When Maria Diaz auditioned for the UCLA world arts and cultures’ dance program, she never had any formal dance training. Now the alumna runs her own studio and hopes to provide young people with opportunities she didn’t have as a child. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Maria Diaz opened Fuego y Sabor Latino Dance Studio to bring Latin American dance from her home country of Colombia to South Central Los Angeles. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
An enormous plastic dome covered a directional mic and a set of headphones by the watershed in the middle of Del Rey Lagoon Park on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Art | Sci Collective members, including Mick Lorusso, organized exhibits this summer demonstrating the importance of water sustainability in Los Angeles. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Rocky Avalos is a fourth-year art student who specializes in costume design and makeup for UCLA student films. Daily Bruin Video talked to her on the set of a short film to learn about her unique character outfits and shocking special effects makeup. Read more...
Taiwanese-American Stephen Ou found a space that felt like home during his casual walk down Westwood Boulevard. Ou paused last November when he saw a sign for the Taiwan Academy Los Angeles, a small art gallery across the street from the Hammer Museum, he said. Read more...
Photo: Director of the Taiwan Academy in Westwood Village Bill Su-pao Chang, and alumnus and gallery assistant Stephen Ou display work by contemporary Taiwanese artists including Isa Ho and Hao Ni. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
The small Spanish town of Teruel turns into a 13th-century medieval city every February. For three days, its people wear medieval clothes and celebrate two lovers for a festival called Las Bodas de Isabel de Segura. Read more...
Photo: Lori Needleman took classes at UCLA before becoming a blogger and photographer, now based in Spain. (Courtesy of Lori Needleman)
Tara Turnbull first thought of the idea for her play during a high school science class. She sat on a stiff stool at a long black lab table when a vision came to her: two students sitting on a hilltop, talking about life. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Tara Turnbull wrote, directed and produced “The Sunrise Club,” which tells the story of a group of students experiencing their last sunrise on Earth before moving to another planet. Turnbull said the plot was inspired by the impacts humans can have on Earth’s ecology and the possible consequences. (Shelby Scoggins/Daily Bruin)
Elyn Saks felt suffocated, trapped in a room filled with doctors. She lay restrained with leather bounds, her hands and feet tied, she said. It was her first year at Yale Law School; she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychosis defined by paranoid delusions, hallucinations, dysfunctional ways of thinking and agitated body movements, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Stephen Karr will conduct the opera “The Center Cannot Hold” beginning Friday. It was composed by Professor Kenneth Wells based on the memoir of Elyn Saks, a professor at USC, who was previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
