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Fall 2016

CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts

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Pat Graney: Girl GodsNovember 3 – 6

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CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary ArtsART CONVERSATIONS DANCE FILM/VIDEO MULTIMEDIA MUSIC THEATER

Fall Season 2016July 9 – September 18

Pedro Barateiro and Quinn LatimerLive from the WestART

September 15 – 18

Christian Rizzo / ICI–CCN MONTPELLIER (France)

d’après une histoire vraieDANCE

September 19

Bearing Witness: The Visceral Cinema of Mike HoolboomFILM/VIDEO

September 24

Trinh T. Minh-haForgetting VietnamFILM/VIDEO

September 26

Laura Kraning: Spectral LandscapesFILM/VIDEO

September 29 – October 2

Lauren WeedmanTammy / Lisa — From Misery to MeaningTHEATER

October 3

Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power FILM/VIDEO

October 4

Piano Spheres Presents Aron KallayMUSIC

October 5

ARRAY @ The Broad John Berry's Claudine FILM/VIDEO

October 7 – 9

Takao KawaguchiAbout Kazuo Ohno (Japan)DANCE

November 21

Deborah StratmanThe Illinois ParablesFILM/VIDEO

November 28

Let It Be KnownFILM/VIDEO

December 3

The Music of Mark TrayleMUSIC

December 5

Betzy BrombergGlide of Transparency FILM/VIDEO

December 9 – 10

CalArts Winter DanceDANCE

December 14 – 17

Stew & HeidiNotes of a Native SongMUSIC–THEATER

Coming in 2017January 13

Junot DíazCONVERSATIONS

January 14 – March 5

Miljohn RupertoOrdinal (SW/NE)ART

January 15

JACK Quartet / Lightbulb EnsembleMUSIC

January 26 – 28

Meg Stuart HunterDANCE

March 22 – April 1

The Wooster Group THE TOWN HALL AFFAIRTHEATER

October 15 – December 16

Tamara HendersonART

October 19 – 23

Ted Hearne and Daniel FishThe SourceMUSIC–THEATER

October 28

River Song Quintet / David Baker / Miwa MatreyekMUSIC–THEATER–MULTIMEDIA

November 3 – 6

Pat Graney Girl GodsDANCE

November 7

Xu Haofeng The Final MasterFILM/VIDEO

November 9

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV)MUSIC

November 10

Callings Out of Context: Rhys Chatham and PriestsMUSIC

November 11

gnarwhallaby:heterophonic avant-gardeMUSIC

November 13 – 14

Studio: Fall 2016THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA

November 18

Eyvind KangMUSIC

November 19 – 20

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental AnimationFILM/VIDEO

REDCATREDCAT is a multidisciplinary center for innovative visual, performing and media arts founded by CalArts in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings and literary events, REDCAT introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the

world, and gives artists in this region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT continues the tradition of CalArts, its parent organization, by encouraging experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse.

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CalArtsCalifornia Institute of the Arts is an internationally recognized pacesetter in the education of professional artists. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools — Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater — CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions. As successive generations of faculty and alumni have helped shape the landscape of contemporary arts, the Institute first

envisioned by Walt Disney encompasses a vibrant, eclectic community with global reach, inviting experimentation, independent inquiry, and active collaboration and exchange among artists, artistic disciplines and cultural traditions. Based in Valencia, north of Los Angeles, CalArts further extends its commitment to the arts through REDCAT and the nationally emulated Community Arts Partnership (CAP) youth arts education program.

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“Global connections bolster local artistry at REDCAT… an atmosphere of creative experimentation, penetrating discussion and community involvement.”

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In the Gallery

July 9 – September 18

Pedro Barateiro and Quinn LatimerLive from the WestART. Live from the West is a collaborative exhibition created by Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro and Los Angeles-born poet Quinn Latimer. The project emerges from a set of common interests, including a mutual engagement with literature and publishing as an aesthetic practice; an interest in readings of the West in the neocolonial present; and counter-hegemonic epistemologies, images, and narratives of resistance.

A series of poems by Latimer is broadcast within a setting of Barateiro’s photographs and sculptures in the Gallery. The poetry situates the speaker as both implicated in and resistant to a series of crises and landscapes that define the Western imaginary and the real — issues of austerity, militarism, terrorism, and economic and ecological violence, along with the projected and very real sites of Greece, Switzerland and California.

This exhibition is funded in part by generous support from The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

Tues – Sun 12 – 6pm or intermission Free

September 15 – 18

Christian Rizzo / ICI–CCN MONTPELLIER

d’après une histoire vraie (France)

DANCE. To the sound of energizing tribal rock music by two percussionists on stage, internationally acclaimed choreographer Christian Rizzo extols the masculine in a ritual that combines contemporary dance with abstracted elements of folk dances. Eight male dancers execute powerful choreography inspired by traditional forms and a variety of all-male partnering, building into a raw explosion of pleasure that is absolutely irresistible. Rizzo’s latest

full-evening work is largely inspired by Turkish folk dances he saw in Istanbul in 2004. Christian Rizzo was recently appointed head of the prestigious Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN) of Montpellier – Languedoc-Roussillon succeeding famed choreographer Mathilde Monnier.

Made possible by FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance, a program of the New England

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“The joy of being alive, of being together momentarily, and the visceral excitement of dancing.” — Le Monde

“An explosion of vitality.” — Les Echos

Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and FACE Foundation, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm

$25 – $30 [members $20 – $24]

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September 29 – October 2

Lauren WeedmanTammy / Lisa — From Misery to Meaning World Premiere

September 19

Bearing Witness: The Visceral Cinema of Mike Hoolboom

THEATER. With live music and a wicked wit, incisive and hilarious writer/performer Lauren Weedman shares secrets of her alternate identity: a colorful personality born in her past and controlling her future. Before becoming an acclaimed author, a popular star of HBO’s Looking, and a noted correspondent for The Daily Show, Lauren was given the birth name(s) Tammy Lisa. Her adopted family gave her a new name and a life that led to near-stardom and gobs of critical praise, but as early-ish midlife

FILM/VIDEO. As one of cinema’s great artists dealing with the ephemerality of the sensate body, Canadian Mike Hoolboom guides his masterful craft between narrative and abstraction, combining immersive sounds and images with haunting poetic texts. Spanning over 30 years, his films are visceral self-portraits, affectionate homages, abstract revelations

FILM/VIDEO. Laura Kraning combines richly detailed imagery and sound to transform unseen places into liminal landscapes of the imagination. Plays of light and movement specific to each location summon what is absent in the visible — the past that continues to haunt the present. Her program of shorts takes us to the last Los Angeles drive-in, a flood-control dam with a fire-scarred history, a boatyard of bygone dramas, a mirrored

and bluntly honest cultural critiques. For Hoolboom, bodies are sources and receptors for all experience; though limited by history, they remain inexorably responsive to pleasure and pain, joy and tragedy. The program features the award-winning film Scrapbook (2015, 18 min.), Buffalo Death Mask (2013, 23 min.), Sugar Maple Stand (1985/1990, 9 min.) and a preview of his latest work.

In person: Mike Hoolboom

The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8]

field of watchful machines. Her work has previously screened at the New York, Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Rotterdam and Visions du Réel festivals, among other venues.

In person: Laura Kraning



September 24

Trinh T. Minh-haForgetting VietnamLos Angeles Premiere

FILM/VIDEO. With exquisitely composed images and a shimmering soundtrack, Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits her native Vietnam 40 years after the war — a home lost in multiple layers of remembrance and oblivion. Mythologically born of a fragile equilibrium between land and water, the country once called đất nứớc vạn xuân — the land of 10,000 springs — is now faced with a no less precarious balancing act. Is she doomed to become a Benjaminian image, in touristic snapshots, in diasporic nostalgia? Or is she reborn in a to-and-fro between the traditions linked to the solid earth, and the liquid changes of rapid globalization?

In person: Trinh T. Minh-ha


Sat 8:30pm $11 [members $8]

September 26

Laura Kraning: Spectral LandscapesLos Angeles Premieres

“Trinh challenges her audiences with each work, constantly shifting how she critically engages with the form and spirit of cinema.”

— San Francisco Cinematheque

“Her self-deprecating humor is not just funny, its excesses contain jaw-dropping revelations on the intersections of passion and fear.”

— LA Weekly

“A theatrical whirling dervish… painfully, hilariously funny.”

— The Seattle Times

“Mike Hoolboom takes his inspiration directly from the heart. His pictures begin with the innermost secrets, as a whisper, a caress.”

— Panorama Cinéma

“Esoteric archeology.” — Visions du Réel

Scrapbook

Irradiant Field

Forgetting Vietnam

approaches, Tammy Lisa is re-emerging as a musical and multi-faceted character who often embodies Loretta Lynn, Helen Reddy, or Lucinda Williams—depending on her mood swings. Tammy Lisa re-invents the cabaret form with funny and dark songs of heartbreak, gay boys, straight boys, volatile love, side-splitting comedy, and bliss.

Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm

$20 – $25 [members $16 – $20]

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October 7 – 9

Takao KawaguchiAbout Kazuo Ohno (Japan)

October 5

ARRAY @ The Broad John Berry’s Claudine Presented with The Broad. ARRAY @ The Broad is created and curated by Ava DuVernay.

FILM/VIDEO. She is a single mother raising six kids. He is a bachelor intimidated by fatherhood. Each has found their match in the classic film Claudine. With characters portrayed exquisitely by Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones, we navigate the welfare system, family structure, and racial tensions brewing in Harlem’s consciousness. Presented in 35mm

and curated by filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma), ARRAY @ The Broad’s screening of this 1974 motion picture will serve as the springboard for open exchange about economic and social stigmas and the role government plays in personal pursuits. A discussion with special guests follows the screening.

Wed 8:00pm $20

October 4

Piano Spheres Presents Aron KallayI’m worried now… but, I won’t be worried longMUSIC. Aron Kallay explores the tension and uncertainty of the presidential election with classical music for piano, synthesizer, and retuned keyboard. Composers Ian Dicke and Grammy® winner Laura Karpman further comment on the lunacy of our time with two newly commissioned works: Counterpundit (Dicke) and Shrill (Karpman). Grammy®-nominated pianist Kallay has performed throughout the United States and abroad and is a fixture on the Los Angeles new music scene.

Tues 8:30pm $25 [members $20]

FILM/VIDEO. Adventurous curators Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen research and exhibit programs of short films that represent resistance to power around the world. This program draws from their engagement with the histories of struggle for freedom, and the often surprising history of short-form non-fiction media. Filmmakers include: Ariella Azoulay (Israel/USA); Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler (Australia/Austria); Filipa Cesar (Portugal); Chen Chieh-Jen (Taiwan); Chiapas Media Project (Mexico); Sylvain George (France); John Greyson (Canada); Armand Guerra & Le Cinéma du Peuple (France); Birgit Hein (Germany); Sherry Millner (USA); Mosireen Collective (Egypt); Olga Poliakoff & Yann Le Masson (France/Algeria); and René Vautier (France/Rhodesia/Algeria), among others.

In person: Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen


“Like a fevered dream, tempting us into its movement and ephemeral images.” — Pop Matters

October 3

Sherry Millner and Ernest LarsenDisruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power

Jack Smith by Birgit Hein

Land Belongs to Those Who Work It by Chiapas Media Project

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DANCE. Takao Kawaguchi, who first came to REDCAT with the Tokyo-based collective Dumb Type, reimagines legendary works by revered Butoh master Kazuo Ohno in an original production that prompted both excitement and commotion in the Tokyo cultural scene. Any interpretation of the inimitable work of Kazuo Ohno requires the performer to suspend his personal beliefs and interpretation, in order to project his body onto the forms and contours of the aged dancer as precisely as possible. The result is a replication that is itself an original, a choreography created by Kawaguchi with the illusory image of Ohno, one of the most honored artists in dance history.

Tour produced and organized by Japan Society, New York, and supported by The Japan Foundation Performing Arts JAPAN Program and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Fri – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 5:00pm $20 – $25 [members $16 – $20]


“An emotional cataclysm, a dream-like form that detaches Takao Kawaguchi from his own body as a result of a metamorphosis.”

— RTBF Radio/TV

In the GalleryOctober 15 – December 16

Tamara HendersonOpening reception: Sat, October 15, 6 – 9pm

ART. Tamara Henderson’s writings, sculptures, 16mm films and paintings often refer to dreamscapes that the artist reconstructs in the exhibition space. She creates sculptures inspired by a process of notating ideas while under hypnosis, and her films are surrealist tales of passage, transformation and decay, in which objects and images are personified and imbued with the artist’s personal history and memories. Henderson collects objects from various sources, including found and recycled items and gifts gathered throughout her travels, and assembles them into large-scale installations.

Henderson’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast includes an expanded version of Seasons End, the ambitious installation she premiered at the 2016 Glasgow International, as well as a selection of the artist’s films and other works. Henderson’s recent research focuses on past and present totems, seasonal change, pagan gods and goddesses, fairies and scarecrows.

Tamara Henderson is an artist from Sackville, Canada, who lives and works in an itinerant fashion. Her work has been seen at Glasgow International (2016), Rodeo, Istanbul (2013), dOCUMENTA (13) and Kassel (2012).

Produced in part with Glasgow International.

Tues – Sun 12 – 6pm or intermission Free

“A fresh model of how opera and musical theater can tackle contemporary issues.” — The New York Times

October 19 – 23

Ted Hearne and Daniel FishThe SourcePresented with LA Opera

MUSIC–THEATER. Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning has many identities: adrift adolescent, emboldened whistleblower, and traitor to her country. In this penetrating music theater work, composer Ted Hearne and director Daniel Fish dive into the media hysteria responsible for the many faces of the Army private who infamously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. An ever-shifting chorus of silent witnesses looms (on large-format video) as four singers descend into the digital mire. With computer-processed

voices, they inhabit a fever dream assemblage of Twitter feeds, cable news reports, chat transcripts, court testimony and declassified military video, asking how we, as individuals and a nation, confront the massive information that Manning brought to light.

Wed – Sat 8:00pm Sun 2:00pm

The Source was commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and Judy & Allen Freedman, with additional commissioning support from Justus & Helen Schlichting.

Tamara Henderson, Garden Photographer (2016). Scanned pinhole photograph.

Installation view, Tamara Henderson, Seasons End, The Mitchell Library, 2016. Commissioned by Glasgow International 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, London.

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October 28

River Song Quintet / David Baker / Miwa Matreyek

“River Song’s music... is beautiful, engaging, patient and exquisitely quiet… a comforting sound cocoon.”

— LA Weekly

November 3 – 6

Pat Graney Girl Gods

“By turns meditative, ironic and explosive.”

— The Seattle Times

“Powerful contemporary dance . . . Graney [has a] penchant for exploring the inner worlds of women.” — The New York Times

“Miwa Matreyek’s innovative combination of projected animation and performance creates worlds of visual wonder.” — LA Record

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MUSIC–THEATER–MULTIMEDIA. As spellbinding as it is poignant, this double bill of multidisciplinary performance features a deeply resonant collaboration between L.A.’s River Song Quintet and Ohio poet David Baker, and a dreamlike multimedia work by artist Miwa Matreyek, who blends fantastical animation with live shadow play. River Song and Baker offer three iterations of music composed by guitarist Gregory Uhlmann in combination with lyric text by the poet: a semi-improvised interplay of guitar and spoken word; a six-movement art song setting of poems by Baker; and a reading of Scavenger Loop—Baker’s eco-poetic Midwestern elegy—with a score performed by the quintet. Matreyek’s This World Made Itself is a signature solo piece that seamlessly merges projected kaleidoscopic vistas with intricate shadow theater enacted by the artist herself.

Fri 8:30pm $25 [members $20]

DANCE. The fierce women of Girl Gods may be wearing cocktail dresses and little heels, but their explosive physical language and wry humor reveal the anger simmering under the surface of the collective feminine mind. In Girl Gods, Graney explores the ancestry of women and deeply embedded layers of molten rage and repressed passions. With a physical language expressing undomesticated and long-buried feelings, the dancers of Girl Gods fiercely reveal the emotional underbelly of the female experience. Girl Gods is the latest spectacle from renowned choreographer Pat Graney, who has been making and touring work focused on women and the feminine psyche for 30 years.

Girl Gods is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 3:00pm $20 – $25 [members $16 – $20]


This World Made Itself

This World Made Itself

River Song Quintet

November 10

Callings Out of Context: Rhys Chatham and PriestsPresented with The Broad

MUSIC. Legendary noise-drone pioneer Rhys Chatham is featured in a shared concert with inventive Washington, DC, alt-punk band Priests, in the fourth edition of The Broad’s groundbreaking music series. Featuring some of today’s most exciting and transgressive musicians, Callings Out of Context is an aural complement to the Broad Collection’s holdings of Pop Art. The series features hybrid-minded contemporary musical artists that engage, point to and tell stories about the modern market they are simultaneously a part of, while opening our ears to new perspectives on genre, repetition and mass production. Each program pairs artists from divergent corners of the marketplace, from the heart of indie-rock to the fringes of hip-hop and electronic music to the experimentalism of the avant-garde. The series title was inspired by the Arthur Russell song “Calling Out of Context.”

Co-Curated by Ted Hearne and Brandon Stosuy.

Thur 8:30pm $25“In Xu Haofeng’s excellent The Final Master, the talking is as good as the fighting.” — The Village Voice

November 7

Xu Haofeng The Final Masterpreceded by Chantal Akerman’s Nightfall on Shanghai

FiLM/VIDEO. As part of the multi-city China Onscreen Biennial, REDCAT presents Xu Haofeng's latest film, The Final Master, in which an outsider martial artist contends with the Wing Chun hierarchy in 1930s colonial Tianjin. Xu's sarcastic minimalist and elegant approach to cinema has been described as what martial arts movies would look like if directed by Straub-Huillet —or David Mamet. The feature is preceded by a rare Chantal Akerman short that captures the changing light as dusk creeps over Shanghai, its immemorial waters rippling gently under neon and gaudy ads, while a female voice sings Nights in White Satin.

The China Onscreen Biennial is being held at multiple venues in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, this fall. This program curated by Bérénice Reynaud and COB.


November 9

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV)MUSIC. Fifty years after co-founding MEV in Rome, three masters of improvisation, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, reunite for an evening of freewheeling, groundbreaking music. In its early years MEV shocked audiences, sparked diatribes, and pushed the very concept of music into new territories. Through periods of activity and dormancy, the band’s remaining three members led busy solo careers: Curran, the composer, the man of great designs; Rzewski, the piano virtuoso and composer of the famous variations The People United Will Never Be Defeated!; and Teitelbaum, the live electronic music pioneer. Each of their performances is an exceptional moment; everything is allowed, except, perhaps, taking themselves too seriously.

Wed 8:30pm $25 [members $20]

November 11

gnarwhallaby: heterophonic avant-gardeLos Angeles Premieres

MUSIC. Known for its musical verve and ensemble virtuosity, Los Angeles quartet gnarwhallaby makes its debut at REDCAT with work composed for the unique instrumentation of clarinet, trombone, violoncello, and piano. The group extends the mission first put forward by Warsztat Muzyczny and later by Quartett Avance, and makes a significant contribution to a fascinating, though relatively unknown, body of contemporary repertoire with new commissions and original compositions by its members. The concert features a trombone mini-concerto by Henryk Górecki and a new work by California composer Michelle Lou on a program spanning five decades of the Euro-American avant-garde. gnarwhallaby comprises clarinetist Brian Walsh, trombonist Matt Barbier, cellist Derek Stein, and pianist Richard Valitutto— all instrumentalists of boundary-breaking technique, all CalArts graduates.


“Startlingly versatile.” — The New York Times

“Precise, integrated, and beautiful.” — New Classic LA

“Surging phosphorescence… Uplifting.” – Rolling Stone

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“Pioneering kingpins of the improvising impulse.” — DownBeat

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November 18

Eyvind KangMUSIC. Internationally acclaimed composer, performer and recording artist Eyvind Kang gives his first Los Angeles concert since relocating to the city as the newest member of the CalArts music faculty. He has released more than 20 albums on labels such as Black Truffle, Abduction, Editions Mego, Ideologic Organ, Ipecac and Tzadik, and his music has been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony

Orchestra and other ensembles. In addition to his ongoing collaboration with composer-vocalist Jessika Kenney, Kang has played viola and other instruments with Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Sun City Girls, the Secret Chiefs, Animal Collective and Blonde Redhead. As a soloist, he has performed work by Christian Wolff, Giacinto Scelsi and Hanne Darboven, among other composers.


November 13 – 14

Studio: Fall 2016

November 28

Let It Be KnownShort Films Inspired by Octavia E. ButlerLos Angeles Premieres

FILM/VIDEO. The legacy of groundbreaking African American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006) is the inspiration for this wide-ranging program of experimental shorts by contemporary artists, curated by Erin Christovale. Films include: Moon Tendon (2013) and Playing Possum (2012) by Jamilah Sabur; Big Gurl (2006), a stop-motion animation by Lauren Kelley; The Golden Chain (2015) by filmmaker Buki Bodunrin and graphic novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels; A Feeling Like Chaos (2015) by artist Suné Woods; The Origin of the Blues (2013) by Ariel Jackson; My father and I dance in outer space (2011) and Two (2010) by Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Presented in conjunction with the Clockshop exhibition Radio Imagination: Artists and Writers in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler.

In person: Erin Christovale, Suné Woods, Buki Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels

Let It Be Known is curated by Erin Christovale.


THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA . REDCAT’s quarterly program of new works and works-in-progress highlights new forms of dance, theater, music and multimedia performance in a wide-ranging evening that celebrates the vitality of L.A.’s next-generation artists making work for the stage.

Funded in part with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sun & Mon 8:30pm $15 [members $12]

November 19 – 20

The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental AnimationFILM/VIDEO. A two-day immersion in daring animated films that express singular creative vision, personal dedication and imaginative technical approaches, the Eyeworks Festival showcases a mix of abstract animation and unconventional character animation, and explores the forms in the context of avant-garde cinema and alternative comics. Eyeworks has been an important annual event in Chicago since it was

founded in 2010 by filmmakers Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, who now bring the program to Los Angeles, their new home. Previous editions of the festival have featured the work of David O’Reilly, Lori Damiano, Nancy Andrews, Caleb Wood and Takeshi Murata, among other innovators.

Sat – Sun Program details at REDCAT.org

“A musical polymath.” — The New York Times

“Octavia E. Butler’s work helped define the literary cornerstone of Afrofuturism.”

— CNN

“Colorful, imaginative, and vibrant short works, ranging from warped narratives to complete abstractions.”

— Chicago Reader

NoodleRice Studio, Studio: Winter 2016

The Illinois Parables

A Feeling Like Chaos by Suné Woods

Two by Wura-Natasha Ogunji

The Golden Chain by Buki Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels


November 21

Deborah StratmanThe Illinois ParablesLos Angeles Premiere

FILM/VIDEO. Coming to REDCAT after its world premiere at Sundance and European debut at the Berlinale, Deborah Stratman's latest documentary is a vibrant, sassy and often disturbing exploration of unmarked landscapes as visible traces left by a fraught history. The rigorous composition of her frames is seductive, as is the playful juxtaposition of image and texts, archival footage and re-enactments. Linked together by a brilliant and haunting soundtrack, 11 parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance, all on territory that is now the state of Illinois. The film won the Stan Brakhage Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

In person: Deborah Stratman



“A beautiful ghost of a film.” — Chicago Tribune

December 3

The Music of Mark TrayleMUSIC. The superbly imaginative, sonically expansive work of composer and sound artist Mark Trayle (1955–2015) is the subject of this tribute by friends, colleagues and former students in The Hub and Bitpanic. Co-founded by Trayle in 1986, The Hub emerged out of the Mills College scene to become the most influential improvising electronic ensemble since Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). Known for using networked electronic and digital systems of its own devising, the Bay Area group currently consists of John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone and Matt Ingalls. Adding to the computer music lineage pioneered by The Hub is the recently formed collective Bitpanic. Based in Los Angeles, it comprises Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Clay Chaplin, David Paha and Stephanie Smith — all one-time students of Trayle at CalArts.

Sat 8:30pm $20 [members $16]

December 5

Betzy BrombergGlide of Transparency World Premiere

FILM/VIDEO. Following a Darkness Swallowed (2005) and Voluptuous Sleep (2011), Betzy Bromberg’s third experimental feature, Glide of Transparency, goes further into translucent abstraction while conveying the intimate feeling of being transported to a sublimated inner garden. Glide of Transparency unfolds in three movements, each layered with its own artful sound design (field recordings of birds and insects, ambient audio, vocals, and a composition for acoustic instruments). The non-narrative progression, Bromberg says, is “a journey devoid of compass bearings, forging pathways without a path.” Luscious curves, vibrant colors, and the scintillating trajectory of light over matter, over filmic texture, echo fragmented memories of paintings we have loved, and, embracing love, bring us to transcendence.

In person: Betzy Bromberg



“A tour-de-force of the why-didn’t-anyone- think-of-this-before? variety.” — The Village Voice

December 9 – 10

CalArts Winter DanceDANCE. The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents an evening of dance, featuring a premiere by CalArts alumnus and Artist-in-Residence Douglas Nielsen; a work by guest aritst Juel D. Lane; a re-staging of Pigs and Fishes by choreographer Elisa Monte; and a premiere by CalArts faculty member Julie Bour.

Fri – Sat 8:30pm $20 [members $16]

“A celebration of Baldwin’s legacy as an inspiration for artists to create their own work that, like his, defies genres and expectations.”

— The New York Times

“I was blown away by what I saw.”

— Spike Lee on Passing Strange

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December 14 – 17

Stew & HeidiNotes of a Native SongInspired by James Baldwin

MUSIC-THEATER. Tony and Obie Award-winning writer and composer Stew delves into the rich legacy of activist writer James Baldwin in his new music and theater event Notes of a Native Song, created with long-time collaborator Heidi Rodewald and an all-star band. Stew’s uniquely incisive lyrics are wrapped in an irresistible mix of rock, rhythm and blues, and jazz in this powerful homage to the inspiring writer, who famously confronted issues of gender, race, and class distinction with wisdom and fire. Stew won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Book for his Broadway hit Passing Strange, which also received six other Tony nominations, won an Obie Award, and won three Drama Desk Awards. It was documented in a film by Spike Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Stew and his band, The Negro Problem, have deep Los Angeles roots, but a multi-performance engagement here is a rare and special treat.

Wed – Sat 8:30pm

$30 – $35 [members $24 – $28]


“This music is the pure articulation of textured sound that flits into existence and furrows into your ears.”— Musicworks

“Images that, once seen, will stay with you forever.” — Holly Willis, LA Weekly

Coming in 2017Coming in 2017

January 13

Junot DíazCalArts’ 2017 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence

CONVERSATIONS. Junot Díaz’s dynamic fiction includes his debut collection, Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. Currently the Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Díaz is also known for his activism and advocacy on behalf of immigrants and writers of color.

March 22 – April 1

The Wooster Group THE TOWN HALL AFFAIRTHEATER. The Wooster Group’s newest work, THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR, delves into the revolutionary fervor of feminist thinking and art “happenings” of 1970s New York. The piece is based on the Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker film Town Bloody Hall, a documentary of a 1971 panel that featured feminist thinkers and activists— including Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — with Norman Mailer serving as an immoderate moderator. Special focus is given to radical lesbian Jill Johnston, who attempted to subvert the event. THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR features performances by Ari Fliakos, Greg Mehrten, Erin Mullin, Scott Shepherd, Maura Tierney and Kate Valk, and is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte.

January 26 – 28

Meg Stuart HunterPresented in association with the Goethe-Institut

DANCE. Staged within an exquisite installation created with video, scenography and light, choreographer Meg Stuart’s acclaimed solo Hunter explores her own body as an archive populated with personal and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic heroes, fantasies and invisible forces. Discovering traces in the land of small things that linger around her body, Stuart translates them into a series of self-portraits. Experiences are cut up and spliced together on the editing table to reveal potential connections and forms, such as a cartoonesque body, a shamanist chanting ritual or a noisy sound sculpture.

Presented with support from the Getting To Know Europe program, awarded by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States.

January 14 – March 5

Miljohn RupertoOrdinal (SW/NE)Opening reception: Sat, January 14, 6 – 9pm

ART. Miljohn Ruperto’s Ordinal (SW/NE) is the culmination of the Los Angeles-based artist’s research into the spread of Valley Fever epidemic in California. The project draws on a set of historical and cultural references including the plight of the migrants during the depression era, documentary investigation of the spread of the disease in recent years, and the signification of the desert wind in ancient Assyria.

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JACK Quartet / Lightbulb EnsembleMUSIC. The revered JACK Quartet joins forces with the multi-instrumental Lightbulb Ensemble (LBE) for a special collaborative program combining contemporary music, newly created instruments, and the complex contrapuntal form of gamelan percussion. JACK is widely regarded for its “explosive virtuosity” (The Boston Globe), and LBE is known for “refreshingly innovative performances [that] challenge conventional notions of how gamelan music should sound” (SF Classical Voice). The program includes Hydrogen(2)Oxygen, a three-movement work composed by Brian Baumbusch, LBE’s founder, director and instrument builder.

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Lightbulb Ensemble


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CalArts Board of TrusteesTim Disney, ChairJames B. Lovelace, Vice Chair

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