A Filipino American actress, Jasmine Orpilla, is part of this show and her piece for the evening is called "The Typhoon, the Rope and the Slippers, a personal commentary as to the mediatization and lack thereof of Philippines' very recurrent typhoon crises. Her artist group is offering to donate 100% of all merchandise sales (CD's etc.) to AKAP. She is personally donating the performance's prop pieces, which consist of over 50 pairs of brand new, children's size flip flops.

For my piece “The Typhoon, the Rope, and the Slippers,” playing at REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall this November, UEM and I are collaborating with People’s CORE, 501 (c)(3), KmB Pro-People Youth, and the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) to request your support to aid our sisters and brothers in the Philippines through Sagip-Tulong sa Pilipinas Emergency Relief Fund. Donations, such as those integrated within our performance, are arranged with Ang Kalusugan para sa Pinoy Inc. (AKAP: Embracing with Care), a non-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission with 21 health stations in Metro Manila. AKAP is located at 7 Mulawin St., Mapayapa Village III, Capital Hills, Quezon City, tel. (632) 425-2576. We will be collecting donations throughout the remainder of 2009.

http://www.redcat.org/event/studio-fall-09

STUDIO: FALL 2009

November 1 & 2, 2009

8:30pm

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

631 W 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

The latest installment of REDCAT's quarterly series of new work and works-in-progress features dance, theater, multi-media and music performances by Los Angeles area artists. This edition of Studio was curated by choreographer Neil Greenberg and director Chi-wang Yang, and includes the following six original works:

RAE SHAO-LAN BLUM: SYSTEMS OF US

Shaped by looping and loose dancing exquisitely performed by Erin Beneze and Amada Furches, this formally intricate duet by Rae Shao-Lan Blum cycles through intimate sequences, phased gestures and beautifully synchronized interdependence.

THE LIPPY LOU’S: KITCHEN WINDOW
This raw multimedia musical cabaret uses potent imagery, revved-up performances and hand-crafted props to stage a first-time encounter between an institutionalized woman and the son she was forced to abandon at birth.

PRUMSODUN OK: ROBAM LOM AROM

A virtuosic dancer and contemplative filmmaker, Prumsodun Ok recasts the serpentine vocabulary of classical Cambodian dance and layers it with filmic images of longing to navigate the ambiguous terrain between spirit and form.

ARMEN RA: METAL (AN EXCERPT)

Masterful thereminist Armen Ra performs a haunting tribute to famed opera diva Maria Callas, projecting manipulated stock footage from her 1958 Paris Opera debut as he conjures the vocal melodies from her legendary repertoire.

UEM WITH JASMINE ORPILLA: THE TYPHOON, THE ROPE AND THE SLIPPERS
Backed by tiger gongs, circuit-bent toys, wind instruments and fluttering newspapers, singer Jasmine Orpilla turns journalistic reporting into harrowing vocals in UEM's gripping three-movement song cycle based on true events.

KENDRA WARE AND BILL MARK: SCRATCHER

Collaborators Kendra Ware and Bill Mark construct a Hip Hop-Butoh performance language that warps the physicality, rhythms and idolatry of Hip Hop culture to offer a distilled journey from the periphery to the spotlight to ritualized deification.

Studio is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Date & time General
Admission Students
with current I.D. CalArts
Students,
Faculty and Staff

Sun 11.1.09 8:30 pm $12 $8 $6

Mon 11.2.09 8:30 pm $12 $8 $6

Portion of Show at the REDCAT Main Stage in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Support of STP Relief Campaign

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