Fall 2016 CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Pat Graney: Girl Gods November 3 – 6 REDCAT.org 213.237.2800 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. 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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