The curtain will open on a train filled with South Africans traveling to Johannesburg during apartheid. The instrumental music will go silent and the characters will begin to segregate on stage, singing, “White man go to Johannesburg, he come back, he come back / Black man go to Johannesburg, never come back, never come back.” […]
Author Archives: Emanuela Boisbouvier
UCLA student’s play “The Sunrise Club” explores environmentalism, the future
Tara Turnbull first thought of the idea for her play during a high school science class. She sat on a stiff stool at a long black lab table when a vision came to her: two students sitting on a hilltop, talking about life. The daydream marked the beginning of “The Sunrise Club,” a play that […]
UCLA professor reminisces the start of admiration for punk music
In the winter of 1977, Kenneth Reinhard and David Rosenak lounged in the back of a pick-up truck, sipping beers as they interviewed punk band the Germs. By the end of the decade, Reinhard said the music group would be known as one of the biggest punk music bands of their time. Reinhard and Rosenak’s […]
Dancer explores race, masculinity in final UCLA show ‘ONDA’
Julio Ulises Medina woke up to the sound of the Colombian cumbia and Dominican merengue every morning playing on his home radio. He danced salsa and punta with girls at quinceañeras. He grooved to hip-hop and reggaeton during middle school dances. Now Medina is interested in how dance portrays race and masculinity. The graduate student […]
UCLA student actors make puppets from Daily Bruin newspapers for show
Mark Royston’s number one rule for “Devised Puppetry Project” was “Don’t read the newspaper.” The articles tended to distract the actors as they built their puppets out of leftover Daily Bruin newspapers. “Devised Puppetry Project” is a 45-minute original puppetry show featuring four UCLA student actors and will be performed eight times at the Pacific […]
Let’s Animate: Bruin Animated Filmmakers heads first project on vegetarian zombie
Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: an introduction to the club, the premise of their film and their storyboarding process. Zombie Mike is more preoccupied with his tedious, long days as an accountant than with his […]
EDM group creates hybrid form of electronic music from classical roots
Stephen Spies was working on a student film, “Young Americans,” when the director asked him to score an electronic beat for it. Spies only had experience with classical pieces, however, so he tried creating electronic sounds by recording himself clapping or sliding his fingers down a bass guitar to make it sound like a drop. […]