Jennifer Lacey 
$Shot
New York Premiere
May 3-6 [Wed-Sat] 8pm $15
May 6 [Sat] 3pm $15
May 4: Post-performance discussion
Performed by Erin Cornell and Jennifer Lacey
Music by Zeena Parkins
Visual design by Nadia Lauro
"Lacey has a choreographic mind as interesting and witty as her dancing
body."-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Choreographer Jennifer Lacey makes her Kitchen debut with $Shot, an evening-length work inspired by the body vocabulary of pornography. Drawing from pornography's refined physical imagery and particular sense of narrative, Lacey explores the relationship between the acquisitive and the contemplative sexual gazes. Composer Zeena Parkins' sound installation, including wave generators, filters, leather, twigs, and other organic matter, pervades the choreography like perfume, adding to the thick and luxurious atmosphere of the piece. With visuals by French visual artist Nadia Lauro, all elements combine to create an intimate performance infused with decadent humor and charming oddity.
$Shot is a co-production from Dance in Kortrijk, Belgium. Thank you to Domaine De Kerguhennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain-Centre Culturel de Rencontres. Commissioning support for these performances has been provided by the Live Music for Dance Program of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, administered by the American Music Center. This production has also been made possible in part by a 1999 Fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.
Jin
Hi Kim
Dong Dong Touching the Moons
Workshop performances
May 10-13 [Wed-Sat] 8pm $15
May 11: Post-performance discussion
Conceived and composed by Jin Hi Kim
Music performed by Samir Chatterjee (Indian tabla drummer), Kwon-Soon
Kang
(Korean kagok singer) and Jin Hi Kim (Korean electric komungo)
Choreography by Sin Cha Hong
Dance performed by Parul Shah (Indian kathak dancer) and Sin Cha Hong
Images by Tennessee Rice Dixon
Lighting by Tony Giovannetti
Multi-media Interactive Design by Alex Noyes
"Virtuoso Jin Hi Kim promises thoughtful, shimmering East-West amalgams in combinations that are both new and unlikely to be repeated." -Peter Watrous, The New York Times
Western technology meets Eastern mythology in Dong Dong Touching the Moons, a collaboration between Korean, Indian, and U.S. artists working in the fields of music, dance, and multimedia. Dong Dong Touching the Moons weaves and juxtaposes traditional Asian dance and musical forms with cutting-edge technology to create a truly cross-cultural work both in form and subject. It celebrates the eastern concept of the moon as a female force that counterbalances the male energy of the sun while commemorating Western science's on-going exploration of the solar system as the "last great frontier." Jin Hi Kim's newly developed electric komungo (Korean 4th century fretted-board Zither), electric changgo drum, Korean court-style kagok lyric singing, and Indian tabla drumming combine with digital music technology. Dancers interact with the music, wearing wireless velocity-sensitive MIDI-triggers that activate animations and digital imagery of outer space, planetary movement, and solar systems.
Dong Dong Touching the Moons was commissioned by The Kitchen with major support from the National Endowment for the Arts in a consortium with MASS MoCA. Leadership support has been provided by the Inroads Program of Arts International, a division of the Institute of International Education. Inroads is made possible through the Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts initiative of the Ford Foundation.
Don't miss Digital H@ppy Hour with
Rhizome.org
May 11 [Thu] 6pm (doors open at 5:30pm) $8
Ann Carlson
Night Light
May 17-20 [Wed-Sat] & 24-27 [Wed-Sat]
Departure: 8:30pm Call for location (212-255-5793)
Lighting design by Linnea Tillet and Tony Giovannetti
Costume design and construction by LARUE
In Night Light, a large-scale site-specific performance work, award-winning choreographer Ann Carlson takes over Chelsea, turning it into a living stage. In the tradition of tableau vivant, live performers re-create archival photos in the exact spots where the photos were originally taken. History collides with contemporary life as a farmer goes to market with her pig in what is now a gallery and a woman sells newspapers from 1895 on the corner where commuters get cash from the ATM. Seen in the context of a walking tour, area residents will lead the audience through back alleys, churches, gardens, apartments and street corners to view these three dimensional photos. Night Light concludes at the Kitchen where the final tableau comes to life.
Major support for Night Light is provided by the OnSite Performance Network, a program of Dancing in the Streets. The OnSite Performance Network is supported by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Thought Music 
class
May 19 & 20 [Fri & Sat] 8pm $12
With Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, and Robbie McCauley.
class is a new piece by Thought Music, an interdisciplinary performance trio composed of performance artists/writers Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, and Robbie McCauley. Three survivors of the cultural wars confront issues of class, race, and multi-culturalism with sharp and funny glances. From New York City's Lower East Side to the Philippines to the deep South of the U.S., class unravels the insidious workings of censorship while weaving the blues, motherhood, and watermelon with intimate reflections of global "blah blah."
Dance
in Progress
May 24-27 [Wed-Sat] 8pm $12
Talal Al-Muhanna, Andrea Klein, Meg Wolfe, tba.
Works-in-progress by four choreographers new to The Kitchen. This evening is a culmination of a two-month process, sharing information, receiving feedback, and creating work.
Partial support for the Dance in Progress series is provided by The Greenwall Foundation.
John Jasperse Company 
May 31 & June 1-3 [Wed-Sat] 8pm $15
June 1: Post-performance discussion
"A perpetual extravaganza of self-display, tinged with morbidity and instinctively sensual."-Tobi Tobias, The Village Voice
Choreographer John Jasperse returns to The Kitchen to premiere a new work and perform his critically acclaimed Excessories. A collaboration with composer James Lo, Excessories is about styles of dressing and movement, and how we define ourselves in relation to the beautiful and the ugly, the appropriate and the outrageous. Mixing contrasting movement styles through a stylistic parade of shifting identities, the work challenges both the presumptions made about these identities and the idea of the natural self. In addition to several prestigious prizes in the U.S. and Europe, Jasperse was recently awarded the Doris Duke Award in recognition for his choreographic achievement.
The creation of the new work was made possible, in part, with funds from The Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, MN, The Greenwall Foundation, Heathcote Foundation and the Danspace Project's 1999-2000. Commissioning Initiative (as part of the International Dancemakers' Lab) with support from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.