Alpert Award-winning choreographer David Roussève mixes luscious movement for nine exquisite performers with bold video imagery to invoke the life and spirit of composer and arranger Billy “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn, who wrote such famous hits as A Train, Chelsea Bridge and Lush Life for Duke Ellington’s orchestra, but was a relatively unknown African American gay man living in Harlem of the 40’s to the 60’s. 

In a unique seating arrangement and surround-sound configuration, Robin Hayward’s self-designed microtonal tuba and contrabassist Christopher Williams’ slow bows meld in an unearthly fusion of overtones, undertones, noise, bodily rhythms, and spatial resonance. 

REDCAT joins a distinguished consortium of film institutions in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to present the China Onscreen Biennial, returning for a fourth edition in 2018, (October 19—November 17). 

Collaborating under the name Ojoboca since 2010, the Berlin-based duo of Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, provides a glimpse into our collective unconscious with their films and expanded cinema performances.