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Welcome to CAP UCLA’s online press room, where journalists can find information about our organization and all season programming. CAP supports the creation, presentation and critical dialogues vital to the ongoing innovation and expressive potential of artists in all performance disciplines—theater, dance, music and spoken word, as well as emerging platforms.
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Register for a press account to download hi-res images and for access to show-specific press kits.
To find out more about CAP UCLA or a specific show, please contact our publicity office:
Press Inquiries:
Jessica Wolf
Tel: 310.825.7789
Fax: 310.206.3843
jessica.wolf@arts.ucla.edu
Press Releases The latest news about upcoming UCLA Live performances.
Images to accompany articles about CAP UCLA season artists and events are available in our Press Image Library.
About CAP UCLA Information on the mission of CAP UCLA and its evolution from UCLA Live.
Articles Archive
Below you will find links to recent feature articles and reviews.
While they adjust to a new name for the long-running performance series anchored at UCLA’s Royce Hall, audiences may be reassured by the selection of major names that Kristy Edmunds, the new director who tweaked the title, has included in her first season of picks. The 2012-13 season announced Tuesday for the re-branded Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (formerly UCLA Live) has some top stars of avant-garde or genre-blending performance in Laurie Anderson, Hal Willner, Meredith Monk, guitarist Bill Frisell and the Trisha BrownDance Company.
5/22/2012 - Mike Boehm
If names predict destinies, the venerable UCLA performing arts series anchored at Royce Hall is on the cusp of much bigger things. A new moniker will be unveiled Thursday, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. It's a mouthful intended to reflect the broader scope the university plans for the showcase formerly known as UCLA Live. The center (CAP-UCLA for short) aspires to be not just a performance series, but a creative habitat in which new work is developed, ideas are sparked and techniques are taught to the next generation of performers -- with the mission of presenting visiting talent to paying customers still at its core.
4/26/2012 - Mike Boehm
The Pacifica Quartet likes to think big -- and in the chamber music field, that often means doing cycles. Some adventurous listeners remember the evening at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall in 2003 when the Pacifica served up all five of Elliott Carter’s notoriously knotty string quartets in one mighty scoop; after that, you figured that from then on, everything else would be a piece of cake for them. There were more cycles to come -- most recently, two volumes of an emerging CD project on the Cedille label, “The Soviet Experience,” that will link all 15 Shostakovich quartets with four by his Soviet colleagues. However, the Pacifica did not have omnivorous feats in mind when it visited UCLA’s Royce Hall on Wednesday night -- just Beethoven’s Quartets Nos. 4 and 8, and Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 9, plus the spiky, humorous, Allegretto pizzicato movement from Bartók’s Quartet No. 4 as an encore.
4/12/2012 - Richard Ginell
About halfway through the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ gig at Royce Hall on Friday night, singer, stringed-instrument player, dancer and all-around show-stopper Rhiannon Giddens picked up a big, old banjo with a body the size of a hubcap and covered in goatskin. Called a minstrel-style banjo, it’s a replica of an instrument from the mid-1800s, and when played reproduced the same deep, echoed plonk that traveled over from Africa with the slave trade.
4/9/2012 - Randall Roberts
UCLA’s Royce Hall had a nightclub-like feel to it Friday night, as a modest but enthusiastic crowd gathered on a rainy night to hear the Mingus Dynasty, a septet of New York based players exploring the oeuvre of the late bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Most of the group are veterans of the 16 piece Mingus Big Band, which is widely recorded and a more familiar brand. But the Dynasty, with the young Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen joining the fray, provided a spirited voice to tunes that were originally presented by Mingus’s smaller groups.
3/20/2012 - By Michael Katz
Since the late '80s Philly-bred bassist Christian McBride has been a low end powerhouse for artists including Milt Jackson, Diana Krall and Questlove. He spent the most time in our fair city between 2006 and 2010 when he was the "Creative Chair for Jazz" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and this Saturday he'll bring his straight ahead trio -- including pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens -- to share a bill with Ravi Coltrane's quartet at UCLA's Royce Hall.
2/10/2012 - By Sean J. O'Connell
Royce Hall isn't the sort of venue where you dance and stand on your toes to see during a concert. Your ticket comes with an assigned seat and, typically, you stay there for the duration of the show, offering polite applause throughout the performance. Things are different, though, when They Might Be Giants play. For Saturday night's 30th anniversary show, the Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell, respectively) weren't going to let us stay in our seats.
1/29/2012 - By Liz Ohanesian
The songs coursed from expressions of human desperation early on to spiritual realization (“Over My Head”), transcendence (“Ride Up in the Chariot”) and, ultimately, joy (“Let Us Break Bread Together”).It’s a journey that Battle made relevant to anyone who walks the earth.
1/22/2012 - By Randy Lewis
Longtime Angeleno Kenny Burrell, who turned 80 this summer, has been recording as a jazz guitarist for six decades; he’s long been one of the masters of the instrument and is now one of the last links to jazz’s heroic age. He speaks in an Arts & Books profile about his roots in Detroit, the meaning of the blues, his birthday concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall, his years at the university and his hopes for the future.
11/5/2011 - By Scott Timberg
Cellist and classical music innovator Maya Beiser talks to Huffington Post arts critic Daniel Kushner about her work and her performance with Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie at UCLA Live.
11/1/2011 - Daniel J. Kushner
Jewish Journal interview with choreographer-composer Hofesh Shechter prior to the U.S. premiere of his powerful first full-length work Political Mother>/i> at UCLA Live. 10/12/2011 - Jewis Journal
Although Rollins' 90-minute set may not have been marked by the same sort of improvisational swinging-for-the-fences that can characterize many players who came up since the avant-garde era, what it delivered was a showcase for one of the titans of the music to flex his ongoing dedication to an unfettered exploration of melody, invention and time.
9/23/2011 - By Chris Barton
The 2010-2011 UCLA Live season came to a rollicking end Thursday night, with a tandem performance by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The Del McCoury Band.
5/13/2011 - Michael Katz The International Review of Music
The coming UCLA Live season at Royce Hall will feature an array of instrumentalists, singers and speakers whose lifetime honors are unquestioned –- among them Itzhak Perlman, Sonny Rollins, Earl Scruggs, Joan Didion and Kenny Burrell.
5/12/2011 - Mike BoehmCulture Monster
Lucinda Childs brings back to the stage Dance. The intense reconstruction of the original work is presented live with the accompaniment of film brilliantly conceptualized by Sol LeWitt. The piece stimulates audiences with repetition of complex but limited phrasing perfectly in tune with the score composed by Philip Glass.
5/7/2011 - The Collective Magazine
Three different instruments blurring genres and relaying different emotions and thoughts in a unified sound, a musical conversation combining Indian and Persian strings with a hint of South Asian percussion, captivated a diverse audience of classical music lovers on the UCLA campus here as members of the Ghazal Ensemble performed April 21.
5/6/2011 - Parimal M. Rohit,India West
This weekend, UCLA Live is presenting one of the classic postmodern dances choreographed by Judson Church movement pioneer Lucinda Childs at Royce Hall.The reconstructed Dance has been making its way across the globe, reminding audiences of the power and intelligence existing in its articulate dancing and thoughtful composition.
5/5/2011 - Benn Widdey Arts & Events at LAist
In celebration of National Poetry Month, two former U.S. Poets Laureate took the stage at Royce Hall on April 23.
4/26/2011 - Julie Riggott, Culture Spot LA
In "Monger," the piece danced by Marshall's Israeli troupe at UCLA's Royce Hall, we find them both - societal vagaries and his own cultural heritage - framed in the dark downstairs quarters of humbled, obedient servants answering their mistress's bell.
4/24/2011 - Donna Perlmutter, LA Observed
UCLA Live! will bring together to great American improvisatory traditions when it welcomes the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band on Thursday, May 12th at 8 pm at Royce Hall.
4/24/2011 - LAjazz.com
Organist Christoph Bull, celebrated for his rock- and jazz-infused improvisational style, will perform songs by Pink Floyd and other artists on Royce Hall’s Skinner pipe organ at 2 p.m. Saturday for UCLA Live’s annual Organ Recital.
4/22/2011 - Dan Peel, Arts & Entertainment and Music at the Daily Bruin
The distinct poetry and easy rapport of Ryan, the recently announced Pulitzer Prize winner, and former U.S. laureate Collins will be on display at Royce Hall on Saturday.
4/21/2011 - By Oliver Gettell, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Patch catches up with Kristy Edmunds, incoming executive and artistic director of UCLA Live.
4/21/2011 - Richard Carradine, Westwood-Century City Patch
On Saturday, April 23 at 2 pm UCLA Live presents a delightful afternoon of classical music on Royce Hall’s glorious Skinner organ from acclaimed organist Christoph Bull, known for his energizing and often eclectic musical interpretation of organ repertoire.
4/20/2011 - German World Editorial Staff
Earlier this month, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture announced that Kristy Edmunds was ‘packing for LA’ in a move that has got a lot of people talking. She takes up the position of executive and artistic director of UCLA Live from 1 May 2011, will ‘transition’ through the summer, and moves in August.
4/14/2011 - Fiona Mackrell, ArtsHub
Press Release: Light and Shadows: The History of Iranian Jews
Press Release: Light and Shadows: The History of Iranian Jews
Stacey Ravel Abarbanel
staceyra@arts.ucla.edu
Tel. (310) 825-4288
For Immediate Use
Fowler Museum to present a major exhibition on the history of Iranian Jews
Opening Day Community Celebration: Sun, Oct. 21, 2012
Since ancient times, Iran has been a mosaic of ethnicities, religions, cultures, and languages. Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews―on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Oct. 21, 2012–Mar. 10, 2013―tells the rich and complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities, which dates back nearly 3,000 years since the first Jews exiled from Jerusalem to Babylonia settled in the Persian sphere.More than one hundred objects including archaeological artifacts, impressive illuminated manuscripts, beautiful Judaica and amulets, paintings, photographs, videos, and documentary ephemera are presented in the Fowler’s Lucas Gallery to highlight the key features of the long, complicated, and vibrant history of Jews living in Iran. The exhibition begins with the biblical story of Esther, who heroically foiled a plot to exterminate the Jews of the ancient Persian city of Shushan. Iranian Jews identify strongly with Esther and she is remembered through beautiful renditions of the book telling her story, amulets seeking her protection, and her tomb, which is still a pilgrimage site today.
Muslims conquered Persia in the seventh century CE and the lives of Jews there became progressively difficult. In the early sixteenth century the Safavid kingdom rose to power establishing strict Shiite Islamic doctrine, which discriminated against Iran’s religious minorities. Conditions worsened for the Jews, and the exhibition uses objects to illustrate life in the Jewish quarter (mahale) of various cities and some of the constraints caused by Shiite edicts. A section is dedicated to the professions forbidden to Muslims and practiced by Jews, such as working as peddlers, used-clothing vendors, jewelry makers, producers and sellers of wine, and musicians and entertainers, in addition to those Jews who still worked as doctors, healers, and merchants.
Ironically, these circumstances lead the Jews of Iran to play a key role in preserving the legacy of classical Persian music and poetry (both forbidden to Muslims under Shiite law), and Light and Shadows features traditional instruments such as the tār, setār, and santūr and offers several examples of recorded musical compositions. Because the Jews were considered to be “People of the Book,” they valued literacy in both religious and secular texts. Persian literature was integral to Jewish community life, and the exhibition includes rare illuminated manuscripts and books.
In the mid-1800s the Jews living in the city of Mashhad were forced to convert to Islam. As a result, many of them lived double lives, practicing Islam in public but privately maintaining Jewish customs. A special section focuses on the distinctive experiences of the “crypto-Jews” of Mashhad and includes miniature phylacteries worn covertly under a headdress; lavish garments for child-brides, who were betrothed at an early age to avoid marriages to Muslims later in life; and pairs of elaborately decorated marriage contracts, a Jewish version in Hebrew and a Muslim version in Persian.
A final section in the Lucas Gallery highlights a range of objects associated with religious practices, ceremonies, and rituals, which have a distinctive Iranian Jewish style. The consecrated space of the synagogue holds a prescribed set of religious objects and Light and Shadows includes an ornamented cabinet in which the Torah scrolls are kept as well as a number of their silver finials, decorated with recognizably Persian motifs. Wedding ceremonies were a hybrid of Jewish and Persian traditions and were designed to ensure the health and well-being of the young couple. Each marriage was sealed with a formal contract (ketubah), among the most beautiful of Persian Jewish illuminated documents. Lastly, the Jews of Iran wore amulets to confer protection against harm and promote healing, and the exhibition includes a wide range of delicately engraved examples in silver and bronze.
Continuing in the Goldenberg Galleria, the exhibition examines the opening of Iran to the West starting in the late-19thcentury, the reign of the Pahlavi Monarchy, and the exodus of much of the Jewish population following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Photographs by Hasan Sarbakhshian document the Jews remaining in Iran today, a community that numbers approximately 25,000. Installations by local artists Shelley Gazin and Jessica Shokrian reflect the large and dynamic diaspora community of Iranian Jews in Los Angeles.
“The Fowler is known for presenting exhibitions that effectively connect local communities with their distinctive heritages and then for sharing these rich and sometimes little-known cultures and histories with our visitors,” says Marla Berns, Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum. “In the case of Light and Shadows, it is significant that the Museum is situated in Westwood, in the heart of Los Angeles’s Westside, with its strong Iranian-American presence.”
This exhibition was created and organized by Beit Hatfutsot―The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel, where it originated from Dec. 2010–May 2011. The curators are Orit Engelberg-Baram and Hagai Segev.
The lead sponsor for the exhibition is the Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation.
The exhibition partner at the Fowler Museum is the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Additional generous support comes from the Farhang Foundation, Milken Community High School, and Sinai Temple.
The English-language edition of the book Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews (8.75 x 10.75 inches, 198 pages, 100 color and 19 b/w ills., hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9847550-2-8), will be published this fall and distributed by the University of Washington Press. The multi-authored volume is edited by David Yerushalmi, professor, Center of Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Related Exhibitions in Los Angeles
A number of companion exhibitions and events at other local institutions have been planned in conjunction with Light and Shadows. A complete list is online. The exhibitions are:
My Heart Is In the East, and I Am At the Ends of the West
Shulamit Gallery
Oct. 15, 2012–January 5, 2013
Works by contemporary artists Ben Mayeri, Laura Merage, Soraya Nazarian, Farid Safai, and Jessica Shokrian
What Remains: The Iranian Jewish Experience
Hillel at UCLA
Oct. 25–Dec. 14, 2012
Photographs of the Iranian Jewish experience in Los Angeles by Shelley Gazin, Jessica Shokrian, and others
Iranian Art Reimagined
The Jewish Federation Bell Family Gallery
Nov. 1, 2012–Mar. 31, 2013
Works by contemporary artists Jessica Shokrian, Mitra Forouzan, David Abir, Shamram Farshadfar, Tal Schochat and architect, Yassi Gabbay
“We are a reality”: Iranian Jewish History in L.A.
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, East Exhibit Case
Nov. 2–Dec. 14, 2012
Books, journals, and historical materials from UCLA Library collections that reflect the presence of Iranian Jews in Los Angeles as well as in Iran
Leaving the Land of Roses
Shulamit Gallery
January 14–Mar. 9, 2013
Works by contemporary artists David Abir, Krista Nassi, Soraya Nazarian, Tal Shochat, and Marjan Vayhgan
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is one of the country’s most respected institutions devoted to exploring the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas. The Fowler is open Wednesdays through Sundays, from noon to 5 p.m.; and on Thursdays, from noon until 8 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The Fowler Museum, part of UCLA Arts, is located in the north part of the UCLA campus. Admission is free. Parking is available for a maximum of $11 in Lot 4. For more information, the public may call 310/825-4361 or visit fowler.ucla.edu.
Beit Hatfutsot―The Museum of the Jewish People, situated on the campus of Tel Aviv University, tells the story of the Jewish people throughout the ages and around the world, using a remarkable combination of images, exhibits, models, music and a unique database. For more information on future exhibitions and events visit www.bh.org.il
Related Events at the Fowler:
Sunday, Oct. 21, 12–5 pm
Opening Day Community Celebration
1–4 pm
Hello! Shalom! Salam!
Family Art Activities
Create a tzedakah box to collect spare change for causes you want to support
Make a wish for your family as you emboss a silver hamsa charm, a sign for protection and good luck
2 pm The Tapestry of Iranian Jewish Heritage: Reflections on Historical, Sociocultural and Political Relations
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar
In this opening day program, Nahid Pirnazar, a lecturer in Iranian Studies at UCLA who teaches the history of Iranian Jews and Judeo-Persian literature, reflects on how Iranian Jews have influenced and been influenced by Iranian culture and identity. Additionally, Pirnazar discusses how, in more recent years, Iranian Jews have continued to balance their attachment to both their religious homeland, Israel, and cultural homeland, Iran, while adjusting to their new environments in the United States and elsewhere.
Sunday, Oct. 28, 2–4 pm
Tugging at Heart Strings: Experience the Classical Iranian Tār!
Family Jam
Discover the melodic beauty of Iranian classical music through Parviz Panah’s virtuosic performance on the tār, the stringed Persian instrument that has been said to cure headaches, insomnia, and melancholy. Enjoy the exciting conversation between strings and percussion and then make your own instrument.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 12 pm
Saba Soomekh on Mashhadi Jews
Culture Fix
The Jews of Mashhad, Iran, were forced to convert to Islam, yet they secretly maintained their Jewish faith. Join professor Saba Soomekh, assistant director, Jewish Studies Program, Loyola Marymount University, at this thirty-minute talk inside Light and Shadows: the Story of Iranian Jews as she discusses this “crypto-Jewish” community and their diaspora in America.
Thursday, Nov. 29, 7:30 pm
Jewish Women’s Theatre presents Saffron and Rosewater
Enjoy an evening of stories, song, and lovely surprises, transporting you to Iran and back to America and illuminating the struggles of Persian Jewish women. Saffron and Rosewater features dramatic readings from the insightful writings of Gina Nahai, Angella Nazarian, Farideh Goldin, Dora Levy Mossanen, and Esther Amini, many of whom will be in attendance for a talkback session. The program concludes with a hosted reception. This special presentation is free but reservations are required. Unclaimed reservations will be released fifteen minutes before the program start time. Reservations: http://www.ucla.hillel.org/saffronandrosewater
Saffron and Rosewater is directed by Eve Brandstein; produced and adapted by Ronda Spinak; co-produced by Jessica Youseffi and presented in collaboration with The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel.
Sunday, Dec. 2, 1–4 pm
From Market to Table: A Persian Jewish Tasting Experience
Fowler on the Town
Mother and daughter Manijeh and Saba Soomekh take participants through the bustling Elat Market to learn about special ingredients and recipes used to make Persian Jewish fare. Following the tour, guests will have a brief cooking demonstration followed by a kosher Persian food tasting. For adults and teens ages 13+. Transportation provided and attendance limited to forty guests. $20 Fowler members; $25 general. Registration: fowlerprograms@arts.ucla.edu
Presented in partnership with The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel.
Dec. 16, 1–4 pm
Gifts to Delight the Senses
Kids in the Courtyard
Cultures throughout the world give gifts that are infused with scented oils or contain spices and herbs. Create a gift of your own that charms the senses, inspired by artist Jessica Shokrian’s installation in Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews.
In early 2013 the Fowler will also present a scholarly conference, Purim celebration, and other related events.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
SFMOMA Presents Alessandro Pessoli’s First Solo Museum Exhibition on the West Coast
Exhibition dates: September 28, 2012 - February 10, 2013Release date: August 16, 2012
| Alessandro Pessoli, The son of P, 2012; spray paint and oil pastel on paper; 24 x 19 in.; courtesy greengrassi, London; and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; © Alessandro Pessoli; photo: Robert Wedemeyer |
The exhibition is organized by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA, and marks the latest installment of the museum's ongoing New Work series, which continues to feature the most innovative expressions of contemporary art.
Alessandro Pessoli's (b. 1963) drawings, paintings, and sculptures place expressive, often melancholy figures in indeterminate spaces and dreamlike narratives. By turns cynical, sincere, or absurd, his fictional constructions engage a recurring cast of characters and symbols such as musicians, a candle with a flame, a guitar, a phallus, and a cross. These stock figures and forms function as the artist's personal commedia dell'arte, which he continually reimagines and recreates.
"Pessoli fuses classically based tradition with a contemporary creative impulse, formulating a hallucinatory world in which the past is continually reinterpreted and corrupted," says Gheith. "This exhibition reveals discernible changes in his work and is informed by an imagination in transition."
Fluidly moving across media and shifting between two- and three-dimensional forms, Pessoli typically works in series and presents related pieces together. His figures in all media are realized without sketches or models and are formed through a process of layering and erasure, revealing marks suggestive of previous states. Drawing is central to Pessoli's creative process, and his art is charged with visible remains of his touch. For his ceramics, he uses majolica, a sculptural technique made popular in Northern Italy during the Renaissance. This medium provides a rich surface on which he can continue to develop the handcrafted characters that inform his drawings and paintings.
Pessoli renders his seemingly restless and exaggerated characters in a manner that is rich in historical references to visual culture including fine art, cinema, and theater. Figures reminiscent of Pablo Picasso's character studies or the biting 19th century caricatures of Honoré Daumier frequently appear, as do scenes that echo films by Federico Fellini. Science fiction and cartoons are other sources that, when layered and mixed with personal references, add to Pessoli's complex visual lexicon.
The artist's SFMOMA presentation will feature two series of pencil drawings and a related ceramic sculpture created in 2010 during his first year in California; before now, these works have only been shown in Europe. At times humorous, dark, and perverse, these compositions have a sketchlike immediacy and a strong connection to cinematic sequencing. Using these earlier pieces as a starting point, Pessoli has created a new series of vibrantly painted mixed-media works on paper and majolica sculptures from 2012 that will be on view for the first time with this presentation. These works introduce a brighter palette and new imagery drawn from children's stories, Etruscan funerary practices, and astronomy.
About Alessandro Pessoli
Born in Cervia, Italy, Pessoli studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He has had solo exhibitions at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2011); MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporane di Roma (2009); The Chisenhale, London (2005); and The Drawing Center, New York (1997). His work has also been included in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, such as Making Worlds, the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009); Jean-Luc Blanc, Opera Rock, CAPC, Bordeaux (2009); Italics: Italian Art between Tradition & Revolution 1968–2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2008); RAW-Among the Ruins, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (2007); After Cezanne, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); and International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2003). His work has been shown at galleries internationally including greengrassi, London; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Studio Guenzani, Milan; and Anton Kern, New York, where a solo show of his work will be on view September 14 through October 20, 2012.
About SFMOMA's New Work Series
From its inception in 1987, SFMOMA's New Work series was conceived as an important vehicle for the advancement of new art forms. Artists such as Matthew Barney, Marilyn Minter, and Christopher Wool were given their first solo museum exhibitions through the program. Over the ensuing decade, New Work featured artists such as Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Tatsuo Miyajima, Doris Salcedo, Luc Tuymans, Kara Walker, and Andrea Zittel, among many others. After a four-year hiatus, SFMOMA reintroduced the New Work series in 2004 and has since showcased work by Richard Aldrich, Phil Collins, Vincent Fecteau, Rachel Harrison, Lucy McKenzie, Wengechi Mutu, Anna Parkina, Mai-Thu Perret, R. H. Quaytman, Mika Rottenberg, Felix Schramm, Ranjani Shettar, Paul Sietsema, and Katharina Wulff.
The New Works series is organized by SFMOMA and is generously supported by Collectors Forum, the founding patron of the series. Major support is provided by Robin Wright and Ian Reeves.
Media Contacts
- Robyn Wise, 415.357.4172, rwise@sfmoma.org
- Christine Choi, 415.357.4177, cchoi@sfmoma.org
- Peter Denny, 415.357.4170, pdenny@sfmoma.org
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/938#ixzz28H23HiCm
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The latest news about upcoming UCLA Live performances.
Aug 28, 12
CAP UCLA pairs internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated
Brazilian singer-composer Bebel Gilberto with the danceable traditional forró sound of Forro in the Dark in an exclusive evening of world music
September 28 at Royce Hall. Tickets ($20-$55) are now available via www.cap.ucla.edu, Ticketmaster or at the UCLA Central Ticket Office.
Aug 23, 12
First performances of season mark return of international theater to program
Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) presents the U.S. premiere of Théâtre de la Ville-Paris: “Rhinoceros” directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota September 21-22 at Royce Hall. Tickets are now available via cap.ucla.edu, Ticketmaster or at the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Prices range from $25-70.
Aug 02, 12
Individual tickets for all performances in the 2012-2013 inaugural season of Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Live (CAP UCLA) go on sale Saturday Aug. 4.
May 23, 12
Program includes international theater, new and revived modern dance works and a full spectrum of jazz, folk, blues, classical, contemporary and global music
The newly created Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) today announces its first season of programming under the executive and artistic direction of Kristy Edmunds.
The2012-2013 inaugural season of CAP UCLA, formerly UCLA Live, marks the 75th season of public performing arts programming from UCLA.
CAP UCLA builds upon the legacy of performing arts at UCLA with a season that includes international theater companies, leading choreographers in contemporary dance, genre-defying artists and a tremendous lineup of performers from across the music spectrum. The Center’s first artist retrospective — an expansive multi-venue week of programming from Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project — honors a dance icon.
The newly created Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) today announces its first season of programming under the executive and artistic direction of Kristy Edmunds.
The2012-2013 inaugural season of CAP UCLA, formerly UCLA Live, marks the 75th season of public performing arts programming from UCLA.
CAP UCLA builds upon the legacy of performing arts at UCLA with a season that includes international theater companies, leading choreographers in contemporary dance, genre-defying artists and a tremendous lineup of performers from across the music spectrum. The Center’s first artist retrospective — an expansive multi-venue week of programming from Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project — honors a dance icon.
Apr 02, 12
Featuring West Coast Premieres of New Work from Regina Van Berkel, Alexander Ekman and Crystal Pite
New York’s Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet returns to UCLA Live with two evenings of innovative modern dance, featuring new work from some of today’s most exciting choreographers. Friday April 27 features the west coast premieres of Regina Van Berkel’s Simply Marvel and Crystal Pite’s Grace Engine, plus the first dance Alexander Ekman created for Cedar Lake, Hubbub.
The Saturday April 28 program includes the west coast premiere of Alexander Ekman’s new piece for Cedar Lake, titled Tuplet. The company also performs Regina Van Berkel’s Simply Marvel, as well as Hofesh Shechter’s second original work for Cedar Lake, Violet Kid.
New York’s Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet returns to UCLA Live with two evenings of innovative modern dance, featuring new work from some of today’s most exciting choreographers. Friday April 27 features the west coast premieres of Regina Van Berkel’s Simply Marvel and Crystal Pite’s Grace Engine, plus the first dance Alexander Ekman created for Cedar Lake, Hubbub.
The Saturday April 28 program includes the west coast premiere of Alexander Ekman’s new piece for Cedar Lake, titled Tuplet. The company also performs Regina Van Berkel’s Simply Marvel, as well as Hofesh Shechter’s second original work for Cedar Lake, Violet Kid.
Mar 28, 12
UCLA Live presents a rousing co-bill from two extraordinary performers in roots music with soul singer extraordinaire Bettye LaVette and New Orleans “piano professor” Jon Cleary and his Philthy Phew trio.
Mar 23, 12
Champion of the Afrobeat movement, Seun Kuti performs with the extraordinary combo first fronted by his father, Egypt 80, touring in support of his recent album From Africa With Fury: Rise. Alongside fourteen talented musicians, Seun enchants audiences worldwide with incendiary live performances.
Mar 19, 12
Grammy award-winning chamber ensemble Pacifica Quartet, known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often daring repertory choices, showcases its mastery of Beethoven and Shostakovich, performing Beethoven’s Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 and Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, along with Shostakovich’s stirring Quartet No. 9.
Mar 08, 12
Mexo-Americana Folk Duo David Wax Museum Opens
UCLA Live presents a lively evening from two groups blazing a new trail in roots music—with the vintage sounds of the African-American string tradition of the old South from Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and David Wax Museum’s unique blend of Mexo-Americana folk—all balanced effortlessly into a contemporary ethos.
UCLA Live presents a lively evening from two groups blazing a new trail in roots music—with the vintage sounds of the African-American string tradition of the old South from Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and David Wax Museum’s unique blend of Mexo-Americana folk—all balanced effortlessly into a contemporary ethos.
Mar 07, 12
The luminous Ute Lemper, backed by the Vogler Quartet and Stefan Malzew brings a new stage show to UCLA Live’s Royce Hall as part of a North American tour coinciding with the March 20 album release of Paris Days, Berlin Nights from Steinway & Sons
Feb 23, 12
UCLA Live presents a special Moth Mainstage with Rush: Stories of Ticking Clocks, an evening centered around tales of chasing the ephemeral and battling the ravages of time. The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Through its ongoing programs - The Moth Mainstage, The Moth StorySLAMs, MothSHOP Community Education Program and MothSHOP Corporate - The Moth has presented more than 3,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Featuring host Rudy Rush with storytellers Jenny Allen, Kodi Azari, Annie Duke, Brian Finkelstein and Jerry Stahl
Feb 08, 12
UCLA Live is home to the second stop on Max Raabe and Palast Orchester’s new tour following
the Feb. 21 U.S. release of the group’s most successful European album, One Cannot Kiss Alone. Raabe wrote all the songs in collaboration with Annette Humpe, one of Germany´s top producers. The performance will feature songs from the album as well as the Weimar-era classics and high style of ‘20s and ‘30s this for which the urbane group is beloved. Blended throughout is Raabe’s effortless narrative banter and playfully imperious charm that woos audiences worldwide.
Feb 01, 12
Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to the irrepressible joy of making music that he communicates.
Complete Program: SCHUBERT Rondo Brilliant; BRAHMS Sonata No. 2; BRAHMS Hungarian Dances (Nos. 9, 2 and 1); PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D. Major for Violin and Piano Op. 94.
Complete Program: SCHUBERT Rondo Brilliant; BRAHMS Sonata No. 2; BRAHMS Hungarian Dances (Nos. 9, 2 and 1); PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D. Major for Violin and Piano Op. 94.
Jan 25, 12
Trumpeter and activist Hugh Masekela and his high-energy band make one of just 11 stops on their Jabulani Tour at Royce Hall. February 2012 brings the release of Hugh’s Jabulani on the Listen 2 Africa Series Record Label. From the Zulu word meaning “rejoice,” Jabulani recalls several generations of music from wedding ceremonies in South Africa.
Jan 19, 12
They Might Be Giants celebrate 30 years as a band and the release of the group’s 15th album Join Us in a soon-to-be-sold-out evening performance, with an opening set from folk –pop singer Jonathan Coulton. The afternoon performance plays off the duo’s success in the kids’ music genre and will feature family-friendly tunes from TMBG’s four award-winning kids’ albums.
Jan 18, 12
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, with support from Los Angeles native and rising
guitar star Blake Mills in a very special evening highlighting Lucinda Williams’ forthright style and authentic warmth that transcend the genres she works so handily with, from folk to blues and country-rock. Blake Mills will perform a 30-minute opening set, followed by a solo set from Lucinda. Then, Blake will join Lucinda for a
duo performance. Lucinda will close the night with her full band, featuring Blake on guitar.
Jan 17, 12
Soprano Kathleen Battle, accompanied by acclaimed jazz-gospel pianist Cyrus Chestnut and the internationally renowned Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers of Los Angeles. One of opera music’s most revered stars, Battle pays homage to the powerful and reverential music that gave voice to hopes of African-American slaves during the Civil War. The program will feature inspirational readings, solo performances from Ms. Battle, solo piano and full-choir arrangements of powerful music from the era including “Go Down, Moses,” “Wade in the Water,” “Couldn’ Hear Nobody Pray,” “Give Me Jesus,” “Over My Head,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and more.
Jan 06, 12
- Christian McBride Trio Added to Feb. 11 Concert with Ravi Coltrane Quartet at UCLA Live’s Royce Hall
Acclaimed bassist replaces Geri Allen & The Timeline Band
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Bassist extraordinaire Christian McBride and his trio will join the Ravi Coltrane Quartet in UCLA Live’s first jazz event of 2012 Saturday Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Royce Hall.
The Christian McBride Trio replaces Geri Allen & The Timeline band after unforeseen scheduling complications required the pianist and her group to cancel their previously scheduled appearance. Ticket holders may request a refund at point of purchase. More details at www.uclalive.org.
Bassist extraordinaire Christian McBride and his trio will join the Ravi Coltrane Quartet in UCLA Live’s first jazz event of 2012 Saturday Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Royce Hall.
The Christian McBride Trio replaces Geri Allen & The Timeline band after unforeseen scheduling complications required the pianist and her group to cancel their previously scheduled appearance. Ticket holders may request a refund at point of purchase. More details at www.uclalive.org.
Dec 12, 11
Selected works of Messiaen, Elgar, Price, Boulanger, Weaver, Demessieux
Oct 28, 11
Featuring the Los Angeles debut of countertenor Philippe Jaroussky
*** “...a young singer with the tone of an angel and the virtuosity of the devil.” — Journal La Terrasse (France)***
Oct 24, 11
UCLA Live presents an intimate evening with one of the finest world music artists performing today with pipa virtuoso Wu Man in Return to East—Ancient Dances Saturday November 19 at 8 p.m. in Royce Hall.
Oct 17, 11
Rebecca Skloot, author of New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, visits UCLA Live Tuesday November 1 to discuss her meticulously researched nonfiction masterpiece, which tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race and medicine.
Oct 14, 11
Kenny Burrell: 80 Years Young features B.B. King, Lalo Schifrin,Dee Dee Bridgewater, world premiere compositions and more
Oct 11, 11
UCLA Live brings together two of the most exciting and innovative instrumentalists in modern music, percussionist Evelyn Glennie and cellist Maya Beiser, performing at UCLA Live’s Royce Hall Friday November, 11 at 8 p.m.
In a co-headlining event which pairs the two exciting performers for the first time, Glennie and Beiser will perform separate sets that highlight each artist’s unique aesthetic. They will close the evening together on stage for the world premiere of “Stuttered Chant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, written specifically for Glennie and Beiser.
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