The Johannesburg-based Centre for the Less Good Idea, co-founded by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace, brings its interdisciplinary approach to Los Angeles for a weeklong residency.
Los Angeles welcomes the Johannesburg-based Centre for the Less Good Idea, co-founded by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace , for a weeklong residency. Kentridge, known for his installations and artistic explorations, is described as 'an amiable, professorial emcee' who blends 'fabulous dance; potent singing, operatic and otherwise (mostly otherwise); multidimensional video imagery; quirky music; even quirkier machinery on stage.
' The residency, titled 'Three Less Good Ideas in Los Angeles,' kicks off at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance with 'A Defense of the Less Good Idea' (8 p.m. Saturday). This event features three short form works — 'Mnquma,' 'Commission Continua' and 'Umthandazo' — and a performance-based lecture by Kentridge and Lace, exploring art, meaning, and understanding through text, live performance, and video projection.The exploration continues at the Broad with 'Unsettled Voices' (1 p.m. Sunday), where Tongva educator and musician Lazaro Arvizu Jr. and Khoi Khoi violist Lynn Daphne Rudolph will perform a new work at Oculus Hall. This Indigenous music, visual, and spoken word performance invites audience participation in a creative call-and-response and dialogue, examining the concept of reconciliation in today's Los Angeles. The event ties in with the museum's 'Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature' exhibition and a local reforestation effort. The residency concludes at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with five performances of 'The Great Yes, The Great No' (Feb. 5-8), a chamber opera about the 1941 escape from Vichy France by surrealist André Breton, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam, communist novelist Victor Serge, and author Anna Seghers aboard a cargo ship bound for Martinique. Conceived in collaboration with theater maker Phala Ookeditse Phala and choral composer Nhlanhla Mahlangu and directed by Kentridge, the production blends surrealist imagery with real-life events and South African choral music, dance, and poetry
ART CENTER FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA WILLIAM KENTRIDGE BRONWYN LACE LOS ANGELES RESIDENCY PERFORMANCE MUSIC DANCE VIDEO THEATRE SURREALISM RECONCILIATION INDIGENOUS MUSIC LATIN AMERICA
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