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
Bryonn Bain has joined the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance as an associate professor. The son of Caribbean immigrants to Brooklyn, New York, Bain is a Los Angeles-based performing artist and scholar whose work is motivated by a central focus on using the arts and activism to build movements for justice, criminal justice reform, prison education, and abolition.
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Professor Dan Froot named chair of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD) A producer, performance artist, writer, composer, dancer, and saxophonist, Dan began teaching in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 1997 and joined the WACD faculty as associate professor in 2006. His music concerts, theater pieces, and performance events have been presented by leading art centers across the world.
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The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance is proud to announce that Tula Strong ’20 (M.F.A., Dance) is the inaugural recipient of the James A. Doolittle Centennial Scholars Fund. A Los Angeles native, Strong is an accomplished artist and scholar who believes in the ability of the arts—especially dance—to break down barriers and unite diverse populations.
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