Dance grad students tap into personal histories in performance ‘TOUCH’
The Daily Bruin sits down with two WACD grad students to discuss their upcoming performances
In the two-night performance series "TOUCH," Casey Brown and Bernard Brown, two graduate students from the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, exhibit performance pieces that explore their gender and racial identities.
"Majorettes chant “B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E” as theybreathe heavily and fling their limbs around their bodies.In Friday and Saturday’s dance performance “TOUCH” at the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, two students will present dance pieces created during their three years in UCLA’s graduate dance program.
In the first half, two works by Casey Brown, one of the two graduate students, will be featured, followed by three pieces by Bernard Brown, a graduate student who is of no relation to Casey Brown, in the second half. One of Bernard Brown’s pieces, “Active/Passive,” originally debuted in fall and will be redisplayed along with his other two works in “TOUCH.” In the performance, the students tap into their personal histories to portray dance as a physical documentation of experience, Bernard Brown said."— Alexandra del Rosario, Apr. 5, 2017
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