Maggie Darago exhaled deeply with a timid smile as she rattled off her upcoming 10-day routine for “A Chorus Line” – a 10-hour dance and voice rehearsal, a drive home and a personal practice in her room before turning in for the night. Darago, a fourth-year theater student graduating in June, will perform in the […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Photographer Nolan Isozaki inspired by the pretty and the gritty
Nolan Isozaki clung to the side of a mountain, watching stones dislodged by his backpack tumble down 14,000 feet to the ground. Freezing wind whipped around him as the sun’s light faded over the Rocky Mountains, muffling the warning shouts of his friends in the valley below. Isozaki clasped his Fujifilm X20 camera with frozen […]
Students paint hand prints on canvases to express support for community
This article was updated Nov. 9 at 3:55 p.m. Paul Wislotski wants to heal the campus one bedsheet at a time. On Wednesday afternoon, Wislotski hung an easel and a white sheet on the corner of Strathmore Avenue and Charles E. Young Drive and offered a palette of colorful oil pastels to every student passing […]
Campus concerts, events canceled, postponed
All campus events including classes, public concerts and recitals have been canceled for Wednesday, officials announced. Activities will resume Thursday, said Neal Stulberg, co-director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, in an email statement. He said Maryann Gray, assistant provost in the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor Scott Waugh, canceled all activities […]
Theater group spotlights mental health, sexuality in new musical
Eleven-year-old Jonny Perl crept into his parents’ room on a mission to sneak out and watch the movie “Rent,” something that he was forbidden to view as a child. Ever since, the play has shaped Perl’s outlook on the world, he said. Now a third-year communication studies student, Perl said the first time he saw […]
Shadow puppetry to depict Persian epic ‘Shahnameh’ at Freud Playhouse
Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid Rahmanian, the director, producer and creator of “Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic,” previewed his show in early 2016 in San Francisco, before touring at the Brooklyn […]
Q&A: NSU Modern artistic director talks his final Battle Royale
Hearts beat faster. The music grows louder. The crowd goes wild. This is how a fourth-year English student Jeremy Ortiz, who has been dancing all four years of college, remembers Battle Royale. Each year, UCLA hip-hop dance teams ACA Hip Hop, VSU Modern, Samahang Modern and NSU Modern compete in Battle Royale. The combination of […]