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Contact: Tamar Fortgang
213-237-2873 (do not publish)
REDCATpr@calarts.edu
REDCAT Launches Studio, New Performance Series Featuring Emerging Los Angeles Artists
February 22
REDCAT
8:30 p.m. each performance
$10 General
$6 Students
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Los Angeles, CA, February 6 - REDCAT, The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, announces the launch of Studio, a new series that features work in dance, theater, film, multi-media and music by Los Angeles area artists. The performance will take place at REDCAT's performance space, located in Walt Disney Concert Hall, on Sunday, February 22 at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $6 for students. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets, calling 213-237-2800
Studio is a curated series of short works and performances that span the diverse disciplines regularly represented at REDCAT. Works are presented in a workshop environment that allows both the artists and audience to experience and explore the creative process in real time.
The first edition of Studio is curated by Ginger Holguin, Technical Director and Producer of the Japan America Theater and Mark Murphy, Executive Director of REDCAT. The program includes eight pieces by local artists:
- Mita Ghosal presents Bovinatrix, the story of a young cow that has migrated to the U.S. from Calcutta for the sole purpose of "liberating cows in the west."
- Suitcases by Erin Rae and Erin Schlabach, is a movement theater exploration of the dynamics of travel and intimate relationships.
- A solo piece by Lauren Weedman tells a hilarious and twisted story of collegiate sexual and emotional development through multiple characters..
- Stacy Dawson Stearns and Tim Cummings perform a modern Goth fantasy pas de deux.
- A contemporary Persian dance fused with Flamenco by Banafsheh Sayyad.
- The persistence of nature is the backdrop for Ridicule, a solo work in which video, cabbages, and platform shoes are used in an attempt to foreground the stuttering hesitation of finding one's place in society, created and performed by Meg Wolfe.
- With stilts and some very long pants, Liam Clancy will take the audience through the back streets of suburban Massachusetts. Using humor and irony he examines the male culture of violence.
- Denise Uyehara presents an excerpt from The Museum of Human Beings, a performance using movement, text, and action to explore nation, ethnicity, war, and survival.
Studio was created to give new artists an opportunity to hone their skills and offer established artists a chance to test new material and works-in-progress before an audience. A revolving panel of working artists curates each edition. Auditions for the next Studio are scheduled for April 17, 2004, with performance on May 16, 2004. For more information on the program, contact Lindsay Hendrickson 213-237-2816.
REDCAT is an interdisciplinary arts center that introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the performing, visual and media arts from around the world, and gives artists and future artists in this region the production opportunities and creative support they need to achieve national and international stature.
REDCAT Programming is funded by The Ahmanson Foundation, Bank Julius Baer, MaryLou and George Boone, Cotsen Family Foundation, Harriett and Richard Gold, Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg, The James Irvine Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Lee and Lawrence J. Ramer, and Nancy and Barry Sanders, and Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, with support from The Walt Disney Company.
2003-04 SEASON SPONSORS: Shamrock Holdings; KCRW, Official Public Radio Sponsor; LA Weekly, Exclusive Alternative Weekly, English Language Print Media Sponsor; the Standard, Official Hotel. Additional media sponsorship provided by Los Angeles Downtown News.
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