TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE
For COIL 2011 in NYC
January 5 - 15
Dear colleagues,
With just 2 weeks until Performance Space 122's 6th annual COIL Festival is underway I invite you to experience all we have to offer in the largest, most impressive line up to date. Information about how to reserve tickets as well as details about each performance are below.
Our festival bar is VBar St. Mark's, located just 2 blocks south of PS122 on 1st Avenue. You are invited there for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night drinks. Exclusive COIL discounts are available when you present your passport or ticket stub and we recommend everything on the menu.
For any assistance, additional bookings, and recommendations please email either myself or coil@ps122.org. We cannot wait to see you, show you what we have prepared and hear what you have to say. Check out this video teaser to get a feel for the action.
Have safe travels whether you come from near or far, and we'll see you at PS122 in January!
Cheers,
Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director
TICKETS TO ONSITE PERFORMANCES:
Depending on your schedule while in NYC of course, we reccommend seeing as many shows in COIL as possible. The following options should make it easy and affordable to do so. All tickets may be purchased online*:
- 10 Tickets for $100: Purchase the All-access COIL Passport
- 5 tickets for $55: Purchase the PS122 Passport
- Single tickets for presenters are $15: Enter code PRES15 before purchasing single tickets online or mention code by phone at +1(212)352-3101. Limit 2 per performance
Many offsite performances are available to All-access COIL Passport holders.
- Email coil@ps122.org and we will arrange these tickets for you. The sooner you let us know, the better!
*WHEN 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. Please note - if you need to make changes to your tickets after booking, simply email coil@ps122.org to reschedule as needed.
SPECIAL EVENT:
From Commission to Global Circulation
Saturday, January 8th at PS122
11AM - 1PM / 45 min round table discussion / 45 min open conversation
Hosted by Performance Space 122 and Trust for Mutual Understanding
A light brunch will be provided by Vbar St Marks
FREE Reservation required
A conversation for contemporary performance stakeholders addressing some of the following questions:
- What does it really mean to be international?
What strategies exist to foster more transnational reciprocity for contemporary performance?
COIL 2011
Onsite Performances
Kim Noble
Kim Noble Will Die
US PREMIERE | THEATRE | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 7:30PM / Sat, Jan 8 10PM / Mon, Jan 10 10PM / Tue, Jan 11 5PM / Thu, Jan 13 10PM / Fri, Jan 14 7:30PM / Sat, Jan 15 10PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 22.
"Shocking, beautiful and profound. It will blow your mind." - Time Out
Life is tough. Kim Noble will help you get through it whilst laying bare his plans for departing this world. In a series of benevolent acts, audience members are written into Kim's legally binding Last Will andTestament, provided with guides to surviving terrorist plots on the underground, money is given away and, perhaps most touching of all, containers of Kim's sperm will be available to female audience members in a bid to populate the world with genius once he is dead.
Annie Dorsen
Hello Hi There
NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | 55 min | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Thu, Jan 6 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 5PM / Mon, Jan 10 5PM / Tue, Jan 11 10PM / Thu, Jan 13 7:30PM / Fri, Jan 14 10PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 22.
Language is meaningless, thought is pointless, and we're all gonna die. Hello, hi there!
New York director Annie Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two specially developed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs designed to mimic human conversations perform a new - as it were, improvised - live text.
Hello Hi There is a performance without people -- a literal expression of post-humanism, and simultaneously an examination of what it means to be human. The piece goes inside the question of human nature and intelligence, both the organic and the artificial.
The BodyCartography Project
Symptom
NY PREMIERE | DANCE | 70 min | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 5PM / Sat, Jan 8 5PM / Sun, Jan 9 4:30PM / Mon, Jan 10 6:30PM
"A stirring piece, viscerally, and you'll be thinking about it afterwards, as I am now." - TC Daily Planet
Join "twins", dancer Otto Ramstad and visual artist Emmett Ramstad, as they examine the human body, investigate notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, and explore the gaps between seeing, knowing and empathy. Symptom inspects the slippage between subjective and objective understandings of the human body, where a symptom acts as an indicator, trait, feature, mark or sign that is open for interpretation. Sound composed by electro-acoustic instrumentalist Andrea Parkins.
Vivi Tellas
Rabbi Rabino
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE | 80 min | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Co-presented with Rattlestick Theatre
Wed, Jan 5 9:30PM / Thu, Jan 6 6:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 6:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 6:30PM / Thu, Jan 13 7:30PM / Sat, Jan 15 9:30PM
Renowned Argentinian director Vivi Tellas kidnaps reality, placing two Conservative Rabbis onstage to perform their own autobiographies - ranging from jokes to Jewish food to their opinions on Charlton Heston's "The 10 Commandments."
On the threshold where simple reality transforms into performance, RABBI RABINO captures pieces of theatricality outside the theatre, placing them onstage in a unique context where audiences can connect with the Rabbi's world in a whole new style of docu-theater.
Ranters Theatre
Holiday
US PREMIERE | THEATRE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Thu, Jan 6 9:30PM / Fri, Jan 9:30PM / Sat, Jan 8 6:30PM / Mon, Jan 10 9:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 9:30PM / Thu, Jan 13 9:30PM / Fri, Jan 14 9:30PM / Sat, Jan 15 6:30PM
"An extraordinary piece of theatre" - Emer O'Kelly, Irish Independent
In a moment of relaxation and quite reflection two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology, and the most inexplicable behavior.
From the bar to the chaise lounge, Holiday is the journey of man's simple complexities, set within a sparingly elegant design, complimented a contemporary baroque musical score sampling Vivaldi, Corelli and Albinoni.
Teatro Della Albe
Ouverture Alcina
US PREMIERE | CHAMBER OPERA, THEATRE | 40 min | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Wed, Jan 5 10PM / Thu, Jan 6 10PM / Sun, Jan 9 10PM / Mon, Jan 10 7:30PM
"This is a remarkable performance, the script superb, irreproachable" - Muriel Mingau, Le Populaire
A fight between the power of the voice and of music, a deep and surprising alchemy that draws the figure of the sorceress, wounded by love, in her iconic immobility. No action, no spectacle, just a ghost that howls an untreatable pain. A "canto" in Romagnol dialect, an "ultra-local" language that makes a strongpoint of its incommunicability, objective music.
Jack Ferver
Rumble Ghost
DANCE | 50 min | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 10PM / Sat, Jan 8 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 7:30PM
4 STARS - Financial Times
Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors - scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children.
In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.
Amanda Loulaki & Short Mean Lady
I Am Saying Goodnight
DANCE | 65 min| UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 5PM / Sat, Jan 8 5PM / Tue, Jan 11 7:30PM
"She is certainly intense, and she is certainly talented." - John Rockwell, The New York Times
Every night I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee and start all over again until exhausted I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee.
A pre-decided game, with an intense physical vocabulary, unfiltered emotions, and an unflinching embrace of fatalism.
Stories Left to Tell
Created from classic and unpublished work of Spalding Gray
THEATRE | 90 min | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Wed, Jan 5 6:30PM / Fri, Jan 7 6:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 9:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 4:30PM
Starring Ain Gordon, Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman, and Bob Holman
When Spalding Gray succumbed to depression and took his life in the winter of 2004, he left behind a loving family, a legion of devoted fans and an enormous body of work. Stories Left to Tell charts a uniquely personal journey through Spalding's inimitable perspective and voice, featuring excerpts from his hilarious monologues juxtaposed with journal entries, poems, and other unpublished - and previously unperformed - writing.
Ain Gordon
A Disaster Begins
THEATRE | 60 min | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Mon, Jan 10 4:30PM
"Seeking order in a life, a war, and a deluge...(with) cleareyed passion." - The New York Times
A lone woman's unbreakable bond with the hurricane that devastated the Texas island of Galveston in 1900, taking 6,000 lives in a single night.
With only a pitcher of water and drinking glass she unravels the shocking truth behind this disaster, weaving in tales of presidential corruption, pubescent despair, patriotic fervor, pre-marital passion and paralyzing writer's block.
COIL 2011
Offsite Performances
Radiohole
Whatever, Heaven Allows
THEATRE | 80 min | OFFSITE at The Collapsible Hole (146 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn)
Fri, Jan 7 - Mon, Jan 10 / Wed, Jan 12 - Sat, Jan 15 8PM
WINNER OF 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD
"INSPIRED" - NY Times "OUTRAGEOUS" - The New Yorker
The star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost is BACK! Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.
Travis Chamberlain
Green Eyes
NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | 40 min | OFFSITE at The Hudson Hotel (356 West 58th St.)
Wed, Jan 5 - Sat, Jan 8 8PM & 9:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 5:30PM & 7PM / Mon, Jan 10 3PM & 4:30PM / Wed, Jan 12 - Sat, Jan 15 8PM & 9:30PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 30.
"We're telling you the good news in advance. Only 20 people can be accommodated at each performance, and they'll be right up in the action. We can't wait! Neither should you. Get tickets while you can." - Time Out New York
Travis Chamberlain unleashes the newly discovered Tennessee Williams erotic thriller and transforms a honeymoon suite into a psychosexual battleground.
Erin Markey stars as a ravenous Southern woman determined to satisfy the darkest recesses of her most deviant desires. Canadian heartthrob Adam Couperthwaite costars. This site-adaptive event delves into the disturbing subjectivities that exist in the grey areas where sadomasochistic desire and domestic violence overlap.
Brian Rogers
Selective Memory
DANCE | 60 min | OFFSITE at The Chocolate Factory (549 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens)
Sat, Jan 8 8PM / Sat, Jan 8 10PM / Sun, Jan 9 2PM / Mon, Jan 10 8:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 8PM
Conceived, directed and choreographed by Brian Rogers in collaboration with Madeline Best, Selective Memory is a real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships
that never took place, events which never happened; a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of "real" sounds and images to confound,
distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth.
The Debate Society
Buddy Cop 2
THEATRE | 75 min | OFFSITE at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th St.)
Sat, Jan 8 7PM / Sun, Jan 9 4PM / Mon, Jan 10 7PM / Tue, Jan 11 4PM / Wed, Jan 12 7PM / Thu, 9:30PM
Village Voice Best of 2010 Award winners bring back Buddy Cop 2, their hit comedic action/mystery of holiday nostalgia and athletic rigor.
When a flood destroys the police station, the local cops set up shop in the nearby community center. The days are peaceful and the nights are silent...until those things that always happen begin to happen. Mysteries emerge. Criminals are chased. Hardcore racquetball is played. In this town, nothing is what it seems...Or is it?
John Jahnke & Hotel Savant
Men Go Down
NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | 70 min | OFFSITE at 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich St.)
Thu, Jan 6 - Sun, Jan 9 / Wed, Jan 12 - Sat, Jan 15 8PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 23.
A strange and provocative theatre work that utilizes the construction of a Greek drama and the sensibility of a classic Fairy Tale to examine the ramifications of antique guilt on the modern conscience. Following a Greek king who abandons his war torn country for the safety of a cliff-side cave, the play travels one thousand years through the extended lifespan of the tormented ruler, a man who simply will not make a decision about how to handle his human responsibilities, and until he does so, cannot die. This punishment, or gift, is the verdict of an unnamed political council, who observes but remains distanced during his years of decadent, amoral, ethical elusion.
Palissimo
The Painted Bird | Bastard
DANCE | 70 min | OFFSITE at Baryshnikov Arts Center (450 West 37th St.) & Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St.)
at BAC: Sun, Jan 9 4PM - available by emailing coil@ps122.org
at Abrons Arts Center: Wed, Jan 12 at 4PM / Thu, Jan 13 6PM / Fri, Jan 14 at 6PM
"A vivid, often anguished imagination shines through in [Zustiak's] work..." - The New Yorker
In Bastard, Pavel Zustiak, in collaboration with composer Christian Frederickson and award-winning Slovak dancer Jaro Vinarsky, tackles the themes of displacement, otherness and transformation. The first installment of his trilogy The Painted Bird, the piece is loosely inspired by Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel of the same name. Zustiak draws upon the book's signature scene - a wandering boy witnessing the painting of a bird into brilliant colors causing it later to be violently killed by its own flock - to create a new work that transforms the internal landscape of agony and misrecognition into a collective remembrance.
Ishmael Houston-Jones, Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper
THEM
Co-presented with American Realness / tbspMGMT
DANCE | 60 min| OFFSITE at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St.)
Sat, Jan 8 5PM / Sun, Jan 9 7PM / Mon, Jan 10 4PM
Back after a sold-out run at PS122 in October 2010
An intensely physical interdisciplinary work that presents an unblinking look into the lives of young (gay) men and how they interact with one another. Conceived and directed by Ishmael Houston-Jones THEM features provocative texts by Dennis Cooper, and a cacophonous live electric guitar sound score by Chris Cochrane. Houston-Jones' choreography, while rooted in improvisation develops the themes of connections that never quite happen, grappling and wrestling that seem inconsequential and ineffective, and support that disappears.
Performance Space 122
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