Our four innovative degree programs are devoted to academic and artistic excellence, diversity, freedom of expression, activism, and social transformation through the arts.
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.
Ladenheim is a choreographer, educator, and creative technologist with work that spans interactive installations, media design, performance, and robotics.
Alice will be guest teaching Victoria Marks’ Fiat Lux Seminar DANCE 19.1 during her visit to UCLA as a 2024-25 academic year Regents’ Lecturer.
Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
PhD Candidate Amira Hassnaoui awarded fellowship to study trance healing music
UCLA Regents Lecture by Alice Sheppard
