Robert Wilson Benefit for The Kitchen
The Kitchen
Executive Director Lauren Amazeen and the Board of Directors of The
Kitchen are proud to present:
A Gala Evening with
R O B E R T W I L S O N
knee plays and other acts
THE INTERNATIONAL THEATER DIRECTOR RETURNS TO NEW YORK FROM PARIS TO
PRESIDE OVER AN INTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF HIS WORK, AUCTION AND DINNER TO
BENEFIT THE KITCHEN
Performance Will Feature the Work of Alvin Lucier, John Cale, David
Soldier and Neil Greenberg
Kitty Carlisle Hart, Sydney & Frances Lewis, Arthur Gelb and Harvey
Lichtenstein to Serve as Honorary Chairs; Philip Glass and Jennifer
Bartlett to Serve as Co-Chairs
Date: Sunday, March 5, 1995, 6pm
Hudson Theater, Hotel Macklowe
145 West 44th Street
New York City
Marking the culmination of a profound period of transformation for The
Kitchen, international theater director and artist Robert Wilson will
return to New York from Paris to host an intimate performance of selected
excerpts of his work, and the work of invited guest artists, followed by a
gala reception, dinner and auction. Serving as Honorary Chairs for the
evening are Kitty Carlisle Hart, Chairwoman of the New York State Council
on the Arts; Sydney & Frances Lewis, noted patrons and Board members of
The Kitchen; Arthur Gelb, President of The New York Times Company
Foundation; and Harvey Lichtenstein, President of the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. Composer Philip Glass and artist Jennifer Bartlett, both members
of the Board of Directors of The Kitchen, will serve as Co-Chairs.
All proceeds will benefit The Kitchen.
Robert Wilson, recently presented with the Premio Abbiati 1994,
Italy's most prestigious musical theater award, will present a selection
of "knee plays," the result of a collaboration with composer Alvin
Lucier, created in the summer of 1994 at Mr. Wilson's Watermill Center
complex. The original collaborative process, which included the
participation of the actor Keith McDermott, were based on three visual
categories: Portraits, Still Lives and Landscapes. The highly focused,
super-real knee plays will be punctuated by two additional performances:
a musical collaboration between David Soldier and John Cale, and excerpts
from choreogrpaher Neil Greenberg's Not-About-AIDS-Dance which premiered
at The Kitchen this past season. The New York Times cited this work as
one of the best of 1994. Following the performance, which will run
approximately one hour in length, benefit guests will attend a cocktail
reception framing the visionary Avant-Auction : one-of-a-kind items
imagined, collected and donated by The KitchenUs singular community of
artists, thinkers, patrons and friends. From the reception, guests
attending the gala will return to the orchestra floor for dinner, remarks
and the culmination of the auction to be administered with the
participation of Christie's Auction House.
Items for auction include a private holiday at Sydney and Frances
Lewis's oceanfront Virginia Beach house; two floor-level tickets for each
of three opening night concerts at the I.M. Pei-designed Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame; lunch with Robert Wilson and a private tour of his Watermill Center
complex; lunch and a tour of Paris through the eyes of designer Andree
Putman; a personalized lullaby or song of celebration written and
performed by Meredith Monk; lunch with Ross Bleckner and a personal tour
of his upcoming exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum; a rehearsal along
side Philip Glass conducting the New York Choral Society at Carnegie
Hall; a personal portrait by Laurie Anderson in a range of possible
mediums; Elsewhere and Nowhere (1992), a pair of color silk screens by
Peter Halley; and other items contributed by Timothy Greenfield Sanders,
Robert Gober, Hermand Ilya Kabakov. This list is in formation.
An auction preview reception will
take place March 2, 6 - 8pm at Brooke Alexander Gallery, 59 Wooster
Street in SoHo. Auction items will be on view at Brooke Alexander
Gallery February 28 - March 4. Silent bids may be placed at this public
preview.
This rare event serves not only as a vital source of support but
also as confirmation of The Kitchen's role as an important birthplace of
culture, and as an irreplaceable cultural institution of New York City
and on the global stage.
In a substantive demonstration of recognition of The Kitchen's
contributions to the arts, dozens of New York's most prominent citizens
have joined a distinguished list of supporters at the request of Paula
Cooper, the pioneering SoHo gallery owner who serves as Chair of the
Board of Directors of The Kitchen.
Further information, including ticket prices, is available on The Kitchen's
Web page located at Http://www.panix.com/kitchen
