UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance 405 Hilgard Ave. PAID Box Los Angeles, CA SEASON cap.ucla.edu

Transcription

1 SEASON

2 THE ART OF PERSPECTIVE. THE PERSPECTIVE OF ART. WELCOME TO THE CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE Aside from our belief in the importance of the arts in our democracy, and in the sustaining legacy of live performance by directly supporting artists, CAP UCLA also recognizes that the arts (writ large) are an independent cause. JOIN US FOR OUR SEASON Royce Hall, UCLA The Theatre at Ace Hotel Ford Theatres Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA Freud Theater, UCLA Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, UCLA UCLA s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines dance, music, spoken word and theater, as well as the emerging digital, collaborative and cross-platforms utilized by today s leading artists. CAP UCLA is the public-facing presenting organization for the performing arts at UCLA one of the world s leading public research universities and we are proudly housed within the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture along with the Hammer and Fowler museums. CAP UCLA curates and facilitates direct exposure to contemporary performance from around the globe, supporting artists who are creating extraordinary works of art and fostering a vibrant learning community both on and off the UCLA campus. As an influential voice within the local, national and international arts community, CAP UCLA is also a place where cultural expression and artistic exploration can thrive, a place where audiences can have fun and experience the artists of the stage that connect us to new ways of seeing and better understanding the world we live in now. Cover Image: The Great Tamer; Photo Credit: Julian Mommert

3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR There is descriptive and logistical information on the following pages and I encourage you to visit our website at cap.ucla.edu for more extensive contexts as you explore the programs. Aside from helping you make your decisions, the CAP website offers a look into the extensive work we do behind the scenes in studios, on campus and around Los Angeles. On behalf of UCLA s Center for the Art of Performance, our Executive Producer Council and staff, I am thrilled to share the many performances that we will boldly feature during our season. Now in our seventh year, CAP UCLA produces programs that connect our communities to the leading innovators and acknowledged masters in contemporary dance, theater, music and those who wield the pen in service to vibrant stories and erudite cultural commentary. We support collaborations in production, design, visual art, cinema and digital practices which are all elemental to the shape and contour of contemporary performance today. Our programs are designed to bring you closer to the artists who offer us their creative intelligence and deeply considered perspectives. Each performance is distinct, frequently surprising and potently alive. Through their projects they offer us a creative lens to imagine or reimagine our place in the world, our connectivity across cultures and the experience of thinking our different thoughts while finding points of resonance and meaning together. Thank you once again for joining us. My sincere gratitude to those of you who are frequent patrons of the Center s many performances the audience for contemporary performance is everything. As series subscribers, as CAP UCLA Members and as philanthropists who contribute generously to ensure the depth, diversity and substance of our programs you are the vital glue that keeps our core purpose intact. The reason that we can do what we do is in no small part because of you. For those of you who are new to the organization, WELCOME! We are happy that you found us. I think you will find that what makes the CAP UCLA experience special (in a great city with a multitude of choices), are the people those on stage, backstage and in the audience. Your time with us matters. Before the curtain rises, and after the final bows, we design special salons and talks, preperformance events, artist discussions and a patron lounge where you can meet up with friends or spark new conversations. There is food, drinks and copious amounts of energy on hand, and you are certain to find a friendly face in every venue we collaborate with. There is great work in store and there is a lot to choose from. My honest recommendation as you peruse the programming is to proceed with the happy abandon of an explorer. Every performance is meant to be discovered. I look forward to seeing you next season. Kristy Edmunds Executive and Artistic Director Center for the Art of Performance Photo Credit: Ian Maddox 1

4 SUBSCRIBE & SAVE RENEWING SUBSCRIBERS keep their seats from season to season. NEW SUBSCRIBERS receive priority seating before single tickets go on sale. ALL SUBSCRIBERS save 15% off the individual ticket price with our pre-selected series and receive 10% off the purchase of additional single tickets to all performances in the season. CAP UCLA Members save 25%. CREATE YOUR OWN SERIES Select any five performances to save 10% off the single ticket price AND receive priority seating before individual tickets go on sale. CAP UCLA Members save 15%. Single tickets to any performance or special event may also be added on to any subscription or CYO series at the time of purchase. SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS ROYCE CHOICE ACE CHOICE DANCE THEATER JAZZ WORDS & IDEAS GLOBAL MUSIC CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL (Complete series listings on page 78) HOW TO ORDER ONLINE cap.ucla.edu BY PHONE M F, 10am 4pm IN PERSON UCLA Ticket Office 325 Westwood Plaza M F, 10am 4pm ON SALE DATES FOR INDIVIDUAL TICKETS CAP Members: Friday, July 13, 2018 CAP Enews Presale: Saturday, July 14, 2018 General Public: Monday, July 16, 2018 UCLA students: Monday, September 24, 2018* UCLA faculty and staff: Monday, July 16, 2018* *Based on availability; limit two tickets per performance PLEASE NOTE: Subscriptions and all single tickets to performances at Royce Hall, Freud Playhouse, Royce Rehearsal Hall and Kaufman Dance Studio will be available through the UCLA Ticket Office. Programs, prices and performers subject to change. Single tickets to all CAP UCLA performances at The Theatre at Ace Hotel are sold via AXS. You can purchase tickets to CAP performances at the Ace at theatre.acehotel.com or by calling AXS at AXS-TIX ( ). The Theatre at Ace Hotel also offers in person ticket sales at the ticket booth, right under the marquee on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 5pm. When you come in person you save on handling fees. Single tickets for Jason Moran at the Ford Theatres are on sale now through the Ford Theatres website at fordtheatres.org. Subscribers may also add single tickets for this performance onto their CAP UCLA subscription order. 2

5 SEASON AT-A-GLANCE JAZZ Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole Sat, Sep 22, 2018 The Theatre at Ace Hotel GLOBAL MUSIC DakhaBrakha Thu, Sep 27, 2018 The Theatre at Ace Hotel SPECIAL EVENT Jason Moran & The Bandwagon Sat, Sep 29, 2018 Ford Theatres WORDS & IDEAS Fran Lebowitz Sun, Sep 30, 2018 The Theatre at Ace Hotel AMERICAN ROOTS Emmylou Harris Thu, Oct 4, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA DANCE Mon Élue Noire Sacre #2 Fri-Sun, Oct 5-7, 2018 Kaufman Hall, UCLA JAZZ Tigran Hamasyan Sun, Oct 14, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA THEATER Barber Shop Chronicles Thu-Sat, Oct 18-20, 2018 Freud Playhouse, UCLA WORDS & IDEAS Rebecca Solnit & Jon Christensen Thu, Oct 25, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA JAZZ Pat Metheny Fri, Oct 26, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA DANCE Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company Sat-Sun, Nov 3-4, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA JAZZ Terri Lyne Carrington Fri, Nov 9, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA SPECIAL EVENT Joan Baez Sat, Nov 10, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA SOLD OUT SPECIAL EVENT David Sedaris Fri, Nov 16, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Sat, Nov 17, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA SPECIAL EVENT UnCabaret Sun, Nov 18, 2018 The Theatre at Ace Hotel AMERICAN ROOTS Sweet Honey In The Rock Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA JAZZ Luciana Souza Sat, Dec 1, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA WORDS & IDEAS Elizabeth Gilbert & Cheryl Strayed Sun, Dec 2, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA AMERICAN ROOTS Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Thu, Dec 6, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Sam Green & Kronos Quartet Fri, Dec 7, 2018 The Theatre at Ace Hotel SPECIAL EVENT Taylor Mac Fri-Sat, Dec 14-15, 2018 Royce Hall, UCLA THEATER Dimitris Papaioannou Fri, Jan 11, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Nadia Sirota & wild UP Sat, Jan 12, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel WORDS & IDEAS Viet Nguyen & Junot Díaz Thu, Jan 17, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA DANCE Jérôme Bel Sat, Feb 2, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel THEATER Quote Unquote Collective Wed Sun, Feb 6-10, 2019 Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA WORDS & IDEAS Jesmyn Ward & Mitchell Jackson Thu, Feb 7, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA AMERICAN ROOTS The Soul Rebels Sat, Feb 16, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel THEATER Andrew Dawson Thu Sun, Feb 21-24, 2019 Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Meredith Monk Sat, Mar 2, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA THEATER Carrie Mae Weems Fri, Mar 8, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel DANCE Ohad Naharin/ Batsheva Dance Company Fri-Sat, Mar 15-16, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA AMERICAN ROOTS Lettuce & John Scofield Wed, Mar 20, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel GLOBAL MUSIC Roberto Fonseca & Fatoumata Diawara Sat, Mar 23, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel GLOBAL MUSIC Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion Thu, Mar 28, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA GLOBAL MUSIC Nano Stern Sat, Mar 30, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel THEATER The White Album by Joan Didion Fri-Sun, Apr 5-7, 2019 Freud Playhouse, UCLA GLOBAL MUSIC The Gloaming Fri, Apr 12, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel DANCE Night of 100 Solos Tue, Apr 16, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA GLOBAL MUSIC Anoushka Shankar Fri, Apr 19, 2019 Royce Hall, UCLA CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Nico Muhly Fri, May 10, 2019 The Theatre at Ace Hotel 3

6 VENUES ROYCE HALL, UCLA A symbol of both intellectual and artistic excellence, Royce Hall functions not only as a monument to Los Angeles rich cultural past, but also as a portal to the future. Modeled after Milan s Basilica di Sant Ambrogio, constructed in the 10th and 11th centuries, Royce Hall was built in 1928 as one of the first campus structures by architect David Allison and was named for the American philosopher Josiah Royce. Royce Hall s reputation was forged early in UCLA s history. By 1936, the campus had been open for only seven years and was cradled in the midst of an old sheep pasture in an area that most residents probably still regarded as country. It was an unlikely place to stumble across one of the greatest American popular composers of all time George Gershwin who appeared at Royce Hall in September of that year. That same year, University of California President Robert Sproul appointed a committee to oversee programming at Royce Hall and in 1937 they presented their first performing arts season featuring the great contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since then, the list of artists who have graced Royce Hall s stage reads like a Who s Who of performing arts in the 20th and 21st centuries, including Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Jimmy Dorsey s Big Band, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Royal Shakespeare Company, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Muddy Waters, Frank Zappa, Ravi Shankar, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray and Sonic Youth. Like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Royce Hall is one of America s great concert halls, distinguished not only for its impeccable beauty and refined acoustics, but also for the ghosts of performances that haunt it. 4

7 THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL Broadway was the movie capital of the world in the pre-talkie era. During the Jazz Age, the neon stretch of the Broadway Theater District rivaled its New York namesake a strip where a dozen temples of cinema played host to screen starlets and matinee kings, and film royalty premiered their latest reels nightly to audiences of thousands. It s where, in 1927, a group of visionary iconoclasts from Hollywood s Golden Age erected the home of United Artists, the film studio whose acumen and rebellious ingenuity helped to reshape the American cinematic landscape. United Artists studio and theater was the vision of silent movie starlet Mary Pickford, who together with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith dreamt of forming an independent production house outside of the established Hollywood studio system. With the help of architect C. Howard Crane and Los Angeles architectural firm Walker & Eisen, the group erected the United Artists Theater and its adjacent tower the tallest building in all of Los Angeles upon its completion. Though it changed hands frequently over the following decades, the United Artists Theater stayed active as an arts venue until 1989, including a long stint as a Spanish-language movie house and later as the broadcast site for televangelist Dr. Gene Scott. Following a meticulous restoration of the then-vacant movie palace, Ace cut the ribbon on The Theatre at Ace Hotel in February of 2014 and we ve been doing our best to honor the maverick spirit of its founders ever since. Photo credit: Mireyah Marcinek 5

8 Sat, Sep 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Composer/pianist Vijay Iyer was named Downbeat Magazine s Jazz Artist of the Year for 2012, 2015 and The New York Times observed that There s probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative output of the pianist Vijay Iyer. Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, photographer and the photography critic for The New York Times Magazine. He is also the author of four books, each in a different genre: the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, the novel Open City, the essay collection Known and Strange Things and, most recently, the genre-defying Blind Spot. Their powerful new collaboration, Blind Spot, based on Cole s new work of the same name, investigates humanity s blindness to tragedy and injustice throughout history by combining photography and Cole s own voice with a live score composed by Iyer. The performance features trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, mallet percussionist Patricia Franceschy and cellist Tomeka Reid. Funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multiyear grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. VIJAY IYER Photo Credit: Barbara Rigon & TEJU COLE BLIND SPOT The intensity of the ensemble s active engagement with the political zeitgeist on an ugly American morning helped to make [Blind Spot] seem all the more valuable. The Guardian Art in Action: Listening to the Landscape Join us before and after the show for our signature Poetry Bureau and spoken word slam riffing off the theme, What Is Your Blind Spot, featuring special guests from Los Angeles. NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. 6 JAZZ Photo Credit: Martin Lengemann

9 DAKHABRAKHA With one foot in the urban avant-garde theater scene and one foot in the village life that nurtured and protected Ukraine s cultural wealth, DakhaBrakha shows the full fury and sensuality of some of Eastern Europe s most breathtaking folklore. Rockpaperscissors Thu, Sep 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel The Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha describe themselves as an ethno-chaos band. The term dakhabrakha means give/take in the old Ukrainian language. They take from both ancient traditions and contemporary aesthetics to give a truly unique and unexpected musical experience. Reflecting fundamental elements of sound and soul in their work, DakhaBrakha delivers a refreshingly novel reinterpretation of Eastern European folk music that is both authentic and original. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian instrumentation, the quartet s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a unique style that reflects their heritage with a keen ear for contemporary resonances. At once sophisticated and bawdy, ethereal and earthy, Ukrainian music has languished in relative obscurity until now. GLOBAL MUSIC 7

10 Single tickets for Jason Moran at the Ford Theatres are on sale now through the Ford Theatres website at fordtheatres.org. Subscribers may also add single tickets for this performance onto their CAP UCLA subscription order. 8 SPECIAL EVENT

11 In jazz, there are so many moving parts, and within a composition, there are obstacles in the form. Street skaters navigate a landscape finding ways to approach a rail in the same way a drummer approaches the beginning of a song. The mode of improvisation is paramount to how both skaters and jazz musicians approach life. Jason Moran FORD THEATRES & CAP UCLA PRESENT JASON MORAN & THE BANDWAGON FINDING A LINE SKATEBOARDING, MUSIC AND MEDIA Sat, Sep 8pm Ford Theatres Since his formidable emergence on the music scene in the 1990s, renowned pianist and composer Jason Moran has challenged the status quo which has earned him a reputation as the future of jazz. CAP UCLA is pleased to welcome him back this season with one of his newest and most ambitious works to date Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Media an unprecedented collaboration exploring the aesthetics of skateboarding, an influential American subculture, and jazz, a uniquely American art form. Improvisation abounds as local skaters shred a ramp on stage with tricks, flips, and riffs to a musical response performed live by Moran and his group The Bandwagon. Don t miss this unique and unforgettable night under the stars at L.A. s Ford Theatres. Funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. SPECIAL EVENT 9

12 Photo Credit: Brigette Lacombe Art in Action: Writing the Landscape We kick off our Words & Ideas series with a special Pop-Up Library in the Ace Theater lobby featuring some of the writers who inspire, and are inspired by, Fran Lebowitz. FRAN To a base of Huck Finn, add some Lenny Bruce and Oscar Wilde and Alexis de Tocquevllle, a dash of cab driver, an assortment of puns, minced jargon, and top it off with smarty-pants. Serve without whine. The New York Times LEBOWITZ Sun, Sept 7pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators. A cultural critic, raconteur and keen observer of human nature, Lebowitz first hit the New York literary scene in the early 1970s when Andy Warhol hired her to write a column for Interview. Often described as a modern-day Dorothy Parker, she is the author of two best-selling books of essays, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since Known for her often outrageous (and outrageously funny) positions on current affairs and culture, she is a frequent guest on various talk shows, including those hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Conan O Brien and Bill Maher, and was the subject of the 2010 Martin Scorsese documentary Public Speaking. 10 WORDS & IDEAS

13 Her concert was a reminder of just how important she remains in the American music pantheon. Understated and iconic, she is both a roots music legend and a contemporary artistic force. Chicago Tribune Thu, Oct 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Known as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive voice, Emmylou Harris is one of the most admired and influential women in music today. A 14-time Grammy-winner, including her recent Lifetime Achievement Award, she has recorded more than 25 albums in a career spanning four decades and worked with such diverse artists as Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Beck, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett and most recently, Rodney Crowell. Her distinctive voice has allowed her to cross musical boundaries with ease. She is one of the few artists who have achieved such honesty and revealed such maturity in their writing. Funds provided by the Evelyn & Mo Ostin Endowment for the Performing Arts. EMMYLOU HARRIS Photo Credit: Veronique Rolland AMERICAN ROOTS 11

14 Photo Credit: François Stemmer Ferocious. Primal. Contained. Harmonic dissonance marries Acogny, Dubois, and Stravinsky into a unique partnership that allows you to hear the music differently through visual portrayal. The Dance Enthusiast MON ÉLUE NOIRE SACRE #2 CHOREOGRAPHED BY OLIVIER DUBOIS PERFORMED BY GERMAINE ACOGNY Fri Sat, Oct 5 8pm Sun, Oct 7pm Kaufman Hall, UCLA To pay tribute to the centennial of Igor Stravinksy s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), Olivier Dubois, French choreographer and artistic director of the acclaimed Ballet du Nord, created a series of dance works dissecting individual elements of this landmark piece. Mon Élue Noire (My Black Chosen One), the second piece in the series, premiered in 2014 and features an explosive performance by famed 74-year-old Senegalese dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny in a solo work that was created especially for her. Widely honored as the queen of contemporary African dance, Acogny performs alone in a black box to a recording of The Rite of Spring. She laughs, she screams, she smokes a pipe and recites from an essay on the dehumanization of colonialism as she confronts the audience with her fierce presence. Eschewing criticism of cultural appropriation, she sees her participation in this work as a way of honoring her ancestors and fearlessly carving out a space for her artistry in the deepest trenches of Western modernism. 12 DANCE

15 With startling combinations of jazz, minimalist, electronic, folk and songwriterly elements Hamasyan travels musical expanses marked with heavy grooves, ethereal voices, pristine piano playing and ancient melodies. You ll hear nothing else like this. NPR Music TIGRAN NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. HAMASYANPhoto Credit: Elena Hamasyan Sun, Oct 5pm Royce Hall, UCLA Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan, who fuses potent jazz improvisation with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia, is considered to be one of the most remarkable and distinctive jazz-meets-rock pianists of his generation. Hamasyan won the Montreux Jazz Festival s piano competition in 2003, when he was just 14-years-old. He released his debut album, World Passion, in 2005 and the following year he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. In addition to awards and critical praise, Hamasyan has built a dedicated international following, as well as praise from such artists as Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau. His most recent album, For Gyumri, is dedicated to his hometown of Gyumri in Armenia. Hamasyan says the songs on For Gyumri are musical observations about the world we live in now, and the weight of history we carry with us. All About Jazz describes For Gyumri as a loving tribute to his home city. While it s not a jazz album in any strict sense, there is a freedom and openness to the music. It doesn t always reach for epic dimensions; and it is fine because of that. It is still a deeply absorbing and beautifully-recorded album The muse knows no borders or limits for this gifted pianist. 10% of ticket sales from this performance will be donated to the Children of Armenia Fund. Funds provided by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund. JAZZ 13

16 BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES A CO-PRODUCTION OF FUEL, NATIONAL THEATRE AND WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE WRITTEN BY INUA ELLAMS Ellams isn t just sharing the experiences of people we seldom see on our stages, he does so with a color, force and boundlessness of intellectual inquiry. The Telegraph Thu Sat, Oct 18 8pm Freud Playhouse, UCLA One day. Six cities. A thousand stories. Barber Shop Chronicles is a funny, joyous and equally poignant new play by Nigerian playwright and poet Inua Ellams which leaps from a barber shop in London to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra exploring the African immigration experience. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to share gossip, bare their souls, announce births, deaths, marriages and other family news and to discuss politics. Throughout the play, the importance of a good trim is emphasized often, but Barber Shop Chronicles is about more than hair it s about the politics of being part of the African diaspora and of being a man. Funds provided by Deborah Irmas, Diane Levine and the Royce Center Circle Endowment Fund and the George C. Perkins Fund. Photo Credit: Dean Chalkley Art in Action: L.A. Omnibus Join us for activities exploring L.A. s own tradition of the barbershop as a locus for community gathering and storytelling. 14 THEATER

17 THEATER 15

18 Photo Credit: Adrian Mendoza No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that s marked this new millennium. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org REBECCA SOLNIT IN CONVERSATION WITH JON CHRISTENSEN 16 WORDS & IDEAS

19 Photo Credit: Ursula K. Heise Art in Action: Writing the Landscape In honor of Rebecca s groundbreaking essays, which led to the inadvertent coinage of the term mansplaining we devote our Pop-Up Library space to feminist 'zines, poetry and books. Stop by and compose a poem, make a zine or add your voice to our splaining wall. Thu, Oct 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of 20 books, among them are The Mother of All Questions; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Called the voice of the resistance by The New York Times Magazine, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope and everything in between. In her new book Call Them by Their True Names, Solnit turns her attention to the war at home, a war with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later. To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that we must acknowledge this state of war [and] admit the need for peace, countering the despair of our age with solidarity, creativity and hope. Solnit will be in conversation with Jon Chistensen, UCLA professor and journalist-in-residence at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and a founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Funds provided by the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Lectureship Fund. WORDS & IDEAS 17

20 AN EVENING WITH PAT Mr. Metheny is one of the most industrious creative engines in jazz, and his relentless breadth has become a calling card, if not a selling point, among his fans. The New York Times METHENY WITH ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA MAY HAN OH & GWILYM SIMCOCK Fri, Oct 9pm Royce Hall, UCLA CAP UCLA is thrilled to welcome back jazz guitarist Pat Metheny for one night only. Metheny s versatility is legendary. His body of work traverses a wide array of styles, including compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, ballet scores and even the robotic instrumentation of his Orchestrion, while always sidestepping the limits of any one genre. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Milton Nascimento and David Bowie. Metheny has won countless accolades, including 20 Grammys, three gold records and too many Best Jazz Guitarist polls to count. Recently inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame as its youngest member and only the fourth guitarist (joining Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery), Metheny will present a range of music from throughout his career. He will be joined at Royce Hall by an all-star lineup including percussionist Antonio Sanchez, bassist Linda May Han Oh and keyboardist Gwilym Simcock. 18 JAZZ

21 Photo Credit: John Peden JAZZ 19

22 Memory, often strikes me as a kind of dumbness. It makes one s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds. W.G. Sebald BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE COMPANY ANALOGY TRILOGY 20 DANCE

23 [An]extraordinary dance-theater piece...the dancers lithe bodies and their marvelously nuanced performances awaken our senses. njarts.com Photo Credits: Hall B. Goode Analogy/Dora: Tramontane Sat Sun, Nov 3 2pm Royce Hall, UCLA CAP UCLA presents Analogy Trilogy, a new and ambitious three-part work from the acclaimed Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Company. All three works Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist and Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant will be presented in one seven-hour marathon performance that includes all three works, dinner and a post-show Q & A with the company. Analogy Trilogy searches for the connection between the three varying stories; focusing on memory and the effect of powerful events on the actions of individuals and, more importantly, on their often unexpressed inner life. As with his previous work A Rite, Jones continues his exploration of how text, storytelling and movement pull and push against each other and how another experience can be had through the combination and recombination of these elements, furthering the development of his company into an ensemble that not only dances beautifully, but also sings and speaks. Analogy/Dora: Tramontane is based on an oral history Jones conducted with then 95-year-old Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse and social worker. Amelan s harrowing, touching and inspirational story is broken into approximately 25 episodes that become the basis for choreography and songs. These episodes chronicle her early life in Belgium, her mother s death as the Germans were marching into Belgium and her experiences working at an underground Jewish organization in Vichy France s internment camps, Gurs and Rivesaltes. Here is a portrait of the ability to persevere and survive. Commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State University; Co- Commissioned by Dancers Workshop and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. PLEASE NOTE: Your ticket includes admission to all three performances in this program. There will be a standard intermission between parts 1 and 2 and a dinner break from 5:30 7pm. You may choose to grab a bite off-campus, order the $15 buffet dinner option as an add-on to your ticket order or purchase snacks and beverages from the concessions stand at Royce Hall. The total run time, including intermission, the dinner break and a post-show Q&A with the artists is 7 hours (2 9pm). DANCE 21

24 Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist In Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, we meet Lance whose battles with his own personal demons of drugs and excess expose us to another type of war. It was the battlefield of the nightlife and underworld of the late `80s and early `90s club culture and sex trade. This pretty boy-gangster thug, a name he acquired in prison, holds steadfast to his often tragic and sometimes outrageously humorous narrative, while facing an uncertain future. Commissioned by the American Dance Festival, Dancers Workshop and the Executive Director s Fund at The Joyce Theater Foundation. Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant is Jones reaction to the character Ambros Adelwarth from W.G. Sebald s celebrated historical novel, The Emigrants. This narrative, through a fictionalized history, strives to suggest how an experience of trauma can go underground in the psyche of an individual and direct consciously and unconsciously the course of that individual s life. The central figure, Ambros Adelwarth, is a German valet/manservant who serves as companion to a privileged, dissipated, young scion of a wealthy Jewish family. This restrained and evocative narrative tracks Ambros experience working at hotels, the glamorous travels with his charge, Cosmo, through Europe and the Middle East on the eve of WWI and then his life after Cosmo s death. Commissioned by Dancers Workshop and ADF with support from the Doris Duke/ SHS Foundations Award for New Dance and the Reinhart Fund. Funds for the CAP UCLA presentation provided by Fariba Ghaffari, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant Endowment and the Roslyn Holt Swartz & Allan J. Swartz Endowment for the Performing Arts. Art in Action: Hearing Beyond Listening: Moving Stories Join us for activities throughout the weekend that explore how story is embodied through memory. 22 DANCE

25 This is the whole package, a complete work of art in which every element is necessary and all are in harmony. Durham Herald Sun Jones and collaborators amaze with their scope and with the engaging quality of the multimedia woven seamlessly into the work. The News & Observer DANCE 23

26 Photo Credit: Tracy Love TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON 24 JAZZ

27 Fri, Nov 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Photo Credit: Henry Diltz/Getty Images Three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington leads an allstar ensemble, including vocalists Lizz Wright and Jazzmeia Horn, paying tribute to living legends Joni Mitchell, Nancy Wilson and Tina Turner. In 2013, the first woman to receive the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Carrington has played with a who s who of jazz including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Cassandra Wilson, Carlos Santana, Grover Washington, Jr., Les McCann, Kenny Barron, Natalie Cole, Dianne Reeves, Esperanza Spalding and Angélique Kidjo. The synergy between Carrington and her musical friends backed by her uncanny ability to re-craft material in keeping the content relevant to today s market further justifies the case of why jazz music continues to flourish (TheUrbanMusicScene). Carrington s body of work has the overall feel of a tapestry that affirms life through weaving arrangements containing blues, jazz, fusion, Afro-Cuban and even world music approaches. New York Daily News Photo Credit: Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Photo Credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images JA ZZ 25

28 SOLD OUT Photo Credit: Claude Salhan/Getty Images JOAN BAEZ FARE THEE WELL TOUR 2018 Sat, Nov 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA CAP UCLA welcomes folk icon and activist Joan Baez to Royce Hall for one night only as part of her Fare Thee Well...Tour For more than five decades, Baez has been a musical force of incalculable influence. She marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., shined a spotlight on the Free Speech Movement, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the Vietnam War, inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest the Iraq war, stood with old friend Nelson Mandela in London s Hyde Park as the world celebrated his 90th birthday and, most recently, protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. To this day, she continues to stand passionately on behalf of causes she embraces. As a special offer, all ticket buyers will receive a CD or digital download of her new album, Whistle Down the Wind, hailed by Rolling Stone as a moving reflection and summation of Baez s life as a singer, musician and activist. 26 SPECIAL EVENT

29 She was something else, almost too much to take. Her voice was like that of a siren from off some Greek island. Just the sound of it could put you into a spell. She was an enchantress... She d make you forget who you were. Bob Dylan Photo Credit: Dana Tynan Art in Action: Singing the Landscape! Watch our website for details on a pre-show Group Sing event, get ready to raise your voice! SPECIAL EVENT 27

30 DAVID SEDARIS Fri, Nov 8 pm Royce Hall, UCLA If America had an award for satirist-inchief, David Sedaris would be the odds-on favorite. If there were a garland for humorist laureate, it would rest on his head. BroadwayWorld.com UCLA s favorite raconteur, David Sedaris, returns for his annual sojourn at Royce Hall where he will read from unpublished work. With his sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America s preeminent humor writers. The skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Theft By Finding: Diaries ( ) and Calypso, all of which became immediate bestsellers. He is also the author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. In 2018 he was awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, a prize honoring humor and wit in writing. 28 SPECIAL EVENT Photo Credit: Adam DeTour

31 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Orthodox priests in black robes and conical caps rubbed shoulders with pop stars and actors, including Björk, Antony Hegarty and Keanu Reeves, at Carnegie Hall on Saturday at a sold-out concert of music by Arvo Pärt. No other living composer has so fervent a following or such a diverse group of fans. The New York Times Photo Credit: Kaupo Kikkas ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR & TALLINN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Sat, Nov 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA The artistic team who started it all founding director Tonu Kaljuste, The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra return to Royce Hall to further explore their unique repertoire with Arvo Pärt s powerful Adam s Lament and a wide array of other works. The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is one of the best-known choirs in the world. Their repertoire extends from Gregorian chant to the music of the 21st century, with a special focus on introducing the work of Estonian composers to the rest of the world. While their concerts feature a wide range of choral works from Renaissance polyphony to the Romantic period, their foremost goal has always been to promote outstanding new choral music. Comprised of 26 singers, the choir was described by The Guardian as sublime...the balance between the voices the sense of phrasing and timings were perfectly judged to let the sound fill and fade naturally. Funds provided by the Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for the Performing Arts. CONTEMPOR ARY CL A SSIC AL 29

32 A lot of the stand-up comedy that gets done in Los Angeles is really just comics auditioning for parts in TV or movies. Not at UnCabaret. For 25 years, it s been a place to hear unvarnished, rough-edged ideas being tried out mostly for the first and possibly only time. NPR, All Things Considered UNCABARET 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW & CELEBRATION 30 SPECIAL EVENT Photo Credit: Stephen Blaha

33 Sun, Nov 7pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel L.A. s legendary UnCabaret celebrates 25 years of wildly fun, idiosyncratic and intimate performance with this one-time-only evening of live comedy, music and never-before-seen footage from the vault. Guests include alumni Julia Sweeney, Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, Greg Behrendt, Rebecca Corry, Alex Edelman, Allee Willis, Andy Kindler, Maria Bamford and many more to be announced. From its origins at the Women s Building in DTLA, UnCabaret grew from the need for a comedy space that was, as host and creator Beth Lapides once described, unhomophobic, unmisogynist and unxenophobic. The Los Angeles Times dubbed Lapides, host, producer and creatrix of UnCabaret, the High Priestess of alternative comedy for having reclaimed comedy as an art form, allowing for depth, meaning, even transcendence. UnCabaret has remained devoted to revitalizing, refreshing and reimagining what s possible in the comedy world. Over the years it has nurtured the talent and fostered the careers of such iconoclastic comedians and comedy writers as Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Jeff Garlin, Andy Dick and Judd Apatow, and hosted guest appearances by Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Roseanne Barr, Jennifer Coolidge, Kevin Nealon, Sandra Bernhard, Carrie Fisher and Bill Maher who have popped in for some comedy freestyling. If you ve never been, now is the time to come see what all the commotion is about! NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. SPECIAL EVENT 31

34 SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK Art in Action: Hearing Beyond Listening Visit our Pop-Up Library space for an exhibition and Listening Lab featuring music, photographs, film and literature from the UCLA Library Ethnomusicology and African American History Collections. 32 AMERICAN ROOTS

35 [Sweet Honey In The Rock] empower individuals to accomplish together what we cannot accomplish alone. They do this by filling out their music with only their voices. The sound moves into your heart and pushes it wider. NPR Music Fri, Nov 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Grammy Award-nominated and globally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock continues to cultivate, evolve and add memorable moments to their indelible legacy as activists and artists. They have stayed true to their mission to educate, entertain and empower their audience and community through the dynamic vehicles of a cappella singing and American Sign Language interpretation. The magnificent beauty and power of their voices and inspired messages engage the ear, lift the soul and stimulate the mind in a positive journey you will not soon forget. Sweet Honey In The Rock recently released the critically acclaimed album #LoveInEvolution, which perfectly showcases their collective voice by highlighting their prowess as both stunning vocalists and compelling songwriters in a collection of principally original songs. Relevantly touching on the culturally complex issues of our times social justice, human and civil rights the album also integrates many of the complex sounds of African American musical genres such as blues, spirituals, traditional gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants, hip-hop, ancient lullabies and jazz improvisation which have contributed to Sweet Honey s core and patented style. They continue to stretch their artistic boundaries as live performers to produce a sound filled with their soulful four-part harmonies and intricate rhythms, which is accompanied by hand percussion instruments and bass (acoustic upright and electric). Sweet Honey In The Rock deliver a heart opening, soul shaking and timeless experience. Funds provided by the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director s Discretionary Fund. Photo Credits: Howard T. Cash Photography AMERICCAN ROOTS 33

36 ...the ethereal, wordless vocal lines that singer Luciana Souza unfurled... made this quartet sound unlike any other...[her] haunting, technically mercurial scat lines floated easily above the ensemble sound. Chicago Tribune LUCIANA SOUZA THE BOOK OF LONGING NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. 34 JAZZ Photo Credit: Kim Fox

37 Photo Credit: Fernanda Faya Photo Credit: Courtesey of Scott Colley Sat, Dec 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Grammy Award-winning vocalist Luciana Souza is one of jazz s foremost singers and vocal interpreters. Born in São Paulo in the 1960s, she grew up in a family of Bossa Nova innovators her father was a singer/songwriter and her mother was a poet and lyricist. Souza s work as a performer transcends traditional boundaries of musical styles, offering solid roots in jazz, a sophisticated lineage in world music and an enlightened approach to new music. She has performed with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor and Bobby McFerrin and her voice has been described as transcendental, perfect, and of unparalleled beauty. Billboard magazine wrote that she continues her captivating journey as a uniquely talented vocalist who organically crosses genre borders. Her music soulfully reflects, wistfully regrets, romantically woos, joyfully celebrates... Accompanied by Chico Pinheiro on guitar and Scott Colley on bass, Souza will perform songs from her new album, The Book of Longing. Funds provided by the Ginny Mancini Endowment for Vocal Performance. JAZZ 35

38 Photo Credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Big Magic is a celebration of a creative life... Gilbert s love of creativity is infectuous, and there s a lot of great advice in this sunny book...gilbert doesn t just call for aspiring artists to speak their truth, however daffy that may appear to others, she is showing them how. Washington Post 36 WORDS & IDEAS

39 Strayed s memoir Wild [is] as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It s got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound. The New York Times ELIZABETH GILBERT & CHERYL STRAYED Photo Credit: Joni Kabana Sun, Dec 3pm Royce Hall, UCLA IN CONVERSATION After a 1,000-mile trek on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed had a story to tell. The result was her bestselling memoir Wild, a sometimes harrowing, other times hilarious, tale of her journey from loss to recovery after she found herself shattered by two major life events. Elizabeth Gilbert s memoir Eat, Pray, Love was also a bestseller that famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce and catapulted its author from a respected but little-recognized writer to a woman Oprah Winfrey has called a rock star author. Both memoirs, which also became hit Hollywood films, hit home to thousands of women around the world who saw their lives reflected on the page and found in both books solace, redemption and a model of how they, too, could rebuild their lives. Strayed and Gilbert continue to publish and share their thoughts with fans around the world. Strayed is the voice behind The Rumpus s popular Dear Sugar column and Gilbert is the author of another memoir, Committed: A Love Story, the follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love; a novel, The Signature of all Things; and a nonfiction treatise Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. We are delighted to have them together in conversation. WORDS & IDEAS 37

40 38 AMERICAN ROOTS Photo Credits: Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images

41 BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN Béla [Fleck] and Abigail [Washburn] stretch the boundaries of the banjo and our imagination with their brilliant composing, arranging and performance. Banjocrazy.com Thu, Dec 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Husband and wife duo Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are banjo royalty. Fleck, who is often cited as the premiere banjo player in the world today, redefined bluegrass with his award-winning band the Flecktones, whose distinctive style known as blu-bop is an eclectic mix of jazz and bluegrass. Known for her distinctive claw-hammer style of playing, Washburn pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds which The New York Times once described as a blend of Appalachia and folk-pop, with tinges of Asia and Bruce Springsteen. Together, with their combined total of 10 strings, they can span the range of a piano, a blues band or an entire symphony orchestra. Combined with their extraordinary depth of knowledge about world music, the possibilities are endless. You ll never think of the banjo the same way again after you hear it played by these two disarming and delightful musical geniuses. AMERICAN ROOTS 39

42 [Sundance] hit the jackpot this year with a film/performance combination called A Thousand Thoughts... It s as magical an amalgamation as anything you can imagine. Los Angeles Times A THOUSAND THOUGHTS A LIVE DOCUMENTARY BY SAM GREEN AND KRONOS QUARTET WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SAM GREEN AND JOE BINI NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. 40 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

43 Fri, Dec 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini have teamed up with Grammywinning Kronos Quartet for a wildly creative multimedia performance piece that blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews with such prominent artists as Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man and Terry Riley. As Green tells the multi-decade and continent-spanning story of the groundbreaking string quartet, Kronos revisits its extensive body of work, performing music by George Crumb, Aleksandra Vrebalov and many others. Together on stage, Green and Kronos interact with the stirring cinematic imagery on screen to craft an important record and exploration of late 20th and early 21st century music. Transcending the typical live music and film event, this collaboration quickly becomes a meditation on music itself the act of listening to it closely, the experience of feeling it deeply and the power that it has to change the world. Sundance Festival This project is funded in part by Susan & Leonard Nimoy and the Good Works Foundation in support of the CAP UCLA Artists Fellowship Program. CONTEMPOR ARY CL A SSIC AL 41

44 "A galvanic performer who combines the otherworldly gender fluidity of Ziggy Stardust and the unstoppable razzle-dazzle of a post-modern Liza Minnelli. Los Angeles Times TAYLOR MAC HOLIDAY SAUCE 42 SPECIAL EVENT

45 Photo Credit: Little Fang Fri Sat Dec 14 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Hot on the very high heels of his hugely successful epic extravaganza, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, the incomparable Taylor Mac returns to Los Angeles to share a little holiday sass with Holiday Sauce. Celebrating the holiday season in all its dysfunction, Mac, is joined by longtime collaborators designer Machine Dazzle, music director Matt Ray and a band of musicians and special guests to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate. After its premiere in 2017 at NYC s Town Hall, Time Out New York wrote, The sublimely freakish Mac pilots audiences through fantastical journeys, guided by the compass of [Mac s] magnetic individuality. Last year, [Mac] surveyed the past 240 years of American music in a 24-hour marathon that was immediately hailed as a history-making event in and of itself. [This year Mac] sleighs it with Christmas songs. Funds provided by the Ginny Mancini Endowment for Vocal Performance. SPECIAL EVENT 43

46 PRESENTED BY CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU THE GREAT TAMER Dimitris Papaioannou s The Great Tamer [is] a piece of theatre that grabs the attention and largely doesn t let go. It s part dream, part nightmare, part riddle, with a lot of room left for the audience to make their own associations and meaning; somehow, that just adds to the mystery and allure. Seeing Dance 44 THEATER Photo Credits: Julian Mommert

47 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Fri, Jan 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Dimitris Papaioannou gained early recognition as a painter and comics artist, before his focus shifted to the performing arts as a director, choreographer, performer and a designer of sets, costumes, makeup and lighting. He formed Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986 as a vehicle for his original stage productions, hybrids of physical theater, experimental dance and performance art. Originating in the underground scene, the company challenged perceptions and gained an expanding number of dedicated followers. Papaioannou became widely known internationally as the creator of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. His latest work, The Great Tamer, is a visually stunning and surreal pageant that grapples with the meaning of life, the mystery of death, time, destruction and reconstruction against the occasional strains of a slowed down version of Strauss "The Blue Danube". Often referencing famous sculpture and paintings, including Botticelli s The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo s David and, most overtly, Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt, Papaionnou uses the human body to create vignettes that are at once macabre and beautiful, infused at times with humor, horror, circus-like stunts and optical illusions. He also freely and unapologetically utilizes nudity to add wit and absurdity to such sober material in a way that is both inventive and surprising. Funds provided by Deborah Irmas, Diane Levine and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. THE ATER 45

48 NADIA SIROTA A LIVE PODCAST EVENT WITH WILD UP FEATURING ANDREW NORMAN AND CAROLINE SHAW Sat, Jan 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel This performance explores the music of two charismatic composers Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and Grawemeyer Prize winner Andrew Norman. Hosted by Peabody Award winner Nadia Sirota and performed live at The Theatre at Ace Hotel with L.A. s own contemporary music ensemble, wild Up, described by The New York Times as raucous, gungy, irresistibly exuberant...[and] exceptionally virtuosic. This concert fuses live performance, interviews, storytelling and sound design to create an enhanced experience, tracing Shaw s and Norman s artistic development from childhood precocity through college freak-outs to mid-career successes, to provide deep insight into the work and background of these two significant composers. Sirota has years of collaborative experience with both Shaw and Norman and draws on her close familiarity with them and her intimate knowledge of their music to connect the audience with the intricacies of their work, brought to life on stage by wild Up under the direction of Chris Rountree. They ll talk, play, joke around, and show the audience the artistic process from the insideout, all integrated within a musical program that includes large and small ensemble works from throughout both artists impressive careers. Part Leonard Bernstein s Young People s Concerts and part late night talk show, the concert and podcasts are an entertaining and seriously insightful approach for the new music insider and newcomer alike. 46 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Funds provided by Kevin Jeske Young Artist Fund. Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

49 Photo Credit: Craig T. Matthew Photo Credit: Kait Moreno [Sirota s podcast, Meet the Composer] is an ideal mixing of medium and message: a tightly produced broadcast exploring a subject the oft-overlooked world of modern composition that uniquely benefits from musical immersion and auditory elucidation. The New Yorker Photo Credit: Jill Steinberg CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL 47

50 Thu, Jan 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. in His remarkable debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize and made the finalist list for the PEN/Faulkner award. The New York Times described it as giving voice to the previously voiceless while it compels the rest of us to look at the events of 40 years ago in a new light. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Luis Urrea grew up in San Diego. He is the author of over 16 books and is the recipient of the Lanan Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. Urrea s novel, Into the Beautiful North has been chosen for hundreds of community reads, and is on the list of the NEA s Big Read program. Viet and Luis both write about the immigrant experience, giving fresh voice to characters who have long been stereotyped by Western culture and providing an insightful perspective on the society we all share as Americans. Funds provided by the Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment for the Performing Arts. VIET THAHN NGUYEN & LUIS ALBERTO URREA IN CONVERSATION 48 WORDS & IDEAS Photo Credit: Bebe Jacobs

51 [Viet Thanh Nguyen] compares favorably with masters like Conrad, Greene, and le Carré. The New York Times It s difficult to find comparisons to an author as original as Urrea, a kind of literary badass who still believes in love Alan Cheuse, NPR Photo Credit: Joe Mazza, Brave Lux WORDS & IDEAS 49

52 CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH FORD THEATRES PRESENTS JÉRÔME BEL GALA Sat, Feb 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Gala offers a different approach to dance. In this collective art form, choreographer Jérôme Bel brings together dance professionals and amateurs of diverse backgrounds. The diversity of the acts never calls on us to pass judgement, but they reveal the way in which each person s cultural repertoire involves him or her in a singular relationship with that desire for something else other than dance joy, accomplishment, transcendence perhaps? As with his previous works, Disabled Theater, a piece performed by a troupe of mentally challenged actors, and Cour d honneur, which put a group of spectators center stage, Bel uses the same question as a starting point for Gala how can we bring to the stage a representation of individuals and bodies that are all too often excluded from it in order to enlarge the perimeter of performance and reshape it so all those drawn to the performing arts can participate? To make this piece accessible to amateurs and provide them with the opportunity to give their all and make the project their own, Bel chose that most commonplace of theatrical experiences the gala. The result is a gala that is bitty, patched up, traversed by moments of reflection, like galleries of living portraits. With its Fail again. Fail better emphasis, Gala goes from one theatre to the next, like a mirror taking a stroll by the side of a road, and brings home to us something about the making of those we are watching as well as the way we watch. 50 DANCE Photo Credit: Josefina Tommasi

53 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Gala forces audience expectations to the fore and blurs the lines between failure and success in performance as it suggests that theater is community, both onstage and off. It s a tour de force, wildly entertaining and truly radical. The New York Times Photo Credits: Veronique Ellena DANCE 51

54 Photo Credit: Joel Clifton QUOTE UNQUOTE COLLECTIVE MOUTHPIECE IN ASSOCIATION WITH WHY NOT THEATRE Wed Sat, Feb 6 8pm Sun, Feb 7pm Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA One of the undisputed hits of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, MOUTH- PIECE is a heart-wrenching and humorous journey into the female psyche. The brainchild of Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, co-founders of Quote Unquote Collective, a Toronto-based multidisciplinary performance company that actively engages with urgent social and political themes, MOUTHPIECE is a virtuosic display of physical ingenuity and vocal orchestration. MOUTHPIECE follows one woman for one day, in the wake of her mother s death, as she tries to find her voice. Interweaving a cappella harmonies, dissonance, text and physical movement, the two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman s head: the push and the pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Ranging from tender to merciless, with uncompromising precision, MOUTHPIECE magnifies a daughter s contemplation of her mother, and becomes a rigorous investigation of womanhood itself. It was described by The Guardian as a smart show, beautifully put together and performed, and one that speaks up for all the women who daily bite their tongues. 52 THEATER

55 When we first saw Norah and Amy s breathtaking performance in Toronto we were speechless. MOUTHPIECE touches on every part of the female experience from birth to death using dance, music and wicked humour with just a bathtub for scenery. The result is a new kind of feminist language which ignites pure, intravenous emotion. It s impossible to describe and truly unforgettable. Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison Photo Credit: Brooke Wedlock THEATER 53

56 Ward s [Sing, Unburied, Sing] is a true triple threat, expert in prose, human observation, and social commentary. Time Magazine Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan JESMYN WARD & MITCHELL JACKSON IN CONVERSATION Thu, Feb 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her fearless and toughly lyrical voice in novels, memoir, and nonfiction. In 2017, she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction. Ward s writing, largely set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where she grew up and still lives, includes a memoir, Men We Reaped and the novels Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones and, most recently, Sing, Unburied, Sing. She is also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Mitchell S. Jackson is a bright new star in literary fiction and an extraordinary breakout voice. He is the author of the novel The Residue Years which was praised by The New York Times, The Paris Review and The Times of London and won The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. He is also a TED Fellow and the recipient of the 2016 Whiting Award for fiction. His new book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, to be published in the spring of 2019, is a hybrid part essay, part memoir, part history that uses stories of Jackson s family and friends to speak to larger issues in American culture, including the racial history of Oregon, whiteness in America, the prison system, drug addiction, criminality, sex work, violence and broken families. Ward and Jackson will discuss their work and how their experiences growing up poor and black continue to influence their writing. 54 WORDS & IDEAS

57 Powerful Jackson s prose has a spoken-word cadence, the language flying off the page with percussive energy there is a warmth and a hard-won wisdom about the intersection of race and poverty in America The New York Times Photo Credit: John Ricard WORDS & IDEAS 55

58 THE SOUL REBELS Brace yourselves folks, these men are quickly solidifying themselves amongst NOLA s proud big brass elite...and seem intent to sublimate the homogenous tones of the contemporary urban music landscape with the lush instrumentation of our culture s root. OKAYPLAYER Sat, Feb 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel The Soul Rebels started with an idea to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip-hop, jazz and rock to create a unique sound that the Village Voice once described as the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong. The band consists of an eightpiece all-brass lineup and they ve built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. When not touring, The Soul Rebels weekly show at New Orleans Le Bon Temps Roulé is known to erupt with the kind of contagious, shout-along musical mayhem that The Rebels bring with them wherever they perform. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they combine topnotch musicianship and songs with grooves that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul. Photo Credit: Zack Smith Sun, 56 AMERICAN ROOTS

59 ANDREW DAWSON SPACE PANORAMA & SPIRIT OF THE RING Thur Fri, Feb 21 8pm; Sat, Feb 3 and 8 pm; Sun, Feb 3pm Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA The scale at which Dawson operates is small but he thinks big. Standing on a platform behind a flat, slanted and velvety black surface, and cued to an edited recording, in just under 30 minutes he guided us through the dramatic highs of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Places, characters and the shifting of focus and scale were all conjured via expressively detailed gesture. The Times of London Andrew Dawson is a dancer, a theater artist, a puppeteer and, most of all, a storyteller. A student of such 20th century cultural icons as Merce Cunningham and Jacques Lecoq, Dawson has created his own unique brand of theater using only the finely tuned gestures of his hands and the expression of his face to act out the details of complex narratives. Dawson presents two works for CAP UCLA audiences an epic story of fact, the Apollo 11 moon landing, and an epic story of fiction, the whole of Wagner s Ring cycle in 30 minutes. Space Panorama takes us from Houston to the moon and back, conveying the colossal distances and the risks involved in this perilous journey simply through the deftness and skilled movement of his hands. In Spirit of the Ring, Dawson embodies a myriad of characters, the vast Rhine river, the Castle of the Gods, and the winged horse of the Valkyrie with nothing more than his hands, a brief narrative introduction and edited orchestral excerpts. You truly have to see this to believe it. We guarantee you will be both charmed and amazed. Funds provided by Anne-Marie Spataru and The James A. Doolittle Endowment. Art in Action: Writing the Landscape In 1969 a new landscape came sharply into view with the historic moon landing of Apollo 11. Explore the 50th anniversary of this landmark event with special activities with our colleagues at the UCLA Galactic Center, artist talks and hands-on space ship making! Photo Credit: Nitin Vadukul THEATER 57

60 Art in Action: Watch our website for info about artist talks, intersections with UCLA cell researchers, and Meredith s unique vocal and movement workshop, Dancing Voice/Singing Body. 58 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Photo credits: Julieta Cervantes

61 MEREDITH MONK CELLULAR SONGS Sat, Mar 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA At once visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt, Monk s works banish the spurious complexities of urban life and reveal a kind of underground civilization, one that sings, dances, and meditates on timeless forces. The New Yorker Meredith Monk has spent more than five decades exploring and expanding the capacity of that most essential instrument the human voice. Cellular Songs is the newest in a series of her music theater pieces that explore our interdependent relationship with nature while seeking to evoke the ineffable. Following the celebrated On Behalf of Nature, which offered a liminal space questioning the precarious state of our global ecology, Cellular Songs turns attention inward to the very fabric of life itself. Joined by the women of her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble, Monk combines some of her most adventurous vocal music to date with movement, light, instrumental music and film, as well as a video installation designed specifically for each space. The work, at once playful and contemplative, draws inspiration from such cellular activity as layering, replication, division and mutation, and looks to underlying systems in nature that can serve as a prototype for human behavior in our tumultuous world. Conjuring cycles of birth and death throughout, Monk once again reminds us of her vitality as an artist who cuts to the core of experience, continuing to share the genius of her discovery and innovation. Funds provided by Fariba Ghaffari and the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant Endowment. CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL 59

62 Art in Action: Antigone Revisited watch our website for artist talks and special activities with our arts partners in the Los Angeles community. CARRIE MAE WEEMS PAST TENSE 60 THEATER Photo Credits: William Strugs

63 As Billie Holiday sings the same ole story, but it s new to me... NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Fri, Mar 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems, deemed one of the more interesting artists working in the gap between art and politics by The New York Times, has created a new performance-based work, Past Tense. Through music, text, projection and video, Past Tense features singers Eisa Davis, Alicia Hall Moran, Imani Uzuri and Francesca Harper, poet Carl Hancock Rux and music director Craig Harris. The performance takes us on a deep dive into the enduring significance of the iconic Antigone and her profound relevance to our contemporary moment. Past Tense s origins lie in Weems powerful work Grace Notes. Weems says, While working on Grace Notes for months it occurred to me that I was telling the story of Antigone, wherein an innocent man dies by unjustified means and his sister fights for the right to bury him honorably. But the wider community refuses her; her right to justice, and to peace, is denied. Past Tense has a modernist aesthetic of clean, spare staging with singers representing a Greek chorus on a small, raised platform and Weems at a clear, Lucite lectern, with startling imagery projected on a screen behind them conveying the risk of an encounter between authority figures and citizens who are fervent in their sense of morality. This powerful piece explores themes of social justice, escalating violence, gender relations, politics and personal identity within the context of contemporary history recurrent subjects in Weems practice. Funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. THEATER 61

64 OHAD NAHARIN/ BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY VENEZUELA 62 DANCE

65 One of the most fascinating dance makers on the planet. The New York Times Fri Sat, Mar 15 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Batsheva s Ohad Naharin is known worldwide for his adventurous vision and distinctive choreographic voice. He is widely considered to be one of the great dance pioneers of his generation. Under Naharin s direction for the past 28 years, Batsheva has become one of the world s preeminent dance companies. A signature of Batsheva s dancers is their visceral physicality combined with the depth and consistency of their Gaga training a quality that is at once raw and virtuosic. Batsheva returns to Royce Hall with a new evening-length work, Venezuela, in which choreographer Naharin and the dancers explore the dialogue and conflict between movement and the content it represents. Naharin created Venezuela in two 40-minute sections placed in juxtaposition. In this multifaceted and compelling work, the endless possibilities of a choreographer s craft are at play and, in turn, Venezuela compels the audience to challenge their own freedom of choice. NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Art in Action: Watch our website for info about Gaga classes, artist talks and more. Photo Credit: Ascaf DANCE 63

66 Photo credit: Alex Varsa AN EVENING WITH LETTUCE & JOHN SCOFIELD (Lettuce is} everyone s favorite funk band... Red Bull Music 64 AMERICAN ROOTS

67 Wed, Mar 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel For more than two decades, Lettuce have brought a new vitality to classic funk, matching their smooth and soulful grooves with a hip-hop-inspired urgency and mastery of beat. Formed in 1992, when several band members attended a summer program at Boston s Berklee College of Music as teenagers, Lettuce was founded on a shared love of legendary funk artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of Power. After returning to Berklee as undergrads in 1994, Lettuce started playing in local clubs and steadily built up a following that soon extended to cities across the country and then throughout the world. During the course of his storied career, guitarist/composer John Scofield has never shown much of a predilection to repeat himself. Rather, he navigates through projects as diverse as trio outings, experiments with horns, collections of ballads and collaborations with the likes of Gov t Mule and the Grateful Dead s Phil Lesh in a such a way that, when he completes a cycle of activity, he s grown discernibly as an artist. All About Jazz For their performance at the Ace, Lettuce will be joined by legendary guitarist John Scofield. Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser with a very distinctive sound whose music generally falls somewhere between postbop, funk-edged jazz and R&B. After a debut recording with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Scofield was a member of the Billy Cobham-George Duke band for two years. In 1977 he recorded with Charles Mingus, and joined the Gary Burton quartet. He began his international career as a bandleader and recording artist in From , Scofield toured and recorded with Miles Davis. His Davis stint placed him firmly in the foreground of jazz consciousness as a player and composer. Since that time he has prominently led his own groups on the international jazz scene, recorded over 30 albums as a leader (many already classics) including collaborations with contemporary favorites like Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Mavis Staples, Jack DeJohnette and Phil Lesh. He s played and recorded with Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson, among many other jazz legends. Throughout his career Scofield has punctuated his traditional jazz offerings with funk-oriented electric music. This collaboration with Lettuce is a meeting of the spirits. AMERICAN ROOTS 65

68 ROBERTO FONSECA & The Cuban keyboardist is a terrific example of what makes 21st century improvised music so exciting: Fonseca is part of a generation of musicians who feel that all sounds from all countries are accessible to them, either in acoustic, electric or digitized form whether it s a traditional, ancient rhythm or a computerized studio effect. Downbeat 66 GLOBAL MUSIC Photo Credit: Guiro Hernandez

69 Fatoumata Diawara projects her strong songs with effortless poise. The Telegraph Photo Credit: Aida Muluneh FATOUMATA DIAWARA Sat, Mar The Theatre at Ace Hotel Both Fatoumata Diawara and Roberto Fonseca learned their craft from old masters: she as a back-up singer for her fellow Malian Oumou Sangaré; he as a pianist with the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club. Diawara is hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers of modern African music. She takes her artisty to fresh and thrilling heights on her new album, Fenfo. Boldly experimental yet respectful of her roots, Fenfo defines her as the voice of young African womanhood proud of her heritage, but with a vision that looks confidently to the future with a message that is universal. Fonseca is considered one of the most innovative Cuban pianists in generations, with a sound at the fertile crossroads of jazz, traditional music and soul, steeped in a spirituality faithful to his Afro-Cuban roots. His most recent album, ABUC Cuba spelled backwards is teeming with rascally rhythms and burly brass, creating a kaleidoscope of dancing colors through which Fonseca recalls the rich history of Cuban music. In 2014 Diawara and Fonseca teamed up for the album At Home. Diawara s husky yet honey-smooth vocals combined with Fonseca s jazz genius resulted in the perfect Afro-Caribbean musical dream team. They will each perform separately with their bands at Royce Hall. GLOBAL MUSIC 67

70 [Hussain is] a fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor, devoted to exuberant play. The New York Times ZAKIR HUSSAIN & MASTERS OF PERCUSSION Photo Credit: Jim McGuire Thu, Mar 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, Zakir Hussain is known for his consistently brilliant and exciting performances that have established him as a treasure not only in India, but throughout the world. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge and study. The favorite accompanist for many of India s greatest classical musicians and dancers, he is also in demand by artists in all disciplines. Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Hussain has been involved in many historic collaborations, including Shakti, which he founded with guitarist John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, the Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum with Mickey Hart and Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland. He has also performed with musicians George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Airto Moreira, Pharoah Sanders and Billy Cobham, as well as with choreographers Mark Morris and Rennie Harris, and the Kodo drummers. Every other year since 1996, he has served as curator, producer and host in bringing the very cream of Indian music to tour America and Europe with his series Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion. In the process, he has unearthed little-known traditions that feed into the greater stream of Indian music, playing an educational role in ensuring that these modes remain alive, to be handed down from generation to generation. The 2019 Masters of Percussion will be no exception, presenting American audiences with extraordinary and exciting and often spontaneous combinations of percussive and melodic performances. 68 GLOBAL MUSIC

71 Sat, Mar 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Political, outspoken and passionate, Chilean singersongwriter and activist Nano Stern has created his own musical language an otherworldly sound that blends the youthful exuberance of folk music mixed with years of classical and jazz training against the powerful force of traditional Chilean revolutionary songs. What has emerged is a brilliantly layered confluence of indigenous African, European and North and South American musical influences that reverberate with a soulfulness and originality unlike any other South American artist performing today. He appeared with Joan Baez in 2016 at her 75th birthday celebration at the Beacon Theater in New York where she praised him as "the best young Chilean songwriter of his generation." NANO STERN Stern s appearance produced the kind of lightning you could have experienced in the 60s when everything seemed possible and hope was in the air. The New York Times NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Funds provided by the José Luis Nazar Endowment for the Performing Arts. Photo Credit: Emilson Da Silva GLOBAL MUSIC 69

72 CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH CENTER THEATRE GROUP PRESENTS THE WHITE ALBUM BY JOAN DIDION PERFORMANCE CREATED BY LARS JAN/ EARLY MORNING OPERA We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion, The White Album Fri, Apr 8pm; Sat, Apr 3pm and 8pm Sun, Apr 7pm Freud Playhouse, UCLA Art in Action: L.A. Omnibus It has been said that Joan Didion gave L.A. its voice. Join us for talks, poetry events, essay contests, photo and music exhibits, and the construction of a portable reading room all centered around the theme, O! California Lars Jan is a Los Angeles-based director, writer, visual artist and a former CAP UCLA Artist-in-Residence. His work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum and presented at the BAM Next Wave Festival, Under the Radar, Sundance Film Festival, the Hammer Museum, the Kirk Douglas Theater and the PICA TBA Festival. His newest piece, The White Album is a multimedia performance that uses Joan Didion s seminal essay to apply a uniquely inventive approach to the intersection between observation, storytelling, audience participation, choreography and architecture. Obie Award-winning actress Mia Barron delivers the essay in its entirety, while behind her a parallel performance unfolds. Separated, two audiences one, large and seated; the other, small and mobile experience different but resonant works simultaneously as they confront one another across generational and racial divides and varied perspectives, visually demonstrating stark similarities in the cultural dynamics of 1968 and now. The essay s legendary first line We tell ourselves stories in order to live provokes the project s double-edged embarkation, challenging us to look critically at the past and to define new paths forward. The White Album is developed in association with Center Theatre Group with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Additional commissioning support came from the Wexner Center for the Arts and CalArts Center for New Performance. With thanks to Joan Didion and ICM Partners. Funds for this production provided by Deborah Irmas and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. A component of the creative development of The White Album provided through CAP UCLA s annual artist residency partnership with the Ucross Foundation. 70 THEATER

73 Photo Credit: Lars Jan THEATER 71

74 Photo Credit: Rich Gilligan THE The Gloaming [is] full of these simple tenets about space and solitude nestled cheek-by-jowl with wild, fierce, unruly, buckwild moments when the sounds take flight and pull you along within their slipstream... It s an album which is breathtaking, groundbreaking, grandstanding and any other accolade you want to apply from your big bag of superlatives. Irish Times GLOAMING 72 GLOBAL MUSIC

75 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Fri, Apr 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel The Gloaming dwells at a musical crossroads, enhancing traditional Irish music s rich, melancholic tones with modern hues of jazz, contemporary classical, and experimental music. While Ireland is a small nation, the diversity in styles between traditional musicians is a thing of no small wonder. The backgrounds of The Gloaming s three Irish members fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh and sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird reflect the breadth and color of this ecosystem. Hayes hails from County Clare, where a slow, contemplative, and melancholic sweep of fiddle music holds sway amongst its musicians. A move to America burnished his sound with new idioms, ranging from Arvo Pärt to Sigur Rós and brought this age-old sound into a modern setting without losing its essence. Dublin-born Ó Raghallaigh s head was turned by minimal, experimental sounds. His ability to mine the space and texture between the notes with his customized fiddle, part Norwegian Hardanger and part viola d amore, has produced groundbreaking work. Ó Lionáird hails from West Cork, where Sean-nós singing solo singing unaccompanied by any instrument is the lingua franca. Passed down the generations, the songs cover a multitude of material: historical events, love poems, bittersweet accounts of loss and emigration and, of course, songs about drinking and devilment. With the addition of guitarist Dennis Cahill, an American from Dingle, County Kerry stock, and Thomas Bartlett, who has worked with Antony and the Johnsons, The Gloaming s reels and jigs have attained new and exhilarating heights, taking them from London s Royal Albert Hall to the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, Hamburg s Elbphilharmonie, Mexico City s Teatro de la Ciudad, the Philharmonie de Paris and now to The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. GLOBAL MUSIC 73

76 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Art in Action: Dancing the Landscape: What s Your Solo? Stay tuned for info on artist talks, master classes, and how to construct and share your own movement score using movement and sound vocabulary inspired by Merce Cunningham and John Cage. NIGHT OF 100 SOLOS A CENTENNIAL EVENT 74 DANCE

77 Presented without intermission, Events consist of excerpts of dances from the repertory and new sequences arranged for the particular performance and place, with the possibility of several separate activities happening at the same time. Merce Cunningham Tue, Apr 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA To commemorate the centennial of Merce Cunningham, the Merce Cunningham Trust is co-producing Night of 100 Solos, the largest Cunningham Event ever created. A total of 100 dancers from around the world will be divided over four stages in Paris, London, New York City and Los Angeles for one night only on Merce s 100th birthday, April 16, On each of these stages, the dancers will perform 100 different Cunningham solos composed into an Event with live music and a special set design. Each city s 75-minute performance will be tailor-made by one of Cunningham s former dancers who, working with a team of Cunningham alumni, will be responsible for the artistic direction and transmission of the choreography. Partner theaters include the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Barbican London, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Center for the Art of Performance in Los Angeles. Initial funding for the Merce Cunningham Centennial is provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust, the Paul Wattis Foundation, and Judith Pisar. Funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts and the Royce Gala Endowment. Merce Cunningham in Sixteen Dances for Soloist and Company of Three. Photo Credit: Gerda Peterich 1952 DANCE 75

78 ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Fri, Apr 8pm Royce Hall, UCLA Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. A review in Time Out New York advised readers to expect to be thoroughly intoxicated and the London Telegraph described her performance as a mesmerising listening experience offering a rich concoction of exotic sounds and emotions. Deeply rooted in the Indian classical music tradition, she studied exclusively from the age of 9 under her father and guru, the late Ravi Shankar, and made her professional debut as a classical sitarist at the age of 13. As an international solo artist, she has performed in a range of distinguished venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre, Sydney Opera House, Vienna Konzerthaus, Royal Festival Hall, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Palais des Beaux-Arts. Through her bold and collaborative approach as a composer, Anoushka has encouraged cross-cultural dialogue while demonstrating the versatility of the sitar across musical genres. As a result, she has created a vital body of work with a prominent and diverse roster of artists including Sting, M.I.A., Herbie Hancock, Pepe Habichuela, Karsh Kale, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Joshua Bell and her half-sister Norah Jones. We think you ll not only be intoxicated and mesmerized, but also amazed. Funds provided by Karyn Orgell Wynne and the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant Endowment. 76 GLOBAL MUSIC her exquisite sitar playing lives up to the virtuosity that made her the youngest woman ever nominated for a World Music Grammy. Harper s Bazaar Photo Credit: Jamie-James Medina

79 NICO MUHLY ARCHIVES, FRIENDS, PATTERNS Fri, May 8pm The Theatre at Ace Hotel Nico Muhly is an American composer and sought-after collaborator whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. The recipient of commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul s Cathedral, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and others, he has written more than 80 works for the concert stage and is a frequent collaborator with choreographer Benjamin Millepied. As an arranger, he has paired with Joanna Newsom and Antony and the Johnsons, among others. He has composed for stage and screen, with credits that include music for the 2013 Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie and scores for the films Kill Your Darlings; Me, Earl and The Dying Girl; and the Academy Award-winning The Reader. For his CAP UCLA appearance, Muhly presents a performance in three parts: first a collaboration with composer Thomas Bartlett, comprising a set of songs built around two-piano transcriptions of gamelan music; second, an archival project of gems from over 40 years of Philip Glass s catalog and finally, a cycle of his own drone-based compositions which he describes as both severe and lyrical. Funds provided by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund and AVK Arts. All composers draw upon various musical styles. Very few are completely original. The challenge is to fashion the diverse influences into a distinctive voice. It is hard to describe what makes a composer s voice authentic. But you know it when you hear it. Nico Muhly has a voice, a Muhly sound. The New York Times NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the donor lounge after the performance. Photo Credit: Ana Cuba CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL 77

80 SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS Select from our curated series to save 15% off the single ticket price and receive priority seating (prices listed below reflect the discount). CAP UCLA members save 25%. ROYCE CHOICE - $355 Members $315 Emmylou Harris Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company Sweet Honey In The Rock Anoushka Shankar ACE CHOICE - $253 Members $225 Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole Fran Lebowitz Sam Green & Kronos Quartet UnCabaret The Gloaming JAZZ - $270 Members $245 Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole Tigran Hamasyan Pat Metheny Terri Lyne Carrington Luciana Souza GLOBAL MUSIC - $304 Members $270 DakhaBrakha Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion Nano Stern The Gloaming Roberto Fonseca & Fatoumata Diawara Anoushka Shankar AMERICAN ROOTS - $287 Members $255 Emmylou Harris Sweet Honey In The Rock Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn The Soul Rebels Lettuce with John Scofield DANCE - $347 Members $308 Mon Élue Noire Sacre #2 Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company Jérôme Bel Ohad Naharin/ Batsheva Dance Company Night of 100 Solos THEATER - $295 Members $263 Barber Shop Chronicles Dimitris Papaioannou Quote Unquote Collective Andrew Dawson Carrie Mae Weems Lars Jan CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL - $244 Members $218 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Sam Green & Kronos Quartet Nadia Sirota & wild Up Meredith Monk Nico Muhly WORDS & IDEAS - $253 Members $225 Fran Lebowitz Rebecca Solnit & Jon Christensen Elizabeth Gilbert & Cheryl Strayed Viet Nguyen & Junot Díaz Jesmyn Ward & Mitchell Jackson Programs, price and performers subject to change. Photo Credit: Little Fang Photo Credit: Kim Fox Photo Credit: Joel Clifton 78

81 Photo Credit: Hall B. Goode Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes Photo Credit: Jamie-James Medina HOW TO ORDER ONLINE cap.ucla.edu BY PHONE M F, 10am 4pm IN PERSON UCLA Ticket Office 325 Westwood Plaza M F, 10am 4pm 79

82 Art in Action is somewhere between an academic symposium and the vibrancy of an eagerly awaited coloring book. This is where we explore together in a public space the potential of sharing ideas together. Kristy Edmunds 80

83 ART IN ACTION Art in Action is our free public engagement program where we dive deep into the ideas emanating from the work of artists on our season. Through workshops, lectures, master classes, films, salons and art-making forums, Art in Action provides a platform for our UCLA and Los Angeles communities to exchange ideas and participate in shared cultural experiences. This season, we re continuing two ongoing initiatives and introducing a third. Writing the Landscape will feature new activities in our Poetry series, an expansion of our popular Royce Reads and Pop-Up Library programs, and special activities with our UCLA Library partners, exploring how the impulse to make something results in an altered landscape, or new view. Hearing Beyond Listening devises ways to listen better, with artist-curated playlists, personalized music maps, intimate salons, and the roving CAP Listening Lab. Our newest venture, L.A. Omnibus, takes its inspiration from the Latin meaning of Omnibus, "for all", and begins a two-year arts-focused journey exploring how the world shapes our city, and how Los Angeles influences the world. Art in Action goes beyond the experience of simply viewing or attending a performance, by providing access to art process and art making. It is how we inspire curiosity and generate deeper context. Most events on the season have an Art in Action activity, and some of these are highlighted in this program guide. As the season progresses, visit our website for schedule updates, and details on how you can participate. cap.ucla.edu/artinaction 81

84 DESIGN FOR SHARING Design for Sharing (DFS) is our free K-12 arts education program that provides public school students from across Los Angles access to the performing arts, both at UCLA and in their own classrooms. Working in collaboration with local and international artists, DFS provides free arts programs to 15,000 students each year from more than 150 public schools in Los Angeles County. We believe that exposure to the performing arts can have a powerful and lasting impact on a young person. The arts provide a gateway for students to explore shared ideas across communities and culture sparking their curiosity and imagination. Since 1969, Design for Sharing has provided performances, hands-on workshops and school arts residencies to almost a million public school students, offering a diverse array of music, contemporary dance, and innovative theater. Check out our schedule of events at cap.ucla.edu/dfs GIVE KIDS A LIFT! Even free arts programs like ours are out of reach for schools that can t afford a field trip bus. Contributors to the Perloff Memorial Bus Fund help us meet this growing need, by subsidizing student transportation to UCLA for DFS activities. Each year, DFS provides more than 150 free buses to L.A. s public schools allowing thousands of students from our community to experience the arts. We hope to get more kids on the bus, by offering free transportation to every school that needs it. You can help by making a contribution to the Perloff Memorial Bus Fund. $400 pays for an entire bus trip but support in any amount makes a difference. Make a gift today and give kids a lift! cap.ucla.edu/giving 82

85 Design For Sharing enriches and supports learning, social awareness and responsible cultural arts citizenship, creating a new generation of artists and audiences. Kristy Edmunds This season, the following CAP artists will participate in Design for Sharing programs: Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole DahkaBrakha Jason Moran Barber Shop Chronicles Sweet Honey In The Rock Kronos Quartet Andrew Dawson Nano Stern The Gloaming Nico Muhly DESIGN FOR SHARING COUNCIL Stephanie Snyder, President * Diane Applebaum * Ruth Bachofner Linda Essakow * Billie Fischer * Joanne V.C. Knopoff * Martha Koplin * Joan Lesser Diane Levine Katie Marsano * Merle Measer Muriel Fine Sherman * Anne-Marie Spataru * Bonnie Taub Sheila Weisman Mimi Wolfen Karyn Orgell Wynne *Executive Council Member DFS was founded in 1969 by two visionary women, Blanche Witherspoon and Mimi Perloff. We continue their legacy of making the arts at UCLA accessible and relevant to our community s kids. Many thanks to them, and to all of the past DFS council members whose care and generosity have allowed this program to thrive. DFS is made possible by major gifts from The Ring Foundation, Herbert McLaughlin Children s Trust, Audree Fowler, and Mimi and Werner Wolfen. In addition, DFS is supported by the Design for Sharing Endowment; Mimi Perloff Endowment for Design for Sharing; Plitt Theatres Fund for Design for Sharing; Beatrix F. Padway Endowed Fund for Design for Sharing; Mimi & Werner Wolfen Endowment for Design for Sharing; and the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Endowment for Design for Sharing. 83

86 CAP UCLA ARTIST FELLOWS Photo Credit: Gerardo Gaetani 84 Photo Credit: T.J. Thibault Jeansen

87 CAP UCLA Artist Fellows are awarded a three-year creative development platform through the Center. Over the multi-year commitment, we explore each artist s evolving legacy by providing audiences with a unique opportunity to experience their artistry, ideas and works over several main stage presentations. CAP UCLA Artist Fellows are master practitioners within their art forms and work alongside of us to ignite the ideas and plans that expand our knowledge, base of support and community relationships. CAP wishes to acknowledge previous fellows Robert Wilson and Laurie Anderson. The current CAP UCLA Artist Fellows include: JASON MORAN Jason Moran is a pianist, composer, and bandleader who mines a variety of musical styles to create adventurous, genre-crossing jazz performances. He is also a visual artist, a MacArthur Fellow and the artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center. Moran s signature body of work marries established classical, blues, and jazz techniques with the musical influences of his generation, including funk, hiphop, and rock. More recently, he has collaborated with a variety of visual and performing artists including Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell, Joan Jonas, Stan Douglas, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker among others to incorporate new technology in imaginative multimedia performances. His 2008 homage to Thelonious Monk, In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959, weaves together crafted and found audio and visual archival material and a reharmonization of the original big band arrangements, illustrating both Monk s contribution to the history of jazz as well as the enduring power of the musical form. Through reinterpretation of jazz standards and new compositions of his own, Moran is expanding the boundaries of jazz expression and playing a dynamic role in its evolution in the 21st century. This season, CAP presents Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Media an unprecedented collaboration exploring the aesthetics of skateboarding and jazz. In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959, Moran s homage to Thelonious Monk, was one of the highlights of the season. In the spring of 2018, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will host Moran s first solo visual exhibition highlighting his mixed-media set installations STAGED: Savoy Ballroom 1 and STAGED: Three Deuces (both 2015), sculptural vignettes based on storied music venues from past eras that were his acclaimed contributions to the 2015 Venice Biennale. ANN HAMILTON Ann Hamilton is an internationally acclaimed visual artist known for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multimedia installations. Using time as both process and material, her art-making serves as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. The ability of technology to erase distances between people and the effect of global media saturation on places and forms that embrace live, tactile, visceral, face-to-face experiences have animated the site responsive installations that have formed the bulk of Hamilton s practice over the last 20 years. Hamilton s most recent work, however, now focuses on the less material acts of reading, speaking and listening. The influence of collaborative processes in ever more complex architectures has shifted her forms of making, wherein the movement of the viewer in time and in space now becomes a central figure of the work. Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has exhibited extensively around the world. the theatre is a blank page, Ann Hamilton s collaboration with another CAP UCLA Fellow, Anne Bogart, was presented as part of the season. With text drawn directly from Virginia Woolf s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse, the novel s evocative language and inventive narrative made it a fertile point of departure for artists of different disciplines to find deep kinship in a collaboration addressing the experience of reading and being read to. 85

88 CAP UCLA ARTIST FELLOWS KRONOS QUARTET Kronos Quartet is one of the most influential and acclaimed contemporary music ensembles of our time. A driving force in the performing arts for more than 40 years, Kronos has redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, more than 50 recordings, numerous awards, collaborations with composers and performers around the world from all disciplines and more than 800 commissioned works. This season CAP UCLA will present A Thousand Thoughts, a wildly creative multimedia performance piece by Kronos Quartet and Oscar-winning filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Blini, that blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews. Previous Kronos Quartet programs at Royce Hall include the chamber opera, My Lai, a collaboration with tenor Rinde Eckert and Vietnamese multi-instrumental musician Vân-Ánh Võ recalling a horrible atrocity of the Vietnam War and its aftereffects ( ); the multimedia work, Beyond Zero, featuring music by composer Aleksandra Vrebalov and film and archival footage by filmmaker Bill Morrison ( ); a special 40th Anniversary Concert ( ); and Landfall, Kronos first ever collaboration with CAP UCLA Artist Fellow Laurie Anderson ( ). ANNE BOGART & SITI COMPANY New York-based SITI Company, co-founded by acclaimed American theater and opera director Anne Bogart with Leon Ingulsrud and Ellen Lauren, is known worldwide as an evolving collective of artists whose collaborative spirit results in the creation of new forms of theater that straddle performing arts disciplines and challenge the accepted norms. CAP UCLA presentations of SITI Company collaborations at Royce Hall include the theater is a blank page, a collaboration with visual Ann Hamilton based on Virginia Woolf s literary masterpiece, To the Lighthouse ( ); a rare staging of Kurt Weil and Maxwell Anderson s Lost in the Stars with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra ( ); Steel Hammer with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe, and esteemed music collective Bang on a Can All-Stars ( ); and the adventurous dance-theater work A Rite with the Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky s iconic Rite of Spring ( ). CAP UCLA actively supports the creative development of new work by artists along with fully staged productions and performances. Fellowships, residencies, commissions and community collaborations are all components of how we engage behind the scenes to facilitate artistic development. CAP UCLA creative development initiatives are funded through the generous support of Susan & Leonard Nimoy, Murray Hidary and the Good Works Foundation, with additional support from a multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Collaboration Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts. cap.ucla.edu/residencies/fellows 86

89 Photo Credit: Ryan Hartford Photo Credit: Reed Hutchinson 87

90 CAP UCLA LEAD SUPPORTERS AND ARTIST CIRCLE MEMBERS The Center for the Art of Performance is pleased to acknowledge our donors, sponsors and members whose gifts directly support the art of performance and arts education at UCLA. Thank you! $500,000 AND ABOVE Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $100,000 - $499,999 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation INTO Los Angeles County Museum of Art Surdna Foundation UCLA Student Fees Advisory Committee $50,000 - $99,999 Ring Foundation The Getty Foundation Good Works Foundation Susan & Leonard Nimoy $25,000-$49,999 Deborah Irmas/Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts Ralph M. Parsons Foundation $10,000-$24,999 AVK Arts Antonia & Vladimir Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund Katie Marsano & Greyson Bryan, Jr. Valerie & Bradford Cohen Fariba Ghaffari Ann & Bill Harmsen Herbert McLaughlin Children s Trust Anne Jarmain & Dan Lukas Leon Birnberg Trust Diane Levine Renee & Meyer Luskin Ginny Mancini Kathleen & John Quisenberry Roslyn Holt Swartz & Allan Swartz Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Anne-Marie & Alex Spataru We Transfer Leslie White & Al Limon Carol Leifer & Lori Wolf Mimi & Werner Wolfen Karyn Orgell Wynne $5,000-$9,999 Andrew Rhoda & J. Ben Bourgeois Consulate General of Canada Consulate General of France James Costa/Archibald Family Foundation Beth Dewoody & Firooz Zahedi Audree Fowler Kiki & David Gindler Murray Hidary Joan Lesser & Ronald Johnston Fiona & Michael Karlin Diane Kessler Alan M. Schwartz Sue Stone Ron Watson Patty & Richard Wilson Anna Wong Bart & Donald S. Barth Bonnie and Paul Yaeger/ Paul & Bonnie Yaeger Revocable Trust $2,500-$4,999 Barbara Abell Kathleen Flanagan & Keenan Behrle Carla Breitner & Garry Woolard Michele Byer Nadege & Jay Conger Feintech Family Billie & Steven Fischer Patricia & William Flumenbaum Wendy Furth Judy Abel & Eric Gordon Adam Grancell/I. H. & Anna Grancell Foundation Joseph Kaufman Milly & Robert Kayyem Jessica Kronstadt & William Turner/ Fortress Investment Group LLC Cameron Jobe & Gerald Markovitz Richard Ross Ronnie Rubin & Marty Piter Suzie & Michael Scott Muriel & Neil Sherman Srila & Man Jit Singh Stephanie Snyder & Michael Warren Debra Vilinsky & Michael Sopher Carolyn & Lester Stein Joey Townsend Jessica Kronstadt & William Turner Susanne & Douglas Upshaw Sheila E. Weisman $1,000-$2,499 George Allen Robert Anderson Diane & Noel Applebaum Carol & Frank Biondi Rosanna Bogart Ronda & Stanley Breitbard Sigrid Burton & Max Brennan Lily & Thomas Brod Madelynne & Glenn Cardoso Helene & Edwin Cooper Barbara & Bruce Dobkin Olga Garay & Kerry English Jackie and Stanley Gottlieb Linda Essakow & Stephen Gunther Mary & Robert Estrin Maria & Steve Feig Helgard & Irwin Field Carol Gee Lori & Robert Goodman Georgina Huljich & Marcelo Spina IBM Corporation Matching Grants Program Italian Cultural Institute Sandra & Lewis Kanengiser Sandra Klein & Donald McCallum Joanne V.C. Knopoff Martha Koplin Jill Lawrence & Paul Koplin Susan Levich Bea & Leonard Mandel Jonathan Marmelzat/Willard L. Marmelzat Foundation Merle & Gerald Measer Leslie Mitchner Louise Nelson & David Smith Wendy-Sue Rosen Patricia Rosenburg Linda McDonough & Bradley Ross Jose Segundo Laurie R. & Rick M. Shuman Anthony Solis James Sie & Doug Wood Marilouise & Albert Zager CAP UCLA also wishes to acknowledge our entire group of annual contributors. They are listed in full on our website. To make a donation or become a member, go to: cap.ucla.edu/become_a_member/ or contact us at membership@cap.ucla.edu or This listing represents accumulative contributions from April 1, 2017 January 30,

91 ENDOWMENTS Over time, many generous individuals have initiated leadership gifts to establish endowments that support the performing arts at UCLA in perpetuity. Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Lectureship Fund Beatrix F. Padway Endowed Fund for Design for Sharing Design for Sharing Endowment Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund Evelyn & Mo Ostin Endowment for the Performing Arts Ginny Mancini Endowment for Vocal Performance Henry Mancini Tribute Fund James A. Doolittle Endowment José Luis Nazar Endowment for the Performing Arts Kevin Jeske Young Artists Fund The Lloyd E. Rigler Emerging Arts Fund Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for the Performing Arts Mimi Perloff Endowment for Design for Sharing Mimi & Werner Wolfen Endowment for Design for Sharing National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant Endowment Plitt Theaters Fund for Design for Sharing Roslyn Holt Swartz & Allan J. Swartz Endowment for the Performing Arts Royce Center Circle Endowment Fund Royce Gala Endowment Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment for the Performing Arts Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director s Discretionary Fund Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Endowment for Design for Sharing MEDIA SPONSORS ARTIST ACCOMODATIONS SPONSORS SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR DINING PARTNERS Best Girl Fogo De Chao Fundamental LA Plateia Pruex & Proctor Shibumi Spireworks PARTNERS Fundamental LA In-Kind Supporters Hint Water CAP UCLA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COUNCIL The Executive Producer Council is CAP UCLA s philanthropic leadership group that develops and contributes resources vital to the Center s programming and mission. The Council is comprised of individuals who champion the creative development, presentation and public dialogue with contemporary performing artists by providing direct support for the Center s annual programming. They are engaged in the artistic and curatorial practices that inform the annual programs, long-term initiatives and collaborative planning efforts which stand at the heart of CAP UCLA s mission and public purpose. CAP UCLA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CABINET Fariba Ghaffari Ann Harmsen Deborah Irmas Diane Levine Kathleen Quisenberry Anne-Marie Spataru CAP UCLA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COUNCIL Valerie Cohen Murray Hidary Georgina Huljich Anne Jarmain Renee Luskin Ginny Mancini Katie Marsano Stephanie Snyder Alan M. Schwartz Roslyn Holt Swartz Leslie White Lori Wolf Karyn Orgell Wynne Student Committee for the Arts Representatives: Christina Moushoul Alyssa Scott 89

92 CAMPUS INITIATIVES STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS (SCA) The Student Committee for the Arts supports and encourages awareness of and participation in the arts on the UCLA campus. SCA also produces its own performing arts series and provides student artists with opportunities to perform or exhibit in a variety of campus venues. sca.ucla.edu STUDENT PASSPORT PROGRAM This season is the 5th year of our Student PASSPORT series, a specially curated program of CAP performances and art engagement activities. PASSPORT members attend CAP performances, interact with artists and CAP staff, and connect socially with other students who are passionate about the arts. cap.ucla.edu/passport BRUIN INSIDER We provide ticket benefits to all members of the UCLA community, offering $15 student tickets and $25 faculty/staff tickets (based on availability). UCLA Alumni Association members enjoy a 10% discount for all performances. Call or visit the Central Ticket Office ( ) or go to cap.ucla.edu/bruininsiders 90

93 PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS The Center for the Art of Performance develops creative partnerships that encourage students, faculty/staff, community organizations and local practitioners from diverse disciplines to share ideas and practices; extending and deepening the work of our special initiatives and the artists on our season. THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL The Theatre at Ace Hotel is a delicately restored, 1,600- seat movie palace from the 1920s with a three-story, 2,300 square foot grand lobby, an ornate open balcony and mezzanine and a vaulted ceiling with thousands of tiny mirrors that glimmer when lit. A former movie palace which was the vision of silent movie star Mary Pickford of United Artists, The Theatre serves Los Angeles' burgeoning epicenter for art and modern entertainment with a prime setting for a wide array of events from largescale concerts to movie premieres, conferences, seminars, symposiums and other performances. CAP UCLA is thrilled to collaborate with the Ace and to have an downtown location for our patrons and artists. THE FORD THEATRES The Ford Theatres are owned by the County of Los Angeles and operated in partnership with the Department of Parks & Recreation and the Ford Theatre Foundation. Situated in a 32-acre regional park in the Cahuenga Pass, the Ford Theatres complex is one of the oldest performing arts venues in Los Angeles still in use. These event are part of the Ford Theatres 2018 Season, an eclectic series of music, dance, theatre, film and family events that represent the diversity of the region. Ford programs nurture artists, arts organizations and audiences through initiatives designed to encourage participation in the arts. CENTER THEATRE GROUP At Center Theatre Group and under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, we believe theatre creates an extraordinary connection between artists and audiences that only starts on the stage. Theatre creates the energy that feeds a city, a culture, and a society. Theatre reflects the community it serves. As one of the nation s most influential nonprofit theatre companies, We proudly continue our more than 50-year tradition of using the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives. We entertain. We create. We engage. We inspire. We put theatre at the center of it all. THE MUSIC CENTER The Music Center is home to some of L.A. s greatest artistic programs and events. With four iconic theaters and four world-renowned resident companies Center Theatre Group, the LA Master Chorale, the LA Opera and the LA Philharmonic it is also recognized for its illustrious dance programming, Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center. The Music Center is a destination where audiences find inspiration in the very best of live performance, as well as nationally recognized arts education and free and lowcost art engagement experiences. With The Music Center On Location, the non-profit performing arts organization brings events and activities to locations outside of its downtown Los Angeles campus. The Music Center also programs and manages Grand Park, a 12-acre adjacent greenspace, with year-round free programming. UCLA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UCLA Library Special Collections and the University librarians and curators help us make deeper connections to the artists and ideas on the season by offering insights into UCLA s vast library collection. Listen to music, view footage, engage with rare books and ephemera, experience a research guide, read, mingle, share ideas or just take it all in. Look for special exhibits and activities in our traveling Pop-Up Library spaces. UCROSS FOUNDATION For more than 30 years, the Ucross Foundation has been giving space and time to artists who come from many disciplines. They are writers, composers, visual and performing artists. Our participants come from all over the world. In our complex of private studios and shared residences, visiting artists build a small, intense community hard at work in the midst of 20,000 acres of Wyoming ranchland. Ucross Foundation's home is a working ranch set at the confluence of three creeks, and its purpose is to bring deeply committed artists into the heart of an unparalleled landscape. We believe that being a good steward of the land closely resembles being a good artist, and vice versa. Both require dedication, imagination, and the best possible use of the resources at hand. In addition to fostering the work of individual artists, Ucross is a meeting and working place for groups, a multi-disciplinary laboratory for creative thinking. We help sponsor and host educational programs, conferences, and special events at our public art gallery, which is one of the cultural landmarks of northern Wyoming. 91

94 PLAN YOUR VISIT ROYCE HALL, UCLA KNOW BEFORE YOU GO If you purchase your tickets online, you will receive a Know Before You Go approximately 48 hours prior to your performance with helpful information on approximate running times, pre- and post-show activities, parking directions and any other information you will need to know before you head out the door. Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter. Just register an account at cap.ucla.edu/mycapucla or call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at GETTING HERE DIRECTIONS TO RIDESHARE DROP OFF From Hilgard, head west onto Westholme Ave. toward the UCLA campus, turn right at Charles E. Young Dr. South, and then turn left at W. Dickson Ct. The Flagpole is the drop off point. Royce Hall will be the second building on your right. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Metro line 2 and 302 Get off the bus at Hilgard and Wyton, then head southwest on Wyton Dr. toward Charles E. Young Dr. East, turn right at Circle Drive South and continue on West Dickson Ct. Once you pass the Flagpole, Royce Hall will be the second building on your right. Metro line 761 Get off the bus at Hilgard and Westholme and head west onto Westholme Ave. toward the UCLA campus. Turn right at Charles E. Young Drive South, and then turn left at W. Dickson Ct. Once you pass the Flagpole, Royce Hall will be the second building on your right. Santa Monica Big Blue Bus lines 1, 2, 3, 8 & 12 Get off the bus at Hilgard and Westholme and head west onto Westholme Ave. toward the UCLA campus. Turn right at Charles E. Young Drive South, and then turn left at W. Dickson Ct. Once you pass the Flagpole, Royce Hall will be the second building on your right. ON CAMPUS DINING Royce Hall Bar Dickson Court Los Angeles, Enjoy beer, wine or nonalcoholic drinks along with our expanded menu of tasty fare at the bar open before the performance and during intermission. Wolfgang Puck Express Italian American 308 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, Luskin Conference Center Plateia Restaurant Mediterranean 425 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, DINING PARTNERS UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance thanks all of our dining partners for their continued support. We encourage you to patronize our partners. Grab a bite before the show or relax with friends afterwards. Special CAP UCLA member and same date ticketholder offers are available. *CAP UCLA Members must each present member card at time of purchase. CAP UCLA Ticketholders must each present a ticket on the same date of the CAP UCLA event. FUNDAMENTAL LA Seasonal, New American 1303 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles, fundamental-la.com SPIREWORKS 1061 Broxton Ave, Westwood Village, spireworks.com Culver City Bus line 6 Get off the bus at Westwood Plaze and Strathmore Plaza. Walk toward the Ackerman Center and the Ashe Center, take a right onto the Bruin Walkway and continue up the stairs until you reach Portola Plaza. Take a left onto Portola Plaza until you reach the Flagpole. Take a left at the Flagpole and Royce Hall will be the second building on your right. 92

95 CENTER PARKING PLEASE NOTE: Parking Structure #5, where patrons were previously directed to park for Royce Hall events, will be under construction this season. Royce Hall patrons are now assigned to Parking Structure #2. VIP and Donor parking has been assigned Lot A and handicap parking will be on Dickson Court. All parking areas will be staffed by UCLA parking attendants to assist patrons with directions or other information. Way-finding signage will also be available along the pathway to Royce Hall. Shuttle and wheelchair service will also be available from all of these parking areas for patrons requiring it. Please give yourself extra time if you need to avail yourself of this service. Shuttle service is also available from Luskin Conference Center/Plateia Restaurant with a dinner reservation. Please reserve the Luskin shuttle in advance by calling the Central Ticket Office at (Mon-Fri, 10am 4pm) after making your reservation with Plateia to reserve the shuttle. Shuttle reservations are required. PUBLIC PARKING PARKING STRUCTURE #2 - $12 CASH ONLY From Hilgard driving south, turn right onto Westholme toward the UCLA campus, and take the first left into the North entrance of Parking Structure #2. To 405 Freeway Veteran Avenue KRIEGER CENTER 10 SYCAMORE TENNIS COURTS Veteran Avenue Bellagio Drive HITCH SUITES 11 SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY Gayley Avenue Levering Ave. Deneve Drive Ophir Drive Kelton Avenue HEDRICK SUMMIT HEDRICK 13 Midvale Avenue Sunset Blvd. CRA Pool Pool 15 RIEBER J M TERRACE ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE RIEBER VISTA SAXON SUITES 17 RIEBER HALL PARKING STRUCTURES EASTON SOFTBALL STADIUM AMPHITHEATER SUNSET CANYON RECREATION CENTER GARDENIA WESTWOOD PALM De Neve Drive HOLLY Strathmore Drive CYPRESS PARKING LOTS CAMPUS BUILDINGS CAMPUS ENTRANCES CONSTRUCTION AREAS PARKING/INFORMATION KIOSK TERRACE Veteran Avenue Gayley Avenue Glenrock Avenue GLENROCK WEST Pool SUNSET TENNIS COURTS CANYON POINT SPROUL EVERGREEN ALOE DELTA COVE FIR WESTWOOD CHATEAU SPIEKER AQUATICS BIRCH Landfair Avenue SUNSET VILLAGE COVEL SPROUL NW CAMPUS AUD CARNESALE DOGWOOD MAGNOLIA WEYBURN TERRACE JACARANDA OLIVE COURTSIDE SPROUL LANDING DE NEVE DE NEVE COMMONS DYKSTRA GAYLEY TOWERS CEDAR LANDFAIR VISTA APTS. GLENROCK APTS. Strathmore Drive Levering Avenue WARREN PALM Royce Hall Parking Plan [DRAFT] ACACIA 31 BRADLEY LANDFAIR APTS. FACULTY LEVERING APTS. NEUROSCIENCE LA KRETZ RESEARCH FACILITIES ORTHOPAEDIC MANAGMENT HOSPITAL RESEARCH LIFE SCIENCES CENTER Charles E. Young Drive South 700 BRAIN RONALD REAGAN WEST- MAPPING PUBLIC HEALTH BOTANY WOOD FACTOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER PLAZA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE REED DENTISTRY MATTEL CENTER RESNICK HILL- BLOM Roebling MARGAN SYCAMORE DRAKE WEYBURN COMMONS Charles E. Young Dr Sunset Blvd. UEBERROTH UCLA EXTENSION Le Conte Ave. BROXTON SCIENCE & TECH REHAB RESEARCH V33 CENTER V32 Charles E. Young Drive North MARSHALL FIELD ive West GAYLEY COURT APTS. VILLAGE TERRACE FIRE STATION TRANSIT OPS. LA TENNIS CENTER EHS Gayley Avenue Gayley Ave. WEST MEDICAL STEAM PLANT CAPTIAL PROGRAMS WEST MEDICAL ACOSTA FLEET 36 INTRAMURAL PLAYING FIELD Strathmore Place CAMPUS SERVICES PAULEY PAVILION SPAULDING FIELD Weyburn Avenue UCLA EXTENSION WESTWOOD VILLAGE KINROSS CENTER MORTON MEDICAL Broxton KINROSS SOUTH To 405 Freeway MEDICAL 300 Kinross SOCCER FIELD JOHN WOODEN CENTER BRUIN WALK MORGAN CENTRAL TICKET OFFICE LUSKIN CONF. CENTER MEDICAL 100 JAMES WEST ALUMNI CENTER STRATHMORE POLICE Westwood Plaza Westwood Boulevard West wood Plaza Avenue Westwood Blvd. Charles E. Young Drive North Wilshire Blvd. UCLA LAB SCHOOL Pool KAUFMAN WILSON PLAZA STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER Pool BRUIN PLAZA ASHE GONDA UCLA WESTWOOD CENTER KERCKHOFF ACKERMAN UNION ENGR 6 ENGR 5 ENGR 4 Le Conte Ave. GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE FERNALD CENTER FOWLER MUSEUM Tiverton Drive JANSS STEPS Royce Drive MULLIN CORNELL ANDERSON KORN GOLD ENTRE- COLLINS PRENEURS SEMEL INSTITUTE WASSERMAN DORIS STEIN UCLA EXTENSION 1010 WESTWOOD UCLA EXTENSION, LINDBROOK DR WILSHIRE CENTER MRL ROSENFELD LIBRARY MATH SCIENCES CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE Sycamore Court SHAPIRO FOUNTAIN MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES BIO CYC JULES STEIN HAMMER MUSEUM UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE ROYCE POWELL LIBRARY Sunset Blvd. SCHOENBERG PHYSICS MUSIC & BUILDING ASTRONOMY OSTIN PORTOLA KINSEY INVERTED FOUNTAIN KNUDSEN FRANZ SCI. & ENGR GEOLOGY SCI. & ENGR LIBRARY LIBRARY COURT OF SCIENCES BOELTER YOUNG CHS PLAZA OPPENHEIMER MARION DAVIES TIVERTON HOUSE GSEIS NC STUDENT CENTER ROLFE COURT OF SCI. STUDENT CENTER BOYER CLINICAL RESEARCH WEYBURN APTS. YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY LATH CAMPBELL HAINES FLAG HUMANITIES Hilgard Avenue BROAD ART CENTER SLICHTER MOLECULAR SCIENCE MATHIAS BOTANICAL GARDEN EAST MELNITZ MELNITZ MACGOWAN EAST MACGOWAN MURPHY SCULPTURE GARDEN BUNCHE DICKSON COURT NORTH DICKSON COURT SOUTH Charles E. Young Drive East Charles E. Young Drive East FOUNDERS ROCK Rideshare Dropoff MURPHY A BUS A TERMINAL FACULTY CENTER PUBLIC AFFAIRS ART LIBRARY LU VALLE Handicap PERLOFF Parking TERASAKI LIFE SCIENCE PLANT GROWTH HERSHEY DODD 824 HILGARD APTS. Hilgard Avenue 720 HILGARD APTS. Manning Avenue Charing Cross Road GUEST HOUSE LAW MAY 2016 Hilgard Avenue LAW LIBRARY Wyton Drive Strathmore Drive Westholme Avenue WALKING PATH FROM P2 From Hilgard driving north, turn left onto Manning toward the UCLA campus, and then take the first right into the south entrance of Parking Structure #2. VIP & DONOR PARKING PARKING LOT A CAP VIP PARKING PASS ONLY From Hilgard, turn west onto Westholme toward UCLA campus, veer right at the fork to stay on Westholme, then turn right onto Charles Young Drive East. The entrance to Parking Lot A is on your right. HANDICAP PARKING DICKSON COURT $7 CASH ONLY From Hilgard, turn west onto Wyton toward UCLA campus, turn left onto Charles Young Drive East and proceed to Dickson Court. Turn right onto Dickson Court and park. ANCIENT GREEK FOR A PLACE TO MEET, CELEBRATE & FEAST! In the spirit of its name, Plateia is a central place on the historic UCLA campus to meet colleagues and friends, share inspired food and drink, and engage in conversation. Recharge in the warm wood and strained glass ambiance of our dining room or relax with a glass of wine on our expansive patio under olive trees. Plateia boasts artfully prepared meals inspired by the Mediterranean, crafted with the finest California fresh ingredients. Full bar available. Reservations are required. Please call

96 PLAN YOUR VISIT THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL TICKET SALES Tickets to all of The Theatre at Ace Hotel shows are sold via AXS. You can purchase tickets to CAP performances at theatre.acehotel.com or by calling AXS at AXS-TIX ( ). The Theatre at Ace Hotel also offers in person ticket sale at the ticket booth, right under the marquee on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am 5pm. When you come in person you can grab tickets with lower fees. Its pretty great. WILL CALL Photo ID is required for ticket pickup at Will Call. Will Call tickets and Guest List confirmation are only available as doors open. PRESALES AND OFFERS Sign up for the A-List at acehotel.com/alist to receive presale alerts and offers for The Theatre and Ace Hotel. GETTING HERE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Take public transportation if you can. Nearest Metro Station: 7th St/Metro Center, 660 S. Figueroa Regular Metro Bus Line Info: 323-GO-METRO. Check your public transportation route and times at metro.net. DINING, BAR & CONCESSIONS Ace Hotel DTLA is right next door to The Theatre and offers dining options at Best Girl, Coffee Counter and Upstairs. Named after the first film screened at The Theatre in 1927, Best Girl is a downtown Los Angeles local haunt featuring rotating, seasonal fare and classic favorites. Best Girl is in partnership with the inimitable Chef Michael Cimarusti, renowned for championing sustainable seafood and elevating impeccable service in a casual atmosphere. STAY Stay next door at Ace Hotel. Visit acehotel.com/losangeles for rates and booking. DINING PARTNERS UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance thanks all of our dining partners for their continued support. We encourage you to patronize our partners. Grab a bite before the show or relax with friends afterwards. Special CAP UCLA member and same date ticketholder offers are available. *CAP UCLA Members must each present member card at time of purchase. CAP UCLA Ticketholders must each present a ticket on the same date of the CAP UCLA event. SHIBUMI Japanese 815 S Hill St., Los Angeles, shibumidtla.com PRUEX & PROCTOR Creole, Cajan, Southern 840 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, PreuxandProper.com BEST GIRL Brasserie 927 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, bestgirldtla.com At the top of Ace Hotel is Upstairs our relaxed rooftop bar, with cinematic views of the city stretching out in all directions. Sip lovingly crafted cocktails poolside, and take in entertainments every night of the week. The Theatre also runs a fully-stocked concession stand before and during each show with four bars serving soft drinks, liquor and beer plus lots of snacks available for purchase. Make sure to bring your ID if you are planning to drink. 94

97 VALET PARKING Valet services are available at Ace Hotel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week $30 event parking SELF-PARKING There are more than 1,200 parking spaces all within a few blocks of the theater. Parking lots around the venue are not associated with The Theatre at Ace Hotel. Lots are cash only, with rates ranging from $10-$30 depending on the event no validation accepted for event parking. Parking is available at the following locations: 841 S. Spring St. 839 S. Spring St. 817 S. Spring St. 953 S. Broadway 916 S. Hill St. 230 W. 9th St. 919 S. Broadway 854 S. Main St S. Hill St S. Broadway Map courtesy of LA Downtowner. Designed by Mike Payne 95

98 HOUSE RULES PHOTOGRAPHY Photography, video and the use of any recording equipment is strictly prohibited at all times during performances at all UCLA campus performance venues and at The Theatre at Ace Hotel. Any/all press photography must be approved in writing in advance by the Center for the Art of Performance representative. For press inquiries and to make a request to cover an event, visit cap.ucla.edu/press/ CAMERAS & SMART PHONES The use of cameras, smart phones, cell phones and recording equipment of any kind is strictly prohibited at all times during performances at all UCLA campus performance venues and at The Theater at Ace Hotel. All devices must be silenced before the start of the performance. Please be considerate to those around you and refrain from texting, ing or surfing the web during performances. NO LATE SEATING Late seating will be subject to company approval and will occur only at a suitable time at the discretion of the house staff. Latecomers will not be able to be seated in their assigned seats to avoid disruption or distractions during the performance. Some events have no late seating by request of the artist, and refunds on parking and tickets for latecomers will not be accommodated. Please check the event detail page of our website for late seating policies for specific performances or opt in to our database by signing up for our newsletter and pre-show s with helpful information about pre-show activities, parking, late seating, running time, nearby dining opportunities and more at cap.ucla.edu/enews/ CHILDREN Children over age 5 are welcome to most events and, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Infants on laps are not permitted. Inquire when purchasing tickets of age appropriateness for specific events and check out website for specific performance information. ACCESSIBILITY A variety of accessible seating is available at all campus venues and at The Theater at Ace Hotel. Please indicate specific seating needs when purchasing your tickets. To request accommodations, call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at or The Theater at Ace Hotel Box Office at at least two weeks before the performance. If possible, indicate special needs when ordering tickets. Royce Hall In addition to wheelchair spaces, Royce Hall is equipped with select aisle seats that have folding armrests on the aisle side to make transfer easier for those with mobility limitations. For such seating, please request a transfer seat. Royce Hall is also equipped with an assistive listening system for individuals with hearing loss. Please provide any member of the house staff with your driver s license to check out a headset. Accessible parking spaces are available on Dickson Ct. If possible, indicate parking needs when ordering tickets. The Theatre at Ace Hotel The Theatre at Ace Hotel offers ADA-accessible seats and restrooms. You can buy ADA seating on our ticketing site or by calling AXS at AXS-TIX ( ). When buying tickets over the phone, please let the ticket agent know if you require accessible seating, and s/he will issue you an ADA seat. In addition to wheelchair spaces, The Theatre at Ace Hotel, is equipped with select aisle seats that have folding armrests on the aisle side to make transfer easier for those with mobility limitations. For such seating, please request a transfer seat. If you need accessible seating the night of the event and don t have a special ticket, we ll do our best to accommodate you once you arrive at the theater. 96

99 Photo Credit: Teddy Wolff MEMBERSHIP Your membership with the Center for the Art of Performance is more than ticket discounts, priority seating, invitations to additional programs and special member gatherings it is support for what we are able to champion within the wider cultural landscape. When you make a gift to the Center for the Art of Performance or to our Design for Sharing program, you join a community of advocates inspired by artistic exploration and new ways of knowing. We belong to a culture of the curious, and by supporting great artists, we land on new perspectives. Our Members are committed to ground-breaking contemporary performance locally, globally and everywhere in between. Your support is how we ensure that artistic expression will thrive on stage, on the UCLA campus and in the Los Angeles community. Membership dollars provide the means for us to interact with the leading artists of our time, and to share what we discover with as many people as we can. With your involvement, we can provide young audiences with the chance to experience life through the lens of the modern stage, offer fans and aficionados the recent work of artists who propel us boldly forward, and enhance the public mission of one of the nation s leading research universities. Your membership dollars are the primary financial resource that sustains us. We need your support now more than ever. Please become a member today. Learn more at cap.ucla.edu/membership or us at membership.cap.ucla.edu When we decide to do something spontaneous and brilliant often because of an artist suggesting a new idea we take it straight to the members. Kristy Edmunds