UC San Diego hosted the Carnaval of New Latinx Musicals, a national showcase bringing artists and theatre leaders together to uplift new work and explore how music, movement and lived experience can expand the stories represented on the American stage.
The West Coast premiere of “The Monsters” marks a homecoming for Ngozi Anyanwu, a UC San Diego Theatre and Dance Acting MFA alumna. Anyanwu not only wrote the acclaimed two-hander but also co-stars in the production, running at La Jolla Playhouse through June 28.
Three graduating researchers are building AI tools designed to collaborate with musicians, not replace them.
UC San Diego’s new “Day of Dance,” happening June 4-6 at the Epstein Family Amphitheater, presents original choreographed works by students in the Department of Theatre and Dance alongside a special dance team showcase called V12ION that will feature nearly 300 student dancers from across campus.
What is it about live performance that draws people together? Professor of Practice and Broadway director Des McAnuff says our increasingly digital world has widened a gap in human connection—making theatre and dance especially powerful ways to foster shared experience.
Pinar Yoldas, whose work will be featured in Gallery QI this spring, discusses her background, worldview and why art and science are inseparable.
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