Performance
The Dances of the Slavic Goddesses
Artist Paulina Olowska collaborated with choreographer Katy Pyle to create a suite of solo dances based a 1918 series of prints depicting Slavic deities.
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A Play About Metalheads and Metal Hearts
La Mélancolie des dragons is a magical play from director Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio about a crew of inventive metalheads.
Art
Police Brutality and the Possibilities of Evil
Sondra Perry’s solo show at the Kitchen is more than an installation about the institutionally sanctioned killing of black people; it's about how we frame and understand that reality.
Performance
Conceptual Dance Lite: Jérôme Bel's Elemental Choreography
For more than twenty years, the French choreographer has pioneered a kind of dance that highlights the biography and particularity of the performer.
Art
Nowhere to Go in a Desert of Images
In Xaviera Simmon’s CODED exhibition, now on view at The Kitchen, there are a lot of intersections between the human, sexualized (and colored) body, and wide, visually monotonous land- and seascapes.
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A Splintered and Sung Exploration of Black Women's Identities
The title of writer-dancer-artist-choreographer Ralph Lemon's new production, Scaffold Room, describes equally well the contraption on and around which it's staged and the way the piece is structured.
Performance
A Dance About Capitalism Falls Prey to Its Machinations
Early in koosil-ja’s new show I Am Capitalism, which ran at The Kitchen last week, she spoke through recorded voice-overs of a desire to acquire dances.
Performance
Bar Exam: Richard Maxwell's 'The Evening'
The signature style of Richard Maxwell — a playwright and director who has received awards and fellowships from practically every major theater foundation, and whose rehearsals were presented as a work of art in the 2012 Whitney Biennial — works well in his latest piece, The Evening.
Performance
A Live Documentary Measures Humanity by Its Extremes
In his newest live documentary, The Measure of All Things, filmmaker Sam Green ponders why we're obsessed with the extremes of accomplishment, no matter how obscure or mundane they actually are.
Performance
An Abolitionist's Work, in Present Tense
John Brown is so much more than historical matter or biographical trope in Moss's world; he is an ideological framework, able to produce a compelling, albeit densely layered, performance work.
Art
A Concussive Experiment in Metal Noise
Jamie Stewart, of the band Xiu Xiu, describes how he and artist Danh Vō started to collaborate as "amorphous," with Vō having incorporated some of Stewart's lyrics from "Fabulous Muscles" into his visual art.
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Broadcast Muse: Liz Magic Laser's Bystander
The script for "Bystander," Liz Magic Laser’s performance at The Kitchen, consists principally of two types of statements about current events — the personal and the reportorial.