UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Congrats to Graduate student, SAMMAY Peñaflor Dizon on her feature in Mahalaya, a Filipinx-led newspaper committed to uplifting stories of the Filipina/x/o diaspora, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can read on SAMMAY's feature here: issuu.com/mahalayasf/doc…

WAC/D majors!! Please come out for Dr. Elena Agudio's lecture coming up on February 3rd at 1pm in the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater (Kaufman Hall 200). Dr. Elena Agudio is coming all the way from Berlin to meet with us. Dr. Elena Agudio is currently the Director of Villa Romana

Please help us welcome Will Rawls as associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Will Rawls is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses choreography, dance, video, sculpture, works on paper and installation. He is best-known for his chor

Choreographer Jennifer Harge joins UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance this Winter Quarter. Read more about Jennifer's courses at wacd.ucla.edu/announcements/…

Dear WACD community: In light of recent communications from departments threatening retaliation against striking graduate student workers and in my capacity as chair of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, I wish to reiterate our policy of non-retaliation toward any students and/or em

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Silvia Forni has been appointed the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the @FowlerMuseum at @UCLA! → ucla.in/3U74lSh

WACD is hiring an assistant/associate professor: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF07749 #highereducation #UCLA

It is impossible to describe the horror, sorrow, and outrage I feel in response to yesterday's killing of 19 children & 2 teachers in Uvalde, TX. We can’t allow these senseless acts of terror to continue to plague our communities and devastate our lives. - Brett Steele, Dean

WACD Senior Projects: Soft Launch NEXT WEEK! May 18 & 19 at 7:30 pm. Join us for a two-night culmination of the 2022 senior WAC class's creative and intellectual pursuits within UCLA, as well as a soft launch into the next stage of professional, artistic, and personal endeavors.

Julie Tolentino, March 10, 2022, 4PM. UCLA Kaufman Hall 200.

This has been an extremely difficult week for our Bruin community. @UCLAchancellor: When situations like these stack up, they can leave us feeling vulnerable & exposed. But we can get through them with support from our Bruin family. Read the full message: ucla.in/3GtySSr

Out-of-state law enforcement has confirmed the person who made threats to UCLA is under observation & not in CA. Classes will remain remote today.

Transformative Justice 101 with Mia Mingus. 1/18/22 @ 3PM. Registration Required. Free and open to the public. Transformative Justice (TJ) is a political framework and approach for responding to violence, harm and abuse. wacd.ucla.edu

Congratulations to Dr. David Shorter on his Chancellor's Award! 5 professors receive 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Research ucla.in/3xcphL5

Congratulations to Kenji Igus BA '13 on his recent announcement of joining the cast of Riverdance for the 2021 UK tour! @supahkenji Photo: @nstevenson_photography

Professor Emerita Allegra Fuller Snyder (1927-2021) arts.ucla.edu/single/in-memo…

5/13/21 3:30-4:30PM PDT Haka: Embodied dance language of Aotearoa Register here: eventbrite.com/e/haka-embodie…

QGrad 2021:Queer Intimacies: Community, Control, Resistance May 6-7, 2021. Ali Kheradyar and Mika Lillit Lior will be presenting Friday, 5/7 at 10 a.m. PDT and Emily Barasch will be presenting the same day at 1 p.m. PDT. Find out more information: qgradconference.com