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COIL 2013

COIL is Performance Space 122’s annual winter performance festival full of contemporary, textured, global, local, contemplative, grounded, rigorous, and always very live performance.

“The beauty is in what we don’t yet know. Somehow – in some way – what you think and believe will be altered after diving in.” – Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director of PS122

“Aimed at the head, the guts, and the heart.” – The New York Post

Become a Friend today. Benefits include tickets to COIL. Donate any amount you are able to Performance Space 122 – the festival (and all we do) is not possible without your support.
5 tickets for $75 / 10 for $122*

RADIOHOLE (USA)
INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN
World Premiere | Theatre | Co-commissioned & presented with The Kitchen
January 5 – 19

HALF STRADDLE / TINA SATTER (USA)
SEAGULL (THINKING OF YOU)
World Premiere | Theatre | Commissioned by PS122, co-presented with The New Ohio Theatre
January 9 – 19

PEGGY SHAW (USA)
RUFF
World Premiere |Theatre, Music
2011 Ethyl Eichelberger Award Winner | Commissioned by PS122 & Out North Contemporary Art House, co-presented with Dixon Place
January 10 – 19

TEA TUPAJIĆ + PETRA ZANKI (CROATIA)
THE CURATORS’ PIECE (A TRIAL AGAINST ART)
US Premiere | Theatre | Commissioned by PS122, co-presented with Dixon Place
January 14 – 15

ANNIE DORSEN + ANNE JUREN (USA, AUSTRIA)
MAGICAL
US Premiere | Dance | Co-presented with New York Live Arts
January 15 – 19

EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST (USA)
NIICUGNI (LISTEN)
NY Premiere | Dance | Commissioned by PS122, co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center
January 9 – 12

KRISTEN KOSMAS (USA)
THERE THERE
World Premiere | Theatre | Co-commissioned & presented by Performance Space 122 & The Chocolate Factory
January 3 – 12

DAVID WAMPACH / ASSOCIATION ACHLES (FRANCE)
SACRE
US Premiere | Dance | Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center with additional support provided by Chez Bushwick
January 10 – 14

THE BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT + ZEENA PARKINS (USA)
SUPER NATURE
NY Premiere | Dance | Commissioned by PS122, co-presented with tbspMGMT as part of the 4th edition of American Realness
January 14 – 17

PAVEL ZUSTIAK / PALISSIMO (USA)
AMIDST
Dance
January 12 – 14

BRIAN ROGERS (USA)
HOT BOX
Dance | Co-presented with The Chocolate Factory
January 12 – 15

Performance Space 122 & BOMB Magazine present SPAN, four in-depth, interdisciplinary conversations between a COIL ’13 artist and a “non-performance” luminary. SPAN endeavors to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it is too often excluded.

January 15, 16, 17, 18 at 12pm daily

SPAN will be free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Extended dialogue beyond the conversation is encouraged online.
Major support for SPAN is provided by the Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation.
Location:
Dixon Place
161-A Chrystie St., Manhattan

Full SPAN Schedule

The Red + White Party, co-hosted by PS122 + SPiN NYC.

The Vintage DJ and the National Theater of the United States of America join forces to release retro-futuristic havoc upon COIL at NYC’s finest ping-pong club. Theatrical sporting life at its finest.
TICKETS
Sunday, January 13 7pm
More Info

HUB
The lounge at Dixon Place
161-A Chrystie St., Manhattan

Tickets / Info / Afternoon snack / Anytime drinks / Late night entertainment
Open daily Jan 7 – 19 from 11:30AM – 12AM.

Nightly HUB Schedule

*Maximum (2) tickets may be redeemed per performance. Some restrictions apply. Questions? ps122.org/support or call 212-477-5829 x.302.

PS122’s 8th Annual COIL Festival is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Festival presenting sponsors: BOMB Magazine, Chromocell, Solar Energy Systems LLC.

Habit

David Levine
Habit

The Real World meets No Exit: audiences circulate around the exterior of a fully functional house, watching the ever-changing action through the windows, and coming and going as they please.

Habit is a durational installation created by provocateur David Levine (previously at PS122: Anger at the Movies, Venice Saved), with a commissioned text by playwright Jason Grote (Smash, Mad Men) and environment by Marsha Ginsberg (Telephone, Map of Virtue). All day long, within the four walls, actors re-complete the drama, on an endless loop, making up staging to suit their needs. When they’re hungry, they eat; when they’re dirty, they wash.

“Enraging, engaging.. Levine a savvy rascal who makes theater pieces that bleed into Conceptual art” – Time Out

Co-presented by Performance Space 122 & FIAF’s Crossing the Line

Sept 21 – 30 / 1 – 9pm daily
at Essex Street Market, Building B; 130-144 Essex Street (btw. Rivington & Stanton Streets)

Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

@alldayhabit #CTL12

“After the fourth iteration of the day – I’d been running around the house, chasing the meaning I was helping to create, for seven hours, constantly afraid I’d miss something, exhilarated by the prospect of being surprised by the next turn…”

-Read Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ essay ‘Over and Over’ (The Threepenny Review, 2012) on his experience with Habit at the Luminato Festival in Toronto

David Levine has successfully bridged the worlds of contemporary theater and visual art with a body of work that examines the conditions of spectacle and spectatorship across a range of media. His work has been performed and/or exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Documenta XII, the Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), HAU 2 (Berlin), Matadero Madrid, and Blum & Poe (Los Angeles). He has directed theatrical premieres at the Vineyard Theatre, Primary Stages, and the Atlantic Theater, alongside workshops at The Public Theater and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.

Read an interview excerpt with Levine in The Believer

Habit takes place in a disused building, once a bustling part of The Essex Street Market. This magnificently decayed warehouse has been closed to the public since 1994. The market complex turned 70 this year; it was created by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and has a rich history on the Lower East Side. Learn more about Essex Street Market’s History

PS122 has partnered with Crossing the Line since the festival’s inception in 2007.

Crossing the Line is the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s annual fall festival presenting interdisciplinary works and performances created by artists from around the world in New York. The festival provides opportunities for New Yorkers to explore the dialogue between artist and participant, examine how artists help re-imagine the world, and engage in the vital role artists play as critical thinkers and catalysts for social evolution. Crossing the Line is initiated and produced by FIAF in partnership with leading cultural institutions and takes place this year from September 14 – October 14, 2012.

Conversation with David Levine
David Levine (Habit creator/director), Eliza Baldi and Brian Bickerstaff (Habit performers) in conversation with Gideon Lester, co-curator of Crossing the Line.
Saturday, September 29 12pm immediately preceding Habit

Essex Street Market, Building B; 130-144 Essex Street, btw. Rivington & Stanton Streets
Free – Reservations suggested

Created & directed David Levine
Environment & clothes Marsha Ginsberg
Text Jason Grote
Produced Maria Luisa Gambale
Production Manager Chris Batstone
Assistant Directors David Conison & Kristin Meyer

Dedicated to Tom Murrin, friend
Co-commissioned by Luminato Festival in Toronto, and Mass MoCA, with support from The Watermill Center.

There There

There There
Kristen Kosmas (USA)

“Nobody, and I mean nobody, holds a candle to writing. No gimmicks, no flash just sheer poetic brilliance” – Andy Horwitz, Culturebot

Christopher Walken, on tour in Russia with a solo show inspired by everyone’s favorite Chekhovian sociopath, mysteriously falls off a ladder and is unable to perform. Karen, who apparently proofread the script once, is asked to go on in Walken’s place. A precarious bilingual performance duet ensues between Karen and her Russian interpreter, Leo. There There is a wildly unpredictable theatrical roller coaster about being the completely wrong person in the totally wrong place at the exact wrong time doing all the most wrong things. Directed by Paul Willis, performed by Kristen Kosmas & Larissa Tokmakova, design by Peter Ksander, translation by Matvei Yankelevich.

TRANSPORTATION NOTE: 7 trains from Manhattan are NOT running this weekend. As an alternate, take the N, Q train to Queensboro Plaza and then the free shuttle bus to Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave. You can also find more alternate routes here: www.mta.info

Co-commissioned & presented by Performance Space 122
& The Chocolate Factory

Dec 18 – 22 8pm
Jan 3 – 5 8pm
Jan 9 – 11 8pm
Jan 12 at 6pm
PERFORMANCES ADDED!
Jan 10 at 10pm
Jan 11 at 10pm

$20 / $15 students, seniors (at door)
Purchase Tickets
Chocolatefactorytheater.org

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Playwright and performer Kristen Kosmas and director Paul Willis have collaborated on numerous projects over the last 15 years, including her solo performance play The Scandal!, which received critical acclaim in Seattle and was nominated for a New York Independent Theater Award for Best Short Script in 2009. Kosmas’ plays and solo performances have been produced in Seattle, Austin, Boston, Chicago, and in numerous venues in New York. Kosmas is a founding member of the OBIE Award-winning performance series Little Theater; the Brooklyn-based experimental writer’s collective Machiqq/The Ladies’ Auxiliary Playwriting Team; and The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco, a monthly event for the enactment of texts and theatricals.

The Chocolate Factory is Long Island City based incubator for new developments in experimental performance. The work of founding artists Brian Rogers & Sheila Lewandowski emphasizes collaboration combining movement, music, video and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies. These curatorial values tend to lead to work that is not easily categorized and requires new methods, more time, and a new kind of audience.

“It feels a little bit like the first New York I knew in the ’70s and ’80s. Not in a retro way at all, but art and residence and commerce were in a more balanced relationship than they are now. It’s not a reference to that time, just a little place where that is occurring again.” – Tere O’Connor, in a New York Times profile of the Chocolate Factory

The Chocolate Factory is located in Long Island City, at the first stop on both the 7 and G trains into Queens. L.I.C. is a waterfront neighborhood which in recent years has become known for its thriving arts community, and has among the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutions (among them MOMA’s PS1, the Institute of the Moving Image, Socrates Sculpture Park, Isamu Noguchi Museum) and studio space of any neighborhood in New York City.

Playwright/Performer Kristen Kosmas
Director Paul Willis
Translator Matvei Yankelevich
Designer Peter Ksander
Performer Larissa Tokmakova

Made possible with commissioning support from PS122, The Chocolate Factory, and the Jerome Foundation. Developed in residencies at NACL Theater and Abrons Art Center.

Ich, Kürbisgeist

Big Dance Theater & Sibyl Kempson
Ich, Kürbisgeist

A harsh, quasi-medieval locale facing destruction is populated by a community speaking a rigorous, specific, and completely invented language. Five absurdly fearful and doomed characters sing, dance,and harvest pumpkin seeds. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German – and Sid Ceasar. The language is as tough and unforgiving as the windswept, uncultivated landscape. At its heart Ich, Kürbisgeist is an olde-tyme agricultural vengeance play installed in a crypt-like basement for just 30 people a night.

“It’s hard to do justice to the freewheeling brilliance of Big Dance Theater’s combination of dance, theater, video and idiosyncratic imagination; suffice it to say you should see the work of Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar whenever possible.” – The New York Times

Co-commissioned & presented by Performance Space 122
& The Chocolate Factory

Oct 25 – 27 at 8pm

Oct 31 – Nov 3 at 8pm

Nov 7 – 10 at 8pm

Added Late Nights:

Nov 2, 3, 10 at 10pm

at The Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens

@PS122 #Kurbisgeist

Big Dance Theater is an OBIE and Bessie award winning company known for its inspired use of dance, music, text and visual design to expand and refract literary texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into seamless theatrical wholes. Under the co-direction of Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, BDT has created 15 dance/theater works, generating each piece over months of collaboration with a long-standing, ever-evolving group of actors, dancers, composers and designers.

Sibyl Kempson (at PS122: Crime or Emergency)
“… one of the most radical, transgressive, and hilarious playwright/performers out there. She has a singular theatrical imagination, a searing stage presence, a ferocious intellect …” – BOMB Magazine

“Anarchic talent …” “… a playwright of terrifying gifts … frighteningly in command of devastating linguistic weapons” – Time Out New York

Director Paul Lazar
Co-director / choreographer Annie-B Parson
Writer Sibyl Kempson
Performers Tymberly Canale, Eric Dyer, Molly Hickok, Paul Lazar, Kourtney Rutherford
Set Joanne Howard
Video Josh Higgason, Karinne Keithley, Jeff Larson
Music Karinne Keithley, Ben Williams
Lights Joe Levasseur
Sound Jamie McElhinney
Costumes Suzanne Bocanegra
Production Manager Brendan Regimbal
Produced by Aaron Rosenblum

Ich, Kürbisgeist was 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 was provided by the Starry Night Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program, the Distracted Globe Foundation and King’s Fountain. Production design support was provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York). General operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Ich, Kürbisgeist was developed, in part, through generous space grants from the Abron Arts Center’s AIRspace residency program, and the Process Space Residency at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island.

Season Launch Party 2012

“In previous episodes of this annual event, we’ve seen Dynasty Handbag, failed to see Praxis’s invisible tea, wounds, and substances (legal and illicit), we’ve had our portraits taken by Mark Mann, been heckled by neighbours and lauded by all. This year we’ll dwarf the Olympic opening in its ambition – and solemnly swear to under deliver on our over promises.” – Vallejo Gantner, PS122 Artistic Director

From start to finish the evening’s social convergence of artists, PS122 staff, and friends will be infused by singular performative and non-performative events of the unexpected, absurd, and often coy nature curated and featuring Get Modern on Me aka GMOM aka Neal Medlyn, Adrienne Truscott + friends.

PS122’s Season Launch Party
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
atop the Gawker Media Roof in SoHo

$35 at the door
All tickets include open bar + hors d’oeuvres

Special thanks to our Season Launch Committee:
Kate Bornstein, Enrico Ciotti, Sherry Dobbin, Michelle Stern, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Philip Alnswick-Tobias + artist tickets sponsor William Lynch

Performances made possible in part with support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Food generously provided by Vbar, wine tasting with Terra Fossil, and beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.