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Activist and academic Dr. Shamell Bell led a workshop at UC Irvine for Theater of Community

Serena Williams’ crip walk is more than a Drake dis. What it means to LA and Black culture - Laisit reporter Dana Littlefield experiences Dr. Shamell Bell’s Workshop on "Pedagogies of the Liberated" at Theater of Community at UC Irvine.

Dance
Q&A: Backhausdance

Backhausdance, Orange County’s premier professional contemporary dance … will perform on March 27 at Irvine Barclay Theatre. Marco Vega, a UCI dance alum and one of Backhausdance’s teaching artists, describes his career.
Music
Irvine stroke patients perform with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Joined by students and faculty from the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, musicians from the famed London-based orchestra led patients at the UCI Health SeniorHealth Center through interactive workshops designed to speed up recovery and naturally...
Art
Historic Laguna Beach Building That Was Once a Millionaire’s Private Art Museum Has Transformed Into a Public Arts Center

Tony DeLap: A founding faculty member at UC Irvine and its esteemed art department, DeLap’s work resides in the permanent collections of museums such as the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Guggenheim Museum...
Drama
A Timely ‘Julius Caesar’ at New Swan Shakespeare Festival

Eric Marchese reviews the New Swan Shakespeare Festival's "Julius Caesar" for the Newport Beach Independent. Click on the link to read the full feature. (Image: Scene from “Julius Caesar” at New Swan. Photo by Jesús López Vargas.)

Dance
A local comes home as contemporary ballet company BalletX takes the Irvine Barclay stage

Andrea Yorita danced on the Irvine Barclay Theatre stage for the first time as a young girl. “My very first show, when I was 3 years old, I was a ladybug, and it was on the Barclay stage.” Yorita returns to the Barclay with her dance company, BalletX.
Art
Alexis Smith and how she ‘represents the power and potential of self-realization inherent in the American way’

Art critic, Liz Goldner, reviews Department of Art alumna's latest show, “Alexis Smith: The American Way,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla.

Beall Center
Vera Molnár: Searching for Humanity in the Machine

Variations at Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, is the first major solo show of a pioneer of generative art. Molnár is a pioneer of generative art whose work has, for six decades, influenced artists exploring the potential of autonomous systems.
Art
Uncovering Hidden Spaces at UCI’s Open Studios

Seeing the works by the University of California, Irvine’s MFA students, many of which use leftover material site-specific to the campus, lead me to wonder if they also constitute a kind of leftover material of time.

Drama
Outdoor stage built at UCI for return of Shakespeare Festival

Eli Simon, the artistic director for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival and a professor in the Drama Department at UC Irvine, stands on the stage of the New Swan Theater being constructed on the plaza outside Langson Library at UC Irvine on Tuesday, May 31
Drama
65 Questions with Department Chair of Drama, Don Hill

New University’s 65 Questions with Department Chair of Drama, Don Hill. Walking through Claire Trevor School of The Arts, The New University immersed themselves into the directorial world of UCI’s upcoming show, Into the Woods.
Music
UCI’s Earl Gordon Quartet: Serenading OC’s Jazz Enthusiasts

Liz Golder covers the quartet of undergraduate students – “While all the musicians are in their 20s, their playing is so well executed and sophisticated, that they sound as though they have been together for decades.
Research | Art | Dance | Drama | Music
The art of inquiry

While much of the attention on research at UCI is directed at the sciences, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts has also generated research, although to much less notice. Jesse Colin Jackson is on a mission to change that.
Music
The Opera is Coming to Town

The Impresario, composed by W. A. Mozart, will be performed on May 7th and May 8th by the students of vocal arts at UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Staged at the Barclay Theater under the artistic direction of Professor Darryl Taylor.
Drama
8 Top Costume Design Programs

The Department of Drama Costume Design Program recently made the list for the top 8 design programs for Backstage Magazine's annual list. The program combines practical professional training with exploring and identifying each student's artistic voice.
Art
A Haunting Film at UC Irvine is Not for the Faint of Heart

The immersive film Malka Germania (“Queen Germania” in Hebrew) references our personal and collective trauma about war and subjugation and artfully turns that trauma into manna. The 40-minute three-channel video is created by Israeli native Yael Bartana.
Research | Art
Steven Lam (Art M.F.A. '04) Named New School of Art Dean at CalArts

An experienced curator with a strong track record of higher education leadership, Steven Lam will join CalArts as its next dean of the School of Art. He’ll hold the Jill and Peter Kraus Distinguished Chair in Art, and is scheduled to begin July 15, 2022.
Art
A broad canvas for friendship

UCI Art alumna Nancy Buchanan and Barbara T. Smith reflect on camaraderie, show with a late colleague at the Armory for the Los Angeles Times.