Past Seasons
“A country theater that outclasses most of Manhattan” — New York Times critic at large Jason Farago, September, 2022
“A beautiful, reconfigurable indoor-outdoor space that appears to have landed like an exotic bird in the midst of a 100-acre former apple orchard in this tiny Hudson Valley town. It’s not the first place you would expect to encounter cutting-edge performance, yet PS21 offers little else.” — Jesse Green, New York Times, June, 2021
■ World Premiere
▲ U.S. Premiere
⬤ PS21 PATHWAYS Programming
⏏ PS21 Residency
FALL 2022 IN PS21’S BLACK BOX THEATER
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Presented in our open-air Pavilion Theater and along the trails, meadows, and woodlands of our 100 acre campus of apple orchards, the 2022 Summer Season presented over 40 events by a constellation of celebrated and emerging dancers, choreographers, musicians, singers, actors, directors, and international street artists. In 2022, PS21’s PATHWAYS programming, our popular pas de deux between nature and the arts, was larger and more ambitious than ever, with more than a dozen events, most free of charge to the community.
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 ⬤
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Sarah Kane’s Blasted | With actors Jim Fletcher and Katiana Rangel and cellist Lori Goldston ⏏
Phasmes and Hêtre | Compagnie Libertivore (France) ▲
The Art of Theater and With My Own Hands | Written, directed, and developed in residency by Pascal Rambert (France) | With actors Jim Fletcher and Ismaïl ibn Conner ⏏
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Our 2021 Season of music, opera, contemporary circus, and processional arts benefited from PS21’s unique open-air Pavilion Theater and breathtaking 100-acre campus, unmatched physical and environmental assets that ensured safe spaces for audiences. More than 40 events, conceived and staged for social distancing, in PS21’s theater and Dance Barn, in our fields, and along our trails, featured a roster of dancers, choreographers, musicians, singers, actors, directors, and international contemporary circus artists who are breathing life into traditional genres and fashioning new ones.
Solo Pavilion for Two or Three | a site-responsive installation by James Casebere⬤ ■
Modern Opera Fest | The Extinctionist | Composed by Daniel Schlosberg, libretto by Amanda Quaid, directed by Louisa Proske ▲ ⏏
The Escher Quartet | Bartok; Sibelius
The Dark Master | Kuro Tanino | Copresented with the Japan Society ▲ ⏏
Paul Taylor Dance Company | Company B, Esplanade, Aureole, and The Green Table ⏏
House Blend Concert I | Shapey; Layton; Donatoni; Sanford; Kancheli
House Blend Concert II | Biber; Wolpe; Nancarrow; Bach
House Blend Concert III | Dallapicolla; Copland; Ligeti
House Blend Concert IV | Pärt; Schoenfield; Lee; Ravel
Modern Opera Fest | Pan | With flutist Claire Chase, directed by Doug Fitch ⏏
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | with Special Guests Caleb Teicher & Co.
Bat & Moth Night | Led by the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program⬤
Branché | Barcode Circus and Acting for Climate Montréal ⬤ ▲
The Wooster Group Summer Institute | A free summer acting program led by theater luminaries Kate Valk, Ariana Smart Truman, and Christopher-Rashee Stevenson ⬤ ⏏
She/Her | Meditative monologues on identity featuring local actors, directed by Nicole Ansari ⬤ ■
Instable | Les Hommes Penchés ⬤
Modern Opera Fest | Ipsa Dixit | Written by Kate Soper, directed by Ashley Tata | Featuring the Wet Ink Ensemble
Modern Opera Fest | Savage Winter | Composed by Douglas Cuomo, featuring Frank London
PS21’s Season Closing Celebration | Featuring Ecstatic Dance with DJ Joro-Boro | And The Maze by Art Duo TROUBLE
Movement Without Borders 2021
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Despite the COVID pandemic, our 2020 season was an unalloyed success. Thanks to our flexible Pavilion Theater and our outdoor spaces, from July through October we presented forty-two socially distanced live programs of music, movement, multimedia, film, visual art, and discussion.
D-CELL | an exhibition & durational performance from multi-disciplinary visual artist David Michalek ⬤
The Neave Trio | Clark; Piazzolla | accompanying D-CELL’s SlowDancingLive1 ⬤
Field Notes | Catherine Galasso | Outdoor Dances for This 21st Century ⬤
Essential Cinema | Artists’ Choice Film Series
Essential Cinema | Firefighters’ Select Film Series
Modern Music Fest | Sandbox Percussion | Akiho; Kirsten; DiBerardino; Wolfe; Eastman; Reich
Modern Music Fest | Calidore String Quartet | Beethoven’s B-flat Major, Op. 130 with Op. 133; String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135; Quartet in A Major, Op. 18
Modern Music Fest | Timo Andres | Copland; Rzewski; Andres ⏏
Modern Music Fest | Adam Tendler | Cage; Cerrone; Monk; Glass; Glover; Rzewski; Muhly; Thomas ⏏
Modern Music Fest | Miranda Cuckson | Bach; Carter; Davidovsky; Boulez ⏏
Modern Music Fest | Conor Hanick | Galina Ustvolskaya: The Piano Sonatas ⏏
Modern Music Fest | Conrad Tao | Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! ⏏
Ten Thousand Birds | John Luther Adams | performed by Alarm Will Sound ⬤▲ (New York State Premiere)
Hudson Valley Ghost Column 7 | Alison McNulty ⬤
Camille A. Brown Residency | 12 dancers and musicians Developing Queens and Matchstick ⏏ (Spring 2020)
Self-guided Ecology Walks | Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Program ⬤
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