REDCAT Announces Their Winter/Spring 2010 Season
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 15, 2009
Performing arts projects from Chile, Brazil, and Japan are among dozens of new events added to the 2010 schedule at REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), which also announced today that the cast for the touring production North Atlantic, by New York's famed The Wooster Group, will feature Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand and Emmy-nominated ER Alum Maura Tierney. "Influential artistic voices from more than 30 countries ignite our theater, gallery and lounge this spring, making their singular contributions to the evolution of contemporary visual, performing and media arts," announces Mark Murphy, Executive Director of REDCAT.
Murphy continues, "Building upon CalArts' 40-year legacy of artistic risktaking and exploration, we are proud to offer Los Angeles audiences and artists even more opportunities to be moved and engaged by the innovative and forward-thinking artists who are making REDCAT their laboratory and home in 2010. With attendance up more than 25% so far this programming year and thanks to the support of our patrons and sponsors, we will continue to keep ticket prices low and invite you to join us for the adventure."
REDCAT's 2010 Winter/Spring programming boosts new and familiar faces. Among the familiar are New York's provocative multimedia ensemble The Wooster Group, who return to REDCAT this February with North Atlantic, a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture. The Los Angeles premiere of this Cold War classic, that brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance, is directed by Elizabeth Le Compte and features Ari Fliakos, Frances McDormand, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and special guest artists Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern, and Maura Tierney.
Other familiar faces returning to REDCAT include former New Original Works Festival (NOW) artist and Los Angeles-based choreographer Lionel Popkin who's bringing to REDCAT his funny, uncanny and disquieting There is An Elephant in This Dance after its premiere last May in New York. NOW Festival audiences will also remember an earlier version of choreographer Rosanna Gamson/World Wide's Tov. This March, Gamson's Tov--an evocative dance drama around the story of an extinct species of Eurasian wild horse that was genetically "reassembled" in the 1930s through back-breeding of domestic horses and the fate of Polish Jewry--is fully-realized and has its world premiere at REDCAT.
New comers to REDCAT include: Brazil's cultural phenomenon Grupo de Rua opening a new physics-defying chapter in their ongoing project to reinvent hip-hop by deconstructing contemporary dance clichés while at the same time incorporating krumping, popping and breakdance; internationally renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio who visits REDCAT to speak about what we now know about the emotions and the conscious mind, particularly as both relate to creativity and the arts; and legendary vocalist Michiko Hirayama making her first Los Angeles appearance with a must-hear performance of eccentric Italian composer and poet Giancinto Scelsi's Canti del Capricorno, the spellbinding 20-song cycle written expressly for her between 1962 and 1972.
Also on the calendar are rare and provocative film, video and animation screenings followed by post-screening discussions with the artists including James Benning, Chris Langdon, Don Levy and others. The Music Series also returns with live film scores performed by Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble, a two-night showcase dedicated to French iconoclast Gérard Grisey, and audience favorite, Partch. For the technology savvy or curious, this year's SCREAM Festival features the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, an international lineup of musicmakers, engineers and digital artists who use custom-built robotic instruments and expressive interfaces in live music performance under the direction of Ajay Kapur.
Gallery Director and Curator Clara Kim is pleased to announce that Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT's current exhibition presented in collaboration with San Francisco Art Institute, has been extended through Sunday, February 7th. Open to the public throughout the day or until intermission and always free, the Gallery at REDCAT continues its rich programming by offering its visitors the opportunity to experience a new collaboration between Park Chan-Kyong, based in Seoul, and Sean Snyder, based in Tokyo and Kyiv, who first met in Germany 10 years ago. Later in the year, a group exhibition--featuring new and recent works by Terry Chatkupt (Los Angeles), Michelle Dizon and Camilo Ontiveros (Los Angeles), Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida (New York), Adriana Lara (Mexico City), Elana Mann (Los Angeles), and RJ Messineo (St. Louis, Missouri)--explores questions of difference and legibility, charting the distance between the familiar and the foreign. Finally, Chen Chieh-jen presents a newly commissioned multimedia video installation inspired by his own difficulties in acquiring a visa to enter the United States.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. REDCAT Winter/Spring 2010, organized chronologically, follows below, while a schedule organized by genre is available for download at:
www.redcat.org/sites/redcat.org/files/WinterSpring2010_Genre.pdf
General admission tickets to all REDCAT events go on sale to the public December 15, 2010 through the box office, by phone at 213-237-2800, and online at www.redcat.org.
REDCAT WINTER/SPRING 2010Through Feb 7, 2010 | Art
Everyday Miracles (Extended)
Guest curated by Hou Hanru in collaboration with Clara Kim
Everyday Miracles (Extended) brings together works by Hamra Abbas, Ringo Bunoan, Chen Hui-Chiao, Shilpa Gupta, Kan Xuan, Minouk Lim and Jewyo Rhii, which poignantly reflect on the dynamic shifts across Asia over the last 30 years. A collaboration between the San Francisco Art Institute and REDCAT, the exhibition bridges a shared commitment to presenting diverse art practices from the Pacific Rim, mining the miraculousness of the everyday in an effort to negotiate and transcend social and political realities in China, India, Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Through Sun Feb 7 | Tues-Sun, noon-6 pm or intermission
Free
January 11, 2010 | Film/Video
James Benning: Ruhr
U.S. premiere, 2009, 121 min., HD
James Benning, one of the most fascinating figures in American independent cinema, makes his eagerly awaited entrance into the digital realm with absolutely stunning effect. Ruhr--which is also the first film Benning has shot entirely outside the United States--is a meditation on the notion of terra incognita. In person: James Benning.
Mon Jan 11 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
January 15-16, 2010 | Dance
The Wooden Floor
New Dance by Melanie Ríos Glaser, Mark Haim and Nami Yamamoto
World premiere
The Santa Ana youth dance company previously known as Saint Joseph's Ballet has been thrilling audiences and transforming young lives for more than 25 years. Its latest program features choreography by Mark Haim, Nami Yamamoto and company artistic director Melanie Ríos Glaser, who is premiering a brand-new work.
Fri Jan 15-Sat Jan 16 | 8:30pm
$20 [students $10, CalArts $10]
January 19-23, 2010 | Dance
Grupo de Rua: H3
Los Angeles premiere
Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his nine-member Grupo de Rua--all recruited from the lively street dance scene in Rio--open a new physics-defying chapter in their ongoing project to deploy hip-hop as a vibrant dance theater form for our time. In their latest work, H3, Beltrão and company elaborate on a churning, crossover movement style that brings in elements of krumping, popping and breakdance while at the same time deconstructing the clichés of contemporary dance.
Tues Jan 20-Sat Jan 23 | 8:30 pm
$25-30 [students $20-25, CalArts $12-18]
January 25, 2010 | Film/Video
Now, You Can Do Anything: The Films of Chris Langdon
The exuberant, irreverent and surprising films of Chris Langdon make a welcome return to the screen after many years out of circulation. Never ponderous or abstruse or coy, Langdon's films are direct, formally unique, and full of intuitive flair and wild humor; they delight in provoking and challenging not only modes of artmaking but our reception of art and its purported messages. The filmmaker is attending in person.
Mon Jan 25 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
January 27, 2010 | Music-Multimedia
SCREAM Festival
Co-presented with the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music
Global music forms meet the digital surge of the 21st century as the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, directed by Ajay Kapur, convenes an international lineup of musicmakers, engineers and digital artists who use custom-built robotic instruments and new and expressive interfaces in live music performance.
Wed Jan 27 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
January 29-30, 2010 | Music-Film/Video-Theater
Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble
The Re-Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Invasion from the Chicken Planet
From strings and horns to laptop sampler for a high-energy brew of classical, jazz, funk and rock, the 14-member Code Ensemble delivers an exciting and imaginative contemporary rethink of David Shire's classic crime-jazz score for the 1974 N.Y.C. subway caper movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The Code also mashes up musical tropes from science fiction films in Invasion from the Chicken Planet.
Fri Jan 29-Sat Jan 30 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
February 1, 2010 | Conversations-Art-Theater
Paul Chan
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: An Illustrated Lecture
Los Angeles premiere
Alpert Award-winning video and multimedia artist Paul Chan gives a stirring live multimedia presentation about an extraordinary community art experiment he spearheaded in New Orleans in collaboration with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the public arts group Creative Time. In November 2007, Chan and his colleagues staged five site-specific performances of Waiting for Godot in the Katrina-devastated Gentilly and Lower Ninth Ward neighborhoods of the Crescent City where the classic Beckett-penned lines rang with fierce immediacy.
Mon Feb 1 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
February 5, 2010 | Music
Yamaha Pianos All-Star Revue
With a program ranging from Romantic literature to new music to contemporary jazz, this spirited acclamation of virtuosic piano playing recognizes Yamaha, the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer. Pianists include Anna Grinberg, Danny Holt, David Roitstein, David Rosenboom and Liam Viney, performing pieces by Radiohead, George Crumb, Adolfs Skulte, Marc Lowenstein and David Rosenboom.
Fri Feb 5 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
February 10-21, 2010 | Theater-Multimedia
The Wooster Group: North Atlantic
Los Angeles premiere
North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dancE. North Atlantic is directed by Liz LeCompte. Featuring Ari Fliakos, Frances McDormand, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and special guest artists Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zach Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern, and Maura Tierney.
Wed Feb 10-Sat Feb 13 | 8:30 pm
Sun Feb 14 | 7:00 pm
Tues Feb 16-Sat Feb 20 | 8:30 pm
Sun Feb 21 | 7:00 pm
$55 [students $45, CalArts $35]
February 18, 2010 - April 18, 2010 | Art-Film/Video
Park Chan-Kyong and Sean Snyder
Curated by Doryun Chong and Clara Kim
This exhibition is a collaboration between artists Park Chan-Kyong, based in Seoul, and Sean Snyder, based in Tokyo and Kyiv, who first met in Germany 10 years ago. Their shared interest in North Korea and the politics of the Cold War led to this initial encounter and has become the impetus for this exhibition. The exhibition features recent and newly commissioned work developed over an extended period of exchange and conversation among the artists, Museum of Modern Art curator Doryun Chong and REDCAT curator Clara Kim.
Thurs Feb 18-Sun Apr 18 | Tues-Sun, noon-6 pm or intermission
Free
February 24-27, 2010 | Theater
Teatro en el Blanco: Diciembre
West Coast premiere
From the roiling imagination of Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón comes this politically charged, haunting drama about a near-future war in the Andes. Peppered with surprising doses of pitch-black comedy, Diciembre takes place in Santiago on Christmas Eve 2014 with the city besieged by Peruvian forces. Young soldier Jorge returns home on a 24-hour leave to celebrate the holiday with his pregnant twin sisters, who each have sharply different views on nationalism and the morality of war.
Wed Feb 24-Sat Feb 27 | 8:30 pm
$20-25 [students $16-20, CalArts $10-12]
February 27, 2010 - March 8, 2010 | Family-Film/Video
REDCAT International Children's Film Festival
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum
Now in its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, rarely shown classics, and highlights from Cinemagic Belfast. The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun Day.
Sat Feb 27-Sun Feb 28
Sat Mar 6-Sun Mar 8
Each screening: $5 | Details program info at www.redcat.org
March 1, 2010 | Film/Video
Don Levy: Herostratus
Los Angeles restoration premiere, UK, 1967, 142 min., HDCAM
Though Australian-born Don Levy taught and inspired generations of filmmakers and artists, his own underground masterpiece Herostratus remained largely out of public view. Now, more than 40 years after the psychedelic shock Levy delivered to a British film industry steeped in kitchen-sink realism. In this coruscating work, Michael Gothard astonishes as the eponymous young poet who hires a PR firm to turn his planned suicide into a media spectacle.
Mon Mar 1 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
March 3, 2010 | Conversations
Antonio Damasio: Art and the Conscious Brain
Introduced by CalArts President Steven D. Lavine
For millennia, the relationship between reason and emotion and the nature of creativity have remained a mystery. Internationally renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio visits REDCAT to speak about what we now know about the emotions and the conscious mind, particularly as both relate to creativity and the arts.
Wed Mar 3 | 8:30 pm
$10 [students $5, CalArts free]
March 4-5, 2010 | Music-Multimedia
CEAIT Festival
Featuring John Wiese, Maria Chavez, Marcus Schmickler, Better Than Future, Steve Roden, and Bloody Claws (Carla Bozulich)
World and U.S. premieres
The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. The first night featurse John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, and composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame. The second continues with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, a multimedia performance by Steve Roden, and a smashing finale courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich.
Thurs Mar 4-Fri Mar 5 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
March 18-27, 2010 | Dance-Theater
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Tov
World premiere
Deftly weaving together intense physical movement, spoken word, vocal music, and the " theater laboratory " ensemble techniques originated by Jerzy Grotowski, Rosanna Gamson stages a profusely evocative dance drama around the story of the tarpan--an extinct species of Eurasian wild horse that was genetically "reassembled" in the 1930s through back-breeding of domestic horses. The Los Angeles choreographer braids this allegory of regeneration with reflections on the history of her own Polish-Jewish ancestors, horse traders from Szczecin, and the fate of Polish Jewry.
Thurs Mar 18-Sat Mar 20 | 8:30 pm
Sun Mar 21 | 3:00 pm
Wed Mar 24-Sat Mar 27 | 8:30 pm
$20-25 [students $16-20, CalArts $10-12]
March 30, 2010 | Film/Video
Ross Lipman: Urban Ruins, Found Moments
Los Angeles premieres
Known as one of the world's leading restorationists of experimental and independent cinema, Ross Lipman is also an accomplished filmmaker, writer and performer whose oeuvre has taken on urban decay as a marker of modern consciousness. He visits REDCAT with a program of his own lyrical and speculative works, including the films 10-17-88 (1989, 11 min.) and Rhythm 06 (1994/2008, 9 min.), selections from the video cycle The Perfect Heart of Flux, and the performance essay The Cropping of the Spectacle. In person: Ross Lipman.
Tues Mar 30 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
April 2, 2010 | Music
Michiko Hirayama Sings Scelsi: Canti del Capricorno
West Coast premiere
The legendary vocalist Michiko Hirayama makes her first Los Angeles appearance with a must-hear performance of Giancinto Scelsi's Canti del Capricorno--the spellbinding 20-song cycle written expressly for her between 1962 and 1972. Now in her 80s, Hirayama is one of the last living links to the eccentric Italian composer and poet whose works are seldom performed live in the United States.
Fri Apr 2 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
April 3, 2010 | Music
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Ustad Aashish Khan: Classical Hindustani Music
Led by celebrated tabla exponent Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, the 12-piece CalArts Tabla Ensemble launches this riveting exploration of North Indian music with an original composition by the pandit. The piece, set to a 16-beat cycle (tintal), develops from one sound, one bol-Na, into a kaleidoscope of phrases and approaches drawn from the vast repertoire of music for Hindustani tabla, folk to classical, traditional to contemporary.
Sat Apr 3 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
April 5, 2010 | Film/Video
Light Echoes Dark: The Films of Julie Murray
Los Angeles premieres
Irish-born, New York-based filmmaker Julie Murray combines found and original footage to conjure strange and paradoxical universes resonant with ambiguous meanings. Mystery and menace lurk equally amid the eloquence of her visual rhymes and word associations. This program features Conscious (1993, 10 min.), Orchard (2004, 9 min.), If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (1997, 18 min.), I Began to Wish (2003, 5 min.), and Murray's latest work ELEMENTS (2008, 7 min.). In person: Julie Murray.
Mon Apr 5 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
April 11-12, 2010 | Theater-Dance-Music-Multimedia
Studio: Spring 2010
The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. Previous editions of Studio have featured Ana Maria Alvarez, Nao Bustamante, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Ayanna Hampton, Prumsodun Ok, Poor Dog Group, Wu Ingrid Tsang, and Kristina Wong.
Sun Apr 11-Mon Apr 12 | 8:30 pm
$12 [students $8, CalArts $6]
April 14-18, 2010 | Dance
John Jasperse Company
with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat-Out Lies
West Coast premiere
In this witty, meticulously devised collage set to a score for string quartet and electronics, one of the dance world's most astute and influential innovators turns his keen attentions to the often fluid boundaries between reality and fantasy, belief and illusion, the sincere and the ironic. By juxtaposing varied styles of dance, performance and music, Jasperse asks us to examine what we believe, what we don't, and why.
Wed Apr 14-Sat Apr 17 | 8:30 pm
Sun Apr 18 | 3 pm
$20-25 [students $16-20, CalArts $10-12]
April 19, 2010 | Film/Video
Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break
with Exit
Los Angeles theatrical premieres, 2008, 80 min., HD
In her new series on the state of American labor, artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart turns her meditative gaze to workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. In one long, sensuous, uninterrupted take, the film moves through a factory corridor where workers linger while on their lunch break. Lunch Break is followed by the companion film Exit (2008, 41 min., HD), in which Lockhart reverses the gaze, with a fixed camera and a nod to Lumiere. In person: Sharon Lockhart.
Mon Apr 19 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
April 20, 2010 | Music
The California E.A.R. Unit with Sonic Boom
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music
Ulrich Krieger's latest electroacoustic version of Lou Reed's audacious 1975 double-LP guitar feedback epic is the occasion for this expertly rendered hour-plus of clangorous mayhem from the California E.A.R. Unit and Krieger's Sonic Boom outfit. The new adaptation of Metal Machine Music seizes on the complex orchestral scope of Reed's original, its modal use of pitch and rhythm, its bold yet intricate colors, and its sheer freewheeling, hard-rocking gutsiness.
Tues Apr 20 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
April 22-24, 2010 | Theater-Music
Carl Hancock Rux
Poesia Negra: Race, Sex and the Myth of the American Mytopia
Famous for his dazzling spoken word acuity and alert cultural observation, the Alpert Award-winning poet, dramatist, fiction writer and musicmaker takes center stage in this intimate solo performance that blends paper-bag storytelling, hip-bop-fueled poetic reveries and plenty of trenchant critical analysis on American mythologies and controversies new and old.
Thurs Apr 22-Sat Apr 24 | 8:30 pm
$20-25 [students $16-20, CalArts $10-12]
April 25, 2010 | Conversations
The Lost Origins of the Essay: Celebrating the History of Literary Nonfiction
A reading with Tisa Bryant, Bernard Cooper, Ben Ehrenreich and Amy Gerstler
From Ziusudra of Sumer to Heraclitus, from Sei Sh?nagon to Bash?, from de Montaigne to Swift, from Cortázar and Duras to contemporary nonfiction writers--the essay form through 4,500 years of literary history is on full display in The Lost Origins of the Essay, the exhilarating new anthology edited and introduced by John D'Agata (Halls of Fame, The Next American Essay, About a Mountain).
Sun Apr 25 | 7 pm
$10 [students $5, CalArts free]
April 26 | Film/Video
Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue
with a live score by Skúli Sverrisson
Los Angeles premiere, 2008, 68 min., dual-projection 16mm
This double-projector film performance by New York artist Jennifer Reeves pays rapturous homage to the endangered beauty of our blue planet. Reeves hand-paints frames and optically prints other images to create impressionistic textures. Composed in four parts to represent the four seasons and cardinal directions, When It Was Blue traverses the globe and its diverse ecosystems. In person: Jennifer Reeves and Skúli Sverrisson.
Mon Apr 26 | 8:30 pm
$15 [students $12, CalArts $8]
April 29, 2010 - June 27, 2010 | Art
Never Very Far Apart
Curated by Ryan Inouye
The group exhibition brings together six projects that explore the social production of space as vehicle for renewed thought and action. Working in a variety of mediums, the artists contemplate new grounds for alternate convergences and future crossings that reinvent and reimagine the contexts in which they live and work. Never Very Far Apart features new and recent works by Terry Chatkupt (Los Angeles), Michelle Dizon and Camilo Ontiveros (Los Angeles), Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida (New York), Adriana Lara (Mexico City), Elana Mann (Los Angeles), and RJ Messineo (St. Louis).
Thurs Apr 29-Sun June 27 | Tues-Sun, noon-6 pm or intermission
Free
April 30-May 1, 2010 | Music
Les Espaces Acoustiques and Beyond: New Music after Grisey
Featuring the CalArts New Century Players and the CalArts Orchestra conducted by Mark Menzies
U.S. premieres
Exploring both the roots and enduring legacy of spectral music, this revelatory two-night showcase opens with the first-ever U.S. performance, in its entirety, of French iconoclast Gérard Grisey's magnum opus, Les Espaces Acoustiques. The second concert follows up with works by younger generations of composers influenced by Grisey and spectralism, with recent compositions by Thierry Alla, Philippe Hurel, Kasper Toeplitz, Gérard Pesson (all from France), Rozalie Hirs (Netherlands), Andrew McIntosh (USA) and Wolfgang von Schweinitz (Germany/USA).
Fri Apr 30-Sat May 1 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
May 3, 2010 | Film/Video
Gregorio Rocha: The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa
with Edmundo and Felix Padilla: The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
The award-winning documentary Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa (Mexico/Canada/USA, 2003, 49 min., b/w and color) recounts Rocha's painstaking intercontinental search for one of film history's most intriguing lost works: Raoul Walsh's The Life of General Villa, a quasi-factual 1914 biography commissioned by the Mexican revolutionary strongman (in which Villa allowed cameramen to follow him into actual combat). Also screening in the program is La venganza de Pancho Villa (Mexico/USA, 1930-34, 50 min., b/w). In person: Gregorio Rocha.
Mon May 3 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
May 4, 2010 | Conversations
Greg Tate: The Spiritual Crisis in Contemporary Black Art, Politics and PsychoAnalysis
Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program
The longtime Village Voice cultural critic, pioneer of hip-hop journalism and adventurous music director is on hand for an illuminating talk that locates a crisis today in black creative self-conception and representation--an exigency now being countered by new black theater, Afropunk and young black visual artists. Tate is introduced by award-winning poet and performer Douglas Kearney, who also leads the post-lecture Q&A.
Tues May 4 | 8:30 pm
$10 [students $5, CalArts free]
May 5, 2010 | Music
Party for Betty!
This special concert celebrates the legacy of the late philanthropist, photographer and writer Betty Freeman, without question the most significant American advocate for contemporary classical music in the second half of the 20th century. Beginning in the early 1960s and continuing for more than four decades, she gave some 450 grants and commissions to composers such as John Cage, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams and Pierre Boulez.
Wed May 5 | 8:30 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
May 9, 2010 | Music
Idyllwild Arts Academy Orchestra
with Vijay Iyer
West Coast and world premieres
Comprising talented young virtuosi from around the world, the resident orchestra of the Idyllwild Arts Academy is joined by Alpert Award-winning pianist and composer for the West Coast debut of Interventions, a piece for piano, electronics and orchestra. The concert also includes the world premiere of Lawrence Dillon's Schumann Trilogy, commissioned by Idyllwild and the Richard P. Wilson Fund for New Music.
Sun May 9 | 5 pm
$25 [students $10, CalArts $10]
May 10, 2010 | Film/Video
Starting to Go Bad: Recent Narratives by Pat O'Neill
World premieres
Pat O'Neill, one of Los Angeles' most eminent independent filmmakers, makes his REDCAT debut with three new videos, I Open the Window (2009, 18 min.), I Put Out My Hands (2009, 10 min.) and Starting to Go Bad (2009, 30 min.), as well as a striking 35mm film entitled Horizontal Boundaries (2008, 23 min.). Best-known for his densely layered, virtuosic abstract films that create magical, evocatively incongruous visual landscapes, O'Neill carries these and other concerns into a new terrain of digital video.
Mon May 10 | 8:30 pm
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
May 14-15, 2010 | Dance
The Next Dance Company
The resident ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts returns to REDCAT with two programs of innovative new dance. Directed by acclaimed choreographer Stephan Koplowitz, The Next Dance Company draws together the school's most accomplished performers and choreographers--all members of the 2010 graduating class. The program includes work choreographed by Koplowitz and Reggie Wilson, both recipients of the Alpert Award in the Arts.
Fri May 14-Sat May 15 | 8:30 pm
$15 [students $12, CalArts $8]
May 16, 2010 | Music-Film/Video
Ring Festival LA: Considering Wagner
Featuring Villa Aurora Composers-in-Residence
As part of Ring Festival LA, this night of contemporary music and film unfolds in four acts that touch on different aspects of the composer's life, work and place in history: his musical and theatrical innovations, his über-expressionist concept of art, his preoccupation with Norse-Germanic mythology, his outsize personality, specific passages in his operas, and--not least--some of the ways in which creative practice has developed since his time.
Sun May 16 | 7 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
May 20-23 | Dance
Lionel Popkin: There is An Elephant in This Dance
Los Angeles premiere
Playing off a comically overlarge plush elephant costume, worn in pieces or whole, this vividly imagined, adroitly executed quartet from Los Angeles dance artist Lionel Popkin looks at how an individual body can hold multiple histories and align itself with divergent cultural identities. Popkin, an alumnus of Trisha Brown Dance Company, is joined on stage by Carolyn Hall, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Peggy Piacenza. With an original score by Robert Een.
Thurs May 20-Sat May 22 | 8:30 pm
Sun May 23 | 3 pm
$20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
June 2-3, 2010 | Music-Film/Video
Partch: Even Wild Horses
Outfitted with an amazing array of custom-built microtonal instruments, the ensemble directed by John Schneider continues its ongoing survey of the profound music of Harry Partch. The group's performances at REDCAT this year include Partch's Even Wild Horses--Dance Music for an Absent Drama and Cloud Chamber, his friend and fellow maverick Lou Harrison's Canticle #3, the West Coast debut of Anne LeBaron's Southern Ephemera, and Madeline Tourtelot's Rotate the Body in All Its Planes.
Wed June 2-Thurs June 3 | 8:30 pm
$25 [students $20, CalArts $15]
June 4-5, 2010 | Dance-Film/Video
Dance Camera West
Focusing on the intersection of choreography and cinematography, the annual Dance Camera West festival offers a rich selection of some of the most thrilling dance for camera and dance media works made around the world today. The festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its monthlong celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles.
Fri June 4-Sat June 5 | 8 pm
Sat June 5 | 2 pm
$10-15 [students $7-10, CalArts $7-10]
June 6-7 | Theater-Dance-Music-Multimedia
Studio: Summer 2010
REDCAT's series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists.
Sun June 6-Mon June 7 | 8:30 pm
$12 [students $8, CalArts $6]
July 8 - September 5, 2010 | Art-Film/Video
Chen Chieh-jen: Empire's Borders II
Chen Chieh-jen's powerful and haunting body of films examines the history of Taiwan within the larger context of globalization. In this exhibition, Chen presents a newly commissioned work entitled Empire's Borders II. Inspired by his own difficulties in acquiring a visa to enter the United States, this multimedia video installation explores ideas of borders and boundaries within a shifting geopolitical landscape while also reflecting on the ongoing heated debates on the One China policy. Initially featured in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, Chen has further developed this work for REDCAT by incorporating his own family history.
Thurs July 8-Sun Sept 5 | Tues-Sun, noon-6 pm or intermission
Free
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT REDCAT
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)
Opened by CalArts in 2003, REDCAT introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in this region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT is the newest partner in an international network of adventurous art and performance centers, which together are playing a vital role in the evolution of contemporary culture. REDCAT is a center for experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse. For information on current programming visit www.redcat.org.
As an integral part of REDCAT's paradigm, the Gallery at REDCAT's mission is to support, present, commission and nurture new creative insights through dynamic projects and challenging ideas. The Gallery presents five exhibitions every year, often of newly commissioned work that represents the artist's first major presentation in the U.S. or Los Angeles. The Gallery also maintains an active publishing program producing as many as two major monographs per year. Proceeding from the geographic and cultural specificities of Los Angeles, its program emphasizes artistic production of the Pacific Rim--namely Mexico, Central and South America and Asia--as regions that are of vital significance to California. The Gallery aims to facilitate dialogue between local and International Artists contributing to a greater understanding of the social, political and cultural contexts that inform contemporary artistic practice. Admission to the Gallery at REDCAT is always free. For information on current exhibitions visit www.redcat.org/gallery.GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday: noon-6pm or intermission REDCAT Lounge
Open to the public six days a week, the Lounge offers a full-service bar, fine espresso, free wireless and a great selection of books for sale reflecting not only the interests of our patrons, but also REDCAT's vigorous programming. Additionally, the REDCAT Lounge hosts a variety of free events throughout the year including music, informal discussions, readings, receptions and post-show gatherings. For information about the lounge and its free events visit www.redcat.org/lounge.LOUNGE HOURS
Tuesday-Friday: 9am-8pm or post-show
Saturday-Sunday: noon-8pm or post-show
Ticketing and More Information
For tickets and information about REDCAT's Winter/Spring 2010 Season, contact REDCAT's Box Office at 213-237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org.
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