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February 13, 2010 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Mythili Prakash
Saturday February 13, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
As one of the leading young exponents of Bharata Natyam, the classical dance of southern India, Mythili Prakash brings an intrepid dynamism to the form. In a special program celebrating the connections between music and dance, Prakash performs with an outstanding group of musicians from India and the United States. Free; reservation required.
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February 14, 2010 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Mythili Prakash
Sunday February 14, 2010
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
As one of the leading young exponents of Bharata Natyam, the classical dance of southern India, Mythili Prakash brings an intrepid dynamism to the form. In a special program celebrating the connections between of music and dance, Prakash performs with an outstanding group of musicians from India and the United States. Free; reservation required.
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February 27, 2010 |
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Saturday Nights at the Getty: Money Mark and Emily Wells
Saturday February 27, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Violinist and singer Emily Wells loves rap music and Vivaldi. Money Mark (Mark Ramos-Nishita) is a musician and producer who transformed the sound of the Beastie Boys. From these unique perspectives, the two artists come together for a special collaborative performance, where classical roots meld with hip-hop rhythms, looped violin melodies, funk, folk, and Afro-Cuban- and Latin-inspired jams.
 Learn more about Saturday Nights at the Getty
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March 1, 2010 |
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Hopper's Silence
Monday March 1, 2010
4 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Look at one of Edward Hopper's paintings and you feel an immediate emotional response. His sense of light and shadow, composition, and human drama are remarkable. Brian O'Doherty, a good friend of Hopper's, has compiled extraordinary archival footage and blended it with interviews, insights, and the paintings themselves to create an exquisite portrait of this quiet artist and his world. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Getty Scholars Brian O'Doherty and Barbara Novak.
Free; reservations required. Please note that the Getty Center is closed to the public on Monday, March 1, with the exception of this event.
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March 20, 2010 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
Saturday March 20, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Bassekou Kouyate is an incomparable master of the Malian ngoni, a lute-like instrument from western Africa, and he has performed with everyone from the late Ali Farka Toure to Taj Mahal. With a repertoire that illuminates the soul of Bambara culture, Kouyate's stellar ensemble makes its Southern California debut at the Getty.
Learn more about Sounds of L.A.
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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March 21, 2010 |
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Sounds of L.A.: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
Sunday March 21, 2010
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Bassekou Kouyate is an incomparable master of the Malian ngoni, a lute-like instrument from western Africa, and he has performed with everyone from the late Ali Farka Toure to Taj Mahal. With a repertoire that illuminates the soul of Bambara culture, Kouyate's stellar ensemble makes its Southern California debut at the Getty.
Learn more about Sounds of L.A.
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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March 27, 2010 |
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Saturday Nights at the Getty: Rana Santacruz
Saturday March 27, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Mexican bluegrass meets Irish mariachi in Rana Santacruz's rock and folk inspired music. Featuring cajón, upright bass, accordion, guitar, banjo, jarana, violin and trumpet, Rana starts in Ireland, runs through Appalachia, swings through New Orleans, and careens across Mexico with an eclectic mix of acoustic instrumentation.
Learn more about Saturday Nights at the Getty
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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April 13, 2010 |
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William Krisel, Architect
Tuesday April 13, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Directed by Jake Gorst, this 2010 documentary explores famed architect William Krisel's life and work. Designing more than 40,000 individual housing units across the United States, Krisel's influential work has become synonymous with mid-20th-century Southern Californian design. This screening will be followed by a conversation between Krisel and Wim de Wit, head of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, the Getty Research Institute.
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April 17, 2010 |
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Saturday Nights at the Getty: Micachu and the Shapes
Saturday April 17, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Equally at ease composing for orchestras and mixing multi-layered mash-ups, the enigmatic and classically-trained British musician Mica Levi fronts the experimental pop trio Micachu and the Shapes. Their boundary-blurring sound brilliantly merges hip-hop-tinged beats, rock guitar, found samples, sing-along melodies, and homemade instruments, including her signature adapted guitar, the Chu.
Learn more about Saturday Nights at the Getty
Reservations available beginning March 23.
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May 1, 2010 |
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Selected Shorts 2010
Saturday May 1, 2010
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Produced by New York's Symphony Space and hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, the popular annual series returns to the Getty with another terrific weekend of readings of classic and new short fiction. Details of this year's lineup of stories and star-studded list of readers will be announced soon. Mark your calendars!
Tickets on sale beginning March 25.
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Selected Shorts 2010
Saturday May 1, 2010
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Produced by New York's Symphony Space and hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, the popular annual series returns to the Getty with another terrific weekend of readings of classic and new short fiction. Details of this year's lineup of stories and star-studded list of readers will be announced soon. Mark your calendars!
Tickets on sale beginning March 25.
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May 2, 2010 |
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Selected Shorts 2010
Sunday May 2, 2010
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Produced by New York's Symphony Space and hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, the popular annual series returns to the Getty with another terrific weekend of readings of classic and new short fiction. Details of this year's lineup of stories and star-studded list of readers will be announced soon. Mark your calendars!
Tickets on sale beginning March 25.
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February 19, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Big Theater Lab presents Euripides' Alkestis
Friday February 19, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Two acclaimed creative forces—renowned translator Anne Carson and the daring, experimental Big Dance Theater—meet in the creation of a new movement-theater version of Alkestis. This genre-defying play, in which Herakles wrestles Death for the soul of an ideal woman, is one of Euripides' strangest and most beautiful works. Tickets $7.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
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February 20, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Big Dance Theater presents Euripides' Alkestis
Saturday February 20, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Two acclaimed creative forces—renowned translator Anne Carson and the daring, experimental Big Dance Theater—meet in the creation of a new movement-theater version of Alkestis. This genre-defying play, in which Herakles wrestles Death for the soul of an ideal woman, is one of Euripides' strangest and most beautiful works. Tickets $7.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
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Villa Theater Lab: Big Dance Theater presents Euripides' Alkestis
Saturday February 20, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Two acclaimed creative forces—renowned translator Anne Carson and the daring, experimental Big Dance Theater—meet in the creation of a new movement-theater version of Alkestis. This genre-defying play, in which Herakles wrestles Death for the soul of an ideal woman, is one of Euripides' strangest and most beautiful works. Tickets $7.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
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February 21, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Big Dance Theater presents Euripides' Alkestis
Sunday February 21, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Two acclaimed creative forces—renowned translator Anne Carson and the daring, experimental Big Dance Theater—meet in the creation of a new movement-theater version of Alkestis. This genre-defying play, in which Herakles wrestles Death for the soul of an ideal woman, is one of Euripides' strangest and most beautiful works. Tickets $7.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
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March 5, 2010 |
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Euripides' Helen
Friday March 5, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
In this rare surviving comedy, Euripides recounts the legend of Helen of Troy with an outrageous conceit: Spartan Helen, protected by the gods, was never actually abducted to Troy! Rather, she sat out the Trojan Wars chastely in Egypt, while nations battled pointlessly over a counterfeit woman, a trick of the mind. Tickets $7.
Repeats Saturday, March 6, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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March 6, 2010 |
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Euripides' Helen
Saturday March 6, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
In this rare surviving comedy, Euripides recounts the legend of Helen of Troy with an outrageous conceit: Spartan Helen, protected by the gods, was never actually abducted to Troy! Rather, she sat out the Trojan Wars chastely in Egypt, while nations battled pointlessly over a counterfeit woman, a trick of the mind. Tickets $7.
Repeats Saturday, March 6, 8:00 p.m.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Euripides' Helen
Saturday March 6, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
In this rare surviving comedy, Euripides recounts the legend of Helen of Troy with an outrageous conceit: Spartan Helen, protected by the gods, was never actually abducted to Troy! Rather, she sat out the Trojan Wars chastely in Egypt, while nations battled pointlessly over a counterfeit woman, a trick of the mind. Free; reservations required.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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March 19, 2010 |
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Aristophanes' The Frogs
Friday March 19, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
All the great Greek playwrights are dead and Dionysus, the young god of theater, is depressed. In one of Aristophanes' most self-referential works, the antic Olympian descends to Hades, determined to reclaim the single greatest of the deceased tragedians. A battle of the literary titans ensues, as hilarity abounds. Free; reservations required.
Repeats Saturday, March 20, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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March 20, 2010 |
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Aristophanes' The Frogs
Saturday March 20, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
All the great Greek playwrights are dead and Dionysus, the young god of theater, is depressed. In one of Aristophanes most self-referential works, the antic Olympian descends to Hades, determined to reclaim the single greatest of the deceased tragedians. A battle of the literary titans ensues, as hilarity abounds. Free; reservations required.
Repeats Saturday, March 20, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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Villa Play-Reading Series: Aristophanes' The Frogs
Saturday March 20, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
All the great Greek playwrights are dead and Dionysus, the young god of theater, is depressed. In one of Aristophanes' most self-referential works, the antic Olympian descends to Hades, determined to reclaim the single greatest of the deceased tragedians. A battle of the literary titans ensues, as hilarity abounds. Free; reservations required.
Repeats Saturday, March 20, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Learn more about the Villa Play-Reading Series
Reservations available beginning February 25.
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April 10, 2010 |
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The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
Saturday April 10, 2010
1 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
In the earliest days of cinema, more than 800 films were made which drew their inspiration from the ancient Mediterranean. Classical scholars Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke screen a selection of rare silent films set in Ancient Greece and Rome, which survive in the British National Film Archive and are rarely seen.
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Songs from the Fifth Age: Sones de México in Concert
Saturday April 10, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
As both a source of political pride and a muse for cultural expression, Aztec civilization has captivated and inspired for more than five centuries. Turning fresh eyes to this rich legacy, Grammy-nominated Sones de México presents their signature mix of traditional instruments and original compositions as well as folk songs and dance. Complements the exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire. Tickets $20; $15 students/seniors.
Tickets on sale beginning March 1.
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April 11, 2010 |
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From the Moon's Navel: A Family Concert with Sones de México
Sunday April 11, 2010
2 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
As acclaimed cultural ambassadors, Grammy-nominated Sones de México is committed to sharing Mexico's vibrant musical heritage with children around the globe. To mark the international exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, the ensemble created a special program just for families. Discover the magic of traditional songs and dances, legends and myths at this joy-filled, interactive concert. Perfect for kids 6 years and older.
Reservations available beginning March 23.
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May 14, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Proyecto Azteca
Friday May 14, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Artists from California Institute of the Arts' Center for New Performance perform a multimedia tapestry of texts in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl, recalling and reflecting upon the moment of encounter between Aztec culture and European invaders.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
Tickets on sale beginning March 23.
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May 15, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Proyecto Azteca
Saturday May 15, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Artists from California Institute of the Arts' Center for New Performance perform a multimedia tapestry of texts in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl, recalling and reflecting upon the moment of encounter between Aztec culture and European invaders.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
Tickets on sale beginning March 23.
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Villa Theater Lab: Proyecto Azteca
Saturday May 15, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Artists from California Institute of the Arts' Center for New Performance perform a multimedia tapestry of texts in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl, recalling and reflecting upon the moment of encounter between Aztec culture and European invaders.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
Tickets on sale beginning March 23.
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May 16, 2010 |
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Villa Theater Lab: Proyecto Azteca
Sunday May 16, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Artists from California Institute of the Arts' Center for New Performance perform a multimedia tapestry of texts in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl, recalling and reflecting upon the moment of encounter between Aztec culture and European invaders.
Learn more about Villa Theater Lab
Tickets on sale beginning March 23.
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