Fine Arts

October 9, 2015

‘Spirit of India’ Brings Santa Barbara Closer to Indian Culture

By Sammy Gerraty

The startling yet welcome sound of children’s laughter mixed with the chuckles of the adult audience members in Campbell Hall at “Spirit of India,” performed by the Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India. ...

October 2, 2015

Eddie Pez – Oedipus – Rex in the Park

By Sammy Gerraty

An excited and chattery crowd collected in Anisq’Oyo’ Park Saturday night for the opening show of Shakespeare in the Park’s version of Oedipus — Commedia dell’Arte style. Junior BFA actress, Maddie Martin, perf...

June 30, 2015

We Remember Them: Honoring the Unlucky Bright Minds of Our Youth

By Alec Hartnett

On a terrible May 23rd, in 2014, the UCSB and the Santa Barbara communities suffered greatly at the hands of contorted misfortune. Six students bore the brunt of this onslaught: Katie Cooper, George Chen, Veronika Weiss,...

June 25, 2015

Azeem X Underbelly live at the Batcave

By Artsweek Editor

On May 16, United Kingdom citizen Damon Poole shared a Facebook event page in jest titled “Azeem’s Senior Flute Recital.” True to the haphazard nature by which viral Internet trends begin, Poole’s “share” inv...

June 5, 2015

Senior Dancers Close Out 2015

By Sammy Gerraty

Thursday night was the last time UCSB’s senior dance majors performed as students of the Theater and Dance Department. Sophomore B.F.A. dance major Rachel Epling arrived fully prepared for the momentous day, with arms ...

May 22, 2015

Urban Dance Company Holds Swaggy Dance Showcase

By Margarita Danielyants

On Saturday, May 9th, Urban Dance Company hosted their first annual showcase in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, where the company, along with several guest groups, delivered some swaggy hip hop dances. The showcase was dedic...

May 21, 2015

‘Bloody Poetry:’ Punk, Poetry and Eccentricity

By Alex Wehrung, Jason Chun

Not exactly the headline you were expecting, was it?  And we weren’t either; “Blood Poetry” takes an unexpected angle and turns its characters into anachronisms: Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord George Byron and Clair...

May 13, 2015

UCSB’s Undergraduate Directors Present Dark and Comedic One Acts

By Sammy Gerraty

After seeing the undergraduate-directed One Acts of this spring quarter, you will never be able to un-hear the woeful tuba rendition of “Hot Cross Buns” played by Madison Scarbrough, a junior in the Bachelor of Fine ...

May 13, 2015

Edgar Zendejas’s Common Ground Premieres at the Granada

By Sammy Gerraty

  Last Saturday, the combined efforts of State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and Eisenhower Dance culminated at the Granada Theatre to create beautiful performance, Common Ground. Each company first per...

May 7, 2015

Demi Anter: A Not-So-Starving Artist

By Mackenzie Hart

  At 10 after three, a girl wearing a flowing white blouse and silver sunglasses made her appearance at a table in front of the Coffee Collab. Her reddish hair framed her face perfectly, with blunt bangs hanging abo...

April 30, 2015

An Evening with Anna Halprin

By Artsweek Editor

On Monday, April 27, Campbell Hall filled with students to see the movie “Breath Made Visible.” The 82-minute film covered the career of modern dancer Anna Halprin and showed how dance can be applied to healing. Halp...

April 24, 2015

Woyzeck: A Good Musical Like This is Hard to Find

By Alex Wehrung

The original version of Georg Büchner’s tragi-comedy Woyzeck was left unfinished on account of the author’s untimely death. And thus, for the past century and a half, the play has been molded in various fashions. Wo...

April 24, 2015

PASU Presents: A Taste of Africa

By Nisa Smith

The bass of West and East African boomed throughout the MultiCultural Center Friday, April 17 as UCSB’s black community flooded into the building to celebrate African culture. At the sixth annual African Culture Show, ...

April 20, 2015

Alum Pat Fish Talks Tattoos

By Brianna Guzman

The SRB welcomed renowned tattoo artist Pat Fish on the evening of Tuesday, April 7 to talk about her love of tattooing. From her affinity for Celtic designs to the highs and lows of tattoo trends in recent years, Fish h...

April 16, 2015

Soul Particles: Redefining Dance

By Kelsey Tang

It is fundamentally known that art will either disturb the unsettling, untouched crannies of your brain or evoke comforting familiarities known only to the individual. Using the medium of dance to trifle with those waver...

April 9, 2015

Live from the Batcave: Alex Bocknek

By Alec Hartnett

Kindling the cloudy, energetic and electronic dance music scene, gloving was gifted upon this music-fueled world in a conspicuously suggestive manner. Riveting and beautifully choreographed, dancers’ fingertips began t...