REDCAT Announces 2011 Fall Season of Contemporary Performing, Media

Today Executive Director Mark Murphy unveils REDCAT's 2011 Fall Season, featuring a dynamic lineup of living legends and daring new voices in dance, theater, music, film/video, visual and multimedia work. These global and local innovators are encouraging exploration and discovery as well as confronting urgent issues facing our world. Dedicated to keeping its ticket prices low and gallery events free, REDCAT encourages visitors to come often and bring friends. Tickets for REDCAT's 2011 Fall Season are now on sale and available by phone (213-237-2800) and online at www.redcat.org.

Adventurous Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and his company open the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series performing more, more, more ... future (October 5-8), a collaboration with legendary Kinshasa-based guitarist Flamme Kapaya. Following soon after is rising-star New York choreographer Kyle Abraham performing The Radio Show (October 19-22) passionate reflection on communal identity, personal history, and-poignantly-the loss of communication, of voice. Later this fall, Los Angeles-based theater artist Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine takes to the stage with the world premiere of A Missionary Position (November 9-13), a searing satirical response to the rampant homophobia now gripping Uganda.

In addition to the fall events, REDCAT announces a special restaging of the seminal Robert Wilson/Lucinda Childs' collaboration I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO THIS GUY APPEARED I THOUGHT I WAS HALLUCINATING (January 26-February 5). Produced by Some Serious Business as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Wilson teams up again with renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs to reinvent the work originally presented as a now legendary one-night preview in Los Angeles in 1977, and link it solidly with the art of our time.

Musical highlights this fall include the world premiere of a major new opus by creative music luminary Wadada Leo Smith commissioned and co-presented by Southwest Chamber Music (October 28-30) and a performance by Mike Keneally, former "stunt guitarist" and keyboard virtuoso in Frank Zappa's final touring band, featuring a 52-member orchestra (November 18). Early in the schedule REDCAT teams up with Angel City Jazz Festival to present jazz singer and composer Theo Bleckmann and Todd Sickafoose and Tiny Resistors (September 25) and a celebration of composer, reed and woodwind master Roscoe Mitchell (October 2) who will perform with his new trio.

Rounding out the season are Film/Video screenings featuring the work of visionaries including Chick Strand (September 26), Jules Engel (October 10), Werner Schroeter (October 14-15), among others; and Conversation events featuring Jack Halberstam, Wayne Koestenbaum and Maggie Nelson (October 16), Mark Z. Danielewski (October 31) and Darby English (November 3).

In the gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Erlea Maneros Zabala re-photographs archival and journalistic images to disrupt the logic and order (September 16-November 6); followed by The Experimental Impulse, an exhibition co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi offering new insights into the understanding of developments in critical art practice in Los Angeles after 1965 (November 20-January 15) as part of Pacific Standard Time, an unprecedented collaboration, initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.

COMPLETE SCHEDULE

A chronological schedule of performances, screenings and exhibitions can be found online at www.redcat.org/theater or scroll down for a complete list of offerings this fall grouped by primary discipline.

DANCE & THEATER

October 5-8
Faustin Linyekula/Studios Kabako: more more more... future
featuring legendary guitarist Flamme Kapaya
Three exceptional male dancers led by renowned Congolese choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula join a raucous on-stage band in this fervent celebration of hope in the face of the ongoing legacy of war and ruin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. http://www.redcat.org/event/faustin-linyekula

October 19-22
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion: The Radio Show
Flowing from sumptuous swagger to elegant, precise articulation, the movement in Kyle Abraham's breakout full-evening dance is set to an intricate audio collage, as the rising-star New York choreographer offers a passionate reflection on communal identity, personal history, and-poignantly-the loss of communication, of voice.
http://www.redcat.org/event/kyle-abraham

November 9-13
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine: A Missionary Position
Written and performed by Los Angeles-based theater artist and Ugandan American Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, A Missionary Position is a searing satirical response to the rampant homophobia now gripping Uganda-shown most notoriously by the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill that would make certain homosexual acts punishable by death.
http://www.redcat.org/event/ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine

November 30-December 4
David J: Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)
Part delirious one-woman show, part avant-garde rock concert replete with eerie video imagery, this production written and directed by David J-co-founder of the seminal goth bands Bauhaus and Love & Rockets-finds new mythic dimensions in the rise and eventual drug- and vodka-fuelled crash of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick.
http://www.redcat.org/event/david-j

January 26-February 5
Robert Wilson: I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO THIS GUY APPEARED I THOUGHT I WAS HALLUCINATING
Co-directed by Wilson and Lucinda Childs
Produced by Some Serious Business as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
Revisiting his first-ever presentation in Los Angeles in 1977-a legendary one-night preview of I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO that was a watershed for L.A. theater-performance pioneer Robert Wilson teams up again with renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs to reinvent that work and link it solidly with the art of our time.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.
http://www.redcat.org/event/robert-wilson ?

MUSIC

September 25
Theo Bleckmann
Todd Sickafoose and Tiny Resistors
Co-presented by the Angel City Jazz Festival
The annual can't-miss jazz festival joins REDCAT to present electrifying solo vocal music from Theo Bleckmann, a jazz singer and composer of prodigious gifts and eclectic tastes. Sharing the bill is bassist-composer Todd Sickafoose and his band Tiny Resistors whose buoyant, groove-laden jazz is played with the muscle and whimsy of an indie-rock orchestra.
http://www.redcat.org/event/theo-bleckmann

October 2
Tribute to Roscoe Mitchell
Co-presented by the Angel City Jazz Festival
Roscoe Mitchell-composer, reed and woodwind master, and one of the most revered exponents of creative musicmaking-marks his 71st birthday with a special performance by his new trio, with fellow winds player James Fei and percussionist William Winant; and a performance of "People in Sorrow" by an all-star ensemble headed by Alex Cline.
http://www.redcat.org/event/tribute-roscoe-mitchell

October 28-30
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
Performed by the Golden Quartet and Southwest Chamber Music, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor
World premiere commission by Southwest Chamber Music
A large-scale suite played over the course of three concerts, this major new opus by creative music luminary Wadada Leo Smith draws upon, and interprets, key events in the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement from 1954 through 1964.
http://www.redcat.org/event/ten-freedom-summers

November 5
SCREAM Festival 2011: Sounding Images
Co-presented with the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music
Electro-acoustic music merges seamlessly with electronically generated or enhanced imagery in this screening of 11 international works-a program that attests to the ongoing maturation of electronic "inter-arts" that transcends disciplines, genres and geographies.
http://www.redcat.org/event/scream-festival-2011

November 18
Mike Keneally: The Universe Will Provide
Former "stunt guitarist" and keyboard virtuoso in Frank Zappa's final touring band, Mike Keneally gives the U.S. debut of The Universe Will Provide, a composition for guitar, electric piano, and a 52-piece CalArts orchestra.
http://www.redcat.org/event/mike-keneally

FILM/VIDEO

The Jack H. Skirball Series is supported in part by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

September 26
Chick Strand: Senora con Flores/Woman with Flowers (1995/2011)
A retrospective of legendary filmmaker Chick Strand's (1931-2009) extraordinary catalogue of 16mm experimental work, and the world premiere of the recently completed Senora con Flores/Woman with Flowers (15 min.)-the intimate depiction of the ups and downs and the joys and travails of a Mexican flower seller.
http://www.redcat.org/event/chick-strand

October 10
Animation of the Unconsciousness: CalArts and the Teachings of Jules Engel
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time and co-presented with Los Angeles Filmforum
An evening of work by Jules Engel (1909-2003), the founder and director of the CalArts Film Graphics Program (later called "Experimental Animation"), who fostered the emergence of a new form of animation-freewheeling, transgressive, and imaginative. Also on the program are works by Kathy Rose, Adam Beckett and other students carrying on Engel's legacy.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.
http://www.redcat.org/event/jules-engel

October 14-15
Werner Schroeter/Elfi Mikesch: A VoIce That Lingers
Two separate programs celebrate the work of Werner Schroeter (1945-2010), who left behind one of the most significant oeuvres of the New German Cinema and a legacy of more than 20 visually and aurally stunning features, among them Willow Springs (1973), Palermo oder Wolfsburg (1980), Malina (1991), and Deux (2002).
http://www.redcat.org/event/werner-schroeter

October 17
Janie Geiser: "Nervous Films," Secret Stories
Janie Geiser's new series of experimental films weaves textures of overlaid visual and aural elements haunted by lonely, frightened or sinister figures. Geiser brings collage to a new level, as a space traversed by cut-out silhouettes, purloined drawings and fragments of black-and-white films.
http://www.redcat.org/event/janie-geiser

October 24
Proto-Ethnographic Works
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time
This anthropology-themed program surveys strategies used by video artists who disavow "objectivity" in exploring cultural experiences different from their own, and instead actively participate with their subjects. Featuring works by Juan Downey, Terese Svoboda, and Sandra Kogut, among others.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.
http://www.redcat.org/event/proto-ethnographic-works

November 1
Suzan Pitt and Jim Trainor: A Conversation in Light and Darkness
Suzan Pitt and Alpert Award-winner Jim Trainor have brought the art of animation to new levels of artistic maturity and depth, and their films entertain haunting correspondences with each other.
http://www.redcat.org/event/suzan-pitt-and-jim-trainor

November 14-15
Two Nights with Ernie Gehr: Early Films and New Digital Works
This two-program series demonstrates Gehr's unsurpassed body of films and videos from the past 43 years that combine richly conceived and rigorous cinematic structures with a profound sensitivity for the physical world around him.
http://www.redcat.org/event/ernie-gehr

November 21
Collapse Into Image
Drawn from some of the most distinctive media installations of the last few years, this program showcases projects by artists-including Erika Vogt, Alex Hubbard and William E. Jones-who translate their extended, multifaceted creative processes onto the picture plane of the moving image.
http://www.redcat.org/event/collapse-image

December 12
Naomi Uman: The Ukrainian Time Machine
When experimental filmmaker Naomi Uman returned to the ancestral home her great-grandparents had fled a hundred years earlier to avoid persecution, she discovered a lifestyle that didn't seem to have changed, and set out to make a this series of 16mm films described as "precise miniatures of a rural life that's fading."
http://www.redcat.org/event/naomi-uman

CONVERSATION

October 16
Jack Halberstam, Wayne Koestenbaum and Maggie Nelson: Ugly Feelings
Threading a fine line between enlightenment and titillation, critical inquiry and tragic comedy, recognition and denial, three formidable cultural critics face up to the darker realms of human emotion as they read from their newly published books, inviting us to examine, name, and even revel in the "ugly feelings" that fuel the culture of our time.
http://www.redcat.org/event/ugly-feelings

October 31
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
featuring Christine Marie & Ensemble
Mark Z. Danielewski, the critically acclaimed author of House of Leaves, summons a specially wicked spell on this Halloween eve: an eerie theatrical presentation of his limited-edition, illustrated ghost story The Fifty Year Sword, with the mood heightened by the evocative, ingeniously devised shadow theater work of Christine Marie & Ensemble.
http://www.redcat.org/event/mark-danielewski-0

November 3
Darby English: Emmett Till in the Present Tense
In 1955, when 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi following an exchange with Carolyn Bryant, a white general-store clerk, photographs of his lynched and bloated corpse were beamed all over the world. In this talk, University of Chicago art historian Darby English considers a number of contemporaneous photographs that indirectly pose heretofore unasked questions.
http://www.redcat.org/event/darby-english

ART

September 16-November 6
Erlea Maneros Zabala
For her first major solo exhibition in the United States, Los Angeles-based artist Erlea Maneros Zabala re-photographs archival and journalistic images to disrupt the logic and order of pictorial space. Through a process of extensive research, Maneros Zabala's practice restages visual information to unearth narratives that have gone otherwise overlooked through time.
http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/erlea-maneros-zabala

November 20-January 15
The Experimental Impulse
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time
Co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi. Exhibition design by Martin Kersels and Lawson.
Consisting exclusively of reproductions and facsimiles of materials culled from publications, institutions and personal collections, as well as a series of recent video and audio interviews conducted for the exhibition, The Experimental Impulse reflects on the networks of exchange and support structures that underlie the history of art in Los Angeles.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months beginning October 2011. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.
http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/experimental-impulse

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts located in downtown Los Angeles inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings, and literary events, 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 continues the tradition of California Institute of the Arts, its parent organization, by encouraging experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse.

REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).

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