Inaugural Cohort Selected to Launch UCLA’s Dancing Disability Lab. The weeklong intensive promotes the role of dance and performance as a change agent for the continued progress of disability justice. The UCLA Disability Inclusion Lab’s DANCING DISABILITY will offer experienced and emerging dance artists with disabilities from across the world an immersive engagement in disability studies scholarship alongside movement exploration and choreographic inquiry. Participants will consider ways to represent, look at, transform, and challenge ideas about the body, beauty, virtuosity, and personhood. At the center of this uniquely designed process is the notion that aesthetic production (dance) serves as a change agent for the continued progress of disability justice.

New program gives 10 faculty the opportunity to develop their ideas under the guidance of Startup UCLA staff and other experts. WACD's David Delgado Shorter (pictured left) speaking at the UCLA Faculty Innovation Fellows pitch showcase about his searchable database of healing approaches from around the world. Photo by Aneri Chouhan/UCLA.

Clementine Bordeaux recently was awarded a Cobell Education Scholarship for the 2019/2020 academic year. The scholarship is authorized through a fund by the Cobell Settlement (2009) and is designed to provide financial assistance to American Indian students. Clementine will utilize the funds to support her third year of doctoral studies. Her research investigates how the Lakota cultural concept of Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ is foundational to Lakota ontology and will discuss how the concept is appropriated and performed in urban settings.