Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through rehearsals at a day carelike dance studio until the age of 8. As a personal experiment, she attended workshops and lessons for 10 campus dance […]
Category Archives: Music
Former cancer patient uses music as support for hospitalized kids
Austin Gatus would sit on his hospital bed and play the saxophone while he received treatment for leukemia as a form of therapy. Gatus, a third-year ethnomusicology student with a concentration in jazz studies, fought leukemia from ages 9 to 12. He now plays his saxophone for children undergoing cancer treatment and raises money for […]
Student documents emotions, experiences in original songs
Danielle Bongiovanni wrote her song “Bees” a year after dreaming someone put a swarm of the buzzing insects in her chest. “Bees” is also the first song Bongiovanni shared on SoundCloud, which now hosts seven of the second-year theater student’s original songs. She said she combines her love for poetry and life experiences to create […]
UCLA’s numerous dance groups allow students to find their rhythm
With more than 20 dance groups on campus, it can be difficult to find a niche. But whether a dancer’s passions lie in choreographing, competing for a top prize or even learning the basics to wow friends and family, the UCLA dance community offers students numerous opportunities to get involved. Ballroom Founded two years ago, […]
First-year student fuses hip-hop and electronic music on EP ‘Binary’
Noah Crousore has produced music under about 35 different aliases with approximately 3 million combined SoundCloud plays on his tracks. But for the first-year pre-business economics student’s newest EP, he turned to just one: BLDRNNR. “I’m always used to creating a bunch of different aliases because I like making a bunch of different music,” Crousore […]
CEC, CAC announce performers for Bruin Bash
Mura Masa, Aminé and Mr. Carmack will be performing at this year’s Bruin Bash in Pauley Pavilion on Monday. The Cultural Affairs Commission and the Campus Events Commission announced the artists in a Facebook video Tuesday evening. Students who share the video will be entered into a draw for two floor tickets. Mura Masa, whose […]
Bruin Bash ticketing site crashes briefly due to overload of requests
This article was updated Sept. 15 at 4:57 p.m. Bruin Bash tickets were hard to come by once again. The Bruin Bash website crashed Wednesday morning for almost an hour after thousands of students flooded the website in the hopes of getting floor tickets. Bruin Bash, which is put together by the Campus Events Commission […]