Center for the Art of Performance will present Miranda July in her latest performance work, titled New Society.
Tickets ($29-$49) for two performances at UCLA Freud Playhouse Saturday October 17 at 8 p.m. and Sunday October 18 at 4 p.m. are now available at cap.ucla.edu, via Ticketmaster or the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310.825.2101.
Miranda July risks all with a unique experiment in collaboration. This hilarious and moving performance artfully blends fiction and real life to create a startling chronicle of time, love and group faith. On this very special night, July tests the limits of what is possible when given two hours and a room full of strangers.
July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. Her videos, performances and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. Miranda July’s most recent film is The Future (2011), which she wrote, directed and stars in.
Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in 20 countries. Her latest book is It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011). Her novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015 by Scribner and became an immediate New York Times Bestseller.
