CalArts honors Disney kin

The California Institute of the Arts will officially rename its school of dance after the late philanthropist Sharon Disney Lund, Walt Disney’s younger daughter, during the school’s dance performance at Disney Hall’s REDCAT on Saturday.

Lund, a CalArts board member who died in 1993, was one of the school’s most generous benefactors, contributing $28 million during her lifetime and through her foundation after her death. “Sharon loved all of CalArts but had a special affection for the school of dance,” Steven D. Lavine, president of CalArts, said Monday. “We wanted to recognize her as the ideal trustee, someone who cares, who gives and who participates.”