Peter Sellars traveled halfway across the globe to see the dusty caverns of the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, China. “It was so overwhelming. The caves are so amazing in the history of arts, and yet a cool thing about them, they’re also amazing in the history of Buddhism,” Sellars said. “The cave paintings had musicians […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Q&A: Director of opera studies wants students to see opera as accessible
Peter Kazaras found solace in theater and opera amid Vietnam War demonstrations, protests and clouds of tear gas. For Kazaras, the director of opera studies at UCLA, music and theater provided a haven away from the chaos of the outside world to retreat to throughout his undergraduate years. Though Kazaras initially worked at a law […]
Feminist collective voidLab held poster exhibition at Broad
A casual party conversation caught Kate Hollenbach off guard. “So what are you doing at this party? You obviously aren’t in computer science.” Hollenbach not only hosted the party but also has a computer science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – but that’s not the point. She was bothered when someone assumed that she, […]
Feminist collective voidLab held poster exhibition at Broad
A casual party conversation caught Kate Hollenbach off guard. “So what are you doing at this party? You obviously aren’t in computer science.” Hollenbach not only hosted the party but also has a computer science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – but that’s not the point. She was bothered when someone assumed that she, […]
Graduate art student explores intersections of human, technology
Nikita Gale and her then-girlfriend’s voices rose in pitch and anticipation as they sat parked in front of a gas station in late spring 2015 weighing the pros and cons of abandoning weekend plans in Joshua Tree and driving to Vegas to get married. As they spoke, Gale’s iPhone recorded their 10-minute conversation. A video […]
Dancer explores race, masculinity in final UCLA show ‘ONDA’
Julio Ulises Medina woke up to the sound of the Colombian cumbia and Dominican merengue every morning playing on his home radio. He danced salsa and punta with girls at quinceañeras. He grooved to hip-hop and reggaeton during middle school dances. Now Medina is interested in how dance portrays race and masculinity. The graduate student […]
Family, theater go hand in hand for UCLA alumna’s starring role
Three-year-old Alison Elliott sat in her car singing the haunting lines of Ophelia in “Hamlet”. By the time she was 4, Elliott’s parents had to pretend she was a theatrical understudy and create fake five-minute rehearsals to indulge her yearning to be on stage. Elliott, a UCLA alumna, is currently starring in the play “Six […]