REDCAT, our local minister of cutting-edge performing arts, highlights another auteur of international acclaim as it presents the choreographer, performance artist, curator and writer Will Rawls on its stage this weekend. The show runs at 8:30 p.m. on each of three nights, Thursday through Saturday, April 10-12, 2025. There will be a post-show Q&A with Rawls, moderated by Katy Dammers, deputy director and chief curator at REDCAT, on Friday, April 11.
Highlighting the UCLA associate professor’s recent project, “[siccer],” the artist and his cast of five explorers use stop-motion film techniques as they describe the director’s interest in what his website calls “the boundaries between dance, language and other media in order to investigate the poetics of abstraction, blackness and the materiality of time.” Promotional materials add that he comprehensively “considers the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted and circulated in the media.”
Rawls has been recognized with a slew of highly prestigious national awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award, an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, United States Artist, Bessie, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
While these performances are going on at REDCAT, the Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is exhibiting an interdisciplinary, immersive installation of the same production title that runs through Aug. 31 of this year. Click here for more information on that event.
—Benn Widdey, Culture Spot LA
LOCATION:
REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., LA 90012
TICKETS:
$14-$27
https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/production/1221357?performanceId=11558298
INFO:
https://www.redcat.org/events/2025/will-rawls
Photo by Jared Sorells