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2019-20 SEASON cap.ucla.edu - Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA
WE THE                                                                                      UCLA’S NIMOY THEATER
                                                                                            The Center for the Art of Performance and UCLA       BAR Architects has been selected to lead the

PEOPLE.
                                                                                            School of the Arts & Architecture have acquired      renovation team. Insightful and creative re-
                                                                                            the Crest Theatre on Westwood Boulevard as           purposing of existing buildings is fundamental
                                                                                            a new performance space for its arts public          to BAR Architects’ practice. Their diverse port-
                                                                                            programming. A landmark venue dating back            folio includes projects such as George Lucas’
                                                                                            to the 1940s, the Crest will be transformed into     Skywalker Ranch, Robert Redford’s Sundance
                                                                                            the UCLA Nimoy Theater, a new off-campus             Institute, Sonoma State University’s School of
                                                                                            performing arts space that will be operated          Music at the Green Music Center and the Library

THE POWER
                                                                                            and managed by CAP UCLA.                             of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio Visual
                                                                                                                                                 Conservation. BAR also has a deep-rooted
                                                                                            The UCLA Nimoy Theater is envisioned as a            connection to the Crest Theatre dating back

OF ART.
                                                                                            much-needed public platform for emerging             to the late 1980s when they were selected
                                                                                            contemporary performing artists across all           by the Walt Disney Company to replace the
                                                                                            disciplines whose work seeks an intimate scale,      original façade with one reminiscent of an Art

WELCOME TO UCLA’S
                                                                                            including extraordinary UCLA students and            Deco Revival movie palace.
                                                                                            recent alumni, independent practitioners
                                                                                            throughout Los Angeles and national and              As the UCLA Nimoy Theater, the Crest Theatre

CENTER FOR THE ART                                                                          international visiting artists. The reinvigorated
                                                                                            theater, which will be upgraded to current
                                                                                                                                                 will return to its historic roots as a performing
                                                                                                                                                 arts venue. The space originally opened in

OF PERFORMANCE
                                                                                            standards and outfitted with state-of-the-art        December 1940 as the Westwood Theater, a
                                                                                            technology, will become a dynamic home on the        live performance hall, designed by the architect
                                                                                            Westside of Los Angeles for both audiences and       Arthur W. Hawes. In 2008, the Crest was desig-
                                                                                            artists, enabling creative collaboration and pre-    nated a Historic-Cultural Landmark by the city
                                                                                            sentation in theater, music, digital media, spoken   of Los Angeles.
JOIN US FOR                  UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is         word, dance and contemporary performance.
                             dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary per-
OUR 2019-20                  forming arts in all disciplines—dance, music, spoken word      UCLA’s purchase of the long-dormant theater
                                                                                                                                                 Building on the strength of UCLA’s internationally
                                                                                                                                                 acclaimed public arts institutions and programs,
SEASON                       and theater, as well the emerging digital, collaborative       was made possible by major gifts from actor,         the renovation of the Crest into the Nimoy rein-
                             and cross-platforms utilized by today’s leading artists. CAP   writer and director Susan Bay Nimoy and an           forces the university’s commitment to the arts
Royce Hall, UCLA             UCLA is the public-facing presenting organization for the      anonymous donor. With an anticipated open-           and public engagement as it marks its centennial
The Theatre at Ace Hotel     performing arts at UCLA—one of the world’s leading public      ing date in 2021, the venue will be re-named the     in 2019.
The Ford Theatres            research universities—and we are housed within the UCLA        UCLA Nimoy Theater, in honor of Nimoy’s late
Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA   School of the Arts & Architecture along with the Hammer        husband, Leonard Nimoy.
Freud Playhouse, UCLA        and Fowler museums. CAP UCLA curates and facilitates
REDCAT                       direct exposure to contemporary performance from around
The Music Center             the globe, supporting artists who are creating extraordi-
                             nary works of art and fostering a vibrant learning commu-      SUPPORT THE                                          Inspired by this vision, and to inspire other arts
Powell Library, UCLA
                             nity both on and off the UCLA campus. As an influential        UCLA NIMOY THEATER                                   supporters, one of the campaign’s lead donors
                             voice within the local, national and international arts                                                             has made a challenge gift that will match dol-
                             community, CAP UCLA is also where cultural expression          CAP UCLA will launch a capital campaign to           lar for dollar all contributions to the campaign
                             and artistic exploration can thrive, and where audiences       raise funds for the renovation and activation        up to $2.5 million.
                             can have fun and experience the artists of the stage           of its new performance space, the UCLA Nimoy
                             that connect us to new ways of seeing and better under-        Theater. Through philanthropic support, the          If you are interested in learning more about the
                             standing the world we live in now.                             space will be transformed from a dormant             campaign and the impact your support can
                                                                                            movie theater into an innovative and flexible        have through this matching opportunity, please
                                                                                            250+ seat performing arts venue that will play       contact Sarah Sullivan, Director of Development
                                                                                            a vital role in the arts ecology of Los Angeles.     for CAP UCLA at 310-206-6431.
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LETTER
FROM THE DIRECTOR
                                   This CAP UCLA season           making room for altogether different sensibilities to come
                                   spans the UCLA Centen-         forward over a lifetime of artistic practice. Sankai Juku,
                                   nial and we have put           Philip Glass, Chick Corea, Sergio Mendes, Jack DeJohnette,
                                   much consideration into        Pina Bausch, Lucinda Childs, Bill Frisell and Aaron Neville
                                   how our globally engaged       are undisputed legends, and for very good reason.
                                   performing arts program
                                   can also commemorate           Women who are (and have been) bending the needle to-
                                   the 100-year history of this   wards equity, social justice and inclusive practices feature
                                   incredible public research     prominently. This is where we have invested our commission-
                                   university. The sheer scale    ing support, and the resulting projects are either yet to pre-
                                   of UCLA’s legacy to date       miere or will make their L.A. debut with us this season. Toshi
                                   offers a cornucopia of         Reagon, Pam Tanowitz, Samin Nosrat, Lindy West, Bebel
                                   possibilities and there        Gilberto, Perla Batalla, Jennifer Koh, Wendy Whelan and
                                   will be abundant celebra-      Maya Beiser are women who are making history through
                                   tions across the campus        their leadership and in their collaborative approaches for
throughout the year that we will spotlight. UCLA’s Center         creating new work.
for the Art of Performance carries the dynamic mandate
of curating and presenting the contemporary performing            The maverick emergence of another generation of prac-
arts for faculty, students and L.A. audiences to experience       titioners is also abundant in the 2019-20 CAP UCLA season—
in equal measure. After all, we are a potent animator for         Adam Linder, MK Guth, Jerry Quickly, AVERY*Sunshine,
what UCLA has always stood for—a collaborative approach           BUIKA, Marlon James, Marike Splint and John Cameron
to publicly sharing new knowledge, supporting exceptional         Mitchell—and all carry the hallmark of being the kind of
ideas that add dimension to the diverse contour of Los            artists who shift the culture through their unique vantage
Angeles and providing continuity in a constantly evolving         points.
cultural landscape.
                                                                  Which brings me to my final insight. We are only able to
CAP UCLA presents the generous artistry of contemporary           present and sustain this work because of the commitment
performance makers to the widest possible public so that          of each of you who support the cause. Without exception,
we can share in the perspectives they offer us. We support        every artist on the program knows that you are the alchemy
the creation of new work by artists who span generations          that completes their work. We all thank you.
and forms. Experiencing their work, it invariably shifts our
inner monologues towards a broader way of understanding           I am ever mindful that those of us who do this work are not
the world around us.                                              in our roles to amplify predominant tastes or narratives, but
                                                                  to stretch them. We are not charged with reinforcing the
History plays an important role in many of the projects that      successfully familiar by asking the boldly emerging to wait
will take center stage this season by artists who amplify the     their turn. Instead we are asked to dramatically expand the
under-sung individuals that changed the conditions of their       stories, dances, music, collaborations and cultural traditions
respective eras or communities through their actions. Some        accessible throughout the arts in service to inclusion and
draw from original source materials including historic texts      our collective attention.
found in the UCLA Library, legal cases or imagery that have
become firmly lodged in our popular imagination. Others           2019-20 is in many ways a creative celebration of “We the
assert the enduring relevance of their cultural traditions to     People.” Three words that herald our American democracy
infuse an abiding wisdom into our contemporary moment.            and that stand at the very core of what UCLA has been
Ain Gordon, Fotini Baxevani, Andrew Dawson, Porte Parole,         investing in for 100 years.
Bill Morrison, Omar Sosa with Yilian Cañivarez and Terri
Lynne Carrington with Rudresh Mahanthappa in a tribute
to Charlie Parker come to mind.                                   Kristy Edmunds
                                                                  Executive and Artistic Director
Many of the artists featured are historically singular and        Center for the Art of Performance
singularly acclaimed the world over. They have quite literally
re-shaped the history of what is possible in the arts by
                                                                                                              Photo Credit: Ian Maddox

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WE THE PEOPLE:
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2019-20
SEASON AT-A-GLANCE
DANCE                       THEATER                      GLOBAL                        CONTEMPORARY
Adam Linder                 Loch na hEala                BUIKA                         Philip Glass
Thu–Sun, Sept 19-22, 2019   (Swan Lake)                  Sat, Jan 25, 2020             & Jerry Quickley
REDCAT                      Sat, Nov 9, 2019             The Theatre at Ace Hotel      Sat, Mar 21, 2020
                            Royce Hall, UCLA                                           The Theatre at Ace Hotel
JAZZ                                                     WORDS & IDEAS
Chick Corea                 JAZZ                         Piper Kerman                  JAZZ
Thu, Oct 3, 2019            Joshua Redman Quartet        & Rachel Kushner              Fly Higher:
Royce Hall, UCLA            with The Bad Plus            Thu, Jan 30, 2020             Charlie Parker at 100
                            Sun, Nov 10, 2019            Royce Hall, UCLA              Thu, Mar 26, 2020
DANCE                       Royce Hall, UCLA                                           Royce Hall, UCLA
Sankai Juku                                              THEATER
Sun, Oct 6, 2019            THEATER                      Lady of Ro                    THEATER
Royce Hall, UCLA            Andrew Dawson                Fri–Sat, Jan 31–Feb 1, 2020   Seeds
                            Thu–Sun, Nov 14-17, 2019     Freud Playhouse, UCLA         Fri–Sat, Apr 3–4, 2020
THEATER                     Royce Rehearsal Hall, UCLA                                 Freud Playhouse, UCLA
217 Boxes of                                             JAZZ
Dr. Henry Anonymous         GLOBAL                       Gregory Porter                SPECIAL EVENT
Fri–Sat, Oct 11–12, 2019    Sergio Mendes                Fri, Feb 7, 2020              John Cameron Mitchell
Freud Playhouse, UCLA       & Bebel Gilberto             Royce Hall, UCLA              Sat, Apr 11, 2020
                            Sat, Nov 16, 2019                                          The Theatre at Ace Hotel
SPECIAL EVENT               Royce Hall, UCLA             DANCE
Hassan Hajjaj                                            Four Quartets                 CONTEMPORARY
Fri, Oct 11, 2019           ROOTS                        Sat, Feb 15, 2020             Jennifer Koh &
The Ford Theatres           AVERY*Sunshine               Royce Hall, UCLA              Jean-Baptiste Barrière
                            Sat, Nov 23, 2019                                          Fri, Apr 17, 2020
CONTEMPORARY                The Theatre at Ace Hotel     GLOBAL                        Royce Hall, UCLA
Max Richter                                              Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Sat, Oct 12, 2019           ROOTS                        Thu, Feb 20, 2020             SPECIAL EVENT
Royce Hall, UCLA            Bill Frisell & Julian Lage   Royce Hall, UCLA              Pina Bausch
                            Duo                                                        Fri–Sun, Apr 17–19, 2020
WORD & IDEAS                Thu, Dec 5, 2019             WORDS & IDEAS                 The Music Center
Samin Nosrat & Lindy West   Royce Hall, UCLA             Marlon James
Sun, Oct 13, 2019                                        Thu, Feb 27, 2020             ROOTS
Royce Hall, UCLA            SPECIAL EVENT                Royce Hall, UCLA              Perla Batalla
                            Bill Morrison                                              Sat, Apr 18, 2020
DANCE                       With Wild Up                 GLOBAL                        The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Maya Beiser/Wendy           Fri, Dec 6, 2019             Omar Sosa
Whelan/Lucinda Childs/      The Theatre at Ace Hotel     & Yilian Cañizares            CONTEMPORARY
David Lang                                               Fri, Feb 28, 2020             Anthony De Mare
                            JAZZ                         Royce Hall, UCLA              Sat, Apr 25, 2020
Fri–Sat, Oct 18–19, 2019
Royce Hall, UCLA            DeJohnette/                                                Royce Hall, UCLA
                            Coltrane/Garrison            SPECIAL EVENT
ROOTS                       Sat, Dec 7, 2019             Marike Splint                 SPECIAL EVENT
Aaron Neville Duo           Royce Hall, UCLA             Feb 29–Mar 1, Apr 18–19,      MK Guth
                                                         May 9–10, 2020                Fri–Sat, May 1–2, 2020
Sat, Nov 2, 2019
                            WORDS & IDEAS                UCLA Campus                   Powell Library, UCLA
Royce Hall, UCLA
                            Frank Bruni
WORDS & IDEAS
                            & Sarah Smarsh               SPECIAL EVENT                 SPECIAL EVENT
Andrew Sean Greer           Sun, Dec 8, 2019             Parable of the Sower          David Sedaris
& Sloane Crosley            Royce Hall, UCLA             Sat, Mar 7, 2020              Sun, May 10, 2020
                                                         Royce Hall, UCLA              Royce Hall, UCLA
Sun, Nov 3, 2019
                            SPECIAL EVENT
Royce Hall, UCLA
                            Lea DeLaria
                            Sat, Jan 18, 2020             UCLA CENTENNIAL
                            The Theatre at Ace Hotel      UCLA COLLECTS: 100 Years of Sharing Knowledge
                                                          Opens April 5, 2020
                                                          Fowler Museum, Hammer Museum & UCLA Library

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SUBSCRIBE
    & SAVE
    Renewing subscribers keep their seats      DANCE $269.55                            WORDS & IDEAS: $270
    from season to season.                     (CAP Members: $239.25)                   (CAP Members: $240)
                                               Adam Linder: The WANT                    Samin Nosrat in Conversation
    New subscribers receive priority seat-     Sankai Juku: Meguri                        with Lindy West
    ing before single tickets go on sale.      Maya Beiser/Wendy Whelan/                Andrew Sean Greer in Conversation
                                               Lucinda Childs/David Lang: THE DAY         with Sloane Crosley
    All regular subscribers save 15% off       Pam Tanowitz/Brice Marden/Kaija          Frank Bruni in Conversation
    the individual ticket price with our       Saariaho: Four Quartets                    with Sarah Smarsh
    pre-selected series and receive 10%                                                 Piper Kerman in Conversation
    off the purchase of additional single      JAZZ $389                                  with Rachel Kushner
    tickets to all performances and special    (CAP Members: $345)                      Marlon James
    events in the 2019-20 season.              Chick Corea Triology with
                                                 Christian McBride & Brian Blade        CREATE YOUR OWN SERIES
    CAP UCLA Members who subscribe             Joshua Redman Quartet with               Select any five performances to save
    save 25% off the individual ticket price     The Bad Plus                           10% off the single ticket price AND
    with our pre-selected series and 15%       DeJohnette/Coltrane/Garrison             receive priority seating before
    off the purchase of additional single      Gregory Porter                           individual tickets go on sale.
    tickets to all performances and special    Fly Higher: Charlie Parker at 100        CAP UCLA Members save 15%.
    events in the 2019-20 season.
                                               GLOBAL: $299.40 (CAP Members: $266)      Single tickets to any performance
                                               Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars             or special event may also be added
    ROYCE CHOICE $435.80                        Experimental – Live!                    on to any subscription or CYO series
    (CAP Members: $387)                        Sergio Mendes & Bebel Gilberto           at the time of purchase.
    Max Richter                                BUIKA
    Aaron Neville Duo                          Ladysmith Black Mambazo                  ON SALE DATES FOR
    Michael Keegan Dolan/Teac Damsa:           Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares             INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
      Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)                                                         CAP Members:
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo                    ROOTS: $271 (CAP Members: $241)           Wednesday, July 10, 2019
    Toshi Reagon: Parable of the Sower         Aaron Neville Duo                        Renewing Subscribers:
    Fly Higher: Charlie Parker at 100          AVERY*Sunshine                            Thursday, July 11, 2019
    Anthony de Mare: Liaisons 2020:            Bill Frisell & Julian Lage Duo           CAP Enews Presale: Friday, July 12, 2019
      Re-Imaging Sondheim                      Toshi Reagon: Parable of the Sower       General Public: Monday, July 15, 2019
      from the Piano Parts 1 & 2               Perla Batalla: Discoteca Batalla         UCLA faculty and staff:
                                                                                         Monday, July 15, 2019*
    THEATER $244.50                            CONTEMPORARY: $335.60                    UCLA students:
    (CAP Members: $217.50)                     (CAP Members: $298)                       Monday, September 23, 2019*
    Ain Gordon: 217 Boxes of                   Max Richter
      Dr. Henry Anonymous                      Bill Morrison with Wild Up: Dawson       *Based on availability;
    Michael Keegan Dolan/Teac Damsa:           City: Frozen Time LIVE!                   limit two tickets per performance
      Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)                Philip Glass & Jerry Quickley:
    Andrew Dawson: Space Panorama                Whistleblower
     & Spirit of the Ring                      Jennifer Koh & Jean-Baptiste Barrière:
    Fotini Baxevani: Lady of Ro                  38th Parallel
    Porte Parole: Seeds                        Anthony de Mare: Liaisons 2020:
                                                 Re-Imaging Sondheim
                                                 from the Piano Parts 1 & 2

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PLEASE NOTE: Subscriptions and all single tickets to perfor-
mances that take place on the UCLA campus (Royce Hall,
Freud Playhouse, Royce Rehearsal Hall and Powell Library)
will be available through the UCLA Central Ticket Office,
on line at cap.ucla.edu or by phone at 310-825-2101.

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 cap.ucla.edu, acehotel.com or by
calling AXS at 888-929-7849.

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 purchase
in person, you pay no handling fees.

Single tickets for Hassan Hajjaj’s at the Ford Theatres
are on sale now through the Ford Theatres website at
fordtheatres.org or 323-461-3673. Subscribers may also add
single tickets for this performance onto their CAP UCLA sub-
scription order or as part of a Create-Your-Own package.

Single tickets for Pina Bausch at The Music Center will go
on sale in July through the Music Center website at
musiccenter.org or 213-972-0711. Subscribers may also add
single tickets to this performance onto their CAP UCLA sub-
scription order or as part of a Create-Your-Own package.

Single tickets for Adam Linder at REDCAT will go on
sale in late summer through REDCAT at redcat.org or
213-237-2800. Subscribers may also add single tickets
to this performance onto their CAP UCLA subscription
order or as part of a Create-Your-Own package.

HOW TO ORDER
  Online                               In Person
  cap.ucla.edu                         UCLA Ticket Office
                                       325 Westwood Plaza
  By Phone                             M-F, 10 am – 4 pm
  310-825-2101
  M-F, 10 am – 4 pm

 Programs, prices and performers subject to change.

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Photo Credit: Phinn Sriployrung

    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 tenth and elev-
    enth 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 com-
    mittee 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, Sonic Youth,
    Joan Baez, David Sedaris and Taylor Mac.

    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.

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Photo Credit: Mireyah Marcinek

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 name-
sake—a strip where a dozen temples of cinema played host to screen starlets and mat-
inee kings, and film royalty premiered their latest reels nightly to audiences of thou-
sands. 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 DW 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 Span-
ish-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.

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CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH REDCAT PRESENTS

ADAM LINDER
THE WANT
THU–SAT, SEP 19–21, 2019 @ 8:30 PM; SUN, SEP 22, 2019 @ 7 PM | REDCAT

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Photo Credit: Andrea Rossetti
“PERHAPS MORE THAN AN EXPLORATION OF MERCANTILE
 ACTIVITY OR THE TRANSACTION OF LATE-NIGHT CRUISING,
 KOLTÈS’ PLAY IS A SPECULATION ON THE INDIVIDUAL’S
 CAPACITY TO KNOW ANOTHER.” — ADAM LI NDER

A       dam Linder is a choreographer who works between Los Angeles and Berlin.
        His performances are shown in both performance and visual arts contexts.
In 2016, he was awarded the Mohn Prize for artistic excellence from the Hammer
Museum for his work in Made in LA. Inspired by the Client/Dealer relationship
from Bernard Marie-Koltès play In the Solitude of The Cotton Fields, The WANT is a
contemporary opera—with music by Ethan Braun and lighting design by Shahryar
Nashal—that fuses vocal expression with a rich physicality. The libretto, littered
with interjections from Jacques Derrida to Missy Elliott, contemplates the desire,
vulnerability and cunning at the heart of any transaction. The singers, actors and
dancers—Jess Gadani, Justin F. Kennedy, Jasmine Orpilla and Roger Sala Reyner—
are ‘Offerors’ and ‘Offerees’ enrobed as the key archetypes of mercantile Europe
and the spiritual tradition of constant trade between a reflexive mind and a sen-
suous being.
Production Adam Linder. Coproduction HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance,
Los Angeles, Kampnagel Hamburg. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grant Endowment, the Royce Gala Endowment and
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts.

                                                                                                                      DANCE   9
CHICK COREA TRILOGY
WITH CHRISTIAN
MCBRIDE & BRIAN BLADE
THU, OCT 3, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

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Photo Credits: (Left) Peter Gannushkin; (Right) James Adams

“GALE FORCE INTENSITY, GLORIOUSLY IMPASSIONED.”
—JAZZWISE MAGAZINE

 L      egendary keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea has attained
        iconic status in music. He is a DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Mas-
 ter, as well as the fourth-most nominated artist in Grammy Awards history with 63
 nods—and 22 wins. From straight-ahead jazz to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, Chick
 has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his career and played with
 a Who’s Who of jazz greats. For his return to Royce Hall, he will be joined by bass
 powerhouse Christian McBride, one of the most outstanding talents and celebrated
 musicians of his generation, and drummer extraordinaire Brian Blade to perform
 works from their landmark 3-CD set, Triology.

 Funds provided by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund.

                                                                                       JAZZ   11
SANKAI JUKU
MEGURI
SUN, OCT 6, 2019 @ 7 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                                             “ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL AND
                                              STARTLING DANCE THEATER GROUPS
                                              TO BE SEEN.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Photo Credits: Sankai Juku

                                                    O       ver the course of the past 35 years, the work of Ushio
                                                            Amagatsu for his Tokyo-based, all-male company
                                                    Sankai Juku has become known worldwide for its elegance, re-
                                                    finement, technical precision and emotional depth. Amagatsu’s
                                                    contemporary Butoh creations are sublime visual spectacles
                                                    and deeply moving theatrical experiences. As one of the pre-
                                                    miere choreographers at work in the world today, the arrival
                                                    of a piece by Ushio Amagatsu is a much-anticipated event in
                                                    the North American dance landscape. Sankai Juku returns to
                                                    Royce Hall with one of Amagatsu’s strongest works, Meguri:
Art in Action: Listening to the Landscape           Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land. Set against an upstage relief of sea
Inspired by the themes of Meguri,we’ll explore      lily fossil images, this exquisite piece is a poetic meditation on
how today’s contemporary artists are respond-
ing to the ongoing challenges facing our
                                                    the passage of time as symbolized by the circulation of water
natural world. Join us for interactive activities   and the seasonal transformation of the earth.
in the West Lobby before the performance.
                                                    Funds provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund.

                                                                                                                             DANCE   13
CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER,
FILM AND TELEVISION PRESENTS

AIN GORDON
217 BOXES OF DR.
HENRY ANONYMOUS
FRI, OCT 11, 2019 @ 8 PM; SAT, OCT 12, 2019 @ 3 PM & 8 PM | FREUD PLAYHOUSE, UCLA

                                                   “AIN GORDON HAUNTS THE MARGINS OF
                                                    HISTORY … CONJUR(ING) THE SORT
                                                    OF DISTANT LIVES THAT DON’T MAKE
                                                    IT INTO TEXTBOOKS, PROCESSED INTO
                                                    OBLIVION BY WHAT HE CALLS HISTORY’S
                                                   ‘RUTHLESS EDITING MACHINE.’”
                                                   —THE NEW YORK TIMES

14   THEATER
2      17 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous tells the
                                                                        largely unknown story of a courageous gay
                                                                 psychiatrist whose activism made a profound and
                                                                 lasting impact on LGBTQ civil rights. Disguised in
                                                                 a mask and using a voice modulator, John E. Fryer
                                                                 testified as Dr. Henry Anonymous on a homosexual-
                                                                 ity panel at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the Amer-
                                                                 ican Psychiatric Association (APA). Facing the loss
                                                                 of his medical license should his identity be discov-
                                                                 ered, Fryer’s testimony resulted in the APA’s removal
                                                                 of homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical
                                                                 Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1973. Drawn
                                                                 from 217 boxes of Fryer’s personal papers, Obie
                                                                 Award-winning writer/director Ain Gordon re-imag-
                                                                 ines this historic moment through the eyes of three
                                                                 key figures in Fryer’s life, bringing it to UCLA to
                                                                 coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall
                                                                 riots. Featuring Laura Esterman, Derek Lucci and
                                                                 Ken Marks.

                                                                 The first production of 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous was made with
                                                                 major support provided by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and
                                                                 The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. It premiered on May 5, 2016 at the
                                                                 Painted Bride in Philadelphia. A Pick Up Performance Co. Production.

                                                                 Funds for the CAP UCLA presentation provided by Diane Levine;
                                                                 Teri Schwartz, Dean UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; and the
                                                                 James A. Doolittle Endowment.

                                                                                 Photo Credits: Paula Court

Art in Action:
Recognizing History: Seeing the Invisible
Join us before the show for a special Pop-Up Library and
Reading Room featuring films, archival material and publica-
tions surrounding the fight for LGBTQ rights. Each performance
will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Ain Gordon and
a special guest from L.A.’s LGBTQ community.

                                                                                                                             THEATER        15
Photo Credits: Hassan Hajjaj

16   SPECIAL EVENT
THE FORD THEATRES
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
CAP UCLA PRESENTS

HASSAN
HAJJAJ
MY ROCK STARS
EXPERIMENTAL
– LIVE!
FRI, OCT 11, 2019 @ 8PM | THE FORD THEATRES

“…THE MUSICIANS BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN
 NOW AND THEN, US AND THEM, HIGH AND LOW
 CULTURE, REFLECTING A FUSION OF MOROCCAN
 CRAFTSMANSHIP AND CONTEMPORARY ART AND
 PERFORMANCE.” —LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

P      hotographer, designer and filmmaker
       Hassan Hajjaj uses the language of fashion
photography to produce portraits of figures
dressed in colorful North African fabrics with
luxury brand clothes and shoes. For his L.A.
appearance, Hajjaj will premiere the first ever
live musical presentation of his video installation,
My Rock Stars. The selected “rock stars” include
Afrikan Boy, a grime MC originally from Nigeria
now based in London; contemporary African
acoustic jazz/folk/soul singer-songwriter Bumi;
artists, musicians and sisters Abimaro & Lakwena;
Marques Toliver, a songwriter, producer, violinist
and vocalist from Daytona Beach, FL; New York
City-based jazz and hip hop vocalist José James;
and Simo Lagnawi, a Moroccan berber now settled
in the UK who is steeped in the Gnawa trance
music of North Africa.

                                           SPECIAL EVENT   17
“MUSICALLY INCREDIBLE
      AND CONCEPTUALLY
      SPOT ON. MAX RICHTER
      IS TRULY A MODERN DAY
      MUSICAL GENIUS.”
     —THE LINE OF BEST

                Photo Credit: Rahi Rezvani

                MAX RICHTER
                PREMIERING MATERIAL FROM HIS FORTHCOMING ALBUM
                & ‘FROM SLEEP’ WITH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY
                MUSIC ENSEMBLE & GRACE DAVIDSON
                SAT, OCT 12, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                M        ax Richter's work embodies both the rigor of the classical tradition and the
                         experimentalism of contemporary electronica. Heart-stopping orchestration
                and mind-bending synthesis co-exist in his work which is beautifully crafted, intelli-
                gent and disarming in its honesty. Inspired equally by Bach, punk rock and ambient
                electronic music, Richter is radically unafraid of appealing directly to our emotions.
                His output encompasses concert music, operas, ballets, art and video installations
                and theater and television scores, including Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island;
                Damon Lindelof’s HBO series The Leftovers; Alan Cumming’s solo version of Macbeth on
                Broadway; the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch; and his many collabora-
                tive ventures with maverick Royal Ballet resident choreographer Wayne McGregor.

                 NightCAP CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to join us in a celebratory toast with the artists after the performances.

18     CONTEMPORARY
S       amin Nosrat is a food columnist for The
                                                                                   New York Times Magazine, author of the
                                                                           bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the
                                                                           Elements of Good Cooking and the star of the
                                                                           Netflix series of the same name. As an under-
                                                                           graduate studying English at UC Berkeley, she
                                                                           took a detour into the kitchen at Chez Panisse
                                                                           and, since 2000, she has pursued her twin pas-
                                                                           sions of food and words with equal vigor, aiming
                                                                           to create work that inspires, creates community
                                                                           and raises cultural, social and environmental
                                                                           awareness. Lindy West is a contributing opinion
                                                                           writer for The New York Times and the author of
                                                                           The New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill:
                                                                           Notes from a Loud Woman, which she recently
                                                                           adapted as a half-hour comedy series for Hulu.
                                                                           They will discuss the challenges and experienc-
                                                                           es of women in the 21st century and, of course,
                                                                           food.

                                                                           Funds provided by the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Lectureship Fund.
Photo Credit: Grant Delin

SAMIN NOSRAT                                                                           IN CONVERSATION WITH

SUN, OCT 13, 2019 @ 7 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA
						                                      LINDY WEST
                                                                       Photo Credit: Jenny Jimenez

                            “[SALT FAT ACID HEAT] IS A
                             CELEBRATION OF NOSRAT’S FOOD
                             ETHOS, WHILE ALSO BEING THE
                             KINDEST, GENTLEST, MOST WARM
                             AND WELCOMING REBUFF TO
                             FOOD-PORN EXCLUSIVITY.”
                            —NEW YORK MAGAZINE

                            “[LINDY WEST IS] ONE OF THE
                             MOST DISTINCTIVE VOICES
                             ADVANCING FEMINIST POLITICS
                             THROUGH HUMOR.”
                             —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Art in Action: We kick off our Words &Ideas series in the Royce West
Lobby with a special Pop-Up Recipe Bazaar, Food Writers Library and
a “Women Who Draw” event, inspired by artist Wendy MacNaughton,
the illustrator of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

                                                                                                                           WORDS & IDEAS       19
MAYA BEISER/
WENDY WHELAN/
LUCINDA CHILDS/
DAVID LANG
THE DAY
FRI–SAT, OCT 18–19, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                                                     “A GUT PUNCH . . .
                                                      NOTHING SHORT
                                                      OF LIFE ITSELF:
                                                      BY TURNS HOPEFUL,
                                                      FUNNY, SURPRISING
                                                      AND TRAGIC.”
                                                     —THE NEW YORK TIMES

 NightCAP
 CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are
 invited to join us in a celebratory toast
 with the artists after the performances.

20   DANCE
Photo Credit: Nils Schlebusch
D      ancer Wendy Whelan, one of the stars of the New York City Ballet, is widely
       considered one of the world’s leading ballerinas. Cellist Maya Beiser, a vet-
eran of the world’s most revered stages, has been described as “a force of nature”
by The Boston Globe and a “rock star” by Rolling Stone. Together with iconic modern
dance choreographer Lucinda Childs and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David
Lang, they have joined forces to create an evocative, bold, highly collaborative new
work entitled THE DAY. A meditation on two journeys—the mortal passage of time,
followed by the eternal, post-mortal voyage of the soul—THE DAY explores universal
themes not easily grappled with—memory, aging, death and the survival of the soul
—through the lens of mundane daily calendar appointments and the visceral, poetic
languages of music and dance.

THE DAY was conceived by Maya Beiser.
​
THE DAY was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding
from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
​
THE DAY was co-commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jacob’s Pillow; The Joyce Theater; UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance; and was
supported, in part, by the Inaugural Artist Fellowship at The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center.
Substantial development support was provided by LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts, with additional
support from Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Funds for the CAP UCLA presentation provided by Deborah Irmas and the Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for the
Performing Arts.

                                                                                                                    DANCE   21
“AARON NEVILLE HAS A VOICE
 MADE TO AGE GRACEFULLY….
 NOW 75, THE MAN STILL
 SINGS LIKE AN ANGEL WHO’S
 SWALLOWED A WAH-WAH
 PEDAL.” —NPR

              Photo Credit: Sarah A. Friedman

              AARON
              NEVILLE DUO
              SAT, NOV 2, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

              G       rammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer Aaron Neville is argu-
                      ably one the most distinctive vocal stylists on the planet. Performing with
              keyboard player Michael Goods, this intimate evening showcases “the other side of
              Aaron” with songs from throughout his career, including those that inspired him as a
              child and helped influence his more than five-decade long musical journey. Known as
              both a solo artist and for his work with The Neville Brothers, his latest album Apache
              hails his mixed Choctaw and African-American roots. Touching on the mystic gumbo
              of “Yellow Moon” and sheer sweetness of “Everybody Plays the Fool,” patrons will
              be privileged to experience a third path never quite heard from Neville before. Don’t
              miss this iconic evening of hits, stories and soul from one of the best in the business.

 22   ROOTS
A        ndrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer
                                                                                  Prize-winning author of six works
                                                                          of fiction, including the bestsellers The
                                                                          Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Sloane
                                                                          Crosley is the author of The New York Times
                                                                          bestselling essay collections I Was Told
                                                                         There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This
                                                                          Number and Look Alive Out There. Both
                                                                          are gifted storytellers, keen observers of
                                                                          human nature and masterful with their
                                                                          use of humor. Reading them makes you
                                                                          feel like you’ve known them forever. But
                                                                          there the similarities end. Greer’s wit is
                                                                          subtle, poignant and gentle. Crosley’s is
                                                                          loud, brash and thigh-slappingly funny.
                                                                          She has been described by David Sedaris as
                                                                         “perfectly, relentlessly funny.” He has been
                                                                          described by Michael Chabon as “feeling
                                                                          and funny.” A sort of a literary yin and yang,
                                                                          their conversation is sure to be both enter-
                                                                          taining and enlightening.
Photo Credit: Kaliel Roberts

ANDREW
SEAN GREER                                                     IN CONVERSATION WITH

SLOANE CROSLEY
SUN, NOV 3, 2019 @ 5 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                                                              Photo Credit: Ungano + Agriodimas

                               “WRY AND RUEFUL.... QUIRKY
                                AND LANGUOROUS, [GREER’S]
                                STYLE BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURES
                                HIS CHARACTERS’ WISTFUL
                                SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.”
                               —THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

                               “SLOANE CROSLEY HAS A GIFT.
                                IN A SINGLE PIECE SHE CAN
                                FIND A WAY TO BE FUNNY,
                                FAMILIAR, REMOVED AND
                                GENEROUSLY PERSONAL.”
                               —THE GLOBE AND MAIL

                                                                                                        WORDS & IDEAS   23
CAP UCLA IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE FORD THEATRES PRESENTS

MICHAEL
KEEGAN-DOLAN/
TEAĊ DAMSA
LOCH NA HEALA (SWAN LAKE)
SAT, NOV 9, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                                             “SWAN LAKE/LOCH NA HEALA IS RAW,
                                              RAUCOUS, REDEMPTIVE, MAJESTIC,
                                              VITAL AND EMPOWERING.” —IRISH TIMES

24   THEATER
Photo Credits: Colm Hogan

                                                  F     rom the imagination of one of Ireland’s foremost dance
                                                        and theatre-makers, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist
                                                  Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes a magical new adaptation of
                                                  one of the most famous ballets in the world, Swan Lake. Loosely
                                                  based on the traditional tale, this dark comedy version takes
                                                  place in the present in a small town in Ireland. Performed by
                                                  a company of 14 world-class performers including actor Mikel
                                                  Murfi, this new production is interwoven with storytelling, song
                                                  and live music. The Dublin-based band Slow Moving Clouds
                                                  has created a new score, combining Nordic and Irish traditional
                                                  music with minimalist and experimental influences. With
                                                  beautiful dancing and powerful imagery, Swan Lake is rooted
NightCAP                                          in the Midlands of Ireland, where ancient mythology and the
CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to
                                                  modern world collide.
join us in a celebratory toast with the artists
after the performances.
                                                  Funds provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund.

                                                                                                                           THEATER   25
JOSHUA REDMAN
QUARTET WITH
THE BAD PLUS
SUN, NOV 10, 2019 @ 7 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

26   JAZZ
Photo Credits: (Left) Arne Reimer; (Right) Shervin Lainez

“AT HIS BEST, JOSHUA REDMAN SEEMS A CLASS APART FOR
 TECHNIQUE, INVENTION AND ARTISTRY.” —EVENING STANDARD

S       axophonist Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic
        jazz artists to have emerged in the decade of the 1990s. The Joshua Redman
Quartet’s newest album, Come What May (March 2019, Nonesuch), marks the
first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians—the recently
Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist
Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. The
heavy-hitting quartet evokes a sound that can be challenging, provocative and
forward-looking, but also hard-swinging, melodic and soulful. Redman’s sound links
him directly to the authenticity of jazz from the 50s and 60s while incorporating a
more contemporary approach.

Since its outset, the iconic trio The Bad Plus has dared to be different, challenging
all preconceived notions of jazz. Through a provocative style of arrangements and
compositions they call ‘avant-garde populism’, their unique blend of influences—
ranging from experimental jazz, indie rock, pop and classical music—has earned
them a reputation as one of the most universally well-respected bands in jazz today.
They have constantly searched for rules to break and boundaries to cross, bridging
genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of three exceptional
musicians working in perfect sync.

                                                                                        JAZZ   27
“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

                                                                                           Art in Action: Discovering the Landscape
                                                                                           In 1969 a new landscape came sharply into view with the historic
                                                                                           moon landing of Apollo 11. We’ll be exploring the 50th anniversary
                                                                                           of this landmark event with special “Art & Science” talks and
                                                                                           hands-on space ship making

                                      ANDREW DAWSON
        Photo Credit: Nitin Vadukul

                                      SPACE PANORAMA & THE SPIRIT OF THE RING
                                      THU–FRI, NOV 14–15, 2019 @ 8 PM | SAT NOV 16, 2019 @ 3 PM & 8 PM
                                      SUN, 17, 2019 @ 3 PM | ROYCE REHEARSAL HALL, UCLA

                                      A       ndrew 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 expressions of
                                      his face to act out the details of complex narratives. Dawson presents two works
                                      for CAP UCLA audiences—one story of epic fact, the Apollo 11 moon landing, and
                                      one 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.

28   THEATER
SERGIO
MENDES
& BEBEL
GILBERTO
SAT, NOV 16, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

“[SERGIO MENDES IS] THE MAN WHO PUT GO-
 GO BOOTS ON BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND BROUGHT
 IT TO THE WORLD.” —BILLBOARD

“BEBEL GILBERTO HAS CARVED HER OWN
 DISTINCT NICHE [WHILE STAYING] TRUE TO
 HER ROOTS, SHE STAUNCHLY REFUSES TO BE
 PINNED DOWN TO ONE GENRE, MUCH LESS
 ONE CONTINENT.” —THE ADELAIDE REVIEW

T       he legendary Sergio Mendes is one of
        the most internationally successful
Brazilian artists of all time. A triple Grammy
winner and one of the prime architects of
the bossa nova revolution in the 1960s, he
came to international stardom with his iconic
band Brasil ’66. World renowned singer-song-
writer Bebel Gilberto has been enchanting
fans and critics worldwide since her solo
debut release in 1986. She belongs to a family
that is considered musical royalty in Brazil—
her father, João Gilberto, is one of the most
iconic figures of Brazilian music and one of
the creators of bossa nova and her mother is
the famous singer Miúcha. These two legend-
ary Brazilian powerhouses come together at
Royce Hall to present a memorable evening
of new work and old favorites.

Funds provided by The Evelyn and Mo Ostin Endowment for
the Performing Arts and the José Luis Nazar Endowment
for the Performing Arts.

 Art in Action: Hearing beyond Listening: Join us for a special Lis-
 tening Lab and dance party featuring the many sounds of Brazil.

                                                                 GLOBAL   29
AVERY*SUNSHINE
SAT, NOV 23, 2019 @ 8 PM | THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL

                              “A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH, [AVERY*SUNSHINE] SHOWCASES
                               HER EMOTIONS THROUGH NUANCED VOCAL PERFORMANCES, SELLING
                               HER ARTISTRY WITH THE UTMOST CONSISTENCY.” —POPMATTERS

                                                                     I
                                                                        n a genre that is inundated with singers,
                                                                        AVERY*Sunshine has forged a career by
                                                                     staying true to her musical vision. Fluent
                                                                     in many languages from soul and house
                                                                     to jazz and hip hop, she expresses herself
                                                                     with a voice that speaks boldly and tells a
                                                                     uniquely familiar story—a story about love
                                                                     and loss, healing and finding the newness
                                                                     of oneself in the midst of it all. Her reper-
                                                                     toire features soulful, in-the-pocket
                                                                     R&B grooves, sublime ballads, exquisite
                                                                     arrangements with lush orchestration
                                                                     and exuberant, life-affirming gospel. The
                                                                     Atlanta-based singer/songwriter’s no-holds-
                                                                     barred signature sound has also garnered
                                                                     her acclaim from such pop luminaries as
                                                                     Patti LaBelle, Berry Gordy and Boy George.
                                                                     Career milestones include opening for
                                                                     Babyface at Madison Square Garden, per-
                                                                     forming for Smokey Robinson at his Rock
                                                                     ‘n Roll Hall of Fame tribute and taking the
                                                                     stage twice with the Queen of Soul, Aretha
                                                                     Franklin. Sunshine is joined by her musical
                                                                     partner (and husband) Dana Johnson, a
                                                                     classically-trained guitarist, gifted lyricist,
                                                                     producer and the man behind the tracks.

                                                                     Funds provided by the Kevin Jeske Young Artists Fund
                                                                     with additional support from The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

                                        Photo Credit: Derek Blanks

30   ROOTS
BILL
                                                                 FRISELL
                                                                 & JULIAN
                                                                 LAGE
                                                                 DUO
                                                                 THU, DEC 5, 2019 @ 8 PM
                                                                 ROYCE HALL, UCLA

                                                                 D      escribed as being at “the very epi-
                                                                        center of modern American Music”
                                                                 by the BBC, Bill Frisell’s career as a guitarist
                                    “IT’S HARD TO FIND A MORE    and composer has spanned more than 40
                                     FRUITFUL MEDITATION ON      years and 300 recordings, including 40 of
                                     AMERICAN MUSIC THAN         his own. Frisell’s output spans a wide range
                                                                 of musical expression, from his earliest
                                     IN THE COMPOSITIONS OF      incarnation as part of the avant rock super-
                                     GUITARIST BILL FRISELL.”    group Naked City, with John Zorn, Fred Frith,
                                    —THE NEW YORK TIMES          Wayne Horvitz and Joey Baron; to original
Photo Credit: Monica Jane Frisell                                Buster Keaton film scores; arrangements for
                                                                 extended ensembles with horns and strings;
                                                                 collaborations with Nashville musicians;
                                                                 a collection of traditional American folk
                                                                 songs; and two trio albums—one with jazz
                                                                 legends Dave Holland and Elvin Jones, the
                                                                 other with Ron Carter and Paul Motian.

                                                                 Julian Lage is one of the most prodigious
                                                                 guitarists of his generation and has long
                                                                 displayed an ability to explore a wide range
                                                                 of sounds, ideas and genres since he first
                                                                 appeared with vibraphonist Gary Burton’s
                                                                 band at age 16. Since then, he has more
                                                                 than fulfilled the promise of his youth,
                                                                 collaborating with a diverse range of artists,
                                                                 including guitarist/singer Chris Eldridge of
                                                                 Punch Brothers, bassist Steve Swallow and
                                                                 the iconic avant-garde composer John Zorn;
                                    “THERE’S A DISARMING         as well as with the house band on Live From
                                    SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY IN      Here; and composing for and fronting this
                                    THE MUSICIANSHIP OF JULIAN   own trio. This meeting of the minds of two
                                    LAGE... HE HAS SPENT MOST    guitar masters promises to be a night to
                                                                 remember.
                                    OF HIS LIFE BATHED IN A
                                    BRIGHT, EXPECTANT LIGHT.”
                                    —THE NEW YORK TIMES
Photo Credit: Nathan West

                                                                                                         ROOTS   31
BILL MORRISON
DAWSON CITY:
FROZEN TIME LIVE!
COMPOSED BY ALEX SOMERS;
LIVE MUSIC PERFORMED BY WILD UP
FRI, DEC 6, 2019 @ 8 PM | THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL

                                                     “AN INSTANTANEOUSLY
                                                      RECOGNIZABLE MASTERPIECE.”
                                                     –THE NEW YORK TIMES

32   SPECIAL EVENT
Photos Courtesy of the Artist

                                                   A         hallucinatory cinematic fever dream, Dawson City:
                                                             Frozen Time tells the bizarre true story of some 533
                                                   silent film reels, dating from the 1910s and 20s, that accu-
                                                   mulated at the end of a film distribution line in northwestern
                                                   Canada and which were miraculously discovered some 50 years
                                                   later, in 1978, buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in
                                                   the Yukon permafrost. Filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia, The
                                                   Miners’ Hymns, The Great Flood) deftly combines excerpts from
                                                   this remarkable collection with historical footage, photographs,
                                                   and original interviews, to explore the complicated history of
                                                   Dawson City, a Canadian Gold Rush town founded across the
                                                   river from a First Nation hunting camp, and then traces how
                                                   the development of that town both reflected and influenced
                                                   the evolution of modern Cinema. Combined with a powerful,
                                                   evocative score by Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic; Hale County
                                                   This Morning, This Evening; Honey Boy), Dawson City: Frozen
Art in Action:                                     Time is a triumphant work of art that spins the life cycle of a
LA Omnibus: The Archeology of Film                 singular film collection into a breath-taking history of the 20th
Join us in the lobby before the show for a look    century. This film presentation will be accompanied by a live
at how some of the world’s greatest silent film-
                                                   performance of the score by L.A.’s contemporary ensemble
makers and photographers defined California.
                                                   Wild Up and a girls choir from the National Children’s Chorus.
NightCAP
CAP UCLA Artist Circle members are invited to      Funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant
                                                   for Collaborative Intersections in the Visual and Performing Arts with
join us in a celebratory toast with the artists    additional support from The Theatre at Ace Hotel.
after the performances.

                                                                                                                            SPECIAL EVENT   33
DEJOHNETTE/
COLTRANE/
GARRISON
SAT, DEC 7, 2019 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

34   JAZZ
Photo Credit: Peter Gannushkin

“DRUMMER AND JAZZ LEGEND JACK DEJOHNETTE PAIRS UP
 WITH SAXOPHONIST RAVI COLTRANE AND BASSIST (AND
 ELECTRONICS WHIZ) MATTHEW GARRISON, TO SPELLBINDING
 AND HAUNTING RESULTS.” —PITCHFORK

I  n a career that spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the
   most iconic figures in modern jazz, NEA Jazz Master and Grammy winner Jack
DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest
drummers in the history of the genre. Along the way, he has developed a versatility
that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde and just about every
other style to emerge in the past half-century. Twenty years ago, DeJohnette brought
saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and bassist Matthew Garrison together for the first time
to perform the music of John Coltrane at The Brooklyn Museum. This historically
significant configuration was reborn in 2016 and has been touring ever since.
Representing the prestigious lineage of today’s great jazz families, DeJohnette/
Coltrane/Garrison explores open improvisation as well as their own compositions.

                                                                                       JAZZ   35
FRANK BRUNI
IN CONVERSATION WITH

SARAH SMARSH
SUN, DEC 8, 2019 @ 5 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

“I THINK WHAT WE
 JOURNALISTS TOO
 OFTEN DO IS ASSUME
 THE STATUS QUO IS
 UNCHANGEABLE. I
 THINK ALL SORTS OF
 ISSUES OF POLITICAL
 REFORM [AND] ELEC-
 TORAL REFORM NEED
 MORE DISCUSSION
 THAN THEY GET.”
 —FRANK BRUNI

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“TO FIND A MORE ACCURATE VISION OF THESE UNITED STATES,
 WE MUST RESIST PAT NARRATIVES ABOUT ANY GROUP—
 INCLUDING THE WORKING CLASS ON WHOM OUR CURRENT
 POLITICAL SITUATION IS MOST OFTEN PINNED.” —SARAH SMARSH

F      rank Bruni is a long-time Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He joined
       the newspaper in 1995 and has ranged broadly across its pages—from being a
White House correspondent to writing as the chief restaurant critic. In his columns,
he reflects on diverse topics including American politics, higher education, popular
culture and gay rights. Sarah Smarsh is an author, educator, speaker and journalist
who focuses on socioeconomic class and rural America. Her book Heartland: A
Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth examines
historic economic inequality and tells the story of her upbringing among the working
poor on a Kansas farm. Together, they will discuss recent events and issues facing
voters in the upcoming elections.

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S

LEA DELARIA
IN CONCERT
SAT, JAN 18, 2020 @ 8 PM | THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL

                            “(DELARIA) SWINGS HARD, AND SCATS AND BENDS NOTES IN A
                             STYLE THAT SUGGESTS A NO-FRILLS BETTY CARTER ON STEROIDS.”
                            —THE NEW YORK TIMES

                                                                     T       he much-loved and outspoken
                                                                             actress, comedian and gay icon
                                                                      Lea DeLaria seems to have achieved over-
                                                                      night stardom with her three-time, SAG
                                                                      Award-winning, stand-out role as Carrie
                                                                     “Big Boo” Black in the Netflix hit series
                                                                      Orange is the New Black. However, her
                                                                      multi-faceted career has, in fact, spanned
                                                                      decades. An Obie & Theater World Award
                                                                      winner and Drama Desk nominee for
                                                                      her portrayal as Hildy in the Public Theatre’s
                                                                      2014 revival of On The Town, DeLaria has
                                                                      also appeared in the television series The
                                                                      Code and is the first openly gay comic
                                                                      to perform on television in America. She
                                                                      was also the featured vocalist at the 50th
                                                                      Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival,
                                                                      and has performed in some of the most
                                                                      prestigious houses in the world including
                                                                      Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Chicago
                                                                      Symphony, Hollywood Bowl, The Royal
                                                                      Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House.
                                                                      With a performance style described as
                                                                     “loud and brassy,” DeLaria brings her
                                                                      high energy genius to The Theatre at Ace
                                                                      Hotel to perform hits from her latest album
                                                                      House of David: delaria+bowie=jazz. With
                                                                      her velvet-smooth voice contrasting per-
                                                                      fectly with a razor-sharp wit and sassy
                                                                      stage presence, DeLaria promises to deliver.

                                                                     Additional support from The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

                                        Photo Credit: Tina Turnbow

38   SPECIAL EVENT
BUIKA
SAT, JAN 25, 2020 @ 8 PM | THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL

“THOUGH COMPARED TO NINA SIMONE, BILLIE HOLIDAY AND EDITH PIAF, [BUIKA]
 SOUNDS LIKE NO ONE BUT HERSELF.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES

L      atin Grammy winner and two-time Grammy nominee, BUIKA is a critically
       acclaimed flamenco-fusion vocalist from Spain. The daughter of political
refugees from Equatorial Guinea, she is part of a new generation of performers
who are combining classic flamenco with jazz, soul and dance rhythms. With a
voice that has been described as “sultry,” “sonorous” and “achingly beautiful,” she
knows no boundaries when it comes to language or geography and has recorded
tracks in English, French, Portuguese, Farsi, Italian and Armenian. Her World Tour
2020 will showcase BUIKA’s all-female band performing a new repertoire of styles
that include a deep sound of jazz meets reggae, world music, soul, R&B and funk—
all meticulously chosen and flavored with her profound flamenco accent.

Additional support from The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

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PIPER KERMAN
IN CONVERSATION WITH

RACHEL KUSHNER
THU, JAN 30, 2020 @ 8 PM | ROYCE HALL, UCLA

“[ORANGE IS THE
 NEW BLACK ]
 IS IMPOSSIBLE
 TO PUT DOWN
 BECAUSE SHE
 COULD BE YOU.
 OR YOUR BEST
 FRIEND. OR
 YOUR DAUGHTER.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

 Photo Credit: Michael Oppenheim

 Art in Action: Watch our website for information
 on collaborations with our campus and community
 partners focusing on developments in prison reform
 and criminal justice.

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P
                                                                                                 iper Kerman

                                     Photo Credit: Chloe Aftel
                                                                                                 got mixed up in
                                                                                         a drug trafficking and
                                                                                         money laundering
                                                                                         operation soon after
                                                                                         graduating from
                                                                                         college in 1992. She
                                                                                         moved to San Fran-
                                                                                         cisco to start a new
                                                                                         life, but in 2003 she
                                                                                         was sentenced to 15
                                                                 months in federal prison for her past crimes.
                                                                 There she experienced firsthand the deep
                                                                 injustice undergirding the criminal justice
                                                                 system—particularly as related to people of
                                                                 color—as well as the resilient community
                                                                 of incarcerated women. Her experiences
                                                                 behind bars inspired the 2010 bestselling
                                                                 memoir, Orange Is the New Black which was
                                                                 later turned into the Emmy Award-winning
                                                                 Netflix series of the same name. Since her
                                                                 release, Kerman has been a fierce advocate
                                                                 for criminal justice reform. Kerman and
                                                                 Kushner will discuss the challenges faced by
                                                                 incarcerated women and the very serious
                                                                 need for prison reform in America.

                                                                                               R achel Kushner
                                                                                                 is among Am-
                                                                                          erica’s most exciting
                                                                                          writers. Her novels
                                                                                          and essays explore
                                                                                          contemporary art,
                                                                                          culture, revolutionary
                                                                                          politics, modernism
                                                                                          and feminism with
                                                                                          unmatched wisdom
                                                                                          and grace. Her most
                                                                 recent work, The Mars Room, is an intense,
“[THE MARS ROOM IS] A MAJOR NOVEL,                               unforgettable and heartbreaking story
                                                                 set in a Californian women’s prison. The
 A SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE, ONE                                    novel delivers a necessary critique of the
                                                                 judicial system and an attack on the prison-
 THAT BROODS ON SEVERAL EXIGENT                                  industrial complex. Kushner has crafted a
 IDEAS.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES                                     holistic depiction of who gets wrapped up in
                                                                 incarceration—families, lawyers, police and
                                                                 prisoners—written with a skilled voice that
                                                                 is filled with pathos, love and humanity.

                                                                 Funds provided by the George C. Perkins Fund.

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