Performance Space 122

Kim Noble
Kim Noble Will Die
US PREMIERE | THEATRE | UPSTAIRS at PS122
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. Find out more

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Annie Dorsen
Hello Hi There
US PREMIERE | THEATRE | 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. Find out more

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The BodyCartography Project
Symptom
NY PREMIERE | DANCE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 4:30PM / Sat, Jan 8 9:30PM / 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. Find out more

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Vivi Tellas
Rabbi Rabino
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE | 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 6:30PM / 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 way. Find out more

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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.
Find out more

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Teatro Delle Albe
Ouverture Alcina
US PREMIERE | CHAMBER OPERA, THEATRE | 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. Music: Luigi Ceccarelli Find out more

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Stories Left to Tell
Created from classic and unpublished work of Spalding Gray
THEATRE | 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 with special guest stars nightly
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. Find out more

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Ain Gordon
A Disaster Begins
THEATRE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
A DISASTOR BEGINS IS SOLD OUT
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.
Find out more

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Jack Ferver
Rumble Ghost
DANCE | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 10PM / Sat, Jan 8 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 7:30PM

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. Find out more

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Amanda Loulaki & Short Mean Lady
I Am Saying Goodnight
DANCE | 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. Find out more

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Radiohole
Whatever, Heaven Allows
THEATRE | OFFSITE at The Collapsible Hole (146 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Sat, Jan 8 - 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.

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Travis Chamberlain
Green Eyes
NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | OFFSITE at The Hudson Hotel (356 West 58th St.)

Wed, Jan 5 - Sat, Jan 8 8PM & 9:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 5PM & 7PM / Mon, Jan 10 2PM & 4:30PM / Wed, Jan 12 - Sat, Jan 15 8PM & 9:30PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 23.
Sign up for Priority Wait List for Green Eyes here: NYCGREENEYES.COM

"Green Eyes is a tiny, pitch-perfect triumph" - Erik Haagensen, Backstage
"Packs a wallop" - Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post

Travis Chamberlain unleashes the newly discovered Tennessee Williams erotic thriller transforming 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.
Produced by: Carleigh Welsh, Chris Keegan, and Travis Chamberlain

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Brian Rogers
Selective Memory
DANCE | 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.

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The Debate Society
Buddy Cop 2
THEATRE | 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 The Debate Society 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?

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John Jahnke & Hotel Savant
Men Go Down
Presented by and developed at 3LD Art & Technology Center
NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | 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.

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Palissimo
The Painted Bird | Bastard
DANCE | OFFSITE at Baryshnikov Arts Center (450 West 37th St.) & Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St.)
at BAC: Sun, Jan 9 4PM
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.

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Ishmael Houston-Jones, Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper
THEM
Co-presented with American Realness / tbspMGMT
DANCE | OFFSITE at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St. at Pitt St.)
ALL PERFORMANCES OF THEM ARE SOLD OUT
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.