Within the span of six hours, an array of dancers and musicians brought an unlikely mixture of objects to the Bruin Plaza stage. Some performers wore ghungroos – Indian anklets covered with metallic bells – and some wore cowboy hats. Read more...

Photo: The 2014 World Music and Movement Festival took place Saturday in Bruin Plaza, showcasing music and dance from cultures across the world. The UCLA Abhinaya dance team (pictured) performed its style of South Asian classical dance during the festival. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)

Within the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, first-year students typically form their own group, second-year students form their own group, and so on. First-year jazz studies student Cody Dear has challenged this dynamic with his latest project, The CD Collective, which mixes ethnomusicology students of different ages with their mutual interests in jazz music. Read more...

Photo: First-year jazz studies students and saxophonists of The CD Collective Hugo Shiboski and Cody Dear will showcase a musical timeline of jazz today for the group’s Fowler Out Loud performance. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)