A few minutes in, a 17-year-old girl and her brother are left to fend for themselves. An hour and ten minutes later, three people are trapped in a courthouse after an earthquake. Read more...
Photo: First-year theater student Max Coyne and first-year theater student Dashawn Barnes rehearse in preparation for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s annual Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon, which will feature two student plays.
Hundreds of tiny yellow dots illuminate Los Angeles’ sprawling streets and skyline as the sun sets. An outline of downtown and the city’s extensive freeways is visible against the darkening sky. Read more...
Photo: The Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum collaborated to produce “Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990.” The exhibition includes architectural drawings, photographs, models, artworks, films and interactive digital displays that offer a look into modern Los Angeles architecture.
From hybrid cars to hybrid foods, hybridization is largely the way of the future. Dance may prove no exception to this trend as it intersects with the visual arts to form a growing field: performance art. Read more...
With its puzzle-like appearance and distorted image of a human body, the assembled wood panel painting evokes a somewhat nostalgic feeling of reminiscing an early past experience. Read more...
Photo: “Art in the Union,” an annual art competition that allows UCLA students to enter artwork of any medium, selects up to five winners from as many as 150 participants each year. The pieces are judged, and besides receiving $600 as a cash prize, winners have their works kept in the gallery’s permanent collection. A few art pieces in the competition are pictured above.
The stage was set for the final run-through, with old photographs laid out neatly in the spotlight and the whisper of a Super 8 projector in the background. With a vintage film clip playing on the backdrop, the dancers prepared to tell the story of the choreographer, one of two graduate students who are showcasing their work this week. Read more...
Photo: “Exit Strategies” is a joint production featuring the final projects of two third-year graduate dance students, Carson Efird and Alexandra Shilling, who use their choreography as a mode of translating emotions and abstract concepts such as memory and loss into a visual experience. Their work will be showcased today and Friday.
An hour and a half may not seem like enough time to create a sense of cultural understanding, but tonight the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars is holding a song-and-dance performance to do just that. Read more...
Photo: The Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars will hold its fourth annual cultural performance night at the Fowler Museum today. The event will feature student performances of cultural dances and songs from countries including China, Malaysia, Mexico and Nigeria.
The schoolteacher looks down at the empty desks around her and teaches her imaginary students about Jesus Christ. She then sits down at one of the desks and transforms into a schoolgirl thinking that Jesus wasn’t so different from her after all. Read more...
Photo: Karen Anzoategui’s “Catholic School Daze” is a one-woman theatrical performance and interactive workshop that depicts Anzoategui’s experiences as a lesbian Latina at a time before she realized she was gay. The performance will take place in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library.
