January 2012
COIL 2012
Performance Space 122's 7th annual mid-winter festival featuring inventive and inspiring contemporary performance that's "aimed at the head, the guts and the heart" (New York Post) is ready for you. Single tickets now on sale.
January 5 - 29, 2012
Every House Has a Door (Chicago, Croatia)
Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. (NY Premiere)
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.
Jan 5 - 9
Rabih Mroué (Lebanon) - Looking for a Missing Employee (US Premiere) & The Pixelated Revolution (World Premiere)
Actor, writer, and director Rabih Mroué'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.
Jan 6-9
Davis Freeman (Belgium) - Too shy to stare (US Premiere)
A carousel of identity and illusion, Too shy to stare breaks the barrier between performer and audience through highly original and entirely unrepeatable means.
Jan 6 - 14
Mariano Pensotti (Argentina) - El pasado es un animal grotesco (The past is a grotesque animal) (US Premiere)
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.
Jan 7-15
Heather Kravas (US / France) - The Green Surround
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.
Jan 7-9
The Red & White Party 2012 Presented by Performance Space 122 & SPiN New York
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.
Jan 8
Michael Kliën with Steve Valk (Ireland) - Choreography for Blackboards (US Premiere)
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.
Jan 8-11
the TEAM (NY) - Mission Drift (US Premiere)
Mission Drift is a pioneering journey west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism.
Jan 8-29
David Levine (NY, Berlin) - ANGER AT THE MOVIES (World Premiere)
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 frustrating to see your profession represented on film?" You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the space to discuss.
Jan 10-11
Temporary Distortion (NY) - Newyorkland (NY Premiere)
An intertextual assemblage, Newyorkland combines popular cop movies and TV police procedurals with first-person accounts from real-life police officers.
Jan 12-28
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (NY) - UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (NY Premiere)
In Young Jean Lee's latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilarating, nearly-wordless journey through expressions of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.
Jan 12-28
