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. Read more...
Photo: Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died on Sunday. She was 88. (Courtesy of Lynn Tejada)
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,” Olandt said. Read more...
Photo: The Inner Sanctum, a 40-person dance group primarily comprised of world arts and cultures/dance students, will perform a dance number based on a fairy tale story at Spring Sing on Saturday. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: The Association of Chinese Americans’ dance exhibition will open the second half of Spring Sing on Saturday. Showcasing a wide range of hip-hop styles, the group will open its set with a dance choreographed to Flume’s remix of Lorde’s “Tennis Courts.” (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company has performed at Spring Sing for the past two years and will return to the stage on Saturday with a showcase of energetic pop songs that deal with the theme of acceptance and fitting in at UCLA. (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: Students from the sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha will perform a number featuring Top 40 songs with modified lyrics at Spring Sing. This will mark Delta Gamma’s ninth consecutive year in the competition. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: Company is a group of 12 students who will perform comedy sketches in the style of “Saturday Night Live” in between the talent performances at Spring Sing. The group will present a mix of live skits and pre-made videos, incorporating a variety of theatrical talents. (Bailey Greene/Daily Bruin)
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. Read more...
Photo: Second-year computer science student Kim Seltzer and third-year global studies student Aliya Kamalova will host “The Best Friends Show” at Nerdmelt on Friday. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
