For Immediate Release
Contact: Sayda Trujillo, CAP Public Programs Coordinator
661-222-2710

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) presents Tardeada de Tango at REDCAT

May 23, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles, May 14 -- CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) presents Tardeada de Tango, an afternoon of tango music and dance performances at REDCAT on Sunday May 23 at 2 p.m. This free performance is part of the CAP @ REDCAT series sponsored by the JL Foundation. An "afternoon of tango," coordinated by CalArts School of Music student Martin Loyato, features performances by the CalArts Ensemble Tango Nuevo and CalArts School of Music faculty musicians Peter Miyamoto and Mark Menzies who will be performing traditional and contemporary tango. They will be accompanied by CalArts School of Theatre faculty member Marvin Tunney who will both perform in the concert and lead the audience in a tango dance workshop.

Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, 631 W. Second St. in downtown Los Angeles. This performance is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the box-office at 213-237-2800 or online at www.redcat.org. For more information regarding this event please contact Sayda Trujillo at 661-222-2710 or trujillo@muse.calarts.edu.

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), in its 14^th year, offers in-depth arts training programs free-of-charge for middle school and high school students in jazz, printmaking, photography, video, drawing, graphic design, dance, digital arts, theatre, puppetry, chamber music, world music, animation, and writing in 40 neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.

CAP is a partnership between CalArts, Plaza de la Raza, Watts Towers Arts Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, Side Street Projects, My Friend's Place, Visual Communications, Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics, KAOS Network, William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center and Inner-City Arts.

REDCAT - the Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater - is CalArts' new performance venue and gallery in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets. For more information on events at REDCAT, call 213-237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org.

REDCAT inaugural season sponsors include Shamrock Holdings, KCRW FM, The L.A. Weekly, and the Standard Hotel, with additional media sponsorship provided by The Downtown News.

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