As the East Village home of Performance Space 122 continues to undergo renovations, the theater is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will join with two organizations — the French Institute Alliance Française and the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City — to host its fall season.
The performer David Levine (Venice Saved: A Seminar) and the playwright Jason Grote (Civilization: All You Can Eat) will open the season in September with Habit, in which three actors perform a 90-minute drama on a continuous loop for eight hours a day. Part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival, the piece is to be staged inside a house designed by Marsha Ginsberg and built inside an unused space in the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.
In October, Big Dance Theater (Comme Toujours Here I Stand) will install their latest multimedia piece, Ich, Kürbisgeist, in the basement of the Chocolate Factory. Written by Sibyl Kempson, directed by Paul Lazar and co-directed and choreographed by Annie-B Parson, the work is set, according to a news release, in “a harsh world facing destruction, populated by five crude characters speaking a rigorous, specific, and invented language.”