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Mike Kelley may have entered the world in the Midwest, but he was truly a child of Los Angeles. @REDCAT

One of our city’s great contributions to the cultural canon, the late artist-slash-provocateur made pieces in just about every conceivable medium during his 35-year career:

Drawings, music, sculpture, performance — no form was safe from Kelley’s skewed, post-punk sensibility.

This Monday, @REDCAT theater behind Disney Hall irises in on one particularly rich corner of Kelley’s work with a screening of his innovative, single-channel video pieces. It’s a mixed bunch of movies spanning the 80s through the aughts, full of modernism, melodrama, and at least one man dressed up like Superman reciting Sylvia Plath. 

David Rousseve’s ‘Stardust’ a revelation at REDCAT

Cari Ann Shim Sham’s video art, including lush imagery of a night sky, a bird taking flight and a disco ball’s starburst patterns, never overpowered, but added dreaminess to the dancers’ full-throttle engagement. 

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Hiroaki Umeda Takes Over REDCAT

All you Hiroaki Umeda fans in the house, make some noise! Starting tonight, REDCAT this week hosts three shows from the Japanese dance and video artist.

You can catch Umeda’s evocative combination of visceral movement and blistering light accompaniments through Saturday. This performance features the pieces “Haptic” and “Holistic Strata,” showcasing Umeda’s distinctive dance vocabulary, which draws on a range of butoh, ballet and hip-hop.

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Hiroaki Umeda Takes Over REDCAT

All you Hiroaki Umeda fans in the house, make some noise! Starting tonight, REDCAT this week hosts three shows from the Japanese dance and video artist.

You can catch Umeda’s evocative combination of visceral movement and blistering light accompaniments through Saturday. This performance features the pieces “Haptic” and “Holistic Strata,” showcasing Umeda’s distinctive dance vocabulary, which draws on a range of butoh, ballet and hip-hop.

Hiroaki Umeda Takes Over REDCAT

All you Hiroaki Umeda fans in the house, make some noise! Starting tonight, REDCAT this week hosts three shows from the Japanese dance and video artist.

You can catch Umeda’s evocative combination of visceral movement and blistering light accompaniments through Saturday. This performance features the pieces “Haptic” and “Holistic Strata,” showcasing Umeda’s distinctive dance vocabulary, which draws on a range of butoh, ballet and hip-hop.

Hiroaki Umeda Takes Over REDCAT

All you Hiroaki Umeda fans in the house, make some noise! Starting tonight, REDCAT this week hosts three shows from the Japanese dance and video artist.

You can catch Umeda’s evocative combination of visceral movement and blistering light accompaniments through Saturday. This performance features the pieces “Haptic” and “Holistic Strata,” showcasing Umeda’s distinctive dance vocabulary, which draws on a range of butoh, ballet and hip-hop.

This Is Not a Dream Screening: British Doc on ’70s Video Art REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (631 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA 90012

Premiering here for the first time in the U.S., this 2012 British documentary by Ben Walters and Gavin Butt chronicles the rise of the video-making revolution in the 1970s, and how it transformed queer art and artists — who now had access to readily available and inexpensive equipment — by giving them a creative, effective means of responding to mass culture, as well as creating a connection with other voices of protest. Among the artists interviewed are Vaginal Davis, Nao Bustamante, Kalup Linzy, David Hoyle, Cole Escola and Holestar.

photos courtesy of Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

REDCAT Show “Missionary Position” Takes on Homophobia in Uganda