Dear Colleagues,
With barely 3 weeks until we open our doors to 2010 and COIL - do you have your plane tickets to NYC yet?
COIL runs from January 6 - 17th. Performance times are staggered and to make sure that you catch all our on-site and offsite performances and we will have handy postcards with a calendar of events on it for you to carry around town with you. I invite you to join us for as many shows as you can manage.
Also, our annual COIL bash on Sunday, January 10th following the performances that evening. We will all gather in the LuEsther Lounge in the lobby of the Public Theater around 11pm with COIL Artists, PS122 Staff, Board members, and friends. It would be grand if you could join us there as well.
Some updates to our festival since I last wrote:
- We have a brand new COIL trailer to watch and share. 14 shows are a lot to pack into 90 seconds - like COIL, blink and you'll miss something.
- Edgar Oliver's East 10th Street, Temporary Distortion's Americana Kamikaze and Morgan Thorson & Low's Heaven are selling quickly. Please do reserve your tickets now to ensure a seat at each of these 3 superb offerings.
- Maria Hassabi will be presenting SoloShow as opposed to Solo - She will be presenting this in her private studio for 3 exclusive showings. Tickets are available online with our All-Access Passport - Single tickets may be booked by appointment only through coil@ps122.org.
I strongly recommend purchasing a ALL-ACCESS PRESENTER PASSPORT for $75.
This will allow easy access to all the performances in COIL, and the flexibility to change your schedule before and during the week.
Below your will find out more about each COIL presentation as well as how to book your tickets.
More information and a download-able calendar with performance times are available via www.ps122.org
Regards,
Vallejo Gantner
Artistic Director, Performance Space 122
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For tickets to COIL 2010
Includes tickets to all COIL shows on-site and off-site*
*NEW* You can book all your COIL tickets online right now.
- Step 1: View or print the COIL master calendar to help manage your time and maximize your viewing.
Step 2: Click here to purchase your ALL-ACCESS PRESENTER PASSPORT
Step 3: To reserve your tickets to offsite programming, please email coil@ps122.org and we will arrange these tickets for you depending on availability. The sooner you let us know, the better!
Please note - if you need to make changes to your on-site tickets after booking, simply email coil@ps122.org to reschedule as needed.
- Simply enter code PRES10 when booking online or mention code when calling +1-212-352-3101
For any assistance, additional bookings, and recommendations, email coil@ps122.org
BONUS If you reserve your tickets in advance, PS122 will have all of your tickets
available for you to pick up upon arrival at the Box Office for your first performance.
On-Site COIL Performances
Morgan Thorson & LOW - Heaven
70 Minutes
Minneapolis
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
DANCE, LIVE MUSIC
"Beautiful" - The New York Times
"The anti-Christs of classical dancing" - Molly Glentzer, The Houston Chronicle
Morgan Thorson returns to PS122 with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and
corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth
of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes
angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography.
Lisa D'Amour & Katie Pearl with
Emily Johnson - Terrible Things
60 minutes
New Orleans/Houston/Minneapolis
Downstairs at Performance Space 122
THEATRE, DANCE
"Next time D'Amour and Pearl bring their enchanting work to town be sure to take it in."
- John del Signore, The Gothamist
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl return to PS122 and get up
close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've
imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences
on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom.
Artist website: www.pearldamour.com
Megan V. Sprenger/mvworks - ...within us.
60 minutes
NYC
Downstairs at Performance Space 122
DANCE, INSTALLATION
"It is both striking and antiseptic. You think of office spaces, study halls, waiting rooms; the places
in between the action." - Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times
Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers
...within us. examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical & emotional conflict and continues mvworks'
investigation of kinetic transfer through movement.
Artist website: www.mvworks.org
Edgar Oliver - East 10th Street; Portrait with Empty House
50 Minutes
NYC
Downstairs at Performance Space 122
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Presented by Brian Barnhart, Axis Theatre and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd
"... a judiciously austere production... sweet and sinister... (Oliver is) a living work of theater all by himself."
- Ben Brantley, New York Times
"...an outlandish cast, worthy of Dostoyevsky... creepy and droll beyond words... a pitch-perfect delivery... profoundly
affecting." - New York Press
New York theatre-icon Edgar Oliver was once the receptionist at Performance Space 122. Decades later -
and direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway season, not to mention a recently celebrated featured film role in
"Gentlemen Broncos" (from Jared Hess, director of Napolean Dynamite) - Edgar returns.
He takes us upon a fantastic voyage through the strange rooms of the bizarre boarding house where he has lived
since his first years in 1970's New York and wherein lie the secrets of his family and the unbelievable odyssey
that brought him there. Inhabiting the dark, mysterious halls are a dwarf Cabalist, a possible Nazi, the landlord's
former wet nurse who apparently lives in a nest of rags, and all too many others.
Written and Performed by Edgar Oliver. Directed by Randall Sharp. Lighting Design by David Zeffren.
Temporary Distortion - Americana Kamikaze
60 minutes
NYC
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
CINEMA-THEATRE
"Go to the theatre to see death performed live to really test your limits."- The New York Times
Following a critically acclaimed run at PS122 in November 2009, Americana Kamikaze re-conjures vengeful
spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, creepy sound designs, equally creepy
cinematography, and bizarrely happy endings. Performers are doubled by video doppelgangers in this
East-meets-West psychological horror story that fractures reality and narrative beyond existence.
Company website: www.temporarydistortion.com
Richard Maxwell/NYC Players - Ads
60 Minutes
NYC
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, VIDEO
Co-presented with Under The Radar Festival
[Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists to emerge from American experimental
theater in the past decade." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell and NYC Players.
Moving into and beyond traditional video screening, and projecting video into the realm of live performance,
Ads stages three-dimensional video recordings in the theater as theatre. In collaboration with
photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks
whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology?
And perhaps most importantly: How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Company website: www.nycplayers.org
Raymond Scannell & Tom Creed - Mimic
75 Minutes
Dublin
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
U.S. PREMIERE | CABARET THEATRE
"A compelling constellation...vertinguous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer, Dublin Fringe Festival 2009
Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and
extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual collapse. A dark satire
about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that leaves its heritage behind.
Written, Composed, Performed by Raymond Scannell. Directed and designed by Tom Creed.
Raymond Scannell is currently playing Blake in the Druid world tour of Enda Walsh's acclaimed The Walworth Farce.
He has worked extensively as an actor and is currently under commission to Cork Midsummer Festival.
Tom Creed is Associate Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company and Theatre and Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival.
His extensive directing credits include an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nomination in 2007 for
Rough Magic's Attempts on her Life.
Rotozaza / Ant Hampton - GuruGuru
50 minutes
London
In The Classroom at PS122
N.Y. PREMIERE | INTERACTIVE SELF-HELP INSTALLATION FOCUS GROUP
"Hugely entertaining... This smart, mysterious exercise in programmed thinking and collective chaos
is strange but exhilarating." - The Times
You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones
has understood who you are and gives instructions which mirror what you'd be doing anyway. A life free
of dither and uncertainty! In your job, this voice is a career-saver... but the day has come when you
need to come 'off the headphones'. You need help.
A Rotozaza Production By Ant Hampton, with Joji Koyama and Isambard Khroustaliov
Company website: www.rotozaza.co.uk
Gisèle Vienne/Jonathan Capdeville/Dennis Cooper - Jerk
60 Minutes
Grenoble
Downstairs at Performance Space 122
NY PREMIERE | GLOVE-PUPPET THEATRE
Co-presented with Under The Radar Festival
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
"Jerk might be unbearable for some. But in our eyes, theatre so wisely woven with reality,
however violent, is wholesome." - Les Inrockuptibles, France
Using simple glove puppets, Jerk is an imaginary reconstruction - strange, poetic, funny and
somber - of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll, who with the help of
teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than twenty boys in the state of Texas during the 70s.
Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America".
Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche.
Since 1999, Gisèle Vienne has worked as a choreographer, director and visual artist. Performed by and
created in collaboration with Jonathan Capdevielle.
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
Artist website: www.g-v.fr
Off-Site COIL Performances
LeeSaar The Company - Prima
55 minutes
NYC
Offsite* at the Jewish Community Center
DANCE
"LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention" - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
In Prima, four arresting performers explore a world of pure sensation and energy. Teasing out the
feminine and the virile, they are alternately playful and bashful as they navigate sexuality and temptation.
Featuring music by political activist DJ Filastine.
The company's process and technique is influenced by the Gaga training of Ohad Naharin. Lee and Saar
are recipients of the Six Point Fellowship 2007-2009, the Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography for 2008,
and the New York Foundation for the Art Fellowship for 2008.
* Offsite at The Jewish Community Center
Company website: www.leesaar.com
WaxFactory - BLIND.NESS (Love is a Four-Letter Word)
60 minutes
NYC / Ljubljana
Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
DANCE, THEATRE, VIDEO
"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore, Gothamist
The globe trotting, discipline-bending, unmistakably downtown WaxFactory presents a stellar female
cast on an emotional roller coaster ride across the dark, and ultimately humorous underbelly of love.
Part audio-visual installation, part dance-theatre, BLIND.NESS looks at what transpires when love
becomes a four-letter word.
Directed by Ivan Talijancic, written by Slovenian playwright Simona Semenic, featuring sublime
video by Antonio Giacomin of Italy, architectural design of Minimart, the sounds of electronica
duo Random Logic and WaxFactory's own Erika Latta, this tour-de-force will surely break, mend,
and break your heart.
* Offsite at
Abrons Arts Center
Company website: www.waxfactory.org
Maria Hassabi- SoloShow
60 minutes
NYC
Offsite* at Private Studio - by appointment only
DANCE, INSTALLATION
"Gazing at this exquisitely designed living sculpture, you also feel your own body straining with Hassabi,
and in the slow friction between these two views, mysterious emotions ignite." - Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Hassabi continues her rigorous exploration of representations of the female body - embedded within art history, pop culture, and the
performance of daily life - dissolving into the physicality of contemporary dance.
Artist website: www.mariahassabi.com
Reid Farrington - Gin & "It"
90 minutes
NYC
Co-presented with Under The Radar Festival in association with 3LD Art & Technology Center
Offsite* at 3LD Art & Technology Center
THEATRE, VIDEO
"What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington's work." - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
For his next work Gin & "It", Reid Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of
Suspense. Again Farrington collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a
classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.
The original movie's director attempted to transfer the compressed drama of a one-set play into a
suspenseful film through the illusion of being shot in one uninterrupted film take. Farrington explores
the making of this technical tour-de-force. His video theater work will mirror the technical feats
of this daring film experiment.
* Offsite at 3LD Art & Technology Center
Artist website: reidfarrington.com
The National Theater of the
United States of America - CHAUTAUQUA!
75 Minutes
NYC
Co-presented with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
THEATRE
"One of the most exciting and eccentric young theater companies in town."
-The New York Times
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray Award, NTUSA returns to NYC to channel the form and style of the
original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic and theatrical rhythm.
*Offsite at The Public Theater:
Under The Radar Festival
Company website: ntusa.org
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