Each January, PS122 presents the cornerstone of their programming through the annual COIL Festival. COIL demonstrates the constant vitality of live performance in New York City featuring work created locally, across the US and around the world. This year is the largest COIL to date with over 15 announced events across Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. This festival will also be the last before returning to their renovated home in the East Village.
Featured in COIL 2016: niv Acosta, Frank Boyd, Jonathan Capdevielle, Annie Dorsen, Findlay//Sandsmark + Pettersen, Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham, Michael Klëin and Steve Valk with the Martha Graham Dance Company, David Neumann, Jillian Peña, Polytoxic, Ranters Theatre, Kaneza Schaal, Samita Sinha, Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin.
“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 – Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director
For PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE visit: http://www.ps122.org/coil-2016/
