Davia Schendel wrote her first play on the back of her eighth-grade school notebook. Since then, she’s written three more plays, two during her freshman year at UCLA and one this year. Read more...
Photo: The Shakespeare Company at UCLA is putting on “Fourteen Lines,” a play written, casted and directed by second-year theater student Davia Schendel. The show is based on Shakespearean characters and sonnets, and it searches for the meaning of love across centuries. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Consent or rape: A play in Westwood implies it isn’t so black and white. “Actually,” a two-person play at the Geffen Playhouse, realistically depicts modern hookup culture and the difficulties of defining consent; it shows two sides of an often ambiguous situation. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)
Nate Mohler had to translate a Korean instruction manual the first time he operated a 360-degree camera. The Samsung Gear 360 camera, which was so new at the time that it didn’t even come with English instructions, has come into the mainstream since Mohler first picked it up in the summer of 2016, he said. Read more...
Photo: Second-year Design | Media Arts student Nate Mohler uses a 360-degree camera to make immersive short films and to document his artwork. Mohler shot one of his short films, “Staring Contest,” in an abandoned warehouse. During the staring contest, the viewer’s opponent’s head explodes, and the viewer can look around at the newly blood-spattered walls. (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)
Sarah Jacobs’ latest dance piece features a cardboard set and a skeleton model named Skelly. Jacobs’ movement-based performance “Fugit Tempus” is part of the world arts and cultures/dance department’s Upstarts Series. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Sarah Jacobs will present “Fugit Tempus,” a movement piece as part of the world arts and cultures/dance department’s Upstart Series, at Kaufman Hall on Friday and Saturday. The performance involves themes of construction and features a cardboard set and skeleton model. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
Instead of attending law school, Rippin Sindher decided to take a trip to the Amazon rainforest. The trip allowed her to think about her aspirations and made her realize she wanted to pursue film. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Rippin Sindher reached out to Bruin Bhangra, a cultural dance team at UCLA to choreograph the dance sequences of her short film “The Hideout.” (Courtesy of Shane Karns)
Asmita Paranjape splits jokes between Westwood and Hollywood – editing an on-campus satirical magazine and performing sketches at a Los Angeles comedy club. For the fourth-year computer science and linguistics student and other aspiring comedians at UCLA, joining a mix of comedic organizations both on and off campus provides space to gain the experience necessary for a professional comedic career. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year English student Kevin Alvarez helped put on “Improv Slam” in January to build a stronger sense of community among different on-campus comedy groups. The event featured an improv workshop taught by local professionals and 15-minute comedy sets. (Hannah Johnson/Daily Bruin)
The soundtrack of the musical “Hamilton” blared from the speakers as students streamed into De Neve Commons Lecture Auditorium, eagerly awaiting The New York Times’ Get With The Times, a conversation between New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor and “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. Read more...
Photo: Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr in the award-winning musical “Hamilton,” spoke and sang at De Neve Commons Lecture Auditorium on Wednesday night. (Katherine Zhou/Daily Bruin)
