BA degree in World Arts and Cultures that focuses on community-based and arts activism BA in Dance that offers training

and education in performance, composition, dance theory, and videography MFA for pursuers of a professional choreographic career Both MA and PhD degrees in Culture and Performance where a development towards a variety of arts, film, politics, healing, and critical dance

 Angelia Leung:
Improvisation, choreography, movement

analysis, fundamentals and modern dance technique, dance education, and production management/administration

Dan Froot:
Composer, choreographer, writer, saxophonist,

dancer, actor and director and has performed his dance, music and theater work throughout the U.S. and overseas since 1983

 Dance Major Offers wide range of idioms with a special

emphasis on dance composition Courses in the study of the body and of bodily identity from historical and cultural perspectives; dance theory; and dance in the public sphere, including arts teaching Multimedia forms of expression integrating music, theater, visual arts, and other technologies along with mixed forms of cultural expression with both modern and classical vocabularies encouraged.

 A bachelor's degree, with an undergraduate major in

dance or equivalent experience in dance, is required Apart from the Application for Graduate Admission, theres also a screening procedure that includes a statement of purpose, 3 recommendation letters, official transcripts indicating degree completion, experimental background questionnaire etc. (see the M.F.A. Supplemental Application form and the Graduate FAQ for more information) provides choreographers with a sound technical along with a compositional basis for creative work in Contemporary dance

 Emphasis on choreography but also possibilities for

interdisciplinary 'cross-over' between scholarship and creative practice. Also pay close attention to the study of dance and gestures, oral traditions, popular cultures, and ethnographic video based on sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas

 Kenneth Walker
artistic director, dancer and

choreographer for the company Kenneth Walker Dance Project (KWDP) based in San Pedro, California Danced and choreographed professionally with the Sacramento Ballet, Minnesota Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Ballet Pacifica, and the Pasadena Dance Theater. He won the Southern California Dance Theaters

 April Rose:
Performs and teaches belly-

dancing and specializes in Improv. Tribal Style Belly Dance, or ITS, Tribal Fusion, and Egyptian Cabaret Belly Dance. Created her own dance and yoga school in Austin, TX called Rose Movement Studio. Performed and taught at Luciterra Dance Company in Vancouver, Tribal Con 9 in Georgia, Infusion Emporium in Wolverhampton, England, Elevation 2013, Bellydance Extravaganza in Colorado, Tribal Fest 13 in Sebastopol California, and The Austin

 UCLA Dance by Patrik Giardino

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQlvVhZ9M3 g UCLA Dance @ USA Nationals 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56YgAOg3E

UCLA Department of World Arts Cultures/Dance

Box 951608, 150 Kaufman Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1608 Tel: 310.825.3951

 UCLA Dept. of World Culture and Arts/

Dance

http://www.wacd.ucla.edu/m-f-a-in-dance

UCLA Graduate Curricula

http://www.wacd.ucla.edu/index.php/graduatecurricula