Our four innovative degree programs are devoted to academic and artistic excellence, diversity, freedom of expression, activism, and social transformation through the arts.
We integrate composition, training, and improvisation, while challenging students to locate dance culturally, politically, and historically.
We emphasize studies in arts activism, visual cultures, and critical ethnographies. Theory and practice emerge from culturally diverse artistic expressions.
We promote adventurous choreographic experimentation while engaging with global discourses around the body and performance.
We foreground interdisciplinary research that builds on and contributes to theories of corporeality, performance, visuality, and culture.
Our faculty and students are committed to promoting positive social change through interdisciplinary modes of investigation that address the complex cultural and artistic issues in our multi-layered contemporary world.
As the novel coronavirus has turned our lives upside down, and global attention has shifted to the ongoing public health crisis, what role—if any—can the arts play at this time?
MacArthur Fellow and UCLA Professor Kyle Abraham curates free dance workshops open to all.
Ph.D. Candidate Christina Novakov-Ritchey offers new class for Spring 2020
Professor Bryonn Bain emcees a day of TED Talks at Sing Sing Prison
Doctoral Candidate, Cyndy Garcia-Weyandt will be joining the faculty of Critical Ethnic Studies as an incoming Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2020.
The Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance is pleased to welcome award-winning, internationally recognized choreographer Vijayalakshmi as the Winter 2019 Regents Lecturer.
Ahead of her two-day dance theater installation, MFA candidate Letty Bassart spoke with WACD about what led her to UCLA, her research, and what’s next for her.
Professor Froot's audio drama builds on two decades of creative work on food insecurity. Visit pangpodcast.com to listen, learn more, and subscribe now.
Hosted by World Arts and Cultures/Dance and the Disability Studies minor, the dancers came together for a week in June for UCLA’s Dancing Disability Lab.
