blog | Performance Space New York

Mass Live Arts Opens This Week

Now is your chance to see PS122 alumni Half Straddle, Radiohole & New York City Players in a picturesque setting away from the city heat. Our friends at Mass Live Arts are launching their first season this week. See what the Boston Globe had to say:

“Populated with artists in their 20s and early 30s, this emerging scene seeks to draw younger patrons to a cultural milieu where the median audience age otherwise seems to lurk somewhere in late middle age. The movement reaches a peak this week, with the newly launched Mass Live Arts festival bringing three leading, New York-based progressive theater companies…”

The TEAM Makes a Play

TODAY ONLY, the documentary film The TEAM Makes a Play is free to view online! This documentary film follows the Brooklyn-based ensemble, The TEAM, during the making of their musical epic portrayal of American capitalism, Mission Drift, which premiered to US audiences during COIL 2012.

Drama ensues on-stage and behind the scenes. Check it out for free today as well at one of the Edinburgh or London screenings.

Watch The TEAM Makes a Play

The Painted Bird Trilogy

PS122 Spring ’12 and COIL ’13 artist, Pavel Zustiak, is opening The Painted Bird trilogy as part of the La MaMa Moves! 2013 Festival. With Amidst being one of the most popular shows this past COIL, I’d suggest you grab a ticket now before performances are sold out…

June 21-30
Information and tickets

Tickets for the entire trilogy are $60 ($55 student/senior)
$45 Discount Code for PS122 friends/followers: OWL
Tickets for individual parts are $25 (at the door, cash only, subject to availability)

Zustiak’s “The Painted Bird”, a three-part epic, is a claustrophobic, sometimes disorienting exploration of themes of displacement and altered perception
The New Yorker

See you there!

The Painted Bird trilogy, is a series of dance-theater performances by acclaimed choreographer, Pavel Zustiak.

Inspired by the Jerzy Kosinski novel of the same name, which tells the story of a young boy making his way through war-time Eastern Europe, The Painted Bird is an ambitious, emotionally charged production that deals with themes of identity, otherness, displacement and transformation. Integrating dance, video, visual projections, and live music composed by Christian Frederickson, Ryan Rumery, and Jason Nobel, the piece, as The New Yorker says, shines with Zustiak’s “vivid, often anguished, imagination.”

The Painted Bird shows at La MaMa Moves! 2013 will be the first time all three parts of the trilogy– Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo– will presented together in New York. The whole three-show cycle is about four hours long, with food available during the intermissions.

The Painted Bird runs:
June 21-22 at 7pm
June 23 at 3pm
June 26-29 at 7pm
June 30 at 3pm

Information and tickets

Tickets for the entire trilogy are $60 ($55 student/senior)
Tickets for individual parts are $25 (at the door, cash only, subject to availability)

Photo credit: David Kumerman

All rights reserved by Performance Space New York
Skip to content