Our four innovative degree programs are devoted to academic and artistic excellence, diversity, freedom of expression, activism, and social transformation through the arts. Admission Guidelines for Fall 2021, including audition information, will be published here by September 15, 2020.
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.
The Gold Shield Faculty Prize, offered by Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA, annually provides an unrestricted $30,000 award to an exceptional mid-career full professor who has a distinguished record of undergraduate teaching, research and University service.
PhD Candidate Amy Alterman on the June 29th SCOTUS decision
This year’s cohort combines scholarship, teaching and social justice
Auntie Sewing Squad makes masks for at-risk and underserved communities
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?
Professor Bryonn Bain emcees a day of TED Talks at Sing Sing Prison
Statement of Support for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality
Tamica Washington-Miller BA '95
Jade Charon MFA '18 receives fellowship at Jacob's Pillow
Online Reading Marathon Produced by Ph.D. Student MiRi Park
WACD Community Viewing and Discussion
WACD Speaker Series