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Coil Festival 2018

13th Annual Coil Festival
January 10–February 4, 2018

Since 2006, Coil has presented works from the world’s most exhilarating and thought-provoking performers and interdisciplinary artists. Between January 10–February 4, 6 projects mark both the first performances in the newly renovated spaces at 150 1st Avenue.

See full calendar and purchased tickets online, here.
Clicking on the dates/times of the performances, listed below, will also take you to a page to buy a ticket for that specific show.

 

Heather Kravas
visions of beauty
Dance | 60 minutes | NY Premiere

Punk in attitude, feminist in spirit and deliberately anti-spectacle, visions of beauty is a dance about itself and the compulsive, lopsided, angry, funny, frustrating and redemptive messiness of everything.
Jan 10 6:30pm
Jan 11 8:30pm
Jan 12 9:30pm
Jan 13 6:30pm


Atlanta Eke
Body Of Work
Dance | 40 min | US Premiere

Body Of Work is a synthesis of the human body and technology, aiming to play with our perception of time, generating multiple and shifting points of focus for the audience, so they can create their own experience throughout the evening.
Jan 10 8pm
Jan 11 5:30pm


Dane Terry
Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons
Theatre, Music, Storytelling | World Premiere
Ethyl Eichelberger Award Winner + Performance Space New York Ramp Residency Artist

Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons is a surreal, sexual, cinematic romp through nocturnal America.
Jan 12 7:30pm
Jan 13 4pm
Jan 14 4pm
Jan 16 8:30pm
Jan 17 7:30pm


Angela Goh
Desert Body Creep
Dance | 40 min | US Premiere

A pop song becomes an ear-worm and burrows through the pores of a body, opening black holes, plot holes and worm holes.
Jan 16 7:30pm
Jan 17 5:30pm


Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc.
Petra
Dance, Theatre, Performance | World Premiere

A masochistic autobiographical meditation on desire, Petra examines race, sex, and power through the lens of service and unrequited love.
Jan 23 7:30pm
Jan 24 7:30pm
Jan 25 7:30pm
Jan 26 7:30pm
Jan 27 7:30pm


David Thomson
he his own mythical beast
Dance, Performance | World Premiere

A meditation on the mythologies and contradictions of identity, race, gender, and the black body in post-modern American culture.
Jan 31 7:30pm
Feb 1 7:30pm
Feb 2 7:30pm
Feb 4 3pm


General Admission*: $20 until December 15 / $25 after December 15.
Student/Senior*: $15
Arts presenters should contact boxoffice@ps122.org for more information

For questions regarding the accessibility of our spaces, please contact our box office at boxoffice@ps122.org or at 212-477-5829 ext. 313

Tickets maybe purchased online or over the phone at 212-352-3101
All performances take place at Performance Space New York, 150 1st Avenue at 9th Street, New York, NY 10009
@PS122 (Twitter / Instagram)
#Coil18

 

*We do include a $2.50 fee for the convenience of reserving online or over the phone in advance. Walking up and using cash at the box office on the day of the show is also an option however please note that this time we cannot reserve tickets for people to pay for at the door. 

Institutional support is provided by: Australian Consulate-General in New York, Australia Council for the Arts, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Barragga Bay Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, British Council, Chromocell, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, East Village Community Coalition, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Humanities New York, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, MAP Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Morrison Foerster Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Royal Norwegian Consulate-General in New York, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and Theatermania.

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival
January 3 – 22

Performance Space 122’s Coil Festival explores the vitality of live performance in New York City through contemporary artists from diverse genres, cultures, and perspectives. Full of inquisitive and dynamic work created locally, across the US, and around the world.

“We don’t present objects, static fixed ideas. These are living, breathing, complicated, flawed and wonderful experiences. Profound and unpredictable. Difficult. 

There’s a rightful push for the work that we do to better reflect the society of ideas and people from which we spring. Sometimes we get this right, and sometimes we also push back when we’re told to make the work do something predictable, something certain. The potency of the work that PS122 presents comes from the fact that it should give you back the power to create its impact. 

I am very proud that in my final year of Coil, PS122 again shows off its artists’ interdisciplinary chops – from the entirely constructed world of VR through a theater created purely of object, light and sound to visceral, confronting and raw movement.” – Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director

DOWNLOAD:
PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival Brochure
or download the calendar + map page


 

Click an artist or project for more info:
 

Yehuda Duenyas (USA)
CVRTAIN

Virtual Reality | World Premiere
PS122 Virtual Commission | Presented in partnership with Wallplay
EXTENDED January 3-21
 
Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe (Australia)
MEETING

Dance | US Premiere
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 4-8
 
Forced Entertainment (United Kingdom)
Real Magic

Theater | US Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with La MaMa
January 5-8
 
Pavel Zuštiak / Palissimo (NYC)
Custodians of Beauty

Dance, Performance
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 5-8
 
Kate McIntosh / SPIN (Belgium)
Worktable

Live Installation | US Premiere
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center
January 5-9
 
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith (NYC)
Basketball

Dance | World Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center
January 7-10
 
Britt Hatzius (United Kingdom / Belgium)
Blind Cinema

Film, Performance | NY Premiere
Co-presented with SVA Theatre in partnership with East Village Community School
January 9-12
 
Nicola Gunn (Australia)
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster

Theater, Dance | US Premiere
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 11-14
 
Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with Keir GoGwilt (NYC)
A Study on Effort

Dance | NY Premiere
Presented by ArKtype / Thomas O Kriegsmann
and The Invisible Dog Art Center
in partnership with PS122
January 12-14
 
Daniel Fish (NYC)
DON’T LOOK BACK

(previously untitled)
Time Based Art
Co-presented with The Chocolate Factory Theater
January 12-20
 
CATCH COIL III (NYC)
Dance, Theater, Performance | One Night Only!
January 15
 
Yara Travieso (NYC)
La Medea

Interdisciplinary | World Premiere
PS122 Commission | Co-presented with BRIC and Dance Film Association
January 20-22
 

 

Book Your Tickets Early:

Single tickets can be purchased online, via phone at 212-352-3101, or in person at venue box offices except where otherwise noted. Single ticket prices vary per event.
 
PS122’s Coil Pass is always the best ticketing option that allows you to see everything: 8 tickets for $122.
*Some restrictions apply. Questions? ps122.org/support or call 212-477-5829 x.302.
 

To redeem tickets using your PS122 Coil Pass:

1. Click here to log into your account: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/account/203
2. Login with the email and password you used to purchase the Coil Pass. If you don’t remember your password, click the “I don’t know my password” to reset.
3. Once you are logged in, click “redeem ticket packages” towards the bottom of the screen.
4. Choose the shows you wish to see!
 
For questions regarding accessibility, please contact our box office at boxoffice@ps122.org or at 212-477-5829 ext. 313

 

Emily Johnson/Catalyst (NYC)
Umyuangvigkaq: PS122 Long Table and Durational Sewing Bee

January 8 – 11:30AM-6PM

at Ace Hotel New York, 20 West 29th Street, Mannahatta (Manhattan)
Co-hosted with Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Ace Hotel New York
FREE; Reservations Recommended

Let’s create a just and equitable world. Let’s spend some good time together doing so. Let’s chew our words, share them, listen. Let’s be okay when we don’t know. Let’s be supple and brave in our questions and our findings.

Umyuangvigkaq is a place to gather ideas. Here we will recognize and celebrate indigenous people, artists, art, methods, and audiences. We will stitch together a quilt of conversation, ideas, and fabrics. We will acknowledge indigeneity as we work to indigenize the performing arts world and the world at large.

Come with ready hearts. Come all day or for a stitch. Every 2 hours we’ll shift a conversation to a new critical topic engaging the intersections of the Indigenous with contemporary American culture. This durational sewing bee underpins a large-scale experiment in public engagement and sewing culminating in an all-night, outdoor performance event in 2017,  Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars, created by Emily Johnson/Catalyst.

Red + White Party 2017
Sun, Jan 8 – 8pm, $10

at Ace Hotel New York
20 West 29th Street, Manhattan
Co-hosted with Ace Hotel New York, Australia Council for the Arts, and the Australian Consulate-General New York

Performance Space 122’s Coil 2017 Festival is supported by A.R.T. New York, Australian Consulate-General in NY, Australia Council for the Arts, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Barragga Bay Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, British Council, Chromocell, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, East Village Community Coalition, Flanders State of the Art, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Humanities New York, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, MAP Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Morrison Foerster Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network (NPN), New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Theatermania. See full funding and co-production credits here.

 

PS122’s Coil 2017 Festival is part of January in NYC is the Place to Be for the Performing Arts, celebrating the unmatched convergence of performing arts professionals, audiences and events in New York City. Every January, more than 45,000 people from around the globe flock to New York City for public festivals and industry gatherings, featuring over 1,500 performances by thousands of world-class artists of all disciplines and genres, including world music, theater, dance, jazz, and more.

 
January in NYC

Check Out the COIL Teaser!

Our COIL 2016 teaser is live! Head over to the festival’s webpage for all of your COIL needs!

Head on over to ps122.tv to take a look at some video teasers of individual shows!

Plan your COIL Schedule!

Are you one of the few that we haven’t emailed our COIL brochure to? Don’t fret!

We recently released our full calendar for COIL 2016 online. 15 productions, 80+ shows and our killer Red + White Party will take some careful planning in order to ensure that you are seeing everything that you want!

Here is our downloadable COIL 2016 calendar. Also, here is the full COIL brochure!

The Holler Sessions

The Holler Sessions
Frank Boyd (USA)

Staged as a live radio show, The Holler Sessions centers around one man’s burning obsession for jazz. An explosive Kansas City DJ broadcasts his articulate, profane and impassioned testimony in a music-filled interactive experience. Maniacal rants, razor-sharp insights, and mildly scatological humor are interspersed with extraordinary music and lots of space for listening. The Holler Sessions serves as a jazz primer for the uninitiated, a powerful reminder for jazz fans and an irreverent love letter to the best thing America has ever created, and then forgotten.

Created in collaboration with the TEAM.

Writer and Performer: Frank Boyd
Consulting Directors: Rachel Chavkin, Josh Aaseng
Sound Designer: Matt Hubbs
Lighting Designer: Eric Southern
Stage Manager: Samantha Fremer
Videography: Mehmet Salih Yildirim, Gina Chang.

“Frank Boyd’s one-man theater piece is a vital exhortation on the significance of jazz…it should be required viewing for all musicians, music lovers, pop-culture fiends, artists, art fans and American people over the age of 7.” – City Arts, Seattle

95 minutes running time

Presented by Performance Space 122 in partnership with the Paradise Factory

Jan 6 – 6pm
Jan 7 – 9pm
Jan 8 – 9pm
Jan 9 – 4pm & 10pm
Jan 10 – 2pm
Jan 12 – 9pm
Jan 13 – 8:30pm
Jan 14 – 9pm
Jan 15 – 8pm
Jan 16 – 3pm & 8pm
Jan 17 – 7pm

Paradise Factory
64 East 4th Street, Manhattan

$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

#COIL16

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Frank Boyd is a theater artist based in Seattle. He is a member of the NYC ensembles Elevator Repair Service and the TEAM. With ERS he performed in Gatz (Public Theater), and The Select / The Sun Also Rises (New York Theater Workshop). With the TEAM Frank co-wrote and performed in Architecting (Public Theater UtR, PS122) and Particularly In the Heartland (PS122). Frank has recently been touring with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company in Straight White Men. In Seattle, Frank has worked at Seattle Repertory theater and the Intiman Theater. Frank played Joe Kavalier (Seattle Times Footlight Award) in the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay at Book-It Repertory Theater. Frank went to NYU and is from Michigan.

Paradise Factory, located in the East Village of Manhattan, is accessible by the F subway line to 2nd Avenue. The East Village has become a center of the counterculture in New York, and is known as the birthplace of many artistic movements, such as punk rock and Nuyorican literature.

 

Some staff favorites for great dining in the area include Babu Ji NYC at 175 Avenue B and DBGB Kitchen and Bar at 299 Bowery.

 


Featured image by Frank Boyd
 
Development of The Holler Sessions was supported by On the Boards and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. This project is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

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