Millennial Mishmash 
April 5 & 6 [Wed-Thu] 8pm & 7 & 8 [Fri-Sat]
10pm $12
April 6: Post-performance discussion
Writer/performer Galinsky performs a four-person conversation in his one-man show, The Bench. Conceived as a circular narrative, The Bench unravels, in outrageous and warm-hearted ramblings, the emotional bonds of four dispossessed homeless men and their desire for the same woman. Sound design is by Genesis P-Orridge and Bryn Dahl.
Composer/pianist Denman Maroney and soprano Sheila Schonbrun
perform Maroney's Music for 
Words
Perhaps: Ten Songs for Voice and Piano Set to Poems by W.B. Yeats.
Best known for his unique "hyperpiano" style, Denman plays the
keyboard while simultaneously exciting the piano's strings and other body
parts with various metal, plastic, rubber, and cork objects. (only April
5 & 6)
Composer/performer Mariano Weinstein delivers high-speed lingual acrobatics with Real Estate-a solo performance in several languages fluctuating between sense and non-sense and performed over a computer-generated instrumental soundtrack. A skillful and humorous combination of rhythms, samples, noise, and vocals. (Only April 7 & 8)
Mariano Weinstein performance was made possible, in part,
by funds from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, supported
by The Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Ferdinand Forsch 
KlangHaus
Sound Sculpture Installation: April 4-6 [Tue-Thu] 2-6pm
Free
Performances: April 7 & 8 [Fri & Sat] 8pm $12
Curated by John Schaefer
German composer and instrument designer Ferdinand Försch turns The Kitchen into a musical sculpture gallery. In a rare American appearance, Försch installs a number of his visually stunning, musically versatile sound sculptures in The Kitchen's second floor theater [April 4-6]. On Friday [April 7], Försch performs on and among his sound sculptures with his experimental KlangHaus orchestra, eKHo, featuring the 9-foot long Bach Harps played by three musicians. Saturday's grand finale [April 8] features a riot of new musical colors, as Försch and eKHo join forces with Ben Neill's triple-belled, electroacoustic mutantrumpet and Ken Butler's musical golf clubs, hockey sticks, axes, and more.
Kitchen
House Blend 
April 13-15 [Thu-Sat] 8pm $15
April 13: Post-performance discussion
http://www.kitbraz.com
Kitty Brazelton, Craig Harris, tba.
Meet The Kitchen's new house band that blends jazz, hip-hop, classical, and rock in one evening. Three composers write for an ensemble of 10-12 musicians who leap between written and improvised lines with ease and power. With percussion, reed, brass, and string sections modeled after Duke, Mingus and beyond, it's an experimental chamber orchestra for the 21st century!
Don't miss Digital H@ppy Hour with
Rhizome.org
April 19 [Wed] 6pm (doors open at 5:30pm) $8
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. 8 
Johan Grimonprez: Dorothy doesn't live here anymore
April 14 & 15 [Fri-Sat] 6pm $25 (include dinner)
Reservation required
(w/Kitchen House Blend performance at 8pm: $30)
Moderator: Chrissie Iles, Curator of Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art
Belgian-born video artist Johan Grimonprez makes his premiere New York appearance at The Kitchen. Highly acclaimed for dial-H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Beware! In Playing the Phantom, You Become One, both shown at the 1997 documenta X, Grimonprez examines narrative codes in the recent history of news media. The discussions with moderator Chrissie Iles will include topics such as parallels between CNN and Hollywood's use of language, the novelist as terrorist in politics, and the insidious presence of ideology in the selection process of archiving.
Special thanks to Tanya Leighton.
Sally Silvers & Dancers 
Storming Heaven
April 26-29 [Wed-Sat] 8pm $15
April 27: Post-performance discussion
Choreography by Sally Silvers
Dancers: Karl Anderson, Kate Gyllenhaal, Phillip Karg, Andrea Kleine, Alejandra Martorell, David Neumann, Paige Martin, Mark Robison, Cydney Wilkes, and Sally Silvers.
"Free spirit…zany physicality"-Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
In Storming Heaven, choreographer Sally Silvers tears through a century of upheaval spanning from the Paris Commune to the Zapatista Revolution. Inspired by Luigi Nono's 1975 multimedia opera, In the Sun's Love Provoking Light, Storming Heaven re-envisions social changes, zigzagging through the body map of revolution with haunting optimism, visual rampage, and madcap politics. Featuring an all-star cast, soundscapes by Bruce Andrews, and live visuals by Antonio Martorell.
Dance
Documentary Mini-Marathon
April 29 [Sat] 1-6pm Free
This screening offers an opportunity to watch new video and film dance documentaries about extraordinary artists and dance styles. Following the screening, join the filmmakers, artists, and producers for a panel discussion, The Making of A Dance Documentary, moderated by Andrea Snyder of NIPAD.
Bessie : A portrait of Bessie Schonberg
Dir. Chris Hegedus & DA Pennebaker
Bomba-Dancing the Drum
Dir.: Ashley James
Check Your Body at the Door
Dir.: Charles Atlas
From the Horse's Mouth, the Documentary
Dir.: Sharon Kinney
These projects were funded in part or in whole by the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a grant program supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and housed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.