NOTE: Bernard Lumpkin and Collette Blanchard invite you to join us for cocktails at Collette Blanchard Gallery immediately following the performances at the Kitchen TONIGHT.

Please RSVP at gallery@colletteblanchard.com
The Kitchen presents
Derrick Adams: Go Stand Next To The Mountain
Narcissister: This Masquerade

Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15 New York, NY at 8-10PM
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-5793
http://www.thekitchen.org/

The Kitchen presents Derrick Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain and Narcissister's This Masquerade
Double bill will be performed Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15

New York, NY, May 10, 2010-On Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15, The Kitchen presents a double bill in which Derrick Adams and Narcissister will premiere new works. Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain is a suite of live performances exploring the complex relationships between man and monuments. Known for wildly original performance vignettes dealing with race, gender and sexuality, Narcissister debuts her new piece, This Masquerade. Curated by Rashida Bumbray, performances will begin at 8:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street). Tickets are $10.

Visual and performance artist Derrick Adams' Go Stand Next To The Mountain will evolve through masquerade, dance, sound, video projection and sculptural installation. The piece incorporates divergent pop culture references, ranging from 1970s educational television to the original version of the film Clash of the Titans to Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child lyrics. Go Stand Next To The Mountain features an original music score and a live DJ set as the soundtrack.

Narcissister creates absurd and playful vignettes of neo-burlesque, utilizing an array of masks, props, choreography and costumes. For This Masquerade, she debuts a new series of performances alongside her cast of masked cohorts to offer up a complex and riotous critique of popular culture's spurious ideas about black femininity. The piece also features original music by Evan Collier.

For more info on me visit my official website
www.rickyday.net