Thursday, May 15

International Games Day gets high score at UCLA

Instrumental music and voices filled the usually silent foyer of Powell Library. The sound came from the rotunda on the second floor where on Saturday from 10 a.m. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year computer science student Anderson Mills and third-year psychology student Rayan Karapet were two of many participants who were able to engage in various games at International Games Day.


Students take ‘audacious’ step in starting dance company

Three friends were eating lunch at Bruin Café when they decided to form a dance company. The company, Audacity Dance Movements, was founded by UCLA students Dylan Gardener, Haley Jessup and Renee Jonas. Read more...

Photo: Audacity Dance Movements, a new dance company founded by a group of second-year students, integrates hip-hop, tap and ballet styles with its jazz contemporary-based movements.


Video game exhibition proves punk is not dead

With their rapidly put-together parts, exposed wiring and unconventional materials, the games featured at the Punk Arcade will convey much more than mere entertainment. The Punk Arcadeis a one-day exhibition that will bring together the punk-inspired video game artwork of award-winning designers, writers and UCLA students this Saturday at the Broad Art Center.The exhibition, sponsored by the UCLA Game Lab, will be open to the public from 6 to 9 p.m., and will feature artwork that intertwines the medium of games with the culture of punk. Read more...

Photo: Last year’s Punk Arcade exhibition showcased artwork that allowed visitors of all ages to try and play new games.


Q&A: Choreographer shares concept behind “Play/Pause”

Susan Marshall is a renowned New York City-based choreographer who’s bringing her new dance show “Play/Pause” to UCLA at Royce Hall on Saturday. “Play/Pause” fuses Marshall’s trademark choreographic style with visual language taken from pop culture and popular dance. Read more...

Photo: Susan Marshall is a choreographer based in New York City, who will bring her dance show “Play/Pause” to the west coast to UCLA’s Royce Hall this Saturday. “Play/Pause” is a dance show that combines Marshall’s signature choreography with visual language and features live indie rock music by the band “Dither.”


UCLA graduate student choreographs, directs ‘The Lost Boys’

Kevin Williamson takes the stage, dancing solo to Janet Jackson’s “Control.” The song pauses as a troupe of three men joins him dancing in silence. Their rigid moves and jagged slices come to an abrupt rest, as electronic sound suddenly begins to fill the quiet space. Read more...

Photo: From Friday to Sunday, UCLA graduate dance student Kevin Williamson’s “The Lost Boys,” a dance theater concert, will be performed at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.


OCHC to host revamped murder mystery theater on Hill

Between BBC’s “Sherlock” and CBS’s “Elementary,” solving murder mysteries has never looked more appealing, whether for an aspiring detective or an average UCLA college student. Wednesday, the On-Campus Housing Council will give students the opportunity to solve mock murder cases at Murder Mystery Theater, hosted in Carnesale Commons: Palisades (A-F) at 7 p.m. Read more...

Photo: In October 2012, the On-Campus Housing Council presented its first Murder Mystery Theater, which has been restructured and will take place Wednesday night in Carnesale Commons.




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