Feb 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) The 25th Frame featuring Alex Escalante at The Kitchen - New York, NY $10.00 - $12.00

In his newest work, choreographer Alex Escalante draws inspiration from propaganda techniques found in advertising, politics, and public relations for his investigation of the persuasive nature of language and its effects on the human body and its psyche. Escalante and his performers explore these themes by internalizing the highly-crafted architecture of political speech, the song-like vibrations of live auctioneering, and the sinister peppiness of advertising jargon. With a live musical score composed by Jon Moniaci and performed by Nancy Garcia, Moniaci, and Escalante, The 25th Frame takes a critical look at the way in which language stimulates and influences the collective unconscious.

Feb 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) The 25th Frame featuring Alex Escalante at The Kitchen - New York, NY $10.00 - $12.00

In his newest work, choreographer Alex Escalante draws inspiration from propaganda techniques found in advertising, politics, and public relations for his investigation of the persuasive nature of language and its effects on the human body and its psyche. Escalante and his performers explore these themes by internalizing the highly-crafted architecture of political speech, the song-like vibrations of live auctioneering, and the sinister peppiness of advertising jargon. With a live musical score composed by Jon Moniaci and performed by Nancy Garcia, Moniaci, and Escalante, The 25th Frame takes a critical look at the way in which language stimulates and influences the collective unconscious.

Feb 20, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) The 25th Frame featuring Alex Escalante at The Kitchen - New York, NY $10.00 - $12.00

In his newest work, choreographer Alex Escalante draws inspiration from propaganda techniques found in advertising, politics, and public relations for his investigation of the persuasive nature of language and its effects on the human body and its psyche. Escalante and his performers explore these themes by internalizing the highly-crafted architecture of political speech, the song-like vibrations of live auctioneering, and the sinister peppiness of advertising jargon. With a live musical score composed by Jon Moniaci and performed by Nancy Garcia, Moniaci, and Escalante, The 25th Frame takes a critical look at the way in which language stimulates and influences the collective unconscious.

Mar 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 6, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM EST (4:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 13, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST (7:45 PM DOORS) Big Eater featuring David Neumann at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage in his newest work BIG EATER. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena. Neumann grounds this experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia?s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980?s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet, and the end of the world. BIG EATER is a multi-disciplinary dance-based work for the performers Natalie Agee, Andrew Dinwiddie, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Weena Pauly and Will Rawls. With video by Richard Sylvarnes, lighting design by Dave Moodey, projections by Bryna Lieberman, costumes by Kaye Voyce and original music by Tony award winning composer Stew.

Mar 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT Doveman + Peter Pears : An Evening With Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

In this evening of new music, pianist/composer/singer Thomas Bartlett brings together two of his ongoing collaborative projects. First Bartlett will perform with Nico Muhly as their duo project, Peter Pears, including collaborative compositions and two-piano performances of Colin McPhee's gamelan transcriptions. Then Bartlett performs material from the recently released Doveman album, The Conformist. With a sound that is both haunting and inspiring, Doveman is Bartlett and an ensemble made up of a select group of frequent collaborators including Muhly, Sam Amidon, and others.

Mar 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT Doveman + Peter Pears : An Evening With Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

In this evening of new music, pianist/composer/singer Thomas Bartlett brings together two of his ongoing collaborative projects. First Bartlett will perform with Nico Muhly as their duo project, Peter Pears, including collaborative compositions and two-piano performances of Colin McPhee's gamelan transcriptions. Then Bartlett performs material from the recently released Doveman album, The Conformist. With a sound that is both haunting and inspiring, Doveman is Bartlett and an ensemble made up of a select group of frequent collaborators including Muhly, Sam Amidon, and others.

Apr 1, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 AM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Apr 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 PM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Apr 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 PM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Apr 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 AM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Apr 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 PM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

Apr 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT (7:45 PM DOORS) Bellona, Destroyer of Cities featuring Jay Scheib at The Kitchen - New York, NY $12.00 - $15.00

Following the critically acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of Jay Scheib's performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, The Kitchen presents the world premiere of part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, a new theater work based on Samuel R. Delany?s celebrated science fiction novel Dhalgren. Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities draws on the labyrinthine world imagined by Delany to express the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today. Featuring performances by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, William Nadylam, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo; Scenic Design by Peter Ksander; Costume Design by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Catherine McCurry; Lighting Design by Miranda k. Hardy; Video and Photography by Carrie Mae Weems and Jay Scheib; Assistant Director: Laine Rettmer; Tour Producer: ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann; Produced by Tanya Selvaratnam; Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib