Hear what audiences thought of Song by Ranters Theatre. This immersive sound installation reinvents the song cycle form by combining the sounds of weather, the scent of earth and the colors of day’s end, transforming the space into a multi-sensory constructed “nature”.
Jan 5-8 as part of COIL 16
ps122.org/song
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This Week’s Maxamoo Podcast featuring COIL
Maxamoo, NYC’s theater podcast, focused their first podcast of 2016 on the January Festivals. After a quick little intro, the three hosts, Lindsay, Jack and Liz, go into some specific shows that they are particularly looking forward to seeing this season. Among the featured shows are four of our very own: The Holler Sessions by Frank Boyd, Morphia Sessions by Helen Herbertson & Ben Cobham, DISCOTROPIC by niv Acosta and Intimacy by Ranters Theatre. We could not agree more that these shows are going to be fantastic!
Here are some great quotes about the shows from the Maxamoo podcast:
“It’s just going to be this crazy brilliant guy screaming about jazz and playing some tunes.” — Jack, in reference to The Holler Sessions.
“It is a combination of dance, text, sound, image, you know, they call them visual haikus.” “Oh, I want it!” — Lindsay, followed by Jack, in reference to Morphia Series.
“This show is addressing the way that the black female body is being consumed as silent, bodacious and marginalized, a holographic fantasy. So, it just sounds incredible and I’m very excited about it.” — Liz, in reference to DISCOTROPIC.
“I can’t really figure it out, but I just have a hunch that it’s going to be weird and I’ll like it.” — Liz, in reference to Intimacy.
“Transnational, Planetary, Technologically Sophisticated”
COIL 2016 artist Samita Sinha is a composer and vocal artist who combines tradition with experimentation to create bold new forms in music and performance. North Indian classical, folk and ritualistic music are the base of her unique musical style which transcends the bindings of genre.
Samita Sinha is joined this COIL by her bandmates Sunny Jain and Grey Mcmurray in her new work, bewilderment and other queer lions. Here is a taste of the unique sound that this trio is making waves with:
Click here for more information and tickets to bewilderment and other queer lions.
Vallejo Gantner, Kaneza Schaal & Rachel Chavkin on Leonard Lopate
“Vallejo Gantner, curator and artistic director of PS122’s annual festival, COIL, talks about the upcoming performances along with featured playwrights Rachel Chavkin and Kaneza Schaal. runs from January 5-17 in venues across the city.”
Listen to the full interview here!