In this internationally acclaimed choreographic work, celebrated artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis, along with her incredible cast, Susanne Sachsse, Dani Brown and Titilayo Abedayo, use melodrama and an eerie tale by the Brothers Grimm as points of departure.
Inspired by the Client / Dealer relationship from Bernard Marie-Koltès’ play In the Solitude of The Cotton Fields, The WANT is a contemporary opera—with music by Ethan Braun and lighting design by Shahryar Nashal—that fuses vocal expression with a rich physicality.
Juan Pablo González’s Caballerango (Horse Wrangler) (2018, 62 min, Digital, Spanish / English subtitles) is an intimate portrait of rural Mexican life amidst the deepening presence of tragedy and loss.
Taking its name from the late Agnès Varda film and inspired by that film’s vitality and diversity, “Mur Murs” is a new one-day film series presenting contemporary artists’ cinema in Los Angeles.
In his prolific career, unfolding since the early 1970s, legendary filmmaker and artist James Benning has matched a passionate wanderlust to an exacting formal rigor, mapping out multivalent landscapes.
When painter Angela Ricci Lucchi and architect Yervant Gianikian met in 1974, this triggered one of the most exciting collaborations in the history of cinema, spanning 44 years, as the pair became internationally known for their sensual, poetic, and critical work on “found footage.”
The 2019 Angel City Jazz festival arrives at REDCAT with a double bill: critically acclaimed Anna Webber’s Simple Trio and Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s Parlour Game. The festival continues with another double bill: Katisse + Diatom Ribbons.
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, in partnership with the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program, presents acclaimed Suquamish poet Cedar Sigo.
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, called “tightly-curated… essential viewing every year” by Cine-File Chicago, will return to REDCAT for its fourth year.
This exhibition presents a selection of films by Adelita Husni Bey (b. 1985, Milan, Italy), which includes the West-Coast premiere of a major new work, titled Chiron (2019) commissioned by the New Museum. The exhibition also includes Husni Bey’s seminal work Postcards from the Desert Island (2011) and 2265 (2015).
Nine New Contemporary Performance Projects Given Residency Support to Premiere at the 16th Annual New Original Works Festival
REDCAT's Annual New Original Works Festival transforms REDCAT into a summer laboratory premiering new contemporary dance, theater, music and multimedia performances. This year's festival launches nine new works by Los Angeles emerging and mid-career artists who are re-defining the boundaries of contemporary performance to invent hybrid artistic disciplines, re-imagine traditions and confront urgent issues. All artistic teams receive free rehearsal space, technical support, and artist fees.
Each of the three weekends features a triple bill of three premieres in a shared evening. Each program is premiered on Thursday evening and repeated Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:30 pm.
