Winter Spring 2016 Full Color Program

Winter / Spring 2016
Photo: Christopher Duggan
CalArts’
Downtown
Center for
Contemporary
Arts
Companhia Urbana de Dança
March 23-24
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Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater
WINTER / SPRING 2016
JANUARY
MARCH
MAY
January 9 – 10
March 10
May 2
ART
Eve Egoyan: Earwitness (Canada)
January 11
March 12
FILM/ VIDEO
Billy Woodberry
CONVERSATIONS
DANCE
FILM/VIDEO
MULTIMEDIA
MUSIC
THEATER
REDCAT
Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater
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arts founded by CalArts in the Walt Disney
Concert Hall complex in downtown Los
Angeles. Through performances,
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students and artists to the most influential
developments in the arts from around the
world, and gives artists in this region the
creative support they need to achieve
national and international stature.
REDCAT continues the tradition of CalArts,
its parent organization, by encouraging
experimentation, discovery and lively
civic discourse.
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internationally recognized pacesetter
in the education of professional artists.
Offering rigorous undergraduate and
graduate degree programs through six
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critical reflection, and the development
of new forms and expressions. As
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alumni have helped shape the landscape
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and exchange among artists, artistic
disciplines and cultural traditions. Based
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arts through REDCAT and the nationally
emulated Community Arts Partnership
(CAP) youth arts education program.
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Programs, schedules, prices and
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DANCE
The Next Dance Company
March 14
May 11 – 13
Piano Spheres
Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder
Steve Paxton
January 16
March 17 – 18
Dark Chamber Disclosure
CONVERSATIONS
Immigration: Art/Critique/Process
January 18
THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA
FILM/ VIDEO
Lewis Klahr: Sixty Six
January 23 – March 27
ART
Camel Collective (U.S./Mexico)
Something Other Than What You Are
January 23
MUSIC
January 28 – 30
DANCE
Meg Wolfe
New Faithful Disco
DANCE
Bound
May 22 – 23
Tribute to Manoel de Oliveira:
Amor de Perdição (Doomed Love)
March 20 – 21
THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA
Studio: Spring 2016
Studio: Winter 2016
March 22
JUNE
MUSIC
June 2 – 4
Mark Robson
DANCE
Piano Spheres
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide
Still/Restless
March 23 – 24
DANCE
June 16 – 19
ID: Entidades and Na Pista
David Lang and Mark Dion
Companhia Urbana de Dança (Brazil)
OPERA
Anatomy Theater
March 31 – April 3
MULTIMEDIA-THEATER
TeatroCinema (Chile)
Historia de Amor
CALARTS at REDCAT
The end of the school year features
special programs highlighting work
created at CalArts.
FEBRUARY
APRIL
February 4 – 14
April 4
THEATER
The Wooster Group
The Room by Harold Pinter
February 18 – 21
THEATER
Christiane Jatahy (Brazil)
Julia
February 22
FILM/ VIDEO
Three Films by Jennifer Reeder
February 23
MUSIC
Vicki Ray
Piano Spheres
February 24
April 28 – 30 & May 3
FILM/ VIDEO
FILM/ VIDEO
CalArts Film/Video Showcases
April 7
CONVERSATIONS
Chantal Akerman
Portraits of the Artist as a Young Girl
CalArts Writers Showcase
MUSIC
April 9 – June 12
ART
Stay Connected
John Knight
April 16 – 17
DANCE
Isabelle Schad (Germany/France)
Der Bau (The Burrow)
April 18
Radical Intimacies:
The 8mm Cinema of Saul Levine
February 25
April 23 – May 7
FILM/ VIDEO
February 26
CONVERSATIONS
George Saunders
MUSIC
Callings Out of Context:
Tyondai Braxton, Daniel Wohl
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FILM/ VIDEO
MUSIC
ARRAY @ The Broad: Ashes and Embers
May 12
The Ensemble at CalArts:
MINIMALIST means
Lori Freedman, Quasar Saxophone Quartet
February 27
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
May 6 – 7
FILM/ VIDEO
Pat O’Neill
FILM/ VIDEO
Callings Out of Context:
Ratking + Manuel Garzón-Montano
Location
Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema
MUSIC
FILM/ VIDEO
ART
FILM/ VIDEO
Tom Gunning and Jonathon Rosen
January 12
Danny Holt
CalArts’ Downtown Center
for Contemporary Arts
MUSIC–MULTIMEDIA
Fiona Connor
Find us: @CalArtsREDCAT
FILM/ VIDEO–FAMILY
REDCAT International Children’s
Film Festival
April 25
FILM/ VIDEO
Tacita Dean
April 27
MUSIC
Tetsuya Umeda (Japan)
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
January 16
Tribute to Manoel de Oliveira:
Amor de Perdição (Doomed Love)
(Portugal) 1978, 265 min., 16mm
When he died in April 2015 at
the age of 106, revered Portuguese
filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira left behind
one of the most extraordinary oeuvres in
the history of art cinema: 31 features and
more than 30 documentaries and shorts — most of which were completed after he
had turned 70. Amor de Perdição, the epic
work that introduced his unique style of
mise-en-scène to the international film
community, is an enduring masterpiece.
Adapting the eponymous 1862 novel by
Camilo Castelo Branco, de Oliveira
focused on the author’s elegantly
constructed, sonorous text rather than
FILM/ VIDEO.
Bob Kaufman in And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead
January 11
Billy Woodberry
And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead
FILM/ VIDEO .
Billy Woodberry introduces the
U.S. premiere of his long-awaited new film
And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead, a featurelength documentary about jazz-inspired
beat poet Bob Kaufman, sometimes called
the “Black American Rimbaud.” In influential
CalArts’ faculty member, Woodberry’s
landmark 1984 film, Bless Their Little Hearts,
was honored with a jury award at the Berlin
International Film Festival and was selected
for preservation by the National Film Registry.
The program begins with Marseille après la
guerre, a short montage crafted from images
found in a longshoremen’s union hall.
a naturalistic staging of the doomed affair
between 18th-century aristocrats Teresa
and Simão. The result is a mesmerizing
synthesis of literary, theatrical and
cinematic traditions, as de Oliveira
overlays a haunting off-screen voice atop
the sumptuous visuals captured by his
deliberative moving camera.
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud. Print courtesy of the
Harvard Film Archive.
Sat 6:00pm
Gabriel Garzón-Montano
$11 [members $8]
“A minuet staged as grand opera.” — J. Hoberman
In person: Billy Woodberry
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
Ratking
$11 [members $8]
January 23
Callings Out
of Context:
Ratking and
Gabriel GarzónMontano
Presented with The Broad
Manoel de Oliveira
Featuring some of today’s most
exciting and transgressive musicians,
Callings Out of Context is an aural
complement to the Broad collection’s
holdings of Pop Art. The series features
hybrid-minded contemporary musical
artists that engage, point to and tell
stories about the modern market they
are simultaneously a part of, while
opening our ears to new perspectives on
genre, repetition and mass production.
Each program pairs artists from
divergent corners of the marketplace,
from the heart of indie-rock to the
fringes of hip-hop and electronic music
to the experimentalism of the avantgarde. This program features New York–
based trio Ratking, piecing together
detritus from the scorched earth of New
York’s musio-social landscape—where
bloated, self-satisfied hip hop bumps
elbows with the nihilist refrain of dead
end punk. Opening the evening is singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Gabriel Garzón-Montano, who
exemplifies hybridity in his music.
MUSIC.
January 18
Lewis Klahr: Sixty Six
West Coast Premiere
Fresh off its world premiere at
The Museum of Modern Art, Sixty Six
(2002–15, 90 min.) is the latest entry in
master collagist Lewis Klahr’s Prolix Satori
digital series. It also stands as the
crowning achievement of the CalArts
faculty member’s prodigious work in
collage film, dating back to 1977. Using
material from his own vast archive,
Klahr, “the reigning proponent of cutand-paste,” according to J. Hoberman,
combines classic Greek mythology
with 1960s Pop and “Daylight Noir” in
a series of elliptical tales — uncanny
superimpositions in which comic-book
heroes and foto-roman characters
populate a vision of midcentury Los
Angeles cut from period magazines.
FILM/ VIDEO.
January 9 – 10
Fiona Connor
Can you help with this project? Will you please print a page
of the book? Could you print as close to 100 copies as possible?
ART. This artist book project developed by
artist Fiona Connor for the Gallery at
REDCAT uses material produced through
a two-month process, during which she
asked people in REDCAT’s neighborhood
and throughout Los Angeles to help her
print 100 copies of a page she made
using a template. The printed pages will
be bound in the Gallery at REDCAT January
9 and 10, 2016, in collaboration with
Erin Besler and workshop participants.
This artist book is a co-production by
REDCAT and 1301PE, Los Angeles.
Sat & Sun 12:00pm – 5:00pm:
Binding workshop at the Gallery
at REDCAT with Erin Besler
Sun 4:30pm: Book release
Free
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
January 12
Danny Holt
Piano Spheres
MUSIC . Holt’s Piano/Percussion Project
places the pianist amid an array of
percussion instruments, calling for
acrobatic feats of multi-instrumentalism.
Over 20 composers have contributed
new works to this project, of which
several will be presented this evening,
including the world premiere of a new
work by Sean Friar.
Tues 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
The Silver Age
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$11 [members $8]
In person: Lewis Klahr
“Lewis Klahr’s beautiful compilation…
refashions pop culture in a heroic key.” —The New York Times
Sat 8:30pm
$20
Callings Out of Context is guest-curated
by Ted Hearne for The Broad.
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
IN THE GALLERY
“A postmodernist
jokester with
a sly sense
of humor.”
Photo: Courtesy of the Artists and Parque Galería
— San Diego Union-Tribune
Video still of taisha pagett.
January 28 – 30
Meg Wolfe
New Faithful Disco
Camel Collective (Anthony Graves & Carla Herrera-Prats), Something other than what you are (2015), video stills.
World Premiere
DANCE .
In Meg Wolfe’s new lushly physical
movement work New Faithful Disco, belief is
made manifest as energy. A trio of
dancers — taisha paggett, Marbles (Rae
Shao-Lan), and Wolfe — feel it, generate it
and remix it as they prepare to take on
something big, set to new original music by
Maria de los Angeles “Cuca” Esteves. Love,
faith, impermanence? Pleasure? Power?
Soul retrieval? A queer-love power-trio
wrought with awkwardness and
January 23 – March 27
Camel Collective
(U.S./Mexico)
Something Other Than What You Are
Opening Reception: Sat, Jan 23, 6–9pm
theater performance, in the form of
soliloquies and conversations between
the production and technical crew. The
piece depicts the production of visibility
and invisibility in a “creative field.” It is
about watching a figure move in and out
of obscurity, watching moods pass,
and aspirations ebb and flow.
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
Thur–Sat 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
“Meg Wolfe is
remarkable...
unfettered by
physical
constraints”
Something Other Than What You Are is funded in
part by generous support from Jumex Foundation,
Mexico City. Special thanks to Parque Galeria,
Mexico City.
Tues–Sun 12–6pm or intermission
Free
New Faithful Disco is a National Performance
Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project cocommissioned by REDCAT, Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art (PICA), DiverseWorks, Z Space,
and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Supported by the NPN Performance Residency
Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
— LA Weekly
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
ART. Anthony Graves and Carla HerreraPrats, working collaboratively as Camel
Collective, premiere their multi-channel
video installation Something Other Than
What You Are. Shot in REDCAT’s theater, the
work depicts fictional lighting technicians,
designers, and a professor grappling with
the realities of the precariousness of
freelance labor, collaborative power
dynamics, and technological obsolescence.
In addition to the video installation, the
exhibition includes a series of drawings,
props and additional moving-image
vignettes. Theater itself is a subject, while
the camera investigates the physiological
cause-effect dynamics of light and stage.
The narrative takes place outside of live
contradictions, New Faithful Disco builds
communal energy into an accumulated
whirlwind propelled by nature sounds and
disco rhythms. Bodies are the conduit:
the site of intersections where dances are
generated, transferred, translated and
recycled in an attempt to remix revolution.
Disco opens up time, triggers fading
histories and provides a backdrop that
frames who we are, now.
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
“Is there nothing
The Wooster
Group cannot
imagine — or re-imagine?”
— The New Yorker
February 4 – 14
The Wooster Group
“Christiane Jatahy is the new voice of Brazilian
theater. Julia is innovative theater with a strong
cinematic impact. A must see.” — Le Libre
The Room by Harold Pinter
World Premiere
THEATER .
The world’s most influential theater
ensemble premieres their version of Harold
Pinter’s The Room, the first play by one of
the most important playwrights of a
generation. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte,
the compelling theatrical experience builds
on the Group’s goal to create “a theater
that encompasses all forms of the arts
and has an architecture that isn’t located
in a naturalistic place: a theater which
integrates music, dance and text into the
final art form without privileging one over
the other.” They approach Pinter’s 1957
play through a range of comedic forms,
including American vaudeville and comic
routines (duos like Abbott and Costello or
the Smothers Brothers), and the ancient
form “cross talk” or xiansheng, a twoperson comedy style popular in China
since the Qing Dynasty. The cast includes
Group members and associates Kate Valk,
Suzzy Roche, Ari Fliakos, Philip Moore
and Scott Renderer. Lighting design by
Jennifer Tipton.
Thur Feb 4–Sat Feb 6 at 8:30pm
Sun Feb 7 at 3pm
Tues Feb 9–Sat Feb 13 at 8:30pm
Sun Feb 14 at 3pm
$50–$55 [members $40–$45]
“Julia updates
Strindberg’s text
with singularity
and pungency,
exploring new
narrative possibilities
in theater.” — Folha de São Paulo
February 18 – 21
Christiane Jatahy
(Brazil)
Photos: Paula Court
Julia
“One of The Wooster Group’s many superpowers is their ability to flay their source materials
until the original bodies of text transform into entirely other beasts.” — Artforum
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
THEATER. Internationally praised Brazilian
author and director Christiane Jatahy
expertly negotiates the boundaries
between cinema and theater while
exploring the reality of Brazil’s current
society in her award winning work Julia, an
adaptation of the classic August Strindberg
work Miss Julie. With a contemporary lens,
Jatahy integrates film technique on stage,
to break down boundaries between past
and present, actor and character, reality
and fiction to create unusual encounters
between actor and audience.
This engagement of Christiane Jatahy is made
possible through Southern Exposure: Performing
Arts of Latin America, a program of Mid Atlantic
Arts Foundation in partnership with the National
Endowment for the Arts. Funded in part with
generous support from the Performing Americas
Program of the National Performance Network (NPN)
with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Thur–Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm
$25–$30 [members $20–$24]
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
February 25
“Teen movies that
have been rubbed raw
and are tender to
the touch.” — The Skinny
ARRAY @ The Broad
Presented with The Broad
February 24
Lori Freedman
and Quasar
Saxophone
Quartet
Band Blood
February 22
Three Films
by Jennifer Reeder
FILM/ VIDEO. Drawing on forms as varied as
TV after-school specials, music videos and
magical realism, Jennifer Reeder constructs
intimate narratives about relationships,
trauma and coping. Her latest acclaimed
work, Blood Below the Skin (2015, 32 min.),
chronicles a turbulent week in the life of
three teenage girls, from different social
circles, ahead of the school dance. Also on
tap are the L.A. debut of A Million Miles
Away (2014, 27 min.), a festival circuit
favorite in which a distressed substitute
teacher and a teen girls’ choir revel in the
melancholy of a Judas Priest anthem, and
Seven Songs About Thunder (2010, 20 min.),
a dark feminist comedy about a mother,
her daughter, a liar, and a therapist.
In person: Jennifer Reeder
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts
Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice
Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$11 [members $8]
A Million Miles Away
MUSIC. Boasting five of North America’s
most adventurous exponents of new
music for woodwinds, this double-bill
unites, for the first time, livewire clarinet
soloist Lori Freedman with Quasar’s
stellar quartet of saxophone virtuosos — Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair,
André Leroux and Jean-Marc Bouchard.
Freedman opens with a set from her
touring solo program — playing works
by Brian Ferneyhough, Richard Barrett
and Raphaël Cendo — and teams up with
Quasar for her own composition, No Man’s
Clan (1996/2015). Quasar launches into
the second set with pieces by PierreAlexandre Tremblay and André Hamel
before a rousing finale with Freedman,
performing Bouchard’s Le Cri des oiseaux
fous (2012) and Fred Frith’s The Big
Picture (2012), with a special guest
appearance by the composer himself,
on guitar.
“A Million Miles Away
is an ode to the secret
language of adolescence…
infused with a surreal,
mythical atmosphere.”
— Dazed
Vicki Ray
Piano Spheres
Wed 8:30pm
and a new work exploring the air element
by Dominique Schafer (World Premiere).
John Luther Adams’ Nunataks and Toru
Takimitsu’s Between Tides for piano trio
conclude the program.
Tues 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
Photo by Ivan Singer
Piano Spheres co-founder Vicki
Ray presents a program exploring the
four elements. The program begins with
Luciano Berio’s Encores (Luftklavier,
Erdenklavier, Wasserklavier, Feuerklavier)
followed by Pale Fire by Mu-Xuan Lin for
piano and electronics (World Premiere),
and scholars for an immersive exchange
of ideas and insights beyond the screen
that enliven many issues addressed by
artists in the Broad collection. ARRAY,
founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava
DuVernay (Selma), is an arts collective
dedicated to the amplification of films
by people of color and women filmmakers.
Thur 8:30pm
$20
ARRAY @ The Broad is an ongoing series
featuring classic and contemporary films
curated with an eye toward the
intersection of art, history and cultural
identity. With the cinematic image as
the centerpiece, the series will engage
audiences through post-screening
conversations with a spectrum of artists
Ashes and Embers
(Canada)
Featuring guest artist Fred Frith
February 23
MUSIC.
A disillusioned veteran of the
Vietnam War attempts to come to terms
with his past and his current place as a
black man in America in director Haile
Gerima’s Ashes and Embers. Winner of the
1983 FIPRESCI Prize for Forum of New
Cinema at the Berlin International Film
Festival, this little-seen screen gem will
serve as entry into candid dialogue about
nationalism, liberty and race relations
explored from the artist’s viewpoint.
Engaging the audience in this conversation
will be a high-profile quorum of actors,
musicians and scholars selected by
filmmaker and ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay,
who will also serve as host for this second
gathering in this ongoing film series.
FILM/ VIDEO.
$20 [members $16]
“Quasar are poets
as much as virtuosos
of their instruments.” — La Presse (Montreal)
Daniel Wohl
Tyondai Braxton
February 27
Callings Out of Context:
Tyondai Braxton, Daniel Wohl
Presented with The Broad
MUSIC. The Callings Out of Context series
continues with Tyondai Braxton and
Daniel Wohl, composers, performers and
experimental electronic musicians, who
create immersive works that draw from
a variety of sound sources. Both artists
explore the purposes and possibilities
of pop production by subjecting those
sounds and practices to the unique rigor
demanded from classical composition.
Callings Out of Context is an aural
complement to the Broad collection’s
holdings of Pop Art. The series features
hybrid-minded contemporary musical
artists that engage, point to and tell
stories about the modern market they
are simultaneously a part of, while
opening our ears to new perspectives on
genre, repetition and mass production.
Sat 8:30pm
$20
Callings Out of Context is guest-curated
by Ted Hearne for The Broad.
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
February 26
George Saunders
Presented by the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program
New Yorker, GQ and Harper’s, and his
writing has appeared in the O. Henry
Prize Stories, Best American Short
Stories, and Best American Nonrequired
Reading anthologies.
Fri 8:30pm
Louis Hock, The Nightscope Series, inkjet, 2006.
$10 [members $5]
March 17 – 18
Where the Chocolate Mountains
Photo: Caitlin Saunders
George Saunders, one of
foremost innovators of the contemporary
American short story, is on hand to read
from his recent work in connection with his
current stint at CalArts, where he is the
Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence.
Saunders has authored the blazingly
original collections CivilWarLand in Bad
Decline (1996), Pastoralia (2000), In
Persuasion Nation (2006), and Tenth of
December (2013) — a finalist for the
National Book Award and winner of the
Folio Prize. His other books include The
Braindead Megaphone (2007), a volume of
essays, and The Very Persistent Gappers of
Frip (2005), a best-selling children’s tale.
Recipient of a MacArthur genius grant in
2006, Saunders regularly contributes to The
CONVERSATIONS.
“Not since Twain has America produced
a satirist this funny.” — Zadie Smith
March 12
Pat O’Neill
March 10
Eve Egoyan: Earwitness
(Canada)
Toronto piano virtuoso
Eve Egoyan has developed a multimedia
performance form in which her sumptuous
interpretive and improvisational artistry
applies equally to both sound and image,
producing a nuanced sensorial concert
experience that goes beyond conventional
audiovisual combos. Using the umbrella
name “Earwitness” for this line of hybrid
performance, Egoyan plays compositions
specially commissioned for piano and
visuals. Her program features a
collaboration with David Rokeby entitled
Surface Tension (2009), written for Yamaha
MUSIC–MULTIMEDIA.
Disklavier, an acoustic grand piano with
a MIDI interface, which here
extrapolates Egoyan’s touch-based
inputs into projected imagery. It also
includes John Oswald’s Homonymy
(1998), an homage to Michael Snow’s
silent film So Is This (1982) with MIDIlinked video playback, and Nicole Lizée’s
David Lynch Etudes (2015), in which
Egoyan’s performance interacts with
images and characters from the films
of the eponymous auteur.
Thur 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
“Eve Egoyan illuminates the music she plays.” — Michael Finnissy
REDCAT is CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
March 14
Dark Chamber Disclosure
A Projection Performance by
Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder
Where the Chocolate
Mountains
West Coast Premiere
A tour de force of digital art,
Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015,
55 min.) is a major new opus from Pat
O’Neill, one of the all-time guiding lights
of the Los Angeles avant-garde, whose
pioneering use of the optical printer
marked a creative breakthrough in
composite image-making in cinema.
Continuing in the vein of his renowned
35mm epics Water and Power (1989),
Trouble in the Image (1996) and Decay
of Fiction (2002), the founding CalArts
faculty member combines haunting
cinematography of the Chocolate
Mountains along the border between
California and Arizona — long used as a
bombing range by the military — with
footage shot in L.A., Mexico and Prague,
intimate self-portraits, and recurring
graphic motifs to create irrepressible,
stunningly detailed streams of
multilayered sight and sound. The new
film is preceded by one of O’Neill’s early
classics, 7362 (1967, 10 min.).
FILM/ VIDEO.
Surface Tension
Dark Chamber Disclosure
In person: Pat O’Neill
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud.
Sat 8:30pm
$11 [members $8]
“Mr. O’Neill
creates startlingly
beautiful, technically
virtuosic films.”
—The New York Times
The New York duo’s live
projection performances rely on the
mechanical and optical foundations of
cinema, but nothing much resembling
film — leaving only the play of light and
darkness, and the articulation of space
and time. Creating sensuous effects that
recall the shimmering color lights of early
cinema or the mesmeric dance of shadows
inside Plato’s cave, Gibson + Recoder
use celluloid loops, gels, crystals and
their own hand gestures to bend, reflect,
refract or otherwise manipulate the light
beam generated by 35mm film projectors.
The result is materially “cinematic,” yet
FILM/ VIDEO.
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud.
$11 [members $8]
“Two of the most celebrated practitioners
of expanded cinema.” — Viennale
March 20 – 21
Studio:
Winter 2016
Organized by James Wiltgen of the CalArts
School of Critical Studies, and Beatriz Cortez,
of the Department of Central American Studies
at California State University, Northridge.
REDCAT’s
quarterly program of new works and worksin-progress highlights new forms of dance,
theater, music and multimedia performance
in a wide-ranging evening that celebrates
the vitality of L.A.’s next-generation artists
making work for the stage.
THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA.
Thur 4–11pm
Fri 10:30am–11pm
$11 [members $8]
Program details at REDCAT.org and
immigration-art-critique-process.com
Funded in part with generous support from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sun & Mon 8:30pm
$15 [members $12]
In this two-day
symposium on art and immigration,
leading creative and critical voices
come together to move the discussion
beyond the territorialization of identity,
and focus instead on the dynamic,
ongoing processes that continually
refashion our common social fabric.
Featuring artist presentations, film
screenings, lectures and a series of Q&A
sessions, the symposium examines the
creative endeavor in multiple,
simultaneous vectors of collective
becoming, and the potentialities in our
mutual entanglements and reciprocal
imaginaries of the future. Also under
examination are issues of biopolitics
and the impact of the climate crisis on
global migration. Presenters include
critical theorist Claire Colebrook; virtual
reality and immersive journalism pioneer
Nonny de la Peña; cultural critics and
curators Kency Cornejo, Jennifer Doyle,
Ruth Estévez, Michael Ned Holte,
Ricardo Roque Baldovinos, Tyler
Stallings and Pilar Tompkins Rivas; and
artists Nao Bustamante, Rafa Esparza,
Regina José Galindo, Harry Gamboa Jr.,
Louis Hock, Chico MacMurtrie, Ronald
Morán, Yoshua Okón and Javier Toscano.
CONVERSATIONS.
also suggestive of something well
beyond. Gibson + Recoder have
presented performances and
installations at the Whitney Museum,
Tate Modern, Ballroom Marfa, M HKA
in Antwerp, and Serralves in Porto.
They are in residence this spring at
CalArts and Young Projects Gallery.
Mon 8:30pm
Immigration:
Art/Critique/
Process
Tumi Johnson, presented in Studio: Fall 2015
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
— The New York Times
Photo: Christopher Duggan
“So wonderful that it seems miraculous.”
“Meticulously choreographed, with stylized freeze frames and
shifting perspectives ­— the actors are never an inch out of place,
never breaking the spell.” — Financial Times
March 23–24
Companhia Urbana de Dança
(Brazil)
ID: Entidades and Na Pista
DANCE. The audacious, vigorous, and highly
inventive Brazilian dance ensemble
Companhia Urbana de Dança is renowned
for burning up the stage in an irresistible
explosion of breakneck bravado, exuberant,
high-speed energy, and powerhouse
athleticism. Choreographer Sonia Destri Lie
and the performers deconstruct the thrilling
kinetics of Rio de Janeiro street dance,
seamlessly fusing together hip-hop,
samba, capoeira, and contemporary forms.
Their signature work ID: Entidades, inspired
by the life stories of the company dancers,
pulses with raw adrenaline to a highvoltage score by Brazilian composer
Rodrigo Marçal. They also explore the joyful
influence of pop culture and sizzling social
dance in the critically-praised Na Pista,
which prompted The New York Times to
write that the company “is so wonderful
that it seems miraculous.”
Wed–Thur 8:30pm
$30 [members $25]
March 31 — April 3
“Companhia Urbana de Dança promised a blend of hip hop, urban and
contemporary dance and knocked the ball out of the park.” — The New York Times
TeatroCinema
(Chile)
Photo: Alice Gebura
Historia de Amor
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MULTIMEDIA-THEATER. Chile’s imaginative
TeatroCinema ensemble uses 2D and 3D
projection effects to create a theatrical
environment rich with the grit and imagery
of a dark graphic novel, to tell a violent
story that destroys the boundaries between
domination and submission. Based on the
French novel by Régis Jauffret, Historia de
Amor is the unflinching portrait of an English
teacher who abducts a young woman and
turns her into his victim, concubine and
mother. Teatrocinema uses striking imagery
to fuse virtual and physical worlds, painting
a stark, black and white landscape where
impulses of humanity are made visible.
The visual language of Teatrocinema uses
digital backgrounds and compositions,
2D and 3D video footage, and animation,
merged with the traditional elements of
staging, creating the sensation that the
audience is able to instantaneously travel
in space and time.
Thur–Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm
$25–$30 [members $20–$24]
“It was a mixture of visual
languages, which turned
the theater into an
experience that marks a
before and after. The risky
bet to fuse theater and film
worked perfectly.”
— El Mercurio
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
April 4
April 7
Chantal Akerman
Portraits of the Artist as a Young Girl
The Ensemble at CalArts: MINIMALIST means
Charting an alternative path through
minimalism and its legacy, The Ensemble at
CalArts reaches beyond pulse-based patterns
of harmonic accretion in search of the
beating heart of “stripped-down,” “essential”
music. Anchored by the ever-rewarding
compositions of James Tenney — who stood
as one of the most influential figures in the
CalArts music community — the program
looks overseas, to the work of Marc Sabat,
Jo Kondo and Stephen Whittington, as well
as close to home, with music made at,
or through, CalArts by Harold Budd, Danny
Clarke, Michael Jon Fink and Frederic
Rzewski. The Ensemble, the resident
professional group of CalArts’ Herb Alpert
School of Music, is conducted by Mark
Menzies, holder of the Hal Blaine Chair.
MUSIC.
Presented as part of the citywide retrospective
in memory of the late Chantal Akerman, this trio of rarely
screened films focuses on the cinema icon’s whimsical,
humorous and achingly intimate view of youthful femininity.
Saute ma ville (1968, 13 min.) introduces Akerman, then only
18, as a female Charlie Chaplin who cheerily mistreats the
appliances in her tiny kitchen before committing an act of
radical rebellion. In I Am Hungry, I Am Cold (1984, 13 min.),
a pair of runaways scamper across Paris, practice kissing,
sing for their supper, and nonchalantly cast aside desiring
men. The third, longer work, Portrait of a Young Girl from
the Late Sixties in Brussels (1993, 62 min.), follows
Akerman’s teen double as she sublimates a secret crush
for her heterosexual classmate into a surprise gift,
conveying the generous violence of female desire.
FILM/ VIDEO.
Thur 8:30pm
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts Film/Video faculty
Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
$11 [members $8]
“A hypnotic flow of perpetually overlapping
images and rhythmic variations…
allows ever-new choreographic landscapes
to emerge.” — TanzPlatform Germany 2016
“Arguably the
most important
European director
of her generation.”
April 16 – 17
Isabelle
Schad
(Germany/France)
Photo: Vivian Ostrovsky
Der Bau (The Burrow)
— J. Hoberman
Chantal Akerman in 1975.
March 22
Mark Robson
Piano Spheres
Piano Spheres co-founder Mark Robson will take a “speakerpianist” role performing Frederic Rzewski’s gripping De Profundis,
based on the eponymous letter from prison written by Oscar Wilde.
Featured will be the world premiere of Caught in the Act by Hugh Levick
(Piano Spheres commission), Anne LeBaron’s Los Murmullos, and
Mauricio Kagel’s melodramatic MM=51.
MUSIC.
Tues 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
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Photo: George Phillips
Mon 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
“James Tenney stands at the center of American music…
No other composer is so revered by fellow composers,
and so unknown to the public.” — American Music in the Twentieth Century
Presented in association with
The Goethe-Institut
DANCE. The intoxicating dance-theater work
Der Bau, created by Berlin-based
choreographer Isabelle Schad and French
artist Laurent Goldring, is inspired by Franz
Kafka’s unfinished novella of the same title.
With a mix of lush, ferocious, and sometimes
spare movement, performed nude, Schad
uses an animal’s burrow as a metaphor
for the human body. Kafka’s labyrinth — described as a space derived from the body,
and yet still belonging to it — is suggested
by a large and commanding sheet of fabric,
which is beautifully manipulated to
dramatically alter the visual and physical
relationship between body and space. Der
Bau is the latest in a series of influential
visual art collaborations by Schad, a former
dancer with the internationally acclaimed
company Ultima Vez (Wim Vandekeybus),
as well as noted dance innovators Olga
Mesa, Felix Ruckert and Eszter Salamon.
Der Bau is funded by the European Union.
Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7:00pm
$25 [members $20]
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
IN THE GALLERY
April 18
Radical Intimacies:
The 8mm Cinema of Saul Levine
FILM/ VIDEO. Practically synonymous with
personal small-gauge filmmaking, Saul
Levine has created more than 100 largely
improvisational films in a half-century of
remarkable, uninterrupted activity. His
painstakingly crafted, exquisitely kinetic
work deals with people and episodes from
his life, but derives universal poetic
meaning from its urgency, tactile presence,
and range of themes, from the most
personal to the political. In his key series—
Notes, Portrayals, and Light Licks—Levine
uses combinations of black-and-white
and color, multiple images, accidents of
exposure, and hand-carved collaging to
expand upon his already rich, expressive
April 9 – June 12
John Knight
Opening reception: Sat, April 9, 6–9pm
ART. Since the late 1960s, Los Angeles-based artist John Knight has
pioneered the practices of site-specificity and institutional critique,
always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and
economic systems implicit in everyday convention. Eschewing a
signature style, Knight prefers to work in situ, engaging with and
responding to the context of each unique site. Often utilizing the
visual strategies of architecture, advertising, and corporate design,
Knight’s multilayered projects challenge the art establishment and
its relationship to a larger global context.
In person: Saul Levine
Additional Saul Levine programs are presented
at L.A. Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center. The
Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts Film/
Video faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$11 [members $8]
“[Levine’s] works are high-energy messages of friendship,
records of sexual love and political activism.” — P. Adams Sitney
Note to Erik
John Knight lives in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Art Unlimited,
Basel (2015), Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (2015); Art Institute of Chicago
(2015); Cabinet Gallery at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles (2014);
Galerie Neu at Gladstone (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt (2013); Galerie NEU /
MD72, Berlin (2013); and Cabinet Gallery London / Frieze Art Fair (2012).
Tue–Sun 12–6pm or intermission
cinematography. The Boston-based
legend, a mentor to scores of avant-garde
filmmakers throughout his teaching tenure
at MassArt, brings a selection of work that
includes entries from Light Licks, early
8mm Portrayals, and several Super 8mm
sound films.
April 25
Textures of Life:
Film and the Art of Tacita Dean
Free
April 23 – May 7
REDCAT
International
Children’s Film
Festival
Sure to spark the
imagination of moviegoers of all ages,
the always-popular REDCAT International
Children’s Film Festival returns with a
brand-new lineup of rare cinematic gems
from around the globe. In multiple
programs over three weekends, the
festival brings plenty of gloriously inventive
animated tales and rip-roaring liveaction adventures — family treats unlikely
to be found anywhere else. Detailed
program information at REDCAT.org.
FILM/ VIDEO–FAMILY.
FILM/ VIDEO. British artist Tacita Dean’s
extraordinary body of art embraces many
mediums; she works with paint, found
objects, photography, prints and writing,
but it is her films that make the most
indelible contribution. For Dean, film
emulsion is a living tissue that can
engender unsurpassed, vibrant
experiences of light and rhythm, and she
has been a passionate champion of the
endangered medium. Working with a
deeply contemplative aesthetic, her
portrayals of artists and phenomena
extend the literal into poetic dimensions.
The youngest artist ever to be given a solo
show at Tate Britain in 2001, Dean has
exhibited at museums throughout the
world, including the Hammer Museum
two years ago, and she has produced
over 50 films. For tonight’s program,
Dean presents a rare selection of 16mm
films that are not normally presented
theatrically and that have not shown
in Los Angeles before.
In person: Tacita Dean
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by
CalArts Film/Video faculty Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$11 [members $8]
“A rejoinder to the digital
noise of the modern
world… cool and
passionate, lovely and
weirdly old-fashioned.”
—The Guardian
Saturdays and Sundays $5
Manhattan Mouse
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Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
May 6 – 7
The Next
Dance Company
DANCE. The Next Dance Company, an
ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund
School of Dance at CalArts, draws
together the school’s’ most accomplished
performers and choreographers, all
from the 2016 graduating class. Under
the leadership of choreographers
Stephan Koplowitz and Laurence Blake,
The Next Dance Company performs two
pieces, including choreography by guest
artist Zoe Scofield as well as graduating
MFA and BFA students.
Presented as part of the Sharon Disney Lund
Dance Series.
Fri–Sat 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
April 27
Tetsuya Umeda
CalArts at REDCAT
(Japan)
The end of the school year features special programs highlighting work created at CalArts.
creates his work through a dialogue with
everyday tools and scraps, re-purposed
machines and toy parts, creating elaborately
related systems of cause-and-effect.
Powered by gravity, wind, centrifugal force
or falling objects, Umeda’s work often
creates unpredictable, unstable sonic and
visual environments.
Wed 8:30pm
April 28 – 30 & May 3
CalArts
Film/Video
Showcases
$20 [members $16]
“A delicate soundscape, something between theater and performance,
with finely tuned pandemonium: thin electrical wires, plugs and
switches, a dish with water, microphone stands, a box of eggs…”
Each year the CalArts School
of Film/Video presents a juried selection
of four special screenings that feature
new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation,
Film and Video and Film Directing
programs.
FILM/ VIDEO.
— TheaterKrant, Holland
Program details at REDCAT.org
Free, Reservations Recommended
May 2
Tom Gunning and Jonathon Rosen
Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema
Attention, lovers of the celluloid
image: here is an opportunity to travel back
in time by way of a ravishing treasure trove
of hand-colored cinematic visions and
wonders from more than a century ago.
Beautiful restorations of these rare films
are showcased in the new book Fantasia
of Color in Early Cinema, the revelatory,
lavishly illustrated exploration of the firstever uses of applied color in movies.
Accompanied by live music, superb digital
transfers of restored work from the archives
of EYE Film Institute Netherlands can
now take viewers to when colored moving
images truly opened a portal into
FILM/ VIDEO.
otherworldly magic and the uncanny—and
yet could also heighten realism. Two of the
book’s authors, film scholar Tom Gunning,
of the University of Chicago, and painter,
illustrator and animator Jonathon Rosen,
of the School of Visual Arts, introduce this
delightful cinematic phantasmagoria.
In person: Tom Gunning, Jonathon Rosen
Film restorations by EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam.
The Jack H. Skirball Series is curated by CalArts Film/
Video faculty Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
Community Arts Partnership (CAP)
at REDCAT
Molens die juichen en weenen
“Reveries of the
most hallucinatory
imaginations.”
— Hyperallergic
$11 [members $8]
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FAMILY–FILM/ VIDEO–MUSIC–THEATER.
Throughout the spring, REDCAT and the
CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP)
host a variety of free screenings, concerts
and a new youth theater production that
highlight the young participants in CAP’s
varied programs throughout Los Angeles.
Celebrating 25 years, CAP has been
linking the Institute with the diverse
communities of Los Angeles County
through free, after-school and schoolbased arts programs for youth. CAP
provides these youth with challenging
learning environments for artistic
experimentation, as it creates access to
higher education. Through these CalArts
faculty-mentored programs, CAP provides
CalArts students the opportunity to teach,
to refine their artistic abilities, and to
redefine the role of artists, arts education,
and the arts in society.
May 12
CalArts Writers
Showcase
The School of Critical
Studies hosts it annual reading of
the best new fiction and poetry by
MFA candidates in the Creative
Writing Program.
CONVERSATIONS.
Thur 3:00pm
Free, Reservations Recommended
Program details at calarts.edu/cap
Tickets: REDCAT.org213.237.2800
Photos: Steven Gunther, CalArts
Osaka-based sound and installation
artist Tetsuya Umeda creates surprising
sound scores with an intriguing variety of
found objects, inventions and environmental
or architectural elements. Even places that
at first glance seem nothing special, can
have countless characteristics found above
the ceiling, or behind the wall, in lightning
systems and structures, the wall-material,
the construction of the building, etc. Umeda
MUSIC.
Photos: Steven Gunther, CalArts
“The choreography and
music are gripping,
the company is
impressive and the uses
of mixed-media are
meaningful.” — Los Angeles Times
June 2 – 4
Jurij Konjar in Bound
Rosanna Gamson / World Wide
May 11 – 13
Steve Paxton
Bound
Still/Restless
Presented in association with Show Box L.A.
improvisation, Paxton has created a
performance composed of isolated
vignettes, combined with eclectic music
and images that are not immediately
logical. But like numbers in a column that
begin to add up to something larger as
they accumulate, these seemingly
unchoreographed dance “remarks” soon
resonate poetic thoughts. Paxton describes
it as “like a chance meeting with a slightly
drunken man in a quiet bar where a
conversation begins and gradually a
disjointed story emerges, of a life lived,
one moment after another, but now
remembered as fragments of a journey.”
Wed-Fri 8:30pm
Photo: Kailai Chen
DANCE. Choreographed by pioneering and
multi-award-winning choreographer Steve
Paxton, and performed by exquisite
Slovenian dancer Jurij Konjar, Bound is
re-staged and re-imagined by Paxton, who
first premiered it in 1982. A stellar example
of his 40 years of research into the fiction
of cultured dance and the ‘truth’ of
DANCE. Virtuosic, intimate and volatile
dancing is at the center of acclaimed
choreographer Rosanna Gamson’s dancetheater work Still/Restless, which continues
her kinetic investigation of dream states
and the neuroscience and history of
dreaming. Restless builds on her acclaimed
Still, seen at REDCAT’s 2014 NOW Festival.
$25 [members $20]
Performed by eight dancers, Still/Restless
is rich with tender and violent movement,
explosive athleticism and stunning
moments of stillness. The action is set
against an eclectic sonic landscape
ranging from French 17th-century court
composer Marin Marais to new world
post-rock band instrumentals.
Thur-Sat 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
“Gamson has a purpose beyond
herself, a choreographic design
that supports her humanistic
worldview.” — LA Weekly
May 22 – 23
Studio: Spring 2016
“A titan of the 1960s
and ’70s avant-garde.”
REDCAT’s
quarterly program of new works and worksin-progress highlights new forms of dance,
theater, music and multimedia performance
in a wide-ranging evening that celebrates
the vitality of L.A.’s next-generation artists
making work for the stage.
THEATER–MUSIC–DANCE–MULTIMEDIA.
Photos: Nada Zgank
— The New York Times
Funded in part with generous support from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sun & Mon 8:30pm
$15 [members $12]
Jurij Konjar in Bound
Carol Katz, presented in Studio: Fall 2015
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June 16 – 19
David Lang and Mark Dion
Anatomy Theater
World Premiere — Presented with LA Opera
Based on actual 18th-century texts,
Anatomy Theater follows the astonishing
progression of an English murderess: from
confession to execution and, ultimately,
public dissection before a paying audience
of fascinated onlookers. Through the
miracle of opera, she sings through it all.
Anatomy Theater conjures a time when
“specialists” traveled from town to town
in pre-modern Europe, conducting public
dissections of the corpses of executed
criminals, seeking evidence of moral
corruption in the interior of the human body.
Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer
David Lang and world-renowned visual
artist Mark Dion, Anatomy Theater is a
joyous, tuneful and grisly theatrical event.
OPERA.
LA Opera’s presentation of Anatomy Theater at
REDCAT is made possible by a generous grant from
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional
support provided by donors to LA Opera’s
Contemporary Opera Initiative. Produced by Beth
Morrison Projects. Anatomy Theater was
commissioned by Ridge Theater and Beth Morrison
Projects. Tour produced by Beth Morrison Projects.
Thur–Sat 8:00pm & Sun 2:00pm
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Herb Rappaport
Olga Garay-English and
Dr. Kerry L. English
Mark Gordon
Michael Govan and
Katherine Ross
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Charmaine Jefferson and
Garrett Johnson
Jenny Krusoe
Kurimanzutto Gallery
Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston
Amy Madigan and Ed Harris
Monica Manzutto and José Kuri
Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
Neal Moritz
Mueller & Co., LLP
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP
David and Liz Ondaatje
Roshanak Rahnama
Bill Resnick and Michael J. Stubbs
Mark and Elizabeth Power Robison
Felicia Rosenfeld and David Linde
Stuart Rudnick and
Doreen Braverman
David Shaw and Mpambo Wina
Joni L. Binder Shwarts and
Robert Shwarts
Susan Steinhauser and
Daniel Greenberg
Angelle and Roger Wacker
Western States Arts Foundation
Adele Yellin
Photography
All images courtesy of the artists
unless noted otherwise
$500 - $999
Susan Bienkowski
Roz and Peter Bonerz
Angela Neff
Susan Bay Nimoy
Andrea and Bruce Piner
Theresa Strempek and
Peter McMillan
Paul Wieselmann
REDCAT Council
Tim Disney, Chair
Harriett F. Gold, Vice Co-Chair
Edgar D. Arceneaux
Victoria Dailey
Neda Disney
Fariba Ghaffari
Richard J. Grad
Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.
Diane Levine
William S. Lund
R. Stephen Maguire
Antonio Mejias-Rentas
Tina Perry
Seth Polen
Kevin Ratner
Lynn Rosenfeld
Araceli Ruano
Abby Sher
Dorothy R. Sherwood
Eve Steele
Adele Yellin
CalArts Board of Trustees
Tim Disney, Chair
Thomas L. Lee, Vice Chairman
James B. Lovelace, Vice Chairman
Joan Abrahamson
Aileen Adams
Thom Andersen, Faculty Trustee
Alan Bergman
David A. Bossert
Louise Bryson
Austin M. Beutner
Don Cheadle
Nijeul X. Porter, Student Trustee
Melissa P. Draper
David I. Fisher
Rodrigo Garcia
Harriet F. Gold
Richard J. Grad
Charmaine Jefferson
Marta Kauffman
Jill Kraus
Nahum Lainer
Steven D. Lavine, Ex-Officio
Thomas Lloyd
Michelle Lund
Jamie Alter Lynton
Greg McWilliams
Laurie Jacobs, Staff Trustee
Leslie McMorrow
Thomas Newman
Michael Nock
Janet Dreisen Rappaport
Tom Rothman
Araceli Ruano
David L. Schiff
Malissa Feruzzi Shriver
Joni Binder Shwarts
Susan Steinhauser
Thomas E. Unterman
Roger Wacker
Elliot D. Webb
Luanne C. Wells
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The Wooster Group Premieres The Room
February 4-14
Photos: Paula Court
Winter / Spring 2016