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Dance

Probability Distribution

July 23, 2026

Founder/artistic director Molly Lynch announced that the 2026 National Choreographers Initiative this Saturday, will be The Last Dance.

Dance

The Dance Will Go On

July 23, 2026

National Choreographers Initiative takes its last bow

Portrait of Molly Lynch, smiling, wearing red-framed glasses, dangling beaded earrings, and a maroon top with a colorful geometric pattern, against a softly blurred outdoor background

Dance

Molly Lynch Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

July 21, 2026

UC Irvine Professor of Dance receives top honor from CORPS de Ballet International

Dance

Curtain Comes Down on National Choreographers Initiative Led by Corona del Mar Resident Molly Lynch

July 20, 2026

After 35 years, UCI Dance Professor, NCI Founder and Artistic Director Molly Lynch has decided to make this year’s project the last dance

Music

The Symphony’s New Movement

July 13, 2026

Geoffrey Pope conducts a growing sense of community as UC Irvine's director of orchestral studies

Juliette Carrillo smiles at the camera, wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a teal linen jacket over a black top, her long dark wavy hair falling past her shoulders against a warm wood-paneled background.

Drama

Juliette Carrillo Named Ojai Playwrights Writer-in-Residence

June 26, 2026

The award-winning director and playwright and professor of drama will develop new work at the July 30–Aug. 2 New Works Festival

A long timeline wall wrapping a corridor, tracing UCI Arts history from 1960 to the present in blue and white panels, with "60 Years at UCI Arts" in large type across a photo collage at the base.

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UCI Arts Unveils 60th Anniversary Timeline Wall

November 3, 2025

New installation in Winifred Smith Hall highlights six decades of artistic history at UC Irvine

About a dozen students and faculty stand smiling in a row in front of a large screen reading "Boundless Entertainment."

Drama

Research

School

Drama Students Reimagine La Llorona in an Immersive Experience designed for Noguchi Gardens

June 23, 2026

Lighting and scenic designers in the Digital Imaging course collaborated on a digitally rendered installation that honors the legend's cultural roots and the Costa Mesa sculpture garden that inspired it

Overhead view of audience members seated in the round of the New Swan Theater, a circular performance space with railings and vivid blue, pink and purple theatrical lighting - photo by Steve Zylius

Drama

Research

Shakespeare with a twist

June 16, 2026

New Swan’s summer festival reimagines ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ through distinctly 20th-century American settings

Collage of 17 headshots of student awardees above text reading Medici Circle 2026 Scholarship Awardees on a blue background

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2026 Medici Circle Scholars

June 11, 2026

UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts names 17 new Medici Circle Scholars

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