KITKA’s adventurous new vocal-theater project The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between the Worlds premiered to packed houses and overwhelming response last month in Oakland, California. Our work with composer/performance artist Mariana Sadovska, and stage director Ellen Sebastian Chang challenged and stretched us into some very exciting new forms of creative expression, and we, as artists have been deeply transformed by this experience. KITKA is now seeking resources that will enable us to release a CD recording of the music from The Rusalka Cycle (featuring KITKA with cellists Moses Sedler and Elaine Kreston and percussionist Kevin Mummey) and to remount and tour the production in San Francisco in 2006 and beyond.

Special thanks to Terry Lamb of Listen for Life for providing these production shots of The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between the Worlds. Listen for Life is in the process of producing a video documenting the creation of The Rusalka Cycle. For updates on this and other Listen for Life projects, visit www.listenforlife.org.