This week, a group of artists and students will come together, united in their efforts to further understand and relay the experience of being a transgender individual. Read more...
Photo: D’Lo, a transgender actor and UCLA alumnus, will be featured at “art TRANSforms us” Tuesday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium on the Hill. The event will be presented by TransUP and Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art. (Courtesy of Jack Kaden)
This post was updated on May 17 at 4:22 p.m. On Saturday night in Pauley Pavilion, a surprise performance by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis and Josh Klinghoffer and skits by comedy group Company were interspersed with a cappella groups, dance teams, bands, solos and duets taking the Spring Sing stage. Read more...
Photo: Jazz, funk and R&B band Fine Print took home The Northern California Alumni Grand Sweepstakes Award for best overall performance and The UCLA Las Doñas Award for best band entry for its performance of its original song “Move On.” (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday evening at her home in West Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died on Sunday. She was 88. (Courtesy of Lynn Tejada)
Madison Olandt, a second-year world arts and cultures/dance and psychology student, said her major has given her a sixth sense. “We’ll take a class where we will all lay down and close our eyes, listening to our surroundings, or sit in Bruin Plaza and then make a dance out of the pedestrian gestures we observed,” Olandt said. Read more...
Photo: The Inner Sanctum, a 40-person dance group primarily comprised of world arts and cultures/dance students, will perform a dance number based on a fairy tale story at Spring Sing on Saturday. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
At the Bridge 2014 competition, ACA Hip Hop’s winning performance was recorded. The video has garnered more than 800,000 views on YouTube since. “Some people (on the team) would walk to class and they would see some people on their phones watching the video,” said second-year bioengineering student Rachel Fujikawa. Read more...
Photo: The Association of Chinese Americans’ dance exhibition will open the second half of Spring Sing on Saturday. Showcasing a wide range of hip-hop styles, the group will open its set with a dance choreographed to Flume’s remix of Lorde’s “Tennis Courts.” (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
On top of Parking Structure 2 on most weekend evenings throughout winter and spring quarter, dancers leapt across parking spots, while singers belted out their favorite pop songs and actors interjected witty lines. Read more...
Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company has performed at Spring Sing for the past two years and will return to the stage on Saturday with a showcase of energetic pop songs that deal with the theme of acceptance and fitting in at UCLA. (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
Nikki Friedman came up with a new theme two weeks after performing in Spring Sing last year with her sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. Read more...
Photo: Students from the sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha will perform a number featuring Top 40 songs with modified lyrics at Spring Sing. This will mark Delta Gamma’s ninth consecutive year in the competition. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
