Behind the Scenes: UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture 2015-16

Peek behind the scenes at what's happening in studios and classrooms across the school.

Behind the Scenes: UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture 2015-16

Two exceptional choreographers visit during the course of one Arts Encounters class, a General Education course in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance: Ann Carlson previews a commission for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Symphonic Body UCLA, and Simone Forti teaches students to perform Huddle, a piece from her Dance Construction series that was originally performed in Yoko Ono’s studio in 1961.

 

Students and faculty in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design prepare for reviews.

 

Students at work in the Broad Art Center’s ceramics lab for an Advanced Ceramics course.

 

UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance students practice sound and lighting techniques in a Dance for Camera course.

 

Taiwanese choreographers Hsiao-Mei Ho and Cheng-Chieh Yu rehearse their kinetically driven, image rich choreographic works Dear and Displacement II, which were performed at UCLA in October 2015.

Design Media Arts students prepare for and exhibit their final projects for a Motion course.

 

Undergraduate art students work in their Broad Art Center studios for Roger Herman’s Advanced Painting course.

 

UCLA dance students and members of the Los Angeles Dance Community participate in a workshop in Kaufman Hall led by renowned dancer, choreographer, and former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Silas Riener in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s exhibition, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957.

 

Art students learn printmaking techniques in the Broad Art Center’s printmaking lab.

 

Philippe Vergne, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), visits the studios of Design Media Arts graduate students to discuss their work.

 

 

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