PS21: Peformance Spaces for the 21st Century

DATES: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 6:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00 pm ________________________________ US premiere Theatre L’Addition plays out like a deranged game of telephone, except that the message being passed is a single scene on an increasingly distorted loop: A man at a café orders a drink. A waiter pours the drink. And ... Read more

DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 6:30 pm _______________________________ Theatre / Film / Performance Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn ... Read more

Music Natural Information Society (NIS) is a band led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams. The group’s music is grounded in Abrams’ hypnotic and interwoven writing. Performing with Lisa Alvarado’s free hanging paintings as mobile sets, NIS creates environments at once meditative and propulsive, which navigate forms that emphasize simultaneous differences, rhythm, and collective listening. ... Read more

Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more

DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________________ Audio & visual experience ... Read more

DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________________ Audio & visual experience ... Read more

DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ Audio & reading experience / Theatre The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two ... Read more

DATES: Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—6:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—6:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—6:30 pm ________________________________ US premiere Installation / Audio & Reading Experience / Visual Art A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, Sister Sylvester’s Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the ... Read more

DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ US premiere Audio experience / Participation Not to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ performance which ... Read more

DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________ Virtual Reality / Film ‘Shadowtime’ is a word drawn from a new lexicon for the ... Read more

DATES: Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 5:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 5:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 5:30 pm _________________________________ World premiere Dance Constellations is a performance from LaJuné that weaves figure skating, movement, and projected light into a study of connection, memory, and renewal. Skaters appear as moving ... Read more

DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 6:30 pm _______________________________ Theatre / Film / Performance Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn ... Read more

Music As a musician, and as a nun, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou found peace in the night. At times she composed and played the piano into the early hours of the morning or woke as early as two o’clock to pray: “Everything is silent, quiet,” she explained, “so you are more close to God.” In Night ... Read more

Film with Live Score / Music Setio, a young poor man, falls in love with Asih, a beautiful aristocrat, but the woman’s family rejects his marriage proposal. Despairing, he makes a deal with the devil so he can spend the rest of his life with the woman he loves, but his pact comes at a ... Read more

Film with Live Score / Music Live film score performed by Ensemble Contemporaneous David Lang and Bill Morrison have collaborated for nearly 25 years and darker is their tenth collaboration. Lang and Morrison drew inspiration from a minimal score to create a film that, like the music, can exist both before and under the viewer’s ... Read more

Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more

DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 pm—4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:00 pm—3:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—6:00 pm ___________________________________ Immersive Experience / Theatre / Visual Art Every point in space ... Read more