The Builders Association & Diller + Scofidio
Jet
Lag
N.Y. premiere
January 6-8 [Thu-Sat] 8 PM $20
January 11, 13-15 [Tue, Thu-Sat] 8 PM $20
Gala performance*: January 12 [Wed] 8:30pm $50 ($100 w/reception)
January 13: Post-performance discussion with artists
http://www.thebuildersassociation.org
http://www.diacenter.org/dillerscofideo/
Original Idea by Diller+Scofidio Directed by Marianne
Weems
Created by Diller+Scofidio and The Builders Association
Design & Video Concept by Diller+Scofidio
Written by Jessica Chalmers
Video by Christopher Kondek
Sound by Dan Dobson
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Performance ensemble The Builders Association and MacArthur-award winning architects/media artists Diller + Scofidio collaborate in Jet Lag-a multimedia drama based on two true stories about travel. In 1969, a lone sailor fakes a circumnagivation of the globe through manipulation of the media. In 1970, a grandmother takes 167 consecutive transatlantic round trip flights with her grandson in order to elude his father and his psychiatrist. Using live action, video, and computer animation, Jet Lag delves into the lives of two people trapped in the complications of time and space brought on by contemporary technologies.
*For more information on the gala, call The Builders Association: 212-979-6904 x. 1
Digital H@ppy Hour
January 20 [Thu], 6pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
$8
http://www.Rhizome.org
Rhizome.org curates a series of Kitchen-hosted events where Internet artists show and talk about their online artwork. The setting for Digital H@ppy Hour is The Kitchen's second floor theater, transformed into a wired lounge environment with refreshments and libations.
Digital H@ppy Hour is sponsored by Artbyte and Silicon Alley Reporter.
Inbal
Pinto
Wrapped
N.Y. Premiere
January 19-21 [Wed-Fri] 8pm $15
January 20: Post-performance discussion
"A breath of fresh air…Her universe is elfin and sparkling, studded with humor and lucky finds."-Lyon Figaro (France)
The Kitchen presents the New York premiere of Wrapped by Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto. In a sequence of three works, Pinto conjures up a wondrous world inhabited by white-robed dwarfs, Siamese twins, and a gang of happy-sad characters making brilliantly grotesque moves to the rhythms of Fats Waller, Bring in Da Noise, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, and Beethoven. With swinging legs, bent joints, trembling bodies, and pounding feet, Wrapped unfolds like a mischievous fairy tale, mixing poetry, humor, and tenderness with pure athleticism.
Wrapped, in its New York premiere, is made possible by the New York Israel Cultural Cooperation Commission and the Consulate General of Israel in New York, Office of Cultural Affairs.
Don't miss Digital H@ppy Hour with Rhizome.org January 20
[Thu] 6pm (Doors open at 5:30pm) $8
Olga Broumas 
January 28 & 29 [Fri & Sat] 8pm
$10
"Whether Broumas raves with bliss or anger, she never lightens the lash of her intellect or dilutes her lyricism, compassion, or sense of the sacred."-Booklist
Since her debut volume Beginning with O was selected as a Yale Younger Poets Award winner (the first non-native speaker of English to be so distinguished), Greek-born poet Olga Broumas has written some of the most dynamic, ecstatic, and musically driven poetry in America. With a modern sensibility steeped in ancient Sapphic tradition, Broumas celebrates the female body, Mother Nature and sensual pleasures while offering a new perspective on myths, fairy tales, and the ravage of politics and AIDS. In Rave, 25 years of Ecstasy and Light [January 28], Broumas reads elegies, meditative fragments, and passionate, erotic lyrics from 25 years of writing. In Eros and Rave, an Evening of Greek Candor and Song [January 29], she weaves her own work with her translations of the highly irreverent and visionary Greek Nobel Laureate poet Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996).
Shelley
Hirsch
My Father Piece
New York premiere
January 28 & 29 [Fri & Sat] 10pm & February
4 & 5 [Fri & Sat] 8pm $15
(w/Olga Broumas reading January 28 & 29 at 8pm: $20)
"Enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic…a brilliant overwhelming presence on stage'-The New York Times
In My Father Piece, vocalist/composer and performance artist Shelley Hirsch returns to the source of her musical inspiration, her father Jerry. A sequel to her award-winning musical, O Little Town of East New York, this new music performance piece delves into the subjective nature of memory, mapping out a shifting narrative in which music triggers memory and vice versa. Using her enormous vocal palette, Hirsch recollects life with Jerry, from the romance of dancing in the family's "enchanted" living room to her father's taped voice commenting upon or contradicting her colorful remembrances. Music sampled from Jerry's records and Hirsch's teen favorites, seemingly on permanent spin in the household, conjure up physical spaces and emotional states.