Services 2 — WACsmash: The Third

CREAT(E)ION MYTH

Creator: brianna spiker ruiz

Collaborators: Ava Boehm (Choreographer), Sophia Fan Lin, Kylee Miller

Medium: Dance, Poetry, Clay

Cast: Ava Boehm, Sophia Fan Lin, Kylee Miller, brianna spiker ruiz

INSPIRATION

Emphasizing the intertwining of human history to the history of clay, suggesting that clay is intrinsically linked to life, communication, & aesthetics - throughout, “clay” is used as a symbol for art to advocate for various arts practices at large.

Bio.

brianna spiker ruiz (she/they) is a budding poet and educator who believes in a multi-generational, accessible arts education that spans finances, time and space. first she is a human that thinks and feels and second she is a "fourth year World Arts and Cultures major and Visual and Performing Arts Education minor.” her areas of interest meet at the intersections of arts literacy, radical kindness, and intersectional feminism. she believes hate has roots in ignorance and that if we as a society had a greater arts literacy we would be able to communicate with a force that fundamentally opposes hate. she spends a lot of time either riding the bus or writing in her (many) notebooks.

We would like to acknowledge the Tongva peoples as the traditional caretakers of the land UCLA stands on. We are grateful and pay our due respects to ancestors, elders, and relatives past, present, and emerging.