Keyboard Summit :
Solo Flights (World Premiere)
photo of Frederic Rzewskiby: Perlinghini; photo of The Road by Virginia Valdes
Frederic Rzewski: The Road
(World Premiere)Jed Distler, Guy Livingston, Arturo O’ Farrill, Eleanor Sandresky, Matthew Shipp, Kathleen Supové
Keyboard epics, edgy and daring improvisations, piano theater and live electronics–composer/pianists take center stage for two weekends, spotlighting today’s thriving keyboard scene. This joint venture between The Kitchen’s Keyboard Summit and Composers Collaborative’s Solo Flights features Frederic Rzewski’s world premiere of The Road, his "novel" for piano in 64 miles (or 8 hours).
"There is a brilliance here, a blinding intensity, that is thrilling in itself… Brahmsian lushness."–John Rockwell, The New York Times (on Frederic Rzewski)
Week I
February 6 [Thu] 8pm
Kathleen Supové: Berserk, Music for Piano/Electronics/Voice/Theatrics (includes American Berserk by John Adams, Tribute-Obsession by Kathleen Supové, and recent works of Randall Woolf, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and others) (Premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: The Road (Parts 1 & 2)
February 7 [Fri] 8pm
Arturo O’ Farrill: The Continuing Adventures of Vertigo Man
February 8 [Sat] 8pm
Matthew Shipp: Constellations, solo improvisation w/live electronics
Week II
February 14 [Fri]
7pm: Guy Livingston: Don’t Panic! 60 Seconds for piano
February 15 [Sat]
7pm: Eleanor Sandresky: A Sleeper’s Notebook for Choreographic Piano (Premiere)
9pm: Frederic Rzewski: The Road (Part 7)
February 16 [Sun]
4pm: Jed Distler: 110 for 911, a Collective Poem for Speaking Pianist (Premiere)
6pm: Frederic Rzewski: The Road (Part 8)
Tickets: $18 advanced sales / $20 at door
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Composers Collaborative performances are made possible with funding from The Greenwall Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and The Virgil Thomson Foundation. Piano provided courtesy of Klavierhaus Inc.
Digital Happy Hour:
Archives in the 21st Century
New media culture, served cocktail-style. Artists show their work on a large screen for an audience of aficionados and the curious. The Kitchen’s second floor is transformed into a wired lounge for this communal digital experience.
SpotLight Readings
New and Novel Works in Progress
February 18 [Tue] 7pm
Tickets: $10 advanced sales/$12 at door
Spotlight pass (3 readings): $18
If you missed last spring’s sellout SpotLight Readings, here is your chance to catch three more installments of writer Linda Yablonsky
’s innovative series, in which the worlds of contemporary literature and visual art meet. Each evening brings together a unique combination of noted fiction writers and video artists in a partly improvised format to present current works-in-progress.Siri Hustvedt (The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl), Dale Peck (Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures, Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye), and Mary Gaitskill (Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Because They Wanted To) with video artist John Pilson.
See other installments on
January 26 and March 18
David Dorfman Dance :
See Level (World Premiere)
Sneak
Preview of See Level
David
Dorfman in a 1994 Kitchen performance of Hey
Conceived and choreographed by David Dorfman
In See Level, seven-time Bessie-Award winning David Dorfman Dance explores empathy, the desire to imagine, and the passion of a small community whose existence solely depends on its ability to communicate. Drawing on a language of signals, performers build intricate ensembles that balance on a risky sharing of weight. With outrageous athleticism, startling candor and daring humor, Dorfman creates an idiosyncratic world between theater and dance, in which any means of expression is possible.
The production of See Level was made possible by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
