A long time into the future, slowly: Emily Johnson’s “Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars”
“There is no end to the work we begin here.”
Tag Archives: P.S.122
Sewing together in January: Day 4 Dispatch (Emily Johnson & Big Dance Theater)
Emily Johnson/Catalyst is an artist for the coming age. Big Dance Theater’s subversively brilliant, mmm… at this point in their careers perhaps brilliantly subversive makes more sense. Day 4 of the January Festival Feast, more COIL and American Realness.
Standing Up in January: Day 2 Dispatch (COIL, Squirts & La Mama with Pavel Zustiak, Patti Harrison & Marga Gomez)
La Mama dispatch for PS 122’s COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak’s “Custodians of Beauty” and “Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)” and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from Patti Harrison and Marga Gomez. To start the year alternating between bent over from either despair or because I might laugh so hard that the tears trickle down my legs felt fitting to my polar emotional swings of late.
Jazz in the Blood: Uncoiling The Holler Sessions
Frank Boyd is the sort of supremely talented performer whose craft is so refined it’s nearly invisible. For all I know, he might very well be a sweaty, smalltime jazz DJ who lives on a diet of coffee, peanuts and Charlie Parker in real life.
Ant Hampton and the Nightmare of Global Capitalism
In the latest from the “autoteatro” auteur, Hampton delivers a stinging indictment of global capitalism that provides more symptoms than diagnosis
Cupola Bobber at The Knockdown Center March 15-16
Chicago-spawned and now Brooklyn-based art duo Cupola Bobber (the collaboration of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) perform their latest project The Field, the Mantel this weekend, March 15-16, at Knockdown Center, a new space self-described as: an impressive anachronism: an expansive space on three acres in
Following Up: “The Curators’ Piece” at PS 122’s COIL Festival
Editor’s Note: Responses to given shows have a short shelf-life. This is a response to a show that we didn’t originally intend to publish a response to, in fact. Originally, I intended to write an article about it myself. In the end, I shelved the
David Wampach’s “Sacre” at Invisible Dog
French choreographer David Wampach‘s Sacre at the Invisible Dog Art Center (unrecognizable- its white gallery/warehouse vibe magically transformed into a black box theater) was a brief and powerful nugget inspired by Nijinsky’s controversial Rite of Spring. This performance was presented by the ‘Dog, PS122’s COIL
Cuqui Jerez at The Performing Garage – October 13
Cuqui Jerez’ “The Rehearsal” is a mind-bendingly good time.
Andy’s Week In Shows
Andy’s round-up of his week of shows.
Auditions for Ishmael Houston-Jones’ THEM
Are you a boy, do you like to dance, are you fearless, do you want to perform at both the New Museum and Performance Space 122 in the same month? How do you feel about dancing with a dead goat? Be a part of this historic reconstruction, 25 years later.
Five Questions for: David Levine
Name: David Levine Title/Occupation: Artist, Director Organization/Company: CiNE URL: 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Grew up in New York City. Directed new plays from 2000-2004, then headed for Berlin. Came back doing a totally