w Photo by Zen Sekizawa Zen by Photo CAP UCLA presents OK Go Sat, Nov 4, 2017 | Royce Hall East Side, West Side, All Around LA Welcome to the Center for the Art of Performance The Center for the Art of Performance is not a place. It’s more of a state of mind that embraces experimentation, encourages a culture of the curious, champions disruptors and dreamers and supports the commitment and courage of artists. We promote rigor, craft and excellence in all facets of the performing arts. Center for the Art of Performance presents 2017–18 SEASON VENUES Royce Hall, UCLA Freud Playhouse, UCLA The Theatre at Ace Hotel Little Theater, UCLA OK Go Will Rogers State Historic Park OK Go UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is dedicated to the advancement Damian Kulash – lead vocals and guitar of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines—dance, music, spoken word Tim Nordwind – bass guitar and vocals and theater—as well as emerging digital, collaborative and cross-platforms utilized by Dan Konopka – drums and percussion today’s leading artists. Part of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, CAP UCLA Andy Ross – guitar, keyboards and vocals curates and facilitates direct exposure to contemporary performance from around the globe, supporting artists who are creating extraordinary works of art and fostering a vibrant learning community both on and off the UCLA campus. The organization invests Sat, Nov 4, 2017 | Royce Hall in the creative process by providing artists with financial backing and time to experiment Running time: Approx. 2.5 hours | With Intermission and expand their practices through strategic partnerships, residencies and collaborations. As an influential voice within the local, national, and global arts community, CAP UCLA serves to connect audiences across generations in order to galvinize a living archive of our culture. cap.ucla.edu #CAPUCLA MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTS ABOUT THE ARTISTS Hello Los Angeles. OK GO With a career that includes award-winning videos, New York Times op-eds, a major We started this band nineteen years ago in Chicago, November, 1998. In our earliest label split and the establishment of a DIY trans-media mini-empire (Paracadute), days of touring we were thrilled to be on stage anywhere and everywhere, but there collaborations with pioneering dance companies and tech giants, animators and was a unique, much deeper excitement at our hometown shows in Chicago. It wasn’t Muppets, and an experiment that encoded their music on actual strands of DNA, just that our friends were in the crowd, it was that the music and the band itself felt OK Go continue to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative connected to that place and that community. If OK Go was greater than the sum of boundaries have all but dissolved. its parts, it seemed that mysterious extra amount was derived from the city somehow. Formed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles three years later, Los Angeles has been our hometown for nearly 15 years now—much longer than OK Go (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross) have spent Chicago was, for most of us—but tonight feels like our first real hometown show here. their career in a steady state of transformation. Released in the fall 2014 via their Because even though we’ve made plenty of friends here and reveled in the surfeit of own Paracadute/BMG, Hungry Ghosts is the band’s fourth full-length and the newest great music, OK-Go-The-Rock-Band has never felt like it came from this place. But addition to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums. OK-Go-The-Guys-Who-Make-Those-Art-Project-Music-Videos; that OK Go was born here. Our unlikely journey into filmmaking started in Damian’s back yard in Koreatown Drawn from the same marching orders issued to big-hearted happiness creators as in 2005, and over the last decade we’ve crept farther from the norms of the music Queen, T. Rex, The Cars or Cheap Trick, and a lifetime of mixed tapes exchanged by industry and closer to something uniquely our own. Whatever that thing is—the thing lifelong music fans, Hungry Ghosts is a reaffirmation of the sounds and ideas that we’re fumbling to make or to become—that thing is decidedly Angeleno. brought the band together in the first place. Building on (and deconstructing) 15 years of pop-rock smarts, musical friendship, and band-of-the-future innovations, Hungry Our hope is that tonight’s show puts this fuller version of our band on stage; we’re Ghosts, offers melancholic fireworks (“The Writing’s on the Wall”), basement funk trying to dial back the decades-old conventions of rock shows and present to you a parties (“Turn Up The Radio”), IMAX-sized choruses (“The One Moment”), and space- more cohesive picture of what we’ve made, or what we’ve become. If it works, this will age dance floor bangers (“I Won’t Let You Down”). be the first hometown show for OK Go-The-Creative-Guys. To accompany the music of Hungry Ghosts, OK Go has released a selection of Thank you for coming, imaginative new videos, including a mind-bending journey through an optical illusion filled warehouse, an elaborately choreographed dance performed on Honda’s UNI- —OK Go CUB personal mobility devices, and a stunning display of zero gravity acrobatics in moving aircraft. Their latest video for “The One Moment” captures 325 events in literally one moment (4.2 seconds). OK Go has been honored with a GRAMMY Award, three MTV Video Music Awards (one of them from Japan!), a CLIO, three UK Music Video Awards, two WEBBY Awards (including one for their collaboration with The Muppets and Sesame Street), a spot in a Guggenheim installation, a total of 10 Cannes Lions, and a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in the Visual Arts. Art in Action Design for Sharing “Art in Action is somewhere between an academic symposium and the “Design for Sharing enriches and supports learning, social awareness and vibrancy of an eagerly awaiting coloring book. This is where we explore in responsible cultural arts citizenship creating a new generation of artists public to release the energetic potential of sharing ideas together.” and audiences.” —Kristy Edmunds —Kristy Edmunds Design for Sharing (DFS) is our free K-12 arts education program that provides public school students from across the Los Angeles metro area access to the performing arts, Art in Action, our free public engagement program, offers a wide range of experiential both at UCLA and in their own classrooms. The arts provide a gateway for students to art activities around the ideas emanating from the work of artists on our season. Through explore shared ideas across communities and culture–sparking their curiosity and imag- workshops, lectures, master classes, films, salons and art-making forums, Art in Action ination. Since 1969, Design for Sharing has provided performances, workshops and school provides a platform for our UCLA and Los Angeles communities to exchange ideas and residencies to almost a million public school students, offering a diverse array of music, participate in shared cultural experiences. contemporary dance, and innovative theater. cap.ucla.edu/dfs This season, we’re continuing two ongoing initiatives and introducing a third. Writing the This season, the following CAP artists Landscape returns with new takes on the Poetry Bureau and special activities with our will participate in Design for Sharing programs: library partners, exploring how the impulse to make something results in an altered land- scape, or new view. Hearing Beyond Listening devises ways to “listen better,” with artist- Dancenorth/Lucy Guerin Inc curated playlists, personalized music maps, intimate salons, and the now popular, CAP Gabriel Kahane AteNine Listening Lab. A new series of programs, Facing the Blank Page, takes direct inspiration João Donato ONIX Ensamble from this season’s the theater is a blank page. Activities throughout the season will Antonio Sanchez & Migration Kronos Quartet investigate how we transmit traces of ourselves through the written word, movement, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion sound and imagery. cap.ucla.edu/ArtInAction House Rules CODA21 PHOTOGRAPHY CHILDREN CODA21 is a pilot initiative that supports dialogue, research, and collaboratively designed Photography, video and the use of any Children over age 5 are welcome to most experiments between UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and leading research cen- recording equipment is strictly prohibited events and, regardless of age, must have ters and labs across campus. Collaborating labs include Denise Cai and Silvalab, a leading at all times during performances at all a ticket. 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