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New York Dance Legend Bebe Miller Lights up the Stage at REDCAT

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October 4, Los Angeles--REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, presents Bessie award-winning choreographer Bebe Miller and her company's first work since 2001, Landing/Place. This new piece employs digitalized motion-capture, live music, video projection and dance to explore sensory, spatial and cultural dislocation. Guided by Miller's hallmark rich choreography, the movement is seen through a layering of projected images that evoke present and past and contemplates place within a global human landscape.

Miller has been making dances for over 20 years and formed the Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Known for a mix of virtuosic, athletic speed and fundamental humanity, the Company has been produced at major dance centers throughout the US and abroad. In addition to ongoing work with her ensemble, Miller has received commissions from Boston Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Philadanco, among other groups across the country and abroad. She has collaborated with artists in film and digital media work and has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, three Bessie awards for choreography, and artist fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. She is a Full Professor in Dance at The Ohio State University, currently serves on the boards of Dance USA, Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project, and is a member of the International Artists Advisory Board of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Landing/Place, directed also by Miller, features Kathleen Fisher, Angie Hauser, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Darrell Jones and David Thomson, with live music by Albert Mathias. Lighting design is by Michael Mazzola, dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks, digital animation by Vita Berezina-Blackburn with Brian Windsor, real time video interface design by Marlon Barrios Solano, and video/media by Maya Ciarrocchi, Robbie Shaw and James Wood.

Landing/Place is being developed with support from the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University. The work's development is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc.; the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Program and the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund Landing/Place with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Landing/Place is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

The creation of Landing/Place is made possible, in part, with funds from the Danspace ProjectÕs 2003-2004 Commissioning Initiative with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The work is being developed through multiple residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University with support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, is located at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Landing/Place runs from October 19-23, 2005; Wednesday-Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Ticket prices range from $32-20. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office--located at the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets, by calling 213.237.2800, or by clicking here.

REDCAT benefits from an endowment created through the generosity of The Walt Disney Company; The Sharon D. Lund Foundation; Robert B. Egelston; Lee and Lawrence J. Ramer; and Dorothy R. Sherwood.

REDCAT's 2005-06 season programming is generously supported by The Herb Alpert Foundation; American Composers Forum of Los Angeles; The Annenberg Foundation; Anonymous; Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund; California Community Foundation; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation (Corporate matching gift); CEMAT (Centri Musicali Attrezzati, Rome); City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department; CONACULTA; Margit Sperling Cotsen and Lloyd Cotsen; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Delphi Capital Management, Inc.; e-flux; Étant Donnés, The French-American Fund for the Visual Arts, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Harriett and Richard Gold; Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg; Elyse and Stanley Grinstein; Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater; IIC (Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles); The Japan Foundation Performing Arts JAPAN; La Colección Jumex; kurimanzutto; L.A. Louver Gallery, Inc.; The Sharon D. Lund Foundation; Steve Martin; National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; E. Nakamichi Foundation; Phaedrus Foundation; Vicki Reynolds Pepper and Murray Pepper; The Puffin Foundation, Inc.; V. Joy Simmons; The Skirball Foundation; SONORA, in collaboration with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and White Cube Gallery, London.

As CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, media and performing arts, REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in the Los Angeles region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT is a center for experimentation, discovery and charged civic discourse.

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