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Loving the Arts!

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have loved the arts my entire life. I must admit it has mainly been the performing arts, since I began singing solos for audiences when I was in sixth grade and all through high school and college, when I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University. Then, it was on to teaching vocal music in Angola, Indiana, before my husband and I moved to Orange County, and I taught vocal music (K-8) in Fountain Valley for six years. If it weren't for a superintendent who didn't like music, I would have continued teaching into retirement. It didn't stop me from singing, however. I sang with the William Hall Master Chorale (formerly the Master Chorale of Orange County) for 25 years and continue to sing with the 120-member chancel choir at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana. That's why I love this issue. It is such a pleasure to write about Segerstrom Center for the Arts' 30th anniversary. I sang the inaugural performance with the Master Chorale of Orange County at the grand opening of Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa in 1986 and many other performances following that. I've seen Segerstrom Center grow to be one of the top performing arts centers in the country, and our story in this issue reflects that remarkable journey. Also of note is the debut of the Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University this past March. Receiving a wonderful reception from the community, it is garnering rave reviews for its acoustics and programming. Not arts related, but just as important, is the fact that one of our community's icons, Chapman President Jim Doti, is leaving his post after 25 years to return to the classroom as an economics professor. He has singlehandedly put Chapman on the map, although he would modestly downplay that fact.

Our issue also features the visual arts in our story on the artistic renaissance of the art scene in Los Angeles. The city's art world is having its moment. Our story on the Laguna Beach Dance Festival's 12th year and its showcasing three dynamic dance companies, through the guidance of its Founder/Director Jodie Gates, is impressive.

I'm hoping to see you at a performance at the amazing Segerstrom or Musco Centers, or perhaps enjoying a performance at the Laguna Dance Festival. Regardless, we are blessed to live in such a dynamic artistic community!

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Saddleback Foundation President Cecilia Belew, Board Chair and gala co-chair Bill Phillips with Saddleback MemorialCare Breast Center Medical wife Mary O'Toole, MD, grateful patients Monica Director Gary Levine, MD, with wife Dawn Levine Martin Ogle, MD, and Sue Ogle, Barbara Victor, and celebrity chef/emcee Dean Sheremet and Brian Dowd, and CEO Steve Geidt MD, and Michael Victor

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JDRF Orange County Chapter's 20th anniversary Dream Gala drew 500 guests to The Ritz-Carlton to raise more than $1.1 million for type 1 diabetes research. Besides a sumptuous repast, the evening highlighted some showstopping live auction items, including tickets to the Ralph Lauren Spring 2017 Runway Show.

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Women in Focus' 17th Annual Conference

Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts welcomed a crowd of 400 to its Women in Focus conference in Folino Theater, where students, alumni and supporters gathered to hear a spirited discussion by a panel of award-winning women producers and directors, moderated by producing veteran Denise Di Novi.

Panelists: Producer Sanaa Hamri (Empire, Nashville), TriStar Productions President Hannah Minghella (Money Monster, Captain Phillips), Moderator Denise Di Novi, Producer Nicole Rocklin (Spotlight, The Perfect Guy), and Producer Molly Smith (The Blind Side, Something Borrowed)

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Student volunteer and BFA Film Production '17 major Kendall Goldberg with panelist Hannah Minghella Panelists onstage at Folino Theater

Lane Lyle, left, BFA Film Production '17, received the Meredith MacRae Award, sponsored by Women In Film and presented by MacRae's daughter Allison Mullavey and sister Heather MacRae

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ARTS DISTRICT Downtown LA has become a magnet for artists and their muses. This funky neighborhood, once derelict, now draws talent seeking the energy that the Arts District throws off.

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After 25 years, renowned Chapman University President Jim Doti returns to the classroom.

ARTICLE DONNA BUNCE

T

o say he is a force of nature is certainly

admits the family didn’t have a lot of money,

his high school debate team and heading to

apt. For anyone who knows Jim Doti, the

but that he was raised in a loving family.

the University of Illinois for a Bachelor’s Degree

description “Pied Piper” comes to mind. If

The challenge for Doti was his speech

you met Doti during his 25-year tenure as

problem, not allowing him to pronounce

Chapman University’s president, you easily

words properly. It was Mrs. Lyons, his first

“During that decade, there were eight

found yourself following his lead. Not only

grade teacher, who helped him understand

Nobel Laureates on the faculty at the

has he put the 8,000-student university on

his problem in a different light.

University of Chicago, and Milton Friedman,

the map, he has brought supporters far and wide to its banner.

“She cast me in a play as an elf with a

in economics and then to the University of Chicago for a Master’s and Doctorate.

my mentor, was one of them.”

speaking part,” Doti remembers. “It didn’t

Doti married Grace McCormick in 1972,

Who would have thought a little boy from

solve my speech problem, but I found by

and they had a son, Adam. Jim interviewed

Chicago, Illinois with a speech impediment

using dramatic gestures instead of words, it

at Chapman College (later University) in

would have become such a dynamo? Raised

made the part fun.”

1974, where he ended up on the faculty as an

the third of three boys and later a sister by

Even at that tender age, Doti realized in an

assistant professor of economics. Following

Italian immigrant parents–Roy was a shoe

innate way that he liked challenges. Later, after

his divorce from Grace, in 1977, Doti married

salesman and Carmelina a milliner–Doti

overcoming his speech problems, he was on

Lynne Pierson, a Chapman professor of

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Jim, with his parents Carmelina and Roy Doti

Lynne and Jim Doti in the early years

economics, with whom they had a daughter

trustees and the advice of my mentor George

you have the best and brightest students and

named Cara, while Adam enjoyed summers

Argyros. However, it was a daunting task

faculty. That became a shared vision, and that’s

with Jim and Lynne in California.

after two presidents had proceeded me only

what we’ve been doing the past 25 years.”

Moving up the ladder, soon Jim became

to not work out.”

Doti shares that once the exciting envi-

dean of the School of Business and

Jim says Chapman professor of philosophy

Management (today’s George L. Argyros

Paul Delp gave him the best advice. “Treat

School of Business and Economics) and

everyone you meet with respect and dignity.”

“The support from the Orange County

developed what was to become the annual

Treating people with respect and dignity

community was one of backing the home-

Economic Forecast Conference. Now, in its

means a lot of things, including never yelling

38th year, the acclaimed forecast is the lon-

or raising one’s voice at others,” Jim says.

The accomplishments under Doti’s lead-

gest-running in the nation and attracts more

“That is something I'm proud to say I've never

ership are impressive. When he became the

than 2,000 people.

gone in my twenty-five years as president."

12th president in Chapman’s history (he is

In 1991, Jim became Chapman University president, after acting as interim president twice.

Jim admits at the time.

Jim feels strongly that his 17 years as a professor and dean were an asset for his presidency.

ronment was established, people wanted to be part of it.

town team,” he shares.

the longest-serving president in its 155-year history), the student enrollment was 2,200–

“I felt that the educational experience, the

today, it is 8,000. Average incoming SAT

“I was scared. I did have certain ideas

intellectual environment and the learning com-

scores climbed more than 200 points, to 1189,

and goals, and I did have a great board of

mitment is more exciting and exhilarating when

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Doti siblings Adam and Cara Doti

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AN ICON MOVES ON

(CON TI N U ED)

Climbing to the summit of Carstensz Pyramid in Papua Province, Indonesia at more than 16,000 ft., September, 2015 - from left, Chapman trustee Scott Chapman, Adam Doti, guide Todd Passey and Jim

full-time faculty rose from 105 to 418, a $301 million endowment is more than 10 times that of 1991, six colleges have been added, and the number of new buildings has risen from 13 to 70. Also, the number of endowed chairs has risen from one to 60, with donors selecting a bronze bust to place on campus (Doti’s idea).

What Doti is most proud of is Chapman’s U.S. News & World Report ranking. In 1991, the university ranked no higher than #49 in Western regional schools and academic reputation. Today, it ranks among the top 10 in academic reputation and is #7 in the Best Regional Universities West ranking. Most impressive is the student selectivity ranking, which climbed from No. 92 to a position that shifts between No. 1 and No. 2, depending on the year. And, being a

Jim, crossing line in Boston Marathon, 2015

Jim, with his Rhode Island Reds Paula and Little Jerry

financial man at heart, the fact that Chapman's percentage increase in net worth over the last ten years was the highest (#1) in higher education warms his heart.

In his modest, self-deprecating manner, Jim says of the success.

“I just greased the wheels and got out of the way. When you have smart, dynamic people, that’s what you do.”

Among the new buildings under his watch, Doti is most proud of the Leatherby Libraries, Fish Interfaith Center, Knott Studios and Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, Hilbert Museum of California Art, Musco Center for the Arts, Rinker Health Science Campus in Irvine, Beckman Hall, Allred Aquatics Center, Robert and Marie Grey Crew Center in Newport Beach, Lastinger Athletics Complex, Oliphant Hall, and the Center for Science and Technology, due to open fall, 2018. The university also formed Irvine-based Brandman University, a separate entity for adult education.

And, then of course, there is Doti’s “other” life. You wouldn’t think he would have time for other passions, but university life

I really think the best days for Chapman are ahead.

- Jim Doti Jim's first children's book, "A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy"

is not 24/7 for this powerhouse. As a mountain climber, he has conquered six of the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each continent. He has run 50 marathons, including 10 Boston Marathons, hosts “Dialogue with Doti” on public television stations KOCE and KCET, published two children’s books and is working on a third, raises Rhode Island Red chickens, medaled in seven downhill ski slalom competitions, is an accomplished woodturner, made several cameo appearances on The Bold and the Beautiful, and is a certified open-water diver. He has also danced ballroom with longtime Chapman supporter Julianne Argyros at past American Celebrations, and his annual summer reading and film list are looked forward to by many.

So, what is the Pied Piper up to next?

“I can now move on to challenges in the classroom as an

Jim, dancing with Julianne Argyros at one of Chapman's American Celebrations

economics professor, have time for research and to do new things,” he says.

Doti shares he feels a peace of mind passing the baton to his successor, Daniele Struppa, who he groomed for the job.

“Daniele has the advantage of inheriting the greatest team in Jim, with wife Lynne Doti, who just retired after 42 years as a professor of business and economics, in full Chapman regalia

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Bryant is referring to his stay in Orange County from 1987 to 1996, when he served as director of communications and marketing for the newly-opened Orange County Performing Arts Center, now Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

In 1996, Bryant helped open the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as its first vice president of marketing and public relations, and, later, after founding Front of House Services in 1998, the company served a variety of clients, including American Ballet Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center and National Symphony Orchestra, Stanford University’s Bing Concert 5 Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel

New Kid on the Block Opening to rave reviews and drawing thousands, Musco Center Director Richard Bryant proudly leads the parade.

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1. Musco Center's World CAFE, “The Heartbeat of Mexico,” on May 29, 2016, with Relampago Del Cielo performing 2. Preview Season's College of Performing Arts Theatre presented "The Merchant of Venice" with Danraj Rajasansi, BFA Theatre Performance, '19 3. Community Open House 4. Preview Season's College of Performing Arts' performance of Puccini's opera "Suor Angelica" 5. Richard Bryant, executive director, Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts 6. Community Open House and Arts Festival featuring Grace Fong, Chapman director of piano studies, with the Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair conducting 7. Inaugural Season's jazz diva Dianne Reeves

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Center, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, and Yale University’s Peabody Museum, among others.

“My career and my experience has intersected with the powerful vision of the Muscos and Chapman University,” Bryant says.

Working as Musco Center’s interim executive director when he was hired November 1, 2015, Bryant was named permanent director in May, 2016.

From the beginning of his tenure, he worked with the Muscos, Musco Center’s founding dean William Hall, university leadership, and Chancellor Daniele Struppa to achieve the center’s highly successful grand opening on March 19, the Community Open House on April 2, and the Preview Season, with more than 15,000 people attending those offerings.

The gala opening performance on March 19 showcased a spectacular evening of music, featuring opera legends Placido Domingo, Deborah Voigt and Milena Kitic, an array of distinguished artists, including Chapman alumni, and a chorus of 150 voices (many of them students and faculty from Chapman’s College of Performing Arts) with the LA Opera Orchestra conducted by Grammy winner John DeMain. The sold-out gala performance in the 1,044-seat Julianne Argyros Orchestra Hall included a black-tie gala in an adjacent tent that took guests breath away with its elegant décor.

The center's day-long community open house and arts festival on April 2 was a well-attended success, with 29 companies, including students, local groups and renowned guests, performing inside the hall and on outdoor stages on the Bette and Wylie Aitken Arts Plaza. The one ticketed event inside the hall was the sold-out performance of the Pacific Symphony with conductor Carl St. Clair performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto with acclaimed concert pianist Grace Fong, director of piano studies at Chapman, and concluding with Beethoven’s majestic Fifth Symphony.

Musco Center’s six-week Preview Season followed, with Chapman’s College of Performing Arts Theatre presenting Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and Opera Chapman performing Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica. Other standout performers included 2013 Van Cliburn Piano Competition Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko, two-time Grammy nominee baritone Rod Gilfrey, the innovative Backhausdance dance company, and Emmy Award-winning Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin in the Arts & Lecture Series, to name a few.

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Everyone at Chapman is very proud of the critical reviews of the hall, one in particular. The very-hard-to-please Los Angeles Times’ classical music critic Mark Swed had this to say: “The City of Orange now houses an ideal opera house, potentially the best in the West, and maybe even something more.”

It didn’t hurt that the hall’s chief acoustician was Yasuhisa Toyota, who created the highly-touted acoustics for Disney Concert Hall.

"The hall has exceeded our expectations across all the different disciplines," Bryant says. "It's an all-natural sound, which works equally well for the spoken word, as well as opera, and the symphony shell provides CONTINUED > extraordinary acoustics for an orchestra."

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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK (CON TI N U ED)

(Bottom left) Inaugural Season's Musco World CAFÉ presents Island Soul: A Celebration of Hawaiian Music and Culture featuring Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu and the Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, April 8, 2017

“The hall has exceeded our expectations across all the different disciplines."

- Richard Bryant Bryant discloses that the hall has four purposes. First and foremost is to provide a performance space for Chapman’s College of Performing Arts students.

“It’s their house for large-scale performances, where they can have hands-on experiences with the best tools anywhere,” he says.

Second is creating a sustainable long-term relationship with performing arts companies in Southern California, who want to perform in the hall and become integrated in the university’s teaching environment.

“We already have strategic alliances with Los Angeles Opera, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Backhausdance,” Bryant says.

Third is bringing in visiting artists and companies of the highest calibre, which includes master classes and workshops for the students. And, fourth is creating programs for the surrounding communities, through what is called the Musco Center’s World CAFE (Cultural Arts Festivals and Events.)

“One of the things that attracted me to Chapman was its deep-seated desire to further engage its nearby communities,” Bryant says. “The most powerful tool to do that are arts, culture and food. They are the things that bring people together.”

The success of Musco Center’s World CAFE, “The Heartbeat of Mexico,” on May 29 drew 3,500 people with its free music, cultural activities and food throughout the day and a ticketed evening concert, featuring two of the world’s top mariachi bands.

“I think it’s thrilling that the university wants to be more entangled with the powerful confluence of different cultures,” Bryant says.

Next up is Musco Center for the Arts’ Inaugural Season, which commences in October (see performance listing). You will see the Distinguished Piano Series, Great Voices Series, the Arts and Culture Series and great performers and groups who stand alone in their own music category.

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Preview Season's "EmCxBD: Emerging Voices in Choreography" by Backhausdance

(Bottom right) Inaugural Season's violinist Ray Chen with Berlin Philharmonic

“The reception to the opening of Musco Center has been wonderful,” Bryant says. “Chapman is a great place with extraordinary people. It’s an honor to play a role such as this in connecting this world-class venue to the community.”

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Segerstrom Hall Opening Night, 1986, with Zubin Mehta conducting the LA Philharmonic, Master Chorale of Orange County and Pacific Chorale

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eptember 29, 1986 is the date that changed everything for the performing arts in Orange County.

The county officially celebrated the opening of its own performing arts center.

Originally called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the new Center’s 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall was packed on opening night to hear Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform, along with the county’s two master chorales–Master Chorale of Orange County and Pacific Chorale–as well as acclaimed soprano Leontyne Price and actor James Whitmore’s narrated performance of Aaron Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait.

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Celebrates Segerstrom Center for the Arts Launches its 30th Anniversary Celebration Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus/Photo: Cris Costea

What followed was remarkable. The Center’s Broadway and dance series were sold out, as were performances for each of the Center’s artistic partners–Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Pacific Symphony, Opera Pacific, and the two chorales. People became educated in the arts, some having never attended a musical performance. Los Angeles Times music critic Martin Bernheimer’s acid reviews mocking audiences clapping during symphony movements were constant, but, no matter, we moved on and ultimately garnered national acclaim as the Center expanded its programming and its size to multiple performance venues.

HOW IT BEGAN

The dream of a “music center” began with arts lover Catherine Quick in 1972 when, through her efforts, fundraising began for what was labeled the Orange County Cultural Center. Fundraising shifted into a higher gear when in 1974, the Christmas Candlelight Concert was launched in a vacant Kresge five-and-dime store in Orange, with Carmen Dragon and the Glendale Symphony and the Master Chorale of Orange County and Trinity United Presbyterian Chancel Choir performing an evening of beloved holiday classics. With no electricity, candlelight was de rigueur, thus the event’s name. The

newly-named Orange County Music Center, with Chairman Tom Moon at the helm, drew much-needed media attention for the cause.

After more than 20 potential sites for the center were considered, in 1979, arts activist Elaine Redfield urged Henry Segerstrom and his family to consider donating a site for the arts complex. Within a few months, the Segerstrom family donated a five-acre parcel across the street from the family’s South Coast Plaza shopping center. In addition, the family gave a $1 million incentive grant, followed less than two years later by a $5 million challenge grant.

With Henry Segerstrom named chairman of the OCMC in 1980, the drive to raise funds for the $73.8 million capital campaign to build a large, multi-purpose concert hall was underway. By opening night, a very generous community had completely funded the now-named Orange County Performing Arts Center, and, with Thomas Kendrick and Judith Morr, both former head execs at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, leading the way, the performing arts in Orange County exploded.

THE NEXT STEPS

Talks began in 1988 to design and construct a concert hall, but it wasn’t until 2003 that groundbreaking took place, thanks to a $40 million naming gift from Henry and his

Segerstrom family in 2011, when the Center was renamed Segerstrom Center for the Arts/Photo: Doug Gifford

late wife Renée Segerstrom toward the concert hall, a multi-use theater, an education center, public restaurant (Leatherby’s Café Rouge) and arts plaza.

Twenty years to the day–September 29, 2006–the $240 million, 2000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall opened with a performance starring celebrated tenor Plácido Domingo and Carl St. Clair conducting the Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale. An unprecedented Mariinsky Festival followed featuring the esteemed Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra, Opera and Ballet performances. The 375-seat Samueli Theater, in recognition of a $10 million gift from the Henry Samueli Family Foundation, opened with a performance by Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow.

Earlier in the Center’s 20th anniversary year, Henry and his wife Elizabeth Segerstrom unveiled the $10 million commissioned Richard Serra “Connector,” a towering work located on the plaza. It joined the “Fire Bird” indoor/outdoor Richard Lippold sculpture at Segerstrom Hall, also donated by the generous family.

In 2011, in a gesture to the Segerstrom family’s extraordinary contributions, including the land for the 14-acre complex, which includes Tony Award-winning South Coast

Repertory and the future home of the Orange County Museum of Art, the Center was renamed Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

A NEW ERA

With Kendrick and Morr retiring in 1993, followed by a short tenure with Tom Tomlinson and a nine-year stint by Jerry Mandel, Terry Dwyer came on the scene as center president and COO in 2006, six months prior to the concert hall opening. Dwyer’s prior experience as director of Houston’s Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre and as managing director of the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse, served him well.

“I thought to join a great institution such as this at a time of transition and dramatic growth was an incredible opportunity to make a difference in its future and to explore how it could further contribute to the quality of life in the community,” Dwyer says.

To help achieve his goals, Dwyer has launched three key initiatives and programs to redefine the Center as a civic resource, along with being a leading cultural and educational resource to Orange County’s diverse communities.

The Center for Dance & Innovation initiative will offer a wide range of programs

Early Center leaders at one of the first Christmas Candlelight Concerts - Jim Nagamatsu, Floss Schumacher, John Rau, Elaine Redfield, and Tom Moon

Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmonic, 2016-17 Season/Photo: Berlin Philharmonic

connecting the Center to the community, including its flagship, the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School, which opened in 2015 and is an expansion of the 30-year relationship between ABT and Segerstrom Center. It is housed in the Judy Morr Theater, named for the longtime dance aficionado and executive vice president, who returned to the Center in 1996 after her brief retirement in 1993.

Pacific Symphony Orchestra with the William J. Gillespie Concert Organ conducted

by Carl St. Clair

Pacific Chorale with Artistic Director John Alexander conducting accompanied by Pacific Symphony

The Center Without Boundaries initiative is creating innovative civic practice-focused partnerships between Center and non-cultural community organizations, such as Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Alzheimer’s Orange County, Camp Pendleton, and El Centro Cultural de Mexico.

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The third initiative, which involves the transformation of the arts plaza situated between the Center’s two main halls into a cultural town center for all of Orange County, is called the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza, thanks to the philanthropic couple’s $13.5 million gift. The 46,000-squareJulianne foot public space will provide a and George Argyros Plaza wide range of amenities as well rendering as programs, all free, 30 to 40 weekends a year.

“The evolution of Segerstrom Center has allowed us not only to be defined by our world-class performances but also by our vast array of Center for Dance & community engagement and edu- Innovation rendering cational programs on our Argyros Plaza and in locations throughout Orange County,” Dwyer says.

And, speaking of world-class performances at this internationally-renowned cultural destination, accolades abound for the Center’s programming and its acclaimed series–International Dance, Broadway, Cabaret, Chamber Music, Spotlight, Curtain Call, and Jazz Weekend. Also of note is the Family, Discovery and Explorer Series for children and special events, with such outstanding performers as Patti LuPone and Kathleen Battle scheduled.

Dwyer credits the Center’s board of directors for much of the success.

“The strength and compassion of the community leaders who comprise the board are probably the single most important factor of the continued success of Segerstrom Center for the Arts.”

It’s been a long road from Catherine Quick’s dream of a music center, but what a marvelous journey it’s been, thanks to the Segerstrom family and the thousands of arts supporters who have given their treasure, volunteer efforts and attendance at a myriad of performances. Hear! Hear!

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Affectionately called “Mama,” Margarita Avila continues to leave her mark on all thirteen of the family’s restaurants. Her signature recipes became the backbone of the Avila homestead.

Mama’s cooking style, which emanated from her Guanatjuato homeland in Mexico, melded with American influences that she adapted for Southern California locals. The eateries’ hearty platters are still known for their heaping flour tortillas stuffed with slow-roasted meats garnished with sides of seasoned rice and refried beans. Crispy flautas and icy margaritas continue to be popular staples.

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The cuisine at each location remains the same, but the atmosphere at the different El Ranchito restaurants boasts its own unique vibe.

The cuisine at each location remains the same, but the atmosphere at the different El Ranchito restaurants boasts its own unique vibe. This is, thanks in part, to the cities that house each spot, ranging from the Pacific Coast Highway eatery in Laguna Beach and an outpost in Corona del Mar to the historic cathedral-style building in Orange and the hacienda-inspired décor in Santa Ana. Another reason why each El Ranchito boasts its own unique feel is because different family members run them. This passion project may have started with Salvador and

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Margarita, but the zeal continues into the next generation with the Avila’s five children and grandchildren taking the reigns.

One of the Avila daughters, Maria Elena, oversees the Costa Mesa location. That is where the anniversary festivities kicked off earlier this summer. Among family pictures and mementos, the Avilas, along with a roomful of friends and local community leaders, recognized the restaurant group’s monumental anniversary.

The family continued the celebration throughout the summer with small festivities at each restaurant. However, this initial gathering at Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa felt joyfully authentic without an ounce of pretention. And, that’s how El Ranchito remains in the minds of many of its longtime patrons.

Since the late 1960s, the Avila’s El Ranchito restaurants began dotting Orange County’s culinary landscape. Five decades later, the family continues to expand into new neighborhoods and has branched further north with a space in Los Angeles. While El Ranchito is definitely not the place to go if you are seeking cutting-edge Mexican food, these restaurants do serve a different niche. Each El Ranchito remains true to its roots and continues to plate up the Mexican-style comfort food that many of us locals remember from our childhood.

Saucy enchiladas smothered in cheese, blended tomato salsa for dipping crispy tortilla chips, enormous burritos stuffed with various meats and stick-to-your-bones refried beans. While the menu has modernized in some areas–you now can order shrimp ceviche and Sal’s vegetarian quesadillas–it continues to maintain its hearty home-

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ARTICLE DONNA BUNCE Indeed, the New York-based Abraham.In.Motion, led by its founder/choreographer and 2013 MacArthur fellow Kyle Abraham, ark your dance calendar for September 21–25 for the provides the thought-provoking Pavement, which transforms the award-winning Laguna Dance Festival's 12th year, which will stage into a basketball court in a creative reimagining of John bring three renowned dance companies to Laguna Beach in its quest Singleton’s film Boys N The Hood. to showcase new and established dance companies and artists, increase Returning to the festival is Philadelphia’s premier contemporary public appreciation and provide quality dance education. ballet company, BalletX, which challenges the boundaries of classical Veteran performer, teacher and choreographer Jodie Gates, founder ballet by encouraging formal experimentation, while preserving rigorand director of the Laguna Dance Festival, as well as Director and Vice ous technique. BalletX will be joined by Laguna Dance Festival favorite Dean at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, voices her excite- BODYTRAFFIC of Los Angeles for one exceptional evening with ment in her selection of this year’s dance companies. two of the nation’s most popular boutique dance companies.

BalletX will also be offering an afternoon TICKET PRICES: General Admission - $60/Students with ID - $35. Three master classes: $25 of entertaining dance featuring distinguished per student/$15 observer. Student package of a master class and performance - $50. choreographers Jorma Elo (Finland), Cayetano Visit LagunaDanceFestival.org for further information on performances Soto (Spain), Amy Stewart (USA), and Matthew and master classes and to purchase tickets.

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BODTTRAFFIC in "A “My favorite part about the companies we presTrick of the Light" by ent is that a season never goes by that we don’t have Joshua Peugh/Photo: Tomasz Rossa first-time attendees coming out after the show with their jaws on the floor. They expect to come sit in the intimate 440-seat Laguna Playhouse and watch a nice performance, but what they get is BalletX dancers Richincredible world-class dance–up-close, personal, ard Villaverde and and thought-provoking, with a huge wow factor.”

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Abraham.In.Motion 7:30 p.m. Pavement performance Post-performance conversation with Kyle Abraham The Laguna Playhouse SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

BODYTRAFFIC Master Class 10 a.m. to noon Laguna Beach High School Dance Studio 8 p.m. “Coast to Coast Contemporary Cool” – ­ One show, two companies BalletX Show Me by Matthew Neenan Delicate Balance by Jodie Gates BODYTRAFFIC Once again before you go

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BalletX Master Class 10 a.m. to noon Laguna Beach High School Dance Studio Pre-show talk with BalletX director 2 to 2:30 p.m.

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Parting Thoughts

Back to School: The Journey WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY DEIRDRE MICHALSKI

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et’s face it. Going back to school is a dream for kids. They get to see their friends, eat cafeteria food, get shiny new backpacks and even wear new clothes.

But, it’s work for Moms. I was thinking about what got me through it. What were my “keys to success” for the various stages in this endearing process?

KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE. I took a picture of Alex on his first day of school, standing in front of the monument sign for his school. Lunch box in hand and a big ole’ smile. Although it was embarrassing at the moment, later he really enjoyed looking back and seeing those photos over the years. (I did the same thing by the Christmas tree each year, and that is really fun to see how he has changed over time). Soccer was such fun and getting up early on a Saturday morning didn’t seem to bother me. It was just fun to watch them all swarm on the field. We made the team banner out of felt.

We rotated the snack duties. Friendships with other parents on the sidelines lasted for years.

MIDDLE SCHOOL. It was all about shopping. Clothes started to play a bigger role, and we had to “dress for success.” Many of the clothes couldn’t even be worn until late October, but at least they were there, right?

HIGH SCHOOL. “Back to school” was all about sports and football. How I got wrangled into the Booster Club and having to stock the concession stand and run the car wash fundraisers, I will never know. But, roped in I certainly was. And, although I was working full-time, this became my new weekend job. I could not wait for football season to be over!

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COLLEGE. Now, this is when back to school got quite expensive. Not only were we packing up the car for the journey north, but there were a staggering amount of expenses. The rent, tuition, books, the food. And, then, there were the electronics and gadgets. No student could be without an iPad, the latest mobile device, a computer, printer, whiz-bang camera, and now, of course, a GoPro to record snowboarding holidays and other shenanigans. My head was spinning! Our trip to IKEA with the ginormous cart was like something out of a Lucille Ball television show. I kept looking for the camera, as we tried to maneuver our way around the warehouse aisles, picking up a bed, headboard, tv stand, couch–the list went on and on. I was exhausted. Luckily for me, Alex is very good at assembling such treasures. I missed him when he went away to school, but two things got me through it. I started a new tradition. I would have Alex call me every Sunday evening. Typically, Sundays we were home, and I would look forward to those calls. We would catch up on the week past and the week ahead. Sometimes, we would Facetime on the iPad. I also would send him short letters with a few pictures and a Starbucks Card, or a restaurant gift card for a little treat.

Alex, just this May, graduated college, so our back to school adventures are a thing of the past. He is seeking full-time employment, and we are not sure where that will take him–nearby, or perhaps across the country. Boy, am I glad those days are over. Or am I? Be careful what you wish for, as they say. And, all those photos and memories are now little treasures in my world.

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