School of Dance

CalArtians are leaders in spurring and advancing Los Angeles’ music scene, according to Los Angeles Times’ classical music critic Mark Swed. In a recent article, Swed traces the evolution of LA’s music scene from 1987, when Ernest Fleischmann, then-head of the LA...

Dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance Dimitri Chamblas and art historian Sigrid Pawelke present UNLIMITED BODIES, a weeklong workshop taking place as part of Performa 19 Biennial in New York City. UNLIMITED BODIES is a seven-day interdisciplinary workshop inspired by the radical...

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CalArtians are in the lineup for Word of Mouth, a “convening of ideas, new work, and conversations in performance” running from Wednesday, Sept. 25 to Sunday, Sept. 29, hosted by Los Angeles Performances Practice (LAPP). LAPP, founded by CalArts alum Miranda Wright (Theater MFA 09), is a...

In photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager’s latest film, Play the Wind, now on view at Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York through Oct. 26, Dimitri Chamblas, dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, takes on a new role: actor. In the 8-minute film, Chamblas plays a retired...

On Aug. 7, the 72nd annual Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland kicks off, bringing the latest and greatest narrative, documentary, short film, avant-garde and retrospective programs to the big screen. This year’s lineup includes five films by CalArtians: Drylongso (1998) by School of...

CalArtians are featured in the lineup of nine new contemporary works at the 16th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, running from July 25-Aug. 10 at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles.  Each summer, the NOW Festival transmogrifies REDCAT into a cornucopia of dance, music, theater and...