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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...
What They Found: Our Contributors Share Their 2018 DiscoveriesWhat 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 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...
Charles White’s Students on Why They—and the Art World—Wouldn’t Be the Same Without His WorkCharles White’s Students on Why They—and the Art World—Wouldn’t Be the Same Without His Work
"But his impact extended beyond what White as an individual made himself. White was an instructor at the Otis Art Institute, where he taught a number of artists who have not only made names for themselves—in some instances, by continuing to work with the themes that White pioneered—but who now...
At the Joyce, a Rearranged Theater Brings Mystery and OrthodoxyAt the Joyce, a Rearranged Theater Brings Mystery and Orthodoxy
The “NY Quadrille” format reconfigures the Joyce Theater by turning auditorium and stage inside out. The square stage becomes the theater’s centerpiece: The audience is on both sides, as at a tennis or snooker match. One side of the stage leads straight to a rising slope of tiered seating, with...
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...
Fall Dance Preview: From Ballet to BachFall Dance Preview: From Ballet to Bach
One of J.S. Bach’s most iconic works, the Brandenburg Concertos, will be presented as a dance at the Park Avenue Armory this fall. It is one of several new works of dance to be presented throughout New York City starting this month. WNYC’s dance critic Marina Harss spoke to Richard Hake about...
Joyce Theater Begins Fall/Winter 2018-2019 Season with NY QUADRILLEJoyce Theater Begins Fall/Winter 2018-2019 Season with NY QUADRILLE
After a season of thrilling and diverse programming,The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), New York City's premier presenter of dance, proudly kicks off its 2018-2019 Fall/Winter Season with the return of the wildly popular NY Quadrille, which had its debut in...
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