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March 29! Join us for Bodies of Animation: Analogue Tales from Latin America! As part of the collective Moebius Animación, Juan Camilo González is dedicated to amplifying the voices of animators from Latin America. For this program of short films, he proposes a reading of analogue animation as a means to exorcise personal and collective traumas. By paying close attention to the materiality of these productionsan indexical trace of the bodily labor that went into the creative... processesthe program underlines an experimental approach that recognizes animation as a vehicle of performative dimensions. These films reclaim lo-fi style, recycled animation techniques, and the use of analogue materials as aesthetic decisions rather than the outcome of economic limitations.The evening includes works by Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León, and others. TICKETS: https://www.redcat.org//bodies-animation-analogue-tales-la

Statement from CalArts President Ravi Rajan in Support of Asian, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

An homage to spirits that come alive in Lee’s hand gestures, costumes and leaps It’s impossible to take your eyes off her. -San Francisco Weekly Dohee Lee: MU/Connector: Chilseong Saenamgut Friday + Saturday, March 19-20... A new ritual theater shamanic experience where ancestral traditions are transmuted through dance, singing, drumming, and electronic soundscapes, with immersive video and stage design, and community participation. By transforming into nine goddesses from past, present, and future, Lee transports audiences on a mythological journey through ancestral legacies and indigenous resistance. TICKETS: https://www.redcat.org//dohee-lee-muconnector-chilseong-sa

This weekend, March 19 and 20, we are excited to share the new work from performance artist Dohee Lee: MU/Connector: Chilseong Saenamgut. Filmed on the REDCAT stage, it is a new ritual theater shamanic experience where ancestral traditions are transmuted through dance, singing, drumming, and electronic soundscapes, with immersive video and stage design, and community participation. By transforming into nine goddesses from past, present, and future, Lee transports audiences on... a mythological journey through ancestral legacies and indigenous resistance. The piece will be preceded by "Winter to Spring, Death to Rebirth," a visual poem and prayer featuring participants from Lee's recent artist workshops. Don’t miss this! https://www.redcat.org//dohee-lee-muconnector-chilseong-sa

On March 23, we at REDCAT in collaboration with the CalArts MFA in Creative Writing are proud to present U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, CalArts’ 2021 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. Serving her third term as the U.S. Poet Laureate, and author of nine books of poetry, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Joy Harjo’s approach to writing as inseparable from orality, memory, culture and performance invigorates her creation of an ever-unfolding cross-genre liter...ary form. Her acclaimed writings map a rich cosmology, where time, body, heart and knowing shape her compassionate dedication to a poetics that empowers Native American voices in tribal history, struggle and everyday life. Her national bestseller, An American Sunrise, threads her personal experiences and tribal histories to reflect on the blessings of her homeland and confront the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. As she makes clear in her poem, Break My Heart,: Baby, baby, baby/You can’t say what’s been said/Before, though even words/Are creatures of habit, holding space for recuperation and new beginnings insists on the inimitable power of vulnerability, rooted in resistance, in land and love, wisdom she is celebrated for. Please join us and register for FREE: https://www.redcat.org/event/joy-harjo

Next Wednesday, Dec. 16, join us for the final 2020 edition of Black Motion Pictures, which concludes with performance artist Sola Bamis. Curated by Gabrielle Civil, Black Motion Pictures is a series of Zoom interviews with radical Black creatives about race, performance, and representation conducted between June 214, 2020. Tune in for FREE next Wednesday at 8pm! https://www.redcat.org/event/black-motion-pictures4

On Monday, Dec. 14, join us for The Clamor of the Excluded: 7 films, 6 decades, 7 countries / Voices and visions of peoples on the edge and over the edge. Starting with a first presentation at the 2008 Oberhausen Film Festival, Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsenartists, filmmakers, writers, educators, troublemakershave curated and exhibited multiple programs of short films that critically and/or actively represent resistance to power all over the world. Carried out over decade...s as the project Disruptive Film, the duo’s groundbreaking research demonstrates not only the variety of everyday resistance strategies but also a surprising diversity of experimental approaches to short-form nonfiction media. Their selection for REDCAT includes Crowded by Alonzo Crawford (1978), shot in a Baltimore jail; Xochimilco, 1914 by Los Viumasters (2010) from Mexico; Crude Living on Oil in Syria by Rozh Ahmad (2014); and their own How Do Animals and Plants Live? (2020), shot in a destroyed migrant squat in Greece. After the screening, co-curators Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen will join us for a Zoom conversation. Tickets: https://www.redcat.org/event/clamor-excluded

Rounding out this weekend's triple bill of world premieres during New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Two are randy reyes + Bapari with Real Talk # 1 (Pt. 2) | Vectors of Adverse Desires con un poco de tu disco stick. Part grief party, part protest, part prayer, part leave me alone, I need to take a nap now, "Real Talk # 1 (Pt. 2)" is a solo performance framed as an excavation site where randy will dive into their personal beliefs on ritual, intimacy, pleasure, and the... erotic. randy will activate principles of contemporary dance, Qi energetics, endurance art, and structured improvisation, against the pulsating music composed by Bapari in service of constructing and deconstructing physical and sonic terrains through the use of objects (i.e. toyz) whose traces will be left behind as slippery sculptures only to be shifted again through their sweaty body and persistent repetitive subtle gestures. Grab your tickets for Nov. 5-7 now! https://www.redcat.org/event/now2020/week2

Next week, Dec. 10-12, join us as we close out #NOWFestival2020, our 17th annual celebration of #LA’s vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work! Streaming direct from REDCAT, New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Three will feature world premieres of works by Genna Moroni, DaEun Jung, Maria Garcia and Samantha Mohr! Grab your tickets now: https://www.redcat.org/event/now2020/week3

Also making its world premiere during New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Two, Xiaoyue Zhang’s Little Red Book, or Plural Body is an experiment of bodies in performative spaces to look carefully at the interactions in which individual bodies, collective identity, and ideology are connected within the cultural space of China and beyond. Focusing on the practices and disciplines that Chinese bodies assimilate in the process of socialization, modernization and globalization, Zhang and her onstage collaborators explore the political and cultural pressures and conflicts within their bodies, and how they, as artists and movers, take them in, rebel against them, and move forward with them. Grab your tickets now! https://www.redcat.org/event/now2020/week2

Now more than ever, REDCAT relies on your support to present the work of transformative and adventurous artists. Today is #GivingTuesday and we hope you'll consider a gift to support our critical efforts. Learn more about how to become a REDCAT member or support our work at https://www.redcat.org/support Pictured: Genna Moroni + Gum Collective's new work, More, premiering during New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Three (Photo by Silvia Grav)

This Friday and Saturday! Don't miss the first-ever virtual presentation of CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory. Presented in partnership with REDCAT, this year’s concert will feature an ambitious, multi-track, online experience bringing together dancers from around the world! Imagining new dances in new forms through new technologies, the concert will feature new works from choreographers and CalArts Dance faculty Holley Farmer, Rosanna Gamson, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Sp...enser Theberge, and sam wentz. Grab your tickets now! https://www.redcat.org//calarts-winter-dance-repertorytraj

Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4-5, CalArts Dance will celebrate its annual CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory with an ambitious, multi-track, online experience presented in partnership with REDCAT. Synthesizing the embodied memories of faculty and students, 2020’s concert will imagine new dances in new forms through new technologies. Join us for an immersive, digital performance charting our personal and shared histories with fresh insights through cutting-edge cartograph...ies. Presented virtually for the first time ever, this year’s CalArts Winter Dance will bring together dancers from around the world (Cyprus, Germany, Japan, Peru, Russia, Taiwan, and all across the U.S.) and feature new works from five renowned choreographers currently on faculty with CalArts Dance: Holley Farmer, Rosanna Gamson, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Spenser Theberge, and sam wentz. Grab your tickets now! https://www.redcat.org//calarts-winter-dance-repertorytraj

This week kicks off New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Two! This Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 5-7, join for the world premiere of Primera Generación Dance Collective's Nepantla. Through a series of movement-based explorations and rasquache play, this new multimedia work re-imagines the desmadre (messiness) that reflects, generates, and questions the flux of their Mexican American identities. Primera Generación Dance Collective strategically navigates culturally-iconic images, stereotypes, and rituals to visibilize the harsh realities and imaginative potentials of Mexicanidades in the U.S. Grab your tickets NOW! https://www.redcat.org/event/now2020/week2

An emotionally provocative and visually stimulating performance You have three more chances to catch Paul Outlaw's meditation on isolation, imprisonment and imperiled Blackness in America. TONIGHT, Friday, Oct. 30 @ 8:30pm PST... TOMORROW, Halloween matinee, Oct. 31 @ 11am PST TOMORROW, Halloween night, Oct. 31 @ 8:30pm PST Tickets: https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

"This is not an easy production to watch, but one that I think everyone should see." - LADanceChronicle Do you have your tickets yet for the last five performances of Paul Outlaw: BigBlackOctoberSurprise Oct. 28-31? Don't miss out! https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

BigBlackOctoberSurprise: a conservative American white woman finds herself transformed into what she considers a monstrous vermin (Kafka) -- a Black man... Paul Outlaw: BigBlackOctoberSurprise In the days leading up to The Most Important Election in Our History Oct. 22-24 and Oct. 28-31, 2020... Tickets: https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

It all starts tomorrow... do you have your tickets yet? https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

Have you registered for tomorrow night’s (Oct. 21) FREE Zoom conversation, Teaching What to Who: Graphic Design Education & Pedagogy? This is the third of a series of conversations that critically address the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970-2019 in relation to issues of inclusion and representation in the field of graphic design and graphic design education. You can now watch the first two conversations on our website! And join us for the final iteration, Where is the Black in Graphic Design at CalArts? on Wednesday, Nov. 18. LEARN MORE: https://www.redcat.org//teaching-what-who-graphic-design-e

"A compelling, dominating presence..." Los Angeles Times Formidable... SF Weekly BigBlackOctoberSurprise: a conservative American white woman finds herself transformed into what she considers a monstrous vermin (Kafka) -- a Black man... ... Starting this week and leading up to the presidential election, REDCAT proudly present sa special virtual presentation of experimental theater artist Paul Outlaw: BigBlackOctoberSurprise Oct. 22-24 and 28-31, 2020. Grab your tickets now! https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

Next Wednesday, Oct. 21! The CalArts Graphic Design Programs have a notorious history as a radical site of design pedagogy. A roster of dynamic and risk taking faculty created a tendency to attract students who are upstarts in their own right and often go into teaching in their own radical and influential ways. In this moment of collective educational crisis, designers and educators Yasmin Khan Gibson, Joe Potts, Lauren Williams with moderator Silas Munro will question the li...neages of their own education, discuss pedagogical damage, explore what is critical to teach now, and speak to the legacy of radical education that evolved out of CalArts. This is the third of a series of conversations that critically address the exhibition "Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970-2019" in relation to issues of inclusion and representation in the field of graphic design and graphic design education. Video of the first two conversations in these series are now available on our website! This FREE event will be held on Zoom. To register, visit: https://www.redcat.org//teaching-what-who-graphic-design-e

In the days leading up to the presidential election, REDCAT proudly presents a special virtual presentation of experimental theater artist Paul Outlaw: BigBlackOctoberSurprise Oct. 22-24 and 28-31, 2020. In 2020, Black Americans continue to face disenfranchisement, inequality and the constant threat of violent death. In the final week before The Most Important Election in Our History, as the nation goes to the polls to elect The Most Powerful Man in the World, "BigBlackOcto...berSurprise" offers a meditation on isolation, imprisonment and imperiled Blackness in America not only in this year of Covid and insurrection, but throughout a history that began in the holds of the slave ships. From the creative team behind the upcoming "BBC (Big Black Cockroach)," this new take on the Kafka-inspired reality is yet another metamorphosis, an online hybrid provocation combining live and filmed performance. TICKETS: https://www.redcat.org//paul-outlaw-bigblackoctobersurprise

OCT 9-22: CalArts Center for New Performance is offering a FREE stream of The Carolyn Bryant Project, which premiered at REDCAT in 2018. Conjuring the specter of Emmett Till’s murder, the critically-acclaimed production is a nightmarish reverie on white violence and silence in America. Tune in: http://centerfornewperformance.org/streaming

At long last, we are proud to present our much beloved REDCAT brochure -- this time, available digitally! Read all about the performances, conversations, and screenings we’ve got coming up this season, grab your tickets at REDCAT.org, and plan your Autumn accordingly. We can’t wait to see you online! https://www.redcat.org/content/fall-2021