This year Segerstrom Center for the Arts will feature all new artists and shows
The annual Off Center Festival™ returns January 16 – January 30, 2016 with an all-new line-up of creative, contemporary and sometimes controversial artists and shows.
All tickets will be $25 (with $39 tickets also available for
Nufonia Must Fall) and will go on sale Tuesday, December 1 at 10 a.m. PST.
Tickets can be purchased online at SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town
Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. The TTY number is
(714) 556-2746
Here is the list of activities:
Arts Plaza
FREE
On Off Center Saturdays, January 16 and 23, the Center’s Arts Plaza will come alive with dancing, popular OC food trucks and music by two LA-based bands.
The festival kick-off party on January 16 with Allah-Las. The sound is a rich fusion of West Coast garage rock and roll, Latin percussion and electric folk.On January 23, Milo Greene takes over with its self-described “cinematic-pop.” The band’s album – Milo Greene – reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums.
ADA/AVA
Manual Cinema
January 19 & 20 at 7:30 p.m. Samueli Theater
“theatrical magic … astounding” – The New Yorker
An immersive story comes to life on both stage and screen
with vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed
cameras, multi-channel sound design and a live music ensemble, as Manual Cinema
transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with ingenuity
and theatricality. ADA/AVA, hailed as “an unclassifiable story of spectral
beauty” by The New York Times, explores universal themes of mourning,
melancholy and life in this fantastical tale of septuagenarian Ada, who feels
confined to a solitary life following the death of her twin, Ava. (Recommended
for ages 12 and older.)
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| Photo by Yi Zhao and Howard Ash |
Want to see the trailer? click HERE
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| www.lemonfort.fr |
Samedi Détente
Dorothée Munyaneza
January 21 - 23 at 7:30 p.m. Judy Morr Theater
*Performed in English*
“With incredible Zouglou dance, Dorothée Munyaneza offers an
intimate reverse alternative to the story in history textbooks.” – Libération,
France
How can you speak about the unspeakable? Twenty years after
fleeing Rwanda as a young girl, Dorothée Munyaneza is ready to look back.
Conceived, written and performed by Munyaneza, Samedi détente takes its name
from a popular Saturday morning radio program. It explores the will to survive
and to find happiness amidst unspeakable horrors through spoken word, song and
movement. Accompanied by Ivorian dancer Nadia Beugé and French musician Alain
Mahé, Munyaneza returns to the memories of her childhood with potent music,
electrifying movement and dispassionate testimony. (Recommended for mature
audiences.)
Nufonia Must Fall
Kid Koala and the Afiara Quartet
January 22 7:30 p.m. and January 23 at 2 p.m.
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Tickets: $25 and $39
“This delightful show delivers.” – The Guardian
Montreal-based scratch DJ and music producer Kid Koala
presents a magical, multi-disciplinary adaptation of his graphic novel, Nufonia
Must Fall. The story centers on a headphones-sporting robot on the verge of obsolescence
and infatuated with a winsome office drone.
Collaborating with Oscar-nominated
production designer K.K. Barrett (Her, Lost in Translation, Being John
Malkovich), Kid Koala enlists a team of puppeteers to stage the circuit-bent
amoré as camera crews edit the footage in real time, resulting in a live silent
film. Koala and the dynamic Afiara Quartet provide live score on piano, strings
and turntables.
Sacred Music for
Sacred TimesToshi Reagon and BIGLovely
Featuring Judith
Casselberry, Stephanie McKay, Allison Miller, Marcelle Davies Lashley, Ganessa
James, Alex Nolan, Juliette Jones January 22 & 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Samueli Theater
“It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, yes,
but also very funky and wonderfully kick-ass.” – The Boston Globe.
Toshi and her all-star band BIGLovely are a joyful
celebration of all that’s dynamic, progressive and uplifting in American music.
This versatile singer-songwriter-guitarist, who has been described as a
combination of Sly and the Family Stone, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin and an
entire gospel choir, has moved audiences with her big-hearted,
hold-nothing-back approach to rock, blues, R&B, country folk, spirituals
and funk.
Sell/Buy/Date
Sarah Jones
January 28 – 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Studio Performance Space (Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert
Hall)
“a master of the genre” – The New York Times
“a master of the genre” – The New York Times
Martha Redbone Roots Project
Martha Redbone
January 28 – 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Samueli Theater
“Martha Redbone is a charismatic indie-soul diva whose sound
is a just-right mix of retro and modern.” – Time Out New York
Off Center Lounge
Leatherby’s Café Rouge (Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert
Hall)
January 20, 22, 23, 28 – 30
Opens at 9 p.m
Audiences can mix and mingle with fellow audience members and Off Center artists. It’s rare opportunity to talk one-on-one with the creators and performers of these thought provoking works and pose those questions that oftentimes go unanswered. A special low-cost menu will be available starting at 9 p.m.
Audiences can mix and mingle with fellow audience members and Off Center artists. It’s rare opportunity to talk one-on-one with the creators and performers of these thought provoking works and pose those questions that oftentimes go unanswered. A special low-cost menu will be available starting at 9 p.m.
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