Events from January 1 to January 31
This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students
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.
The Santa Ana youth dance company 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.
Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his nine-member Grupo de Rua—all recruited from the lively street 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.
The exuberant, irreverent and surprising films of Chris Langdon make a welcome return to the screen after many years out of circulation. A student of Pat O’Neill, Robert Nelson and John Baldessari, Langdon was incredibly prolific, producing a large body of work in painting, sculpture, film, photography and graphics.The filmmaker is attending in person.
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.
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, accompanied by a projection of a provocative film by Jane Brill. Also: Horowitz's ensemble also mashes up musical tropes from science fiction films in Invasion from the Chicken Planet.
