Scaffold Room

The multimedia theater-dance Scaffold Room by Ralph Lemon was made in collaboration with April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Taylor and Philip White—electric performers and thinkers who help Lemon investigate the representation of black women in popular culture—drawing on such diverse sources as Moms Mabley and Samuel R. Delany. Elements of the piece, including "refractions" by Lemon and readings from luminaries like Yvonne Rainer and Miguel Gutierrez, will be on view in various Kitchen spaces, but the more formal performance-presentation takes place at night at 8pm (Nov 3–10) in the downstairs theater.