COIL 2012 is ready for you

COIL 2012 | January 5 - 29

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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 performers take the audience on an exhilarating and disorienting journey through an array of unexpected possibilities, heightening our awareness of the gap between what we think we are and what we could be. Conceived & Directed by Young Jean Lee.

January 12 - 28

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

The Connelly Theater

220 E 4th St., Manhattan, NY

"The TEAM have slowly but surely become the artistic conscience of a younger generation." - The Herald

Mission Drift is a critically acclaimed contemporary musical that fuses Vegas glitz with Western ballads, and spans 400 years and 3000 miles from 1624 Amsterdam all the way to modern-day Las Vegas in search of the particular character of American capitalism. Overseen by Miss Atomic, a seductive spirit of both creation and destruction, two immortal Dutch teens join a cocktail waitress and a cowboy in this theatrical adventure that examines how we arrived at this financial crisis, and if there such thing as recovery.

January 7 - 29
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

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 Yugoslavian 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

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 the 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

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

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Howard Gillman 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 - 28
Jan 12 at 7pm; Jan 13, 14, 17-21, 24-28 at 7:30pm; Jan 15 at 6pm

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 Gillman Performance Space 450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY .

Actor, writer, and director Rabih Mroue'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, Mroue 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.

Winner of the 2011 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.

January 6 - 9
Looking for a Missing Employee Jan 6, 7 at 7:30pm; Jan 8 at 5pm
The Pixelated Revolution Jan 9 at 7:30pm

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
Jan 7 at 7pm; Jan 8 at 2pm; Jan 10-14 at 7pm; Jan 15 at 2pm

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

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

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 annoying to see your profession represented on film?" You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the space to discuss.

January 10 - 11
Jan 10 at 6pm; Jan 11 at 8pm

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.

VIP tables $500
Includes 10 tickets, a ping-pong table with your name on it & access to the VIP room
Single tickets $30
OR use your COIL Pass (10 tickets for $100, valid through Jan 29, 2012)

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