QUICK TAKES - June 24, 2009

It was already big news in L.A.’s dance world that REDCAT would be serving up the West Coast premiere of works by choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Now comes word that when Rainer’s “RoS Indexical” and “Spiraling Down” are performed at the downtown venue Thursday through Sunday, the esteemed 74-year-old will be on stage as well.

Rainer is stepping in for Pat Catterson, who is unable to make the performance (and at 63 was the oldest of the four dancers on the bill).

Rainer was a major figure in dance in the 1970s but took a 25-year hiatus to concentrate on filmmaking. This will mark the first time she has been on the dance stage since 2007 in Vienna, when she also stepped in for Catterson.

-- Sherry Stern