NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL
2010 July 22-August 7, 2010
“on the pulse of cutting-edge contemporary performance.” -LA Times
REDCAT’s seventh annual NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists who are bending traditions and investigating new visions of work for the stage.
Images (from left to right): Killsonic. Photo by Christopher Donez; Maureen Huskey. Photo by Steve Gunther; Christine Marie & Ensemble. Photo by Scott Groller; Rae Shao-Lan Blum & Tashi Wada. Photo by Mark Lannen; Raphael Xavier. Photo by Raphael Xavier; Alexandro Segade. Photo by Job Piston; Hana van der Kolk. Photo by Jorge Vismara; Miwa Matreyek. Photo by Gwenaëlle Gobé.
WEEK ONE: JULY 22-24, 2010
The first week of the Festival harnesses wild-in-the-streets energy to fuel two new works that celebrate the spirit of rebellion and escalate the poltics of power to the level of the operatic:
MAUREEN HUSKEY: THE EXILE OF PETIE DELARGE
“[Huskey] provides us with a useful strategy for considering our place in and connections to the world.” -Art Journal
KILLSONIC: TONGUES BLOODY TONGUES
“There’s nothing like witnessing them for the first time … Killsonic blows me away.” -LA Weekly
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WEEK TWO: JULY 29-31, 2010
REDCAT’s annual Festival continues with three projects that explore the theater as a space of light and shadow, a container for both presence and absence, and a three-dimensional canvas where lived experience unfurls:
CHRISTINE MARIE & ENSEMBLE: GROUND TO CLOUD
“Christine Marie’s shadow design conjures a literal ocean of surprise.” -Los Angeles Times
RAE SHAO-LAN BLUM & TASHI WADA: SYSTEMS OF US
“Her sensitivity to phrasing creates an image of raw emotion, with contortion and line functioning as feeling.” -The Dance Insider
RAPHAEL XAVIER: BLACK CANVAS
“Xavier abstracts the Hip-Hop vocabulary, loosening it from its usual musical moornings.” -Dance Magazine
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WEEK THREE: AUGUST 5-7, 2010 The final program of the Festival brings together three experiments that examine the individual as an active performer within larger social, political and mythological landscapes through animation, video feeds, and audio loops layered with live performance:
ALEXANDRO SEGADE: REPLICANT VS SEPARATIST
“Incisively intelligent work … with a sense of humor that is as biting as it is playful.” -Fanzine
HANA VAN DER KOLK: ONCE MORE, AGAIN, ONE (SOLO)
“A meditation on subtle awareness.” -ArtForum
MIWA MATREYEK: MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE
“Extraordinary and beautiful … Matreyek pushes the boundaries of realism.” -THE Magazine LA
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Performances: Thur-Sat | 8:30 PM
Individual tickets: $18 [$14 students]
Three-Week Festival Pass: $36
213-237-2800 or www.redcat.org
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 W 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The New Original Works Festival is supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Feature image of Rae Shao-Lan Blum & Tashi Wada by Mark Lannen.
