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a quartet
Heather Kravas (USA)

Comprised of a kaleidoscopic ballet, a mutating folk dance, a human machine and a titillating cheer, Heather Kravas’ a quartet explores the possible outcomes of individuals dancing together.

At once precise and overwhelming, a quartet drastically reduces, then reiterates its vocabulary to examine the politics of societal fidelity. How do disparate beings become one faction? What is the nature of exclusion and opposition? Where is the end of us and the beginning of them?

Desire, communism, preteens, servitude, black holes and the pastoral cross paths with tradition. Conventions are considered through a minimalist lens – it is an aim toward the singular from the multitude and back again.

Choreographer & Director Heather Kravas
Performers Oren Barnoy, Cecilia E, Jennifer Kjos, Liz Santoro
Sound Designer Dana Wachs a.k.a. Vorhees
Lighting Designer Madeline Best
Scenic Designer Jason Starkie
Performance Consultant & Artistic Advisor Rebecca Brooks
Production Manager Sara Jinks

90 minutes

Commissioned by PS122
Co-presented with The Kitchen

Jan 8-10, 12 5pm
Jan 11 10pm
Jan 13 8pm

The Kitchen, Gallery
512 W. 19th Street, Manhattan
$20 / $15 students, seniors

a quartet is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by PS122 in partnership with On the Boards, Fusebox Festival and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Additional support provided by 4Culture, PACT-Zollverein Essen and the CCNFC á Belfort and developed in part with support from The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

House of Dance
Tina Satter / New York City Players (USA)

Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run this fall, which Ben Brantley in The New York Times called “enchanting” and “so very refreshing”, Tina Satter’s House of Dance returns as part of COIL 2014 for five performance only.

At a small town tap studio, four dancers prepare for a competition. Tensions flare and dead dreams fly back to life as the head instructor (Obie Award-winning Jim Fletcher) teaches his student the ways of the stage. Tina Satter’s highly stylized writing and direction creates a heightened reality – an intimate, heartfelt look into defining oneself through the context of others.

Writer & Director Tina Satter
Composer & Sound Designer Chris Giarmo
Performers Jess Barbagallo, Jim Fletcher, Elizabeth DeMent, Paul Pontrelli
Set Designer Andreea Mincic
Lighting Designer Zack Tinkelman
Choreographer Hannah Heller
Costume Designer Enver Chakartash
Stage Manager Randi Rivera
Associate Producer Lindsay Hockaday

“Far more than your standard-issue play…, House of Dance uses dance to reflect and define the idiosyncrasy and all-too-human haplessness of those who perform it.” 
– The New York Times’ Critics Pick

60 Minutes

 
Commissioned by PS122
Co-presented with New York City Players & American Realness

Jan 9 7pm
Jan 10 8:30pm, 11pm
Jan 12 1pm, 4pm
Jan 13 3pm

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Manhattan
$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

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Tina Satter is a Brooklyn-based writer and director who makes plays, performances, videos, and music. She is Artistic Director of the theater company Half Straddle founded in 2008 and awarded an Obie grant in 2013. Her recent critically acclaimed show, House of Dance, about a transgender tap student, opened in October 2013 commissioned by Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players and named a New York Times Critics Pick. Her play, Seagull (Thinking of you), a feminist re-working of Chekhov’s Seagull, premiered at PS122’s 2013 COIL Festival following residencies at MASS MoCA, New Museum, and Abrons Art Center. It tours to France and Croatia in fall 2013 and spring 2014. Her play In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL was named a Top 10 Show of 2011 by PAPER Magazine, among other honors, and FAMILY was named a Top 10 show of 2009 by Time Out New York. Her work has been curated into seasons at The Kitchen, PS122, Incubator Arts Project, the Bushwick Starr, Prelude Festival, and Ice Factory Festival. Her play Away Uniform had its European premiere at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal in October 2013.
 
Tina was named a “2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch” by Time Out New York, was a 2013 Kitchen L.A.B. resident, and featured director at Culture Project’s 2011 Women Center Stage Festival. She has been a guest artist and teacher at Princeton University, Reed College, and Fordham University. Tina attended Mac Wellman’s graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Reed College. Upcoming commissions include The Kitchen (January 2015 premiere), Soho Rep, and a Wooster Group Performing Garage Artist Residency. Her first book of plays will be published by 53rd State Press in January 2014.

 

New York City Players is a theater company creating original work about people, relationships, and above all, feeling.

 

American Realness is a festival of dance and performance founded by tbspMGMT in partnership with the Abrons Arts Center.

 

 

Abrons Art Center is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and is accessible by the F, J, M, B, and D subways. This well-known region is home to the Tenement Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Abrons Art Center sits four blocks from Essex Street, just south of the Williamsburg Bridge. The Clinton Street restaurant row is only three blocks northeast of the theater and is complete with pizzerias, tapas restaurants, and local bars.
 
“The community keeps reinventing itself,” said Susan Fleminger, director of visual arts and arts education at the Henry Street Settlement, whose main house is at 265 Henry Street, near Montgomery Street. ‘Just when you think it’s over, it revives itself.’ Henry Street is one of six century- old settlement houses that continue to help new immigrants, providing day care and programs for the young and old, as well as cultural activities in Henry Street’s Abrons Arts Center. – The New York Times
 

 

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Co-presented by PS122, New York City Players as part of the American Playwrights Division and American Realness in association with Half Straddle and Abrons Arts Center. House of Dance is made possible with the generous support of the MAP FUND, New York State Council on the Arts, and ART/NY’s Creative Space grant. Commissioning support provided by PS122, Mass Live Arts and a 50th Anniversary Grant from the Jerome Foundation with additional support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.

The Angola Project
Jeremy Xido / CABULA6 (USA/AUSTRIA)

The Angola Project playfully straddles the worlds of live performance and filmmaking – constructing a movie in real time from fragments of film and narrative, only to have it crumble into disarray. A trilogy of solo performances tearing apart the tradition of Travel Lectures from the 19th century, Jeremy Xido leads the audience on a very personal journey into real-life attempts to finance a film and confront the truth of mortality.

Creators Igor Dobricic, Claudia Heu and Jeremy Xido
Performer Jeremy Xido
Live Trigger Programmer Ryan Holsopple

“The marvelously quixotic attempt of an artist trying to figure out what he wants to say and how best to say it…” – The New York Times

Each part is 60 minutes. Full Trilogy runs 3 hours with 1 hour dinner break.

 
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center

Jan 14 Parts 1 & 2 7pm
Jan 15 Part 3 7pm
Jan 16 Parts 1 & 2 7pm
Jan 17 Full Trilogy 7pm

The Invisible Dog Art Center:
51 Bergen St., Brooklyn
$20 / $15 Students & Seniors
$25 Full Trilogy

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CABULA6, voted Company of the Year 2009 by Europe’s prestigious Ballettanz cultural magazine and awarded Outstanding Artist 2010 by the Austrian Ministry of Culture, is an internationally acclaimed performance and film company led by artistic co-directors Claudia Heu and Jeremy Xido. The company has presented work around Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, and Africa. Their work overwhelmingly focuses on the border between reality and fiction and the uneasy dialogue between a person’s private sense of identity and its dynamic reception in a broader social context. They search out non-traditional performance spaces that make it possible to walk the line between what is “real” and what is constructed and which can bring audience members face to face with their assumptions and expectations about who they are and with whom they live. CABULA6’s work ranges from stage pieces, to site-specific works, to films, to projects of social intervention. They are dedicated to principles of delight, humor, investigation, and jolts of adrenalin.
 

The Invisible Dog Art Center opened in October, 2009, a raw space in a vast converted factory building with a charmed history and an open-ended mission: to create, from the ground up, a new kind of interdisciplinary arts center. Over the last two years, over 50,000 people have attended our events: visual art exhibits; dance, theater, and music performances; film screenings; literary arts and poetry readings; lectures; community events; and more.
 
Long-term collaborations with artists are integral to The Invisible Dog’s mission, which is to create not only a new kind of art center, but also a new kind of artistic community. The Invisible Dog brings together artists of all career stages, offering them unique opportunities for involvement. Over the last two years, the art center has evolved organically, developing with and alongside its diverse roster of collaborators.
 
Neither a commercial gallery nor a concept-driven non-profit, The Invisible Dog has a unique role in the New York arts scene. It has become a place where artists working in all media can do things they wouldn’t be able to do anywhere else in New York. The Invisible Dog’s core values of experimentation and collaboration are kept in view throughout the curatorial process, and as a result, our artists are freer and more autonomous than is typical.
 
The building at 51 Bergen Street is integral to The Invisible Dog’s identity. Built in the late 1800s, the 30,000 square-foot building housed working factories until the 1990s, when the last factory shut down, and the detritus from 100 years of industry was left to rot. The building was unused until 2008, when it was discovered by Lucien Zayan. The last factory, which made belts, had a hit in the 1960s with the “invisible dog” party trick, which gave the nascent art center its name.

 

 
 

he Invisible Dog Art Center is located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn and is accessible by the F and G subways. This cool and calm region on the northwest side of Brooklyn is home to roughly 20,000 residents. Invisible Dog Art Center sits one block from Dean Street and two blocks from Atlantic Avenue, both boasting a plethora of bars and restaurants.
 
Boerum Hill claims a trendy stretch of Smith Street as its own, and small cafes and stores are dotted throughout the neighborhood’s interior, like the restaurant Building on Bond and the Brooklyn Circus boutique. Some staff picks include: 61 Local, just next door at 61 Bergen Street! Hancos, 85 Bergen St & 134 Smith Street (2 locations); Bar Tabac, 128 Smith Street; Van Leeuwen, 81 Bergen Street; Bien Cuit, 120 Smith Street; Van Horn Sandwich Shop, 231 Court Street; Ki Sushi, 122 Smith Street.
 

 

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The Angola Project is co-commissioned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) with the generous support of Cinereach and the Jerome Foundation. The Angola Project was created in part during residencies at EMPAC (Troy), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York), Transforma (Portugal), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Workspace Brussels, Maria Matos Theater (Portugal), ImPulsTanz (Vienna) and Dance New Amsterdam (New York).

An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk
Phil Soltanoff with Joe Diebes & Rob Rameriz (USA)

Through meticulously cataloguing and remixing everything William Shatner ever said on the original Star Trek series, Phil Soltanoff creates a dynamic video oracle of the lead commander on the USS Enterprise – expanding our universe on contemporary arts and science as only Captain Kirk can.

Concept & Director Phil Soltanoff
Writer Joe Diebes
Systems Designer Rob Ramirez
Performer Mari Akita
Lighting Designer Steve Brady
Costume Designer Katherine Donahue

“a rich thought piece unafraid to tackle large philosophical questions while also gently mocking its own attempts to unravel them. Underneath all of the layers of technology lies a very human frustration with the inarticulateness of language and the vagaries of defining the human existence.” – CultureMap

60 minutes

 
Co-presented with The New Ohio Theatre

Jan 9, 10 9pm
Jan 10, 11 7pm
Jan 11 3pm
Jan 12 2pm

New Ohio Theatre:
154 Christopher St., Manhattan
$20 / $15 students, seniors

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Phil Soltanoff is devoted to creating innovative, hybrid, work in which the arts collide in compelling ways. He challenges familiar forms, builds links among seemingly incompatible media and materials and employs new technologies in surprising and human ways.

 

Phil Soltanoff premiered AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM SHATNER ASTERISK at Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas. Other recent projects include SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN on Governors Island (SITELINES) and The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Soltanoff/Findlay Project commissioned by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, and I/O created in collaboration with sound artist Joe Diebes and Rob Ramirez. LA Party, premiered at PRELUDE09 was featured in UNDER THE RADAR, FUSEBOX, THE HOPKINS CENTER, THE COLLAPSABLE HOLE and the FLYNN CENTER among others. Mr. Soltanoff has created two works in collaboration with Aurelien Bory and CIE111(Toulouse, France). PLAN B and MORE OR LESS, INFINITY have performed around the world including Kampnagel (Hamburg), Eurokaz Festival (Zagreb), Trafo (Budapest), Vidy Theatre (Lausanne), Centro Belem(Lisbon), Pina Bauschʼs NRW International Dance Festival (Dusseldorf), Maison de la Danse (Lyon), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Theatre de la Ville (Paris), BITEF-42 (Belgrade) and the New Victory Theatre (NYC) among others. In addition, he collaborated with Ron Berry and Scott Wilcox to create an installation, The 12nineteen Library for the Austin Museum of Art which received a 2009 Austin Critics Table Award. Mr. Soltanoff was nominated for a Moliere Award in 2007.

 

Joe Diebes has collaborated with Phil Soltanoff numerous times over the years including the sound-theater work I/O (also with Rob Ramirez), TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and the upcoming opera HYPATIA with libretto by Mac Wellman. He has exhibited internationally his sound installations, video, and works on paper for art galleries, museums, and public spaces including Paul Rodgers/9W (New York), The ’06 Olympics (Torino, Italy), Yuanfen Gallery (Beijing), Prix Ars Electronica (Honorary Mention 2009, Linz Austria) and the Liverpool Biennial. From 1996-2003 he was a core member as well as the musical force behind the hybrid arts group GAle GAtes et al. described by The New York Times as “an adventurous troupe with one foot in the world of postmodern art and the other in downtown performance.” Since then he has continued to create performance work that fuses sound, visual media, and the human voice into a unique form of contemporary opera. His opera environment, STRANGE BIRDS, received its U.K. premiere in 2005 at Tramway (Glasgow), and he is currently developing a new opera WOW with director David Levine and poet Christian Hawkey in residency at BRIC Media Arts. His broken-word opera BOTCH premieres at HERE in November 2013.

 

Rob Ramirez is a DJ, computer programmer, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Since moving from Asheville, North Carolina to Brooklyn in 2004, he has collaborated with several artists, musicians, filmmakers, and performers, developing interactive media applications for performance or installation, as well as sound, video, and 3D graphic design. Collaborators include performance artists Phil Soltanoff and Joe Diebes at the Novelum Festival (Toulouse, France), XI recording artist David Watson, sound and video artist Kurt Hentschlager, and dancer / choreographer Koosil-Ja. As a member of the NYC based performance group Immediate Medium since 2007, he has co-created five shows. Recently, Rob and Phil Soltanoff created An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk (Fusebox Festival 2012, Prelude Festival 2012). Rob holds a Graduate Certificate in Interactive Arts from Brooklyn College, and a M.S. in Integrated Digital Media from Brooklyn Polytechnic University. He is currently employed by the software company Cycling ’74, developing future versions of the Max graphical programming environment.

 

New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning performance venue that serves the vast independent theatre community of New York and the adventurous audiences who love them. As a small, downtown, artist-run organization (with a 20+ year history as a beacon for bold and inventive work), we know the challenges and rewards of producing and presenting alternative, non-commercial theatre. In any given year, there are over 500 independent theatre companies working for opportunities to develop and present their work. We believe the best of this community operates at the core of the contemporary aesthetic conversation (in terms of both content and form) and acts collectively to expand the boundaries of the public imagination. With the opening of our new space, we aim to establish a professional, high-profile platform that reestablishes the West Village as a destination for mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish, and profound theatrical endeavors.

 

 
 

The New Ohio Theater is located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan and is accessible by the 1, A, C, E, B, D, F, M subways. This famous region on the west side of Manhattan is home to Washington Square Park, New York University, Cooper Union, St. Marks Place and a host of independent film houses and Off-Broadway theaters. The New Ohio Theater sits one block from Hudson River Park, close to Hudson Street where audiences can pick from a plethora of restaurants scattered between the New Ohio and Bleeker Street. Christopher Park is three blocks from the theater, surrounded by a variety of bars hosting live music every evening.

 

Aside from untold numbers of shopping and dining options, there are plenty of neighborly activities…for recreation-seekers without memberships to the area’s multiple gyms, the Hudson River and its well-traveled waterside trails are a short walk away. – The New York Times

 

 

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An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk was supported by The MAP Fund, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a creation residency from the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas.