Jack Ferver Presents I AM TRYING TO HEAR MYSELF And An Excerpt Of VANDAM GOODBAR At PS122 7/22-26

Jack Ferver presents an evening of desire and humiliation, combining two of his most hilarious and erotic works. I Am Trying To Hear Myself concerns the elusive quality of romance and the disappointment of viewing one's current life through the idealization of one's past. Ferver will also show an excerpt of the new piece he is working on, Vandam Goodbar, about the humorous, disturbing, and unfortunate violent excursions that can happen in the restless search for a connection.

The production will play as part of the undergroundzero festival at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at East 9th Street), July 22 & 24 at 7pm, Saturday, July 25 at 9pm, and July 26 at 2pm. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.ps122.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

Jack Ferver Ferver's work has been called by The New York Times, "...restless, visceral, and often painful... sympathetic as it is bitingly corrosive". In April he premiered his evening length dance/theatre work Death is Certain to sold out audiences at Danspace Project. Death is Certain was workshoped in January of 2009, through the Dance Theater Workshop space grant, Studio Series. Ferver was also an artist in residence from 2008-2009 at Chez Bushwick, inaugurating their new series CAKE! Ferver was the first choreographer to be presented at The New Museum with I Am Trying to Hear Myself in 2008. Also in 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT: A Diptych, his second Mondo Cané! commission from Dixon Place. Other performances shown at Dixon Place were Ferver's first full length work When We Were Young And Filled With Fear (a Mondo Cané! commission) Eshge Khoda va Sheitan or God and Satan f-ing (co-created with Matthew Rogers). Ferver's solo performance works include Why Can't Condi Sleep (BRIC and Makor), Cliterature and Camille vs. Karen (HERE, The Culture Project, BRIC, and The Oni Gallery), Bad Dating (The Oni Gallery), and The Ophelia Project (The Culture Project). As an actor, credits include Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central), Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation (Off-Broadway), and numerous other film and Theatre Projects.

The undergroundzero festival is an experimental theater festival curated by Paul Bargetto and produced by East River Commedia in association with Collective:Unconscious. Now in its third year, the undergroundzero festival has given producing artists a laboratory outside the usual curatorial system where risk is encouraged and innovation can flourish. This year the undergroundzero festival will present a fascinating collection of over twenty experimental theater companies and artists at the legendary downtown performance venue Performance Space 122, July 7-26.

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