Amanda Loulaki and Short Mean Lady’s I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT bows down to morning coffee at 2011 COIL festival
Performance Space 122 (and other venues)
150 First Ave. at Ninth St.
January 5-15, $20 per performance, $55 passport for any five shows, $100 for any ten shows
www.ps122.org
The sixth annual COIL festival of contemporary experimental dance and theater runs January 5-15, consisting of ten shows at PS122 and seven at offsite venues, several of which are return hits or will continue past COIL. Audience members can become part of Kim Noble’s will and go home with a container of his sperm in KIM NOBLE WILL DIE. Annie Dorsen’s HELLO HI THERE filters the 1971 Michel Foucault / Noam Chomsky debate through a chatbot to create new, improvised dialogues every night. The BodyCartography Project, which re-created a nuclear holocaust at PS122 in February 2010, turns its attention on the human body for SYMPTOM. In STORIES LEFT TO TELL, Ain Gordon, Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman, and Bob Holman perform excerpts from classic and unpublished texts by Spalding Gray. Jack Ferver brings back his recent success RUMBLE GHOST, which combines the horror film POLTERGEIST with a group therapy session. Travis Chamberlain’s site-adaptive GREEN EYES takes Tennessee Williams to the Hudson Hotel, while Radiohole melds Douglas Sirk with John Milton at the Collapsible Hole. THEM, the intense collaboration between director Ishmael Houston-Jones, guitarist Chris Cochrane, and writer Dennis Cooper, returns for three performances at the Abrons Arts Center, while Palissimo kicks off its PAINTED BIRD trilogy with BASTARD at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Tickets for most shows are $20, with a $55 passport for any five productions and $100 for ten.