“The Choreographers’ Scores: 2020” turns dance into art that leaps off the page. The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA commissioned and published a collection of fine art pieces from 26 choreographers, each tasked with creating a dance score – to be turned into a fine art print by The Lapis Press – while in quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: (Dani Nalangan/Daily Bruin)
From selecting music and choreography to perfecting costumes and makeup, the ins and outs of putting on a dance performance are complex and detailed. Put on your dancing shoes and follow along as columnist Laura Carter takes a behind-the-scenes look at dance, disassembled. Read more...
Photo: (Katelyn Dang/Illustrations director) Photo credit: Katelyn Dang
This post was updated Sept. 29 at 9:30 p.m. Warning: spoilers ahead. Mind-blowing illusions and puzzles supplement a story of romance and discovery in “The Enigmatist.” Showing at the Geffen Playhouse until Nov. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)
This post was updated Sept. 26 at 9:35 p.m. Espionage hijinks meet American history in “Our Man in Santiago.” After its initial debut was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the comedic play returns to Theatre West for a five-week run from Sept. Read more...
Photo: Written by Mark Wilding and starring alumnus Nick McDow Musleh, “Our Man in Santiago” follows the true story of CIA activity in 1973 Chile but remolds the narrative into a spy-thriller comedy play. (Courtesy of Charlie Mount)
LaRissa Rogers is resculpting her history with soil. In her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between,” the fine arts graduate student uses soil and other tactile elements to explore her relationship to land and belonging. Read more...
Photo: Fine arts graduate student LaRissa Rogers road tripped across the country, collecting soil at state borders to become part of her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between.” (Antonio Martinez/Daily Bruin)
Curatorial collective Durden and Ray is embracing viewers back in person. Alumnus Rebecca Niederlander is among the three artists invited to install site-specific work by Durden and Ray, a 24-member collective which collaborates with galleries internationally. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Rebecca Niederlander’s piece “Wald-en” is part of a site-specific installation at collective Durden and Ray. (Antonio Martinez/Daily Bruin)
Deceased migrant women are more than just dots on a map. In collaboration with a team of graduate students, Spanish and Portuguese professor Maite Zubiaurre, who also creates art under the name Filomena Cruz, is using multimedia art installations to raise awareness of migrant women’s deaths in the Sonoran Desert. Read more...
Photo: (Maddie Rausa/Daily Bruin)
