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...

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.

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...

"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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...