Performance Space 122

COIL 2012

This annual winter festival features 11 premieres from critical US and international artists. The presentations are socially engaged, visceral, and groundbreaking. The festival spans 25 days, all genres of performance and takes place in 8 different venues across NYC.

"COIL '12 represents a Performance Space 122 of which we are all very proud. Across the city, sourced from around the world. Fully realized, but on the bleeding front edge. As we spend the upcoming seasons outside of our home, we are proud to be embarking on and renewing several catalytic partnerships which help make this festival possible." - Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director

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the TEAM (NY)
Mission Drift (US Premiere)
Theatre | $25, $20 (students / seniors)

The Connelly Theater 220 E 4th St., Manhattan, NY

"What a blast." - The Guardian
"A lush panorama of contemporary Americana." -The Financial Times

Mission Drift is a critically acclaimed contemporary musical that journeys west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism. Amidst a score that fuses Vegas glitz with Western ballads, seductive storyteller Miss Atomic interweaves the epic saga of two immortal Dutch teens with an intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy in this political and urgent work about creation and destruction, bankruptcy and bonanza, and the crumbling myth of an eternal frontier.

• January 8 - Feb 4
  Jan 8 at 11am; Jan 9-10, 12-14, 17-21, 24-28 at 8pm;
  Jan 15, 22, 29 at 5pm; Jan 28 at 2pm
  EXTENSION: On Sale Jan 15
  Jan 31 8pm
  Feb 1 8pm
  Feb 2 8pm
  Feb 3 8pm
  Feb 4 2pm, 8pm
  More info

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Temporary Distortion (NY)
Newyorkland (NY Premiere)
Theatre, Video | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Howard Gilman Performance Space 450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY

"Mind-blowing video images and theatrical tension." - The New York Times [on Americana Kamikaze]

An intertextual assemblage, Newyorkland combines popular cop movies and TV police procedurals with first-person accounts from real-life police officers. Acclaimed director Kenneth Collins and prominent video artist William Cusick merge visual and performance art, documentary realism, cinema verite, and pure fiction as they follow four police officers struggling with the high costs of working within the demanding, dangerous, and secretive society of the NYPD.

• January 12 - Feb 4
  Jan 12 at 7pm; Jan 13, 14, 17-21, 24-28 at 7:30pm; Jan 15 at 6pm
  EXTENSION: On Sale Jan 15
  Jan 31 7:30pm
  Jan 1 7:30pm
  Feb 2 7:30pm
  Feb 3 7:30pm
  Feb 4 7:30pm
  More info

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Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (NY)
UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (NY Premiere)
Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of BAC Presents Series
Winner of the 2011 Spalding Gray Award
Theatre | $25, $20 (students / seniors)

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Jerome Robbins Theater 450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY

"The clearest indication that the avant-garde isn't dead, and has never been funnier." - New York Magazine

In Young Jean Lee's latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilarating, nearly wordless journey through expressions of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.

January 12 - Feb 4
Jan 12 at 8:30pm; Jan 13-15, 18-21, 24-28 at 8pm
EXTENSION: On Sale Jan 15:
Jan 31 8pm
Feb 1 8pm
Feb 2 8pm
Feb 3 8pm
Feb 4 8pm
More info

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Mariano Pensotti (Argentina)
El pasado es un animal grotesco (The past is a grotesque animal) (US Premiere)
Co-presented with The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival
Theatre | $20

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette St., Manhattan, NY

"Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy and, most of all, with the ability to capture an epic psychosis in an unpretentious nutshell." - British Theatre Guide

Damaged photographs pieced together by an indie rock anthem by Of Montreal tell the epic and cinematic chronicle of the lives of four young Argentinians between 1999 - 2009. This record, bittersweet, fragmented, and fast-paced, displays past lives - both true and imaginary - across a slowly revolving stage. In Spanish with English subtitles.

• January 7 - 15
  Sat. Jan 7th 7pm
  Sun. Jan 8th 2pm
  Mon. Jan 9th 7pm
  Wed. Jan 11th 7pm
  Thurs. Jan 12th 7pm
  Fri. Jan 13th 7pm
  Sat. Jan 14th 7pm
  Sun. Jan 15th 2pm
  More info

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Every House Has a Door (Chicago, Croatia)
Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.
(NY Premiere)
Theatre, Performance | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

Performance Space 122 150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

"Let us think of these things... keeps viewers hooked with scenes and images that suck you in, hold you close and turn you loose. For every bawdy or slapstick gesture there are equal parts silence and reflection." - Chicago Art Magazine

Lin Hixson & Matthew Goulish, co-founders of performance group Goat Island, propose a cultural encounter via the films of Serbian filmmaker Dusan Makavejev and the work of American philosopher Stanley Cavell, through responses to an unlikely, "equidistant" third entity, Ingmar Bergman. Film becomes a basis for choreography, a catalogue of abandoned practices offers a degree of humor, and theater frames an encounter of difference and engage the histories of utopianism and revolt in an unjust world.

• January 5 - 9
  Jan 5, 6 at 8pm; Jan 7 at 6pm; Jan 8, 9 at 3pm
  More info

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Davis Freeman (Belgium)
Too shy to stare (US Premiere)
Co-presented with The Old School
Dance, Performance | $25, $20 (students / seniors)

The Old School 233 Mott St. Manhattan, NY

"Starts there where most performances end...The peep show of your dreams" - Elke Van Campenhout

A carousel of identity and illusion, Too shy to stare breaks the barrier between performer and audience through highly original and entirely unrepeatable means. Davis Freeman creates an intensely intimate environment where you sit down, relax, and discover who is left confronting you at the end of the day.

Please note: Audience is limited to 10 people per performance and ticket buyers must make an appointment to have their photograph taken at least 48 hours in advance of attending the performance. Why? It's a secret.

• January 6 - 14
  Jan 6, 7, 9-11, 13, 14 at 5pm and 9pm
  More info
  
  All performances of Too shy to stare are sold out. Please add your name to the waitlist to be informed if tickets become available.

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Rabih Mroué (Lebanon)
Looking for a Missing Employee (US Premiere) &
The Pixelated Revolution (World Premiere)
Winner of the 2010 Spalding Gray Award
Theatre, New Media | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Howard Gilman Performance Space 450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY

Actor, writer, and director Rabih Mroué's intricate narratives unwind with projection and live video feed as he explores questions of presence, absence, and documentation in the context of personal and societal responsibilities.

In Looking for a Missing Employee, Mroué traces a troubling case of a missing employee through newspaper clippings, radiating outward from the very personal story to its wider political and economic implications. Based on true events.

• Looking for a Missing Employee
  Jan 6, 7 at 7:30pm;
  Jan 8 at 5pm
  More info

Winner of the 2010 Spalding Gray Award, The Pixelated Revolution is a lecture performance aimed at unpacking the advice and directions regarding the taking of photographs on mobile phones during the events of the Syrian revolution, as shared via Facebook and other means of virtual communication.

• The Pixelated Revolution
  Jan 9 at 7:30pm
  60 minutes
  More info

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Heather Kravas (US / France)
The Green Surround
Dance | World Premiere presented by PS122 in May 2011 | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

Performance Space 122 150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

"A spectacle in which [the audience] is as much titillated as accused, seduced as viscerally assaulted." - The Brooklyn Rail

Heather Kravas returns to the downstairs space at 150 1st Avenue and upends the effortful, immodest, non-sequential physicality of nine women and the practice of perfection. Through repetition and the endless rhythmic possibilities of classical and anti-classical movement, text, and atmospheric sound, individuality emanates from the cracks of a stoic mass as the facade of idealised beauty is broken.

• January 7 - 9
  Jan 7 at 7:30pm; Jan 8 at 6pm; Jan 9 at 5pm
  
  The Green Surround is SOLD OUT
  Please add your name to the wait list to be informed if tickets become available.
  More info

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Michael Kliën with Steve Valk (Ireland)
Choreography for Blackboards (US Premiere)
Co-presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center
Dance | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

The Invisible Dog Art Center 51 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY

"Choreography is not to constrain movement into a set pattern, it is to provide a cradle for movement to find its own patterns." - Michael Kliën

A silent, communal matrix of individuals "dreaming the real" imprints a landscape of marks and meaning on the surfaces of blackboards through a series of rehearsed patterns. Rising thoughts, visual thinking, and sensual perception form a choreography relating to exchange, sedimentation, erosion and demise as audience members bear witness. You may sit, you may talk, you may read, you may walk throughout the performance.

• January 8 - 11
  Jan 8 at 3pm; Jan 9, 11 at 6pm; Jan 10 at 8pm
  More info

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David Levine (NY, Berlin)
ANGER AT THE MOVIES (World Premiere)
Performance, Public Discussion | $20, $15 (students / seniors)

Mabou Mines 150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

A follow up to Levine's acclaimed Venice Saved: A Seminar, this seminar masquerading as theatre masquerading as film screening asks the audience, "Why is it so frustrating to see your profession represented on film?" You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the space to discuss.

• January 10 - 12
  Jan 10 at 6pm; Jan 11 at 8pm
  Added performance:
  Thursday, Jan 12 at 2pm
  
  Anger at the Movies is sold out on Jan 11. Please add your name to the waitlist to be informed if tickets become available for this performance.
  More info

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The Red & White Party
Presented by Performance Space 122 & SPiN New York

SPiN New York 48 East 23rd Street at Park Avenue South

SPiN NY is part of SPiN Galactic - a galaxy of ping-pong social clubs created by Franck Raharinosy, Andrew Gordon, Jonathan Bricklin, and Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon.

Downtown's definitive holiday bash turns 7 this year at SPiN New York and moves into January to ring in the New Year and celebrate COIL. Choreographer Jack Ferver, new media artist Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, and performance tour de force Reggie Watts provide singular performance as you show off your ping-pong prowess in an all night long competition hosted by Crumpler. Fame, prizes, and libations abound as COIL artists, international arts professionals, festival partners, PS122 Board Members & Staff invigorate an irresistible cross-section of NYC nightlife.

• Sunday, January 8, 2012
  Doors at 7pm
  More info

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Melika Bass
Waking Things

150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

In a house in a primeval wood, a mysterious, misfit family prepares a seasonal feast for a visiting party of outlanders. As they shuffle through ritualistic preparations, shadows reveal each creature -- one menacing, one wounded, and one worn, stewards of an old tradition, blood for blood.

A short film co-produced by and featuring ensemble members of Every House Has a Door Performance group.

• Saturday, January 7 4:30pm
  $5 or FREE with COIL ticket purchase
  More info

 

January 5 - 29, 2012

Locations vary

SINGLE TICKETS ($20 - $25) Now On Sale

PS122 Passport 5 tickets for $75*
COIL Pass 10 tickets for $100**

Single tickets ($20 - $25) now on sale

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Arts presenters / professionals who wish to receive more information about COIL may email coil@ps122.org You will receive a pdf of the schedule and details about purchasing a COIL Pass.

TICKETS TO THE RED & WHITE PARTY Become a Friend with Benefits at the $300 level and enjoy tickets to the Red & White Party. Friend with Benefits Donate to PS122 today and enojy benefits all year long. VIP tables $500 Includes 10 tickets, a ping-pong table with your name on it & VIP room access Single tickets $30 OR use your COIL Pass (10 tickets for $100, valid through Jan 29, 2012)

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*Restrictions apply. Tickets may be used in any combination and are valid through June 30, 2012 as part of our Friends with Benefits giving program. The PS122 Passport is one of the many benefits to donating to PS122. Learn more about Friends with Benefits.

** Restrictions apply. Maximum (2) tickets may be used per performance. Tickets valid through January 29, 2012. For assistance please contact coil@ps122.org

Photo of Every House Has a Door's Let us think of these things always. Let us think of them never. by John Sisson

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