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REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, Announces the September Edition of Studio, an Ongoing Series Featuring New Works and Works-in-Progress by Los Angeles Artists.

Los Angeles, CA, August 31, 2004 - The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) announces the Fall edition of Studio, an ongoing series of new works and works-in-progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music by Los Angeles area artists. The high-tech REDCAT serves as a working tool for adventurous artists and audiences in Los Angeles to develop innovative new performances and experiment with the boundaries of their disciplines.

The September edition of Studio is guest-curated by Denise Uyehara; performance artist, writer and playwright, and Hassan Christopher; choreographer, dancer and Artistic Director of the Company of Strangers.

Studio will be presented at REDCAT, located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, Sunday, September 12th and Monday, September 13th at 8:30pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $6 for all students with valid ID. 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 www.redcat.org

The following six works will be presented both nights in an informal environment that allows both the artists and audience to experience and explore the creative process:

Hector Aristizabal
Nightwing, a chilling solo performance, recreates a true terrorist encounter in Colombia. Hector Aristizabal portrays multiple characters to answer the question, "With what love and faith do I find the strength to kill the terrorist within?"

Ann Stocking
Ann Stocking's solo piece reveals how a disabled woman navigates the sexual jungle of her own Melrose Place.

Catrice Jeanette Lawson
The relationships of African-American men and women -- and the struggles and supports that are reinforced in times of incarceration - are explored in Catrice Jeanette Lawson's elegant work of contemporary dance theater, I Want You.

Everyman for Himself
The Chase follows a young man as he enters the rat race where the only goals are power and prestige. Everyman for Himself uses martial arts, acrobatics, and contact improvisation to create high-paced movement theater.

Keith Mason
Keith Mason takes the audience along on this rant that explores soullessness and homelessness in a hyped-up American warrior dreamscape.

Canné
Canné electrifies the stage with a colorful and fiery presentation of Tandebeer, celebrating and reenacting the social street dance parties of Senegal, West Africa.

Studio is a quarterly series that features short new works and works-in-progress by dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary artists. Designed to nurture emerging Los Angeles-area performing artists, 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.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, 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 is expanding its role as a resource for the Los Angeles arts community with more opportunities for local performing artists to develop high-risk creative experiments in a supportive setting, with a well-equipped space, a professional technical team and audiences primed for daring work.

A natural extension of CalArts' educational mission, REDCAT's programming features a wide-ranging array of interdisciplinary performances, music and dance concerts, multimedia performances, theater works, film and video screenings, readings, and art exhibitions.

California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, the first U.S. higher educational institution to integrate the visual and performing arts under one roof, is recognized as the nation's leading laboratory for the arts. Housing six schools -- Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater -- CalArts embraces creative cross-pollination among diverse art forms and traditions, and strongly encourages each artist to pursue his or her vision within a broad context of social and cultural understanding.

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