A feature in the latest issue of CalArts magazine, draws excerpts from a mini-reunion between Assistant Dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance, instructor Laurence Blake, who will…
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Dog Star Orchestra: Experimental Music in [Sometimes] Experimental Spaces
The Dog Star Orchestra, led by composer and CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro, performs a series of concerts each summer that highlight experimental music in surprising locations. Last year the…
Continue reading »CalArts Faculty Member Charlie Haden Receives 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award
Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the 2012 recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Awards, which “recognize outstanding musicians for their lifetime achievements and significant contributions to…
Continue reading »Sam Anderson Electrifies Rogue Machine’s Blackbird
David Harrower’s play Blackbird made its Los Angeles premiere earlier this month at Rogue Machine inside Theatre/Theater in Los Angeles, and Sam Anderson—known to millions as the good-hearted, yet hapless…
Continue reading »Film Fridays: MOTH, an Opera
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. Today’s Film Fridays selection is a trailer…
Continue reading »CalArts Magazine Celebrates 41 Years of Alfred Ladzekpo
The recently released Spring/Summer 2011 CalArts magazine features retiring West African music and dance instructor Alfred Ladzekpo in a piece titled, Ears Wide Open (click on the PDF above). In…
Continue reading »Ruscha Takes on Kerouac at the Hammer Museum
[nggallery id=179] Stories surround Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a novel inspired by jazz- and drug-fueled road trips with friends. Considered one of the defining works of the Beat Generation,…
Continue reading »John Lasseter Talks Cars 2 Opening
Disney/Pixar’s latest offering, Cars 2, opens in theaters nationwide on Friday (June 24) with CalArts alumnus John Lasseter once again in the director’s chair. The film follows the adventures of…
Continue reading »Russian, CalArts Theater Collaboration Featured in The Washington Post
[nggallery id=178] During this past Spring semester, students from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in Moscow traveled 6,000 miles to work with CalArts’ School of Theater students, and earlier…
Continue reading »Film Fridays: Flowers Unfurling by Stephanie Zaletel
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. This week’s Film Fridays video selection showcases…
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