Poets & Preachers
A new literature series that explores the performance-poem as liturgical
form, the sermon as literary form, and the audience as congregation. 
Regie Cabico 
RegieSpective
March 3 & 4 [Fri & Sat] 8pm $10
"One of the few performance oriented poets with a truly literary soul but still plain campy fun."-The Village Voice
Downtown performer and poetry slam champion Regie Cabico mixes spoken word, slam rhythms, and comedy in his evening-length RegieSpective. Author of Onomatopoeia and a ¼ life crisis and co-creator of The Gene Pool, Cabico traces the life of a young gay Filipino man from his strict Catholic upbringing to his tragicomic incarnation of the iconic "M. Butterfly."
Kevin
James
The Portraits Project
March 9-11 [Thu-Sat] 8pm $12
March 9: Post-performance discussion
http://www.Portraitsproject.com
Meridian Arts Ensemble (brass quintet), Sirius String Quartet,
Steve Gorn (bamboo flute), Yousif Sheronick (frame drum),
Joe Tomkins and John Ferrari (percussion)
"Kevin James is on the forefront of a new breed of classically trained but socially concerned composers."-The New Music Connoisseur
Composer Kevin James returns to The Kitchen with new selections from The Portraits Project, a moving and provocative large-scale composition giving voice to New York City's homeless community. Scored for tape and an eclectic mix of soloists and chamber ensembles, The Portraits Project blends songs, musings, and reflections of the homeless with video projections and dramatic staging to create a continuous collage illuminating the tensions inherent to the condition of homelessness. The Portraits Project, commissioned by the Coalition for the Homeless, is based on over 700 interviews James conducted on the streets of New York.
The Portraits Project is made possible with funds from Meet The Composer, which selected Kevin James as a 1999 recipient of its three-year New Residencies award in partnership with The Kitchen, Coalition for the Homeless, Quintet of the Americas, and the Sirius String Quartet. Funding for New Residencies was provided by the Pew Charitable Trust with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and other generous supporters.
Kyle deCamp
Out of Breath
March 8 [Wed] 8pm & March 9-11 [Thu-Sat] 10pm $15
March 8: Post-performance discussion
March 15-18 [Wed-Sat] 10pm $15
(w/Miranda July performance March 15-18 at 8pm: $20)
Conceived, Scripted and Performed by Kyle deCamp
Visual/sound Design by the hausofouch.
"Sophisticated, insidious, faintly criminal."-Joan Acocella, The Village Voice
Jean Seberg (1938-79)-Female cultural sacrifice or author of her own existence? In Out of Breath performer Kyle deCamp delves into the elusive life of American actress Jean Seberg to explore contemporary issues of private life and public persona. Discovered at age 17 by Otto Preminger for Saint Joan, Seberg was elevated to an icon of French new wave cinema in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. From famous American-in-Paris actor to Black Panther party-supporter harassed by the FBI, Seberg's world is re-animated in a melange of verbatim texts and projected video images culled from her films, media quotes, FBI transcripts, and biographer's opinions. A haunting performance that resurrects Seberg's contradictory voice as it emerges, matures, reflects, and tragically dies.
Out of Breath is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, with funding provided by The Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN.
Miranda July 
Love Diamond
March 15-18 [Wed -Sat] 8pm $15
March 15: Post-performance discussions
(w/Kyle deCamp performance at 10pm:
$20)
http://www.bigmissmoviola.com
"[Miranda July] is a hero to many and an enigma to many more." -Amy Kellner, Time Out
Performance/multimedia artist Miranda July returns to New York with her paranoid fable Love Diamond, a kaleidoscopic examination of love in all its dimensions. Premiered at the 1999 New York Video Festival to critical acclaim, this 90-minute "live movie" features performances by July and a large cast of videos and slide projectors. Loosely based on July's experiences with a painful undiagnosed eye condition, Love Diamond delves into a mother's smothering love, bizarre dynamics of healing, and the nature of alienation. Accompanied by the muted pulsing of Zac Love's music, July fluidly morphs from a 13-year old girl to a primped, frenetic housewife to a love struck airline passenger. A tender, yet authoritative, meditation on technology, language, and love.
Love Diamond was originally commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
TV DINNER @ The Kitchen
TV Dinner is a series that invites groundbreaking video and digital artists to show their work and share their thoughts in an informal setting in the Kitchen's second-floor theater. The audience meets artists over video screenings and a vegetarian buffet provided by a neighborhood restaurant.
TV
Dinner No. 7
Charles Atlas: Selected Works
March 24 & 25 [Fri & Sat] 6pm $25 (include dinner)
Reservation required
(w/Guy Klucevsek performance at 8pm: $35)
Film/video artist Charles Atlas returns to The Kitchen for a showing of recent video works. Celebrated for his provocative vision of the avant-garde dance and performance scene, Atlas investigates issues of identity, gender, masquerade, and the passage of time in videos that involve complex technical manipulation of the medium and multiple-channel installations. Complimenting a gallery installation of newly restored archival work, this event acknowledges The Kitchen's history of memorable live art performances and its commitment to artists working in the newest technologies.
Guy Klucevsek 
Squeezeplay
March 22-25 [Wed-Sat] & March 29-April 1 [Wed-Sat]
8pm $20
March 23: Post-performance discussion
http://hometown.aol.com/guysqueeze/myhomepage/index.html
David Dorfman & Dan Froot, Claire Porter, Victoria Marks, Mary Ellen Childs, and Dan Hurlin
"A rebel with an accordion…Klucevsek combines poker-faced wit and imagination with command of his instrument, forcing you to re-think the accordion's limitation."-Downbeat
In Squeezeplay, composer/accordionist Guy Klucevsek joins forces with six artists to explore the boundaries between music and the disciplines of choreography, theater, and performance art. This evening of cross-disciplinary collaboration unfolds in five vignettes and features an all-accordion score composed and performed by Klucevsek.
In Part I, the steadfast composer teams up with the peripatetic duo of choreographer David Dorfman and performance artist Dan Froot in a boisterous dissection of the trio's collaborative process. Featuring dueling saxes and accordions.
"[Froot] is an evocative storyteller with a crazy, irrepressible
imagination…"
-The New York Times
"[Dorfman] is one of New York's wittiest, wiliest dancer-choreographers."
-The Village Voice
Part II is Klucevsek as a shy musician who is lured into leaving his accordion and dancing on with choreographer Claire Porter.
Part III pairs Klucevsek with choreographer/filmmaker Victoria Marks as she transforms the accordionist's inner monologue into a video thought bubble.
"Marks creates succinct, beautiful passages of interaction that go straight to the heart…" -Timothy Cahill, Metroland
In Part IV, composer Mary Ellen Childs creates a new solo for Klucevsek, that showcases movement possibilities for accordion playing. While incorporating visual imagery into musical composition, she draws inspiration from Quebeqois folk music, developing a unique and original technique of hand crossing over the instrument.
"Expect more than theatrical garnishing. Childs has given eye-catching
life to music on its own terms."-St. Paul Pioneer Press
In Part V, Klucevsek and performance artist, director and miniaturist
Dan Hurlin use accordions, paintings and puppets to explore different
ways of seeing the world-shifting from the lens of 19th century painter
Frederic E. Church to the eyes to a 10-year old boy to the vision of a
blind man.
"[Dan Hurlin]: The most caring, big-hearted, open-minded celebratory theater work imaginable."-Chris Arnott, New Haven Advocate
Squeezeplay was commissioned by The Kitchen with support from the Live Music for Dance Program of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, administered by the American Music Center. Major commissioning support for this project has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts in a consortium with MASS MoCA.
Don't miss Digital H@ppy Hour with
Rhizome.org
March 23 [Thu] 6pm (doors open at 5:30pm) $8
J"chym Topol 
March 28 [Tue] 8pm $10
http://www.czechcenter.com
"Topol is already being hailed as the supernova of post-1989 Czech
fiction."
-San Francisco Bay Guardian
The Czech Center New York and The Kitchen celebrate the release of City, Sister, Silver, J"chym Topol's debut novel translated into English by Alex Zucker (Catbird Press, March 2000). Underground lyricist, political activist in the 1989 Czech revolution, and author of two poetry books, Topol is hailed as Prague's most prominent young writer. With the novel City, Sister, Silver he delves into a fantastical reality brought on by the fall of communism while capturing the feelings of an entire generation with satirical wit and sweeping romanticism. Winner of the Egon Hostovsky Prize for the best Czech book of the year, City, Sister, Silver was the only book of the 90s to be included in a Czech writers' and critics' list of the 100 Greatest Czech Prose Works of the Century. Refreshments will be served.
J"chym Topol's reading is sponsored by Pilsner Urquell.