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REDCAT Announces Spring Studio
An Ongoing Performance Series Featuring Emerging Los Angeles Artists

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April 25, 2005, Los Angeles--REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, announces the spring edition of Studio, an ongoing series that features new work and works-in-progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music by Los Angeles area artists. The performance will take place at REDCAT, located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, on Sunday, May 22 and Monday, May 23 at 8:30 p.m. 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, by calling 213-237-2800, or by clicking here.

The Studio series is a curated evening of short works and performances that span the diverse disciplines regularly represented at REDCAT. Works are presented in an informal environment that allows both the artists and audience to experience and explore the creative process. This edition of Studio is curated by UCLA graduate (MFA) and Los Angeles performer Ann Stocking and multidisciplinary artist Michael Sakamoto, and will include the following six original works:

  • Naked With Shoes, a.k.a. Anne and Jeff Grimaldo, perform Carcass, a dance performance duet using both beautiful and grotesque imagery, fraught with fear, anxiety and finally hysteria.

  • Writer/performer Lan Tran stumbles across her father's secret life during a short-lived spree as a would-be child burglar in the darkly humorous piece of solo theater, Tale of the Lockpicking Child.

  • In Origins, Rodney Mason uses spoken word, dance and video projection to tell the comical and poignant tale of his life.

  • Under the direction of Robin Conrad, Allure Dance Company performs four dances that explore the fantasy and physicality of women: from dreamy icons in 8 1/2 inch stilettos to earthbound peasants united in protest.

  • Standing at the imaginary intersection between his dictionary and his map, actor Mark Brady struggles for definition and direction, hoping to transcend the Identifying Mark of his life.

  • In an innovative collaboration Karyl Newman and Christen McArdle take a journey through Los Angeles with a viola and projected video painting.

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. 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.

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