January 2010
Richard Maxwell/NYC Players ADS
In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Bozkurt Karasu (The Wooster Group), Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence.
EXTENDED AGAIN
Jan 20 - Feb 6
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
COIL 2010
14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. A winter festival of contemporary performance featuring hits of the past, present, and future at Performance Space 122.
January 6 - 17
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Rotozaza GuruGuru
Five participants enter a brightly lit room, there are five chairs positioned around a TV. A session begins, and as each audience member follows different instructions via headphones, they begin to understand 'who they are'.
Jan 6 - 8, Jan 11 - 12
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Reid Farrington Gin and "It"
For his next work Gin & "It", Reid Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense.
April 24 - May 9
Thursday Night Social: April 29
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Edgar Oliver East 10th Street
"... a judiciously austere production... sweet and sinister... (Oliver is) a living work of theater all by himself." - Ben Brantley, New York Times
Wed, Jan 6 9:30pm | Thu, Jan 7 9:30pm | Sun, Jan 10 4:30pm |Mon, Jan 11 7pm | Tue, Jan 12 7pm | Thu, Jan 14 7:30pm | Fri, Jan 15 10pm | Sat, Jan 16 7:30pm | Sun, Jan 17 8:30pm
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Raymond Scannell & Tom Creed Mimic
Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual collapse.
Fri, Jan 8 10pm | Sat, Jan 9 7:30pm | Mon, Jan 11 10pm | Tue, Jan 12 5pm | Thu, Jan 14 8pm | Fri, Jan 15 10:30pm | Sat, Jan 16 8pm | Sun, Jan 17 8pm$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Gisèle Vienne/Jonathan Capdeville/Dennis Cooper Jerk
Jerk is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s.
Thu, Jan 7 6:30pm | Sat, Jan 9 7pm | Sun, Jan 10 9:30pm | Mon, Jan 11 9:30pm | Thu, Jan 14 10pm | Fri, Jan 15 7:30pm | Sat, Jan 16 10pm | Sun, Jan 17 6pm
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Lisa D'Amour + Katie Pearl with Emily Johnson Terrible Things
"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 flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories.
Fri, Dec 4 - Sun, Dec 20
Thu - Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
Late shows: Sat, Dec 12/Fri, Dec 18/Sat, Dec 19 10 pm
Additional shows Mon, Dec 14 + Wed, Dec 16 8pm
No show Thu, Dec 17
Also presented During COIL 2010
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Temporary Distortion Americana Kamikaze
Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 and a sensational sneak preview at Prelude '08, Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures - this time delving into the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and "J-Horror".
SPECIAL MIDNIGHT SHOW: Fri, Jan 8 | Sat, Jan 9 at 10pm | Sun, Jan 10 at 7:30pm | Mon, Jan 11 at 5pm
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Maria Hassabi Solo & SoloShow
A diptych of two autonomous evening-long solos that play between opposing orientations. The performer moves from a solitary contemplation in Solo, to a devotion to 'show-culture' in SoloShow.
Solo
Jan 11 - 12 as a part of COIL 2010
LeeSaar The Company Prima
"LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention"
- Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
The physicality and explosive tempos synonymous with LeeSaar's award-winning choreography mature and ripen in the company's fourth presentation at Performance Space 122.
Off Site at the Jewish Community Center
Thu, Jan 7 8pm | Sat, Jan 9 8pm | Sun, Jan 10 3pm
Tickets available at the JCC
Morgan Thorson Heaven
"Powerhouse" - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic perfection in a real-time performance ritual.
Thu, Jan 7 at 5pm | Sat, Jan 9 at 5pm | Sun, Jan 10 at 5pm | Mon, Jan 11 at 7:30pm | Tue, Jan 12 at 7:30pm
$20, $15 (students/seniors)
Megan Sprenger /mvworks ...within us
Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau's work and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, mvworks examines the raw unfiltered human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict.
Jan 6-9 as part of COIL 2010
the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA!
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the United States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind.
Jan 7 - 17 as part of COIL 2010
WaxFactory BLIND.NESS
"Mesmerizing theatre for the 21st century" - Flavorpill
Ride across the dark and ultimately humorous underbelly of love. Part installation, part dance-theatre, this stellar female cast will surely break, mend, and break your heart.
Jan 6-12 as part of COIL 2010
