photo credit: Nobutaka Sato

November 3-6 (Wed-Sat) 8pm
$20
Lunch break performance: November 5 (Fri) 12pm $10

Choreography: Mikuni Yanaihara
Video: Keisuke Takahashi
Music: Yuki Kato
Costume designer: Mitsushi Yanaihara
Lighting designer: Kai Takinoiri

The Tokyo-based interdisciplinary art collective Nibroll draws equally from the talents of its choreographer, composer, videographer, lighting and fashion designers to produce spectacular, multi-layered works rooted in Japan's raging cultural contradictions. For the American premiere of Dry Flower, spiky dance phrasing rife with abrupt humiliations and collapsing partnerships share the stage with animated projections of drifting petals and stampeding gazelles—"A dazzling Cubist attack, where [the company] dissects time, space and direction and lays it all bare for the audience to pick and choose" (Post-Gazette, Pittsburg).

Dance programs at The Kitchen are sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Additional support is provided by the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Mexico Now, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican arts and culture, will present the work of over 100 Mexican artists at 26 of New York City's leading arts venues in November 2004. Mexico Now is a project of Arts International, the nation's only nonprofit organization solely devoted to international arts exchange.
www.mexiconowfestival.org

video by Silvia Gruner

November 9-December 18
Opening: Tue-Sat, 12-6pm November 9 (Tue) 6-8pm
Gallery Talk: November 20 (Sat) 3pm Free

Co-curators: Tania Blanich (National Video Sources, NY), Betti-Sue Hertz (San Diego Museum of Art, CA), Christina Yang (The Kitchen)

Dialogo envisions Mexico as an international contemporary art locale layered with regional histories and longtime global intersections. Presented in conjunction with the Mexico Now festival, this exhibition features a new media installation by Silvia Gruner, one of the most recognized artists living in Mexico, and Tijuana-based Julio Orozco's multi-channel video, Love Letters, conceived as an optical intruder and auricular witness to women's personal stories. A more intimate screening area includes single-channel video works by indigenous Mexican media makers selected from the Mexican Media Arts Fellowships program.

Media Programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

November 13 (Sat) 2pm
$10/20% off for families of four or more

How would you feel if your language did not officially exist? After 500 years of struggle, Mexico has finally recognized its 60 indigenous languages, many of which do not have a written form. In this "concert for barely official languages and seduced electromagnetic waves," composer and ethno-musicologist Tareke Ortiz records and mixes these ancient languages with electronic and digital sounds of today to celebrate their power and permanence in contemporary culture. Bring a cell phone, portable radio or videogame and add to the mix of video documentaries, Afro-Mexican rhythms, and a live 20-person chorus!

Open Kitchen Programs are made possible with generous support from Annette C. Merle-Smith.

Alma Guillermoprieto. Photo credit: Gregory Allen

November 23 (Tue) 7pm
$10

In this homage to Mexico City and its writers, award-winning journalist Alma Guillermoprieto talks about growing up, living in and reporting on the hemisphere's most teeming megalopolis. Other views and insights will emerge in a dialogue between novelist, playwright/essayist Vicente Leñero, one of Mexico City's legendary voices, and Rubén Gallo, editor of The Mexico City Reader (University of Wisconsin Press, Fall 2004), a collection of short, hybrid texts about the city's necrophilic artists, garbage mafias, kitschy millionaires, and assorted other startling phenomena.

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Check out other programs from the Necessary Translations series on October 12 (A New Place on the Map: Archipelago Books) and December 7 (New Voices from a Literary Landmark: New Directions Press). A series pass for all three events is only $25.

photo credit: Joe McPhee:© Mephisto, Geraldine Celerier: Minerva Hernandez Trejo, Elliott Sharp: Andreas Sterzing

November 19 & 20 (Fri & Sat) 8pm
$15
Lunch break performance: November 19 (Fri) 12pm $10

Marlene Rice (violin), Nioka Workman (cello), J.D. Parran (woodwinds), Rudresh Mahanthappa (woodwinds), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Russ Johnson (trumpet), Jim Pugliese (percussion), Tony Lewis (drums), Kevin Ray (bass), and Kathleen Supové (piano)

For its 10th installment, Kitchen House Blend continues its ongoing series of world premieres by composers on the cutting edge of musical experimentation. On the program are Mexican/French guitarist and vocalist Géraldine Célérier, critically acclaimed for her "hypnotic voice and acrobatics on strings and lips" (Ciclo Mas Jazz, Mexico); Joe McPhee, a multi-instrumentalist and free-jazz innovator since the mid-60s, whose "magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene" (Time Out New York); and experimental guitarist Elliott Sharp, who has been hailed as "the definitive Downtown New York musician” (BBCi Music). Since its inception in March 2000, this 21st century experimental ensemble boasts nearly 30 commissions, ranging from contemporary classical and avant jazz to world music and electronica and mapping a vivid landscape of today's most creative musical minds.

Géraldine Célérier is appearing as a part of Mexico Now.

Kitchen House Blend is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.