UCLA's WACD (World Arts and Cultures/Dance) department offers summer sessions with various dance and world arts courses, including both introductory and advanced levels.
Dance Course offerings:
9 - Beginning Hip-Hop Dance: Studio 1
This course is a Beginning study of Street dance, focusing on the foundation and technique of Hip Hop (party dances) and Locking (also known as Campbell Locking).
Session A6: Meets from 6/23-8/1: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Foaad, L.R.
10 - Beginning Martial Arts: Studio 1
Explore concepts of balance, structure, coordination, power generation, body mechanics, fluidity, through the basics of martial arts. The class introduce movements from Filipino Martial arts, Boxing, Muay Thai kickboxing, Capoeira, and Silat but may include others. By the end of the course students will be able to bring these concepts into their movement repertoires.
Session C6: Meets from 8/4-9/12: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Cayman, C.
11 - Yoga: Studio 1
In this beginning level Yoga course, we practice Āsana (physical postures), meditation and Pranayama (breathing techniques) that derive from Hatha and Vinyasa yoga traditions. While engaging the physical postures of yoga, we focus on alignment, strength, and flexibility; we also cultivate mindful attention and the capacity for deep presence. This course empowers students with the tools to initiate (or continue) a personal yoga & meditation practice, and grounds us in basic knowledge of yogic history and philosophy.
Session A6: Meets from 6/23-8/1: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Kahane, A.R.
12 - Beginning Special Topics: Introduction to Waacking
This course introduces the foundational and improvisational vocabulary of the Afro-diasporic dance form: Waacking. Focusing on both technical and creative aspects, participants will be guided through fundamental arm movements, posture, and musicality, while emphasizing the cultural roots of Waacking within queer marginalized communities.
Session C6: Meets from 8/4-9/12: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Mudgerikar, A.
12 - Beginning Special Topics: Studio 2 Somatics
This somatics course integrates contemporary dance, yoga, and house dance to cultivate fluid strength, groove, and mindful body awareness. Students will engage in a holistic approach to movement, combining the creative qualities of contemporary dance, the meditative strengthening inherent in yogic practices, and the communal rhythmic experience of house dance.
Session C6: Meets from 8/4-9/12: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Billig, M.
World Arts Culture Course offerings:
51W - Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts
Combination of approaches of discourse analysis and scientific method to understand how people make sense of other people’s stories of aliens, psychics, and ghosts. Exploration of how people come to believe what they do about human life, life after death, and other-than-human life.
Session C6: Meets from 8/4-9/12: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Yates, A.
M79 - Food Politics: Cultural Solutions to Political Problems
This course examines food systems in the U.S., emphasizing the environmental and public health effects of intensive and extensive agriculture, the influence of corporations on government, food insecurity, and food sovereignty. This summer session will focus on food politics in the Los Angeles area, including representation of such issues in documentaries, public lectures, memoirs, novels, and art, as well as on initiatives to address problems through policy and activism.
Session A6: Meets from 6/23-8/1: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Davis, J.M.
80 - Video Tools and Techniques
Introduction to video tools and practices to train students in key techniques of video production. Basic skills spanned to develop short videos for circulation. Practical exercises based on materials and instruction provided in class, spanning production and postproduction processes of video making. Evaluation of students on these exercises and final submission of edited sequence of any or all materials developed during course. Training in technical aspects of video production and usage of video tools.
Session A6: Meets from 6/23-8/1: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Gaind, A.
120 - Selected Topics in Cultural Studies: Sports Culture
The study of sport provides an important space in which to think critically about human beliefs and behaviors. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting sports and athletics as cultural and social activities. Performances and competitions, whether they be NFL football games, Japanese women’s professional wrestling extravaganzas, or western rodeos, provide crucial insights into the worldviews and value systems of the societies in which these activities take place.
Session A6: Meets from 6/23-8/1: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: Polk, P.
178 - Advanced Private Instruction in World Arts and Cultures
Session C6: Meets from 8/4-9/12: Duration 6 weeks. Instructor: O'Shea, J.M.
180- Internships
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