Touch of RED – CAP UCLA – March 3 & 4, 2023
Channel: TRIBE - Multidisciplinary Visual Performances
Date: 2023-01-28

cap.ucla.edu/event/touch-red

March 3 & 4, 2023
Center for the Art of Performance UCLA
Freud Playhouse

"Pitts and Fredericks bring their radical vulnerability to the audience" 
— Candice Thompson - Fjord Review 

2020 Guggenheim Fellow, performance artist, choreographer, dancer, and spoken word artist Shamel Pitts brings to the Freud Playhouse stage in Los Angeles: Touch of RED, a new evening-length performance work that consists of a duet for two men inside of a contemporary ring. 

Cinematographer: Taylor Antisdel
Video taken: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Bubble Residency for TRIBE at Bridgestreet Theatre and Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Center.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Concept Direction & Choreographer: Shamel Pitts
Performers: Tushrik Fredericks, Shamel Pitts
Artistic Production Manager & Lighting Designer: Rus Snelling
Video Light & Mapping Designer: Lucca Del Carlo
Scenic Design: Mimi Lien
Costume Designer: Dion Lee
Costume Stylists: TT Britt & Tushrik Fredericks
Shoe Apparel: Fulton Cobbler (Brooklyn, NY) – customized “gloves”
Original Musical Score: Sivan Jacobovitz
Additional Music: Ben Frost – A Single Point of Blinding Light
Dramaturge: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Lindy Hop Instructor: LaTasha Barnes
Cinematographer: Taylor Antisdel
Creative Director: Mirelle Martins 
Social Media Manager: Pam Panozzo 

Worldwide Bookings: Lotus Arts Management, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, sophie@lotusartsmgmt.com

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