The Annie Awards—the highest honor given for excellence in animation—were handed out in a ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday evening (Feb. 5). The award’s 38th edition featured a…
Continue reading »Nina Menkes’s Dissolution Screens at Structuring Strategies Tonight, Boston Premiere on Feb. 26
Filmmaker and School of Film/Video faculty member Nina Menkes’s latest feature film and first Hebrew language film, Dissolution (Hitparkut, 88 minutes/B&W/HD) screens as part of the Structuring Strategies class and…
Continue reading »CalArts and Chung-Ang University Present an Electrifying ‘Lear/Layer’
[nggallery id=142] The two-week Lear/Layer collaborative project between CalArts and Cal-Ang University (Seoul, South Korea) culminated in a single, electrifying performance on Jan. 28. The experimental production incorporated animation, live…
Continue reading »Mellified Men Quartet Performs Week-long Stockhausen Composition
At Calarts, Interim is a two-week period in January set aside for students to explore specific topics in greater depth than a semester’s workload typically allows. This past Interim presented…
Continue reading »Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real on Tap for CalArts-Boston Court Co-Production
*** Just added: read reviews of Camino Real (pdf) The Theatre @ Boston Court and CalArts’ School of Theater are banding together for their first co-production: Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real….
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: 2011 Character Animation Show at CalArts
[nggallery id=141] Last week, CalArts’ Character Animation students took over the Main Gallery for their 2011 Gallery Show. Their works are better seen than described, so Institute photographer Scott Groller…
Continue reading »Structuring Strategies Focuses on Independent Chinese Cinema
Tonight the Structuring Strategies screening series welcomes CalArts’ School of Film/Video faculty member Bérénice Reynaud, who’ll deliver a multimedia presentation on independent Chinese cinema, featuring the works of a new…
Continue reading »Two Dancers to Watch: Achugar and Fredrickson
Excerpt from The Sublime is Us by luciana achugar (video). Dance magazine’s recent feature, “25 to Watch: Past Picks Choose the Next Generation” (January 2011) recognized two alumni of The…
Continue reading »The Work of Iannis Xenakis Takes Center Stage this Weekend
[nggallery id=140] While Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) is often regarded as one of the most influential avant-garde composers of the 20th century, helping to usher in the development of electronic music,…
Continue reading »Behind the Scenes of ‘Lear/Layer’: A Photo Gallery
This photo post is from Alice Tuan, head of Writing for Performance at CalArts’ School of Theater. She’s helping lead the Lear/Layer theatrical experiment this week between students and faculty…
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