner of unpredictable and untraditional holiday delights in this new and deliciously naughty concert cabaret. Meow to the World! puts the X back in X-mas and will have audiences purring".

The postmodern diva and her unique "kamikaze kabaret exotica" are found at the top of "Best Cabaret" lists all over the world. Meow Meow has sold out The Sydney Opera House, The Glamour Room Shanghai, Joe's Pub, David Bowie's HighLine Festival, and Spiegelworld. She has collaborated with Justin Bond, Julie Atlas Muz, John Cameron Mitchell, Thomas M. Lauderdale, and Lance Horne.

Meow Meow is the recipient of numerous awards including the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art award (2005), DAAD for theatre in Berlin, Adelaide Fringe Festival "Best Cabaret Award" winner 2008, and multiple Australian Theatre Green Room Award winner "Best Cabaret Artist," "Best Musical Direction," "Best Cabaret Production" 2007. Time Out New York critics voted Meow Meow as one of the Top Ten Best Cabaret of 2007. She has created numerous full length works for various international arts festivals and venues including "Beyond Glamour: the Absinthe Tour," "Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix," "My Mouth is a wonder...," "Shanghai Demise" and most recently "Insert the Name of the Person you Love" (for Sydney Festival) and VAMP for Sydney Opera House. She is a regular guest with the Spiegeltent's "La Clique" globally, and "Absinthe for Spiegelworld NYC. She is currently performing at Bar Jeder Vernunft Berlin, and with Pina Bausch.

Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and cross-media. Founded in 1979, Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of dance, theatre, music, and performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view. www.ps122.org

Meow to the World! runs Wednesday, December 17, Saturday December 20, Sunday December 21, and Monday December 22 at 8:00pm (doors open at 6:00pm). Tickets from $25 (advance sales), $30 (day of show). Tickets may be purchased online through www.ps122.org , by calling the Highline Ballroom at (212) 414-5994 or TicketWeb at 866-468-7619, and at The Highline Ballroom box office. The Highline Ballroom is located at 431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, between 9th and 10th Ave.

General Admission Seated Show / recommended 18+; must be 21+ to drink / First come, first seated / Full bar and dinner menu available.

Photo Credit: Rachel Roberts

Meow Meow

Lance Horne and Meow Meow

Meow Meow