Adventurous works by artists who blur the boundaries between artistic disciplines and invent new technologies in developing new forms of expression
July 17-19, 2008
2008 NOW Festival: Program 1

The opening weekend of REDCAT's fifth annual festival of new performance features the techno-travels of multimedia performance troupe Cloud Eye Control, dynamic dance and music from Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project and a theatrical shredding of the story Jekyll and Hyde from Theatre Movement Bazaar | Click here

July 242-26, 2008
2008 NOW Festival: Program 2

NOW Festival continues with Lionel Popkin's intimately awkward dance duet, rapid-fire choreography for Holly Johnston's forceful quartet and Poor Dog Group's humorous and wild trampling of theatrical expectations | Click here

July 31-August 2, 2008
2008 NOW Festival: Program 3

The final program of of REDCAT 2008 NOW Festival brings together a cyber-erotic song cycle from Alpert-award winning composer Anne LeBaron and librettist Douglas Kearney, incisive and comic stories from writer/performer Kristina Wong and the emotionally powerful imagery of the newest work from Rosanna Gamson/World Wide | Click here



Past 06/07 Multimedia Events:
October 12-15, 2006
Pamela Z: Wunderkabinet

Inspired by the delightfully unconventional Museum of Jurassic Technology, this alluring multimedia opera is the latest opus from Pamela Z -- the Alpert Award-winning electronic composer, singer and performance artist who has opened new horizons for vocal music | Click here

November 16-18, 2006
Elia Arce: The Fifth Commandment

Houston-based performance artist Elia Arce uses a sweeping combination of theater, music, film/video and installation in a provocative exploration of how personal ethics and moral beliefs collide with the act of killing during wartime | Click here

November 19-20, 2006
Studio

The quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has served as a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists | Click here

December 2, 2006
Ann Magnuson: Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories

A phantasmagorical evening with the actress, writer, performer and lead singer/lyricist of the cult band Bongwater, featuring music, monologues, video and surprises | Click here

December 6-10, 2006
SUPER VISION:
THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION WITH DBOX

An intoxicating crossmedia examination of life in the post-privacy era from The Builders Association, the experimental New York company that puts new technology to stunningly visceral use in live theater | Click here

January 25-27, 2007
CEAIT Festival

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology serves up three engrossing evenings of new experimental works in music, multimedia and sound art from around the world | Click here

January 28, 2007
Splitting Infinity

This special event honors the winner of the first STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology | Click here

February 18-19, 2007
Studio

Experience new works by emerging Los Angeles artists curated by William Flores and Lionel Popkin | Click here

March 16, 2007
James Miller

Man and machine carry out a techno pas de deux as James Miller performs a series of delightfully inventive "short stories" for trombone and digital signal processor | Click here

April 15-16, 2007
Studio

The third installment of the quarterly program for new experimental performance works and works-in-progress | Click here

April 27, 2007
Roman Stolyar

The Russian free jazz innovator and members of the CalArts Improvisation Ensemble weave together a series of new collaborative multimedia works developed using Stolyar’s unique “Improvising Orchestra” methodology | Click here

July 19-21, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program One

The three-week NOW Festival launches with a program of three works that are founded in movement, but varied in their approaches. Mason's Hip-hop moves and spoken word, Luyten and Alker's precise and poetic dance-theater, and a new music and dance collaboration from Tijuana-based Lux Boreal and Pedro Gabriel Beas of Nortec Collectivec | Click here

July 26-28, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program Two

NOW Festival continues with two new works that employ technology, media and unique stagecraft: Heidi Duckler, "the queen of L.A. site-specific dance-performance" (Los Angeles Times), responds to REDCAT's performance space. The collaborative team of Lars Jan, Jane Pickett and Bureau V generate layers, both literal and psychological, in a work of operatic complexity, but without the singing | Click here

August 2-4, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program Three

NOW's final program delves into the darkly evocative worlds of three decidedly different projects. Fjellestad's sonic abstractions are delicate compositions of noise. Kelly & David's mini-epic, three-act opera of cursed wanders warps American folk. And Iova-Koga's exquisite post-butoh performance stares deeply into the void that precedes birth | Click here

Sept 26-30, 2007
Cynthia Hopkins: Must Don't Whip 'Um

Blurring lines between confession and performance, concert and play, memory and creation, the Alpert Award winner braids two narrative threads: the final show of a ’70s-era cult-pop singer before her mysterious disappearance, and her daughter’s making of a documentary film, many years later, about the mother she never knew | Click here

November 9-10, 2007
Toni Dove / Spectropia

Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through an original mix of film, live theater and Toni Dove’s unique system of motion sensing technology that serves as a cinematic "instrument" | Click here

November 14, 2007
The Imaginary 20th Century

CalArts President Steven D. Lavine welcomes cultural critic, urban historian and novelist Norman M. Klein, curator Margo Bistis and designer Andreas Kratky for a celebration marking the publication—and corresponding exhibition—of The Imaginary 20th Century| Click here

November 16, 2007
SCREAM 2007: ANALOG LIVE!

Prized for their vibrant sounds and the physical immediacy they allow performers, analog synthesizers are combined here with acoustic instruments and kinetic video sculptures in the annual concert presented by the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music | Click here

November 18-19, 2007
Studio

Join us for something truly new as we invite Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists to participate in an evening of interdisciplinary experimentation | Click here

January 30 - February 2, 2008
The Wooster Group: Hamlet

An archaeological excursion into America’s cultural past, The Wooster Group’s highly experimental, multimedia incarnation of Hamlet channels the ghost of Richard Burton’s legendary 1964 Broadway version of the work—a production that was recorded from 17 camera angles, edited into a film, and screened for two days only at some 2000 cinemas across the country | Click here

March 8-9, 2008
Studio

Join us for something truly new as we invite Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists to participate in an evening of interdisciplinary experimentation | Click here

April 25-26, 2008
CEAIT Festival: Jason Kahn | The Hub

The genre-defying annual festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with a new lineup of experimental music | Click here

May 17-18, 2008
Studio

The quarterly series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists | Click here