The Winter/Spring 2024 at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) kicks off with acclaimed poet and National Book Award, Don Mee Choi, whose work expands our understanding of what poetry can do. On Mar. 9 and 10, renowned choreographer and performer Lionel Popkin presents a career retrospective responding to the dubious history of interculturalism. New York-based artist Autumn Knight brings two works of social experimentation and improvisation –NOTHING#31: a bar, a bluff– to REDCAT from Mar. 15 through 17. From May 23 to 25, Anna Martine Whitehead’s presents FORCE! an opera in three acts, inspired by years of making performances inside and around prison. And from Jun. 4 through 5, 7 through 8, Magdalene—a chamber opera in thirteen movements scored by fourteen women composers and presented in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects—invites audiences into the interior world of the biblical figure.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed grapples with the poetics, pleasures, and politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation in her first major exhibition in California,i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter, opening Mar. 27.

Continuing innovative theater at REDCAT, playwright, performer, and director Aya Ogawa brings her darkly comical and psychologically insightful 2022 Obie Award-winning hit show, The Nosebleed, to REDCAT Feb. 1 through 3. And Jun. 20 to 22, writer and performer Paul Outlaw returns to REDCAT with BBC (Big Black Cockroach), a gripping work of experimental theater, inspired by current events, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

The season of music launches on Feb. 17 as Sans Soleil, the multi-genre duo of Chris Williams and Patrick Shiroishi focused on deepening Black and Asian American solidarity, makes its REDCAT debut featuring William Parker and Lesley Mok. Occupying the cutting edge of jazz, Indigenous musicians Delbert Anderson and Mali Obomsawin bring their fresh perspectives with a double bill on Feb. 24. On Apr. 13, KarmetiK Orchestra brings sitar, Hindustani vocalists, tabla, and bansuri flute performers mixed with Western classical, African, and electronic musicians. And on Jun. 14 and 15, PARTCH—the Grammy-winning ensemble specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic composer Harry Partch—presents an evening of music performed on the orchestra of instruments Partch designed and built himself.

On May 11, REDCAT partners with Deaf West Theatre and LA Phil to present See / Feel / Hear Music, a day-long program inviting audiences to experience the work of Deaf artists and technologists whose work explores the creation and reception of music, the innate music of sign language, and the concert experiences that are bridging the Deaf and hearing worlds. 

On Apr. 4 and 6, a company of L.A.-based dancers and performers stage the Los Angeles premiere of Jérôme Bel’s Jérôme Bel, a survey of the renowned French artist’s self-titled “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.” On Jun. 28 and 29, Primera Generación Dance Collective premieres their newest evening-length multimedia dance work, NOStalgia POP, paying homage and cheeky critique to the “recuerdos” romanticos that link Latine bodies together. 

The Winter/Spring 2024 film program features a diverse and far-reaching line-up of radical and experimental cinema and video, the third collaboration between renknowed writer and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva and filmmaker Arjuna Neuman (Jan. 20); undocumented Filipino filmmaker Miko Revereza’s years-long diary and poetic essay film, Nowhere Near (Jan. 22); Offscreen Schematics for Past Futures, a program of short films considering urban and rural environments and the many implications of living in the world (Feb. 5); From Inside of Here, a feature-length film meditation on vulnerability and interconnection through the lens of a natural forest and the body of filmmaker Bill Basquin (Feb. 12); Duppy Transience, a program of short films providing space for spirits, ancestors, jumbies, duppy, and memories (Mar. 25); Christopher Harris, 2023 recipient of The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video, with Black Ecstatic Cinema (Apr. 8); and more.

The extraordinary community of CalArts artists present another spectacular series of events starting on Jan. 17, with the CalArts Music Showcase, highlighting the diversity and creativity of graduate student creators at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. The new season will further celebrate the work of CalArts Film/Video BFA and MFA students with the CalArts Film/Video Showcase on Apr. 30 and May 2 through 4; the next generation of dance artists from the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at the CalArts Spring Dance program on May 7 and 8; and the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program at the CalArts Writers Showcase on May 9.

For dates, details, or ticketing information, check out our full event calendar.