ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/ CALARTS THEATER PRESENTS AN EVENING OF TRADITIONAL UZBEK AND TAJIK PERCUSSION MUSIC AND DANCE WITH OSTAD ABBOS KOSIMOV ON TUESDAY APR. 5TH AT THE  ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/ CALARTS THEATER, 631 WEST SECOND STREET, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $25/ ALL AGES

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Nancy Andrews is an animator of wonderful films that explore perception and consciousness through bird-woman cyborgs, space monkeys, and spiders with faces that are equally inspired by the intersection of nature and technology and her own brush with death. She speaks now about making earrings out of photos of slabs of beef, what she learned from floating between life and death, and why she wants to be friends with a crow. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/ CALARTS THEATER PRESENTS TEMPEST: WITHOUT A BODY ON SATURDAY APR. 2ND AT THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATER, 307 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $25/ ALL AGES

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ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/ CALARTS THEATER PRESENTS TEMPEST: WITHOUT A BODY ON SUNDAY APR. 3RD AT THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATER, 307 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $25/ ALL AGES

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San is a genealogy of the Khoi-San people performed with movement. Choreographed by Vincent S.K. Mantsoe, San integrates moves born from street dance or borrowed from pop with the ancient rhythms of Mantsoe’s family of spiritual healers. The story starts with the beginning of humans and ends in the dystopian now, an intensely emotional evolution [...]

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This past weekend Killsonic gave three sold out performances of their opera Tongues Bloody Tongues, written by Joseph Tepperman, at REDCAT. This excerpt of their larger street performance version included all the shock and awe tactics of musical warfare that you’ve come to expect from them.

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The mad scientists at CalArts premiere their KarmetiK Machine Orchestra at REDCAT tonight. Basically, imagine looking inside a machine that made music, and finding that there were actually instruments in it. Or something. All we really know is that the musicians communicate with the robot by gestures. From REDCAT: SCREAM Festival Co-presented with the Southern [...]

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I Nyoman Wenten can be anybody! Born in a small Balinese village, Wenten studied traditional Indonesian culture with his master-puppeteer grandfather. He now holds an MFA from Cal Arts, a doctorate from UCLA and is chair of the World Music Program at Cal Arts. He and his ensemble Gamelan Burat Wangi will perform the Indian epic Ramayana tonight and tomorrow at REDCAT. This interview by Drew Denny.

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On the night of the show, Perhacs greeted Redcat smiling. “In the spirit of the ‘70s, we’re going to have a very special night,” she said, smoothing her purple dress. For the first performance ever of her music, her 1970 album Parallelograms was presented in its entirety by Dublab-selected guest bands.

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Linda Perhacs sees colors. The psychedelic nature of reality follows her around and tugs at her pant leg for attention. On Parallelograms, her psychedelic gem from 1970, she captured the waveforms of color through sound, and now she’s been called back to REDCAT with Dublab and some of the most wonderful weirdos making music today—for her first live performance ever. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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