Oscar Escobedo and a crew of six students had three hours to strike the set of “H.M.S. Pinafore” before an audience came for a showing of “Crazy for You” on the same stage. This summer, the alumnus is working as the scenic designer for the College Light Opera Company’s 51st festival season, lasting through Aug. […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Dance camp helps students new to dancing find their own groove
Individual style and group synchronization are often difficult for dancers to balance. Last weekend, PNG x Body Rock: Dance Camp 2019 aimed to address this contradiction. Passion Nurtures Growth, a dance organization, and Body Rock Dance Competition held the camp at the John Wooden Center on Saturday and Sunday. The event’s 10 master classes were […]
Disability Inclusion Lab to celebrate nontraditional dance, aesthetic works in event
Prejudice can be held toward the idea of ability and dance when envisioning a supposedly ideal body. This notion can be challenged by having individuals with disabilities present their own ways of expression and movements, said Victoria Marks. The professor of choreography/performance and chair of the disability studies minor will co-lead the UCLA Disability Inclusion […]
‘Anne, A New Play’ reimagines Holocaust history to provide audience with timely insights
Imagine if Anne Frank had survived the Holocaust. “Anne, A New Play,” running from June 16-22 at the Museum of Tolerance, depicts a reality in which she does. The story begins as Anne meets with a publisher who hopes to turn her diary entries into a book, and follows her as she reflects on the […]
Lecturer repurposes Romance languages to reflect on its meaning in poetry book
Poems will mix multiple languages in “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a UCLA lecturer in Writing Programs, published her book in May. The book is a collection of 26 poems written in a combination of Romance languages including Spanish, Italian, French, English, Portuguese, and the Berber language, but most clearly […]
Art to Heart: Artistry in plating techniques creates a feast for the eyes and the stomach
Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art world,” alienating the perspectives of some while glorifying those of others. In efforts to challenge ideas that reinforce […]
Student’s senior project fuses flashlights and audience interaction
Flashlights will uncover a pattern of animated, distorted glass on a wall of the Broad Art Center. Using the wall of the main stairwell at the front entrance, Nate Mohler will use three projectors that reveal patterns and animations as the audience interacts with the piece. The fourth-year design media arts student’s project will be […]