The BodyCartography Project

The BodyCartography Project Since COIL began in 2006, 50+ companies from NYC, the US, UK, Australia, continental Europe, Latin America and Asia have been presented as part of this mid-winter festival. This year, spring-loaded as ever, 17 companies boasting over 100 artists and collaborators spanning theatre, dance, multi-media, psycho-sexual storytelling, and live music, not to mention chat-bots, will take part in this year's festival. Performance Space 122 teams up with a diverse range of partners to present the largest COIL festival to date this coming January.

PS 122 Artistic Director, Vallejo Gantner, says of COIL: "We assume that if a show is exceptional it will happen in New York - but in our trans-polar, trans-disciplinary, trans-media world, this assumption is increasingly false. We are finding that in fact we must unceasingly argue for NYC as a hub of live artistic creativity, as a relevant node on the networked landscape of global culture. COIL is our way to shout that NYC still has it. COIL is Performance Space 122 pure and simple in one concentrated fury."

This year, onsite performances include PS 122 premieres by Vivi Tellas (Theatre / Argentina), The Lawson BodyCartography Project (Dance / Minneapolis), Annie Dorsen (Theatre / NYC), Ranters Theatre (Theatre / Australia), Kim Noble (Theatre / UK), Teatro Delle Albe (Theatre / Italy), and Ain Gordon (Theatre / NYC), as well as recent hits by Jack Ferver (Dance / NYC), Amanda Loulaki & Short Mean Lady (Dance / NYC) and Spalding Gray (Theatre / NYC).