Dance Events

Dance Events

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series Dance presents a wide variety of new dance, dance-theater and dance for film, including newly commissioned projects featuring both international artist and innovators from throughout the region.

March 18 - March 27

Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Tov

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.

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April 11 - April 12

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.

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April 14 - April 18

John Jasperse Company with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble): Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat-Out Lies

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, John Jasperse asks us to examine what we believe, what we don't, and why.

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May 14 - May 15

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.

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May 20 - May 23

Lionel Popkin: There is An Elephant in This Dance

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.

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June 4 - June 5

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.

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June 6 - June 7

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.

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Past REDCAT Dance Events

January 19 - January 23

Grupo de Rua: H3

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.

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January 15 - January 16

The Wooden Floor

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.

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December 18 - December 19

CalArts Winter Dance

The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance presents three brand-new works by choreography faculty Colin Connor, Rosanna Gamson and Stephanie Nugent in a highly physical, visually rich program performed by CalArts’ most expert dancers

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November 11 - November 14

Anna Halprin/Anne Collod & guests, with Morton Subotnick: parades & changes, replays

Improvising around a set of movement and music scores, dancers dress and undress, carry out everyday tasks, invent gestures, and disappear inside swirling rolls of paper in this full-scale reconstruction of Anna Halprin’s game-changing 1965 work parades & changes, a landmark of postmodern dance featuring music performed live by Morton Subotnick, the electronica pioneer who teamed with Halprin on the original.

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November 6 - November 8

Ramayana: An Indian Epic

An ensemble of 25 gamelan players and 14 dancers enacts an exquisite Balinese adaptation of the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu dance drama of lust and abduction, of war and faith, filled with characters who look like birds, monkeys and warriors but who may turn out to be kings and gods.

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November 4

Dancing on Site and on Camera

In a lively discussion about their practices and their diverse experiences, Alpert Award-winning choreographers Stephan Koplowitz, Joanna Haigood and David Rousseve, illuminate how site—a particular natural, architectural or cultural environment—inspires dance and how film can document the process and product of site-specific dance.

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November 1 - November 2

Studio: Fall 09

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. This edition of Studio features work by Rae Shao-Lan Blum, The LippyLu's, Prumsodun Ok, Armen Ra, UEM with Jasmine Orpilla, and Kendra Ware and Billy Mark.

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October 21 - October 25

Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: Beautiful Me

A global fusion of rousing live music sets the pace for this solo tour de force by exquisite South African dancer and actor Gregory Maqoma. Combining breathtaking precision with lyrical warmth and humor, Maqoma layers eclectic idioms into a heartfelt self-portrait and a kinetic reflection on African identity.

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September 23 - September 26

Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher: MAYBE FOREVER

Two of Europe’s most engaging and eloquent choreographers come together capturing the whirling passions, fears and anxieties of true love that is evaporating like a daydream in a profound and touching duet fueled by a hauntingly evocative post-blues song suite performed live by acclaimed Belgian singer/songwriter Niko Hafkenscheid.

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August 6 - August 8

New Original Works Festival 2009

The annual three-week NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists.

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