Following the completion of their Capstones, M.F.A. choreographers create a short form “Capstone Process Video” that focuses on the process of making their work. These videos can include interviews, rehearsal footage, performance documentation, or anything the choreographer wants to highlight related to their project.
MFA Capstone Process Videos
Xochitl Loco
los portales
Presented April 18 at 7pm, April 19 at 2pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
My work “los portales” is an interdisciplinary performance crossing past, present, and future through movement, voice distortion, prop manipulation, music, and mixed media. “los portales” is my love letter to LA, exploring relationships, identity and BIPOC-led queer futurity. In a lot of ways this work was inspired by my frustration of the difference between the LA I know, love and grew up in versus the one constructed within the UCLA bubble.
Gurmukhi Bevli
Thread Count
Presented April 18 at 7pm, April 19 at 2pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
Thread Count considers ways to map, weave, trace, and untether constructions of boundaries. Situated through the lens of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, it negotiates the confluences of diasporic detachment and cultural memory against colonial footprints, to gradually reframe place, space, and presence in relation to nation-building.
Link to website: www.gurmukhibevli.com
Kyreeana Alexander
We Cool
Presented April 12 & 13, 2024
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
In the solo performance “We Cool” Kyreeana Alexander and her Teddy Bears journey through a variety style performance combining dance, music, and visual projections to create an imaginative, intimate, contemplative inner world.
Link to website: www.crayonsandcookies.org/wecool
Aquilah “KHILA” Ohemeng
PASS US NOT: Holy Ghosted
Presented April 26 & 27, 2024
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
Reimagining Revelations, PASS US NOT: Holy Ghosted is an evening-length group performance that reinterprets Alvin Ailey's 1960 work Revelations through the lens of frustrations and aspirations that Generation Z members navigate in a “post-pandemic” United States.