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REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater REDCAT 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.
CalArts: California Institute of the Arts
Housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, REDCAT has a separate entrance at the corner of West 2nd and Hope Streets.
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February 5–April 1 MING WONG: MAKING CHINATOWN Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
February 7 MUSIC + IMAGE
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time Conversations–Film/Video
CALARTS.edu
February 8 CHOUINARD: AN OVERTURE Music–Multimedia
February 10–11 CEAIT FESTIVAL Conversations
February 12 THE MAGIC OF SOLIDARITY: SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR AND SUHEIR HAMMAD Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
February 13 LEE ANNE SCHMITT: THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT
TICKETs
REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 at the box office
The REDCAT Box Office is open Tuesday– Saturday, noon–6 pm, and two hours prior to curtain. Seating at REDCAT is unassigned, and late seating is not guaranteed. Programs, schedules, prices and artists subject to change.
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February 15–16 JOHN CAGE CENTENARY FESTIVAL Music–Theater
PARKING
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage.
Only $5 after 8 pm on Weeknights. $9 flat rate all day on weekends.
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January 25–29 RINDE ECKERT: AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES
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California Institute of the Arts educates professional artists in a unique learning environment founded on the principles of artmaking excellence, experimentation, critical reflection and independent inquiry. Throughout its history, CalArts has sought to advance the practice of art and promote its understanding in a broad social, cultural and historical context. CalArts offers students the knowledge and expertise of leading professional artists and scholars and a full complement of artmaking tools. In return, it asks for the highest artistic and academic achievement. Reflecting its long-standing commitment to new forms and expressions in art, CalArts invites creative risk-taking and urges active collaboration and exchange among artists, artistic disciplines and cultural traditions.
631 West 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
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February 2–4 EARLY MORNING OPERA: ABACUS
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LOCATION
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February 17–19 MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: LOW DOUBLE STANDARDS: AN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM Theater
February 23–26 MARIANO PENSOTTI: THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL (El pAsado es un animal grotesco)
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March 2–11 MARTíN ACOSTA: TIMBOCTOU
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March 9–11 RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE
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April 14–15 MY BARBARIAN: POST-LIVING ANTE-ACTION THEATER
June 14 PARTCH
Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
June 24–25 STUDIO SPRING 2012
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
April 16 AWAKENING and SEEING: NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY
Part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center
Music–Multimedia
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April 18–19 NEW ZEALAND IN L.A. Art
April 22–June 17 RIGO 23: AUTONOMOUS SPACE PROGRAM Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
April 23 BILL MORRISON: MINERS, BRIDGES, LOST LOVE AND OTHER RETRIEVED TREASURES
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
March 22 DANIEL EISENBERG: THE UNSTABLE OBJECT
Theater–Multimedia
June 28–July 1 NTARE GUMA MBAHO MWINE: A MISSIONARY POSITION
Music
March 23 FRANCES-MARIE UITTI Music
March 24 CALIFORNIA E.A.R. UNIT: FROM SILVER APPLES TO A SKY OF CLOUDLESS SULPHUR: REVISITED Featuring Morton Subotnick Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
March 31–April 1 STUDIO SPRING 2012
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Music–Theater
April 28–29 WUNDERBAUM: SONGS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
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April 2 NARRATIVE BODIES: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY ABIGAIL CHILD
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April 30 THE IMAGINARY VOYAGES OF MAUREEN SELWOOD
Film/Video–Family
May 5–13 REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
April 9 SHARON LOCKHART: DOUBLE TIDE Music–Multimedia
April 12–13 KARMETIK MACHINE ORCHESTRA: SAMSARA
special CALARTS events AT REDCAT Film/Video
May 1 TRANSPARENT CITIES
April 5–8 DAYNA HANSON: GLORIA’S CAUSE
July 8–September 2 JAY CHUNG & Q TAKEKI MAEDA
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Music–Film/Video
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Theater
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May 7 CINE POVERA: MEXICAN EXPERIMENTS IN 16MM
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May 2–5 CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series
May 11–12 THE NEXT DANCE COMPANY Conversations
May 13 CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE Family–Theater
May 25–26 CAP/PLAZA DE LA RAZA YOUTH THEATER
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series
May 16–20 ARCANE COLLECTIVE: COLD DREAM COLOUR
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
May 21 NEW DAY AT 40: A COMMUNITY’S CELEBRATION
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“One is overwhelmed by the power of quest and loss and by the beauty of the music.” The New York Times
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5– 29 RINDE ECKERT AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES Hailed as “total magic” by The New York Times, this Obie Award-winning work of groundbreaking musictheater is a morbidly funny and deeply moving operatic journey into the psyche of an eccentric composer as he desperately tries to complete his final opus: an opera based on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Alpert Awardwinner Rinde Eckert’s tour de force performance draws the audience into the haunted world of Nathan, whose struggle against mental deterioration forces him to rely on a tape recorder worn around his neck in place of a working memory, as his obsession with the opera becomes as total as Ahab’s quest for the white whale. Masterfully directed by David Schweizer and featuring the vocal magic of original cast member Nora Cole, these performances mark the return of Eckert’s seminal 2000 off-Broadway production, which prompted critics to cite such diverse references as Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Tom Waits.
WED JAN 25–SAT JAN 28, 8:30 PM SUN JAN 29, 3:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
“It made me feel alive at a time when little in the musical theater does.” Village Voice
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Theater–Music–Alpert Award Artist
“Changing the world one multimedia performance at a time.” Modern Painters
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EARLY MORNING OPERA ABACUS
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Fresh from performances at the Sundance Film Festival, award-winning director and media artist Lars Jan and his company Early Morning Opera employ the latest in high-tech wizardry to explore the seductive power of multimedia persuasion, including TED-style presentations and videoenhanced megachurch events. Abacus introduces media visionary and cult icon Paul Abacus, who is given a platform to expound on such theories as a re-imagining of Buckminster Fuller’s fabled Geoscope as a new “data cathedral” for the masses and a call for a world without national borders. Part pitchman and part sermonizer, Abacus is magnified by a team of live video Steadicams and large-scale projections in this genre-defying, visually immersive production that was first staged at REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival and has since won national praise.
Courtesy the artist
THUR FEB 2–SAT FEB 4, 8:30 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
“Mind-bendingly creative.”
Philadelphia City Paper
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MING WONG: MAKING CHINATOWN
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Ming Wong, Making Chinatown (study), 2011, courtesy the artist
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Opening reception: Saturday, February 4, 6–9 PM
Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong has been regarded internationally for his ambitious performance and video works that engage with the history of cinema and popular forms of entertainment. Working through the visual styles and tropes of such iconic film directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai and Ingmar Bergman, Wong’s practice considers the means through which subjectivity and geographic location are constructed by motion pictures. For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Wong creates a series of video sculptures and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown, with the artist cast as two of the film’s central characters. Filmed on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Making Chinatown transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity. Funded in part with generous support from Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard.
SUN FEB 5–SUN APR 1 TUES–SUN, NOON–6 PM OR INTERMISSION FREE
Ming Wong, Angst Essen / Eat Fear, 2008, single-channel video installation, 27 min, courtesy the artist
Tickets: 213.237.2800
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Ming Wong, Four Malay Stories, 2005, four-channel video installation, 25 min, courtesy the artist
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
music + image
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“What happened with pop videos is pathetic: they could have become a really interesting new field of cinematic activity.” Gilles Deleuze
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time
In the early 1980s, many artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on television— a promise that was broken by commercialism. This selection of short videos takes inspiration from the spirit of Ernie Kovacs, television impresario and music lover, as it highlights some of the era’s most compelling video art accompanied by music. By turns humorous, pensive, or even abstract, the works are drawn from screenings and exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and include artists Bob Snyder; Cynthia Maughan; Dara Birnbaum; Philip Mallory Jones; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen, and Dean Winkler; Cecelia Condit; Toni Basil and David Byrne; Max Almy; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Laurie Anderson; Claus Blume; MICA-TV (Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen); Zbigniew Rybczyński; and Henry Selick. In person: Curator Nancy Buchanan Presented in conjunction with Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach, 1974–1999, at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Funded in part with generous support from the Getty Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
tues FEB 7, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
Imagine, Zbigniew Rybczyński
Conversations – Film/Video
CHOUINARD: AN OVERTURE
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Nelbert Murphy Chouinard, courtesy of Karen Laurence
Chouinard courtyard circa 1931. Photo by Will Connell
As the history of contemporary art in Los Angeles is brought to the forefront by institutions across the city by the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, CalArts President Steven D. Lavine hosts an evening dedicated to one of the great early forces in the emergence of Los Angeles as an international art center: the Chouinard Art Institute—founded by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard in 1921, and CalArts’ predecessor institution. Joining the discussion are Chouinard alumna Alice Estes Davis, a renowned costume designer noted for her exceptional work with Walt Disney, and Gianina Ferreyra, a filmmaker currently creating a documentary about Chouinard’s founder and her influential art school. In conversation with invited guests, Estes Davis and Ferreyra share perspectives on Chouinard, and its significant impact on the arts in Los Angeles. Illuminating selections from Gianina’s documentary-in-progress are screened as part of the evening.
WED FEB 8, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $5, CALARTS FREE]
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Thomas Ankersmit. Photo by Angeline Evans
“Ankersmit constructs a musical world that feels alive and capable of going anywhere.” The Wire
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CEAIT FESTIVAL
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This season’s iteration of the festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) brings the debut of Thomas Ankersmit’s new piece composed expressly for the vintage Serge analogue modular synthesizer, originally developed by Serge Tcherepnin at CalArts in the 1970s. A composer and installation artist, the Dutch-born, Berlin-based Ankersmit has become known for abstract, intensely focused electroacoustic work using hyper-kinetic synth and computer improvisation. CEAIT Festival kicks off with “Noise Night,” featuring L.A.’s own Damion Romero and the pairing of noise pioneers Zbigniew Karkowski and Xopher Davidson. “Ambient Night” follows on Saturday, with Ankersmit’s Serge composition followed by zerfall_gebiete, the duo of electronic ambient soundscape veterans Thomas Köner and Ulrich Krieger. Funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and supported in part by public funds from Dutch Cultural Services (New York). Thomas Köner’s appearance is made possible by Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.
FRI FEB 10–SAT FEB 11, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
Thomas Köner, courtesy the artist Suheir Hammad, courtesy the author
“Ankersmit wrangles his material beautifully… with a deft touch and a canny sense of timing.” Dusted Shahrnush Parsipur, courtesy the author
Conversations
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MAGIC OF SOLIDARITY: SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR AND SUHEIR HAMMAD
“[Hammad] is the embodiment of the global reach of feminism.” Gloria Steinem, New York Magazine
Tickets: 213.237.2800
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“Parsipur navigates skillfully between the extremes of mainstream discourse and overt opposition.” World Literature Today
Two courageous authors have fiercely insisted on voicing consciousness and social criticism: novelist Shahrnush Parsipur and poet Suheir Hammad. Parsipur’s most famous works, Touba and the Meaning of Night and Women without Men, use fabulism and history to portray women’s sexual and intellectual agency; both are banned in her native Iran. The latter novel has been filmed by artist Shirin Neshat. Hammad, a Palestinian born in Jordan, emerged in the ’90s on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. The author of the collections Breaking Poems and Born Palestinian, Born Black, she is known for her impassioned lyricism and commitment to social justice. Parsipur and Hammad are joined by editor and scholar Persis Karim, who moderates this evening devoted to creative conviction linking nations, genres, and generations.
SUN FEB 12, 7:00 PM $10 [STUDENTS $5, CALARTS FREE]
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br ua lee anne schmitt ry 13 THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT Los Angeles premiere | 76 min., HDCAM, 2010
For five years, filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and her collaborators followed Terry Albrecht, a guide-for-hire for hunters who want to kill buffalo. Yet Albrecht is tired; his livelihood is threatened by the rising cost of gasoline, and the mystique of the West has become a commodity for nouveaux riches—like the couple posing in Santa costumes in front of their trophy, or the woman who switches pleasures from shopping sprees to insulting a buffalo that wouldn’t die fast enough. The film ends on a melancholy sequence, in a hokey wax museum, where cowboys and buffalo alike become ghosts. In the West, it is the legend that is printed, not the history—because history is repeated twice—once as slaughter, the second time as pageantry. In person: Lee Anne Schmitt Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MON FEB 13, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
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John Cage Centenary Festival
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Los Angeles premieres
Photo by Steven Gunther
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, REDCAT hosts two nights of rarely played music—some of which is performed for the first time in Los Angeles. The New Century Players, the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts’ professional new music ensemble, joins forces with the CalArts Orchestra to open the festival with a program of large-scale pieces by the American visionary, including 103 and Fifty-Eight—each title referring to the required number of performers. The New Century Players center the festival’s second evening on the Cage’s seminal graphic score Fontana Mix—a telling example of the composer’s fascination with the ideas of indeterminacy, chance, and silence. In addition to the original Fontana Mix tape music composition itself, the program consists of instrumental group works composed using the Fontana Mix score by James Tenney, David Behrman, Cornelius Cardew, and others responding to Cage’s benchmark.
“The New Century Players perform with wonted skill and poise; one hears the music and doesn’t worry about the very real difficulties of executing it.” Los Angeles Times
CalArts New Century Players
WED FEB 15, 7:00 pm–THURS FEB 16, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENT $16, CALARTS $10]
John Cage at CalArts
“Artful, gender-bending, truth-telling illusionist... The greatest cabaret artist of [a] generation.” Hilton Als, The New Yorker
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17– 19 MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND LOW DOUBLE STANDARDS: AN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM The ragingly multitalented Mx Justin Vivian Bond commands the REDCAT stage with a hilarious, heart-wrenching cabaret show with original music from the critically hailed debut recording Dendrophile, guileful covers of songs by Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, LCD Soundsystem, and others—and no small amount of biting political satire. Nominated for a Tony Award as one-half of Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway, the artist, aka V, has toured with the avant-garde performance troupe Big Art Group, and appeared in John Cameron Mitchell’s sex romp Shortbus. V is also the author of the memoir Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels and recently presented the solo exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy at Participant Inc. in New York City. Mx Justin Vivan Bond is accompanied by a live band featuring pianist Thomas Bartlett.
FRI FEB 17–SAT FEB 18, 8:30 PM SUN FEB 19, 7:00 PM $25 [STUDENTS $25, CALARTS $25] Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
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ru ar y MARIANO PENSOTTI 23 –2 6 THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL (el pasado es un animal grotesco) A large-scale revolving set magically transforms into dozens of different locales as a quartet of characters tracks a decade of love, loss and adventure in this internationally acclaimed work from Argentine writer-director Mariano Pensotti. In a fast-paced, multilayered “mega-fiction,” The Past follows the evolution of its complex characters as Argentina’s economy collapses and their lives and hopes take unexpected twists and turns. Pensotti avoids sentimental stereotypes at the same time that he reveals a generation’s self-regard with emotional profundity and searing humor. Ingeniously, the circular set is in near-constant motion, allowing for key moments of the drama to be foregrounded until they recede from view, reminding the characters—and us—how quickly a given moment can turn into a distant fiction only to emerge again. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Photos by Matias Sendón
THURS FEB 23–SAT FEB 25, 8:30 PM SUN FEB 26, 3:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
“Blisteringly funny...a compelling portrait of the self-obsession of his own generation that achieves that rare feat of profoundly moving an audience.” Plays International
“Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy and, most of all, with the ability to capture an epic psychosis in an unpretentious nutshell.” British Theatre Guide
TIM BOC TOU
“[Acosta is] one of the most important creators of theater in Mexico.”
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MARTíN ACOSTA TIMBOCTOU
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Presented by CalArts Center for New Performance in association with Duende CalArts and UDG Cultura Written by Alejandro Ricaño Directed by Martín Acosta
Strangers find their lives suddenly intertwined by acts of violence and corruption in Timboctou, a wryly humorous and provocative new play written by Alejandro Ricaño and set against the volatile backdrop of the Mexican drug wars and intense border politics. This world premiere production imagines Timboctou as a mysterious, unreachable refuge at the end of the earth, and illustrates the narrow line between victim and victimized. Celebrated Mexico City director Martín Acosta leads a binational cast and creative team for this highly visual multimedia work, a unique collaboration between the CalArts Center for New Performance and its bilingual theater initiative Duende CalArts and the University of Guadalajara’s Cultura presenting organization. In Spanish and English with subtitles.
PREVIEW: FRI MAR 2, 8:30 PM SAT MAR 3, 8:30 PM SUN MAR 4, 7:00 PM TUES MAR 6–FRI MAR 9, 8:30PM SAT MAR 10, 3:00 & 8:30 PM SUN MAR 11, 3:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
“A dialogue of gazes between artists from Mexico and the USA...with the powerful flight of imagination.” Martín Acosta Costume studies for Timboctou by designer Mario Marín del Río
Tickets: 213.237.2800
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Photo by Julia Cervantes
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Presented at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center welcomes the return of world-renowned choreographer Ronald K. Brown, whose company Evidence made its Los Angeles debut as part of a co-presentation at REDCAT in 2008. With a distinct integration of traditional African dance and contemporary choreography, the program includes the West Coast premiere of On Earth Together, set to the music of Stevie Wonder, as well as Brown’s acclaimed Grace, which is in the repertory of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Tickets and information at musiccenter.org
Courtesy the artist
FRI MAR 9–SAT MAR 10, 7:30 PM; SUN MAR 11, 2:00 PM
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
DANIEL EISENBERG THE UNSTABLE OBJECT
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What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common? Daniel Eisenberg’s (Persistence, Something More Than Night) latest film, The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on contemporary models of production. Interested in the ways “things” affect both producer and consumer, Eisenberg travels to a Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany, where individualized cars are hand-built by high-tech specialists; to Chicago Lighthouse Industries, where blind workers produce wall clocks for government offices; and to a deafening cymbal factory in Istanbul, Turkey, where sought-after cymbals are cast and hammered by hand, exactly as they were 400 years ago. Through sequences sympathetic to each site and subject that highlight the senses of sight, sound, and touch, The Unstable Object quietly probes the relationships our global economy creates among individuals around the world. In person: Daniel Eisenberg
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
THUR MAR 22, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
Photo by Francesca d’Aloja
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The supremely gifted cellist Frances-Marie Uitti makes a rare Los Angeles appearance for the debut of Michael Jon Fink’s new cello concerto, written especially for her pioneering technique of playing with two bows simultaneously, and chamber ensemble. Known for a prodigious career of dismantling longstanding musical boundaries, Uitti follows with another world premiere, Greg Moore’s new work for “stringless cello,” a musical gesture controller developed at the Center for Musical Audio Technology at UC Berkeley. Rounding out the program are other contemporary works written for Uitti’s incredible interpretations. Funded in part by a generous grant from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
FRI MAR 23, 8:30 PM $20 [Students $16, CalArts $10]
“Uitti has made a career out of demolishing musical boundaries… she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet.” Washington Post
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FROM SILVER APPLES TO A SKY OF CLOUDLESS SULPHUR: REVISITED
“When the electronic composer Morton featuring Morton Subotnick The Los Angeles new music high-fliers meet up with the godfather of techno Subotnick released Morton Subotnick for a live revisit to the electronic music pioneer’s iconic works, rendered with new technology. From the landmark Silver Apples of the Moon (1966) ‘Silver Apples of the to A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1977), Subotnick worked with Buchla synthesizers and tape recorders to create new electronic works meant for the home Moon,’ he seemed to environment—and later adapted his music for live performance. Now equipped Ableton Live on his Mac and the new Buchla 200e, he performs with the be exploring a limitless with E.A.R. Unit—collaborators since 1980—and draws on elements of Silver Apples and Sky in an evening of “spontaneous performance and decision-making.” world.” The New York Times SAT MAR 24, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
Morton Subotnick, courtesy the artist
“Subotnick created a rich and, most important, musical blend of sonic attitudes, densities and textures.” Los Angeles Times Kristin Erickson, featured in Studio: Fall 2010
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STUDIO SPRING 2012
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Original, ambitiously offbeat performances by a lively mix of experimental Los Angeles performing artists are sure to inspire L.A.’s most adventurous audiences when REDCAT unveils the latest edition of its interdisciplinary series of new works and works-in-progress. Previously, Studio has featured such artists as Kathy Carbone and Vinny Golia, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Los Angeles Electric 8, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Emily Mast, Miwa Matreyek, Hanna van der Kolk, Peres Owino, Poor Dog Group, Waewdao Sirisook, and Roxanne Steinberg and Steve Lockwood. Funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
SAT MAR 31–SUN APR 1, 8:30 PM $15 [STUDENTS $12, CALARTS $8]
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
NARRATIVE BODIES: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY ABIGAIL CHILD
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Poet, essayist and filmmaker Abigail Child sees her creations as a curious and particular intersection, often humorous, sometimes alchemical, between sound and image. Bodies, fetishes, symbols, icons and relics are reinvented and refitted to new realities and new desires. The total assembly is a movement metaphorically (with the ghostly re-emergence of Griffith on one side and on the other Eisenstein), and the images and poetic rhythms use stricture as a magnifying glass to uncover the lies and injustices of history. Child’s film cycle, Is This What You Were Born For (1981–89), is a landmark of contemporary avant-garde cinema, and her recent works continue to be widely shown and celebrated. Films include Peripeteia I, (1977), Perils (1986), Mayhem (1987), The Future is Behind You (2004–05), Mirror World (2006) and Ligatures (2009). In person: Abigail Child Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MON APR 2, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
Mirror World
Photos by Benjamin Kasulke
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Theater
DAYNA HANSON GLORIA’S CAUSE
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As election-year politics heat up and the complexities of our nation’s history are given clashing revisions, this wildly inventive production inspired by the American Revolution takes on potent political charge. Celebrated choreographer and director Dayna Hanson blends live rock music, idiosyncratic dance and inventive theatrics to re-imagine key moments in American history, and creates a kinetic, darkly funny portrayal of the roots of America’s inequalities. With an incongruous movement style that incorporates gestures from professional sports and ’70s television, Hanson and her multidisciplinary cast smartly remix events that set a country in motion, and the motivations and meanings that continue to be debated today. Funded in part with generous support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. Gloria’s Cause is an NPN Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards in partnership with Under the Radar and NPN. For more information visit www.npnweb.orgg
THUR APR 5–SAT APR 7, 8:30 PM SUN APR 8, 7:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
“Enthralling and hilarious and beautiful and confusing in the certain way that only the best performances are.” The Stranger
“Sublime moments that make smart use of its talented cast.” Seattle Times
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sharon lockhart double tide “Occupies the liminal space between stillness and movement, and between actual time and subjective time.” Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art
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In the wake of her cinematic meditations on the relationship between laboring bodies and their environment—NO (2003) and Lunch Break (2008), both shown at REDCAT—artist/filmmaker Sharon Lockhart positioned her camera in the wild coastal landscape of Seal Cove, Maine, a historic site for commercial clamming. Following the backbreaking efforts of clam digger Jen Casad, the film unfolds in two uninterrupted takes to capture the rare phenomenon of “double tide”— when low tide occurs twice during daylight hours, once at dawn and once at dusk. The splendid imagery is matched by a seductive sound track, bird chirpings mixed with the sound of wind, water and an invisible foghorn, interrupted just once by the digger’s lone, moving cry. In person: Sharon Lockhart Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Courtesy the artist
MON APR 9, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
“This moving meditation from the artist Sharon Lockhart is guaranteed to lower your blood pressure and recalibrate your mind.” The New York Times
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KARMETIK MACHINE ORCHESTRA SAMSARA
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Brilliant musicmakers are allied with fantastical robotic instruments in this paradigm-shifting performance that invokes “samsara”— the Sanskrit concept of the cycle of birth, life, death, and reincarnation—as the Machine Orchestra offers musical interpretations of several traditional Indian fables drawn from the Panchatantra and the Jataka Tales. Musicians, electro-mechnical instruments, dancers, and multiple speakers are dispersed in and around the audience for this “rebirth” of ancient morality tales in the technologically ingenious 21st century. Samsara is directed by Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling. Special guest artists include interactive electronic performers Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, choreographer Raakhi Kapur and the legendary kinetic sculptor and musician Trimpin.
THUR APR 12–FRI APR 13, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
“KarmetiK Machine Orchestra mark[s] a giant leap toward a future when we might go to concerts to hear machines play.” Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
Newsweek
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MY BARBARIAN: POST-LIVING ANTE-ACTION THEATER With knowing humor and carefully considered allusion, My Barbarian’s ongoing Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT) project interrogates counterculture theatrical forms of the ’60s and translates them into slyly subversive music theater of the moment. The irreverent Los Angeles trio of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade collaborates with a team of local performers to workshop and stage Post-Paradise, Sorry Now—using the five principles they have established for PoLAAT: Estrangement, Indistinction, Suspension of Beliefs, a Mandate to Participate, and Inspirational Critique. The culminating performance self-consciously employs improvisation, audience participation and the staging of social taboo as it references both the Living Theater’s utopian Paradise Now (1968) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s nihilistic critical response Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now (1969).
SAT APR 14, 8:30 PM; SUN APR 15, 7:00 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
“An astute cabaret of insight and satire… worthy of Voltaire.” LA Weekly
My Barbarian, Post-Living Ante-Action Theater, El Matadero, Madrid 2010. Photos by Becky Snodgrass
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
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il 1 6 AWAKENING AND SEEING: NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY Nathaniel Dorsky’s work draws from the very essence of cinema; he creates profound experiences that explore the world through images of extraordinary beauty, and a montage that subverts the descriptive and awakens mystery. Dorsky’s book Devotional Cinema is a modern classic on the poetics of the medium, and the thirteen films he has completed since 1996 have been widely acclaimed and featured at major film festivals and museums throughout the world. This program includes Pastourelle (2010), The Return (named by The New York Times as one of the best films of 2011), and the world premiere of August and After. An additional program of Dorsky’s films is presented at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In person: Nathaniel Dorsky The Return
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Pastourelle
MON APR 16, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
“Dorsky’s films are filled with images shot with a hovering camera, and there is something truly lyrical about their ephemeral beauty.” The New York Times
Richard Nunns. Photo ©2008 Radio New Zealand
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NEW ZEALAND IN L.A.
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Master musician Richard Nunns, the world’s foremost authority on Māori music, is the special guest artist for a two-day celebration of New Zealand contemporary chamber and orchestral works and music for ngā taonga pūoro—traditional Māori instruments. The concerts feature compositions by Chris Cree Brown, James Gardner, Ross Carey, Samuel Holloway, John Psathas, and Gillian Whitehead. In addition to Nunns, whose work extends from avant-garde jazz to contributing to the soundtracks for films such as Whale Rider and The Lord of the Rings, the performers include clarinetist Gretchen Dunsmore and percussionist Chris O’Connor. Detailed program information at redcat.org
WED APR 18–THUR APR 19, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
“Richard Nunns is a living legend... our musical guardian.” Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
the Press, New Zealand
Gretchen Dunsmore, courtesy the artist; Chris O’Connor, courtesy the artist
Photo by Santiago Marcial
Rigo 23, Autonomous Space Program – Corncob (Mazorca) Spaceship (production image), 2011–12, courtesy the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Autonomous Space Program, source image by Tomás, Morelia Caracol, Chiapas, 2011
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Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 6–9 PM
Initiated by San Francisco-based artist Rigo 23, Autonomous Space Program is an interdisciplinary collaboration with weavers, seamstresses, painters, carpenters, and cultural activists from Southern Chiapas, Mexico. Conceived as a series of sculptures and large-scale environments, Rigo 23’s project for the Gallery at REDCAT is the outgrowth of direct negotiations with the Good Government Junta of Morelia, Chiapas, developed around the theme “Another World, Another Path,” articulated in 2009 by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) at the First Global Festival of Dignified Rage—an event that marked the group’s fifteenth anniversary and underscored its belief in a utopia related to Mayan conceptions of the cosmos. Autonomous Space Program takes the form of a planetarium, in which constellations and spacecrafts based on the iconography and imagery of the EZLN are realized for the purposes of intercommunal and intergalactic dialogue. Funded in part with generous support from the EDELO Residency Program, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico.
SUN APR 22—SUN JUN 17 TUES—SUN, NOON–6 PM OR INTERMISSION FREE
Autonomous Space Program, embroidery from Municipio 17 de Noviembre, Morelia Caracol, Chiapas, 2011
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The Miners’ Hymns
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Ap r il BILL MORRISON 23 MINERS, BRIDGES, LOST LOVE AND OTHER RETRIEVED TREASURES Los Angeles premiere | The Miners’ Hymns, USA/UK, 52 min, 2011, HD
Since The Film of Her (1996), award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has completed more than 20 experimental pieces in which he poetically and rhythmically reworks archival footage in various stages of preservation or decomposition. With The Miners’ Hymns, he teams up with Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to celebrate the culture and political struggles of the Durham collieries in northeastern England. Weaving together stunning black-and-white footage from the early 1900s through to the massive 1984 strikes, the film montages different aspects of the miners’ lives—the hardship of pit work, the role of the trade unions, the tradition of the colliery brass bands and the annual Miners’ Gala in Durham. A selection of earlier short films including Outerborough (2005) and Release (2010) rounds out the evening. In person: Bill Morrison
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MON APR 23, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
“An elegiac testament to the lost industrial culture of the Durham coalfields.” Sight & Sound
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
THE IMAGINARY VOYAGES OF MAUREEN SELWOOD
A Modern Convenience
As You Desire Me
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Since 1980 Maureen Selwood’s hand-drawn animations have taken viewers into the strange, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying lands of the mind. For her first solo show in Los Angeles, she presents a selection of more recent pieces, including the haunting black-and-white imagery of Hail Mary (1998); the expressively rendered Drawing Lessons (2006) and I Started Early (2007); As You Desire Me (2009), the single-channel version of an installation inspired by her residence at the American Academy in Rome at the beginning of the Iraq War; the hallucinogenic trip of How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (2009); the unexpected washing-machine madness of A Modern Convenience (2012); as well as Mistaken Identity (2001), her alluring deconstruction of 1955 noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, presented with live performance. In person: Maureen Selwood
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MON APR 30, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5]
Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
“Selwood grapples with notions of dislocation, grief and loss…The result is indeed akin to poetry, in its piercing sadness that is at once palpable and ephemeral.” Holly Willis
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Photos by Fred Debrock
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WUNDERBAUM SONGS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
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Explosively inventive Dutch theater ensemble Wunderbaum merges with rock trio Touki Delphine to create a theatrical superband in this absurdly fantastical concert event inspired in part by imagery from Werner Herzog’s Antarctica documentary Encounters at the End of the World. In oversized snowsuits and a variety of more fanciful costumes, six performers present a funny and rhythmic song-cycle based on their childhood dreams and hopes. One dreams of flying, another fantasizes about living with jellyfish under the sea. Each imaginary life-choice is illustrated with humorous and touching lyrics, performed in English, and imaginative musical compositions.
SAT APR 28, 8:30 PM SUN APR 29, 7:00 PM $25 [STUDENTS $20, CALARTS $12]
“A fragile, poetic ode… sparking chemistry between theater and music.” Knack Belgium
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“Fresh and original…[Wunderbaum] is political and raw, its actors also rockers.” Los Angeles Times
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TRANSPARENT CITIES
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“Pondering these nearly still images and listening to the city in new ways is indescribably pleasurable.” Blur + Sharpen Film/Video–Family
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In this vivid portrait of Los Angeles, layers of sound and image field recordings combine with music—both recorded and performed live—to offer an eloquent meditation on presence and absence, lived experience and re-presented time. An extraordinary collaboration by Madison Brookshire (video), April Guthrie (cello), Michael Pisaro (sound), and Cassia Streb (viola), Transparent Cities reveals patterns of light, movement, sound, and silence that emerge during the course of a single day. The video images dissolve into a ghostly translucency as the recorded audio and live music build up densely layered sonic textures—an experience of the city that is utterly strange yet eerily familiar. Transparent Cities is preceded by Five Lines, a new film/music composition by Madison Brookshire.
TUES MAY 1, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
The Road Home, by Rahul Gandotra
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The 7th Annual REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival makes a most-welcome return home to enchant moviegoers of all ages. With two full weekends of exhilarating short-film programs, the festival showcases work from around the globe—including Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and Vietnam—to raise the curtain on a world of celluloid wonder that will inspire the whole family. From animated antics to rip-roaring live action, festival highlights include favorites from famed Russian studio SHAR and new delights from Aardman Animations. Detailed program information at redcat.org
SATurdays and sundays, May 5–13 $5 [STUDENTS $5, CALARTS $5]
Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
CINE POVERA: MEXICAN EXPERIMENTS IN 16MM
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Taking its cue from the Arte Povera movement, Cine Povera showcases work from Mexico by filmmakers who persist in working in 16mm with the most modest resources. Using antiquated techniques to produce emphatically anti-corporate and insistently artisanal cinema, the artists address social and political concerns—from the recent upheavals in Oaxaca to the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. Not consumed with the medium’s illusions, this eclectic selection of handcrafted shorts reveals the passion, craft and ingenuity of artists who adhere to the ethos of honest effort. The screening features young Mexican filmmakers Uriel Lopez España, Txema Novelo, Hanne Jimenez, Rosario Sotelo, Mayra Isabel Cespedes Vaca, Elena Pardo, Andres García Franco, Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza and Bruno Varel, alongside artists who have made work in Mexico, including Naomi Uman, Robert Fenz, Rocio Aranda de la Figuera and Erika Loic. In person: Curator Jesse Lerner Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MON MAY 7, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5] Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
From left: Parícutin, Erika Loic; Cines Abandonados, Andrés García Franco; Mi Barrio, Elena Pardo
Photo by Madison Brookshire
World premiere
“On Oguri’s watch, life’s minutiae become the infinite.” dance Magazine The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series
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Featuring an original score by The Edge and Paul Chavez Photo by Madison Brookshire
Leading Los Angeles choreographer Oguri collaborates with Dublin-based choreographers Morleigh Steinberg and Liz Roche in this acclaimed international co-production featuring a beautifully haunting musical score by U2 guitarist The Edge and Paul Chavez of Feltlike. Cold Dream Colour is a precise and hypnotic dance theater work, partly inspired by the rich and ethereal work of Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, described as “the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century” by the Irish Times. The distinctive guitar techniques of The Edge set an urgent yet subtly textured tone for the work, which merges an intensely seductive movement vocabulary akin to the butoh form with an evocative and gestural movement style that hints at a poetic narrative. The powerful dance is concerned less with animating figures and physical shapes in le Brocquy’s mysterious paintings than with finding the energies and meanings in them.
WED MAY 16–SAT MAY 19, 8:30 PM SUN MAY 20, 3:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
“Spellbinding...It’s nice to see a bit of rock-star oomph being injected into the world of contemporary dance.” Courtesy the artist
Irish Independent
“New Day has managed to create a kind of oasis insulated from an indie film community that can often be competitive.” documentary.org
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NEW DAY AT 40: A COMMUNITY’S CELEBRATION REDCAT is proud to host a celebratory screening (program TBA) to mark the 40th anniversary of New Day Films—created by filmmakers Julia Reichert and Jim Klein when they failed to secure distribution for Growing Up Female (1971), about the social constraints placed on women aged 4 to 35. In the early 1970s the act of hearing women’s voices was perceived as a “radical,” and New Day welcomed the work of filmmakers—both men and women—who were challenging the political status quo in terms of gender, social and racial inequality. Today, New Day Films counts more than 100 members, whose films have won Academy Awards, Emmys, and premiered at major film festivals and cover issues as diverse as immigration, human rights, LGBT, disability, addiction, criminal justice, youth and aging. In person: Members of New Day Films
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
mon MAy 21, 8:30 PM $10 [STUDENTS $8, CALARTS $5] Above from left: Growing Up Female poster, 1971; New Day poster, 1973; New Day members circa 1976, courtesy New Day
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PARTCH
Harry Partch
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Celebrating the release of the first recording of the complete Bitter Music, Partch’s often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, long-lost hobo journal from 1935 is performed as a special multimedia presentation including the work’s original pen and ink illustrations, photographs from the composer’s scrapbooks and his legendary instruments. From the transient shelters of mid-Depression California to the reading room of the British Museum, from cleaning sewers to taking tea with Irish poet W.B. Yeats, Partch’s story reveals seven months in a lifetime of extraordinary struggle to forge a new musical language outside the traditions of Western Classical music. The evening also includes a newly discovered 1969 interview with Partch about Bitter Music, and the first performance of the long-lost 1942 version of Barstow for two voices, Adapted Guitar and Chromelodeon.
THUR Jun 14, 8:30 PM $25 [STUDENTS $20, CALARTS $12]
“Weird and wonderful sonorities, truly unlike anything else on Earth or any neighboring celestial body.” LA Weekly Berglind Tomasdottir, featured in Studio: Fall 2011
Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
STUDIO summer 2012
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Six Los Angeles artists stage new works and works-in-progress in this ongoing program curated to offer audiences a fresh, dynamic mix of interdisciplinary performances while giving experimental artists a platform to investigate new ideas and new directions. Funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
SUN JUN 24–MON JUN 25, 8:30 PM $15 [STUDENTS $12, CALARTS $8] Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
Time Out London
Courtesy the artist
“Mwine…is wired, vivid and insistent.”
Theater–Multimedia
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Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine A Missionary Position World premiere
A multimedia solo work for the stage written and performed by Ugandan American artist Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, A Missionary Position is a searing response to the rampant homophobia now gripping Uganda. The noted Los Angeles theater artist incorporates raw video footage and still photography—gathered over recent months on front lines of the African nation’s LGBT movement—and layers this documentary material with riveting portrayals of Ugandan gay prostitutes, gay priests and LGBT activists drawn from in-person interviews to create a complex investigation of the burgeoning resistance to state-supported oppression. A Missionary Position is the follow-up to Mwine’s internationally heralded one-man show Biro, about the eponymous HIV-positive Ugandan who illegally entered the United States to seek treatment.
Thur JUN 28-SAT JUN 30, 8:30 PM SUN JUL 1, 7:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12]
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Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, She’s Gone, 2009, single-channel video with sound, 3 min, courtesy the artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
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Opening reception: Saturday, July 7, 6–9 PM
For their first major solo exhibition in the United States, Berlin-based artists Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda further an ongoing inquiry into the systems that underlie processes and contexts of social exchange. Since studying together at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Chung and Maeda have worked collaboratively for nearly a decade. While recent exhibitions have often tended toward more invisible and oblique forms of critical inquiry, many of their sculptural, photographic, and video-based works emerge from a direct engagement with the artists’ immediate context. In the case of Untitled (2011), Chung and Maeda bring together a collection of found photographs that depict the candidates who have run against the current mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, over the course of his thirty-year political career. Through a working method that is largely determined by research into specific physical, cultural and conceptual conditions, the artists’ two-month residency in Los Angeles culminates in a new project at REDCAT that characteristically exposes and derails the conventions of exhibition-making.
SUN JULY 8–SUN SEPT 2 TUES–SUN, NOON–6 PM OR INTERMISSION FREE
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Untitled, 2011, inkjet print, 24 x 16 inches, courtesy the artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Caducean City, 2006, 16mm film, 22 min, courtesy the artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
SPECIAL CALARTS EVENTS at REDCat The end of the school year brings to REDCAT a series of special programs highlighting the work created at CalArts.
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CALARTS FILM/ VIDEO SHOWCASES
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Each year the CalArts School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film Directing programs.
WED MAY 2–SAT MAY 5, 8:30 PM FREE, RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series
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THE NEXT DANCE COMPANY
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Now in its fourth season, the resident ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts brings innovative and memorable new dance to REDCAT. Choreographers Stephan Koplowitz and Laurence Blake co-direct this year’s program from The Next Dance Company, which draws together the school’s most accomplished performers and choreographers, all members of the 2012 graduating class. The performances include choreography by New York-based guest artist Darrell Grand Moultrie and faculty member Laurence Blake, alongside extraordinary dances from students in both the MFA and BFA programs.
FRI MAY 11–SAT MAY 12, 8:30 PM $20 [STUDENTS $16, CALARTS $10]
and more… CALARTS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP CalArts Entertainment Group (CEG) gathers dynamic leaders in the art and entertainment fields for an engaging series of programs and events designed to foster in-depth conversation and a lively social space. Speakers drawn from CalArts’ first-rate network of alumni, faculty and guest artists explore current issues in the world of contemporary art and entertainment, and related receptions offer a chance to make new connections in the intimate Lounge at REDCAT. Detailed program information at calarts.edu/alumni
Conversations
CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE
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The School of Critical Studies hosts its annual reading of the best new fiction and poetry by MFA candidates in the school’s Writing Program.
SUN MAY 13, 7:00 PM FREE, RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERsHIP (CAP) AT REDCAT Throughout the spring REDCAT and the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) host a variety of free screenings, concerts and a new youth theater production that highlight the young participants in CAP’s varied programs throughout Los Angeles. For more than 20 years CAP has been linking the Institute with the diverse communities of Los Angeles County through free, after-school and school-based arts programs for youth. CAP provides the youth in these communities challenging learning environments for artistic experimentation and creates access to higher education. Through these CalArts facultymentored programs, CAP provides CalArts students the opportunity to teach, to refine their artistic abilities and to redefine the role of artists, arts education, and the arts in society. Detailed program information at calarts.edu/cap
Replicant Vs Separatist, Alexandro Segade, New Original Works Festival 2010
“One of the city’s more eclectic and vital performance festivals.” LA Weekly Cattywampus, Robert Cucuzza, New Original Works Festival 2011
Tickets: 213.237.2800
redcat.org
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NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2012
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Throughout the summer REDCAT serves as a vital laboratory for the creation of innovative new work by Los Angeles performing artists, culminating in the annual New Original Works Festival, now in its ninth year. The festival premieres new dance, theater, music and multimedia works over the course of three weeks in an interdisciplinary program that the Los Angeles Times described as “on the pulse of cutting-edge contemporary performance.” Past festivals have launched projects by artists that continue to appear on stages worldwide, including Cloud Eye Control, Robert Cucuzza, Early Morning Opera, Rosanna Gamson, Sheetal Gandhi, Michel Kouakou, Anne LeBaron, Lucky Dragons, Miwa Matreyek, My Barbarian, Poor Dog Group, Alexandro Segade, Lauren Weedman, Meg Wolfe, Kristina Wong and Raphael Xavier, among many more. Detailed program information announced each spring at redcat.org Sack, Michel Kouakou/ Daara Dance. New Original Works Festival 2011. Photo by Aba Page
Expand Your REDCAT Experience
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Featured Publication
Animalia: Kim Beom
With contributions by Clara Kim, Paola Morsiani, and Park Chan-Kyong. 167 pages, four-color, perfect bind, softcover. Design by BAAN/Sungyeol Kim. REDCAT Publications are available for purchase in the Lounge at REDCAT or online. View a complete list of titles at REDCAT.ORG/PUBLICATIONS
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Tues–Fri, 9 am–8 pm or post-show Sat, 12 pm–8 pm or post-show Sun, 12 pm–6 pm or post-show REDCAT.org/visit/lounge
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2011 REDCAT Award Honorees Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad, with Master of Ceremonies Ed Harris.
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Vice Chair
Joan Abrahamson Aileen Adams Alan Bergman David A. Bossert William Campbell Manuel Castells Don Cheadle Joseph M. Cohen Robert J. Denison Tim Disney Melissa P. Draper Robert B. Egelston Michael D. Eisner David I. Fisher
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Michelle Lund Jamie Alter Lynton Terence McFarland, Alumni Trustee
Lawrence J. Ramer Janet Dreisen Rappaport Araceli Ruano Jordan Saenz, Student Trustee
David L. Schiff Joseph Smith
$500–$999 Jeffrey Deitch Emi Fontana Sikkema Jenkins & Company The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Inc. Thao Nguyen Brian Phillips Bianca M. Roberts Eugene Sadovoy Nancy Englander and Harold Williams Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Nancy Berman and Alan Bloch Sue Bienkowski Brian R. Holt Elliott Hundley William L. Jones Deborah McLeod Michelle and Michael O’Brien
$100–$499 Anonymous (3) Joe Austin Sara and Urs Baur Roz and Peter Bonerz Matthew Easley Elisabeth Familian George Gage Pallavi Garg Oscar Gerardo Elyse and Stanley Grinstein groundlift.org Eungie Joo Barb and Edward Jourdenais Jodie Landau Margo Leavin Chris and Darius (mfa 06) Mannino Sharon Oxborough Rudy Perez Stuart Rudnick and Doreen Braverman Olivia Sandoval (bfa 10) Brien and Anne Smith Julia Ward Sally Louise White
Gifts-in-Kind Lacey Avenue llc Mythos Breweries S.A. Seth Polen
other Anonymous (5) • John Andrews • Gary Antonucci • Eusebio Aynaga • Thomas E. Backer, PhD • Mary-Bonner Baker and Hunter Perrin • Dan Barham • Christopher Basile • Zhao HuiQuin and Duran Bell • Kathryn Beranich • Martin Berg • Barbara Bestor • Peter J. Bloom • Dorit Bollinger • Rex Boone • Anne Brillant • Vincent Brook • Diana Burman • Diane Calder (mfa 89) • Lindsie Carlsen • Martin Cernosek • Dorit Cypis (mfa 77) • Satya Delamanitou • Dino Dinco • Melanie Dubose • Dana Berman Duff (mfa 81) • Gerald Elijah • Maryjohn Frank • Christy Fulbright • John Funk • Cheri Gaulke • Fariba Ghaffari • Beth Burns and Mark Gorman • Arianne Hoffmann and Kevin Gralewski • Debra and Joseph Gualtieri • Paul Guilfoyle • Robert Gutierrez • Kerry Hannawell • Judith Hansen • Cynthia Harrington • Risha Hill (mfa 03) • Wendy Elliott and David Hurwith • Deborah Irmas • Terrence S. Johnson • David Keitel and Shelley Marks • Lynette Kessler • Jumi Kim • Laurel Kishi • Marla Koosed • Jesse Lemer • Elana Mann and Jean-Paul Leonard • Leeba R. Lessin • Lockheed Corporation • Marilyn J. Lowey • Arianne MacBean (mfa 99) • Albert Marston • John May • Julie McCabe • Paula Morris • Mark Nelson • Sibyl H. O’Malley • Judith Teitelman and Aaron Paley • John Palmer • Meeta and Manashi Patnaik • Matthew Pomerantz • Frances Ramirez • Amy Leach and Robin Rauzi • John Reimer • Dennis Roberts • Pat Sawyer • Daniela Saxa-Kaneko • Michael Seel • Sharon Sindell • Raphael P. Smadja (bfa 84) • Leslie Tamaribuchi • Mary Terrall • Alan Trevor • Eugenie Trow • Mark Valdez • Tina and Jim Vince • Eric Wallner • Angela and Ian Wayne • Corey Whelpley • Bill and Kathy Wishner • Chris Wojcieszyn • Kristina Wong • Louise Woo • Julie Tolentino and Stosh Pigpen Fila • Chi-wang Yang (mfa 07) • Jane and Steven Zaslaw Donations and commitments made between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011 This publication is produced by the CalArts Office of Advancement. design Jessica Fleischmann (MFA 01), still room photography Steven Gunther and Scott Groller unless noted otherwise.
REDCAT Council
CALARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Austin M. Beutner, Chair Thomas L. Lee, Vice Chair James B. Lovelace,
U. S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management Andrea and John Van de Kamp Debbie and Elliot Webb Alexander Westerman and David Gleason Joni Weyl and Sidney Felsen Wendy and Jay Wintrob Adele Yellin
Thomas E. Unterman Roger Wacker Elliot D. Webb Luanne C. Wells Denita Willoughby Christine N. Ziemba, Staff Trustee
Trustees Emeriti V. Shannon Clyne Douglas K. Freeman Jeffrey Katzenberg William S. Lund C. Roderick O’Neil Michael Pressman
Tim Disney, Chair Harriett F. Gold, Co-Vice Chair
Catharine Soros, Co-Vice Chair
Edgar Arceneaux Virginia Beutner Jeffrey Calman Victoria Dailey Richard J. Grad William S. Lund Leonard Madson Antonio Mejias-Rentas S. Daniel Melita Seth Polen Kevin Ratner Araceli Ruano John Rubeli
Dorothy R. Sherwood Eve Steele Adele Yellin Steven D. Lavine, President, CalArts
Lynn Rosenfeld, Vice President for Special Projects, CalArts
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Right: Autonomous Space Program, source image by Tomás, Morelia Caracol, 2011
Photo: Santiago Marcial.
Below: Rigo 23, Autonomous Space Program – Corncob (Mazorca) Spaceship (production image), 2011-12