Wednesday, May 21

TFT students explore clashing generations in play ‘Stupid F#@king Bird’

Actress Jamie Hughes called upon a recent clash with her mother to inform her latest stage role. The altercation laid the foundation for her character’s tense relationship with her son. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television will perform Aaron Posner’s “Stupid F#@king Bird,” a play about young artists struggling against an older generation of performers on Friday. The show will feature seven of the original play’s 14 characters. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)


UCLA professor’s billboard art piece frames road to Coachella

This post was updated on April 21 at 4 p.m. Jennifer Bolande spent hours taking pictures for an art piece that she says viewers cannot properly capture in photos. Read more...

Photo: UCLA art professor and professional artist Jennifer Bolande designed six photographic billboards along Gene Autry Trail for the desert art exhibition, “Desert X” in the Coachella Valley. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)


HOOLIGAN production ‘Footloose’ kicks off with a medley of dance styles

Sam Brogadir took the stage as Ren McCormack in the hip-hop styled opening number of “Footloose.” He switched to smooth and groovy jazz in “I Can’t Stand Still,” line dancing in “Still Rockin’,” and a medley of each dance form in the finale. Read more...

Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “Footloose” features fast-paced line dancing sequences with high-kicks, leaps and partnering. However, dancers of all skill levels participated. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)


Alumni launch website, fax protest art to lawmakers to save arts funding

Los Angeles design studio Use All Five is bringing back the old-fashioned fax machine with its latest project “Artifax.” Participants select a work of art displayed on the Artifax website and fax a print of it to a local representative or member of Congress along with a personal message, said Levi Brooks, a co-founder of Use All Five. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus Levi Brooks is a co-founder of the studio Use All Five. The studio created the project “Artifax” to fax messages to members of Congress about art budget cuts.(Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)


Culture night explores intergenerational effects of Cambodian genocide

Melanie Tiang wanted to do her research before writing the script for this year’s United Khmer Students Culture Night play. Instead of turning to history books, she asked her fellow club members about their Cambodian upbringings. Read more...

Photo: Club members of United Khmer Students of UCLA rehearse for their play “Lost in Translation” for this year’s Cambodian Culture Night. “Lost in Translation” is based on the effects of the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s. (Eileen Lising/Daily Bruin)


Dance grad students tap into personal histories in performance ‘TOUCH’

Majorettes chant “B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E” as they breathe heavily and fling their limbs around their bodies. In Friday and Saturday’s dance performance “TOUCH” at the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, two students will present dance pieces created during their three years in UCLA’s graduate dance program. Read more...

Photo: In UCLA graduate student Bernard Brown’s dance piece MotherEarth, dancers pay homage to women by portraying mothers and daughters while rolling on the ground, pirouetting and extending their legs. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)


Theater student sinks her teeth into gory special effects makeup

Amber Li sat in Elysee Bakery & Cafe and apologized for picking such a “bougie” place to meet. When most people talk about mangled limbs and severed heads made from gelatin, it’s probably not usually over overpriced coffee and pastries. Read more...

Photo: Amber Li, a second-year theater student, taught herself how to apply special effects makeup through YouTube tutorials and instructional books online. She hopes to eventually become a professional special effects makeup artist for films. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)



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