UCI’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 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)"
From Claire Trevor To Broadway: Justin Keats’ Career After Graduation
By Lauren Knight A few years after he graduated from UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Justin Keats’ phone rang in an audition waiting room in New York City. Preparing to sing at an audition in four minutes for another Broadway musical, Keats saw his agent’s name on his screen and did not...
UCI’s Kei Akagi is inspired by both classic jazz musicians and emerging songwriters
“First, the faculty here has always been a fantastically fertile ground for the creation of new ideas to experiment with,” said Akagi. “And secondly, there are my students, who are constantly bringing fresh ideas for me to experience..."
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, a Retrospective
DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PRESS PREVIEW KIT BEALL CENTER FOR ART + TECHNOLOGY AT UCI PRESENTS CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU, A RETROSPECTIVE On View: February 9 – May 25, 2019 Opening Reception: February 9, 2019, 2-5pm Holiday Closure: Feb. 18, March 23-31 IRVINE, Calif. (...
UCI 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...
Preserving Jerry Herman’s music for a younger generation
"The day before the concert, Coulter and Boswell will conduct a master class with students from the UCI Drama Department’s musical theater program. Of the participating students who will prepare and present a song from a Jerry Herman musical..."
What They Found: Our Contributors Share Their 2018 Discoveries
"Ashley Clark, film programmer and critic In March, acting on a recommendation from the website Screen Slate—an increasingly essential resource in this rep coverage–starved age—I took myself to Manhattan’s Electronic Arts Intermix to see a shorts program by a grandly named video and performance...
Assistant 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 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 Drama plays with language and love in the classic THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
UCI DRAMA PLAYS WITH LANGUAGE AND LOVE IN THE CLASSIC THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, GUEST DIRECTED BY SHISHIR KURUP Irvine, Calif., November 20, 2018 – UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama continues its 2018-19 season, entitled “Against All Odds,” with Oscar Wilde’...
Kelly Moran’s Trippy, Beautiful Piano Music
Kelly Moran’s Trippy, Beautiful Piano Music New York artist’s avant-garde compositions break through to unique transcendence By Christopher R. Weingarten “I kind of just accepted that no one would really care about my work because I was such a weirdo,” says New York’s Kelly Moran, an avant-...
‘Not hearing him sing in the halls is hard’: UCI prepares tribute to dance legend Donald McKayle
Award-winning choreographer and educator Donald McKayle was considered one of the pioneers of 20th-century modern dance. His pieces on the black experience in America still resonate. (Read more from the LA Times...)
Simone Forti receives the Claire Trevor School of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award
MEDIA ADVISORY Simone Forti receives the Claire Trevor School of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award EVENT: The Art of Performance in Irvine: Simone Forti and Friends WHEN/WHERE: 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 1, 2018, Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) at the Claire Trevor School...
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