In a technologically-driven society where attention spans are increasingly conditioned by the immediate fulfillment of our digital devices, there exists a group of dancers whose languid movements challenge the contemporary human. Read more...
Photo: Maria Hassabi’s “Plastic” exhibition at the Hammer Museum features dancers sprawled out around the grounds of the museum. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
World arts and culture/dance professor David Delgado Shorter said that throughout his time as an adviser, he's often encountered graduate students who aren't firm with their goals and expectations – he never had that problem with Alessandra Williams. Read more...
Photo: Before becoming a teaching assistant, world arts and culture/dance graduate student Alessandra Williams was a dancer at the Ananya Dance Theater where she danced to choreography that is rooted in Indian aesthetic forms. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Dorothy Dubrule, Julio Medina and Luis Tentindo came to UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance a year and a half ago as master candidates. Over the past six months they have met every couple of weeks to offer each other advice on their pieces for the MFA2 dance show. Read more...
Photo: The MFA2 dance concert titled “What” is choreographed by world arts and cultures graduate students Julio Medina (left), Luis Tentindo (center) and Dorothy Dubrule (right). (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
It was 11 p.m. on a Friday night, but the lights in Ackerman Union 2408 were still on. Fourteen students gathered together and chanted the Bard’s lines. Read more...
Photo: “Henry IV, Part I,” put on by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA and UCLA Residential Life, will star fourth-year English student Neda Dallal (left) and third-year theater student Ian Runge (right). The play will take place Friday and Saturday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: “CORPA” by Michel Fiffe is an alternative comic that derives from the 1980s superhero series, “Suicide Squad.” (Courtesy of Michel Fiffe)
A banana peel, a space shuttle at liftoff and a Hawaiian beach. Over and over, the projected images change, seeming to have no relation to one another. Read more...
Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate student Adam Ferriss will present his solo exhibition, “a wall with several poster painted on it.” at the Broad Art Center on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ferriss, a self-proclaimed software artist, designed his feedback loop after coding for at least two hours a day for more than a month. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
In the mid 1970s, Alice Munro’s short stories had to travel more than 200 miles across Ontario from rural Wingham to Toronto to get published. But for Mona Simpson – a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time – the stories weren’t traveling far enough. Read more...
Photo: (Shelby Chan/Daily Bruin)
