Willy Souly’s first Djanjoba dance circle in Burkina Faso did not involve a lot of dancing. “Everyone was expecting me to move and, growing up shy, I froze for almost an entire minute,” Souly said. Read more...
Photo: UCLA dance professor Willy Souly grew up in Burkina Faso where he attended many Djanjobas, cultural gatherings that involve dance circles and storytelling set to music. (Bilal Ismail Ahmed/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Mozart’s character Dorabella has temper tantrums and fits of lovesick swooning, but Joanna Lynn-Jacobs wants to dignify her sorrow. Alumna and mezzo-soprano Lynn-Jacobs will perform in “HIDDEN TREASURES: The Innas, Ettas, Annas & Donnas of Mozart’s Operas,” a concert by Performances à la Carte, a Southern California-based arts organization, at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena on Sunday afternoon. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Joanna Lynn-Jacobs will be performing at Performances à la Carte’s upcoming concert “HIDDEN TREASURES: The Innas, Ettas, Annas and Donnas of Mozart’s Operas.” The concert aims to contextualize and dignify the flat and oftentimes restricted female characters of Mozart’s operas. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Two sopranos will meow in perfect tune at the Getty Center on Saturday evening. The performance will take place as a part of the free lecture-concert series “Sonnets and Sonatas,” led by French language and culture professor Laure Murat. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Rosalind Wong will be playing the piano at the Getty Center on Saturday evening for the “Sonnets and Sonatas” lecture-concert series. Wong will perform Jean-Philippe Rameau’s song “The Hen,” which is traditionally played on the harpsichord. Although the harpsichord rendition manages to effectively sound like a hen’s clucking, Wong said she has to put especial care into playing so that she can mimic the sound on the piano. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
Guillermo Ojeda began writing his three-minute romantic guitar solo with just seven notes. Ojeda, a graduate student in social welfare, submitted his song “Soledad” to “7 Notes Experiment,” a global contest that encourages musicians from across the world to compose a song of any genre from a given set of seven notes. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Guillermo Odeja created his song “Soledad” using Spanish guitar strumming inspired by his grandfather. The song layers the strumming at varying tempos, based off of the seven notes from the contest he entered. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)
Updated Feb. 12 at 7:43 p.m. A group of UCLA students will use 3-D printed instruments to teach elementary school children about the intersection of art and science. Read more...
Photo: Joey Meurer, a third-year mechanical engineering student, Sam Celentano, a third-year physics student, and Ryan Poon, a third-year mechanical engineering student (left to right) worked with UCLA’s chapter of the 3-D Printing For Everyone club to design 3D-printed ukuleles, which it plans to donate to underprivileged children. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)
Dancers will sweep their arms in a wavelike manner for Iemanjá, the Candomblé deity of the oceans, while dancing through the streets of Los Angeles to the rhythm of drums. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles-based Viver Brasil dance company, co-founded by UCLA alumna and adjunct professor Linda Yudin, is holding their “Samba in the Streets” community engagement program for the first time in Alabama on Feb. 20 through March 7, and for the third time in Los Angeles in late March. (Courtesy of Viver Brasil)
Candace Hansen and Kristie Valdéz-Guillén unknowingly attended the same punk rock concert 10 years ago – now, they’re organizing a UCLA punk conference together. Jessica Schwartz, assistant professor of musicology and the conference organizer, said its theme – exploring the convergence of punk culture and archival studies – will show how punk music historically disrupted the status quo set in place by people in power. Read more...
Photo: Students are organizing a UCLA punk conference that will explore the convergence of punk culture and archival studies. Jessica Schwartz, assistant professor of musicology and the conference organizer, said the conference will show how punk music historically disrupted the status quo set in place by people in power. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
