Larry Cedar converted Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground” from a dense 48,000-word novel to a 15,000-word one-man show. “It’s like they always say that when a sculptor has a big block of stone and he wants to make a sculpture of a beautiful woman, he just cuts away everything that isn’t the woman,” Cedar […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
HOOLIGAN’s uncensored rendition of ‘Cabaret’ aims to push boundaries
HOOLIGAN Theatre Company is trying to push boundaries this quarter with risqué costumes and social commentary in its production of “Cabaret.” In addition to a heavy amount of dancing, the show deals with themes of violence and genocide in 1930s Germany. “Cabaret,” which runs Friday and Saturday at Schoenberg Hall, tells the fictional story of […]
LCC Theatre Company’s fall production to feature student-directed plays
“Great Scott! And Other Above-Average People” will feature three plays in one show. Six UCLA students of the LCC Theatre Company directed three one-act plays for the student-run, Asian-American theater company’s first production this fall. Each scene was overseen by two directors, said Kady Le, a fourth-year film and television student and one of the […]
Student’s art exhibition spotlights nuances of human interaction
Vanessa Guzmán had her first panic attack in the middle of a high school math exam. Guzmán said she felt the walls closing in on her, and all the noises around her magnified. She ran to the restroom, struggling to calm down. “Everything came alive. Walls, breathing, everything became animated,” Guzmán said. “I just became […]
‘Black is Beautiful’ photo exhibit captures UCLA’s black community
The “Black is Beautiful” exhibit in Kerckhoff Art Gallery featured portraits of black students taken by seven black photographers in an effort to showcase the beauty of the black community at UCLA, according to the event’s Facebook page. Graciela Barada, a third-year gender studies and African American studies student, helped put on the exhibit as […]
UCLA alumnus portrays US-Mexico border through contemporary art
This post was updated Nov. 9 at 11:29 a.m. Daniel Schwarz compressed the entire 1,954 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border into two parallel accordion photo books. One book starts at the Pacific end of the border while the other starts at the Mexican Gulf end of the border. “For me, the interest is really using […]
UCLA’s dance community attended meeting to advocate for more space
The growing UCLA dance community can look forward to more practice space on campus, UCLA administrators said at a town hall meeting Tuesday. More than 100 attendees from UCLA dance teams and the undergraduate student government’s Facilities Commission met with administrators about issues regarding dance practice spaces. A UCLA administrator said the Hedrick Movement Studio […]