Polly Nooter Roberts woke up before dawn to drive with her parents to see African villages’ masquerades during the three years she spent growing up in Liberia. Her parents’ growing interest in African arts and culture would eventually rub off onto Roberts herself. A world arts and cultures professor at UCLA, Roberts brought her appreciation […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Theater group to perform concert of Sara Bareilles’ musical ‘Waitress’
Grammy Award-winner Sara Bareilles gave UCLA students permission to perform the musical “Waitress” in concert on campus. “Waitress in Concert,” the second production by theater group Positivity Productions, opens Thursday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. The off-Broadway production of the musical is uncommon, considering the original show just debuted on Broadway in 2016. Bareilles, a […]
Student drag show at Hedrick Hall seeks to question gender binary
Cooper Reynolds will emcee Hedrick Hall’s first drag show as Lorelei, his blonde drag queen persona. Reynolds, the show’s host and executive producer, and other members of UCLA’s Hedrick Hall resident government council have been planning the Hedrick Hall Drag Show since the beginning of the quarter. Wednesday’s event will feature six two-minute performances by […]
Lecturer’s classes, presentation explore limits of virtual reality
A Nikon 360-degree camera stood on a tripod, unattended, in the middle of Bruin Plaza. Anisa Bashiri and three of her classmates observed students passing the camera without a second glance. Only a few students, of the hundreds on Bruin Walk, reacted to the camera in the 30 minutes that it filmed them. The other […]
UCLA transforms ‘Cinderella’ into opera set in post-WWII France
Opera UCLA set an enchanting princess fairy tale during a bleak time, when people were starving, freezing and struggling for food and clothing. Students have vaulted the 1697 story of “Cinderella” 250 years into the future – post-World War II France in in 1947. The opera version of Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale, “Cendrillon” – the […]
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition defies theme, showcases student art
Press play and two hands slowly begin tapping drumsticks on a cymbal and drum in synchrony. A voice speaks over the drumming motions: “I was afraid of getting in the way, or slowing other people down.” After 45 seconds, the entire reel starts over. The short film, entitled “Practice,” by fourth-year art student Penelope Uribe-Abee […]
‘Unexploded Ordnances’ to tap into students’ unexplored potential
Artists Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw thought of a performance idea after visiting Governors Island in upstate New York. They were warned not to dig into the ground because cannonballs from the Civil War could detonate on contact. The two women realized the underground remains of New York Harbor, called unexploded ordnances, are representative of […]