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UCI program allows young dancers to shine

The kids stood patiently in four lines watching as their teacher, UC Irvine undergraduate student Irishia Hubbard, snaked across the floor demonstrating the dance move they were about to perform. “Right, back, right,” she yelled as they began to shake...
Dance
A children's dance class also focuses on body image and self-respect

While others pursue dance to become professional performers, UC Irvine student Irishia Hubbard has another goal in mind: to become a teacher. She and Nicole Rivor, who graduated from UC Irvine in June, teamed up in late May to co-found Shining Stars, a...
Dance
They're honing dance skills to pass them on

While others pursue dance to become professional performers, UC Irvine student Irishia Hubbard has another goal in mind — to become a teacher. She and Nicole Rivor, who graduated from UC Irvine in June, teamed up in late May to co-found Shining Stars...
CTSA | Drama
UCI's first fine arts dean, Clayton Garrison, dies at 93

Clayton Garrison, stage director, theater professor and inaugural dean of the school of fine arts at UC Irvine, died July 27. He was 93. The university's founding chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., invited Garrison to create the school in 1964, luring...
UCI's first fine arts dean, Clayton Garrison, dies at 93

Clayton Garrison, stage director, theater professor and inaugural dean of the school of fine arts at UC Irvine, died July 27. He was 93. The university's founding chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., invited Garrison to create the school in 1964, luring...
Beall Center
UC Irvine looking for artists to create biological art in new exhibit

A new international exhibition debuting this winter at UC Irvine aims to bring artists’ work to life – literally. The university’s Beall Center for Art and Technology is seeking artists who can create art through the techniques of synthetic biology...
CTSA
Inaugural dean of UCI arts school dies at 93

Clayton Garrison, founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine, died July 27 at the age of 93. He was a visionary stage director, choreographer and theater professor who left a lasting imprint on UCI and what’s now...
CTSA | Drama
Founder of UC Irvine fine arts school was a 'Renaissance man'

Clayton Garrison, an internationally acclaimed choreographer and director, left a lasting legacy at UC Irvine. The founding dean of the School of Fine Arts, now known as the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, he envisioned a full-fledged conservatory...
Beall Center
UC Irvine to exhibit artworks created via biological engineering

UC Irvine has put out a call for artists who want to manipulate the building blocks of life as we know it to create art as we’ve never known it – works made of living organisms that owe their existence to biological engineering rather than evolution...
Beall Center
BEALL Center: Once more, with feeling

The whirring sound of tiny motorized gears provided an interesting summer soundtrack at the Beall Center for Art and Technology as middle and high school students from UC Irvine’s Expressive Robotics camp filled the gallery space with their creative...
Drama
UCI's New Swan Shakespeare Festival Brings On the Bard

Eli Simon wanted to build a theater. Like, a really cool theater. He had the money, thanks to funds from a department of excellence award (given to the UC Irvine drama department), as well as generous donors. He had the talent; he's been UC Irvine chancel
Art
UC Irvine to Launch Digital Filmmaking Minor

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) at the University of California, Irvine is launching a new Minor in Digital Filmmaking. The Department of Art is accepting applications for the first classes which commence Fall Quarter 2015. The new program...
Drama
On Theater: UCI bringing Shakespeare into modern age

Shakespeare under the stars has become a summer fixture at UC Irvine, where the university's New Swan Shakespeare Festival is gearing up for its fourth season. This year's schedule, opening next Friday, features a tragedy and a comedy, "Macbeth" and...
Drama
Martin atmospheric effects bring the set alive in UC Irvine production

University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) Claire Trevor School of the Arts presented "The Electra Project", famed Romanian director Mihai Maniutiu’s reimagining of the classic Electra story. This stunning and avant-garde piece followed Maniutiu’s...
Music
Classical Music This Week: Joan of Arc, Birtwistle and a Different ‘Barber’

...celebrate the music of Lukas Ligeti, who is turning 50 and leaving New York to take a position in the Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology program at the University of California, Irvine.
Drama
Sweet Smell of Success

Listen to Ashton Martin's review of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS on AMB Theatre, Fridays 4-5pm PST, online at KUCI.org.
Drama
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

Read Steve Stanley's Stage Scene LA review of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.

Drama
The 25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts

This year, THR is lifting its annual ranking of the best drama schools to a higher level. The magazine is concentrating on the best places to get a postgraduate education (with one- to three-year programs) and for the first time is expanding the polling..