In collaboration with fourth-year business economics student Nakya Solomon, UCI professor of dance S. Ama Wray created Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival — Dance, Music, Film & Mindfulness, to engage the UCI community through creative expression and healing in a four-day event from April 30 to May 3.
Hosted at the Experimental Media Performance Lab in UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the festival showcased work that combined dance into stories of advocacy and mindfulness — promoting the idea of being in a restive state.
“We are in an uncomfortable, friction-filled version of what life is, and it’s uncomfortable, and that discomfort needs movement to dissipate the discomfort and address...
In collaboration with fourth-year business economics student Nakya Solomon, UCI professor of dance S. Ama Wray created Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival — Dance, Music, Film & Mindfulness, to...
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Editor's Note: This article was edited on May 11, 2026 to correct image credits.
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Editor’s note: This article was edited on May 13, 2026 to update a stock graphic to a staff-produced one.
After two years of development, the UCI student-made indie game Kawai’ian Isolation...
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