Dance and dance-related events including The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series, which presents a wide variety of performances, workshops and newly commissioned projects, featuring both local and national guest artists, as well as presentations by CalArts students and faculty
July 23-August 8, 2009
New Original Works Festival

The annual three-week NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists. | Click here


October 19-20, 2008
Studio

This quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and intriguing investigations from Los Angeles artists | Click here

November 3, 2008
Of Volcanoes and Rocks, featuring Sardono W. Kusumo

Celebrated Javanese choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Sardono W. Kusumo joins with a circle of CalArts master musicians to forge new links across Hindustani, Indonesian and Western performance practices | Click here

November 6-8, 2008
Jordi Cortés and Damián Muñoz: Ölelés

At once gripping, physically intense and genuinely lyrical, this award-winning extended duet for two men marks the first collaboration between acclaimed Catalan choreographers and performers Jordi Cortés and Damián Muñoz | Click here

December 3-7, 2008
David Gordon: Trying Times (remembered)

Los Angeles dance- and theatergoers have the extraordinary opportunity to discover an American masterpiece as David Gordon’s Trying Times returns to stages for the first time since 1982 | Click here

February 27-28, 2009
Jérôme Bel: Pichet Klunchun and myself

In a witty, clear-eyed and moving exploration of art across cultural divides, French choreographer Jérôme Bel restages his first encounter with Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun, a master of the classical khon form. | Click here

March 22-23, 2009
Studio
Winter 2009

The quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and investigation from Los Angeles artists. | Click here

April 4-5, 2009
Gamelan Burat Wangi

The renowned Los Angeles-based gamelan Burat Wangi (Fragrant Offering) stages two exquisite performances of Balinese court music and dance, featuring traditional and new choreography, and the Balinese kecak music drama--also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant. | Click here

April 15-17, 2009
Dance by Neil Greenberg
Really Queer Dance with Harps

This smart, politically charged work from Dance by Neil Greenberg achieves a magical confluence of continuous motion and aligning symmetries as the company explores an exuberant vision of the human body and its movements. | Click here

May 8-9, 2009
The Next Dance Company

The new resident ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts makes it debut with a pair of concerts. Directed by acclaimed choreographer Stephan Koplowitz, dean of the school, The Next Dance Company draws together CalArts' most accomplished performers and choreographers. | Click here

May 17-18, 2009
Studio
Spring 2009

The quarterly series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists. | Click here

June 5-6, 2009
Dance Camera West

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, this annual festival offers a selection of some of the most compelling dance for camera and dance media works from around the world. The Dance Camera West Festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its monthlong celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles. | Click here

June 25-28, 2009
Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical and Spiraling Down

West Coast premieres

The avant-garde dance and film pioneer stages a radical re-vision of The Rite of Spring, the brilliant and controversial Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet that scandalized Paris audiences in 1913 with its "primitive" movement and dissonant score. | Click here

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