La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet – 6 PM
“An absolute treat for balletomanes.” Variety

Documentary master Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, The Paris Opera Ballet, as they rehearse and perform seven ballets including Le Songe de Medée by Angelin Preljocaj, Orphée and Eurydice by Pina Bausch, and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz. (2009, 158 min.)

Strictly Bolshoi – 9 PM
“Even if you aren’t a dance fan you will appreciate the drama and laughs…” The Times, London

This Emmy Award-winning film follows sought-after ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon as he becomes the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Ballet. Featuring some of the world’s finest classical ballet dancers in rare rehearsal footage of Wheeldon’s creation, the compelling docu-drama captures the pressures and demands in creating a ballet worthy of the dancers and the Bolshoi’s strict traditions. (Michael Nunn & William Trevitt, 2007, 77 min.)

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6:00 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $10.00, UCSB Students $8.00
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Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, P.W. Singer reveals how science fiction is fast becoming a reality on the battlefield in his new book Wired for War. Singer argues that a massive shift in military technology and the advent of robotic warfare is changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. The author of the eerily prescient award-winning books Corporate Warriors, about private military contractors, and Children at War, about child soldiers, Singer will discuss his recent work.

Admission is free for UCSB students with valid UCSB ID.

P.W. Singer
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $12.00
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PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author T.C. Boyle, “a writer who can take you anywhere” (The New York Times), follows 2009’s critically-acclaimed novel on the romantic life of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, The Women, with a rich new collection of stories titled Wild Child. With nature as the dominant player, Boyle’s fourteen tales engage, shock, and ultimately gratify in a powerful investigation of what it means to be human. The author of twenty books of fiction including World’s End and Drop City, a National Book Award finalist, Boyle will read and discuss his recent work.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

T.C. Boyle
Monday, January 25, 2010, 7:30 pm
Victoria Hall Theater, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara
General public $10.00, UCSB Students $8.00
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From the streets of Brazil – a country where beats are celebrated and dance is a generation’s second language – Artistic Director Bruno Beltrão and the powerhouse Grupo de Rua bring the lightning-fast head-spins and stands, hand-jumps, turns and tumbles honed in the back streets of Rio de Janeiro to Campbell Hall for a totally new and fresh look at street dance. The brilliant all male company will perform Beltrão’s newest work, H3 that dispenses with heavy beats and macho posturing to create a minimalist, almost meditative interpretation of hip-hop in which the movement itself becomes its own pulsating rhythm.

Grupo de Rua
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 8:00pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $40.00, UCSB Students $19.00
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Coraline
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 7:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
Free!

One of the most imaginative, versatile and constantly interesting pianists today, Vladimir Feltsman is an artist of immense range and insight. The Russian-born musician has dazzled audiences from his North American debut at the Reagan White House to appearances on the most prestigious concert series and music festivals the world over. A regular guest soloist with every leading orchestra in the United States, his vast repertoire includes music from Baroque to 20th-century composers. The Chicago Tribune calls him, “clearly, one of the supreme Bach keyboard exponents of our time.”

Program
Bach: Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV. 825
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”
Chopin: Four Ballades

Generously supported by Marsha & Bill Wayne.

Sponsored by KDB radio.

Vladimir Feltsman, Pianist
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 7:30 PM
UCSB, Hahn Hall
General public $35.00, UCSB Students $18.00
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One of television’s premier interviewers, Emmy Award-winning journalist Charlie Rose is the executive editor and anchor of the nightly one-hour interview program Charlie Rose that engages in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions about important issues and ideas, and contributing correspondent to the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Rose’s in-depth hours with Nobel Laureates and extraordinary men and women of science, politics, art, business and technology have made him the cultural and intellectual custodian of our time. He will address the most salient issues of the day from his own unique perspective, developed over years of first person interviews with the biggest newsmakers.

Generously supported by Meg & Dan Burnham, Fred Kavli and the Orfalea Foudations.

Sponsored by Inn of the Spanish Garden.

Charlie Rose
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 8:00 PM
Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street, Santa Barbara
General public $43.00, UCSB Students $23.00
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An absurdist political comedy with razor-sharp dialogue, In the Loop satirizes the ineptitude of our highest leaders and their culture of spin in a film that is “relentlessly funny – vicious and delicious” (The Guardian, London). With everyone looking out for number one and the fate of the free world at stake, the hilarious ensemble cast of characters (Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini) bumbles its way across continents and through Machiavellian political dealings to unforeseeable comic resolutions. (Armando Iannucci, 2009, 106 min.)

Sponsored by Santa Barbara Independent and KCSB Radio.

In The Loop
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
UCSB, Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara
General public $6.00, UCSB Students $5.00
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