Non-Mandarin speakers may have difficulty deciphering the dialogue in “Nightwatch.” Using Mandarin characters in its dialogue, the play is set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Max Yu’s play “Nightwatch” recently won the Relentless Award, making him the first Chinese American awardee. The play explores the lingering effects of China’s Cultural Revolution on different generations of the family. (Courtesy of Max Yu)
The distinction between fashion and fine art is blurred within the “SEQUENCE 1” artwork collection. Alumnus Michael Ho, the artist behind the collection, said there is a recent global art world trend of interweaving the fashion and fine art fields. Read more...
Photo: Model Chikako Fukuyama posed for alumnus Michael Ho’s artwork collection “SEQUENCE 1,” which features mock clothing that imitates a fashion brand. Ho said that in the project, he aimed to blur the line between fashion and fine art, which is a recent trend in the art world at large. (Courtesy of Nani Welch Keli`iho`omalu)
The musical “Frozen” is technologically and visually stunning, but entirely unnecessary. While Disney Theatrical Productions may have set out to build a snowman – and does with Olaf being given new life by his puppeteer – the end result still presents a six-year-old story with not enough new elements to justify its existence. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Deen van Meer)
Joy Gong said her play doesn’t have a beginning, middle or end. “Everything Between Me and My Abstract Desires” debuted Sunday in Macgowan Hall as part of the Shakespeare Company at UCLA’s new works division. Read more...
Photo: First-year theater student Tobias Echeverria (left), second-year theater student Achintya Pandey (middle) and second-year theater student Violet Morris (right) play Grey, Blue and Red, respectively, in Joy Gong’s newest production, “Everything Between Me and My Abstract Desires.” Gong, a second-year theater student, said the staged reading explores the idea of emotions as both colors and people. (Courtesy of Fiona Liu)
Dylan Han’s 3D-rendered pieces experiment with balancing classical artistic critique and pragmatism. The fourth-year art student has been studying photography and painting since junior year of high school, but said he only recently made a switch to 3D modeling and rendering for more creative freedom. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year fine arts student Dylan Han has studied fine art and photography since high school, but while at UCLA he began to explore 3D modeling and rendering. Now, he balances his more traditional artistic training with futuristic rendering abilities. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Costume design is more than just crafting clothes for a show. Alexa Weinzierl discusses the collaborative process involved with all the members of the play “Juana.” Read more...
The main attraction of an opera may be the music, but in “Juana” the actors’ costumes are equally vital to the story. Opera UCLA’s production, based on professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s novel “Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” runs from Nov. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Alexa Weinzierl served as the costume designer for Opera UCLA’s production of “Juana,” which follows the life of 17th-century feminist Sor Juana. (Natalie Tsang/Daily Bruin)
