Don't Miss: Fall 2016
Eight UCLA Arts events that you don't want to miss this fall
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Deborah Hay: A Platform in Three Parts
Image: Deborah Hay, May 2016. Photo: Sarah Granholm.
Deborah Hay: A Platform in Three Parts
Saturday, Oct. 15 & Sunday, Oct. 16
4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m.
Freud Playhouse
Price: $29-$49 ($25 for UCLA Faculty &Staff, $15 for UCLA Students)
Deborah Hay is an internationally renowned dance artist whose unique approach to bodily practice has changed the way we make and view dances. This multidisciplinary program reveals the evolution of a body of choreographies from the score No Time To Fly.
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Robert Hale
The Flower Mart. Credit: Rios Clementi Hale Studios/Luxigonuradyan.
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Robert Hale
Monday, Oct. 17
6:30 p.m.
Perloff Hall, Decafe
Price: Free
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design alumnus Bob Hale, FAIA, has been a partner in the transdisciplinary firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios since joining them in 2001. He has over 40 years of experience designing, planning, and managing highly visible and critically acclaimed architecture and places. In a world that is becoming more and more the same, Hale looks to create places of distinction. He investigates the conditions and characteristics of each site, client, and program as the basis for the invention of places of distinction.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Amie Siegel
Image: Amie Siegel, Double Negative, 2015.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Amie Siegel
Thursday, Nov. 3
7:30 p.m.
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free
Amie Siegel’s work moves between film, video, photography, performance, and installation. Siegel’s layered, meticulously constructed works trace and perform the undercurrents of systems of value, cultural ownership, and image-making. Recent solo exhibitions include those hosted by Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and MAK, Vienna.
UC Regents’ Lecture: Martha Clarke
UC Regents’ Lecture: Martha Clarke
Thursday, Nov. 10
6 p.m.
Broad Art Center, EDA
Price: Free
Martha Clarke is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera. A founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Crowsnest, Martha Clarke has choreographed for Nederlans Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, and The Martha Graham Company, among others. Ms. Clarke is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Award in addition to fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation.
Questions of Quality Part II: A Local Perspective
UCLA Visual and Performing Arts Education afterschool program. Photo credit: Kylie Carrigan for UCLA Arts
Questions of Quality Part II: A Local Perspective
Tuesday, Nov. 15
7 p.m.
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Dance Theater, Room 200
Price: Free
Rory Pullens, Director of LAUSD Arts Education Branch, along with panelists from UCLA and the community will discuss relevant topics in arts education, with a decidedly local perspective. The conversation will include updates on LAUSD's commitment to rebuild its arts education budgets and meet the mandate to position the arts as core curriculum at all LAUSD schools. The evening is designed as an extension to the conversations that began with the VAPAE Public Event led by Harvard University’s Steven Seidel in November 2015.
Slamming Hunger: Story Slam
Slamming Hunger: Story Slam
Wednesday, Nov. 30
4 p.m.
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Amber Dance Studio
Price: Free, no ticket required
A slam-style evening of storytelling on the theme of “slamming hunger.” Performed by members of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Dan Froot's course dedicated to decreasing the stigma of food insecurity on campus.
In Real Life: 100 Days of Film and Performance
Image: Trajal Harrell, Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, 2015. Photo: Paula Court.
In Real Life: 100 Days of Film and Performance
Through Jan. 25
Museum Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Hammer Museum
Price: Free
This fall an ambitious program of daytime performances and film screenings activates the museum’s courtyard, annex, and Billy Wilder Theater. In Real Life includes four month-long curated film and video series, 15 weekends of performances and durational, immersive works, and weekday rehearsals by a select group of performers in disciplines including theater, dance, music, and experimental recitation.
Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayón, La consagración II (The Consecration II), 1991. Collograph. Collection of the Belkis Ayón Estate.
Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón
Through Feb. 12
Gallery Hours: Wednesday, noon–8 p.m.; Thursday–Sunday, noon–5 p.m.
Fowler Museum
Price: Free
Nkame is the first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to the work of Belkis Ayón (1967-1999)—the late Cuban artist who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society Abakuá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. Ayón was known for her signature technique of collography, a printing process in which a variety of materials of various textures and absorbencies are collaged onto a cardboard matrix and then run through the press with paper.
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