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Temporary Distortion (NY)
Newyorkland (NY Premiere)

“Theater-artist Kenneth Collins and filmmaker William Cusick—just keep elevating their game.” – Time Out New York

“Seamless and gorgeous… a dreamy, poetic, abstracted and sometimes scary meditation.”
– The Stranger

“Newyorkland is a fascinating window into a cop’s often isolating experiences.”
– The Seattle Times

“A compelling, self-contained world from which it’s impossible to avert one’s eyes… an original and important evening of theater.”
– Crosscut

” hypnotic and sumptuous theatrical presentation… wonderful palliative for those who need a break from the tyranny of straightforward narrative storytelling.”
– Seattlest

“Mind-blowing video images and theatrical tension.”
– The New York Times

An intertextual assemblage, Newyorkland combines popular cop movies and TV police procedurals with first-person accounts from real-life police officers. Acclaimed director Kenneth Collins and prominent video artist William Cusick merge visual and performance art, documentary realism, cinéma vérité, and pure fiction as they follow four police officers struggling with the high costs of working within the demanding, dangerous, and secretive society of the NYPD.

Newyorkland is commissioned with support from Performance Space 122 and the Jerome Foundation. Newyorkland is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011, and The Greenwall Foundation.

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Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s
Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY
January 12 – Feb 4
Jan 12 at 7pm;
Jan 13, 14, 17-21, 24-28 at 7:30pm;
Jan 15 at 6pm

untitled feminist show

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (NY)
UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (NY Premiere)

A “brief, joyous, mute extravaganza of dance, mime, and movement”
– New York Magazine

“Does hold nothing sacred? Rather little, save a devotion to the theatrical medium and a desire to challenge complacency, encouraging audiences to think – and feel – for themselves.”
– The Village Voice

“She offers the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness” –
The New Yorker

“Lee confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America.”
– Time Out New York

“Her work constantly turns itself inside out. It’s also constantly fascinating.”
– The Wall Street Journal

“The clearest indication that the avant-garde isn’t dead, and has never been funnier.”
– New York Magazine

Named Best Provocative Playwright by The Village Voice

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.

Conceived & directed by Young Jean Lee. Featuring Becca Blackwell, World Famous

*BOB*, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizo), Hilary Clark, Katy

Pyle & Regina Rocke. Choreography by Faye Driscoll, Morgan

Gould & Young Jean Lee, in collaboration with the performers.

Please note this performance contains nudity.

Originally commissioned by The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) this production is a co-production of The Walker Art Center, Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Kunstenfestivaldesartes (Brussels), the 2011 Spalding Gray Award (Performance Space 122 in New York, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On the Boards in Seattle, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis), and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company. Originally developed in association with Caleb Hammons. Funding support provided by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the MAP/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Explorations Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Residency support from The Park Avenue Armory, The New Museum, Mount Tremper Arts, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

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Co-presented by PS122 & Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of the 7th Annual COIL Festival
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s
Jerome Robbins Theater
450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY
January 12 – Feb 4, 2012
60 min

$25, $20 (students / seniors)
$35 / $30 student, seniors (EXTENSION)

Choreography for Blackboards

Michael Kliën with Steve Valk (Ireland)
Choreography for Blackboards (US Premiere)

“Choreography is not to constrain movement into a set pattern, it is to provide a cradle for movement to find its own patterns.” – Michael Kliën

2001 a space odyssey: the appearance of a massive black monolith heralds a paradigm shift from mindless savage to calculated tool user. Now the monolith reappears in Brooklyn, in the shape of 6 imposing blackboards on a pristine white dance floor.

A cast of uniquely abled citizens including Paul Muldoon, “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” (The Times Literary Supplement), heavyweight particle physicist Brian Schwarz (CUNY), members of Occupy Wall Street, an investment banker, and bright young things of dance Fitzgerald & Stapleton, surf the cusp of change, modeling potential routes to a new world order.

This is state of the art choreography from the most agile thinkers in contemporary dance.

PERFORMED BY:
Brian Schwartz, physicist. (Jan 8, 9)
Paul Muldoon, poet . (Jan 8)
Jeffrey Gormly, playwright. (Jan 8, 9, 10, 11)
Frank Hentschker, graduate theater professor. (Jan 8,9)
Ivan Martinez, Investment Banker. (Jan 8, 9, 10, 11)
Eugenia Manwelyan, urban planner and
Occupy Wall Street activist. (Jan 8, 9)
Tal Beery, sculptor and Occupy Wall Street activist. (Jan 9, 10)
Emma Fitzgerald, performance artist. (Jan 10)
Aine Stapleton, performance artist. (Jan 11)
Tony Schultz, physicist and dancer. (Jan 10, 11)
Leina Bocar, artist/activist/film maker (Jan 10, 11)

Made possible with support from Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Culture Ireland. Originally produced by Daghdha Dance Company, Ireland.

Presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center and Performance Space 122 as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
The Invisible Dog Art Center

51 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY
January 8 – 11, 2012
1 hr 30 min

Mission Drift

the TEAM (NY)
Mission Drift (US Premiere)

“The liveliest lesson on desire, destruction, and economics that you’ll see in many a year.” – The Village Voice

“What a blast. Economics has never been more playfully dissected… gorgeous, gaudy musical.”
– The Guardian

“Mission Drift is that rare beast, a musical in which the music is really cool – jazz, blues, gospel and a little Elvis of course, all performed by a powerful cast of five with panache and soul. The performances are excellent … the ambition here is breathtaking and the energy intoxicating.”
– The Independent

“The TEAM have slowly but surely become the artistic conscience of a younger generation.”
– The Herald

“A lush panorama of contemporary Americana.” -The Financial Times

Winner of the 2011 Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards
Winner of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize

Mission Drift is a pioneering journey west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism. In this critically acclaimed contemporary musical with a score that fuses Vegas glitz with Western ballads, seductive storyteller Miss Atomic interweaves the epic saga of two immortal Dutch teens with an intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy. A political and urgent work about creation and destruction, bankruptcy and bonanza, and the crumbling myth of an eternal frontier.

Featuring: Heather Christian, Amber Gray*, Brian Hastert*, Libby King, Ian Lassiter*
Musicians: Matt Bogdanow, Sasha Brown, Gabe Gordon

Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Scenic Design: Nick Vaughan
Costume Design: Brenda Abbandandolo
Lighting Design: Jake Heinrichs
Sound Design: Matt Hubbs
Associate Lighting Design: Seá n Linehan
Dramaturg: Paz Pardo
Stage Manager: Dave Polato*

*member Actor’s Equity Assn.

Gen. Manager: Nate Koch
Line Producer: Danielle Long
Tech. Director: Joe Cantalupo
Tour Producer: Michael Mushalla

Written by the TEAM in collaboration with Heather Christian and Sarah Gancher

Music by Heather Christian

Mission Drift was made possible with support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the JMJ Family Fund, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Almeida Theatre, Performance Space 122, & Culturgest.

It was developed at London’s Almeida Theatre, Brooklyn’s BRICStudio, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, LMCC’s Swing Space grant at Building 110 on Governors Island, the Orchard Project, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, and ArtsEmerson.

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Presented as a part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
The Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St., Manhattan, NY
Jan 8 – Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4 8pm
1 hr 50 min

Waking Things

Waking Things by Melika Bass

“Characters announced in exquisite typeface. . . scurry along paths, dart through doorways and sleep upright. Bass mystifies the work of these plain folk with her own filmic magic.”
-(Chicago Sun-Times)

“A house in a forest. Preparations for an archaic ritual. Lights and shadows of an incomprehensible world. Filmmaker Melika Bass directs as if time did not exist, with a rigor that transforms images into still lifes, loading them with a heartbreaking and threatening beauty.” (Torino Film Festival)

In a house in a primeval wood, a mysterious, misfit family prepares a seasonal feast for a visiting party of outlanders. As they shuffle through ritualistic preparations, shadows reveal each creature — one menacing, one wounded, and one worn, stewards of an old tradition, blood for blood.

A short film co-produced by and featuring ensemble members of Every House Has a Door Performance group.

US Premiere – Anthology Film Archives
European Premiere – Waves Section, Torino Film Festival, Italy

16mm to video, color, sound, 2011, 34 mins.

Presented to coincide with Every House Has a Door’s Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. at PS122, January 5-9 2012

Named “one of the most promising emergent practitioners in Chicago” by the Chicago Tribune, Melika Bass is the recipient of an Artadia Award, a Media Arts Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and the Kodak/Filmcraft Imaging Award for Best Cinematography from the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Her film work has been screened and exhibited in cinemas and art spaces worldwide, among them the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (solo exhibition, February 2011); Torino Film Festival, Italy; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Northwest Film Center; Segal Center for the Performing Arts, Montreal; Hamburg International Film Festival, Germany; and the Split Festival of New Film, Croatia.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
150 1st Ave., Manhattan, NY

Saturday, January 7 4:30pm
2012