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May 9-10 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
DANCE: This concert features a selection of undergraduate student works from the full program of Spring Dance presented in the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater at CalArts. This production offers the students an opportunity to present their choreography and perform in a professional theater. The program includes the work of guest choreographer Mira Kingsley who has created a piece performed by the BFA graduating class of 2008.
May 10 2008 3 pm
REDCAT
CRITICAL STUDIES: The School of Critical Studies presents a reading by MFA candidates in its Writing Program. The readings and performances will include work that crosses genres, engages hybrid forms, and questions the distinction between the experimental and the conventional.
May 10 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
DANCE: This concert features a selection of undergraduate student works from the full program of Spring Dance presented in the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater at CalArts. This production offers the students an opportunity to present their choreography and perform in a professional theater. The program includes the work of guest choreographer Mira Kingsley who has created a piece performed by the BFA graduating class of 2008.
May 14 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: The California EAR Unit, one of the finest contemporary ensembles in America, gives the world premieres of two commissioned works by John Luther Adams and Gordon Beeferman. Inspired by Adam’s own epiphany of light after experiencing a skyscape by James Turrell, The Light Within features complex and mercurial harmonies that reflect an introspective sonic space in contrast to its companion piece, The Light That Fills the World (1999/2001). Beeferman’s Rites of Summer is envisioned as an "imaginary ballet." Featuring multiple virtuosic components, this patently extroverted piece builds exuberant intensity toward its stark conclusion.
May 17-18 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: The latest edition of REDCAT's ongoing series that focuses on new work and works-in-progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music by Los Angeles area artists. The performances take place at REDCAT on both Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 at 8:30 p.m. This edition of Studio was curated by Leslie Ito and George Lugg, and will include the following six original works:
CYNTHIA LEE: I LONGED TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING...
Live tabla and cello accompany a trio of dancers in this movement and music investigation of sam in Hindustani rhythmic tradition: the moment where musical tension is released and begins again, where union and loss coalesce.
MIWA MATREYEK: DREAMING OF LUCID LIVING
Using projected animation to enliven objects, transform space and illuminate live performance, this work is a hypnotically layered construction that seamlessly melds the fantastical with the real, and the seductiveness of cinema with the immediacy of the stage.
SARAH PAUL OCAMPO / ADVANCED BEGINNER: ROOMS
Leading a six-person orchestra playing everyday objects--comb, cheese grater, flyswatter, and more--Ocampo, on guitar, sings a four-song cycle that evokes a stifled domestic world of tattered hearts and longing.
PEGGY JO PABUSTAN / AMANDA ALFIERI: SERIOUS WORK
The collaborative team of Pabustan and Alfieri play with, and prey upon, a wealth of influences from the history of video and performance art in a work that is both traumatic and healing, feminist and exploitative, playful and very serious.
PBE: REQUIEM FOR A HIGH HOMICIDE ENCLAVE
Fusing a deconstruction of Henry Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1694) with source material from the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report, including blog posts, comments and google maps, The Paul Bailey Ensemble (PBE) perform an audio/visual eulogy for the homicide deaths in LA County in 2008.
WU INGRID TSANG: LAMENTO DELLA DRAG
Performing three vocal selections of mixed-genre repertoire alongside musician Giles Miller, Tsang’s manifests an elaborate and extravagant Diva who sings traditional and baroque compositions, and intertwines the histories of opera and queer identity.
May 18 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: The latest edition of REDCAT's ongoing series that focuses on new work and works-in-progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music by Los Angeles area artists. The performances take place at REDCAT on both Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 at 8:30 p.m. This edition of Studio was curated by Leslie Ito and George Lugg, and will include the following six original works:
CYNTHIA LEE: I LONGED TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING...
Live tabla and cello accompany a trio of dancers in this movement and music investigation of sam in Hindustani rhythmic tradition: the moment where musical tension is released and begins again, where union and loss coalesce.
MIWA MATREYEK: DREAMING OF LUCID LIVING
Using projected animation to enliven objects, transform space and illuminate live performance, this work is a hypnotically layered construction that seamlessly melds the fantastical with the real, and the seductiveness of cinema with the immediacy of the stage.
SARAH PAUL OCAMPO / ADVANCED BEGINNER: ROOMS
Leading a six-person orchestra playing everyday objects--comb, cheese grater, flyswatter, and more--Ocampo, on guitar, sings a four-song cycle that evokes a stifled domestic world of tattered hearts and longing.
PEGGY JO PABUSTAN / AMANDA ALFIERI: SERIOUS WORK
The collaborative team of Pabustan and Alfieri play with, and prey upon, a wealth of influences from the history of video and performance art in a work that is both traumatic and healing, feminist and exploitative, playful and very serious.
PBE: REQUIEM FOR A HIGH HOMICIDE ENCLAVE
Fusing a deconstruction of Henry Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1694) with source material from the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report, including blog posts, comments and google maps, The Paul Bailey Ensemble (PBE) perform an audio/visual eulogy for the homicide deaths in LA County in 2008.
WU INGRID TSANG: LAMENTO DELLA DRAG
Performing three vocal selections of mixed-genre repertoire alongside musician Giles Miller, Tsang’s manifests an elaborate and extravagant Diva who sings traditional and baroque compositions, and intertwines the histories of opera and queer identity.
May 30-31 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: Outfitted with a fantastic array of Harry Partch's custom-built microtonal instruments, the ensemble directed by John Schneider performs the composer's complete score of Plectra and Percussion Dances: Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater -- played live for the first time since the work's premiere was broadcast on radio in 1953. The hourlong triptych comprises "Castor and Pollux -- A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini," "Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now," and "Even Wild Horses -- A Dance for an Absent Drama," with the final segment featuring African and Latin American polyrhythms and settings of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, sung in French with supertitles. The performance also includes Partch's own introduction to the piece, as heard on Pacifica radio in 1953.
May 31 2008 8:30 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: Outfitted with a fantastic array of Harry Partch's custom-built microtonal instruments, the ensemble directed by John Schneider performs the composer's complete score of Plectra and Percussion Dances: Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater -- played live for the first time since the work's premiere was broadcast on radio in 1953. The hourlong triptych comprises "Castor and Pollux -- A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini," "Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now," and "Even Wild Horses -- A Dance for an Absent Drama," with the final segment featuring African and Latin American polyrhythms and settings of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, sung in French with supertitles. The performance also includes Partch's own introduction to the piece, as heard on Pacifica radio in 1953.
June 6 2008 8 pm
June 7 2008 6 pm and 8 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, this annual festival offers a selection of some of the most compelling dance for camera and dance media works from around the world. The Dance Camera West Festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its month long celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles.
See http://dancecamerawest.org/ for updated program information.
June 7 2008 6 pm and 8 pm
REDCAT
REDCAT: Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, this annual festival offers a selection of some of the most compelling dance for camera and dance media works from around the world. The Dance Camera West Festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its month long celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles.
See http://dancecamerawest.org/ for updated program information.