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	Cat Radio Café
		Kate Valk, actress and founding member of The Wooster Group hosts with
		Kate Valk of The Wooster Group hosts this hour on this summer's theatre,
		Actress Kate Valk of The Wooster Group and her guests, post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew.
	www.catradiocafe.com /next_hour.html (800 words)

	Kate Valk - Wooster Group - Theater - New York Times
		Valk is grateful to have the group as her second family, one she's seen through years of turmoil.
		Valk encountered Elizabeth LeCompte, Ron Vawter and Spalding Gray of the Wooster Group and was smitten.
		Valk in two shows in the mid-1980's, said, "You had the feeling aside from her talent as an actress she was taking full responsibility for everything she touched in the play, everything that happened."
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/12/theater/newsandfeatures/12calh.html?ei=5088&en=3f72003557297f20&ex=1299819600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1149555799-o72Dyo5v5znRces8jG1NBA (986 words)

	On a Far-Away Island
		These writers are especially compelling about the ways Valk's highly stylized handling of the role of Brutus Jones unsettles the complex performance history of O'Neill's play, a role that helped to establish the career not only of Gilpin but also of Paul Robeson.
		Valk performs with a fearlessness that commands something akin to awe." On the one hand, O'Neill's stage direction registers deep suspicion of the idea that occupation by "White Marines" can provide the basis of self-determination.
		Valk's vivid red neck, too, suggests the white performers of early minstrel shows and the ways that flface emerged, to borrow Michael Rogin's phrase, out of white noise.
	www.hotreview.org /articles/onafarawayisland.htm (1055 words)

	The Emperor Jones - Review - Theater - New York Times
		Valk is speaking a whitewashed version of the text, let it be known that she articulates every "dem" and every "sho" in an uncannily precise imitation of the singsongy vocal roulades of minstrelsy.
		Valk's choreographed manipulation of the microphone she uses, and the weird, hip-shaking soft shoe infused with Kabuki-like movements she performs with Mr.
		Valk is somehow able to infuse this artfully outlandish performance with a poignant sense of entrapped humanity is remarkable.
	theater2.nytimes.com /2006/03/14/theater/reviews/14empe.html?pagewanted=all (1069 words)

	Wooster Group Review
		Valk's soft, unsteady delivery of lines directly into the microphones keeps both characters she portrays hanging on her like an ill-fitted suit.
		Valk's indirect treatment of dialogue and her quirky actions nevertheless keep the audience from identifying with either Faust or Elaine.
		Valk's padding gradually moves into unflattering positions, and late in the play the performers massage and sexually caress each other's padding as LeCompte plays on the undertones of lesbian desire in Olga's House of Shame.
	faculty.catawba.edu /wbhood/woostergroup.htm (777 words)

	Emperors and Empresses
		During the first scene, for instance, Valk sits downstage in a fur-lined roll-stool on the plain white central platform, speaking into a mic attached to a rod she wields like a scepter, the unblemished powder-fl surface of her face becoming a pictorial reference to regality that is belied by her crude and cynical speech.
		Understanding that the play was built around the melodramatic suspense of a countdown of bullets, she undermined that effect, upstaging the gunshots with wound-like pulsations on the monitors and having Valk cross nonchalantly to display her death wound, then walk off.
		Valk and Dafoe's sharply contrasting voices and demeanors were also blended with musical care and precision, with the humor of the thug-like Dafoe presented as a nimble oriental adding pivotal lightness to the heavy, brooding action.
	www.hotreview.org /articles/emperors-empresses.htm (1491 words)

	Superfluities
		Valk, a smallish very pale woman in real life, played a fl woman, and she brought a bizarre minstrelsy to the role.
		What performers like Kate Valk impersonate when they're on the stage is not a character, but soul: not a two-dimensional creation of a playwright's fervid imagination, but the rhythms of human experience that are expressed through the deliberate spoken word.
		Valk would be able to give the powerful performances that she gives in plays by writers as diverse as Gertrude Stein and Eugene O'Neill if it weren't that their languages pulse through her body, her breath and her gestures as she makes their rhetoric her own.
	ghunka.blogspot.com (4100 words)

	House/LightsA CurtainUp Off-Off-Broadwayreview,
		When Elaine (also portrayed by Valk -- the parallels should be kicking in by now) is captured after running away from being tortured for double-crossing Olga, the two women make a deal.
		A remarkably engaging Kate Valk sits on a rolling stool, front and center, with microphones, a video monitor and a fixed camera shooting unfixed images in front of her.
		Somehow, Valk is able to convey the sense of the hysteria surrounding her, milking it for its wit and never losing its tongue-in-cheek passion.
	www.curtainup.com /houselig.html (942 words)

	Talking with Kate Valk - Arts - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Her command of the dramatic gesture, her control of vocal intonation combined with surprising outbursts of sound and motion, and the speed with which she shifts mood and character astound.
		It's chaotic and giddy, and features Valk spinning around while pulling a tie tightly around her neck, trying to make herself faint (as Tituba does in The Crucible).
		Finally, Valk becomes a Cuban/Mexican dancer (wearing a sombrero and a painted-on mustachio) while other performers recite portions of a debate between G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary, culminating in a member of the debate's audience describing how he was shot in the face with a shotgun by someone tripping on LSD.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5601 (1080 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Kate Valk by David Salle and Sarah French
		Kate Valk, after 29 years of performing with the Wooster Group, is the exemplary artist in this regard.
		In this interview Valk explains how the Wooster Group turns the pleasures of mimesis into a kind of feedback system that yields an unprecedented working space for the performer and memorable theater for the audience.
		Kate, that was great.” I heard other people get that.
	www.bombsitebeta.com /issues/100/articles/2920 (3863 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Home Page
		In her 1998 BOMB interview by Jessica Hagedorn, the two discuss ordinary objects, domestic novels and what it means to be feminist.
		Kate Valk by David Salle and Sarah French
		National treasure Kate Valk, on her acting life with the famed Wooster Group, their interpretation of
	www.bombsite.com (398 words)

	THE WOOSTER GROUP - Arts in Education
		Directed by Group member Kate Valk and conducted by Ariana Smart Truman, students work with a number of guest artists — actors, musicians, dancers, technicians — on theater games and exercises.
		During the first two weeks, each day includes a session led by a guest artist in addition to regular movement training.
		Each school year Wooster Group members and associates, led by Kate Valk, work with a variety of classes (ESL, social studies, drama) to develop games and exercises that interface with class curriculum and culminate in a final performance or video project.
	www.thewoostergroup.org /twg/artsed.html (254 words)

	Talking with Kate Valk - Arts - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Her command of the dramatic gesture, her control of vocal intonation combined with surprising outbursts of sound and motion, and the speed with which she shifts mood and character astound.
		It's chaotic and giddy, and features Valk spinning around while pulling a tie tightly around her neck, trying to make herself faint (as Tituba does in The Crucible).
		Finally, Valk becomes a Cuban/Mexican dancer (wearing a sombrero and a painted-on mustachio) while other performers recite portions of a debate between G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary, culminating in a member of the debate's audience describing how he was shot in the face with a shotgun by someone tripping on LSD.
	thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5601 (1126 words)

	zingmagazine 9 \| The Reactions \|The Reviews \| The Reactions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We listen to the incantation tone in Kate Valk's delivery as if it were the echo of our own ramblings.] (Outside mirroring inside.) Gertrude Stein planned this set up very carefully.
		In the performance notes we find an excerpt of her musing on play: your emotion concerning the play is always either behind or ahead of the play at which you are looking and to which you are listening.
		Valk, of course, is on top of her game.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing9/reviews/woostergroup.html (1316 words)

	Amazon.com: "Kate Valk": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kate Valk: When we started working on Route 1 & 9, it was just Our Town, reading Our Town, and 1 was...
		John Russell Brown Cross-Dressed Actors and their Audiences: Kate Valk's Emperor Jones and William Shakespeare's Juliet Male cross-dressing in leading female roles in the Elizabethan theatre has, at different extremes...
		Two women (Kate Valk and Peyton Smith), also wearing flface makeup and employing broad "ghetto" accents, entered the frame house and began telephoning fried...
	amazon.com /phrase/Kate-Valk (483 words)

	Strange-New Familiar Waters: The Wooster Group sails again with North Atlantic. Feature on TheaterMania.com
		Washington State-born Valk, who came to the big city to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, began working with LeCompte and Dafoe in 1979, and has performed in and/or co-composed every project since then.
		Valk is also the company dramaturg, and she won an Obie for Sustained Excellence in 1998.
		Kate Valk and Willem Defoe inThe Emperor Jones.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/215 (907 words)

	Alex Katz \| Artists \| USF Graphicstudio \| Institute for Research in Art
		In Kate, Alex Katz explores the cyanotype technique, a printmaking process first invented in 1841 and commonly used for architectural blueprint drawings.
		Outlined in vivid blue, the portrait is a bleed, where the print image is extended to the edges of the paper.
		Kate is a portrait of the American born actress Kate Valk, known for her title role Brutus Jones in the Wooster Group's acclaimed production "The Emperor Jones" by Eugene O'Neill.
	ira.usf.edu /GS/artists/katz_alex/katz.html (465 words)

	Emperor Jones&Again
		Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos in "The Emperor Jones.
		Kate Valk reprises the role of Brutus Jones, the fl railroad porter who has escaped from prison and landed on a West Indian island where he has exploited the natives and installed himself as emperor.
		The question is what does it do for the average theatergoer who just wants to be entertained and enlightened.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /ps06034t.htm (445 words)

	bloggy: "The Next Hour" on WBAI
		James and I ran into Kate Valk of The Wooster Group at the Isidro Blasco opening at DKCT Contemporary last Saturday.
		The recording times are a a little off, so skip about 2 minutes and 50 seconds to get to the beginning.
		You can see Kate, one of the most brilliant performers I have ever seen, in The Wooster Group's "Hamlet" in DUMBO at St.
	bloggy.com /mt/archives/006004.html (197 words)

	Absolutely potty \| Arts critics \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Kate Valk's Phèdre is a fashion victim who is so weak that she is wheeled about on a large potty and administered regular enemas.
		The group's founder and director, Elizabeth LeCompte, recalls how she initially felt no affinity with the text written by the late Paul Schmidt, a Wooster Group associate, calling it "bad Catholic melodrama" - even though her colleague Valk was attracted by Schmidt's translation because "it read like the lyrics to a pop song".
		But Kate wanted to play the queen and because it was her I trusted that there was something there.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/feature/0,1169,728538,00.html (821 words)

	offoffonline Reviews
		Her high-pitched vocal undulations and coal-hued flface are startling reminders that, from start to finish, this can still be a challenging, confrontational piece of theater.
		Casting Valk, Le Compte has daringly violated a fundamental Jim Crow rule by pairing a white woman with a fl man; as we stare at Valk-as-Jones, the discomfort of this pairing is always with us.
		The tech crew is constantly in full view, and Valk and Fliakos speak into microphones that amplify their voices over syncopated bass notes and electro-clash noise.
	www.offoffonline.com /archiveprinterfriendly.php?id=667 (694 words)

	THEATER; High-Risk Irony Goes in Search of Its Time - New York Times
		To be sure, Willem Dafoe and Kate Valk -- longtime members of the company -- are onstage, along with Steve Buscemi, a veteran of two Wooster Group productions, ''L.S.D. Just the High Points.
		Like members of a family pitching in at a reunion, many artists collaborate on the stagings: Peter Sellars is on the board; Jennifer Tipton worked on the lighting of ''North Atlantic'' and other productions; Trisha Brown choreographed a segment of ''House/Lights''; a clutch of downtown musicians, including Arto Lindsay, contribute music.
		Last year, Kate Valk played the title role in Eugene O'Neill's ''Emperor Jones'' wearing flface and a Kabuki costume and speaking into a microphone.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E4D91539F937A15753C1A96F958260&sec=&pagewanted=print (1614 words)

	Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: A RAVE FOR "EMPEROR JONES" AT ST. ANN'S WAREHOUSE
		A rave in the New York Times about Kate Valk and the Wooster Group's "Emperor Jones"at St. Ann's Warehouse.
		Valk's aspect is the thick, oily fl makeup covering her entire face.
		Valk is playing the title role, Brutus Jones, a venal fl train porter turned despot, in O'Neill's hypnotic play about the destructive impact of history on the shaping of personality.
	onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com /only_the_blog_knows_brook/2006/03/a_rave_for_empe.html (490 words)

	DUMBO Brooklyn: PULLING OUT OF THE GARAGE FOR A VISIT TO BROOKLYN
		In December, for example, the world premiere of the troupe''s latest show, an adaptation of Racine''s "Phedre" entitled "To You, the Birdie!" starring Kate Valk, Frances McDormand and Mr.
		In 1993, the Wooster Group did a reading of the play, but decided to wait before producing a full version, while other projects were developed.
		Valk was working on a radio play titled "The Peggy Carstairs Report," drawn from dozens of recordings of conversations and confessions, sometimes taped secretly, she said, that she had made during the runs of Wooster Group shows over the years.
	www.dumbo-newyork.com /index.cfm?objectid=7795945E-3048-7098-AF81A0F0AEE75475&navid=99BD9286-3048-7098-AFAF4C9EB5F1B4D7 (1515 words)

	Cat Radio Café
		Kate Valk, actress and founding member of The Wooster Group hosts with
		Kate Valk of The Wooster Group hosts this hour on this summer's theatre,
		Actress Kate Valk of The Wooster Group and her guests, post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew.
	catradiocafe.com /next_hour.html (800 words)

	Experimental Theatre Wing
		Leif Tilden '87: Hamletmachine, directed by Robert Wilson; Waiting For Godot at Mark Taper/LA, directed by Joe Chaikin; film and television work includes the role of "Donotello" in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle films, and a starring role on Dinosaurs.
		Kate Valk '81: Core member of the Wooster Group.
		Kate Whoriskey '92: Associate Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse.
	www.nyu.edu /tisch/drama/etw/alumni.html (368 words)

	Argosarts.org - distribution
		The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, since the mid-seventies, have collaborated on the development and production of theatre and media pieces.
		The Group's founding members are: Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray (1941-2004), Elizabeth LeCompte, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk and Ron Vawter (1948-1994), and its current associates include Ken Kobland, Frances McDormand or Steve Buscemi.
		The Wooster Group productions are composed by the Group under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte.
	www.argosarts.org /catalogue.do?bio=40 (340 words)

	Playbill News: Bogosian, Holman, Reno, Valk to Read Work of Spalding Gray at Barnes & Noble May 4
		Bogosian, Holman, Reno, Valk to Read Work of Spalding Gray at Barnes & Noble May 4
		Eric Bogosian, Bob Holman, Reno, Roger Rosenblatt and Kate Valk—all colleagues and friends of the late Spalding Gray—will read from Gray's work 7PM May 4 at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York.
		The event coincides with the TCG re-release of Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia, perhaps the monologuist's most famous work.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/92516.html (524 words)

	De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum
		Deze nam hem mee naar het Trippen huis' en hij liet hem daar o.m de 'Transfiguratie' kopiëren.
		Op instigatie van Israëls kwam hij in 1870 op het atelier van Greive, waar hij als studiegenoten Jan van Essen, M.I. de Haan, C. Metselaar en Jan ten Kate had.
		Met Jan van Essen schijnt hij het best bevriend te zijn gebleven.
	www.devalk.com /kunstenaars/kever/kever.html (1179 words)

	"house/lights" -- the wooster group at theater2k.com
		It is the riveting presence of Kate Valk as Faustus that holds down the center in this whirling ballet of characters, Olga's gang as well as Stein's: the dog (who says "thank you"), the boy and girl (and their doubles), the man from across the seas, and of course Mephistopheles.
		Between Valk's exquisite precision and Roche's louche appetites, driver and passenger cross the borders of the boundaries of identity, rolling along past fields of melodrama on the highway cadences of Stein's incisive poetry/prose.
		Incandescence -- the true light of personality -- is illuminated here, trapped in two or more time frames and cultural references and considered through the fractured prism of the Wooster Group's trademark mises en scene.
	www.theater2k.com /House_Slote_030705.html (486 words)

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