Dancers Alexander Tang and Vincent Tang started out with virtually no dance experience. After much practice, they eventually joined ACA Hip Hop and VSU Traditional, respectively. Read more...
Photo: Foundations Choreography is a dance group that aims to teach hip-hop specifically to beginner-level dancers. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
It started in Ackerman Student Union, in the textbook buyback center. Last fall, fourth-year world arts and cultures/dance student Kevin Belisario met his coworker, fourth-year sociology student Mike Wamungu, at their job at the student union. Read more...
Photo: Happy Feet, a dance group founded by fourth-year world arts and culture/dance student Kevin Belisario (foreground) and fourth-year sociology student Mike Wamungu, aims to emphasize pure movement and footwork through its dances. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Twelve figures will sit around a dinner table and play a game of chance. As the cards are played, the genetic game proceeds to inform each player about his or her connection to each other and the animals around them. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Art | Sci Center will host its first Hox Zodiac dinner Thursday night at the California NanoSystems Institute. The event aims to facilitate discussion between artists and scientists by featuring a 12-person dinner table in which attendants are organized in accordance with their zodiac sign. (Courtesy of Victoria Vesna)
Juan Garces used to think tattoos were taboo. Now, he has tattooed more than 150 students. Garces, a fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student, has been tattooing students at UCLA since he transferred here three years ago. Read more...
Photo: Fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student Juan Garces has tattooed more than 150 UCLA students over three years. Garces said tattooing gave him the opportunity to reconnect with his love of art by allowing him to practice drawing and sketching in a creative manner. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
When Professor David Gere began showing students a book, “A Broken Landscape,” he was met with a visible reaction, seen in their tears and heard in their responses. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Sex Squad, an organization under UCLA Art and Global Health Center, will perform skits and poetry as part of World AIDS Day 2014. The event centers on professor David Gere’s and photographer Gideon Mendel’s project, “Through Positive Eyes.” (Courtesy of Kristin Killacky/UCLA Art & Global Health Center)
For student poets like Eunice Gonzalez and Kevin Yang, writing poetry has a therapeutic value. On Tuesday in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon, seasoned and beginning poets alike will take the stage at the fifth annual KnockOut Poetry Jam, a noncompetitive performance organized by the Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art, a student group that uses art to raise awareness about social justice issues. Read more...
Photo: Through poetry, students will aim to raise awareness on mental health Tuesday at the KnockOut Jam, organized by Social Awareness Network for Activism Through Art (above). (Courtesy of Danielle Nguyen)
The semi-annual World Music and Movement Festival was held Sunday. The event was full of traditional instruments and music, along with dancing that represented different cultures. Read more...
