With their rapidly put-together parts, exposed wiring and unconventional materials, the games featured at the Punk Arcade will convey much more than mere entertainment. The Punk Arcadeis a one-day exhibition that will bring together the punk-inspired video game artwork of award-winning designers, writers and UCLA students this Saturday at the Broad Art Center.The exhibition, sponsored by […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Q&A: Choreographer shares concept behind “Play/Pause”
Susan Marshall is a renowned New York City-based choreographer who’s bringing her new dance show “Play/Pause” to UCLA at Royce Hall on Saturday. “Play/Pause” fuses Marshall’s trademark choreographic style with visual language taken from pop culture and popular dance. The show also features six dancers performing to a rock-dominated score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David […]
UCLA graduate student choreographs, directs ‘The Lost Boys’
Kevin Williamson takes the stage, dancing solo to Janet Jackson’s “Control.” The song pauses as a troupe of three men joins him dancing in silence. Their rigid moves and jagged slices come to an abrupt rest, as electronic sound suddenly begins to fill the quiet space. Exploring body forms and movements like these, “The Lost Boys” […]
OCHC to host revamped murder mystery theater on Hill
Between BBC’s “Sherlock” and CBS’s “Elementary,” solving murder mysteries has never looked more appealing, whether for an aspiring detective or an average UCLA college student. Wednesday, the On-Campus Housing Council will give students the opportunity to solve mock murder cases at Murder Mystery Theater, hosted in Carnesale Commons: Palisades (A-F) at 7 p.m. Running for […]
Night at the museum: Annual Muse Costume Ball haunts the LACMA
The ghosts of old Hollywoodland will haunt the red carpet Saturday night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 10th annual Muse Costume Ball. The annual public event combines a special after-hours viewing of some of LACMA’s current exhibitions with a Halloween party complete with elaborate costumes and entertainment throughout the evening. This year, […]
UCLA professor’s ‘Ka Yev Chka II’ details life in 1970s Armenia
The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. A lonely train horn sounds. Steel wheels strain and squeal against the track as the engine roars its approach. With a suitcase in hand, Professor Anahid Keshishian appears on stage to […]
Punk rock musical addresses sexual abuse
More than a decade ago, UCLA professor Paul Abramson became involved as an expert witness in a sexual abuse case so influential to him that he wrote a musical about it. “The Saint of F’ed Up Karma” is an autobiographical punk rock musical written by and starring psychology professor Paul Abramson. Based on a real […]