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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Crunch Time for Kyle Abraham at the New York City Ballet The company’s first black choreographer in more than a decade fine-tunes his first ballet, with the help of Robyn and Prince. Photo by Tatiana Wills.
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Self-Defense as Social Justice -- Spotlight on Jay O'Shea We’ve talked before about the “power of one,” and how one woman can have an impact on one community that can then go on to impact the entire world. Janet (Jay) O’Shea, a professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA, an accomplished martial artist, and ESD Global Camp 2017 participant, is a perfect example of that power. O’Shea’s journey into the world of empowerment self-defense began in 2015, when a debate on campus erupted in which self-defense was portrayed as victim blaming.
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Bessie Awards -The New York Dance and Performance Awards LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE awarded to WACD Adjunct Professor Simone Forti. For her revolutionary, fearless, and widely influential approach to movement, pushing the boundaries of what dance could be–in her dance constructions and improvised work. For years of investigation into the human body in motion, finding poetry in gravitational forces, the movement of animals, and the natural world.
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