Theatermania just ran a great article about PS122’s future, Performance Space 122: How Leaving Manhattan Forced an Organization to Evolve. Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner is interviewed and speaks about some of the changes we’ve been making:
“Being out of the building opened up an opportunity to really think about what we do and why and how we do it,” said Vallejo Gantner, P.S. 122’s Artistic Director. “It’s a shift, and reflects the fact that artist-led spaces aren’t in the East Village anymore. They are in Bushwick, and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Long Island City. has evolved, and young emerging artists don’t live in the East Village, typically, so our functioning in the New York City ecosystem has to change.”