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
Kate Myers
Vestibule
Presented April 3rd & 4th at 7:30pm
UCLA Kaufman Theater
VESTIBULE explores feminist futurities by asking: What is possible when women move together to dismantle inherited separations between body, mind, environment, labor, and care? The choreography unfolds through the processes of ROOTING, FLOWING, and BEAMING, proposing a new way of beginning and becoming anew together. The work inhabits the "vestibule" as a threshold between inner and outer worlds, somatic practice and ecology, and individual presence and collective becoming.
Gilberto Martinez Martinez
¿Con Qué Se Come?
Presented April 17 & 18, 7:30pm
UCLA Kaufman Theater
¿Con Qué Se Come? is an evening-length dance theater work by Gilberto Martinez Martinez. This choreographic project investigates the cultural, religious, and social structures embedded within the quinceañera tradition and considers their impact on queer Chicanx subjectivity. The performance draws from the quinceañera's emotional and ceremonial logics: procession, preparation, spectacle, communal celebration, and expectation, to construct an abstracted world of ritual and transformation.
Abhijeet “Moodzi” Mudgerikar
Nazarbazi
Presented May 1 & 2, 7:30pm
Glorya Kaufman Theater, UCLA
Transforming the theater into a four-cornered street intersection, Nazarbazi stages charged encounters where desires are built, cursed, and transformed. It reimagines urbanity as an affective and spiritual system shaping lived experience. Drawing on superstition, digging, and cross-cultural dance practices, the work invites audiences to move alongside performers, opening into noisy intimacy, discovery, and collective presence.
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
Maya Billig
Last Resort
Presented April 25+26, 2025 7:30pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
Last Resort is an evening-length dance work exploring the cracks of the American Empire from an abandoned desert beach resort. Through dance, satire, and film, the performers navigate a fragile world built on crumbling expectations and manufactured allure, exposing the absurdity of late stage capitalism and cultural decay. Set within a landscape of over-promises and under-deliveries, vacation dreams give way to a convergence of desperation and mirage. The resort’s delicate veneer is upheld by those within it, clinging to the last remnants of the American Facade Dream.
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.