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
IN MEMORIAM: ‘POLLY’ NOOTER ROBERTS, ART HISTORIAN AND SCHOLAR OF AFRICAN ART ROBERTS’ LEGACY LIVES ON IN THE LIVES SHE TOUCHED AND HER CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts, UCLA professor of world arts and cultures/dance, died peacefully in her sleep at home on Tuesday, Sept. 11. She was 59, and had been living with stage four metastatic breast cancer for more than eight years. Roberts was trained as an art historian and became one of the world’s foremost scholars of African arts. She focused her research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she undertook long-term dissertation research among Luba peoples, and in Senegal, where she conducted field research on the arts of a local Sufi movement called the Mouride Way.
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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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