Category: Performance

MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT
Temporary Distortion (NYC)

MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT is a six-hour durational performance of live music, spoken text and video set within a freestanding, sound-proof installation that is 24 feet long by 6 feet wide. While viewing the performers through two-way mirrors, audience members listen to music ranging from drifty ambient sounds to erasure poetry to raucous punk-inspired anthems through headphones along the outside perimeter of the installation. Complex and densely layered, Temporary Distortion creates an intimate experience where everyone has a front row seat.

 
Viewers are encouraged to come and go throughout the six-hour duration of the event. Capacity is limited and reservations are strongly recommended.
 
 
“Temporary Distortion just keeps elevating their game. You could call that game sculptural video, or perhaps living set design, or maybe just multimedia ravishment.” – Time Out New York
 

6 hours durational

 
Co-presented with Ideal Glass Gallery

Jan 7 – 6pm to 12am
Jan 8 – 6pm to 12am
Jan 9 – 6pm to 12am
Jan 10 – 6pm to 12am
Jan 11 – 12pm to 6pm

Ideal Glass Gallery
22 East 2nd Street, Manhattan
FREE; Reservations Recommended

#COIL15

▸▸ Pass Holders Log in to redeem
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

Temporary Distortion explores the potential tensions and overlaps found between practices in visual art, theater, cinema and music. The group works across and between disciplines to create performances, installations, films, albums and works for the stage.
 
Interdisciplinary artist Kenneth Collins formed Temporary Distortion in 2002 when he began staging intimate performances in claustrophobic, life-size shadow boxes in New York City. Performers were isolated behind large sheets of glass and whispered lyrical texts into microphones from inside each box, accompanied by atmospheric music and changes in light.
 
In later works, larger boxlike structures were built from steel scaffolding, industrial lights, speakers, televisions and video projection surfaces. The group began merging installation, theater and cinema in 2007 for a trilogy of popular film genre deconstructions: Welcome to Nowhere, Americana Kamikaze and Newyorkland. This trilogy concluded in 2012.
 
Temporary Distortion’s recent work has focused on long-duration, installation-based performance featuring live music, where spectators are encouraged to freely come and go throughout all-night events…

 

 

Ideal Glass Gallery is an New York-based art collective founded by performance artist and filmmaker Willard Morgan to shock, entertain, and transform. Collaborating with art-wear sculptor Uta Bekaia, visual artist Ayakamay, sound designer John Sully, editor Jessie Stead, the international team explores social activism, gentrification, sexual identity, and the slavery of debt-through live performance, sound recording and art video.

EMPAC is where the arts, sciences, and technology interact with and influence each other by using the same facilities, technologies, and by breathing the same air. Situated on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC is dedicated to building bridges between our human senses, to modes of perception and experience, to creating meaning in a physical environment, and to the intangible world of digital technology.
 
 

 

 

 

Installation Designer, Direction & Text: Kenneth Collins
Composition, Musical Direction & Sound Design: John Sully
Video Design & Assistant Installation Design: Scott Fetterman
Performances by: Kenneth Collins,
Scott Fetterman, Jenna Kyle and John Sully
Metalsmith: H. Scott Fetterman
Assistants: Daniel Acampa, Lauren Dunitz, Michael William Freeman & Emily Perry

MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT was commissioned by Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY with composer commissioning award and additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts’ with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and additional support, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Residency support provided by The Watermill Center and Ideal Glass Gallery.

The Blind Date Project
Ride On Theatre (Australia)

Unpredictable, dark and funny, The Blind Date Project is an event to which everyone can relate – a blind date between two people who have never met and who are desperately in need of connection.
 
Australian Film Institute award-winner and TV actress Bojana Novakovic (Rake, Shameless) plays Anna – a woman waiting at a karaoke bar for her date to arrive. That date is a different performer every night. She has no idea who she is about to meet or what is about to happen. Devoid of scripts or rehearsals, this is an entirely improvised, intensely personal interaction – including karaoke numbers – in front of a crowd of willing participants. Guided live via text messages and phone calls by the director, and interspersed with random songs, each date promises to be as bizarre as it is dangerous. No two shows are ever the same. Things may turn out to be humiliating, tender or totally hot.

“It’s like witnessing magic. A unique theatrical experience not to be missed.” – Time Out Sydney

Creators: Bojana Novakovic and Mark Winter
Collaborators: Tanya Goldberg and Thomas Henning
Director: Scott Rodgers
Producer: Andrew Carlberg
Karaoke Queens: Kelly McCrann and Margaux Susi

60 minutes, no intermission

 
Co-presented with Parkside Lounge

Jan 7 – 7pm
Jan 8 – 9pm
Jan 9 – 7pm & 10pm
Jan 10 – 7pm & 10pm
Jan 12 – 5:30pm
Jan 13 – 8pm
Jan 14 – 8pm
Jan 15 – 9pm
Jan 16 – 7pm & 10pm
Jan 17 – 7pm & 10pm

Parkside Lounge
317 E Houston St, Manhattan
$25 / $20 Students & Seniors
MUST BE 21 YEARS OF AGE

#COIL15

▸▸ Pass Holders Log in to redeem
 
 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1/7 – Jeremy Beiler at 7pm
Thursday 1/8 – Fred Weller at 9pm
Friday 1/9 – Laverne Cox at 7pm / Reggie Watts at 10pm
Saturday 1/10 – Larisa Oleynik at 7pm / Pablo Schreiber at 10pm

Monday 1/12 at 5:30pm Christopher Abbott – SOLD-OUT
Tuesday 1/13 at 8pm – Lachlan Patterson Comedy
Wednesday 1/14 at 8pm – Tom Lipinski
Thursday 1/15 at 9pm – Josh Pais
Fri 1/16 – Michael Chernus at 7pm / Charlie Carver at 10pm
Sat 1/17 – Anson Mount at 7pm / William Jackson Harper at 10pm

 

 

RIDE ON THEATRE is a collective of theatre practitioners – performers, directors, musicians, designers and technicians. Ride On’s vision is the creation of theatre that draws upon and expands the vitality of our medium. The premise of the work is to bring a potentially disasterous idea to manifestation and see what comes of it. If it works – it becomes a show.
 
Ride On was founded in 2003 by NIDA graduates Bojana Novakovic and Tanya Goldberg. Their theatrical collaboration has led to productions all over Australia and numerous Green Room and Sydney Theatre Award nominations.
 

 

Coming Soon.

 

 

Parkside Lounge is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and is accessible by the F, J, Z, 6, M, B, and D subways. This well-known region is home to the Tenement Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Parkside Lounge sits one block from Bowery Street, where visitors can find the Bowery Ballroom – an alternative music venue which features live music every night of the week. The Clinton Street restaurant row is only three blocks east of the theater and is complete with pizzerias, tapas restaurants, and local bars.

 

 

The Blind Date Project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and Australian Consulate-General New York.

RoosevElvis
the TEAM (NYC)

On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann, a painfully shy meat-processing plant worker, and what kind of man or woman Ann should become. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain.

“The TEAM’s most intimate work and also its warmest…a spirited and insightful commentary on two archetypes of American masculinity.” – The New York Times

“More buoyant than theatrical material has any right to be.” – Time Out NY

Performers: Libby King and Kristen Sieh
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Associate Director/Collaborating Writer: Jake Margolin
Sound Design: Matt Hubbs
Video Designer: Andrew Schneider
Costume Design: Kristen Sieh
Lighting Design: Austin Smith
Scenic Design: Nick Vaughan
Production Stage Manager: Meg Kelly

95 minutes

 
Produced by the TEAM with generous support from Paula Marie Black;
Co-presented with the TEAM and Vineyard Theatre

Jan 2 & 3 – 7:30pm
Jan 4 – 3pm
Jan 5 & 6 – 7:30pm
Jan 7 – 5pm
Jan 8 – 4pm, 9pm
Jan 9 – 5pm
Jan 10 – 12pm, 9pm

Vineyard Theatre
108 E 15th St, Manhattan
$30 / $25 Students & Seniors

#COIL15

▸▸ Pass Holders Log in to redeem
 
 

 
 

 

 

The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble dedicated to creating new works about the experitence of living in America today. Once described as “Gertrude Stein meets MTV,” the TEAM’s work crashes American history and mythology into modern stories to illuminate the current moment. We combine aggressive athleticism with emotional performances and intellectual rigor, keeping the brain, eyes and heart of the audience constantly stimulated.
 
Since 2004, the TEAM has created and toured 9 works nationally and internationally. We are four-time winners of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, Winner 2011 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, 2011 Herald Angel, and 2008 Edinburgh Total Theatre Award, and were recently listed “Best of 2013″ on 3 continents.
 

 
 

Vineyard Theatre (Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern, Artistic Directors; Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, Executive Producer) is a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to new work, bold programming, and the support of artists.
 
One of America’s preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, notable premieres include Kander and Ebb’s THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, Nicky Silver’s THE LYONS, Whitty, Lopez and Marx’s AVENUE Q (Tony Award, Best Musical), and Bowen and Bell’s , all of which went on to Broadway runs; the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE by Paula Vogel and THREE TALL WOMEN by Edward Albee; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s WIG OUT!, Becky Mode’s FULLY COMMITTED, Craig Lucas’ THE DYING GAUL, Christopher Shinn’s WHERE DO WE LIVE, Cornelius Eady’s BRUTAL IMAGINATION, Gina Gionfriddo’s AFTER ASHLEY, the Laura Nyro musical ELI’S COMIN’ (5 OBIE Awards), Anne Washburn’s THE INTERNATIONALIST, Julia Cho’s THE PIANO TEACHER, Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy’s THE SLUG BEARERS OF KAYROL ISLAND, Jenny Schwartz’s GOD’S EAR, The Civilians’ THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY, Polly Pen’s GOBLIN MARKET, Colman Domingo’s A BOY AND HIS SOUL, Adam Rapp’s THE METAL CHILDREN, Will Eno’s MIDDLETOWN, nine plays by Nicky Silver including PTERODACTYLS and RAISED IN CAPTIVITY, John Kander and Greg Pierce’s THE LANDING, and more. In addition to ROOSEVELVIS, the Vineyard’s 2014-15 season includes Mike Bencivenga’s BILLY & RAY directed by Garry Marshall, and the upcoming world-premieres of BROOKLYNITE by Michael Mayer and Peter Lerman, and GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Evan Cabnet. Vineyard is the recipient of special OBIE, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence. For more information, vineyardtheatre.org.

 

Vineyard Theatre is located in downtown Manhattan in the heart of the historic Union Square area and is accessible by the N/Q/R, L, and 4/5/6 subway lines. Union Square is home to thriving restaurants such as Blue Water Grill (31 Union Square West), Rosa Mexicana (9 E 18th St) and Novita (102 E 22nd St) as well as lots of shopping and multiple artistic venues.

 

 

RoosevElvis was originally developed and premiered at The Bushwick Starr, and is made possible with support from The Jerome Foundation, London’s Almeida Theatre and Gate Theatre, The Drama League, A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

BeginAgain
zoe | juniper (Seattle)

BeginAgain questions the multiplicity of self, memory and perspective through two parallel solos weaving in and out of each other. Juniper Shuey’s futuristic design explores new technological methods juxtaposed against Zoe Scofield’s intense, primal choreography, featuring Ms. Scofield and duet partner Ariel Freedman (Batsheva Dance Company, Kidd Pivot), triggers a raw tableaux of movement and stage designs. BeginAgain reveals an intrinsic truth about oneself and the aspects of humanity that unite us all.

Concept, Design, Direction: Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey
Choreography:Zoe Scofield with Ariel Freedman
Video and Spatial Design: Juniper Shuey
Sound Design: Julian Martlew
Lighting Design: Amiya Brown
Costume Design: Christine Meyers
Paper Wall: Celeste Cooning
Managing Director: Stefanie Karlin

“The blending of their talents has produced some of the most impressive dance/visual spectacles to come out of Seattle in recent years.” – The Seattle Times

60 minutes

 
Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center

Jan 14, 15, 16 8pm

Baryshnikov Arts Center,
Jerome Robbins Theater
450 W 37th St, Manhattan
$20; $15 Students & Seniors

#COIL15

▸▸ Pass Holders Log in to redeem
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

2013 Stranger Genius award winner and Princess Grace awardee zoe | juniper is a Seattle based dance and visual arts team that has been described as a “crazy dream you just can’t shake” by Karen Campbell of The Boston Globe. Co-founded by choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey the company creates stunning dance, video installation and photography works. In 2005 Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey teamed up to create their first stage performance for On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival and shortly after co-founded zoe | juniper. They have since been commissioned and presented by national and international arts centers such as On the Boards, PICA, Pennsylvania Ballet, Trafo House of Art, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, NYLA, Spoleto Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Body Festival (New Zealand), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Columbia College Chicago, DiverseWorks, The Frye Art Museum, and City Arts Festival among others. They have taught workshops and given lectures on dance, photography, collaboration and installation throughout the US and internationally. zoe | juniper has been awarded residencies, awards and grants from the MacDowell Colony, Princess Grace Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Artist Trust, The Stranger Genius Award, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Alpert Award, Wesleyan University, Seattle Magazine, Velocity Dance Center, On the Boards and City Arts Magazine, among others.
 
Zoe Scofield is a dance and visual artist based in Seattle, WA since 2002. Born and raised in Gainesville, GA, Zoe began ballet at a young age, instilling in her a deep love and interest in structure, discipline and performance’s ability to create a transformative experience. Zoe attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts, in Boston MA, receiving a Monticello Choreography Fellowship and graduating with high honors in dance. After, she danced with Prometheus Dance in Boston and Atlas Moves, directed by Bill James in Toronto, Canada. Zoe has taught at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Boston Conservatory, Columbia College, University of Colorado at Boulder, and served as a guest panelist for Dance Critics Association, PICA’s Educating Dance Audiences, and gloATL Tanz Farm, and has been commissioned to create work on Cornish College of the Arts and CalArts. In 2005 Zoe began collaborating with video and visual artist Juniper Shuey on video, photographic and dance projects shown in visual art galleries, museums and theaters.
 
Juniper Shuey was born in California, and is a visual artist based in Seattle, WA since 1997. Juniper went to Emerson College in Boston, studying set and lighting design for three years. He then transferred to Ceramics at the University of Washington where the faculty allowed him to develop his art in performance and clay. This developed into the use of video projection into space as a sculptural element in his work. Juniper’s work has been published in several art books including SOIL Artist, Lava, and Fashion is ART. Juniper has participated on several professional art panels including New England Foundation for the Arts, The MacArthur Foundation and a professional practices panel discussion at the University of Washington. In 2004 Juniper received the Curator’s Choice Award at Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial. In 2005 he had his first solo gallery exhibition at Howard House in Seattle and in 2006 he won the People’s Choice Award at Bellevue Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial.
 
 

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) is the realization of a long-held vision by artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov who sought to build an arts center in Manhattan that would serve as a gathering place for artists from all disciplines. BAC’s opening in 2005 heralded the launch of this mission, establishing a thriving creative laboratory and performance space for artists from around the world. BAC’s activities encompass a robust residency program augmented by a range of professional services, including commissions of new work, as well as the presentation of performances by artists at varying stages of their careers. In tandem with its commitment to supporting artists, BAC is dedicated to building audiences for the arts by presenting contemporary, innovative work at affordable ticket prices. For more information, please visit www.bacnyc.org.

 

 

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), located in the Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s far West Side, is accessible by the A/C/E and 1/2/3 subway lines. Just a few blocks from the northern end of the High Line, BAC is at the center of a culturally vibrant neighborhood, home to an array of art galleries, theater companies, and shopping destinations. Visitors to BAC can choose from a variety of restaurants, bars, and cafés along 9th Avenue between 34th and 42nd streets.
 

 

---

BeginAgain was co-commissioned by The Joyce Theater in partnership with 3-Legged Dog and On the Boards through their Performance Production Program with support from the Glenn H. Kawasaki Foundation, The Princess Grace Foundation and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Residency support provided by Velocity Dance Center, gloATL Frye Art Museum, City Arts Festival, Springboard Dance and BodyTraffic. Additional presentation support provided by Harkness Foundation for Dance, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund, Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Jerome Robbins Foundation. This project is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

CATCH COIL
(they made us do it again)

Following its sold-out, line-around-the-block, wall-busting, keg-spewing 10th anniversary blowout at COIL 2014, CATCH – “everybody’s favorite” hydra-headed, multi-disciplinary, rough-and-ready performance series – returns to COIL to devastate your whole deal. The “best ambulatory feast of experimental performance” (Village Voice) pours love, beer, and an overwhelming array of new and in-progress works from downtown luminaries and artists you maybe haven’t heard of … yet.
 
CATCH is curated with delicate irreverence by Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons & Jeff Larson.

“Best thing to do on a Saturday Night.” – Time Out New York

Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center

Jan 10 from 7-10pm

The Invisible Dog Art Center:
51 Bergen St., Brooklyn
$20 gets you in & gets you drinking

#COIL15

▸▸ Pass Holders Log in to redeem
 
 

 

Artist Line-up Coming Soon!

 

 

 

 

The Invisible Dog Art Center The Invisible Dog Art Center is housed in a three-story former factory building in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Built in 1863, our 30,000 square foot facility has been the site of various industrial endeavors – most notably a belt factory that created the famous Walt Disney invisible dog party trick, from which they take their name. The building remained dormant from the mid 1990’s to 2009 when founder, Lucien Zayan, opened The Invisible Dog.
 
The Invisible Dog is dedicated to the integration of forward-thinking innovation with respect for the past. In 2009 the building was restored for safety, and has been maintained over the years, but otherwise preserved in tact from its original 1863 form. The rawness of the space is vital to the space’s cultural identity.
 
The ground floor is used for exhibitions, performances and public events, featuring artists and curators from round the world. This floor also includes a new pop-up shop, designed by artist-in-residence Anne Mourier, conceived as a new home for independent, commercial designers in various fields. The second floor and part of the third floor are divided into over 30 artists’ studios.The third floor, luminous and spacious is used for private events, exhibitions, performances and festivals. Finally, the Glass House is a brand new, seasonal exhibition space dedicated to featuring the work of female-identified artists.

 

 

 

The 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); Van Leeuwen, 81 Bergen Street; Bien Cuit, 120 Smith Street; Van Horn Sandwich Shop, 231 Court Street; Ki Sushi, 122 Smith Street.

 
 

---

Presentation support provided by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance and Jerome Robbins Foundation.