Sala: CAP UCLA at Royce Hall, Los Angeles

The Day features music by David Lang and choreography by Lucinda Childs as former ballerina Wendy Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser perform together in this work contemplating memory, mortality, and aging.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company captures the audience for seven hours during this trilogy of works meditating on memory, suffering, and relationships.

Los Angeles choreographer Danielle Agami of AteNine Dance Company collaborates with Chicago based Composer/Musician Glenn Kotch of the rock band Wilco with stunning results. calling glenn is a must see.

The Bamberg sound remains particularly noticeable in the unanimity and broad, rich beauty of the strings and the sublimely eloquent woodwinds, and the musical authority that lies in the roots of its history. 

Mikhail Baryshnikov collaborates with Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs to present Letter To A Man based on the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. It is an exploration into the troubled mind of an iconic genius that struggles with its own problems.

Rosas, Anne Teresas De Keersmaeker’s iconic company, offered a slight evening of dance on the UCLA dance series at Royce Hall Friday evening with her revised version of the 1995 Verklärte Nacht.

Kill everyone who brings us discord; it is the only way to have quiet. A Rite, which is actually a meta-cognitive lesson questions Stravinksy/Nijinsky's 1913 Rite. In the 21st century, our sacrificial rite is daily —in our schools, in our public spaces, in our streets, in “someone else’s” war...

From across the centuries, the quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich have come to be regarded as the twin pillars of the quartet repertoire. Think of them as the New Testament and the Old Testament. The Pacifica Quartet offered a program that sandwiched Shostakovich with a pair of quartets by Beethoven.The String Quartet No.