This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
NOW 3 @ REDCAT: Bringing out the Big Guns!
Moving into the third and final weekend ofREDCAT's New Original Works Festival, the program is at its most varied--music, dance and performance art. Included in this evening of innovative projects are alumni of previous REDCAT productions Anne LeBaron (with Douglas Kearney) and Rosanna Gamson/World Wide with one woman bundle of fury and fun Kristina Wong!
Award-winning composer Anne LeBaron and poet/writer Douglas Kearney present a theatrical song cycle they call Sucktion, telling the story of a woman’s cyber-erotic transformation from abject housewife into a self-sufficient cyborg. Written for the ensemble soNu, Sucktion features a female vocalist supported by percussion, laptop and a musical appliance--a subversive vacuum cleaner.
Gamson, who last year added an interactive media element to her choreographic explorations, digs deep into her own personal Polish Jewish history in Tov. Combining this ancestral voyage with the fate of the tarpan horse, the new piece examines reinvention, regeneration and the groundless optimism invoked by the phrase "Gamzu l'tovah," or "This too is for the good."
Ms. Wong aims her incisive wit and frightening mind at the existence of the Cat Lady as she bends the parallel worlds of the pathetically lonely and those characters living at the margins of gender and society. Touching on topics like inter-species betrayal, reality TV, animal psychics and aggressive pick-up artists, there is probably no safe place to be when this earthquake-waiting-to-happen takes the stage.
Check out these youtube shorts and take cover in the theater.
Kristina Wong
Sponsored message
Douglas Kearney
photo of Kristina Wong courtesy of Cal Arts Photography
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our connected community. We are free to tell the full truth, to hold power to account without fear or favor, and to follow facts wherever they lead. Our only loyalty is to our audiences and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen our community.
Right now, LAist has lost $1.7M in annual funding due to Congress clawing back money already approved. The support we receive from readers like you will determine how fully our newsroom can continue informing, serving, and strengthening Southern California.
If this story helped you today, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Your tax-deductible donation keeps LAist independent and accessible to everyone.
Right now, LAist has lost $1.7M in annual funding due to Congress clawing back money already approved. The support we receive from readers like you will determine how fully our newsroom can continue informing, serving, and strengthening Southern California.
If this story helped you today, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Your tax-deductible donation keeps LAist independent and accessible to everyone.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
