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[reichenyoo]

Sun & Sea this weekend. Beautiful show with full of the imaginations and love. Proud of Fred to present this show and make it happen with all of the stress and beyond hard work. #mocalosangeles #CAPUCLA #performanceart #LosAngeles #LA #California #CA #US (at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJJRh0Bmg7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[reichenyoo]

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Last night in #UCLA I wish I have brought my camera with me to take this incredible moment. Dance and smile... #CAPUCLA #LosAngeles #LA #California #CA #US (at UCLA Royce Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9e4YdKJi-z/?igshid=jcib9ih9btqq

[acehotel]

Ace has been in cahoots with artist and curator extraordinaire Kristy Edmunds since our mutual salad days in the Pacific Northwest, back when she’d just founded the seminal Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Now the Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Kristy sat down with us to talk about the upcoming CAP UCLA 2018–19 season, the second hosted in collaboration with The Theatre at Ace Hotel.  

Can you give us a sense of what the new season of CAP UCLA will feel like? Is there a central thematic anchor?

I usually try not to program and create work based on themes, because then you limit the way that you're looking at work, and you're basically trying to acquire stuff that suits the theme that you've constructed. When I look at it — especially at the top with Vijay Iyer and Teju Cole, DakhaBrakha and Fran Lebowitz — they couldn't be more different. Yet they're all exploring ways in which their unique voices and art forms really attack ideas around injustice.

Does that sort of social consciousness subsist through the rest of the series?

The thing that we try to focus on are extraordinary artists who yield the power of their observation in the world they’re living in...to then find a form that lets the public experience things in completely unique ways. 

Vijay and Teju’s Blind Spot hasn't been to Los Angeles. It's the work of a tremendous jazz pianist and composer who has a lot of dynamic involvement around social justice causes, and who, along with an incredible photographer, creates this amazing piece looking at the way in which historically in the U.S. we have been blind to different kinds of tragedy or injustice. It asks an audience to look at where our blind spots are right now and it invokes that way of knowing and belonging and checking ourselves while being involved in a tremendous performance experience.

And the second show? Can you tell us more about DakhaBrakha?

They perform traditional Ukrainian music, but also put their own spin on it. They're like an indie band out of the Ukraine, which is really under pressure from Russia and various other kinds of machinations. They’re amazing musicians who came out of a theater history, so they tend to be very visually compelling when they're on the stage. They travel the world sharing their music but also raising awareness as to what's going on in the Ukraine. They are so exquisite, I can't even, I have no words. They are just truly exquisite.

DakhaBrakha’s been around for a long time within the World Music spectrum, but they're really starting to crest into the imagination of the art world. They're reaching different kinds of diverse audiences now and we've been a part of that for multiple years. So while they're not a household name in the U.S., they are incredible artists. They are so beloved, and we look at their work as something we can help foster in Los Angeles and beyond.

Is there something that differentiates what kind of show you book at The Theatre at Ace Hotel versus one happening at Royce Hall?

Well, both of them are historic and extraordinary, quite iconic venues in Los Angeles. Royce Hall is larger. I mean, in a way, I guess the shortest way of describing it is that they're two different architectures, you know? The stage at Royce Hall has a large fly system, and can carry dance companies and large theater ensembles very well. It can also deal with music. So part of it is looking at what are the technical and architectural design needs of a theater space and matching the work to that. That is one piece.

Another piece of it — and it is part of what got me started in the collaboration with The Theatre at Ace Hotel — was that I have a long history with everybody there. There is an aesthetic that lives in the DNA of that Ace culture, in the employees and the staff. A lot of artists work there. So I like to embrace that aesthetic and that ethos — it’s important to embrace Ace and their history of artistic involvement.

The other piece of it — and honestly, what started the collaboration — is the physical geography of Los Angeles. It’s just difficult to get to Royce from the Eastside. So the Ace becomes this great cultural Switzerland in a way... Various urban dwellers in Downtown and the surrounding districts can come to Ace and connect with the spirit of enthusiasm that theatre enables.

[erincarere]

My #unicorn #dandyminion #makeup for the #taylormacla show. I didn't take many pics 'cause I was engrossed with the show, with Taylor, with the other Dandys, with the musicians, with the audience, and with being #nudiebaby ... where, oh where would I have put my phone??? ... an amazing start to a phenomenal experience. Three more shows! Join us Saturday 3/17, Thursday 3/22 and Saturday 3/24. And come in glitter and drag!!!! @cap_ucla @theatre_acedtla @intomore @pomegranatearts #taylormacla #24decade #capucla #acedtla #intomore #actorslife #singer (at Los Angeles, California)

[caramelknowz]

This Spring is going to be amazing! This Patron Saint of Traveling Showgirls and Cats is on the move. Will she be in your city? If not, book her! Have costumes, will travel! #allthehashtags #burlesquedancer #travelingshowgirl #bronzebeauty #PeepshowMenagerie #Hairball #DrShockerJambortease #Revengeofthe80s #freezingtasselburlesquefestival #triptease #tripsantamonica #dollfacedames #Vegas #classicburlesque #TaylorMacLA #24decade #CAPUCLA #AceDTLA #intomore #elpaso #BurlesqueattheRio #BagelBurlesqueFestival #Montreal #Canada #austin #texasburlesquefestival

[erincarere]

In another #randomactoffierceness and #fabulous performing news, I am super-duper, exponentially pleased to announce that *YOURS TRULY* is a part of the incredible, amazing, award-winning, Pulitzer-prize nominated show by TAYLOR MAC this March at the @theatre_acedtla . A 24-Decade History of Popular Music! I also can offer a family/ friends/ social media discount if you use promo code Taylor25 at http://cap.ucla.edu/TaylorMac ... March 15, 17, 22, and 24.... each night a new show...... come be blown away and come see ME!!!! #taylormacla #24decade #capucla #acedtla #intomore @cap_ucla @intomore @pomegranatearts ...and yes, I am wearing my Vampire Snow White outfit today. I was in the mood for #casualfairytalevampire style

[gabrielkahane]

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Dream come true!!

[filmosfera]

After concert, late night jamming session at Ace Hotel roof WTH some members of #TheBlindBoys of Alabama band. @CAP_UCLA #CAPUCLA