2022 RESIDENCIES

Concrete Temple Theatre and South Korea’s Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellowbomb developed The Legend of the Waitress & The Robber, a comic mashup in Korean and English inspired by Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers and the Korean novel The Story of Hong Gildong. In the tradition of Robin Hood tales, the play, set in a dystopian society, critiques the problems of isolation, aging, and injustice. World premiere at PS21 on May 21–22. Residency from May 1-22.

The QDance Company’s week long residency explores the power of reinvention by combining Afrobeats, Afro dance, and Black aesthetics. The Nigerian company’s performance of Re:INCARNATION launches PS21’s 2022 season of international contemporary dance, opera, theater, and music with performances on opening night June 3, and June 4, and a week-long residency dedicated to the community. Residency from May 30–June 8.

Concrete Temple Theater and South Korea’s Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellowbomb developing The Legend of the Waitress & The Robber, a comic mashup in Korean and English inspired by Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers and the Korean novel The Story of Hong Gildong. In the tradition of Robin Hood tales, the play, set in a dystopian society, critiques the problems of isolation, aging, and injustice. World premiere at PS21 on May 21–22, 2022.

Nathan Davis / Sylvia Milo, I am the utterance of my name: Divining Mary Magdalene. Nathan Davis (composer-percussionist) and Sylvia Milo (actor-playwright) developing I am the utterance of my name: Divining Mary Magdalene, a music-theater work that explores the ancient and modern myths, beliefs, and symbols surrounding the life and legend of Mary Magdalene. Residency from March 14–18 / July 8–10; Preview premiere on July 10, 2022.

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, with Adriana Zabala (mezzo- soprano, Monica Dewey (soprano), and Theo Hoffman (baritone), developing Three Decembrists. The opera probes the tensions between an aging actress and her children, a daughter in a failing marriage and a young, gay son under the shadow of the AIDS. Residency, July 21–23, 2022; Performances on July 21 and 23, co-presented with the Berkshire Opera Festival.

Mark Morris Dance Group, expanding Water (2021), a work for 14 dancers, set to George Frideric Handel’s Water Music (Suite in F Major, HWV 348). Residency: August 1–6, 2022; Premiere at PS21, August 5.

Jamal Jackson Dance Company in residency for a week-long outreach program with participants from Hudson-based urban youth organizations Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center and Perfect Ten Hudson, and in partnership with the Sylvia Center. Participants integrate traditional Malian movement, a practice deeply connected to the earth, and dama, the masked dance rituals practiced by the Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso, with contemporary dance techniques to impart self-confidence, discipline, and communication. Company members and students will perform their new dances and percussion compositions.Residency August 7–14, 2022

Amir El-Saffar and Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch: Revered composer/trumpeter Amir ElSaffar fuses elements of traditional Middle Eastern modal music and American jazz to create a mesmerizing sonic hybrid. Amir El Saffar spent a 10 days in residency at PS21 with the Paris-based electronics composer/performer, Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch. Lorenzo and Amir first worked together at the Royaumount Foundation in France in 2016 as part of a project called 99 with Franco-Lebanese rapper Marc Nammour. In 2018, the two musicians worked on “Luminiscencia,” Amir ElSaffar’s project combining Flamenco, maqam, and electronics, and last year they collaborated with the Italian dance company, MK Dance in a work entitled “Maqam.” The two ended their residency with a performance of their new work Inside Spaces on October 30th 2022. Residency October 20-30, 2022