"How much crazy can you stand?" - Variety
COIL is the winter festival of contemporary performance featuring the past, present, and future hits of Performance Space 122.
Richard Maxwell/NYC Players - Ads
60 Minutes
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
Gisèle Vienne/Jonathan Capdeville/Dennis Cooper - Jerk
60 Minutes
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
Raymond Scannell & Tom Creed - Mimic
75 Minutes
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
Rotozaza / Ant Hampton - GuruGuru
50 minutes
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
Edgar Oliver - East 10th Street; Portrait with Empty House
50 Minutes
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
Morgan Thorson & LOW - Heaven
70 Minutes
Upstairs at Performance Space 122
DANCE, LIVE MUSIC
"Beautiful" - The New York Times
Temporary Distortion - Americana Kamikaze
60 minutes
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
Lisa D'Amour & Katie Pearl with
Emily Johnson - Terrible Things
60 minutes
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, Gothamist
Megan V. Sprenger/mvworks - ...within us.
60 minutes
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
Off-Site COIL Performances
The National Theater of the
United States of America - CHAUTAUQUA!
75 Minutes
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
Reid Farrington - Gin & "It"
90 minutes
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
LeeSaar The Company - Prima
55 minutes
Offsite* at the Jewish Community Center
DANCE
"LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention" - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
WaxFactory - Blind.ness
60 minutes
Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
DANCE, THEATRE, VIDEO
"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore, Gothamist
Maria Hassabi- SoloShow
60 minutes
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