Focuses on three concentrations:
- Community-based, arts activism
- Studies of visual culture
- Critical ethnographies
Focuses on training and education in:
- Performance
- Composition
- Dance theory
- Videography
- Dance in the public sphere
Focuses in training those pursuing a professional choreographic career
Focuses in development of scholarly approaches to variously combined aspects of the:
- Arts
- Globalization
- Curation
- Film
- Ritual
- Colonialisms
- Politics
- Healing
- Critical dance studies
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In the News
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.
PhD Candidate Arushi Singh been selected as a recipient for a prestigious and competitive AAUW (American Association of University Women) International Doctoral Fellowship in the amount of $20000 for the 2019-20 award year. Founded in 1881, AAUW is one of the world’s largest sources of funding for graduate women, due to the generosity and legacy of generations of AAUW members.
In fall 2019, WACD alum Dr. Alessandra Williams will begin her tenure track appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Dance Department of Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. She will be teaching Introduction to Dance Studies, Oral History and Performance, Dance History: World Survey, History of Creative Engagement, Graduate Technique (Yorchhā, contemporary Indian dance). She will also be advising graduate thesis projects.
