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Today:

Amy Granat: The Sheltering Sky

Opening reception: Friday, January 29, 6-8pm :: Curated by Matthew Lyons :: New York-based artist Amy Granat draws from the legacy of experimental and abstract filmmaking to create new approaches in 16mm film and video at the limits of personal and narrative cinema. Using Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky as a point of departure for this exhibition, she creates an immersive environment of projected images, which substitute the narrative thrust of literary fiction with a more subtle exploration of character and place through landscape, light, and gesture. :: Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm :: FREE :: www.thekitchen.org

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group: BIG EATER

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena, Neumann grounds his experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia’s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world.

BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce, sound design by Katie Down with additonal compositions by Stew.

March 4-6, 8pm

March 7, 5pm

March 10-13, 8pm

Tickets $15

Tickets can be purchased

online through Ticketweb at www.thekitchen.org

by phone (212) 255 5793 ext. 11 Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm

by foot The Kitchen Box Office 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm and one hour before the beginning of the show.

Upcoming events:

Amy Granat: The Sheltering Sky

Opening reception: Friday, January 29, 6-8pm :: Curated by Matthew Lyons :: New York-based artist Amy Granat draws from the legacy of experimental and abstract filmmaking to create new approaches in 16mm film and video at the limits of personal and narrative cinema. Using Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky as a point of departure for this exhibition, she creates an immersive environment of projected images, which substitute the narrative thrust of literary fiction with a more subtle exploration of character and place through landscape, light, and gesture. :: Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm :: FREE :: www.thekitchen.org

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group: BIG EATER

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena, Neumann grounds his experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia’s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world.

BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce, sound design by Katie Down with additonal compositions by Stew.

March 4-6, 8pm

March 7, 5pm

March 10-13, 8pm

Tickets $15

Tickets can be purchased

online through Ticketweb at www.thekitchen.org

by phone (212) 255 5793 ext. 11 Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm

by foot The Kitchen Box Office 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm and one hour before the beginning of the show.

Yasuko Yokoshi: Tyler Tyler
Tyler Tyler resumes Yasuko Yokoshi's artistic partnership with Masumi Seyama, revered master teacher of Kabuki Su-Odori dance and the heir to the legacy of Kanjyuro Fujima VI, one of the renowned Kabuki choreographers of the 20th Century in Japan. Together they deconstruct new choreographic material from Fujima's classical dance repertories. Yokoshi and Seyama dare to face boundaries of different training, cultural code and social hierarchy yet simultaneously desire to cherish the forms and beauty of universal language of dance. Tyler Tyler features the oldest disciple and member of Seyama Dance Family, Kayo Seyama; a young Kabuki actor, Kuniya Sawamura; and an actor from the Bungakuza Theater Company, Asaji Naoki. In the United States Yokoshi collaborates with American contemporary dancers Julie Alexander and Kayvon Pourazar and Steven Reker who toured the world as a guitarist, singer and dancer with Everything that Happens will Happen Today, a musical performance composed by David Byrne and Brian Eno./ Mar 17 – 20 at 7:30pm. Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Mar 17 at 6:30pm. Post-Show Talk: Mar 19. Tickets $15. 212-924-0077 or dancetheaterworkshop.org
Doveman and Peter Pears: An Evening with Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly

Curated by Matthew Lyons

In this evening of new music, pianist/composer/singer Thomas Bartlett brings together two of his ongoing collaborative projects. First Bartlett will perform with Nico Muhly as their duo project, Peter Pears, including collaborative compositions and two-piano performances of Colin McPhee's gamelan transcriptions. Then Bartlett performs material from the recently released Doveman album, The Conformist. With a sound that is both haunting and inspiring, Doveman is Bartlett and an ensemble made up of a select group of frequent collaborators including Muhly, Sam Amidon, and others.

March 18 and 19, 8pm

Tickets: $15

Tickets can be purchased

online through Ticketweb at www.thekitchen.org

by phone (212) 255 5793 ext. 11 Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm

by foot The Kitchen Box Office 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm and one hour before the beginning of the show.

FAMILY MATTERS: Groove-cation!
Can’t wait for Spring? Enjoy a much needed escape with Family Matters’ Groove-cation! a soul filled get away with wild dancing, extraordinary music acts, and unparalleled puppetry. Dance along with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, giggle with a grooving grandma strung up by Eric Wright, and view in amazement the mind bending movement of Kyle Abraham and Gerald Casel. Top it all off with the mellow tunes of Matthew Brookshire, and the deep pulsing enigmatic sounds of Sxip Shirey. Leave the theater with a swing in your step, and a grin on your face. Created for families looking to introduce their children to fun, intelligent, and innovative live performance, Dance Theater Workshop’s Family Matters shows are relaxed and informal and appropriate for children of all ages. These one-of-a-kind showcases provide an opportunity to turn off your gadgets and experience dance, music, theater, and more, presented in kid-friendly, bite-size-pieces. FREE FOR KIDS/$15 Adults http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/ Mar 20-21 at 2pm
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance

Curated by Rashida Bumbray

This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt’s most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site specific installation—that explore her long-standing interest in non-linear perspective and early twentieth century notions of double-consciousness. Known for a practice that traffics in a realm between the sculptural and the photographic, and riffs on political, social and personal material in order to expand confining narratives, Hewitt’s current proposition evokes similar concerns. Using Claude Brown’s Harlem migration text Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), as a point of departure, Hewitt creates visually elegant and thoughtfully composed situational works that question the contemporary moment through the exigencies of time.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 27, 6-8pm

Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6 pm; Sat 11-6 pm

FREE

www.thekitchen.org

CHELSEA OPERA PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE IN OPERA - SIGNATURE SCENES
Chelsea Opera soloists in excerpts from Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Béatrice et Bénédict. In addition, we compare the opening letter scene when two neighbors, Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page, discover they’ve been sent identical love letters from the grotesque Sir John Falstaff from operas by Salieri, Verdi, Vaughan Williams and Nicolai. Featured performers are: sopranos Kember Lattimer, Terina Westmeyer, Elizabeth Beers Kataria, Rachel Rincione and Amy Marie Rood; mezzo sopranos Kirsten Allegri, Julie De Vaere and Leonarda Priore; tenors Lawrence Bianco and David Kellett; baritone Luis Gonzales, a basses Ted Dougherty and Michael Blake O’Hearn. accompanied by Lloyd Arriola The New York New Church 114 East 35th Street, NYC 10016 Tickets: $20 (GA) and $12 (Srs/Stds), or $25 and $15 at the door http://www.chelseaopera.org/events.html
Ice Theatre of New York Home Show
Get your tickets early for Ice Theatre of New York's 2010 Home Season. Performances will feature the Ice Theatre of New York in "Primavera" and "Dare Greatly", which premiered at our fall Benefit Gala. Both pieces are choreographed by Douglas Webster. In addition we will present "La Revolte des Enfants", choreography by Alberto Del Saz, as well as other pieces from our repertory to be determined. Thursday, April 29 to Saturday, May 1 @ 7:00 p.m. Sky Rink (Pier 61, Chelsea Piers) Admission: $25 Students, Seniors and Groups of 10 or more: $15 To purchase tickets call (212) 929-5811 Mention Destination Chelsea and get a $5 discount!
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
"Faye Driscoll is a startling original talent." - The New York Times “I devise multi-dimensional dance dramas that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, arousal and disgust, fun and violence, spectacle and authenticity.” – Faye Driscoll In a time of distraction, voyeurism and over stimulation, how do we experience authentic connection? Faye Driscoll investigates the physical and theatrical narratives that drive our misplaced need to be seen. From creating facades to seeking the divine to committing violent acts and falling in love, There is so much mad in me looks into the ways we fail, succeed, and get lost in the chase for true connection./ Mar 31 – Apr 3 at 7:30pm. Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Mar 31 at 6:30pm. Post-Show Talk Apr 2. Tickets $15. 212-924-0077 or dancetheaterworkshop.org
Jay Scheib: Bellona, Destroyer of Cities

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany’s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today.

Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib.

April 1 – 3 and 8 – 10, 8pm

Tickets: $15

Tickets can be purchased

online through Ticketweb at www.thekitchen.org

by phone (212) 255 5793 ext. 11 Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm

by foot The Kitchen Box Office 512 West 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Open: Tue-Sat, 2-6pm and one hour before the beginning of the show.