CAP UCLA presents Dancenorth, Lucy Guerin Inc, Gideon Obarzanek and Senyawa Attractor Thu, Nov 2 & Fri, Nov 3 | Royce Hall

Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti East Side, MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR West Side, All Around LA Welcome to the Center for the Art of Performance Photo by Ian Maddox The Center for the Art of Performance is not a place. It’s more of a state of mind that embraces experimentation, encourages Welcome to Royce Hall and UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance. a culture of the curious, champions disruptors and dreamers and Tonight’s performance is born out of an extensive collaboration between two supports the commitment and courage of artists. We promote internationally acclaimed and prolific choreographers, Lucy Guerin and Gideon rigor, craft and excellence in all facets of the performing arts. Obarzanek. Both have long been interested in the elastic potential of contempo- rary , the social and cultural dimensions of the body in space and time, and the acute practice of crafting surprising frameworks to generate movement. With 2017–18 SEASON VENUES Attractor, Guerin and Obarzanek bring together two of ’s leading dance companies–Lucy Guerin Inc () and Dancenorth () - with the full Royce Hall, UCLA Freud Playhouse, UCLA integration of the renowned Indonesian music duo Senyawa, to produce an trans- The Theatre at Ace Hotel Little Theater, UCLA formational state of being both on stage and off. Will Rogers State Historic Park Attractor sets its sights on the gravitational potency of high velocity movement de- ployed within a unique sonic landscape created by Senyawa that blends the heavy UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is dedicated to the advancement metal influence of bands like Black Sabbath, Metalica and Iron Maiden that they of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines—dance, music, spoken word listened to in their youth with sounds found in sacred Javanese musical traditions. and theater—as well as emerging digital, collaborative and cross-platforms utilized by The music is carried through hand-made electric instruments designed to evoke today’s leading artists. Part of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, CAP UCLA the experience of an Indonesian folk ritual. Taken in combination with the dancers curates and facilitates direct exposure to contemporary performance from around the (who are joined on stage by a group of participants sourced from the audience), globe, supporting artists who are creating extraordinary works of art and fostering a the grows organically out of a unique conjoining of cultural practices, vibrant learning community both on and off the UCLA campus. The organization invests eventually surrendering the structural elements of the art of dance to the ecstasy of in the creative process by providing artists with financial backing and time to experiment a completely liberated communal experience. and expand their practices through strategic partnerships, residencies and collaborations. As an influential voice within the local, national, and global arts community, CAP UCLA Tonight is a rare chance to experience a remarkable choreographic collaboration that celebrates the power of human beings to cross national and cultural borders in serves to connect audiences across generations in order to galvinize a living archive of service to artistic exploration where different languages and vernaculars–both in art our culture. and life–find powerful through lines of transformation. cap.ucla.edu —Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director #CAPUCLA ARTISTIC CREDITS

Direction & Choreography | Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin Music | Senyawa - Rully Shabara & Wukir Suryadi Dancers | Kyle Page, Jenni Large, Ashley McLellan, Georgia Rudd, Mason Kelly, Samantha Hines, Jack Ziesing and Felix Sampson Produced by Dancenorth Dancenorth Artistic Director | Kyle Page Dancenorth General Manager | Deanna Smart | Ben Bosco Shaw Audio System Designer | Nick Roux Audio Engineer | Andres Salcedo Sanchez Lighting Realisation | Samuel Doyle Participant & Rehearsal Director | Amber Haines Costume Designer | Harriet Oxley Production Managers | Murray Dempsey and Melanie Stanton Company Manager | Kellie Williams

Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti A NOTE ON THIS UNIQUE RITUAL Center for the Art of Performance presents ’s tour-de-force music duo Senyawa and Melbourne’s choreographic luminaries Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek join forces with two of Australia’s leading dance companies, Lucy Guerin Inc and Dancenorth. Together they take you on Dancenorth, Lucy Guerin Inc, a unique music/dance ritual. Gideon Obarzanek and Senyawa Senyawa reinterprets the Javanese tradition of entering trance through dance and music as a powerful, secular, present-day ritual. Their unusual sound borrows from the Attractor metal bands they listened to as teenagers – Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden – A Unique Music/Dance Ritual and Indonesian ritual and folk idioms. As the performance unfolds, Senyawa’s unique fusion of hand-made electrified stringed instruments with operatic melodies and Thu, Nov 2 and Fri, Nov 3 @ 8pm heavy metal vocals slowly builds to a euphoric pitch while the dancers are propelled into wild physical abandonment and ecstatic release, creating a visceral, empathic Royce Hall experience for the audience. Running time: Approx. 60 mins. | No Intermission Selected members of the audience will be called onto the stage to join the dancers, dissolving the demarcation between dancer and non-dancer, audience and performer, professional and the amateur in a cross-cultural, shared ritual. By crossing these NightCAP : Thu, Nov 2 thresholds, we collectively succumb to the inherent power of music and dance, and Sponsors: experience how they can propel each other into heightened states of energy. CAP UCLA Artist Circle Members are invited to a celebratory toast with the artists in the Royce Hall Donor Lounge after the performance. MESSAGES FROM THE ARTISTS ABOUT THE COMPANY As a major champion of the arts in regional North Dancenorth balances a dynamic I first met Indonesian music duo Senyawa in Yogyakarta in 2014, when we set off on regional presence with a commitment to creating compelling that tours the globe. Led by Artistic Director, Kyle Page, Dancenorth is an integral part of a long journey to a remote village in far eastern Java to observe a traditional trance dance ecology making a significant contribution to the dance sector and building literacy around ceremony. After two nights of prayers and offerings to the dead, dancers entered contemporary dance nationally. a state of trance through a series of vigorous performances. Now possessed, they were considered vessels for immortal spirits come to visit the living. To prove this Dancenorth is fast becoming one of Australia’s leading contemporary Dance Company hav- extraordinary transition from human to non-human, they performed shocking acts of ing presented work under Kyle Page’s Artistic Direction (since 2015) in over 11 International Arts pain and strength before being exorcised by Shamans. Festivals and venues around Australia and the world. As a model for making outstanding art in a regional community, Dancenorth has received several accolades including; Australian Dance Award (Best Community Dance Award), a Greenroom Award (Best Ensemble If_Was_) and two While in the village, I reflected on my many years of creating virtuosic stage Helpmann awards for the MFI Commissioned work Attractor, (Best Dance Production and Best productions with highly trained dancers and my own contrasting early experience Choreography in a , Dance or Physical Theatre Production) along with numerous other in dance. This happened on kibbutz in Israel as a child doing folk dancing where nominations. participation was privileged over performance. I am an atheist but have always been interested in religious art and traditional ceremony. While my folk dancing background Dancenorth empowers and supports artists by providing a creative hub for many artistic voices is not religious, it shares a similar traditional relationship where watching and including a diverse range of choreographers, guest collaborators, artists in residence and dancers. participating, performing and experiencing are all interchangeable. Alongside our professional ensemble and touring productions sits an equally vital pillar of focus, the Enrichment Projects. Dancenorth works with diverse and minority communities across Queensland using dance to support, enhance, inspire and heal—bringing communities together. As contemporary artists performing to secular audiences, Rully, Wukir and I discussed our contradictory interest in traditional music and dance. We pondered why we Dancenorth is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the and other seemingly non-religious people are drawn to this type of ceremonial Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland; performance. We concluded that dance and music can create transcendent states for Townsville City Council; and the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. participants, through which they become a part of something bigger than themselves. Making Attractor comes from a shared interest to construct rituals for non-believers. ABOUT THE ARTISTS

—Gideon Obarzanek, Director Lucy Guerin | Director and choreographer Born in , Australia, Lucy graduated from the Centre for Performing This work for me has been a succumbing to the inherent power of music and dance Arts in 1982 before working with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). She moved to New York in 1989 for seven and how they can propel each other into heightened states of energy, tone, rhythm years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller and form. I have always believed that we can watch dance without having to translate Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic it into a meaning beyond what we see and experience. We accept this easily with works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent music, and with the help of Senyawa’s incredible sound I hope that we can experience artist until 2002 when she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to this work beyond a representation of a narrative or a theme. support the development, creation and touring of contemporary dance works. The excitement of working with Senyawa and their willingness to and try Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America and has been new things has been a joyous experience. We experimented initially with leading commissioned internationally, most recently by Lyon Ballet (), Skanes Dansteater and following; dancers responding to the music and the musicians following the (Sweden), The Young Vic (London) and Rambert (London). movements and rhythms of the dancers. But these boundaries have become blurred and get tossed back and forth throughout the work. Her awards include the 2016 Australia Council Award, a Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, two New York Dance and Performance Awards (‘Bessies’), several Green Room Awards, three The movement involves gradual evolutions of form that connect the dancers as one Helpmann Awards and three . organism, made of individual bodies. I was not looking for clarity of image in this piece but rather a constantly shifting texture of movement that allows the eye to move Gideon Obarzanek | Director and choreographer between absorbing the whole picture and finding detail and precision. Gideon is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator. Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and Artistic Director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in Kyle, Amber and the dancers have contributed generously to this creation with their form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific remarkable skills. It couldn’t have happened without their patience and dedication works, participatory events and film. These have been performed in many and this has been deeply appreciated by both Gideon and myself. festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NYC, Venice Biennale, Southbank London and all major —Lucy Guerin, Director Australian performing arts festivals. In 2013 Gideon was a resident artist at the Theatre Company where he wrote and directed Leader of the Year for the North / Far North Queensland Region and was again listed as one of the ‘I Want to Dance Better at Parties’. He later co wrote and directed a documentary version with top 50 most influential people in North Queensland.Kyle was recently awarded a 2017 Sidney Myer Mathew Bate winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award. Creative Fellowship. Gideon is a recipient of an Australian Creative Fellowship working with theatre, dance and documentary filmmakers to develop projects with simultaneous live and screen outcomes. Amber Haines | Participant and Rehearsal Director In 2006 Amber attained a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College Senyawa of the Arts graduating with the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer. Since then she has worked with many of Australia’s most Jogjakarta’s Senyawa embodies the aural elements of traditional acclaimed companies and choreographers including Chunky Move / Gideon Indonesian music whilst exploring the framework of experimental music Obarzanek, / Garry Stewart, Lucy Guerin Inc practice, pushing the boundaries of both traditions. Their music strikes / Lucy Guerin, Stephanie Lake and Tracie Mitchelle. She has performed a perfect balance between their avant-garde influences and cultural throughout Australia, Europe, , North, South and Central heritage to create truly contemporary Indonesian new music. America, and . Amber is a multi award nominee for both the Australian Dance Awards and The Heplmann Awards for Best Dance Their sound is comprised of Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal Performance by a Female. techniques punctuating the frenetic sounds of instrument builder, Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation. Inventions like his Amber and Kyle Page, her partner and long-time collaborator, have co-directed three full-length handcrafted ‘Bamboo Spear’; a thick stem of bamboo strung up with works for Dancenorth including Syncing Feeling, Spectra and Rainbow Vomit. These works have percussive strips of the animal skin alongside steel strings. Amplified it been performed across Australia including major international arts festivals - Sydney Festival, fuses elements of traditional Indonesian instrumentation with garage Brisbane Festival, OzAsia Festival and MOFO. Their works have received numerous award distortion. Sonically dynamic, the instrument can be rhythmically percussive on one side whilst nominations from both the Helpmann Awards and the Australian Dance Awards. being melodically bowed and plucked on the other. In 2013/14 Amber and Kyle spent three months in Varanasi, India on an Asialink residency and in Senyawa have performed at many notable festivals and underground clubs such as MONA FOMA 2015 they spent three weeks onboard a Tall around Svalbard as part of Festival in Tasmania, the with Korean singer Bae ll Dong, Malmo Sommarscen the prestigious Arctic Circle Residency. Festival in Sweden, Salihara Literature Festival in Jakarta, Art Basel Switzerland, Café Oto in London, Cyptic Festival Glasgow, Copenhagen Jazz House Denmark, Resonate Festival Belgrade Amber is also an emerging photographer, creating the majority of photographic material for Serbia, CTM Festival in Berlin, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, UNSOUND Festival Poland, Clandestino Dancenorth. Festival in Norway, The Lab San Francisco, Eaux Claires Festival , Bridget Donoghue Gallery NYC, Pioneer Works NYC and Oct Loft Jazz Festival in China. Samantha Hines | Dancer They have collaborated and performed with many notable musicians such as Yoshida Tatsuya, Samantha Hines was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She studied Otomo Yoshide, Lucas Abela, KK Null, Keiji Haino, Rabih Beiani, Greg Fox, Arrington De Dionyso, contemporary and classical dance for two years at Sydney’s Ev and Bow Melt Banana, Jon Sass, Damo Suzuki, Jerome Cooper, Justin Vernon, Oren Ambarchi, David Shea, under the directorship of Sarah Boutler and Lisa Evans. In 2010 she went Trevor Dunn, and Kazu Ushihashi. In 2012 they completed a film in collaboration with French on to continue her training at School of Dance and in her filmmaker Vincent Moon. Their latest album is on Pioneer Works, Brooklyn USA. final year was hired by Australian Dance Theatre. While with Australian Dance Theatre Samantha performed and toured extensively with the company throughout Australia, Europe and Asia. In 2013 she embarked on Kyle Page | Artistic Director and Dancer the Australian tour of G as well as Proximity at the Arts Centre Melbourne Kyle Page is an Australian director, choreographer and performer. (winner of Green Room Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble) Throughout his career he has performed in 17 countries and collaborated along with two European tours of Proximity in 2013 & 2014. In 2015 she with renowned choreographers including , Garry Stewart, performed in three European tours of Multiverse, as well as the Australian Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, Gavin Webber, Ikuyo Kuroda, Antony national tour of Be Your Self. Hamilton and Stephanie Lake. Samantha has collaborated and performed in the world premiere seasons of Daniel Jaber’s At seventeen Kyle was already a professional dancer with Dancenorth Nought (2013), Garry Stewart’s Multiverse (2014), Habitus (2016) and Beginning of Nature (2016). Australia and just ten years later in December 2014 he returned to Samantha has since left Australian Dance Theatre and is now working as a freelance dancer Townsville to assume the role of Artistic Director of the company. He has around Australia. co-directed three full-length works for Dancenorth alongside his wife and long time collaborator Amber Haines, including Syncing Feeling, Spectra and Rainbow Vomit. Kyle recently directed Tectonic, a large outdoor installation work presented as part of the 2017 Strand Jenni Large | Dancer Ephemera. Jenni trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She graduated in 2010 receiving the Hawaiian Award for most outstanding In 2013 Kyle and Amber received an Asialink residency and spent three months in Varanasi, India. graduate. During her studies she completed the international exchange In 2015 the pair took part in the prestigious Arctic Circle Residency, sailing a barquentine program at the Taipei National University of the Arts and traveled to the around Svalbard for three weeks. United States to perform at the World Dance Alliance.

In 2015 Kyle was awarded the coveted Australian Institute of Management 30 under 30 and As an independent artist, Jenni has developed, performed and toured was listed as one of North Queensland’s top 50 most influential people. In 2016 he was chosen works by Aimee Smith, Sue Peacock, , Isabella Stone, Ashley to participate in the Australia Council’s Arts Leaders Program, recognized as the AIM Emerging McLellan and Lizzie and Zaimon Vilmanis. Jenni was a founding member of the Sydney-based Dance Makers Collective and has recently begun developing her own work with Georgia Rudd | Dancer collaborator Jack Ziesing. Georgia graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance as a contemporary major in 2015. During her training, Georgia performed From 2012-2013 Jenni was a member of Tasdance under artistic director Annie Greig, performing two new works, Preface – Homage to a Risk (presented at Tempo Dance and touring works by Anton, Francis Rings, Larissa McGowan, Anna Smith, Marnie Palomares, Festival) and Visions of Salome (M1 Contact Dance Festival ) Byron Perry and Tanja Liedkte. by Ross McCormack’s company Muscle Mouth. While studying she also worked with, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, James O’hara, Matthew Jenni joined Dancenorth in 2015 under the directorship of Kyle Page. Performance highlights Smith, James Pham, Thomas Bradley and Sarah Foster-Sproull. include A Pre-Emptive Requiem for Mother Nature by Alisdair Macindoe; If__Was__ a double bill by Ross McCormack and Stephanie Lake, The Three Dancers by Lee Searle; Rainbow Vomit (2015 Professionally, Georgia has performed works by several choreographers Brisbane Festival) and Spectra (2015 Japan Tour) by Amber Haines and Kyle Page. in 2016, her first year with Dancenorth; Rainbow Vomit (Kyle Page and Amber Haines), If Form Was Shifted (Ross McCormack), If Never Was Now (Stephanie Lake), The Ashley Mclellan | Dancer Three Dancers (Lee Serle), and Attractor (Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek). Ashley was born in Cairns and began dancing at the age of 7 with ‘Creative Moves’, and later at ‘Daphne Learoyd School of Dance’ in Felix Sampson | Dancer Shepparton, Victoria. Born in Wellington, Felix studied at the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD), graduating in 2015 with a Diploma in Dance Performance. While Ashley graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts studying at NZSD he worked with many influential choreographers such (WAAPA), with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Dance) in 2010, as Ross McCormack (Preface: Hommage to a risk), Douglas Wright where she was awarded the, Dance Theatre of WA Award 2008, Leinster (Rapt excerpts), Craig Bary (Rapt excerpts) Thomas Bradley (Conditions Award for Dance 2008, and the Hawaiian Award for Ballet 2010. of Entry), Iratxe Ansa (Metamorphosis 2015) and Sarah Foster-Sproull (Forgotten Things) among many others. During and after her training, Ashley spent four years performing with Upon graduating, Felix worked with Johnston in her short work the , under the directorship of Ivan Cavallari performing corps de ballet and Semble which was performed at the Cubadupa Festival in Wellington, soloist roles. and World of Wearable Art during their mini show at the Brancott Estate. Felix then joined Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in May 2016 as a full-time company dancer. She received the award for, Outstanding Performance by a Female in Melbourne’s Short and Sweet Upon joining ADT he performed in the return season of Ignition working with choreographers Festival for her self-choreographed solo, Other in 2013, and was granted a successful recipient such as Lina Limosani, Katrina Lazaroff, Erin Fowler, Matte Roffe and Thomas Fonua. He then of the Australia Council’s ArtStart Grant 2014, during which time she danced in workshops performed multiple works under the choreographer and directorship of Garry Stewart; Objekt, and festivals across Europe and Asia. Upon returning to Australia, Ashley choreographed and The Beginning of Nature, and Doppelganger. performed Pearl for Lucy Guerin Inc.’s season of Pieces for Small Spaces. Jack Ziesing | Dancer In 2015 Ashley performed in Melanie Lane’s work, Merge for Melbourne’s Dance Massive festival Jack Ziesing began dancing in Canberra at Quantum Leap Youth Dance and began dancing full time with Dancenorth Australia, under the newly appointed director Kyle Company under the direction of Ruth Osborne. In 2008 Jack undertook Page. training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. While there he worked with choreographers Aimee Smith, Melanie Lane, Over the years Ashley has worked with artists such as Graham Murphy, Marcia Haydee, Garry Anton and Amaury Lebrun (Spain). In 2009, he received a scholarship Stewart, Ivan Cavallari, Nana Bilus Abaffy, Tony , Gregory Lorenzutti, Alisdair Macindoe, to attend the Taipei Ideas Dance Festival specialising in rope and aerial Melanie Lane, Kyle Page, Amber Haines, Geoffrey Watson, Stephanie Lake, Ross McCormack, Lee work. Jack also travelled to the United States to attend the World Dance Serle, Lucy Guerin Inc. and Gideon Obarzanek to name a few. Alliance Conference and perform choreographer Sue Peacock’s any given moment. He graduated from WAAPA in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts Mason Kelly | Dancer Degree in Dance. Mason Kelly, originally from Geelong, Victoria, attended The Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Melbourne where he trained for Upon graduating, Jack developed Ghostlight choreographed by Kate Weare (USA) for Buzz three years. In 2013 he commenced full-time training as a contemporary Dance Company and also performed in Chrissie Parrot’s Cyg.net 2 for the opening gala at the major at The New Zealand School of Dance. State Theatre Centre of Western Australia. Jack joined Expressions Dance Company in 2011 under artistic director . While at the company, Jack was fortunate to perform in many of During his time at NZSD Mason performed in the World of Wearable Arts, Weir’s signature award winning works. He toured extensively nationally and internationally and directed by Malia Johnston and NZSD’s choreographic season of ’The collaborated with other companies including , Cathy Sharpe Dance Ensemble, Residents’ directed by Victoria Colombus which toured to Tempo Dance LDTX/Beijing Dance, and Guangzhou Company. He also Festival Auckland. He also worked with James O’Hara, Lina Limosani, performed works by commissioned choreographers such as Antony Hamilton, Lucas Jervies, Paul Michael Parmenter, Nils Christe and Ursula Rob. In 2015, at the start of Selwyn-Norton, Lisa Wilson, Nerida Matthaei, Liesel Zink, Cameron McMillan and Xing Liang. his third year, Mason was lucky enough to join Dancenorth under the Jack now works as a freelance performer and choreographer. He recently performed in Ohad new directorship of Kyle Page. Since then he has performed and toured works around Australia Naharin’s Decadance for STRUT as part of the MoveMe festival in before choreographing by Alisdair Macindoe (A Pre-Emptive Requiem for Mother Nature), Ross McCormack (If Form was for QL2’s EAT in Canberra. Shifted), Stephanie Lake (If Never was Now), Lee Serle (The Three Dancers), Kyle Page and Amber Haines (Rainbow Vomit, Spectra) and Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek (Attractor). He has also Jack is a multiple nominee for both the Australian Dance Awards and the worked with the Townsville community choreographing and teaching workshops. Awards for Best Dance Performance by a Male.

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Attractor was commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne for Asia TOPA through the KMATS En- dowment Fund, the Playking Foundation and the Australia-ASEAN Council of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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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 CODA21 House Rules PHOTOGRAPHY ACCESSIBILITY CODA21 is a pilot initiative that supports dialogue, research, and collaboratively designed Photography, video and the use of any The Theatre at Ace Hotel offers ADA access- experiments between UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and leading research cen- recording equipment is strictly prohibited at all ible seats and restrooms. You can buy ADA ters and labs across campus. Collaborating labs include Denise Cai and Silvalab, a leading times during performances at all UCLA campus seating on our ticketing site or by calling AXS at performance venues and at The Theatre at neuroscience research lab studying molecular and cellular cognition; Hakwan Lau and the 888-9-AXS-TIX (888-929-7849). When buying Ace Hotel. Any/all press photography must be tickets over the phone, please let the ticket Consciousness & Metacognition Lab; the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity; approved in writing agent know if you require accessible seating, and the Design Media Arts Lab. in advance by the Center for the Art of and s/he will issue you an ADA seat. Performance representative. For press inquiries and to make a request to cover Informing CODA21’s design is the belief that the students at UCLA represent the conditions In addition to wheelchair spaces, The Theatre an event, visit cap.ucla.edu/press/ at Ace Hotel is equipped with select aisle seats emblematic of society at large. Economic anxiety, homogeneous living arrangements, and that have folding armrests on the aisle side to media saturation imposing gender and racial stereotypes have seriously eroded the acade- make transfer easier for those with mobility my’s critical role in fostering a pluralistic, tolerant, progressive, and socially interdependent CAMERAS & SMART PHONES limitations. For such seating, please request a The use of cameras, smart phones, cell phones “transfer seat.” community. Curriculum is increasingly limited in its ability to play this historic role. The and recording equipment of any kind is strictly remaining antidote is a thoughtfully curated arts presenting program like CAP UCLA, an prohibited at all times during performances at If you need accessible seating the night of the interdisciplinary learning experience offering students and the extended audience exposure, all UCLA campus performance venues and at event and don’t have a special ticket, we’ll do through live performance to artists who represent the diversity of traditions, ethnicities, The Theatre at Ace Hotel. All devices must be our best to accommodate you once you arrive silenced before the start of the performance. at the theater. gender roles, and aesthetics reflective of the demographic terrain in which we all work Please be considerate to those around you and and live. Through its experimental collaboration, CODA21 seeks to confirm, amplify, and refrain from texting, emailing or surfing enhance this crucial role. the web during performances.

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