2022 Season

Summer 2022

43 performances, sold-out houses, 4 World and US Premieres, 45 free and low-cost community-focused PATHWAYS events, 11 workshops with composers, choreographers, dancers, and musicians, and over 30 ensembles, companies, and soloists, the 180 artists of PS21’s enchanted and challenged our audiences in Chatham during the 2022 Season.

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, the creators had uninterrupted access to our Pavilion Theater, 100-acre campus, Dance Barn, and artist housing, culminating in highly anticipated public performances.

“A premier dance destination in the region.” – The Berkshire Edge
“A country theater that outclasses most of Manhattan.” – Jason Farago, New York Times

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.

Fall 2022

PS21’s flexible theater, which collapses to an intimate Black Box configuration, allows for year-round programming. Our Fall 2022 season ranged across multiple genres, from 1970s punk to contemporary experimental and classical music, in two live concerts and one film screening.

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The 2022 Season at a glance

Summer

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)
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 with 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

Fall / Winter

World Premiere: Inside Spaces
Amir ElSaffar and Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch
Resonant Mechanisms: The Experimental Music Tradition in Upstate New York
[Switch~ Ensemble]
This is National Wake screening
Mirissa Neff