![]() ![]() This work addresses and unravels elements of conflicting movement standards. efflorescence demonstrates a desire for, and implementation of, acceptance of movement training. Majority of her work concomitantly acknowledges and challenges elements of societal and gender norms, due to knowledge gained in her double major of Gender Studies. Juliette aims to create work that combines her prior knowledge of ballet, jazz, and contemporary movement, since the age of two, with her newfound passion for street dance, fostered at UCLA. Juliette Martinez is a San Diego native who is presenting her work, efflorescence, in this year’s edition of soulstice. The piece is centered around the process of building her strength back up, being able to walk again, and beginning to dance again, all the while investigating the feeling of sudden change and the memory of injury in the body. Her piece On the Mend explores her personal experience of undergoing and recovering from hip surgery. Lane Fricke is a primarily classical and contemporary ballet-trained dancer whose work at UCLA centers around dance as a personal practice for body awareness, meditation, self-empowerment, and physical and emotional wellness. Through the cycle of metamorphosis, this dance displays the horror and ethereal beauty of different identities rediscovering each other after coming back to life. The shift from dreaming about becoming a pediatric cardiologist to having a passion for movement, education, and the arts has created a journey of healing from that early repressed trauma. This piece is in honor of transformation as a human from then to now. Miel Lei Apostol showcases a piece, entitled Ang Pangalan Ko Ay (My Name Is), developed around a personal experience after a month of hospitalization at the age of ten. ![]() This work aims to explore plant growth alongside transition. Fenestrations are the splits that appear in mature leaves of some plant species, allowing for wind to pass through without harming the leaf. Luke is a modern and postmodern movement artist from San Diego and is invested in healing through movement. Luke Nelson presents his work, Fenestrations. She is reclaiming an identity perspective and examining the overlap between the personal and political by tracing her familial history with the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan in her piece Go Here, Stay There. Parking is $14 in Structure 4.įirst on the program is Gurmukhi Bevli, an Indian American dance artist interested in exploring the intersections of culture, heritage, and identity as they manifest within her personal movement vocabulary. Enter the campus from Sunset Blvd at Westwood Plaza. The show features the work of graduating Dance majors Miel Lei Apostol, Gurmukhi Bevli, Lane Fricke, Juliette Martinez, Luke Nelson, and Bernice Wang. UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance presents the choreographic work of the students in Senior Projects in Dance in the capstone performance of soulstice, taking place in the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater at 120 Westwood Plaza in Los Angeles on May 5th and 6th, 2022 at 7:30pm. ![]()
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