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Moopim

MOOPIM MOOPIM

Israeli choreographer Saar Harari and Actress Lee Sher craft a compelling coda to the critically heralded “Herd of Bulls,” in which explosive military movement was co-opted to inform one soldier’s journey through the emotional aftermath of violence.

Here, the company’s physical vocabulary implodes, occupying a mental territory torn by the duality of living a life of freedom in a place where others cannot. Underscored by the live accompaniment of composer Brian Prunka on the oud (a traditional Arabic instrument), writhing, undulating bodies unite and collide, ricocheting between manifestations of sensual pleasure, joy and tenderness to anger, fear and madness – engaging the audience in a riveting exploration of humanity and the right to dream.

Made possible in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York.

Featuring: Ellen Cremer, Rossella Fusco, Saar Harari, Rachel Okimo, Brian Prunka, Lee Sher.

Photo by Justin Bernhaut

This show is a featured presentation in both the Impact Festival and The New York Musical Theatre Festival

“Intense emotions and quick-shifting physical states… Ingenious… They fall, rise and inch across the floor as if wounded, slipping through quick bursts of emotions, hunting.”
-The New York Times

COIL 2007 Special Performances:
Friday January 19, 2007 2:30 p.m.
Sunday January 21, 2007 5:30 p.m.
Free, open seating

Glory and Feed

Bessie Award-winner Jeremy Wade delivers an evening of pulverizing performance. Feed, a new solo with musician Adam Linson, concerns separation anxiety and the paradox of holes that one cannot possibly fill. In Glory, a naked man and a naked woman seek refuge in each other, like animals, like dolls, ultimately like desperate human bodies.

Running time 70 minutes

Wednesday January 17, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday January 18, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Friday January 19, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday January 20, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Monday January 22, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday January 23, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Feed and Glory is part of
the COIL Festival 2007
$15($10 Members)

Faker

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Who is more dead and alive than Elvis Presley? What sustains his image post-mortem? Morgan Thorson dazzles the stage with this sublime dance performance for seven commissioned by the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater in Minneapolis. Packed with astonishing performances, Faker’s exploration of impersonation, obsession and ritualistic behavior exposes contemporary culture’s fixation with celebrity vs. authenticity, and elevating vs. degrading entertainment of all kinds. Faker blurs the lines between behavior and dance, body and image, flattery and stealing.

Approximate running time: 55 minutes

Photo by Sean Smuda

Wednesday January 17th, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday January 19th, 2007 at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday January 20th, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Sunday January 21st, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday January 22nd,2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday January 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 p.m.
Faker is part of the COIL Festival 2007
$15($10 Members)

Purity

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Following last season’s critical success, Prophet, playwright provocateur Thomas Bradshaw takes on race, academia, pedophilia, drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity and infidelity in his signature stunning style. Directed by NTUSA‘s Yehuda Duenyas (Pastoralia), this explosive creation is not for the faint of heart.

Approximate running time: 70 minutes

WARNING: Purity contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences.

Photo by: Shital Patel

“Tom Bradshaw’s most important contribution to society is snatching narrative and its elements back from the clutches of the Ordinary”
– Richard Maxwell

“…an ugly fantasy… Purity lures you with a comic touch and makes your laughs catch in your throat”
– The New York Times

“Vicious and harrowing… a profoundly disturbing play… the gratuitous detail is almost unbearable.”
– New York Sun

“…Not for the faint of heart. A whip-smart exercise in sublime discomfort…a brutal fantasia of sex, drugs, and racial politics.”
– Backstage

“Authentically hard-hitting and provoking.”
– nytheatre.com

“…achieves the trifecta of what it had been after all along – it frightens, it provokes and it causes contemplation. For those who have pushed through the more repellent moments of Purity, there is something satisfying here.”
– Americantheaterweb.com

“The line between Purity and pornography is a very fine one indeed… still had to admire Bradshaw’s furious bravado. If you have the stomach for this sort of thing, go with my blessings. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
– Gay City News

COME SEE THE SHOW THE NEWARK STAR LEDGER CALLS:

“cliched…deliberately offensive…potty-mouth…trash. A sloppily-written…crude cartoon of loathsome behavior…devoid of insight or inspiration. Nakedly depicted in excruciating detail.”

January 6 – 23, 2007

Opens Saturday January 6

Wednesday – Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

Jan 18 – 23: Additional performances during the COIL Festival 2007

$15($10 Members)

You Belong to Me: Death of Nations Part V

Death of Nations: Part V

“Fox is one of the most adventurous impresarious of the New York avant-garde. Hallucinatory. Chilling. Stunning.”
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

“At once abstract and visceral, You Belong To Me: Death of Nations Part V is a fascinating and surreally beautiful exploration of war and its social context, with a particular focus on violence, eroticism, and fantasy… Fox and company present a collage of striking images, fractured narrative, and sung sequences that make for a bold, original, and utterly compelling theatrical experience.”
– Dan Bacalzo, TheaterMania (full review)

The International WOW unveils a new, global collaboration between Josh Fox and Frank Raddatz, former dramaturg to Heiner Müller. Traversing the Civil War’s finale, the campaign of Native American genocide, Germany’s fall after WW II, and climaxing at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (the largest U.S. military hospital outside the country and primary care provider for all U.S. soldiers seriously injured in Iraq), this erotic and phantasmagoric epic is an intensely physical and musical rollercoaster ride of love, betrayal and murder throughout the ages.

Approximate Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes including intermission

January 5 – 23, 2007
Opens Friday January 5
Wednesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Jan 18 – 23: Additional performances during the COIL Festival 2007