Michelle Barnes, the administrative director of ICARUS Contemporary Dance Company, teaches an excerpt of choreography to the song “Kill the Lights” by Britney Spears.
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Alumna shines in Tony Award nominee ‘Bright Star’
Kelly Baker was too afraid to sing “Happy Birthday” to casting directors in elementary school. But now, she sings with the cast of a Tony Award-nominated musical. The UCLA alumna joined the cast of “Bright Star,” written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, which will run at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown LA until Nov. […]
Alumnus explores multiverse theory through kinetic art piece
Seph Li’s multimedia-based art piece “Cosmos” uses reflective mirrors and physics theories to reveal the mysteries of our universe – or universes. Li, a design media arts alumnus, will display “Cosmos” at the Shanghai Art Fair, which opens Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Shanghai World EXPO & Convention Center. The piece ruminates on […]
UCLA theater company musicals blossom with botanical garden as stage
The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden will serve as a backdrop for more than just plants and flowers this weekend. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it will become the set for the Dually Noted Theatre Company’s fall production. Dually Noted’s production, which is free and open to the public, features two one-act musicals, written and […]
UCLA Theater chair directs multigenerational one-woman show
Michelle Azar plays her own mother, father and grandfather in her latest one-woman show. “From Baghdad to Brooklyn” will make its New York debut Saturday at the United Solo Festival and follow Azar’s family heritage from mid-20th century Iraq to present-day New York and Los Angeles. While Azar wrote, acts and sings in the play, […]
Immersive, interactive theater performance showcases Halloween horrors
Audience members of “The Cure” received a list of disclaimers via email before attending the show. The disclaimers warned audience members of complete darkness, intimate encounters with cast members, mature themes and proximity to strangers. It also asked for audience consent to being physically touched by performers. “The Cure,” which ran Oct. 28 and 29 […]
UCLA students, faculty recreate renowned architecture models
The “Super Models” architectural exhibit will feature a German house and a dental clinic all under an 18.5 foot foam structure. Each building is a copy of other architectural models held in the German Architecture Museum’s collection created for the exhibition. Sylvia Lavin and Erin Besler, a professor and a lecturer, respectively, in UCLA’s department […]