COIL 2016
January 5 – 17
COIL is Performance Space 122’s annual performance festival that demonstrates the constant vitality of live performance in New York City featuring work created locally, across the US and around the world.
“COIL 2016 attacks the very concept of boundaries and of limits. The boundaries between ideologies, life and death, the contemporary and historic, human and machine, light and darkness, audience and performer. Limitations of time, identity, age and geography disappear. The work we will see this year deals with evolutionary transformation – personal, social and artistic.
I am proud that the program includes so many artists whose work has never been seen in New York. It is our most ambitious festival, ever, and the very last outside of our home at 150 First Ave.” – Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director
DOWNLOAD THE FULL COIL 2016 CALENDAR HERE.
Packages & Ticketing Info
Friends who donate become Friends with Benefits.
Benefits include tickets to COIL, Red & White, exclusive receptions and more.
ps122.org/support
The COIL Pass (8 tickets for $122*) is now on sale! Single tickets will go on sale November 17th and may be purchased online, via phone at 212-352-3101, or in person at venue box offices except where otherwise noted. Single ticket prices vary per event.
RANTERS THEATRE (AUSTRALIA)
Song
Sound, Visual and Performance Installation | US Premiere
Co-presented with New Ohio Theatre
January 5-8
NIV ACOSTA (USA)
DISCOTROPIC
Dance, Music, Sculpture | World Premiere
Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Presented in partnership with Westbeth Artists Community
January 6-10
SAMITA SINHA (USA)
bewilderment and other queer lions
Music, Performance | World Premiere
Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center
January 6-10
FRANK BOYD (USA)
The Holler Sessions
Theater | NY Premiere
Presented in partnership with the Paradise Factory
January 6-17
KANEZA SCHAAL (USA)
GO FORTH
Theater, Photo Installation | World Premiere
Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Presented by in partnership with Westbeth Artists Community
January 7-12
JILLIAN PEÑA (USA)
Panopticon
Dance, Multimedia | World Premiere
Co-commissioned by Performance Space 122 and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Co-presented with American Realness
January 9-17
DAVID NEUMANN (USA)
I Understand Everything Better
Dance, Theater
Co-presented with The Chocolate Factory Theater
January 10-15
RANTERS THEATRE (AUSTRALIA)
Intimacy
Theater | US Premiere
Co-presented with New Ohio Theatre
January 11-16
FINDLAY//SANDSMARK + PETTERSEN (NORWAY/USA)
o’ death
Dance, Theater, Installation | US Premiere
Presented in partnership with Ideal Glass Gallery
January 12-17
HELEN HERBERTSON & BEN COBHAM (AUSTRALIA)
Morphia Series
Dance | NY Premiere
Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center
January 12-16
ANNIE DORSEN (USA)
Yesterday Tomorrow
Music, Theater | US Premiere
Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Co-presented with La MaMa
January 13-16
CHRIS THORPE & RACHEL CHAVKIN (UK/USA)
Confirmation
Theater | US Premiere
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center
January 13-17
XI BAN & PI HUANG CLUB (CHINA)
Shanghai / New York: Future Histories 2
Music, Film | US Premiere
Co-presented with Asia Society and China Shanghai International Arts Festival
January 13
JONATHAN CAPDEVIELLE (FRANCE)
Adishatz/Adieu
Dance, Music, Performance | US Premiere
Co-presented with American Realness
January 15-17
MICHAEL KLIËN (AUSTRIA)
Excavation Site: Martha Graham U.S.A.
Dance, Installation | NY Premiere
Co-presented with New Museum and Martha Graham Dance Company
January 16
Red + White Party 2016
Jan 10 | 8pm-12am
Gawker Media HQ, 2 West 17th Street, 2nd Floor, in Manhattan
PS122 invites you to the all new, revamped Red + White Party. With a new low ticket price, we’re ready to get down to the nitty gritty of what makes NYC a special place in January and while past years have featured ping pong, we’re putting down our paddles, and picking up… karaoke microphones!
Teaming up with the Australia Council and the Australian Consulate-General in New York, The Red and White Party features Brisbane-based neo-tiki physical theatre company Polytoxic with their live-art karaoke party known the world around. Offering a total karaoke experience, you get a choice of some of the best pop hits from the past and present with a gang of backup dancers fit for the pros. DJ J.D. Franzke will spin the tunes to keep us moving all night long.
Single Ticket: $5
Purchase Tickets
Australia and New York have a lot in common: the practices and artists we support, the audiences we engage with and the types of context we create.
For this COIL 2016, New York will get a taste of Australia’s exceptional independent arts scene through a program of works featuring Melbourne artists Helen Herbertson, Ranters Theatre and Brisbane’s Polytoxic, co-curated by Performance Space 122 and the City of Melbourne’s Arts House with generous support from the Australian Government through Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Consulate-General in New York.
Through Australia Council for the Arts’ commitment to supporting this cultural exchange for a total of four years, PS122 will be presenting an extensive roster of Australian artists focused around the COIL Festival, a platform for international touring. As we begin year two of this international collaboration, we hope to open up a conversation that speaks to an ever-more globalized audience about communities formed around ideas and artistic possibility rather than geography or identity.
*Maximum (2) tickets may be redeemed per performance. Some restrictions apply. Questions? ps122.org/support or call 212-477-5829 x.302.
PS122’s COIL 2016 festival is made possible in part by the Lambent Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York Community Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
COIL 2016 Festival is part of January in NYC is the Place to Be for the Performing Arts, celebrating the unmatched convergence of performing arts professionals, audiences and events in New York City. Every January, more than 45,000 people from around the globe flock to New York City for public festivals and industry gatherings, featuring over 1,500 performances by thousands of world-class artists of all disciplines and genres, including world music, theater, dance, jazz, and more.
