La Mama to Present COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #133 JOHN KELLY

LA MAMA presents COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #133 "JOHN KELLY" -- Saturday March 26, 2016 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm?-- Located at, La MaMa, Downstairs (66 East 4th Street, NYC). JOHN KELLY, a World Renowned performance artist returns to La Mama for this one-night engagement to Present new material, present past works and discuss his performance and visual artist practices with a pnalen comprised of Morgan Jenness, Kyle DeCamp, John Jesurun, Kevin Maloney, Nicky Paraiso.

COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES - is an educational performance series exploring the history and development of Off-Off Broadway; part artist portrait, part creative event, part history lesson, and part community forum; the Series features Direction by Michal Gamily and Educational Outreach by Arthur Adair.

ABOUT THE EVENT

COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #133 "JOHN KELLY"

Saturday March 26, 2016 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm // FREE ADMISSION

Reservations & Info: http://lamama.org/talkingband/?

212.475.7710 // 646.430.5374

COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #133 "JOHN KELLY" features live performances, archival material and panelists Kyle DeCamp, John Jesurun, Kevin Maloney, Nicky Paraiso.

John Kelly's performance works range in scale from solo to large ensemble and stem from autobiographical, cultural, and political issues. Subjects have included the Berlin Wall, the Troubadours, the AIDS epidemic, Expressionistic Film, and character studies based on Egon Schiele, Caravaggio, Antonin Artaud, Joni Mitchell, and Jean Cocteau. Kelly has received 2 Bessie Awards; 2 OBIE Awards; 2 NEA American Masterpiece Awards; an American Choreographer Award; a CalArts/ Alpert Award in Dance/Performance; a Visual AIDS Vanguard Award; and he is the recipient of the 2010 Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Kelly has recently reconstructed his 1990 OBIE Award winning Love of a Poet (a staging of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe song cycle), and is currently working on a 4 channel video installation Escape Artist Redux, his first solo recording Beauty Kills Me (set for a fall 2016 release), and Time No Line, a new performance work based on 40 years of handwritten journals.

Lucy Sexton works in dance, theatre and film. Beginning in the 1980s, she and Anne Lobst created, performed and toured with the seminal dance-performance group DANCENOISE; their work was featured in a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in July 2015. She also performs as The Factress, often in collaboration with Nurse Baby Asparagus, aka Mike Iveson. With Kathie Russo, she developed and directed the OBIE-Award winning Spalding Gray, Stories Left to Tell at The Minetta Lane Theater, and directed Tom Murrins's Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic at PS 122. Sexton has produced 2 documentaries, Charles Atlas's The Legend of Leigh Bowery for the BBC and Arte, and Turning with Antony and the Johnsons. She is currently the Executive Director of the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies.