D A N C E

Photo: Ryan McNamara

Sam Kim: dumb dumb bunny

October 18-20 (Thursday - Saturday)  8pm

Tickets $12

Curated by Tere O’Connor

One of the most exciting young mavericks in the dance field to have emerged in recent years, choreographer Sam Kim is celebrated for works that walk the razor’s edge, deftly balancing poignant humor and dark subversion. In her new work performers vibrate and throb in moments of absolute power and perfect failure, finding a way to insist on their presence despite all the handicaps that mute them.

“dumb dumb bunny is a defiant shout out into the world of what we know best—our own names.” —Sam Kim

The show features Michael Helland, Sam Kim, Liz Santoro, Miriam Wolf, and multiple guest performers with lighting design by Michael Stiller and set design by Mimi Lien.>

This program is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Greenwall Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

M U S I C

Photo: Marina Rosenfeld, WHITE LINES (video still), 2005-07

Jennifer Choi, Marina Rosenfeld, Alex Waterman, and special guests

Saturday, October 20, 6pm

Tickets $10

In the intimate setting of the gallery, Jennifer Choi, Marina Rosenfeld, Alex Waterman, and special guests, including Alison Knowles, perform graphic scores by Rosenfeld, Cornelius Cardew, and others.

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

M U S I C

Photo: Helmut Lackinger

Min Xiao-Fen / Guillermo E. Brown

Thursday, October 25, 8pm
Friday, October 26, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Rashida Bumbray

Pipa virtuoso and composer Min Xiao-Fen returns to The Kitchen with a new commissioned work, Return of the Dragon, that interweaves diverse musical influences including Chinese folk music, American jazz, and bluegrass. The performance features Xiao-Fen (pipa and vocals), Okkyung Lee (cello), and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion and electronics).

Opening the evenings is Guillermo E. Brown, who tests the boundaries of free jazz and hip hop in Syrup, a new collection of electro-acoustic sonic explorations influenced by Afro-Latin and Caribbean music. Syrup features Brown on drums, vocals, and electronics, Shoko Nagai (piano, keyboard, and electronics), and a guest percussionist.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Greenwall Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

M U S I C / F I L M

Photo: Andrew Lampert

Okkyung Lee and Andrew Lampert

Friday, November 9, 8pm
Saturday, November 10, 8pm

Tickets $10

New York-based cellist and composer Okkyung Lee’s music combines the intensity of free improvisation and noise with more fragile and intricate sound structures. For these concerts, Lee teams up with filmmaker Andrew Lampert to premiere a new commissioned work that generates a complex environment of sound and image. Lee’s new music composition -- performed by Lee (cello), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Trevor Dunn (bass), and Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments and electronics) -- is paired with Lampert’s signature blend of newly shot film, recycled footage, imageless projections, and distinctive live cinema techniques involving multiple projectors, props, and texts.

This program is made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Greenwall Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The New York State Music Fund, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

P E R F O R M A N C E

Photo: Aïda Ruilova

Aïda Ruilova: The Silver Globe
featuring Caitlin Cook, Ian Vanek, and others

Friday, November 16, 8pm
Saturday, November 17, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Debra Singer

Visual artist Aïda Ruilova intermixes original and appropriated video imagery with live music and movement in this commissioned performance that uses as a point of departure Andrzej Zulawski’s film The Silver Globe -- a controversial Polish science fiction movie from the 1970s about a failed mission to the moon that subsequently spawns a new primitive society.

This event is part of Performa 07, the second biennial of new visual art performance that will take place across New York City from November 1-20.

This program is made possible with generous support from The Greenwall Foundation and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support has been provided by The PERFORMA Commission Fund.

      

D A N C E

Photo: Kathryn Sanders

Dance and Process: Kathryn Sanders, Noemi Segarra, and Lise Serrell

Friday, November 30, 8pm
Saturday, December 1, 8pm

Tickets $10

Curated by Dean Moss

The culmination of an extended group process of sharing work and receiving structured feedback, this evening features three new works by choreographers Kathryn Sanders, Noemi Segarra, and Lise Serrell.

This program is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Greenwall Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

T H E A T E R / D A N C E

Photo (Gordon): Andrew Eccles

Uncivil Wars:
Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler

Edited, directed, and choreographed by David Gordon

December 13–15 (Thursday-Saturday), 8pm
December 19–22 (Wednesday-Saturday), 8pm

Tickets $15

Curated by Dean Moss

A Pick Up Performance Co(S.) Production of The Roundheads and The Pointheads

written by Bertolt Brecht
as translated by Michael Feingold
with music by Hanns Eisler

David Gordon’s Uncivil Wars is a new dance-theater work considering the complex divisions along racial, religious, linguistic, and geographical lines engendered by war. Developed from material borrowed from Bertolt Brecht’s treatises on playwriting and from his play The Roundheads and The Pointheads, as translated by Michael Feingold, as well as from Hanns Eisler’s thoughts on composing for the theater, the work also explores ideas about inspiration, collaboration and the implications of readdressing historical works in the changed context of our present moment. The show features eight performers (including Estelle Parsons and Valda Setterfield) playing multiple roles, as well as lighting by Jennifer Tipton and music direction by Gina Leishman.

This production is co-commissioned by The Kitchen and the Walker Art Center, and is made possible, in part, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, NYSCA Dance Program, Cornell University, The Lila Wallace Theater Fund, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Kitchen’s presentation is made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.