Under a cloak of stars stand two figures, a dancer low to the ground reaching up to an audience member standing tall, looking gently down. The dancer reaches for the hand of the audience member until, with her assistance, they meet on the same level. This Saturdayon the Royce Hall Terrace, the contemporary dance company […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
MFA students showcase experimental work at opening reception
It is easy to overlook an inconspicuous door to the Broad Arts Center tucked away on the edge of north campus. But not this week, as on a platform, male genitalia painted white greet professors and guests as they enter the New Wight Gallery. On Oct. 23, 10 Design | Media Arts students from the […]
Disney Club, Hooligan invite students to ‘Be Our Guest’ cabaret show
Because of his early love for Disney, Matthew Friedman, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, was shocked to arrive at UCLA his first year to find no official Disney-related club or group on campus. Friedman decided to fix that. In 2011, he founded the Disney Club of UCLA. Over his four years, Friedman has remained president […]
UCLA CAP to celebrate Andy Warhol with film, live music
At the height of Andy Warhol’s fame in the late 1960s, artists, poets and musicians crowded his New York City studio space, called “The Factory.” In a haze of smoke, rock groups like the Velvet Underground played as 16 mm films made by Warhol and his peers were projected onto screens. It was a dizzying […]
Rebecca Allen returns as Design | Media Arts department chair
Professor Rebecca Allen remembers wondering if the computer was a tool artists could take advantage of. Joining the Design | Media Arts field before its title was established, Allen said this was still a time when computers were giant boxes in research labs. In 1986, Allen came to Los Angeles: a move from the computer […]
Mona Simpson hosts McSweeney’s at Hammer Museum
About 10 years ago, UCLA English professor and McSweeney’s contributor Mona Simpson went on a mission to bring stimulating discussions on literature to writers and readers, specifically college graduates, who yearn for the same intellectual connection found in the classroom. “There’s a yearning that people develop for a kind of connection that’s very deep and […]
Theater & More: “Swan Lake”
A thick layer of white mist coats the stage floor. A ballerina emerges, head high, gliding swiftly as if floating across a lake, for now she is not just a dancer – she is a swan. Friday and Saturday at Royce Hall, the Los Angeles Ballet performed its first segment in this season’s Tchaikovsky Trilogy: […]