Students will pole-dance to find their inner power on Friday, said TaMisha Greathouse. In honor of this year’s Sex Week, a beginner pole-dancing class will be held in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Read more...
Photo: Candace Cane will be the instructor for Sexploration Pole Art Class, which will take place Friday in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. The class is part of UCLA Sex Week and aims to make students more confident in their body and sexuality. (Courtesy of Alloy Images)
Deborah Pae joined Juilliard’s Pre-College Division at just 7 years old, making her the youngest cellist to be enrolled at the time. Pae has been playing the cello since she was 4 and at 13, she performed at the Grammy Awards in the presence of musicians like Alicia Keys and Ludacris. Read more...
Photo: Professional cellist Deborah Pae will lead a master class at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music on Wednesday. Pae began playing the cello at the age of four, and has since played at the Grammy Awards and joined the internationally recognized Formosa Quartet. (Courtesy of Xiaoxi Wu)
Decadent runs and fully charged instrumentals flew through the air Monday night – and so did P!nk. The career pop artist performed at the Staples Center as a stop on her “Beautiful Trauma” tour. Read more...
Photo: P!nk performed at the Staples Center on Monday as part of her “Beautiful Trauma” tour. Aerial stunts accompanied her performance – the pop artist entered the stage on a suspended chandelier wearing a sparkling, black bodysuit while flipping and twirling mid-air. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin staff)
One hundred solos will grace stages in New York, London and Los Angeles to honor the late American choreographer Merce Cunningham on Tuesday. “Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event” will feature dancers from all over the world performing Cunningham’s choreography, with UCLA’s Royce Hall serving as the LA venue. Read more...
Photo: Jermaine Maurice Spivey will perform at “Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event.” Though many of those performing at the event had never been trained by Merce Cunningham, his old company taught Cunningham technique to a new set of dancers. (Courtesy of Kathleen Schenck)
Some music is meant to be background noise during a workout or a party – LSD isn’t. Three artists joined forces to produce a self-titled album, “LABRINTH, SIA & DIPLO PRESENT… LSD,” which was released Friday. Read more...
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The Gloaming, amid folksy fiddle notes reminiscent of Irish childhood, inserts its own modern take on an age-old art form. The band, consisting of fiddlers Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, guitarist Dennis Cahill and sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, blends together traditional Irish fiddling with more contemporary elements such as jazz and dance-oriented music. Read more...
Photo: The Gloaming, a band that blends together traditional Irish fiddling with more contemporary elements such as jazz and dance-oriented music, will perform at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Friday. (Courtesy of Rich Gilligan)
Reiser+Umemoto, or RUR Architecture DPC, won an architecture design contest by including bridges in their plans for a music center. Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto of RUR Architecture will hold a lecture in Perloff Hall on Wednesday discussing their two current architectural projects in Taiwan and teaching students about the process of creating architectural theory. Read more...
Photo: The Taipei Pop Music Center includes structures typical to architectural style in Taiwan, such as bridges and open plaza spaces below them. The plaza can also be converted to act as an outdoor concert venue at night. (Courtesy of Reiser+Umemoto)
