robbinschilds: GO CAMPING @ The Kitchen

Photo by A.L. Steiner

robbinschilds: Sonya & Layla Go Camping

May 28-30, 2009 at The Kitchen

Curated by Matthew Lyons

In this new commissioned work, incorporating live performance and video, the performance duo robbinschilds (Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs) uses prosaic repetition as a springboard into a playful exploration of craft in relation to choreography and (intelligent?) design.  Taking Inspiration from Jacques Rivette’s 1974 film Celine and Julie Go Boating, the performance investigates natural versus staged states of being, the fluid nature of perception, and the interplay between viewing and participating.  Conceived and directed by robbinschilds.  Performed and choreographed by Rebecca Brooks, Layla Childs, Michael Helland, Sonya Robbins, Colin Stilwell, and Sarah White.  Lighting design by Carrie Woods.  Cinematography by A.L. Steiner, Robin Placet, and Raphael Wertheimer.  Video editing by Hedia Maron.

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Big Art Group: SOS @ The Kitchen

THE KITCHEN (NYC)

March 19-21 & 26-28, 2009 at 8pm

The always-provocative New York ensemble has won an international reputation for pushing the limits of performance and video art by lacing its original hall-of-mirrors multimedia stagecraft with flurries of livewire choreographed action. Its latest opus, SOS,  jumps off from the prima themes of The Rite of Spring to stage their own contemporary rite of rebirth through a panoptic live video installation. SOS is an investigation into the nature of sacrifice within a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society. Set in a theatrical space that plays with the idea of representation, where the cables and cameras of surveillance appear as a forest of technology, the performance unwinds through overlapping abstract narratives. Animals (played by actors in plushy costumes and body mounted cameras) pushed from their native habitat turn on each other in a hopeless contest for survival. Televised Trans-Variant Revolutionaries from the Realness Liberation Front broadcasting in a skeletal studio implode under the pressure and failure of their own rhetoric. Social networking addicts enmeshed in a self-created universe seek escape from a tightening web of perception. As these scenarios vibrate against one another, the action transforms into a celebration of renewal though chaos.

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“The theatre of images for the new century is born: rapid, without concessions, violent and consuming itself at 100 miles an hour.” Le Télégramme (Brest)

“As challenging as it is original, as freaked out as it is dazzling, far beyond traditional schemas and classical conceptions.” Midi Libre (Montpellier)

CREATION HISTORY:
2008
Wiener Festwochen/Halle G im MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, Austria)
Theatre Garrone (Toulouse, France)

Touring 2009
Temps d’Image Festival/Usine C (Montreal, Canada)
The Kitchen (NYC, USA)
REDCAT (Los Angeles, USA)
Yurba Buena Arts Center (San Fransisco, USA)

RoseAnne Spradlin: BLUE LIZ @ The Kitchen

RoseAnne Spradlin’s newest work, Blue Liz, premiers at The Kitchen in New York City, October 23-25, 2008.  Performances are at 8pm on Thursday, 8pm and 10pm on Friday and 8pm on Saturday.

Blue Liz samples imagery, text, and sound from the 1960′s to evoke the decade’s wartime mindset and the emergence of a pop/minimalist aesthetic in the arts.  Incorporating ten performers, multiple locations and pre-recorded and live video elements, Blue Liz questions what can be redeemed and what has been lost from the 1960′s, a critical decade in American and world culture.  Spradlin works with composer Chris Forsyth, who performs live, and performers Natalie Green, Michael Helland, Colin Stilwell, Sandy Tillett and Rebecca Wender.  Lighting design is by Joe Levasseur.

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