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
Visual AIDS asked WACD alum Kelly Gluckman to curate an online gallery this month to commemorate their yearly Love Positive Women celebration. Visual AIDS is an online registry, platform, advocacy project, and community that has been supporting artists living with HIV/AIDS for 30 years. They developed The Ribbon Project, where the AIDS red ribbon came from, that sparked the massive movement that we all know, of using colored ribbons to represent a cause. Here is a link to the gallery titled Love Poz Womxn , and here is a link to a page with some more information about Visual AIDS and their work in the community. Gluckman is proud of this work, and super excited to have worked with such an important institution in HIV/AIDS arts-activism.
Black History and Culture. Celebrate Black History Month 2019 by exploring the influence of black history on dance. Featuring WACD alum Kenji Igus and WACD faculty David Rousseve and Kyle Abraham. Click here to read the full article from the Google Arts & Culture.
Featuring choregraphy by WACD's Cheng-Chieh Yu. Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, possible Black Dahlia murder site, becomes a performance stage. This unusual gathering isn’t a dream, but a rehearsal for the immersive installation “Passages at the Sowden House,” organized by homeLA, which is a project that creates site-specific performances in private homes around Los Angeles. Led by artist and dancer Rebecca Bruno, the project will stage two public events at the 1920s Sowden House over the weekend, featuring a mix of dance, live music, performance art, sculpture and film. photo by Carolyn Cole
Click here to read the full article from the Los Angeles Times.