PS122 Presents Jack Ferver's QWAN Company's SWAN!!! 2/10

Performance Space 122 presents SWAN!!!, a sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, startling werk from Jack Ferver's QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company. Jack Ferver returns to PS122 following sold-out performances of Rumble Ghost with his newest pop culture infused reading of SWAN!!!, a parody of the multiple Oscar-nominated phenomenon BLACK SWAN. SWAN!!! begins its four performance run on Thursday, March 10 at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at E. 9th Street). To purchase tickets please call 212-352-3101 or visit www.ps122.org.

Nina (Jenn Harris) is freaking out. She is freaking out because she really wants to play the Swan Queen in the new production of Swan Lake. She is also freaking out because she is crazy. And so is her mother (Randy Harrison). And so is the choreographer (Christian Coulson) she works under, and we mean works under. And so is the former prima ballerina Winona Ryder, we mean Beth (Matthew Wilkas).

The pressure is a lot and she finds a little release, and we mean release, when she meets hot new bad ballet girl in town, Lily (Jack Ferver). However she gets a little more than nervous when it seems Lily may want her part. Things boil up and over and there is self-mutilation and violence towards MOM and cunnilingus and jetés.

Jack Ferver's Rumble Ghost recently premiered at PS122, and was brought back for their COIL Festival in 2011. His A Movie Star Needs A Movie was commissioned by The New Museum in 2009. It was also presented in American Realness at Abrons Art Center and at Theatre de Vanves in 2010. He was the first choreographer to be presented at The New Museum with I Am Trying to Hear Myself in 2008. He remounted the work at PS122 in 2009. In 2009 he also premiered his evening length work Death is Certain to sold out audiences at Danspace Project. Death is Certain was workshopped through the Dance Theater Workshop space grant, Studio Series. Ferver was also an artist in residence from 2008-2009 at Chez Bushwick. In 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT, his second Mondo Cane! commission from Dixon Place. Ferver's first Mondo Cane! commission was in 2007 for his first full length work: When We Were Young And Filled With Fear. Shorter and solo works have been presented at Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), LaMaMa E.T.C. (NYC), The Culture Project (NYC), and Envoy Gallery (NYC). 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. His writing was recently published in the magazine Novembre.

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.

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Jack Ferver's QWAN COMPANY'S SWAN!!! Thursday, March 10 - Saturday March 12, 2011 on the following schedule:

Thursday 03/10 and Friday 03/11 @ 8PM;
Saturday, 03/12 @ 7:30PM and 10PM;

Tickets $15, $11 (with the PS122 Passport - limited availability!)
Available at www.ps122.org , 212-352-3101 and at the Box Office.

Performance Space 122 is located at (150 First Avenue at E. 9th Street).

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