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“East Meets West” International Dance and Music Festival“East Meets West” International Dance and Music Festival
“EAST MEETS WEST” INTERNATIONAL DANCE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS ITS FOURTH ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AT THE IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE Irvine, Calif. – In its fourth year, the “East Meets West” Festival is a unique collaborative arts experience, showcasing dance works by students and professional...
Art of Social ChangeArt of Social Change
Two more UCI faculty and alumni receive Guggenheim Fellowships When a shiny sculpture of a rabbit by the most commercially successful living artist sold for a record-breaking $91 million at auction earlier this year, UCI art professor Daniel Joseph Martinez shrugged. “We don’t remember the...
Professional PathwaysProfessional Pathways
It’s summer in Rome and, inspired by the architecture of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, a UCI student ties on her pointe shoes and begins dancing in the cobblestone plaza. As if on cue, a street musician emerges from an alleyway playing Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance” on his harmonica....
Summer Dance ‘Intensive’ Embodies ImprovisationSummer Dance ‘Intensive’ Embodies Improvisation
S. Ama Wray, Ph.D., associate professor of dance, was featured in the El Paso Herald-Post for her work conducting an Embodiology workshop at The University of Texas at El Paso's Fox Fine Arts Center. "A half dozen or so pairs of bodies set in a circle moved in tandem though almost never in sync...
Choreographers Get Lab Time to Experiment Without RestrictionsChoreographers Get Lab Time to Experiment Without Restrictions
Professor Molly Lynch, chair for the Department of Dance, is featured in "Voice of OC" for her upcoming National Choreographers Initiative 2019 showcase. By Kaitlin Wright "Molly Lynch, professor and chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Dance, has over 35 years experience creating, producing, and...
Dr. S. Ama Wray is Making New Global StridesDr. S. Ama Wray is Making New Global Strides
In May 2019, Associate Professor of Dance at UC Irvine, Dr. Ama Wray, was invited to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Good-Global Summit at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. This Summit aims to amalgamate the work of both scientific and artistic innovators in hopes of utilizing AI in...
Why Arts Administration Matters: An Interview with UCI's Molly LynchWhy Arts Administration Matters: An Interview with UCI's Molly Lynch
Dance Plug, Interview by Keira Whitaker - 20 February 2019 "As I pulled into the University of California, Irvine to park my car I couldn’t help but be transported back in time. I graduated from UCl in 2016, and poured all of myself into four years of dancing, reading, and writing. My degree was...
UCI’s Latest Experimental Production: Your Ocean, My OceanUCI’s Latest Experimental Production: Your Ocean, My Ocean
YOMO/Intermedia is part of a bi-coastal collaboration connecting faculty and students from Rhode Island School of Design RISD and UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. YOMO includes contributions from Professor Kyna Leski’s students in the Architecture
UC Irvine students perform the stories of immigration detainees held in Orange County jailsUC Irvine students perform the stories of immigration detainees held in Orange County jails
"The performance was directed and written by UCI theater directors Jane Page and Gavin Cameron-Web, who are married and volunteer with the nonprofit. “We feel like we needed to make something that was a performance-based expression of what...(read more)"
UCI Arts Presents an Intermedia Performance Focused on Our Earth’s Oceans and Climate JusticeUCI Arts Presents an Intermedia Performance Focused on Our Earth’s Oceans and Climate Justice
UCI ARTS PRESENTS AN INTERMEDIA PERFORMANCE FOCUSED ON OUR EARTH’S OCEANS AND CLIMATE JUSTICE Irvine, Calif., January 28, 2018 – UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) presents the experimental intermedia performance “Your Ocean, My Ocean" (YOMO). Produced by UCI’s...
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Assistant professor of drama wins NEH grantAssistant professor of drama wins NEH grant
Tara Rodman, UCI assistant professor of drama, has won a 2018 Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $60,000 grant will enable her to research and write a book about the international career of Japanese dancer and choreographer...
All Hands on Deck for Boat BuildingAll Hands on Deck for Boat Building
by Gustavo Arellano, Alta With his proto-Fu Manchu mustache, bright eyes, salt-and-pepper hair, sporty brown vest and Australian accent, Simon Penny seems like he should be a BBC documentarian. But he’s actually a UC Irvine professor. And a boatbuilder. And the boat he’s building is not just...
UCI Chamber Singers Premieres New Work at Walt Disney Concert HallUCI Chamber Singers Premieres New Work at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Seth Houston, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Chair for Performance, led UCI Chamber Singers and a consortium of other performers in a world premiere performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday, October 9. The work, Oscillations: One Hundred Years and Forever, by New York-based...
1888 Center will feature a reading and showing of artwork by Antoinette LaFarge1888 Center will feature a reading and showing of artwork by Antoinette LaFarge
This presentation focuses on Burning Time, a graphic book collaboration between writer Jonathan Alexander and artist Antoinette LaFarge, UCI Art Faculty that explores the intimacies of imagined memory and sexuality. The book consists of cycle of 8 poems and 8 associated panoramic paintings to tell...
Simon Penny publishes " Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment"Simon Penny publishes " Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment"
Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment By Simon Penny. Why embodied approaches to cognition are better able to address the performative dimensions of art than the dualistic conceptions fundamental to theories of digital computing.
Former Broadway performer directs UCI's ‘American Idiot’ production
Kei Akagi performs at the Jazz on the Odra Festival in WroclawKei Akagi performs at the Jazz on the Odra Festival in Wroclaw
Chancellor’s Professor of Music Kei Akagi (piano) performs at the Jazz on the Odra Festival in Wroclaw, Poland on April 28. Joining him will be fellow UCI colleagues Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) and Darek Oles (bass), as well as drummer Tamaya Honda from Tokyo. The group will present music...
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