Each year since 2004, choreographers and dance-based artists have presented their work in REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival. This year's festival, which starts Thursday, includes performance artist Miwa Matreyek, theater director Maureen Huskey and Killsonic.
Hip-hop artist and choreographer Raphael Xavier will be in the New Original Works festival at REDCAT. (Raphael Xavier)
Maria Gillespie clearly remembers her excitement upon learning of her acceptance into REDCAT's first New Original Works Festival.
"It was the first thing I got into where I wasn't self-producing, and it had a reputation that could help propel me forward," says the Los Angeles-based choreographer, who founded the company Oni Dance the following year.
Since 2004, Gillespie and some 25 other choreographers and dance-based artists have presented their work in the annual REDCAT festival, now in its seventh year and unwavering in its mission to support experimental dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary works by Los Angeles-based artists both emerging and established. While it welcomes all kinds of performing artists, the event and its venue — the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater — has emerged as a particular boon for the local contemporary dance community, which has historically contended with a lack of funding and presenting opportunities.
"It was the first thing I got into where I wasn't self-producing, and it had a reputation that could help propel me forward," says the Los Angeles-based choreographer, who founded the company Oni Dance the following year.
Since 2004, Gillespie and some 25 other choreographers and dance-based artists have presented their work in the annual REDCAT festival, now in its seventh year and unwavering in its mission to support experimental dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary works by Los Angeles-based artists both emerging and established. While it welcomes all kinds of performing artists, the event and its venue — the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater — has emerged as a particular boon for the local contemporary dance community, which has historically contended with a lack of funding and presenting opportunities.
From: http://www.latimes.com/
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