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How Kamal Sinclair’s Dance Background Helps Her Imagine New Futures

By conventional standards, LACHSA Alum Kamal Sinclair has had upwards of a dozen different careers. She’s been a dancer, a producer, a choreographer, a director, a creative advisor and an executive director, among other sundry positions. Today, she is a member of the executive leadership team at the Guild of Future Architects, which is designed

2022-02-02T04:40:55+00:00

Meet Textile Constructivist Erin Trefry

Mixed media artist LACHSA Alum Erin Trefry creates paintings and sculptural assemblage using found objects and materials that evoke the body in their substance (like clay) and in their history of usage (garments, textiles, and remnants and tools of the clothing trade). Her patient deconstruction and reconfiguration of these materials reinvents them away from their

2022-02-02T04:36:47+00:00

Halloween Horrors | LACHSA Presents Halls of Horror

Immersive theatre experience takes place October 28 – 30 on the LACHSA Campus By SouthPasadenan.com October 28, 2021 LACHSA THEATRE: The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) will present its annual Halls of Horror this weekend featuring the talented students of the LACHSA Theatre Department. Guests will travel through two immersive experiences and will be

2022-01-31T16:46:36+00:00

LACHSA Alumni Alana Haim acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza”

Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. When Paul Thomas Anderson asked her to star in “Licorice Pizza,” the musician had zero acting experience. Now she’s winning rave reviews. By Lindsay Zoladz, Originally Published in the New York Times, Dec. 6, 2021 One summer night in 2019, Alana Haim was jet-lagged, tossing and

2022-01-14T19:08:40+00:00

‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ Music Video From L.A. Performing Arts High School Focuses On Mental Health

Tick, Tick...Boom! is a passionate film that deals with the mental health struggles of the late Rent director Jonathan Larson as he tried to create musical theater greatness in the 1990s while working at the Moondance Diner in New York and feeling like a failure because he was about to turn 30 without having a breakthrough hit

2022-01-31T16:32:18+00:00

Tick Tick Boom is a Sound Louder Than Words for LACHSA Students

The cast and crew, from left, Liana Bartolome, 16, Sam Karpinski, 17, Randy Damas, 18, Leilani Patao, 18, Benji Tucker, 18, Vivian Wolfson, 17, Elton McCrudden, 15, Pascal Connolly, 15, of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Louder Than Words” High School Edition, a piece for “tick, tick…Boom!” pose at LACHSA in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 30, 2021.

2023-10-26T00:06:43+00:00

2 portraits of young men face off — and show a story about race in the history of art

There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading

2022-01-31T16:39:12+00:00

Nicole Lam – A Concert Pianist and A Mezzo-Soprano Opera Singer

Clairbourn graduates are SCHOLARS who are grounded in the values of honesty, respect, responsibility, spirituality, and citizenship. Nicole Lam was a part of the Clairbourn Class of 2017. She recently graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) as valedictorian. This fall, she will be attending Yale University, majoring in applied mathematics while

2022-01-31T16:43:27+00:00

Halloween Horrors | LACHSA Presents Halls of Horror

LACHSA THEATRE: The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) will present its annual Halls of Horror this weekend featuring the talented students of the LACHSA Theatre Department. Guests will travel through two immersive experiences and will be transported into the era of Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes in a thrilling original and interactive performance.

2022-01-31T16:44:20+00:00

A Haunted House Returns To The Eastside, And The Students In Charge Are (Serial) Killing It

By Julia Barajas and Mariana Dale Orifginally Published Oct 29, 2021 6:39 PM on the LAist Zen Sanchez plays a literally heartless hotel guest. (Mariana Dale/ LAist ) When the pandemic all but shut down Halloween last year, one of its victims was the annual “Halls of Horror” event at the Los Angeles County High School for the

2022-01-31T16:48:17+00:00
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