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Our 9th annual COIL Festival is rapidly approaching. PS122 is in the midst of planning and preparations and could use a great intern with an interest in performing arts producing. Is it you? Check out the description below and apply via email.

COIL Festival Intern (September through Feb 1)

Performance Space 122 is currently accepting applications for interns in the Programming Department to assist with all aspects of the annual COIL festival. Interns are an integral part of the festival and will interact with all internal departments in the the lead up to the festival.

Interns will be involved in projects and tasks including: artist hospitality, travel planning, marketing and press coordination and administrative duties. The internship is ideal for candidates with an interest in non-profit producing, especially those interested in contemporary work. He or she must be detailed oriented, organized, posses intimate knowledge of Microsoft Suite, specifically Word and Excel and have excellent oral and written communication skills. The internship is part-time and flexible based on the needs of the department and the individual. During the festival, the internship becomes full-time.

COIL is Performance Space 122’s annual mid-winter festival of contemporary performance from New York City and around the globe. Coinciding with the annual APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference, the festival is now in its ninth year.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to office@ps122.org. No phone calls, please.

PS122 favorite Neal Medlyn aka Champagne Jerry, who co-hosted last year’s Season Launch Party has at last started rolling out his first rap album, For Real, You Guys. The album will drop on ChampagneJerry.com over the course of the next year and features beats by Max Tannone, Adam Ad Rock Horovitz and Carmine Covelli. The first track to drop, Tampa Realness, hits hard and finishes with a mature bouquet that may be perceived as a threat to Rick Ross and other Florida rappers.

Champagne Jerry on For Real, You Guys:
“The album is about having sex with people in your office
It is about driving a Chevette.
It is about the states of Texas AND Florida.
It is about realness, hip hop, and champagne.”

(photo of Neal Medlyn and Kanye West from his show, Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great at PS122 in 2009).

Last night was the annual Bessie Awards Press Conference to announce the artists nominated for this year’s round of awards. Performance Space 122 was delightfully represented with three artist nominations for 2013. Congrats to:

David Wampach and Tamar Shelef
Outstanding Performer Nominations
for their performances in Sacre as part of the 2013 COIL Festival, co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center with additional support provided by Chez Bushwick.

Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells
Sound Design
for their Spring Season 2013 installation The Quiet Volume, co-presented with PEN World Voices Festival with support from the British Council.

Suzanne Bocanegra
Visual Design
for her work on Fall 2012 Big Dance Theater’s Ich, Kurbisgeist. Commissioned and presented by PS122 and The Chocolate Factory.

Past PS122 artists Pavel Zuštiak and Yanira Castro were also nominated for Outstanding Production in a small capacity theater.

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE NOMINATED! Looking forward to seeing you all at the awards ceremony.

Half Straddle makes their tv debut over at OntheBoards.tv with COIL 13 premiere Seagull (Thinking of you)! For a mere $5, you can watch Half Straddle deconstruct Chekhov’s The Seagull (complete with folk-metal score) right from the comfort of your own armchair.

Seagull is in full touring mode now in the Berkshires at Mass Live Arts and will be in Europe in the Spring as part of PS122 GLOBAL (more on that later).

OntheBoards.tv hosts many of PS122’s past performances. Look out for Palissimo, Young Jean Lee and many more.

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