Category: Upcoming Performances

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

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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

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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.
 

 

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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

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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.

 
 

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

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith (NYC)
Rude World
 
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith make dances together by constructing improvisational practices into a mutual experience of performance. Seemingly conjoined at times, or forcefully in opposition – this performance is a living, breathing, thumping manifestation of a profound and raw artistic collaboration.
 
As highly skilled improvisers, they often discover ideas first through feeling. Their artistic intimacy allows for a crafted wildness which is then honed into a performative specificity through the necessity of a dual consensus. Rude World is the final series in a triptych of works created over the course of three years.

Choreographed and Performed by: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Lighting Designer: Madeline Best

“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” – The New York Times

45 minutes

Co-commissioned & Co-presented with
The Chocolate Factory Theater

Jan 7 – 6pm
Jan 8 – 5pm
Jan 9 – 7pm
Jan 10 – 5pm
Jan 11 – 3pm
Jan 12 – 4pm

The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Ave, Long Island City, Queens
$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

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Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been collaborating in New York since 2006. Their current work, Rude World, is their third project together over the past three years and will premiere through PS122 in the COIL 2015 Festival. Recent works include Tulip (Roulette, 2013, Judson Now at Danspace Project, 2012), and Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2012). Last year they were nominated for a 2013 New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award for Emerging Choreographer and received the 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award. They are currently a BAC Artist in Residence.
 
Molly Lieber lives in New York and dances for luciana achugar, Neil Greenberg, Maria Hassabi, Juliette Mapp, and Melinda Ring. She grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Connecticut College.
 
Eleanor Smith dances for Ivy Baldwin Dance and Katie Workum, and recently performed in works by Vanessa Anspaugh, Kim Brandt, Levi Gonzalez, Juliana F. May/MAYDANCE, and Molly Poerstel. Eleanor was a 2010 Fresh Tracks recipient at Dance Theater Workshop and a 2012 New York Live Arts Studio Series Artist.

 

 

Since its founding in 2005, The Chocolate Factory Theater has supported the development and presentation of new work by a community of local, national and international artists working in dance, theater, performance, and multimedia. The Chocolate Factory’s programs have drawn many thousands of new visitors to its 5,000 square foot industrial facility in Long Island City, Queens. The organization is currently planning for the purchase and renovation of a permanent facility in the neighborhood.
 
The Chocolate Factory is artist-founded and artist-led. It’s Artistic Director, Brian Rogers, continues to create and present his own work at The Chocolate Factory while providing support to a close-knit community of forward-thinking visiting artists working at all stages of their careers.
 
The Chocolate Factory received an Obie grant in 2009. It’s works have received Bessie and Obie Awards and have toured nationally and internationally.

 

 

 

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.

 

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Rude World is co-commissioned and co-presented by PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater with support from the Jerome Foundation. Residency support provided by Baryshnikov Arts Center and through PS122’s inaugural RAMP Residency program with support from a 50th Anniversary Grant from the Jerome Foundation. Additional presentation support provided by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Jerome Robbins Foundation and in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.

Thank You For Coming: Attendance
Faye Driscoll (NYC)

Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming series envisions a society in which performance is both a collective and political act. In Thank you for Coming: Attendance, the premiere iteration presented by Danspace Project in March 2014, performers pass through ever-morphing states of physical entanglement and scenes of distorted familiarity, building new bodies, new stories, and new ways of being around a constantly constructed and re-imagined group experience. Intimately staged in the round, Driscoll crafts a heightened reality of observation, invitation and interdependence. As audience and performers increasingly find themselves becoming one, a beautiful and chaotic shared identity emerges, culminating in a dynamic ritual of action and transformation.

Created by: Faye Driscoll

In collaboration with the company:

Performed by: Giulia Carotenuto, Sean Donovan, Alicia Ohs, Brandon Washington & Nikki Zialcita
Visual Design: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin
Sound Design: Michael Kiley
Lighting Design: Amanda K. Ringger
Artistic Advisor: Jesse Zaritt
Choreographic Assistant: Nadia Tykulsker

“Ms. Driscoll is fascinating in that she makes such utterly original work. It doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.” -The New York Times

90 minutes running time

Commissioned by Danspace Project and
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Co-presented with Danspace Project and
Faye Driscoll Group

Jan 6 – 8pm
Jan 8 – 8pm
Jan 9 – 8pm
Jan 10 – 5 & 9pm

Danspace Project
131 E. 10th Street, Manhattan
$20 / $15 Danspace Members

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Faye Driscoll is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer and director who strives to investigate new forms of theatrical experience in order to provoke feeling, stimulate the senses and activate the mind. Works include You’re Me (2012), There is so much mad in me (2010), 837 Venice Boulevard (2008), and Wow Mom, Wow (2007). Driscoll is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Creative Capital performing arts award, and a 2013 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. Her work is also supported by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Dance Program (2013-14), New York State Council on the Arts (2013-14), NEFA’s National Dance Project production and touring award (2010-13), The Jerome Foundation (2012-14), Greenwall Foundation (2008-11), and a LMCC Fund for Creative Communities grant (2010). She was awarded a 2013 Alumni New Works award from Headlands Center for the Arts, where she was first in residence in 2011. She was a 2011 Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and an artist­ in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, The 92nd Street Y, and Park Avenue Armory. Her own work has been commissioned by Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, and HERE Arts Center. and further presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, ICA/Boston, Fusebox Festival, UCLA, CounterPULSE, American Dance Festival, American Realness Festival, and The Yard. She has also collaborated extensively with theater and performance artists including Young Jean Lee, Cynthia Hopkins, Taylor Mac, Jennifer Miller, and NTUSA; and was one of the only dance artists exhibited in YOUNGER THAN JESUS, the first in a series of triennials at the New Museum.

 

Now in its fourth decade, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences through its Choreographic Center Without Walls. Through its acclaimed programming, including the PLATFORM series, Danspace Project commissions (over 450 new works since its inception in 1994) and explores models for public discourse and residencies for dance and performance. www.danspaceproject.org

 

 
 

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Thank You For Coming: Attendance was made possible by the Danspace Project 2013-14 Commissioning Initiative; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Creative Capital with support from The Jerome Foundation, 92Y New Works in Dance Fund, a Headlands Alumni New Works Award and the assistance of New York State Council on the Arts, and is made possible through the sponsorship of The Field. Attendance received a production residency at Danspace Project’s venue, St. Mark’s Church, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Faye Driscoll received residency support from Park Avenue Armory, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional presentation support provided by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance and Jerome Robbins Foundation.