Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday evening at her home in West Los Angeles. She was 88. From her cross-country move to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, Rosenthal had become a mainstay and […]
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Spring Sing 2015: The Inner Sanctum
Madison Olandt, a second-year world arts and cultures/dance and psychology student, said her major has given her a sixth sense. “We’ll take a class where we will all lay down and close our eyes, listening to our surroundings, or sit in Bruin Plaza and then make a dance out of the pedestrian gestures we observed,” […]
Spring Sing 2015: ACA Hip Hop
At the Bridge 2014 competition, ACA Hip Hop’s winning performance was recorded. The video has garnered more than 800,000 views on YouTube since. “Some people (on the team) would walk to class and they would see some people on their phones watching the video,” said second-year bioengineering student Rachel Fujikawa. “They would post it in […]
Spring Sing 2015: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company
On top of Parking Structure 2 on most weekend evenings throughout winter and spring quarter, dancers leapt across parking spots, while singers belted out their favorite pop songs and actors interjected witty lines. HOOLIGAN Theatre Company has taken up residence in the structure while it rehearses for its upcoming Spring Sing performance. The group, which […]
Spring Sing 2015: Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi
Nikki Friedman came up with a new theme two weeks after performing in Spring Sing last year with her sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. Friedman, a third-year world arts and cultures/dance and psychology student and director of the piece, wanted to take on more of a challenge for the group’s return […]
Spring Sing 2015: Company
Landen Baldwin compared the role of Company to drinking a glass of water after each bite of ice cream. “It’s almost a palate cleanser,” said Baldwin, a third-year linguistics student and first-time member of Company. “It’s like, ‘This was pleasant, I enjoyed that, and now let’s get back to the real sweet stuff.’” Company is […]
Best friends show off wit, comedic banter in original program
The friendship started with a rejection. Last year, Kim Seltzer, asecond-year computer science student, applied to be on the staff of UCLA’s comedy magazine Satyr. Aliya Kamalova, current editor in chiefof Satyr anda third-year global studies student, interviewed Seltzer and did not accept her to the staff. But Seltzer continued to submit articles to the […]