Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem turned a page of her Andean textiles textbook, leafing through the glossy photos of pre-Columbian mantles, shawls and tunics woven in bright reds, browns and eggshell blues. To her, the items were flat, two-dimensional – they belonged only to the collection of PowerPoint slides her professor presented in lecture. […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
For dance clubs, the spacing’s off
Too many people, too little space. When it comes to dance groups on campus this is an all too familiar phrase. The limited dance space on campus has lead to many dance groups to end up practicing in subpar locations around campus that not only make rehearsals difficult but also can be major safety hazards. […]
‘Bodies & Nutella’ exposes relationship between indulgence, necessity
Vy Giap had globs of Nutella in her hair that left tracks on her shoulders. As she spun around laughing, she then pasted a handful of the hazelnut chocolate spread on another student’s bare stomach. “I really like the idea of Nutella as art: It’s almost like a kid playing with food,” said Giap, a […]
UCLA student tour guides at Hammer lead ‘conversation’ between art
A crowd of 13 spectators huddled around a painting, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s “And We Begin to Let Go,” hung on the dimly lit wall of the Hammer gallery. It was a larger crowd than usual. It is rare to see more than one UCLA student at a museum activity, said Weiwen Balter, a Hammer student […]
Halftime Signatures: Baton twirler aims to inspire enthusiasm for sport
In anticipation of the UCLA-USC football matchup Thanksgiving weekend, Daily Bruin A&E features members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band. Today’s installment profiles Michelle Glymph, an alumna and ex-Golden Girl, or featured baton twirler. Cheers rang through the air as the crowd of tailgating spectators waved the UCLA Bruin Marching Band through the grassy area […]
CFan engages audience in production of “The Pillow Man”
On Nov. 20 and Nov. 21, the CFan Chinese Theatre Group performed “The Pillowman” at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. Originally written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, “The Pillowman” tells the twisted tale of a fictional writer interrogated for the gruesome details of his stories and their striking similarities to a number of local child murders. […]
Artist portrays everyday movements in ‘The Symphonic Body’
Two women begin to dance. One sways her arms above her head while the second turns sideways in her chair, twirling her wrists in tight circles. The two women are UCLA custodians, and the choreography for their dance was inspired by years of scrubbing toilet bowls and wiping windows, of replacing trash bags and cleaning […]