July 2018
New Original Works Festival
Nine New Contemporary Performance Projects Given Residency Support to Premiere at the 15th New Original Works Festival (NOW Festival) REDCAT's Annual New Original Works Festival transforms REDCAT into a summer laboratory premiering new contemporary dance, theater, music and multimedia performances. This year's festival launches nine new works by Los Angeles emerging and mid-career artists who are re-defining the boundaries of contemporary performance to invent hybrid artistic disciplines, re-imagine traditions and confront urgent issues. All artistic teams receive free rehearsal space, technical support, and artist fees.…
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Elisa Harkins + Anna Luisa Petrisko
On Friday, Feb. 18, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, proudly present a double bill exploring future and ancient indigenous ideas with Native American artist and composer Elisa Harkins and interstellar synths, hymnal vocals, and tropical beats by musician, composer, and video artist Anna Luisa Petrisko. Photo courtesy of REDCAT
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Indigenous Enterprise: Indigenous Liberation
REDCAT presents the Los Angeles debut of Indigenous Enterprise, a Native American and Canadian collective that first stunned crowds at the Sydney Opera House in 2018 with their explosively jubilant dance and colorful regalia honoring the legacies of their elders. Indigenous Liberation, a vibrant celebration of Native American culture and ancestors, is an intertribal production featuring songs, stories, and dances from all over Turtle Island, led by champion pow wow dancers. This new work will highlight traditional pow wow categories such…
Find out more »Dahlak Brathwaite: Try/Step/Trip
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, proudly presents multifaceted artist Dahlak Brathwaite with his latest work, Try/Step/Trip, a spoken word, multi-character musical performed through the language of step dance. The story follows the journey of an anonymous narrator as he re-imagines his experience in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. Inspired by Brathwaite’s own history, Try/Step/Trip layers characters, poetic verse, and dialogue over music to create a theatrical piece that blurs the lines between hip-hop and…
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Derrick Skye: Where do we go, from here?
On April 2, 2022, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) presents renowned composer and musician Derrick Skye with Where can we go, from here?, a program exploring music as a doorway into understanding other cultures and different ways of living through healing, artificial intelligence (AI), and honoring music of diverse communities. Structured in two parts, Where can we go, from here? features a powerful team of vocalists, instrumentalists, dancers, and artists led by Skye along with writer, speaker, and musician K Allado-McDowell.…
Find out more »Sola Bamis: The Tutorial
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, proudly presents actress and artist Sola Bamis with her newest work, The Tutorial. Part social media livestream event, film/video installation, solo performance, and theater piece, The Tutorial is an irreverent and heartfelt original work that deconstructs and reimagines Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye. The work explores the idea of the self and the other while providing a digital litany for Black women’s survival…
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Mark-n-Sparks: The Most Beautiful Home…Maybe
There is a mounting need for solutions to our national housing crises. Can art help us meet these challenges? From May 19-21, The Most Beautiful Home… Maybe comes to REDCAT to offer a nerdy and raucous vision for guaranteed housing. Hosted by chanteuse Zébra (a zebra), this multimedia, immersive performance juxtaposes housing data, Lyndon B. Johnson, and torch songs while time traveling through stories of Americans facing home insecurity, past and present. This interactive experience takes audiences on a fantastic sensurround journey to envision…
Find out more »October 2022
Oklahoma Intertribal Noise Symposium 2022
American Indian experimental sound artists Autumn Chacon, Kite, TickSuck, Robbie Wing, and Nathan Young present a constellation of sonic experiments across genres, inspired by Nathan Young’s event “Oklahoma Intertribal Noise Symposium” in Tulsa in 2019. This program includes noise musicians, drone poets, field recordists, and performance artists, “creating and destroying sound worlds and embodying Indigenous sonic agency,” as Young describes.
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