Congratulations to Professor and Chair Dan Froot on the Pang! podcast being selected as "one of the most interesting new shows" in The New York Times on August 9! By Phoebe Lett

"Every month the podcast universe seems to expand exponentially, both in terms of listeners and programming. But that rapid growth makes keeping up with all the new shows — let alone discerning what’s worthy of your time — even harder. So we’re going to help with that. Each month, we’ll be assembling a mix of the latest releases, looking in particular for things that don’t necessarily make it onto the “New and Notable” section of your listening app. We’ll bring you a fresh mix, across genres and styles, of the most intriguing new shows in the medium. Here’s what you may have missed so far this summer.

Vogue Italia recently featured WACD Professor in Residence, Kyle Abraham in "NY Profile #32: Kyle Abraham and A.I.M.

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.