Press information: Jessica Wolf 310.285.7789 [email protected] Online image library: www.cap.ucla.edu/press-images For Immediate Release: May 23, 2012 CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE AT UCLA 2012-2013 SEASON 2012-2013 Season Venues Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive, UCLA Campus Parking Lot 5 Freud Playhouse 245 Charles E. Young Dr., East, UCLA Macgowen Hall Parking Lot 3 Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd Hammer Lot Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater 120 Westwood Plaza, UCLA Kaufman Hall Parking Lot 4 Sunset Canyon Amphitheater 111 Easton Drive, UCLA Sunset Recreation Parking Lot 11 Powell Library Rotunda 220 Powell, UCLA Campus Parking Lot 5 Ticket information: UCLA Central Ticket Office 310.825.2101 Ticket prices listed are advertised price. Create Your Own season subscription prices are $5 off per ticket. *Indicates no-discount shows. **Indicates UCLA student ticket price. All prices and programs are subject to change. Subscription packages on sale May 22. Individual tickets on sale August 4. 2012-2013 Calendar of Events SEPTEMBER Fri.-Sat, Sept. 21-22 at 8 p.m. / Theater Royce Hall Rhinoceros by Eugéne Ionesco *$70/$55/$35/$30/$25/$20** A production of Théâtre de la Ville-Paris Directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota U.S. Premiere This compelling restaging and U.S. premiere of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is performed by the same troupe that debuted it at Paris’ Théâtre de la Ville in 2004, where Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota was named director in 2008. The story of protest and conformity is reflective of Ionesco’s personal and emotional reaction to the rise of Fascism and French collaboration with the Nazis. Rhinoceros is considered by many to be his finest work and revered as a gripping piece of the Theatre of the Absurd era of theatre history. Performed in French with English subtitles. Page | 1 CAP UCLA 2012-2013 Calendar of Events Fri., Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. /Global Music Royce Hall Bebel Gilberto plus special guests Forro in the Dark $55/$45/$30/$25/$20** The colorful sound of Brazil fills Royce Hall, featuring headliner Bebel Gilberto’s trademark electronic Bossa Nova, which took over clubs around the world and cemented Bebel as one of the top-selling Brazilian artists in the United States since her 2000 release T anto Tempo . Forro in the Dark is the collective of four New York-based Brazilian ex-pats—Mauro Refosco (zabumba drum and vocals) Davi Vieira (percussion and vocals) Guilherme Monteiro (guitar and vocals) and Jorge Continentino (piano flute, sax and vocals), who are brilliantly updating a traditional sound for the 21st century. OCTOBER Tues., Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. / Folk Royce Hall An evening with Emmylou Harris and Her Red Dirt Boys $60/$55/$35/$25/$20/$15** Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris has reinvented her music time and time again. Call it country, folk, rockabilly or honky-tonk — Harris has covered it all and then some. She performs with her band of Nashville heavyweight producers Phil Madeira and Will Kimbrough , master fiddle and mandolin player Rickie Simpkins , along with the always-in-lock- step rhythm section of Chris Donahue and Bryan Owings. Fri.-Sat., Oct. 5 -Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. / Dance Royce Hall Akram Khan Company: Vertical Road $55/$35/$30/$25/$20/$15** West Coast Premiere Acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan’s signature style draws upon techniques and vocabularies from Kathak and modern dance. For Vertical Road he has assembled a cast of performers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East for a courageous and ambitious work set to a specially commissioned score from composer Nitin Sawhney, Khan’s long-term collaborator and fellow cultural pioneer. Vertical Road draws inspiration from the Sufi tradition and beloved Persian philosopher-poet Rumi. Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund and the Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director's Discretionary Fund. Sun., Oct. 7 at 7p.m. / Classical Music Royce Hall Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Ravel & Beethoven $105/$88/$52/$25 Jeffrey Kahane conductor & piano Augustin Hadelich violin Program: Andrew Norman The Great Swiftness (West Coast premiere); Ravel Piano Concerto in G major; James Matheson True South (West Coast premiere); Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Page | 2 CAP UCLA 2012-2013 Calendar of Events Fri., Oct. 12 at 8p.m. / Global Music Royce Hall An evening with Bajofondo $50/$45/$30/$25/$20/$15** The vibrant collective of composers, singers and artists known as Bajofondo represents an innovative blend of acoustic tango and electronic music, as well as a fusion of Latin alternative and contemporary sounds. Consisting of eight musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, the group is led by the brilliant Gustavo Santaolalla , two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Babe , as well as the highly anticipated upcoming film On the Road . Sponsored in part by José Luis Nazar Endowment for the Performing Arts. Sat., Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. / Jazz Royce Hall Bill Frisell & Bill Morrison: The Great Flood $45/$35/$30/$25/$20/$15** Los Angeles Premiere Celebrated guitarist/composer Bill Frisell and award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison have crafted a highly personal and illuminating musical vision, inviting us on a journey of discovery around the devastation wrought by the Mississippi River Flood of 1927. Frisell has composed an evening-length suite of original music accompanying film and staging from critically acclaimed experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison. Frisell’s evocative score harnesses a wide-ranging musical palette woven by the extraordinary composer’s vast vocabulary of American roots music and adds an emotional storytelling layer to the on-screen images that words alone can rarely attain. Presented in association with Angel City Jazz Festival and the Jazz Bakery. Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund and the Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for the Performing Arts. Sun., Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. /Jazz Royce Hall An evening with Vijay Iyer: Trio, Quartet and Sextet $45/$35/$30/$25/$20/$15** featuring Steve Coleman We explore Vijay Iyer’s unique talent and vision in three contexts. His trio, featuring Stephan Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums, starts out the evening, pushing the classic combo configuration to entirely new territories. The legendarily influential saxophonist Steve Coleman joins the trio in the second set for a rare guest appearance. For more than four decades, Coleman has pushed the concept of jazz in ways few others have. Iyer’s new sextet, featuring the core trio plus Coleman, with the addition of Graham Haynes on trumpet and cornet, and Mark Shim on tenor sax, will close out the evening. This extraordinary evening with Vijay Iyer and his incomparable cohorts will be talked about for years to come. Presented in association with Angel City Jazz Festival and the Jazz Bakery. Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund and the Sally and William A. Rutter Endowment for the Performing Arts. Thurs., Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. / Spoken Word Freud Playhouse Miranda July: The Auction $20/$15/$10** Los Angeles Premiere Award-winning filmmaker, writer and a distinctive voice of her generation’s ethos, Miranda July has designed an evening of storytelling in which the audience becomes a generous and active player in the art of monologue. July solicits volunteers to interview and provide a personal item that will be put up for sale over the course of the performance in keeping with her most recent Page | 3 CAP UCLA 2012-2013 Calendar of Events book, It Chooses You , which explores stories behind item-for-sale ads in the Pennysaver . July also wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning film Me and You and Everyone We Know , and her collection of stories No One Belongs Here More Than You won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her recent film, entitled The Future , is now playing in select cities. Supported in part by the Kevin Jeske Young Artists Fund. Thurs., Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. / Jazz Royce Hall Robert Glasper Experiment $35/$30/$25/$20/$15/$15** plus special guests José James, Taylor McFerrin and Austin Peralta Prolific pianist, composer and producer Robert Glasper has made a number of traditional jazz albums with his trio, but on this year’s revolutionary Black Radio , he surrounds the gorgeous acoustic sounds of his piano with synths, percussion and some fascinating guests such as vocalist Erykah Badu and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def). Associations with multiple hip-hop and R&B artists have long run parallel to Glasper’s emerging jazz career. Glasper’s music can best be described as explorations of chordal texture with space and rhythm, creating a lush tapestry of sound. The evening also includes the slickly soulful José James performing with Bobby McFerrin’s son, Taylor McFerrin . L.A.’s own keyboard upstart Austin Peralta opens. Get ready to groove. Supported in part by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund. Co-produced by the UCLA Student Committee for the Arts. Fri., Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. / Spoken Word-Music Royce Hall Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! $60/$45/$30/$25/$20/$15** Los Angeles Premiere One of the most captivating and iconic artists in contemporary performance, Laurie Anderson returns to Royce Hall with Dirtday ! In this all-new work, Anderson examines politics, theories of evolution, families, history, dreams and animals in a riotous and soulful collection of songs and stories, as told by Laurie and her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. Set against a detailed and lush sonic landscape, the stories and music create a unique hallucinatory world of dreams and reality.