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REDCAT presents Erase E(x), the US premiere featuring the work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The Wooster Group and Isabella Soupart

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August 29, Los Angeles, CA--REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, launches its third season on Wednesday, September 21 with the US premiere of Erase-E(x) by the international company JoJi Inc. Erase-E(x), which premiered at the 2005 Avignon Festival, is conceived and enacted by JoJi Inc.--a company created in 1998 by the transatlantic duo of Italian dance artist Johanne Saunier and co-founder of New York's The Wooster Group Jim Clayburgh.

Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's 1953 erasure of a drawing by Willem de Kooning, this dance theater work begins with an original composition by famed Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and moves through successive choreographic reinventions by "erasure", incorporating the work of De Keersmaeker, Clayburgh, Saunier with that of stage director Isabella Soupart and guest performer Charles François. The three theatrical movements feature compositions by Georges Delerue from Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963), Umayalpuram Sivaraman and Dolly Parton.

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. ERASE-E(x) runs from September 21-September 25, Wednesday--Sunday, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets range from $32-20. Student ticket discounts available. 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 at 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; 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; Harriet and Richard Gold; Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg; Elyse and Stanley Grinstein; Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater; IIT (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; 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; and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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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