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Dancers love it when they learn some “rep” from a top notch professional dance company in a masterclass. UCSB Arts & Lectures provides that opportunity numerous times a year for UCSB dance students as well as dancers from the community at large. Ballet BC’s brief residency in Santa Barbara last week…
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The U.S. Mexico border is on the mind of a lot of people these days, and playwright Octavio Solis’s award-winning “Lydia,” which debuted in 2008, has added resonance now. The play is set in the early 1970s and was partly inspired by Solis’s experiences growing up in El Paso, Texas. It’s primarily about the…
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Soviet arms negotiator Andrey Botvinnik and his American counterpart John Honeyman decide to sneak off from the stifling confines of the official Geneva negotiating talks and head for some late-summer strolls in a wooded area above town. The fresh air must have been copacetic, as the two adversaries form a bond and…
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The tempest that erupted over Maya Lin’s winning entry for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial design competition was one of the opening salvos of the “culture wars” that are still being fought today. A career that began in controversy has evolved to encompass much more than memorials and buildings, and challenged the boundaries between Art and Architecture. Ms. Lin’s works grow out…
