Newyorkland
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Opened Jan 12, 2012
Closed Jan 28, 2012
Opened Jan 12, 2012
Closed Jan 28, 2012
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New York performance group Temporary Distortion merges film, live performance and visual art in Newyorkland, which makes its New York Premiere in the festival. The work follows four male police officers who struggle with the challenges and rigorous demands of being a cop in New York City. Inspired by first-person accounts from real-life police officers along with popular 1970s cop films and TV police dramas, Newyorkland is staged by director Kenneth Collins in one of the company's signature box-like structures. This installation serves as a framework for the both the performers' restrained acting style and as a canvas for the arresting images of projections designer William Cusick.
Newyorkland performs as part of the COIL 2012 Festival.
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With Newyorkland, playing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of P.S. 122's COIL Festival, director/designer Kenneth Collins and co-creator William Cusick take audiences into the lives of the men of the NYPD to create an often chilling and breathlessly exciting work that investigates the dangers which cops encounter in the line of duty. Unfortunately, Newyorkland can also be gruelingly monotonous (even as it resuscitates high-octane scenarios).
Among the show's most successful moments are the monologues in which the men in blue discuss their emotions about their work and its effect on their lives. In one of the show's many video segments, one young officer (Nick Bixby) describes the mo[...]