28, 29, 30 June 2012, The Performing Garage presents Laboratory Theater’s GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES in New York, NY
June 28, 29, and 30, 2012
The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster St. New York, NY
Times and Ticket Prices TBA
photo © Paula Court
Laboratory Theater’s GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.
Directed by Yvan Greenberg, GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES commingles elements of William S. Burroughs’ novel “The Place of Dead Roads”, with short stories by Annie Proulx, country-western line dance, and gay pornography. The performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating country-western recordings from the 1920’s–30’s and contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.
Laboratory Theater’s signature layering of choreography, text, sound, improvisation, and imitation, provides a continuously shifting framework for a reconsideration of the outlaw, frontier spirit that continues to shape the mindsets of Americans in the 21st Century.
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES premiered at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, October 14–30, 2010. The piece was developed in part through in-progress performances at Dixon Place in February 2009.
“director-designer-choreographer Yvan Greenberg’s deceptive vision….affords some truly original moments…’Doggies’ is impressively immersive” —The L Magazine
Laboratory Theater “is cookin’ up some tasty stage grub…Yvan Greenberg, the feller stagin’ this show, adds in more fixins than a Louisiana roux…Corral up your friends and put some wild back in your west.” —AOL City’s Best
Past Performances
03/16/2012 at 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn Heights) Brooklyn, NY
The third season of Music at First began with a concert featuring Corey performing his synths and vocals piece, Last Words from Texas, and the NY premiere of False Comfort, Corey’s 2012 song cycle for voice and pipe organ, performed by Corey Dargel (voice) and Wil Smith (pipe organ).
01/21/2012 at 7:30pm
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
FIU School of Music
11200 SW 8 St., Miami, FL
As part of Wil Smith‘s recital of 21st Century Music for Pipe Organ, Corey sang in the premiere of his new work for voice and pipe organ, False Comfort. This was part of the New Music Miami festival.
01/20/2012 at 8pm
GAB Gallery
105 Northwest 23rd Street, Miami, FL
Corey performs songs from Last Words from Texas, Removable Parts, and Sexual Side Effects as part of Miami’s 12 NIGHTS concert series, accompanied by Wil Smith on keyboards.
01/09/2012 at 9pm
Zebulon Café,
258 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Corey sings in an improvised set with Brian Chase (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Rob Reich (of Tin Hat and Gaucho), opening for Herculaneum and Tomas Fujiwara.
01/07/2012 at 10pm
Public Assembly
70 North 6th St., Brooklyn, NY
Part of the American Realness Festival, Corey performs a short set of songs on AMERICAN PUSSY FAGGOT! REALNESS. a performance-laden club night with two stages showcasing over twenty artists from the often-disparate worlds of dance, burlesque, cabaret, club and contemporary performance.
12/09/2011 at 8pm
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St., Brooklyn
TWO SIDES SOUNDING, CONTEMPORARY MUSIC VOICE AND PIANO DUO presents “A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: SONGS OF THE BOARDWALK” Featuring the world premieres of “The Sirens, or Pleasure” by Eve Beglarian, “Coney Run” by Gilda Lyons and “Rapid Transit” by Eric Moe, and works by Corey Dargel, Daniel Felsenfeld, Christopher Gable and Gabriel Kahane
11/09/2011 and 11/10/2011 at 8pm both nights
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Center, the historic Hamm Building, St. Paul, MN
Tickets $22/$18
Wednesday, November 9, at 8:00 pm sharp and Thursday, November 10, at 8:00 pm sharp
The Walker Art Center, in cooperation with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Kate Nordstrum Projects, presents Corey Dargel: Song Cycles
Brooklyn-based composer/writer/singer Corey Dargel’s wry and witty assault on both pop and classical idioms employs deadpan vocals, awkward rhythms, and fragile harmonies to reveal heartbreaking intimacies. Join us for a two-part evening that features songs from Dargel’s art-pop song cycles Every Day Is the Same Day and Thirteen Near-Death Experiences. He’ll be joined by violinist Todd Reynolds and the Twin Cities’ own Ensemble 61 for a brilliantly lyrical series of songs that flit gracefully between (more…)
