Fall 2016

CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts

Pat Graney: Girl Gods November 3 – 6

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Photo: Jenny May Peterson Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater Fall Season 2016

July 9 – September 18 October 15 – December 16 November 21

Pedro Barateiro Tamara Henderson Deborah Stratman and Quinn Latimer ART The Illinois Parables Live from the West FILM/VIDEO October 19 – 23 ART November 28 Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish September 15 – 18 The Source Let It Be Known Christian Rizzo / MUSIC–THEATER FILM/VIDEO ICI–CCN MONTPELLIER (France) October 28 December 3 d’après une histoire vraie DANCE River Song Quintet / The Music of Mark Trayle David Baker / MUSIC September 19 Miwa Matreyek December 5 Bearing Witness: The Visceral MUSIC–THEATER–MULTIMEDIA CalArts’ Downtown Center Cinema of Mike Hoolboom Betzy Bromberg November 3 – 6 FILM/VIDEO Glide of Transparency Pat Graney FILM/VIDEO for Contemporary Arts September 24 Girl Gods ART CONVERSATIONS DANCE FILM/VIDEO MULTIMEDIA MUSIC THEATER December 9 – 10 Trinh T. Minh-ha DANCE

Forgetting Vietnam November 7 CalArts Winter Dance FILM/VIDEO DANCE Xu Haofeng September 26 December 14 – 17 Location The Final Master REDCAT Housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Laura Kraning: FILM/VIDEO Stew & Heidi complex, REDCAT has a separate entrance Spectral Landscapes Notes of a Native Song Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater at the corner of West 2nd and Hope Streets. November 9 FILM/VIDEO MUSIC–THEATER 631 West 2nd Street REDCAT is a multidisciplinary center for world, and gives artists in this region Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) Los Angeles, CA 90012 September 29 – October 2 innovative visual, performing and media the creative support they need to achieve MUSIC arts founded by CalArts in the Walt Disney national and international stature. Lauren Weedman Coming in 2017 Concert Hall complex in downtown REDCAT continues the tradition of Parking November 10 Los Angeles. Through performances, CalArts, its parent organization, by Tammy / Lisa — From Misery January 13 exhibitions, screenings and literary events, encouraging experimentation, discovery Parking is available in the Walt Disney to Meaning Callings Out of Context: Concert Hall parking garage. REDCAT introduces diverse audiences, and lively civic discourse. THEATER Rhys Chatham and Priests Junot Díaz students and artists to the most influential Only $5 after 8pm on weeknights MUSIC CONVERSATIONS developments in the arts from around the REDCAT.org $9 flat rate all day on weekends October 3 November 11 January 14 – March 5 Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen “Global connections bolster local artistry at REDCAT… Tickets Disruptive Film: gnarwhallaby: Miljohn Ruperto an atmosphere of creative experimentation, REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 Everyday Resistance to Power heterophonic avant-garde Ordinal (SW/NE) penetrating discussion and community involvement.” FILM/VIDEO MUSIC ART — American Theatre Magazine The REDCAT Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 6pm, October 4 November 13 – 14 January 15 and two hours prior to curtain. JACK Quartet / CalArts Seating at REDCAT is unassigned, Piano Spheres Presents Studio: Fall 2016 and late seating is not guaranteed. Aron Kallay THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA Lightbulb Ensemble California Institute of the Arts is an envisioned by Walt Disney encompasses Programs, schedules, prices and MUSIC MUSIC internationally recognized pacesetter a vibrant, eclectic community with artists subject to change. November 18 in the education of professional artists. global reach, inviting experimentation, October 5 January 26 – 28 Offering rigorous undergraduate and independent inquiry, and active collaboration Stay Connected Eyvind Kang graduate degree programs through six and exchange among artists, artistic ARRAY @ The Broad MUSIC Meg Stuart Sign up to receive our brochures schools — Art, Critical Studies, Dance, disciplines and cultural traditions. Based John Berry's Claudine Hunter Film/Video, Music, and Theater — CalArts in Valencia, north of Los Angeles, CalArts and weekly email updates for the November 19 – 20 FILM/VIDEO DANCE has championed creative excellence, further extends its commitment to the latest information on REDCAT events, critical reflection, and the development arts through REDCAT and the nationally special offers and more. Eyeworks Festival of October 7 – 9 March 22 – April 1 of new forms and expressions. As emulated Community Arts Partnership REDCAT.org Experimental Animation successive generations of faculty and (CAP) youth arts education program. Find us: @CalArtsREDCAT Takao Kawaguchi FILM/VIDEO The Wooster Group alumni have helped shape the landscape THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR of contemporary arts, the Institute first calarts.edu About Kazuo Ohno (Japan) DANCE THEATER

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 In the Gallery September 15 – 18 Christian Rizzo / ICI–CCN MONTPELLIER d’après une histoire vraie (France)

DANCE. To the sound of energizing tribal full-evening work is largely inspired by Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, rock music by two percussionists on stage, Turkish folk dances he saw in Istanbul the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the internationally acclaimed choreographer in 2004. Christian Rizzo was recently United States, and FACE Foundation, with lead Christian Rizzo extols the masculine in a appointed head of the prestigious funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, ritual that combines contemporary dance Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN) the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Florence with abstracted elements of folk dances. of Montpellier – Languedoc-Roussillon Gould Foundation, and the French Ministry of Eight male dancers execute powerful succeeding famed choreographer Culture and Communication. choreography inspired by traditional forms Mathilde Monnier. Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm and a variety of all-male partnering, Made possible by FUSED: French-US Exchange building into a raw explosion of pleasure in Dance, a program of the New England $25 – $30 [members $20 – $24] that is absolutely irresistible. Rizzo’s latest

“The joy of being “An explosion of vitality.” — Les Echos alive, of being together momentarily, and the visceral excitement

of dancing.” — Le Monde Photo: Brica Wilcox

Pedro Barateiro and Quinn Latimer, Live from the West (2016). Installation view at REDCAT.

July 9 – September 18 Pedro Barateiro and Quinn Latimer Live from the West

ART. Live from the West is a collaborative A series of poems by Latimer is broadcast This exhibition is funded in part by generous exhibition created by Portuguese artist within a setting of Barateiro’s photographs support from The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Pedro Barateiro and Los Angeles-born and sculptures in the Gallery. The poetry Tues – Sun 12 – 6pm or intermission Free poet Quinn Latimer. The project emerges situates the speaker as both implicated from a set of common interests, including in and resistant to a series of crises and a mutual engagement with literature and landscapes that define the Western publishing as an aesthetic practice; imaginary and the real — issues of austerity, an interest in readings of the West in militarism, terrorism, and economic and the neocolonial present; and counter- ecological violence, along with the hegemonic epistemologies, images, projected and very real sites of Greece, and narratives of resistance. Switzerland and California. Photos: Marc Domage

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 September 19 September 24 Bearing Witness: The Visceral Trinh T. Minh-ha Cinema of Mike Hoolboom Forgetting FILM/VIDEO. As one of cinema’s great and bluntly honest cultural critiques. Vietnam artists dealing with the ephemerality of the For Hoolboom, bodies are sources and sensate body, Canadian Mike Hoolboom receptors for all experience; though limited Los Angeles Premiere guides his masterful craft between by history, they remain inexorably narrative and abstraction, combining responsive to pleasure and pain, joy and FILM/VIDEO. With exquisitely composed immersive sounds and images with tragedy. The program features the award- images and a shimmering soundtrack, haunting poetic texts. Spanning over 30 winning film Scrapbook (2015, 18 min.), Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits her native Vietnam years, his films are visceral self-portraits, Buffalo Death Mask (2013, 23 min.), 40 years after the war — a home lost in affectionate homages, abstract revelations Sugar Maple Stand (1985/1990, 9 min.) multiple layers of remembrance and and a preview of his latest work. oblivion. Mythologically born of a fragile Scrapbook equilibrium between land and water, In person: Mike Hoolboom the country once called đất nứớc vạn The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts xuân — the land of 10,000 springs — is now faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. faced with a no less precarious balancing act. Is she doomed to become a Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] Benjaminian image, in touristic snapshots, in diasporic nostalgia? Or is she reborn in “Mike Hoolboom takes his inspiration a to-and-fro between the traditions linked to the solid earth, and the liquid changes directly from the heart. His pictures of rapid globalization? begin with the innermost secrets, In person: Trinh T. Minh-ha as a whisper, a caress.” The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts — Panorama Cinéma faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Sat 8:30pm $11 [members $8] “Esoteric archeology.” — Visions du Réel

“A theatrical whirling dervish… painfully, hilariously funny.”

— The Seattle Times Photo: Gareth Gooch Gareth Photo: Irradiant Field September 29 – October 2 September 26 Laura Kraning: “Her self-deprecating Lauren Weedman humor is not just Tammy / Lisa — From Misery to Meaning Spectral Landscapes World Premiere Los Angeles Premieres funny, its excesses THEATER. With live music and a wicked wit, approaches, Tammy Lisa is re-emerging as FILM/VIDEO. Laura Kraning combines field of watchful machines. Her work has incisive and hilarious writer/performer a musical and multi-faceted character who richly detailed imagery and sound to previously screened at the New York, contain jaw- Lauren Weedman shares secrets of her often embodies Loretta Lynn, Helen Reddy, transform unseen places into liminal Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Rotterdam and Visions alternate identity: a colorful personality born or Lucinda Williams—depending on her landscapes of the imagination. Plays du Réel festivals, among other venues. Forgetting Vietnam dropping revelations in her past and controlling her future. Before mood swings. Tammy Lisa re-invents the of light and movement specific to each becoming an acclaimed author, a popular cabaret form with funny and dark songs of In person: Laura Kraning location summon what is absent in the “Trinh challenges her on the intersections star of HBO’s Looking, and a noted heartbreak, gay boys, straight boys, volatile visible — the past that continues to haunt The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts audiences with each work, correspondent for The Daily Show, Lauren love, side-splitting comedy, and bliss. was given the birth name(s) Tammy Lisa. the present. Her program of shorts takes faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. constantly shifting how she Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm us to the last Los Angeles drive-in, a flood- of passion and fear.” Her adopted family gave her a new name Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] critically engages with the and a life that led to near-stardom and gobs control dam with a fire-scarred history, — LA Weekly $20 – $25 [members $16 – $20] a boatyard of bygone dramas, a mirrored form and spirit of cinema.” of critical praise, but as early-ish midlife — San Francisco Cinematheque

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 October 4 October 7 – 9 “An emotional Piano Spheres Presents Aron Kallay Takao cataclysm, a I’m worried now… but, I won’t be worried long Kawaguchi dream-like form MUSIC. Aron Kallay explores the tension that detaches and uncertainty of the presidential election About with classical music for piano, synthesizer, Takao Kawaguchi and retuned keyboard. Composers Ian Kazuo Ohno (Japan) Dicke and Grammy® winner Laura Karpman further comment on the lunacy of our DANCE. Takao Kawaguchi, who first came from his own body time with two newly commissioned works: to REDCAT with the Tokyo-based collective Jack Smith by Birgit Hein Counterpundit (Dicke) and Shrill (Karpman). Dumb Type, reimagines legendary works as a result of a October 3 Grammy®-nominated pianist Kallay has by revered Butoh master Kazuo Ohno performed throughout the United States in an original production that prompted metamorphosis.” and abroad and is a fixture on the both excitement and commotion in the — RTBF Radio/TV Sherry Millner and Los Angeles new music scene. Tokyo cultural scene. Any interpretation of the inimitable work of Kazuo Ohno Tues 8:30pm $25 [members $20] Ernest Larsen requires the performer to suspend his personal beliefs and interpretation, in Disruptive Film: order to project his body onto the forms and contours of the aged dancer as Everyday Resistance October 5 precisely as possible. The result is a to Power replication that is itself an original, a choreography created by Kawaguchi FILM/VIDEO. Adventurous curators ARRAY @ The Broad with the illusory image of Ohno, one of Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen research the most honored artists in dance history. and exhibit programs of short films that John Berry’s Claudine Tour produced and organized by Japan Society, represent resistance to power around the New York, and supported by The Japan Foundation world. This program draws from their Presented with The Broad. ARRAY @ The Broad is created and curated by Ava DuVernay. Performing Arts JAPAN Program and the Agency engagement with the histories of struggle for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. for freedom, and the often surprising history FILM/VIDEO. She is a single mother and curated by filmmaker Ava DuVernay of short-form non-fiction media. Filmmakers raising six kids. He is a bachelor (Selma), ARRAY @ The Broad’s screening Fri – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 5:00pm intimidated by fatherhood. Each has of this 1974 motion picture will serve as include: Ariella Azoulay (Israel/USA); Zanny $20 – $25 [members $16 – $20] Begg & Oliver Ressler (Australia/Austria); found their match in the classic film the springboard for open exchange about Filipa Cesar (Portugal); Chen Chieh-Jen Claudine. With characters portrayed economic and social stigmas and the role (Taiwan); Chiapas Media Project (Mexico); exquisitely by Diahann Carroll and government plays in personal pursuits. Sylvain George (France); John Greyson James Earl Jones, we navigate the welfare A discussion with special guests follows (Canada); Armand Guerra & Le Cinéma system, family structure, and racial the screening. du Peuple (France); Birgit Hein (Germany); tensions brewing in Harlem’s Sherry Millner (USA); Mosireen Collective consciousness. Presented in 35mm Wed 8:00pm $20 (Egypt); Olga Poliakoff & Yann Le Masson

(France/Algeria); and René Vautier (France/ Claudine Rhodesia/Algeria), among others. In person: Sherry Millner and Ernest Larsen

Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] Photo: Teijiro Kamiyama Teijiro Photo:

Land Belongs to Those Who Work It by Chiapas Media Project

“Like a fevered dream, tempting us into its movement and ephemeral images.” — Pop Matters Photo: bozzo Photo: bozzo

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 In the Gallery

October 15 – December 16 Tamara Henderson Opening reception: Sat, October 15, 6 – 9pm

ART. Tamara Henderson’s writings, sculptures, 16mm films and paintings often refer to dreamscapes that the artist reconstructs in the exhibition space. She creates sculptures inspired by a process of notating ideas while under hypnosis, and her films are surrealist tales of passage, transformation and decay, in which objects and images are personified and imbued with the artist’s personal history and memories. Henderson collects objects from various sources, including found and recycled items and gifts gathered throughout her travels, and assembles them into large-scale installations. Henderson’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast includes an expanded version of Seasons End, the ambitious installation she premiered at the 2016 Glasgow International, as well as a selection of the artist’s films and other works. Henderson’s recent research focuses on past and present totems, seasonal change, pagan gods and goddesses, fairies and scarecrows. Tamara Henderson is an artist from Sackville, Canada, who lives and works in an itinerant fashion. Her work has been seen at Glasgow International (2016), Rodeo, Istanbul (2013), dOCUMENTA (13) and Kassel (2012).

Produced in part with Glasgow International.

Tues – Sun 12 – 6pm or intermission Free Tamara Henderson, Garden Photographer (2016). Scanned pinhole photograph. Photo: James Matthew Daniel

October 19 – 23 Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish The Source Presented with LA Opera

MUSIC–THEATER. Chelsea (formerly Bradley) voices, they inhabit a fever dream Manning has many identities: adrift assemblage of Twitter feeds, cable news adolescent, emboldened whistleblower, and reports, chat transcripts, court testimony traitor to her country. In this penetrating and declassified military video, asking how music theater work, composer Ted Hearne we, as individuals and a nation, confront and director Daniel Fish dive into the media the massive information that Manning hysteria responsible for the many faces of brought to light. the Army private who infamously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified Wed – Sat 8:00pm Sun 2:00pm documents to WikiLeaks. An ever-shifting The Source was commissioned by Beth Morrison chorus of silent witnesses looms (on large- Projects and Judy & Allen Freedman, with format video) as four singers descend into additional commissioning support from Justus the digital mire. With computer-processed & Helen Schlichting.

“A fresh model of how opera and musical theater can tackle

— The New York Times Installation view, Tamara Henderson, Seasons End, The Mitchell contemporary issues.” Library, 2016. Commissioned by Glasgow International 2016.

Image courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, London. Clark Ruth Photo: Photos: Noah Stern Weber

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 October 28 “By turns meditative, ironic and explosive.” River Song Quintet / — The Seattle Times David Baker / Miwa Matreyek

MUSIC–THEATER–MULTIMEDIA. As spellbinding as it is poignant, this double bill of multidisciplinary performance features a deeply resonant collaboration between L.A.’s River Song Quintet and Ohio poet David Baker, and a dreamlike multimedia work by artist Miwa Matreyek, who blends fantastical animation with live shadow play. River Song and Baker offer three iterations of music composed by guitarist Gregory Uhlmann in combination with lyric text by the poet: a semi-improvised interplay of This World Made Itself guitar and spoken word; a six-movement art song setting of poems by Photo: Eugene Ahn Baker; and a reading of Scavenger Loop—Baker’s eco-poetic Midwestern elegy—with a score performed by the quintet. Matreyek’s This World Made Itself is a signature solo piece that seamlessly merges projected kaleidoscopic vistas with intricate shadow theater enacted by the artist herself.

Fri 8:30pm $25 [members $20]

“River Song’s music... is beautiful, engaging, patient and exquisitely quiet… a comforting sound cocoon.” — LA Weekly River Song Quintet Marina Levitskaya, courtesy of Peak Performances at Montclair State University “Miwa Matreyek’s innovative combination of projected animation and performance creates November 3 – 6

worlds of visual wonder.” — LA Record Pat Graney “Powerful contemporary dance . . . Graney [has a] penchant for Girl Gods

exploring the inner worlds DANCE. The fierce women of Girl Gods may of women.” — The New York Times be wearing cocktail dresses and little heels, but their explosive physical language and wry humor reveal the anger simmering under the surface of the collective feminine mind. In Girl Gods, Graney explores the ancestry of women and deeply embedded layers of molten rage and repressed passions. With a physical language expressing undomesticated and long- buried feelings, the dancers of Girl Gods fiercely reveal the emotional underbelly of the female experience. Girl Gods is the latest spectacle from renowned choreographer Pat Graney, who has been making and touring work focused on women and the feminine psyche for 30 years.

Girl Gods is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

This World Made Itself Thur – Sat 8:30pm & Sun 3:00pm $20 – $25 [members $16 – $20] Photo: Ahrum Hong Photo: Jenny May Peterson

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 November 7 November 10 “Surging Xu Haofeng Callings Out of Context: phosphorescence…

The Final Master Rhys Chatham Uplifting.” – Rolling Stone preceded by Chantal Akerman’s Nightfall on Shanghai and Priests Presented with The Broad FiLM/VIDEO. As part of the multi-city China Onscreen Biennial, REDCAT presents Xu Haofeng's MUSIC. Legendary noise-drone pioneer Rhys latest film, The Final Master, in which an Chatham is featured in a shared concert with outsider martial artist contends with the Wing inventive Washington, DC, alt-punk band Priests, Chun hierarchy in 1930s colonial Tianjin. Xu's in the fourth edition of The Broad’s groundbreaking sarcastic minimalist and elegant approach music series. Featuring some of today’s most to cinema has been described as what martial exciting and transgressive musicians, Callings arts movies would look like if directed by Out of Context is an aural complement to the Straub-Huillet —or David Mamet. The feature Broad Collection’s holdings of Pop Art. The series

is preceded by a rare Chantal Akerman short features hybrid-minded contemporary musical Roland Photo: Owsnitzk that captures the changing light as dusk artists that engage, point to and tell stories about Rhys Chatham creeps over Shanghai, its immemorial waters the modern market they are simultaneously a part rippling gently under neon and gaudy ads, of, while opening our ears to new perspectives on while a female voice sings Nights in White Satin. genre, repetition and mass production. Each The China Onscreen Biennial is being held at multiple The Final Master program pairs artists from divergent corners of venues in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, the marketplace, from the heart of indie-rock to this fall. This program curated by Bérénice Reynaud the fringes of hip-hop and electronic music to and COB. the experimentalism of the avant-garde. The series title was inspired by the Arthur Russell song Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] “Calling Out of Context.”

Co-Curated by Ted Hearne and Brandon Stosuy.

“In Xu Haofeng’s excellent Thur 8:30pm $25 Photo: Matthew Pandolfe The Final Master, the talking is Priests November 11 as good as the fighting.” — The Village Voice Nightfall on Shanghai “Startlingly versatile.” — The New York Times gnarwhallaby: November 9 “Pioneering kingpins of heterophonic avant-garde — DownBeat Musica the improvising impulse.” Los Angeles Premieres Elettronica Viva MUSIC. Known for its musical verve and ensemble virtuosity, Los Angeles quartet (MEV) gnarwhallaby makes its debut at REDCAT with work composed for the unique MUSIC. Fifty years after co-founding MEV instrumentation of clarinet, trombone, in Rome, three masters of improvisation, violoncello, and piano. The group extends Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard the mission first put forward by Warsztat Teitelbaum, reunite for an evening of Muzyczny and later by Quartett Avance, freewheeling, groundbreaking music. In and makes a significant contribution to its early years MEV shocked audiences, a fascinating, though relatively unknown, sparked diatribes, and pushed the very body of contemporary repertoire with new concept of music into new territories. commissions and original compositions Through periods of activity and dormancy, by its members. The concert features a the band’s remaining three members led trombone mini-concerto by Henryk Górecki busy solo careers: Curran, the composer, and a new work by California composer the man of great designs; Rzewski, the Michelle Lou on a program spanning five piano virtuoso and composer of the decades of the Euro-American avant-garde. famous variations The People United Will gnarwhallaby comprises clarinetist Brian Never Be Defeated!; and Teitelbaum, the Walsh, trombonist Matt Barbier, cellist live electronic music pioneer. Each of their Derek Stein, and pianist Richard Valitutto— performances is an exceptional moment; all instrumentalists of boundary-breaking everything is allowed, except, perhaps, technique, all CalArts graduates. taking themselves too seriously. Fri 8:30pm $20 [members $16] Wed 8:30pm $25 [members $20] “Precise, integrated, and beautiful.” — New Classic LA

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 November 21 November 28 Deborah Let It Be Known Stratman Short Films Inspired The Illinois by Octavia E. Butler Parables Los Angeles Premieres Los Angeles Premiere FILM/VIDEO. The legacy of groundbreaking African American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006) is the FILM/VIDEO. Coming to REDCAT after its inspiration for this wide-ranging program world premiere at Sundance and European of experimental shorts by contemporary debut at the Berlinale, Deborah Stratman's artists, curated by Erin Christovale. Films latest documentary is a vibrant, sassy and include: Moon Tendon (2013) and Playing often disturbing exploration of unmarked Possum (2012) by Jamilah Sabur; Big Gurl landscapes as visible traces left by a fraught (2006), a stop-motion animation by history. The rigorous composition of her Lauren Kelley; The Golden Chain (2015) frames is seductive, as is the playful by filmmaker Buki Bodunrin and graphic NoodleRice Studio, Studio: Winter 2016 juxtaposition of image and texts, archival novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels; A Feeling Like footage and re-enactments. Linked together Chaos (2015) by artist Suné Woods; The November 13 – 14 by a brilliant and haunting soundtrack, Origin of the Blues (2013) by Ariel Jackson; 11 parables relay histories of settlement, My father and I dance in outer space (2011) removal, technological breakthrough, and Two (2010) by Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Studio: Fall 2016 violence, messianism and resistance, all Presented in conjunction with the Clockshop on territory that is now the state of Illinois. exhibition Radio Imagination: Artists and THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA. REDCAT’s quarterly program of new works The film won the Stan Brakhage Award at Writers in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler. and works-in-progress highlights new forms of dance, theater, music and multimedia the Ann Arbor Film Festival. performance in a wide-ranging evening that celebrates the vitality of L.A.’s next- In person: Erin Christovale, Suné Woods, A Feeling Like Chaos by Suné Woods generation artists making work for the stage. In person: Deborah Stratman Buki Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts Funded in part with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts. faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. Let It Be Known is curated by Erin Christovale. Sun & Mon 8:30pm $15 [members $12] Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] Mon 8:30pm $11 [members $8] “Octavia E. Butler’s

Two by Wura-Natasha Ogunji work helped define “A beautiful ghost of a film.” — Chicago Tribune the literary November 18 The Illinois Parables cornerstone

Eyvind Kang of Afrofuturism.” — CNN MUSIC. Internationally acclaimed Orchestra and other ensembles. In composer, performer and recording artist addition to his ongoing collaboration with The Golden Chain by Buki Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels Eyvind Kang gives his first Los Angeles composer-vocalist Jessika Kenney, Kang concert since relocating to the city as the has played viola and other instruments newest member of the CalArts music with Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, November 19 – 20 faculty. He has released more than 20 Sun City Girls, the Secret Chiefs, Animal albums on labels such as Black Truffle, Collective and Blonde Redhead. As a Abduction, Editions Mego, Ideologic soloist, he has performed work by Organ, Ipecac and Tzadik, and his music Christian Wolff, Giacinto Scelsi and Hanne The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation has been performed by the BBC Scottish Darboven, among other composers. Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony FILM/VIDEO. A two-day immersion in founded in 2010 by filmmakers Alexander Fri 8:30pm $20 [members $16] daring animated films that express Stewart and Lilli Carré, who now bring singular creative vision, personal the program to Los Angeles, their new dedication and imaginative technical home. Previous editions of the festival approaches, the Eyeworks Festival have featured the work of David O’Reilly, “A musical polymath.” showcases a mix of abstract animation Lori Damiano, Nancy Andrews, Caleb — The New York Times and unconventional character animation, Wood and Takeshi Murata, among and explores the forms in the context other innovators. of avant-garde cinema and alternative comics. Eyeworks has been an important Sat – Sun annual event in Chicago since it was Program details at REDCAT.org

“Colorful, imaginative, and vibrant short works, ranging from warped narratives to complete abstractions.” — Chicago Reader

REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Tickets: REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 “This music is the pure articulation of December 9 – 10 textured sound that flits into existence December 14 – 17 and furrows into your ears.”— Musicworks CalArts Photo: Stephanie Smith Winter Dance Stew & Heidi Notes of a DANCE. The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents an evening of dance, featuring a premiere by CalArts alumnus and Artist-in-Residence Douglas Nielsen; Native Song a work by guest aritst Juel D. Lane; a re-staging of Pigs and Inspired by James Baldwin Fishes by choreographer Elisa Monte; and a premiere by CalArts faculty member Julie Bour. MUSIC-THEATER. Tony and Obie Award- Fri – Sat 8:30pm $20 [members $16] winning writer and composer Stew delves into the rich legacy of activist writer James Baldwin in his new music and theater event Notes of a Native Song, created with long-time collaborator Heidi Rodewald and an all-star band. Stew’s uniquely incisive lyrics are wrapped in an irresistible mix December 3 of rock, rhythm and blues, and jazz in this powerful homage to the inspiring writer, who famously confronted issues of gender, The Music of Mark Trayle race, and class distinction with wisdom and fire. Stew won the 2008 Tony Award MUSIC. The superbly imaginative, sonically expansive work of for Best Book for his Broadway hit Passing composer and sound artist Mark Trayle (1955–2015) is the subject Strange, which also received six other of this tribute by friends, colleagues and former students in The Hub Tony nominations, won an Obie Award, and Bitpanic. Co-founded by Trayle in 1986, The Hub emerged out and won three Drama Desk Awards. It was of the Mills College scene to become the most influential improvising documented in a film by Spike Lee, which electronic ensemble since Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). Known for premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film using networked electronic and digital systems of its own devising, Festival. Stew and his band, The Negro the Bay Area group currently consists of John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Problem, have deep Los Angeles roots, Tim Perkis, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone and Matt Ingalls. but a multi-performance engagement here Adding to the computer music lineage pioneered by The Hub is the “I was is a rare and special treat. recently formed collective Bitpanic. Based in Los Angeles, it comprises Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Clay Chaplin, David Paha and Wed – Sat 8:30pm Stephanie Smith — all one-time students of Trayle at CalArts. blown $30 – $35 [members $24 – $28] Sat 8:30pm $20 [members $16] Photo: RafaelPhoto: Hernandez away “A celebration of December 5 Glide of Transparency by what Baldwin’s legacy Betzy Bromberg I saw.” as an inspiration Glide of Transparency — Spike Lee for artists to create World Premiere on Passing Strange their own work FILM/VIDEO. Following a Darkness Swallowed (2005) and Voluptuous Sleep (2011), Betzy Bromberg’s third experimental that, like his, defies feature, Glide of Transparency, goes further into translucent abstraction while conveying the intimate feeling of being transported to a sublimated inner garden. Glide of Transparency genres and unfolds in three movements, each layered with its own artful sound design (field recordings of birds and insects, ambient expectations.”

audio, vocals, and a composition for acoustic instruments). Photo: Earl Dax The non-narrative progression, Bromberg says, is “a journey — The New York Times “Images that, once seen, devoid of compass bearings, forging pathways without a path.” Luscious curves, vibrant colors, and the scintillating will stay with you forever.” trajectory of light over matter, over filmic texture, echo fragmented memories of paintings we have loved, and, — Holly Willis, LA Weekly embracing love, bring us to transcendence. “A tour-de-force of the why-didn’t-anyone- In person: Betzy Bromberg The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts faculty Steve Anker think-of-this-before? variety.” — The Village Voice and Bérénice Reynaud.

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January 13 January 15 January 26 – 28 Junot Díaz JACK Quartet / Meg Stuart CalArts’ 2017 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Lightbulb Hunter Presented in association with CONVERSATIONS. Junot Díaz’s dynamic Ensemble the Goethe-Institut fiction includes his debut collection, Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of MUSIC. The revered JACK Quartet joins forces DANCE. Staged within an exquisite Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer with the multi-instrumental Lightbulb installation created with video, scenography Prize for Fiction and the National Book Ensemble (LBE) for a special collaborative and light, choreographer Meg Stuart’s Critics Circle Award; and This Is How program combining contemporary music, acclaimed solo Hunter explores her own You Lose Her, a New York Times newly created instruments, and the complex body as an archive populated with personal bestseller and National Book Award contrapuntal form of gamelan percussion. and cultural memories, ancestors and artistic finalist. He is the recipient of a JACK is widely regarded for its “explosive heroes, fantasies and invisible forces. MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/ virtuosity” (The Boston Globe), and LBE is Discovering traces in the land of small things Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace known for “refreshingly innovative that linger around her body, Stuart translates Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and performances [that] challenge conventional them into a series of self-portraits. Experiences PEN/O. Henry Award. Currently the notions of how gamelan music should sound” are cut up and spliced together on the Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the (SF Classical Voice). The program includes editing table to reveal potential connections Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hydrogen(2)Oxygen, a three-movement work and forms, such as a cartoonesque body, Díaz is also known for his activism and composed by Brian Baumbusch, LBE’s a shamanist chanting ritual or a noisy advocacy on behalf of immigrants and founder, director and instrument builder. sound sculpture. writers of color. Presented with support from the Getting To Know Photo: Nina Subin Europe program, awarded by the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. Photo: Iris Janke Iris Photo: In the Gallery Lainez Shervin Photo:

March 22 – April 1 The Wooster Group THE TOWN HALL JACK Quartet AFFAIR

THEATER. The Wooster Group’s newest work, Stills from Ordinal (SW/NE) THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR, delves into the revolutionary fervor of feminist thinking January 14 – March 5 and art “happenings” of 1970s New York. The piece is based on the and D.A. Pennebaker film Town Bloody Hall, a documentary of a 1971 panel that featured Miljohn Ruperto feminist thinkers and activists— including , , and Diana Ordinal (SW/NE) Trilling — with serving as an Opening reception: Sat, January 14, 6 – 9pm immoderate moderator. Special focus is given to radical lesbian Jill Johnston, who ART. Miljohn Ruperto’s Ordinal (SW/NE) is the culmination of the Los Angeles- attempted to subvert the event. THE TOWN based artist’s research into the spread of Valley Fever epidemic in California. HALL AFFAIR features performances by The project draws on a set of historical and cultural references including the plight Ari Fliakos, Greg Mehrten, Erin Mullin, of the migrants during the depression era, documentary investigation of the Scott Shepherd, Maura Tierney and Kate spread of the disease in recent years, and the signification of the desert wind Valk, and is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. in ancient Assyria.

Lightbulb Ensemble Photo: Paula Court

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