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POOR DOG GROUP AT MICA

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Contemporary theater collective Poor Dog Group are on CAP UCLA’s 2017–2018 season schedule with their new work Group Therapy (January 2018). This week they bring their recent piece MURDER BALLAD 1938 to Baltimore for four nights.

“With a murky mix of desire, jealousy and emancipatory yearning, Poor Dog Group’s movement-based work gives forceful physical life to Jelly Roll Morton’s legendary 1938 recording. Originally performed in the brothels of New Orleans’ steamy Storyville district, Morton’s song revels in the nastiness of its heroine’s voice, whose feral physical energy lays claim to the violent impulses of a woman betrayed. MURDER BALLAD 1938 delves into the myth of female madness and racialized representations of sexuality.”*

POOR DOG GROUP – MURDER BALLAD 1938, Wednesday, August 2 through Saturday, August 5.

Every night at 8 pm. Additional Saturday matinee at 2 pm.

BBOX, MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART, 1601 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore.

*poordoggroup.org/murder-ballad-1938

MURDER BALLAD 1938. Image credit: Poor Dog Group.

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TAYLOR MAC AND KRISTY EDMUNDS

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Over the last few years, a consortium of institutions and patrons from across the United States have come together to ensure the production of Taylor Mac’s ongoing, international sensation A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. In Los Angeles, one of Mac’s most committed—and eloquent—supporters is Kristy Edmunds, the executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA).

On Wednesday, May 24, in celebration of Mac’s Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama—and his upcoming CAP UCLA engagement (four nights in March 2018)—Edmunds welcomes the performance artist to the Theatre at Ace Hotel.

AN EVENING WITH TAYLOR MAC, introduction by Kristy Edmunds and remarks by Taylor Mac at 8 pm. Reception at 9.

THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, 933 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/taylor_mac_ch4

Image credit: CAP UCLA.

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POOR DOG GROUP OPEN STUDIO

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POOR DOG GROUP—acclaimed for its experimental, no-holds-barred approach to performance art—welcomes you to an Open Studio event at the Bootleg Theater.

Their new work-in-progress GROUP THERAPY “draws on 16 hours of audio recordings from the group’s actual therapy with a licensed professional to probe the inner workings of long-term collaboration.”

GROUP THERAPY was commissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) and created as part of its Artists-in-Residence program, with additional residency support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Headlands Center for the Arts.

The evening at the Bootleg is co-presented with Los Angeles Performance Practice.

 

POOR DOG GROUP, GROUP THERAPY, Wednesday, April 26 at 7 pm. Free.

BOOTLEG THEATER, 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Brad Culver in Dionysia by Poor Dog Group (EMPAC, 2011; a Getty Villa incarnation earlier the same year was titled Satyr Atlas). Conceived, written, and directed by Jesse Bonnell. Image credit: Poor Dog Group

Brad Culver in Dionysia by Poor Dog Group (EMPAC, 2011; a Getty Villa incarnation earlier the same year was titled Satyr Atlas). Conceived, written, and directed by Jesse Bonnell.
Image credit: Poor Dog Group

PENNY ARCADE AT UCLA

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Actor, satirist, and performance artist non pareil Penny Arcade became a member of New York’s Playhouse of the Ridiculous at 17, and invented her nom de guerre while tripping on LSD. She created her best known piece BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! in 1990, and her work is collected in the Semiotext(e) volume Bad Reputation. This weekend Penny brings her monologue LONGING LASTS LONGER to UCLA. “Mixed live to euphoric soundscapes,” this Los Angeles debut is presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA), and co-directed and designed by Steve Zehentner.

 

PENNY ARCADE: LONGING LASTS LONGER, Saturday, April 8 at 8 pm; Sunday, April 9 at 7 pm.

FREUD PLAYHOUSE, UCLA.

cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/penny_arcade_2017_2

Penny Arcade, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (Semiotexte, 2009)

semiotexte.com/?page_id=213

Penny Arcade Photograph by Steven Menendez

Penny Arcade
Photograph by Steven Menendez

 

JONAH BOKAER

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James McGill and Wendell Gray II in Rules of the Game. Photograph by Yi-Chun Wu

James McGinn and Wendell Gray II in Rules of the Game. Photograph by Yi-Chun Wu

Choreographer–dancer Jonah Bokaer brings three of his works to Los Angeles this weekend, all in collaboration with artist and designer Daniel Arsham: Recess (2010), Why Patterns (2011), and a new piece—Rules of the Game—with an original score by Pharrell Williams, his first for live dance and theater (arranged and co-composed by David Campbell).

RULES OF THE GAME, presented by the Center for the Art of Performance, Friday, February 10 at 8 pm.

Royce Hall, UCLA.