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Fractals and African Musics
Culture, Dance, Music
Internationally acclaimed, Brooklyn-based choreographer Reggie Wilson and UC Irvine Professor Jesse Wolfson and PhD Candidate Sidhanth Raman will give a public talk about their ongoing explorations of fractals in African music and performance cultures. The talk aims to be accessible to all members of the campus community, and will feature musical samples and explanations (and examples) of fract...
5/21/2024
5:00pm
ISEB Room 1010
Exploring Kinesthetic Space: A Math and Movement Workshop
Arts, Engineering, Social Sciences, Dance
In this workshop, choreographer Reggie Wilson and mathematician Jesse Wolfson will lead participants through an embodied exploration of kinesthetic space. Our goal is to introduce participants to both choreographic and mathematical methods for exploring, probing and conceptualizing space, and how these overlap, interact and draw on different aspects of perceptual and movement practices.
5/22/2024
5:00pm
Dance Studios Roo...
The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra
Jazz, Concert, Performance, Orchestra
From Louis Armstrong to the Hot Club of Paris, through bebop and jazz/rock fusion, jazz music has always been passionate, or “Hot.” This debut concert by The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra, led by music director, composer, arranger and pianist Shelly Berg, features vocalists Catherine Russell and Tierney Sutton, and saxophonist Tom Scott in a program spanning the broad array of popular ja...
5/22/2024
8:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
"The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor
This talk examines the figure of the Latino day laborer in recent queer cinema. Focusing on Lane Shefter Bishop's The Day Laborers/Los Jornaleros (2004) and John Butler's Papi Chulo (2018), it maintains that film fantasies of undocumented workers rely on the entwinement of sexuality and labor to narratively consolidate normative forms of desire.
5/23/2024
4:00pm
Conference Room C...
Technologies of Intimacies: Community-building Across Borders Through Online Poetry Writing and Transnational Publishing
Poetry, Writing
*location will be shared via email after required registration* Join us for an evocative evening with the Irrelevant Press and Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective, as we delve into the intersection of technology, poetry, politics, and the power of community voices. Founded in August 2022, CAO Collective has hosted numerous poetry writing workshops, touching on themes of queer fe...
5/23/2024
5:00pm
TBD
Research-to-Performance-to-Research: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel’s Methodology
Dance, Lecture, Discussion, Anthropology
Internationally acclaimed, Brooklyn-based choreographer Reggie Wilson will lead a guest class in Prof. Charlotte Griffin's (Dance) modern composition on his research-to-performance-to-research methodology. This guest class will lead students through a discussion of Wilson's choreographic process which integrates anthropological and ethnographic tools and methodologies with Wilson's choreogra...
5/24/2024
10:00am
Performance Studi...
AHUA Annual Art Exhibition: Belonging
Art, Art exhibition, Art Project
The AHUA Annual Art Exhibition gives the UCI community the opportunity to cultivate their artistic skills and showcase their art, develop connections across disciplines, provide meaningful exposure to the arts, and support efforts to make the arts a stronger, more pervasive part of the UCI student experience. The AHUA Art Exhibition provides a discursive space for individuals from all backgroun...
5/24/2024
5:30pm
UCI Student Cente...
Real Women Have Curves
Theatre
Brown Bag Theatre Company presents "Real Women Have Curves," written by Josefina Lopez and directed by Bridgette Betanzos.Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the story of five Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factor from going under. To be more specific, this story is told from the perspective of the ...
5/31/2024
8:00pm
The Little Theatr...
The Art of Performance
Dance, Performance
UCI presents two new performance works: *No registration required* Blessed with Switch By Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla Jasmine Orpilla, performer composer and Asher Hartman, director and writer make Blessed with Switch, a dark, unnerving hacking and synching of external languages that poison and orchestrate the oceanic tides of unconscious matter within to unleash a glorious new Le...
6/6/2024
7:30pm
Experimental Medi...