PS122 Presents RUMBLE GHOST

Horror films will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors - scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the painful sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages and abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the deteriorated human condition, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there-in your mind.

Performed in Jack Ferver's "hyper-reality" style, seven performers reinterpret the 1982 classic horror film Poltergeist, exploring pop-psychological landscapes with movement, original music and a highly calibrated script. The Poltergeist theme corrodes and gives way to a group therapy session, created from Ferver's personal experience with "Inner Child Work" in a therapy technique aptly called "psychodrama." As the performers are overtaken by their own child selves, a disturbing spectacle confronts the audience and a fearless exploration of the company's own personas ensues.

Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver. Performed by Benjamin Asriel, Reid Bartelme, Christian Coulson, Carlye Eckert, Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, and Breanna O'Mara.

RUMBLE GHOST is made possible with a generous space grant from Abrons Arts Center and supported in part by TestPerformanceTest and The Jerome Foundation.

Jack Ferver has been creating full-length works since 2007. He has been presented at The New Museum (NYC), Danspace Project (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), and Théâtre de Vanves (Paris). Shorter and solo works have been presented at PS 122 (NYC), Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), LaMaMa E.T.C. (NYC), The Culture Project (NYC), and Envoy Gallery (NYC). His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Modern Painters, and Dance Magazine. Ferver premiered his new work, "A Movie Star Needs A Movie" at The New Museum in fall 2009. It was also presented at Théâtre de Vanves in France this spring. 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 PS 122 in 2009. This past year he also premiered his evening length work "Death is Certain" to sold out audiences at Danspace Project. Death is Certain was workshopped in January 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! In 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT, his second Mondo Cané! commission from Dixon Place. Ferver's first Mondo Cané! commission was in 2007 for his first full length work: "When We Were Young And Filled With Fear". 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.

Performance Space 122 is one of New York's ultimate destinations for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. PS 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists who explore innovative form and provocative content and who rigorously challenge the boundaries of contemporary performance. PS122 is committed to a steadfast search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures, nations and beliefs.

For thirty years, Performance Space 122 has been a hub for contemporary performance and an active member of the East Village, as well as the wider cultural community in N.Y.C. and across the globe. In just the past 5 years, under the curatorial vision of Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner, PS122 has opened the curtain on more than 2,500 performances, welcomed over 125,000 visitors, and supported the work of more than 2,100 artists, performers, choreographers, playwrights, directors and designers.

Performance Space 122 passionately advocates for U.S. artists in New York and across globe. Its organization and the artists presented are reclaiming their relevance to wider social discourse by engaging artists, audiences and other community leaders in cultural, economic, and environmental debates about what it means to live in contemporary society. www.ps122.org

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