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Triple Jubilee Brings UCI Music to Downtown Santa Ana This SpringTriple Jubilee Brings UCI Music to Downtown Santa Ana This Spring
Triple Jubilee Brings Longstanding Partnership between UC Irvine Department of Music and Santa Ana High School Music Program to Downtown Santa Ana This Spring Having developed a partnership spanning seven years, and serving hundreds of high school and college students, the team of educators...
‘Changing Tides II’ Has Musicians Respond To Climate Change‘Changing Tides II’ Has Musicians Respond To Climate Change
Prof. Michael Dessen collaborates with Prof. Mark Dresser (UC San Diego) for a "Telematic Translocational Concert" with musicians from South Korea’s Seoul Institute of the Arts in the Experimental Theatre at UC San Diego. Read the article from KPBS to learn more.
H. Colin Slim (April 9, 1929 – October 22, 2019)H. Colin Slim (April 9, 1929 – October 22, 2019)
H. Colin Slim (1929–2019), music historian, conductor and pianist, founded the Department of Music at UC Irvine in 1965 and served as its chair until 1978, and several times thereafter. He had previously taught as an Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago. In 1968–69 he was a Fellow at...
Faculty Research: Lighting and Sound Labs Enhance the DramaFaculty Research: Lighting and Sound Labs Enhance the Drama
When the lights fade and the music builds, an audience of theater-goers can feel transported—before the action even starts. That’s why drama faculty in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts focus on creating high-tech sound and lighting labs that help students produce top-quality shows and then...
The Dance ScientistThe Dance Scientist
View the full pictorial in CONNECT, the quarterly magazine for UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dr. Kelli Sharp is not your typical dance professor. She spends her days collecting and analyzing motion-capture data to investigate movement patterns, responses to stimuli, and the acceleration...
11 Jazz Songs That Spoke Truth To Power In 201911 Jazz Songs That Spoke Truth To Power In 2019
Mark Dresser Seven "Let Them Eat Paper Towels" Remember the paper towel incident? Two years ago, in Puerto Rico, during the grave aftermath of Hurricane Maria? It may have been many news cycles and nearly as many scandals ago, but bassist and composer Mark Dresser hasn't forgotten the raw anger...
Vitor Luiz guest stars in Festival Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" at the Irvine Barclay TheatreVitor Luiz guest stars in Festival Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
Festival Ballet Theatre’s family-friendly breathtaking production features superb colorful scenery and dazzling costumes, which make this age-old tradition sparkle like new. Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s iconic score as the Sugar Plum Fairy, our heroine Clara, and a cast of hundreds take you on a...
Project Orthogonal: UCI’s Professor Simon PennyProject Orthogonal: UCI’s Professor Simon Penny
In hopes of promoting a more efficient and sustainable future in seaward exploration and travel, UCI Department of Art’s Simon Penny is developing a contemporary model of a proa — a Micronesian, multi-hull sailcraft used for both short and long-distance expeditions. Penny first began...
Welcome new ballet faculty, Vitor Luiz!Welcome new ballet faculty, Vitor Luiz!
The UCI Department of Dance announces the hiring of Vitor Luiz as a new ballet faculty. Vitor is an international dancer, choreographer and ballet master. Since 2009 he has been a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet. He has also performed with the Ballet of Rio de Janeiro, English National...
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...
Dr. Stephen Tucker: UCI Chair of Music & Conductor of the UCI Symphony OrchestraDr. Stephen Tucker: UCI Chair of Music & Conductor of the UCI Symphony Orchestra
By Terry Schilling | September 19, 2019 Over the past several years, the UCI Symphony Orchestra has delighted me with many exhilarating performances. Maestro Dr. Stephen Tucker is the newly appointed chair of the music department at UCI (Marjorie Rawlins Chair of Music). This comes on...
Paul Taylor American Dance Company Pays Special Tribute to Donald McKaylePaul Taylor American Dance Company Pays Special Tribute to Donald McKayle
As a tribute to the passing of world-renowned choreographer and former UCI Dance Faculty Member, Donald McKayle, Paul Taylor American Dance Company (PTDC) will include three of McKayle’s most notable choreographic works in their fall season at the Lincoln Center: Crossing the Rubicon (2017),...
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...
Tony DeLap, pioneering West Coast figure in abstract art, dies at 91Tony DeLap, pioneering West Coast figure in abstract art, dies at 91
Via Los Angeles Time, June 1, 2019 "Tony DeLap, the Orange County artist who helped to define West Coast minimalism through his meticulous exploration of the intersection of sculpture and painting, has died. He was 91. DeLap died Wednesday at his home in Corona del Mar, said his studio...
UCI Faculty Member Jason Harnell Released Solo Album “Total Harnage”UCI Faculty Member Jason Harnell Released Solo Album “Total Harnage”
On Sunday, May 12th,there was a release party at The Baked Potato --- a jazz club housing talented, upcoming musical artists since 1970 (thebakedpotato.com) --- for UCI Music Department Faculty Member Jason Harnell who debuted his first solo album entitled “TOTAL HARNAGE.” Harnell is a world-...
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...
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