UCLA Performing Arts Combining traditional Japanese Butoh
with German expressionist modern dance, Japanese-born dancers
Eiko and Koma create pulsating
works of beauty.
“˜When Nights Were Dark’
Choreographers Eiko and Koma will perform their new work,
“When Nights Were Dark,” at the Japan America Theatre
Thursday, Feb. 1, through Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.
The 70 minute piece features an a cappela choir with original
music by Joseph Jennings that is made up of syllables and sounds
but has no words.
“When Nights Were Dark” began as Eiko and
Koma’s 1999 piece, “The Caravan Project,” an
outdoor performance in a special modified trailer that allowed the
audience to view the piece from all four sides. “When Nights
Were Dark” is meant to recall the journey from birth to the
grave.
For tickets, call the Central Ticket Office at (310)
825-2101.
Authors at BookZone
Frank Chin and faculty author Russell Leong will sign books at
the Charles Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff on Jan. 31 from 4 – 6
p.m.
The event is sponsored by UCLA BookZone as part of its annual
BookZone Author Series. Both authors will read from their books and
will then be available for signings. Chin will sign his book
“Year of the Dragon” and Leong will sign “Phoenix
Eyes and Other Stories.”
The Los Angeles Times recently designated “Phoenix Eyes
and Other Stories” as one of the 106 Best Works of Fiction
for 2000.
For more information, call (310) 206-4041.
Faculty Wind Quintet
The UCLA Faculty Wind Quintet will perform on Wednesday, Jan. 31
from 8 – 10 p.m in Schoenberg 1100. The program will include music
by Franz Danzi, Jacques Ibert, Gyorgi Ligeti and Carl Nielsen.
The Quintet includes Charles Coker on bassoon, Gary Gray on
clarinet, Marion Kuszyk on oboe, Brian O’Connor on horn, and
Sheridon Stokes on flute. Guest artist, UCLA Jazz Studies faculty
member and pianist Tom Ranier, will accompany on Gernot
Wolfgang’s “Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon, and
Piano.”
For more information, call (310)825-2101.
Archaeology Institute Lecture
Professor Charles Stanish of the Department of Anthropology will
speak on Thursday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m at the Lenart
Auditorium, Fowler A103B.
The lecture, titled “Empire in the Clouds: the Great
Civilization of the Lake Titicaca Basin,” is about an island
that was worshiped by the Incas.
For additional information, call (310) 206-8934.
Hammer to host poetry reading
The UCLA Hammer Museum will host a night of poetry reading,
Thursday, Feb. 1 from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
The event features special guest Eavan Boland reading from her
works. Irish-born Boland has taught at Trinity College in London,
as well as Bowdoin College, and was a member of the International
Writing program at the University of Iowa.
Boland’s books include “The Lost Land,”
“An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987,”
“In a Time of Violence” and “Outside History:
Selected Poems 1980-1990.”
She has won the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, an American
Ireland Fund Literary Award, among many other awards.
For more information, call the UCLA Hammer Museum at (310)
443-7000 or e-mail the museum at [email protected].
Briefs compiled from wire reports by Michael Rosen-Molina.