Professional ballet dancer Christopher Kaiser went through years of Boy Scouts before realizing his passion for dance. It was only natural that the maturation story followed in “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” resonated with and affirmed Kaiser’s personal journey. On Saturday, the Alberta Ballet from Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta will perform “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” under the artistic […]
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Stand-up group BoyBand brings weekly laughs to The Improv Space
After Richie Rosales, member of the stand-up group BoyBand, performed a joke, a man in the audience stormed out. He did so exclaiming, “That was too funny. I can’t be in there.” So he just left. Rosales and fellow group member Edgar Momplaisir said this was one of their favorite moments in being a member […]
Comics see progressive trend in including more female writers, characters
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. New creators are dealing with issues every month in ways that couldn’t be done in other formats – […]
AUD lecture series to open with Disney architecture, innovation
With its sixth theme park being constructed in Shanghai, Disney works toward developing theme parks all over the world. The second year of UCLA’s Architecture and Urban Design IDEAS Lecture Series is taking off with “Walt Disney Imagineering: The Future of Theme Parks” on Tuesday at the IDEAS satellite campus in Playa Vista. Walt Disney […]
arTistic Attention: TA Alessandra Amin meshes passions of art, teaching into her lessons
It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Outside the classroom, they are also people with backgrounds ranging from musical festival ring leaders to comic strip satirists. With the new […]
Alumna Janice Mirikitani to share poetry from book ‘Out of the Dust’
UCLA alumna Janice Mirikitani describes the dust as something that connects people.
Design | Media Arts students hold showcase ‘Half & Half’ to feature works
Christian Gimber’s interactive installation is an orchestration of computer programming and physical sensors that give people a chance to try juggling a ball in the middle of a room that doesn’t exist.