PS21’s 2022 SUMMER SEASON
Summer 2022 was PS21’s most ambitious and adventurous season: 43 performances, many to sold-out houses, 4 of them World and US Premieres; 45 free and low-cost community-focused PATHWAYS events, including 11 workshops with the composers, choreographers, dancers, and musicians. Over 30 ensembles, companies, and soloists—in all, 180 artists—enchanted and challenged our audiences in Chatham.
PS21 is more than just a theater. For many of our artists, it’s also an incubator of new work. Four developmental residencies in our theaters and landscape yielded freshly minted works from Qudus Onikeku and his QDance Company (Nigeria), South Korea’s Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellowbomb in collaboration with Concrete Temple Theater, regional artists Sylvia Milo / Nathan Davis, and The Jamal Jackson Dance Company. During their residencies of up to 3 weeks, the creators had uninterrupted access to our Pavilion Theater, 100-acre campus, Dance Barn, and artist housing, culminating in highly anticipated public performances.
The largest audiences in our history filled the Pavilion Theater to see such bracing works as Re:INCARNATION, QDance Company’s celebration of the richness of Nigerian culture; One. One & One, a choreographic vision of sustainability from Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company; and Farm Fatale, the eco-comedy from French theatrical provocateur Philippe Quesne. Musical highlights ranged across eras and genres, from the second acclaimed season of our mostly modern House Blend Chamber Music Series, to the “mesmerizing, dynamic” world-music quartet DakhaBrakha from Ukraine, and Three Decembers, an opera by Jake Heggie copresented with the Berkshire Opera Festival.
The media took notice of PS21’s outsize impact on the arts in the Hudson Valley. The New Yorker, Albany Times Union, The Berkshire Eagle, among other national and regional publications, lavished praise on our performances and programming. The Berkshire Edge called PS21 as “a premier dance destination in the region,” and New York Times critic at large Jason Farago described us as “a country theater that outclasses most of Manhattan.”
PATHWAYS 2022
Already celebrated as PS21’s pas de deux between nature and the arts, PATHWAYS attracted crowds of listeners, onlookers, and participants to more than a dozen unique events that included Field of Vision, Michael Gordon’s work for 36 percussionists adapted to PS21’s rolling fields and performed on our inaugural PATHWAYS Community Day; Jamal Jackson Dance Company’s interactive 846, adapted from Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring; and Compagnie Galmae’s playful, participatory C’est pas là, c’est par là (It’s Not Here, It’s Over Here), inspired by Juhyung Lee’s experience of street protests in his native South Korea.
PATHWAYS workshops were equally popular. Large numbers of participants turned out for the Waterfront Wednesdays workshop led by members of Mark Morris Dance Group at Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, a collaboration between PS21, the City of Hudson, and local youth and community groups; the Sean Mason Quintet’s guided jam session with coaching from the musicians and discussion of jazz and improvisation; Art Move Concept’s hybrid of hip-hop and contemporary dance with elements of silent comedy, mime, and circus arts; and half a dozen others that spanned summer through late autumn.
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THE 2022 SEASON IN PHOTOS
THE 2022 SEASON AT A GLANCE
■ World Premiere
▲ U.S. Premiere
⬤ PS21 PATHWAYS Programming
⏏ PS21 Residency
Re:INCARNATION | Qudus Onikeku and the QDance Company (Nigeria) ▲ ⏏
Middle Ground | An Evening of Creative Placemaking with Qudus Onikeku and QDance ⬤
The Legend of the Waitress and the Robber | Concrete Temple Theater, Playfactory Mabangzen, and Yellowbomb (South Korea) ■
The Sean Mason Quintet | A Jazz at Lincoln Center Emerging Artist | plus a free guided jam session and discussion of jazz and improvisation with the musicians ⬤
Vox Sambou (Haiti/Montreal)
House Blend Concert I | Bach; Wuorinen; Lansky; Schoenberg | featuring the Ulysses Quartet
House Blend Concert II | Kagel; Helps; Alvarez; Schubert; Kondo; Gerhard
House Blend Concert III | Druckman; Kancheli; American Songbook; Aucoin
One. One & One | Vertigo Dance Company (Israel) ⬤ ⏏
Field of Vision | Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon | 36 Percussionists on PS21’s Land and Trails ⬤
Three Decembers | Copresented by the Berkshire Opera Festival & PS21
Anopas | Compagnie Art Move Concept (France)
I am the utterance of my name: Divining Mary Magdalene | Sylvia Milo and Nathan Davis | Preview Premiere ⏏
Paul Taylor Dance Company | Airs, Cloven Kingdom, Syzygy
Mark Morris Dance Group | Pacific, Jenn and Spencer, and Grand Duo ⏏
The PS21 Gala in the Orchards | Mark Morris Dance Group | Water, V
Dance with the Mark Morris Dance Group | at Henry Hudson Riverfront Park ⬤
846 | Jamal Jackson Dance Company | as part of Crellin Park Day ⬤ ⏏
Jamal Jackson Dance and Drumming Workshop and Showcase Performance ⬤
DakhaBrakha (Ukraine) | live accompaniment to Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth (1930)
Radio 477! A Ukrainian Jazz Musical | Yuliy Meitus, Virlana Tkacz, Serhiy Zhadan, George Coleman
C’est pas là, c’est par là (It’s Not Here, It’s Over Here) | Compagnie Galmae (France) ⬤
Farm Fatale | Philippe Quesne (France) ▲
PS21’s Season Closing Celebration! | Featuring Philippe Quesne’s band The Moles and Compagnie Galmae’s installation
Movement Without Borders 2022 ⬤
