New Performance Works-In-Progress at REDCAT Spring Studio 2015

Alumna Stephanie Zaletel presents new work, ‘f l w r s’ | Photo: Stephanie Zaletel

REDCAT’s ongoing, quarterly Studio series returns for its spring edition on Sunday and Monday (March 22-23). The program features informal new works and works-in-progress that experiment with forms of dance, theater and performance art, and includes pieces by Herb Alpert Award-winning choreographer Victor Marks and composer Joe Westerlund, theater artist Shawn Brown (Theater MFA 16), dance-theater artist Sarah Leddy, choreographer Stephanie Zaletel’s (Dance BFA 12) company Szalt, and singer-songwriter and visual artist Lex Brown.

Marks, who received the Herb Alpert Award for dance in 1997, teams with Westerlund to create the work, Solar Duplex, which “captures ‘un-choreograph-able’ movements, connecting a spectrum from sexual pleasure to social dance.” Westerlund provides a percussive score.

Shawn Brown’s Iami: Deos,The Martyr | Photo:  Brian Hashimoto

Shawn Brown, a current CalArts MFA acting student, presents his theater production, Iami: Deos, The Martyr, which he wrote and directed. The visually immersive multimedia work plays out the “complexities of martyrdom in a fantasy world, The Eversphere.”

Leddy’s latest dance-theater project, A Beautiful Game, focuses on the ritual aspects of soccer. Six performers are divided into two teams to play a choreographic game in which movement vocabulary is manipulated using soccer-themed devices such as fouls, replays and substitutions.

CalArtian dancer and choreographer Stephanie Zaletel’s f l w r 1 will be performed by her dance ensemble, Szalt. The piece “teeters on the edges of youthfulness and maturity,” exploring the floundering transitions between girlhood, womanhood and love. 

Singer-songwriter and visual artist Lex Brown presents a “live-album” interpretation of her song-cycle, American Flag, which includes tracks ranging from global warming to racism in modern America.