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2016/2017 SEASON
THE HOME OF PROFESSIONAL ARTS AT CAL STATE LA

A MESSAGE FROM
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Welcome to the 2016/2017
season at the Luckman Fine Arts
Complex at Cal State LA! It is with
tremendous pride that I bring you
the next chapter in our portfolio
of monumental programming.
With artists coming from around
the corner and around the world,
and with seventeen countries
represented, the diversity and caliber
of our offerings have never been
more profound.
Being an integral part of the community is important to us. Your
support validates what is sometimes forgotten: that the arts
enrich life in ways that nothing else can. Art has the power to
bring us closer together, to question ourselves and our world, and
to ignite change and action. Its universal language overcomes
obstacles and is instantly understood and absorbed.
I am confident that you will find something to cherish in our
diverse season and that along the way you will discover yourself
in the arts.
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is a shining
treasure in Los Angeles and I am proud to continue its tradition
of excellence.
Enjoy the season!

Wendy A. Baker
Executive Director





COLVIN
& EARLE

SEP 16 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

More than two decades ago, American folk
singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin recorded a
cover of Steve Earle’s Someday. Years later,
following her rise to success that included a
Grammy award and the release of her number
one single Sunny Came Home, and his rock,
country and folk singer-songwriter career, the
two folk stars reveal an unparalleled creative
partnership.

With their new album release, “Colvin & Earle,”
this bluesy and folk cohesive duo capture a
rollicking slice of folk-gospel working its way
from Egypt to Ferguson, MO. Deriving from
personal experiences, the artist’s songs are
raw and lurch through moments of sorrow
and longing, leaving feelings of nostalgia and
revelation with their audiences.

Event Partner



JAZZ 100

OCT 8 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

This monumental year marks the centennial
celebration of four visionary icons of music
all born in the same year: Dizzy Gillespie, Ella
Fitzgerald, Mongo Santamaria, and Thelonious
Monk.

Jazz 100 showcases both the dynamic individual
artist of each icon and the powerful unifying
thread between them, which helped shape and
inform the evolution of jazz and modern jazz as
we recognize it.

An ensemble directed by Danilo Pérez, a
young keyboard player with Drizzy, starring
four contemporary greats including Chris
Potter (saxophone, woodwinds), Avishai Cohen
(trumpet), Wycleffe Gordon (trombone, vocals),
Lizz Wright (vocals), and a talented rhythm
section pay homage to the giants of jazz history
in an incredible collaboration for this 100 year
celebration.

Event Partner



ROCKIN’
ROAD TO

DUBLIN

NOV 6 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Inspired by epic spectacles like Riverdance,
Rockin’ Road To Dublin’s renowned ensemble
is reviving the classic art form to create a new
Irish show with a contemporary feel and a broad
appeal. Choreographer and lead male Scott
Doherty (Riverdance & Lord of the Dance) has
teamed up with veteran Celtic rocker Chris
Smith to produce an exciting fusion of music,
movement and culture that has never been
done before. RRTD is a breathtaking display of
classic Irish tunes accented by rock ‘n’ roll riffs,
electrifying dancers and a dynamic light show.
Enjoy the thrilling sights and sounds as daring
performers execute rapid-fire leaps, twirls and
footwork, and nimble fiddlers square off with
driving electric guitar chords and pulse-pounding
drum beats. Fans say, “Rockin’ Road to Dublin
not only combines Riverdance and Lord of the
Dance perfectly, but actually surpasses them!”



DIEGO
EL CIGALA

NOV 18 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Diego El Cigala has been called “the Sinatra of
flamenco.” With two Grammys and five Latin
Grammy nominations this celebrated artist stays
true to his musical heritage yet has achieved
accolades with mainstream audiences around
the world. His artistic journey began singing in
flamenco peñas and tablaos where his artistry
was recognized by world-class bailaores such as
Mario Maya, Farruco, Carrasco, and more.

Diego El Cigala is regarded as the most exciting
and innovative flamenco singer in the world
today. Passionate, profound, and immensely
proud of his Spanish gypsy heritage, El Cigala
has found profound success in his interpretations
of this disctinctly Spanish artform. His earthy
and exultant and richly emotive voice marks him
as one of the great singers of the last century.

Event Partner



THE
NUTCRACKER

DEC 3 & 4 + 10 & 11

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Marching toy soldiers, waltzing snowflakes,
mischievous mice and Tchaikovsky’s
unforgettable score are quintessential hallmarks
of the holidays. Celebrate the season with Marat
Daukayev Ballet Theatre’s student production
of The Nutcracker, a holiday ballet for the whole
family.

Featuring dancers of all ages, The Nutcracker
tells the story of young Clara, who receives a
gift of a wooden nutcracker doll at her parents’
Christmas party.

That night, she dreams her nutcracker comes to
life and together they battle the wicked Mouse
King and journey through an enchanted forest
of snow to reach the Kingdom of Sweets, where
the Sugar Plum Fairy and all her sweet subjects
await them.

Event Partner



ODC
DANCE

FEB 11 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

ODC Dance is a groundbreaking contemporary
arts institution with longstanding roots in the
San Francisco community. The organization was
formed by Brenda Way in 1971 as a collective of
artists at Oberlin College in Ohio where the name
ODC (Oberlin Dance Collective) originates.

Adventure, a certain irreverence, and the
joy of moving were key ingredients to the
core philosophy of our founding members. In
1976, the sixteen dancers, painters, writers,
photographers and musicians of the collective
bid farewell to Ohio, piled into a big yellow bus
and came west to San Francisco to find a context
for their artistic vision and social ideals.

Free LuckmanPlus activity
Dance master class conducted by ODC
Friday, Feb 10 at 1pm at the Luckman Theatre
Visit www.luckmanarts.org for details

Event Partner



DOBET,
GNAHORE

FEB 18 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Ivory Coast vocalist and dancer Dobet Gnahoré
has garnered a reputation as one of the most
vibrant performers in world music today. Hailed
by critics as Africa’s leading star on the rise,
her extraordinary talents position her to set
the course for the genre. On stage, her voice,
her charisma, and her presence, has immense
audience appeal.

As a child, Gnahoré was trained in the music
and dance traditions of the Bété people by her
father, a well-known performer in West Africa.
In 2010, she shared an award for Best Urban/
Alternative Performance with India.Arie at the
52nd Grammy Awards.

Event Partner



MADELEINE
PEYROUX
& RICKIE

LEE JONES

MAR 18 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

This show’s giving a whole new meaning to the
term “girl power.” Grammy-winning singer-
songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has been called “an
original,” “a cult heroine” and “one of the best-if
not the best-artist of her generation.” When an
Atlantic Records A&R rep first heard Madeleine
Peyroux play, he said her set was “some of the
most exciting, viscerally moving minutes of my
music-listening life.”

Together on stage under one bill, these two
vocal powerhouses create a magical evening of
stellar musical magic.

Event Partner



JOE
LOVANO

APR 8 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

From his Grammy-nominated symphonic
work to his role as Gary Burton Chair of Jazz
Performance at Berklee College of Music, Joe
Lovano fearlessly challenges and pushes his
conceptual and thematic ventures in a quest for
new modes of artistic expression and new ways
to define the jazz idiom.

In 2014, he won Multi-Reeds Player and Tenor
Saxophonist of the Year awards from the Jazz
Journalists Association and Tenor Saxophonist
of the Year from Down Beat Magazine.

Joe Lovano has released 23 celebrated albums
on the Blue Note label; with the last three
focusing on his quintet, Us Five. The New York
Times says, “Lovano is one of the greatest
musicians in jazz history.”

Event Partner



NW DANCE
PROJECT

APR 29 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

NW Dance Project is dedicated to the
creation and performance of innovative, new
contemporary dance works from established
and emerging dance makers created in an open
and artistically stimulating environment.

Their dedication to providing dancers and dance
makers the resources and creative room needed
to realize new, inspired dance works led Dance
International Magazine to proclaim that they are
“changing the way dance is created” and that
NW Dance Project has become “a laboratory,
factory and repository for risk-taking new works
from the next generation of choreographers
from Europe and North America.”

Free LuckmanPlus activity
Dance master class conducted by NW Dance Project

Friday, Apr 28 at 1pm at the Luckman Theatre
Visit www.luckmanarts.org for details

Event Partner



IDAN
RAICHEL

MAY 6 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Producer, keyboardist and composer Idan
Raichel has become a global music icon since
the unveiling of The Idan Raichel Project, a
multi-ethnic tour de force that changed the face
of Israeli popular music with entrancing fusions
sung in Hebrew, Arabic, and the Ethiopian
languages of Amharic and Tigrit.

His latest album, Quarter To Six, has garnered
international praise for its depth and scope.
Raichel has collaborated with over 95 celebrated
artists from around the globe including American
neo-soul diva India.Arie, Mayra Andrade from
Cape Verde, Marta Gomez from Colombia, Ana
Moura from Portugal, German countertenor
Andreas Scholl, Vieux Farka Touré from Mali
and many more. Returning to the Luckman after
more than 5 years, Idan will perform new and
classic hits in a solo format.

Event Partner



RODRIGUEZ

MAY 13 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Rodriguez began his career in the 60s, but
without any enthusiastic response, he was
ultimately let go by his label and forced to
work outside the music industry. Unbeknownst
to him, and to the rest of the world, his songs
became the inspiration for millions struggling
against apartheid in South Africa, where he was
regarded as a superstar.

Rodriguez became the subject of the Oscar-
winning documentary Searching for Sugar
Man, which depicts the story of the hunt to
learn the truth behind his rumored death and
disappearance in the late 1970’s. With his new-
found celebrity status, Rodriguez has been a
headliner at every major festival in the world
and has finally found commercial success for the
album he produced nearly four decades ago.

Rodriguez returns to the Luckman his classic hits
and the songs that shaped his fascinating life.

Event Partner



CHUCH,O
VALdES

MAY 20 . 8PM

$25/$35/$45
Cal state LA Students: $15

other students: $20
Cal state LA staff/faculty: -20%

KCRW/KPFK/KCET MEMBERS: -20%
VETERANS & 65+: -20%
GROUPS of 15+: -20%

Winner of five Grammy Awards and three Latin
Grammy Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer,
arranger and bandleader Chucho Valdés has
been a key figure in the evolution of Afro-Cuban
jazz for the past 50 years.

The New York Times proclaims Chucho Valdés
the dean of Latin jazz” and “one of the world’s
great virtuosic pianists.”

Valdés makes his highly anticipated return to
the Luckman Theatre. A multi-Grammy Award
winner, he has recorded over eighty albums
during his illustrious career and has become a
true legend in his realm.

Event Partner



LUCKMAN
GALLERY

The Luckman Gallery is the home of visual arts the
Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA.
The gallery is a 3,600 square foot Kunsthalle-like
space that presents exhibitions throughout the year
representing a diverse selection of emerging and
established contemporary artists.
The Luckman Gallery houses a growing permanent
collection strong in contemporary sculpture and prints.
Admission to the gallery is complimentary.

Gallery Hours:
Mon -Thu: 12 PM - 5 PM
Sat: 12 PM - 5 PM

The gallery is also open during intermission for all
Luckman presentations.



KARA
TANAKA

ON VIEW

AUG 20 - OCT 8, 2016

The first survey exhibition of Los Angeles-
based artist Kara Tanaka. Spanning from
2005-2011, the exhibit will feature a
cross section of Tanaka’s work, which
has often explored the central themes of
transcendence through her own aesthetic
synthesis that merges the primitive
with the futuristic. Tanaka’s work often
reveals the shared relationship between
different forms of religious mysticism and
the metaphysical undertones of our own
technological progress.

Event Partner



JACQUELINE
GORDON

& RICHARD T.
WALKER

ON VIEW

OCT 22 - DEC 17, 2016

An immersive sound experience with
artists Jacqueline Gordon and Richard
T. Walker. Each artist utilizes a multi-
disciplinary approach to making work that
explores how sound, objects and people
interact with one another. While Jacqueline
Gordon explores the intersections of
sound and noise in relation to the physical
spaces, Richard T. Walker employs a variety
of media to explore and question the
experience of the individual within their
natural landscape. Their collaboration will
employ a collection of unique sound based
works. This exhibition is co-curated with
Julio Cesar Morales, curator of Arizona
State University Art Museum.

Event Partner



MICHAEL
DODGE
& JAY LIZO

ON VIEW

JAN 14 - MAR 4, 2017

Combining sculpture and animation into a
large interactive installation, Once Upon A
Reconfigured Space is the collaborative vision
of Los Angeles based artists Michael Dodge
and Jay Lizo. Once Upon A Reconfigured
Space combines both artists’ interests into a
multi-media environment, where viewers are
invited to interact with the art; climbing and
crawling their way through the architectural
sculpture of Dodge to find Lizo’s hidden
fantasies contained within.

Event Partner



BRUCE
YONEMOTO

ON VIEW

MAR 18 - MAY 13, 2017

Over the past 30 years, much of Yonemoto’s
work has examined the unreality of the
American media landscape that distorts and
manipulates our understandings of important
and shared issues such as class and race. Making
it’s Los Angeles debut, The End Of The World
At The Edge Of The Earth, is Yonemoto’s most
recent video that investigates and questions
this unreality, where media can be used to
perforate it’s own infinite screen allowing a
little reality to creep through.

Event Partner



LUCKMANPLUS

Free events! All season long!

Many of the presentations at the Luckman Fine
Arts Complex include auxiliary events open to the
community. Master classes, symposiums, lectures,
and screenings - all free of charge.

The Education and Engagement program at the
Luckman Fine Arts Complex aims to bridge students
and community members with the professional arts.
We believe that an education that excludes the arts
is an impoverished one.

Events are added throughout the season. Consult
our website regularly for the latest information on
upcoming events:

www.luckmanarts.org/luckmanplus

LUCKMANPLUS

WORLD ARTS DAY

FREE EVENT

YOUR PASSPORT
TO THE ARTS.

hands-on,
interactive, and
free of charge!

World Arts Day is designed to give the community an opportunity
to experience and interact with various art forms from around the
world. Los Angeles is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities,
and this dynamic interaction has made it a vibrant and rich
community. This year, we celebrate the diverse traditions of the
African continent. All events are hands-on, interactive, and free
of charge.

World Arts Day is an important event in our neighboring
communities. As the preeminent arts center east of Downtown
Los Angeles, we are committed to providing a context for the
development of imagination and artistic expression, the discovery
of new cultures, and cultivating an appreciation for the arts.

Events are added throughout the season. Consult our website
regularly for the latest information on upcoming events:

www.luckmanarts.org/wad

Event Partners

LUCKMANPLUS

ARTIST TALKS

FREE EVENTS

UP CLOSE AND
PERSONAL WITH
PROFESSIONAL
ARTISTS FROM AROUND

THE WORLD!

ALL SEASON LONG

Artist talks at the Luckman offer rare opportunities to delve
deeper into the content of our international programming,
bringing the art closer to the audience. This exchange and
interaction promotes a more encompassing experience and, we
hope, a better appreciation for the artistic process.

Events are added throughout the season. Please consult our
website for up-to-date schedules and information:

www.luckmanarts.org/luckmanplus

LUCKMANPLUS

MASTER CLASSES

FREE EVENTS

UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITIES TO
LEARN FROM THE BEST
ARTS MASTERS IN THE
WORLD. ALL HERE AT

THE LUCKMAN!

ALL SEASON LONG

Interactive and participatory, each class welcomes people of
all ages and all experience levels to immerse themselves in the
artistic process in a safe and inviting setting under the direction
of a master artist.
Events are added throughout the season. Please consult our
website for up-to-date schedules and information:

www.luckmanarts.org/luckmanplus

LUCKMANPLUS

VISUAL ARTS
WORKSHOPS

FREE EVENTS

HANDS-ON ARTS
WORKSHOPS THAT
COMPLIMENT OUR
SEASON PROGRAMS!

ALL SEASON LONG

These workshops at the Luckman engage the community in the
creative process through the visual arts. We believe there is a
distinct creative spirit in each of us that nourishes our humanity
and enriches our community and society. This LuckmanPlus
program fosters a creative culture by encouraging people of all
backgrounds, ages, and skill levels to explore, participate and
experiment with the visual arts before select presentations at the
Luckman.

Guided by local artists, each workshop will complement the
evening’s performance. We encourage you and the entire family
to arrive early and dive into the arts with these hands-on and
interactive sessions.

Events are added throughout the season. Please consult our
website for up-to-date schedules and information:

www.luckmanarts.org/luckmanplus

DANCE
& DIALOGUE