UCLA alum starts kids’ dance, music company Backseat Beats

In her freshman year of high school, Shadi Amirieh volunteered for a nonprofit organization, the Friendship Circle, where she mentored and guided children with autism. Inspired by her experience, she wanted to start a company so that parents and their kids could enjoy themselves while improving the children’s motor skills and development, the UCLA alumna […]

Q&A: UCLA alumna Chauntae Pink discusses starring in play ‘Bulrusher’

Chauntae Pink’s professional theater career started with an unexpected Facebook message. After hours of volunteering with Lower Depth Theater Ensemble in Los Angeles, Pink finally got her opportunity to perform onstage when one of the theater’s founders asked her via Facebook to audition for the company’s newest production, “Bulrusher.” A 2011 alumna of UCLA’s School […]

Former UCLA baseball player Brenton Allen releases song ‘Make a Move’

Brenton Allen is known as a student at UCLA and a former Bruin baseball player who helped his team reach the College World Series in 2013, but he is emerging as an up-and-coming musician. Allen, a fourth-year history student, left UCLA after three years of collegiate baseball to pursue a career in professional baseball. After […]

4th Annual Los Angeles Ball to pay homage to Calif. diversity

As immigrants from all over Europe, Russia, the Hawaiian islands and Asia immigrated to California in the 1850s, they brought a mix of traditions, music and dance that influenced the unparalleled diverse culture of California prevalent today. To honor the first 50 years of California’s statehood from 1850 to 1900, UCLA’s Ballroom Dance & International […]