After the closing of Plexus Performance Space,  on June 13, 1984, The Shuttle Theatre/Lab,  at 523 East 6th Street, between Avenue A and B, in the Lower East Side of New York, was opened by Sandro Dernini and Giuseppe Sacchi, with Julius Klein as bartender. On August 25,  to stop the gentrification of the Lower East Side, in the middle of East 6^th Street, in front The Shuttle Theatre,  William Parker performed "In Order to Survive:  A Statement",  addressed to the survival of community artists on the necessity to break away from tradition business practices.