Newsletter: October 2010 - UCLA Department of World Arts and ...

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures 

WAC 

UCLA 

Newsletter: October 2010 

Vol. no 2 

Content: 

Welcome! ! 

People 

Awards & Highlights 

Feature Articles! 

Alumni News 

Centers! 

Faculty Updates! 

Student Achievement! 

Acknowledgements! 

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Welcome to WAC Newsletter, vol.2 (Fall 2010) 

Greetings! 

Welcome to UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures second annual newsletter! We have had 

another successful year of education, creation, and research at WAC fostered by the tight knit community 

of faculty, students, and staff with generous support and engagement from our alums and Friends of WAC. 

This newsletter aims to be an annual publication for connection, re-connection, reflection, and information 

sharing. Through this newsletter, we hope to create and maintain a comprehensive framework for 

communication that connects UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures with local, national, and 

global communities whether faculty, staff, alumni, current students, or Friends of WAC. 

The responsibility we all have as artists and scholars of the arts in the United States and world-wide during 

this time of economic, artistic, and cultural landscape shifts has reinforced our mission to foster the 

formulation of critical and intercultural insights into the nature of human creativity. All of the WAC faculty 

members are engaged in their respective research and projects to further the department’s mission. 

Please do read about our faculty’s work and recognitions in the newsletter’s “Awards and Highlights” and 

“Faculty Updates” sections. Of major significance is Professor David Gere’s $30,000 Gold Shield Faculty 

Prize sponsored by Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA. This prize is bestowed annually upon a full professor 

in mid-career who has demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in undergraduate teaching, public 

service, and research or creative activity. Please join me in congratulating David of his well-deserved 

award. 

I take this opportunity to announce that Gregory Maqoma, founder and artistic director of Vuyani Dance 

Theatre from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the Regent’s Lecturer for the academic year, 2010-2011. The 

Regents of the UC established the Regents’ Professors and Lecturers Program which permits the 

appointment, on a visiting basis, of distinguished leaders from fields outside the traditional boundaries of 

the academic world to enrich our instructional programs. The residency will take place in the winter 

quarter – February 14-25, 2011. An internationally acclaimed choreographer, teacher, dancer, artistic 

consultant and creative director, Mr. Maqoma has taught and presented work all over Europe, Africa and 

the U.S. He also serves as Associate Artistic Director of Moving into Dance, Artistic Director of the Afro 

Vibes Festival in the Netherlands, and is a founding member of MUISA (Multi Arts Initiative of South 

Africa). His residency will be of interest to several departments, including African Studies, Theater, Music, 

Ethnomusicology and the Fowler Museum. 

Professor Victoria Marks, with the assistance of the department, will coordinate the residency. Workshops 

in movement and choreography, class visits, seminars, and public activities, will be planned in consultation 

with Mr. Maqoma, the WAC faculty, and interested faculty in the above-mentioned departments. Given 

the African focus of several of our faculty and our relationship with the Fowler Museum, this visit will be a 

very full and enriching experience for all. More information on the residency will be forthcoming. 

World Arts and 

Cultures IS: 

1. The formulation of critical 

and intercultural insights into 

the nature of human 

creativity. 

2. The creation and 

interdisciplinary study of 

dance and other body-based 

modes of performance. 

3. Mutually beneficial 

engagement with the 

diverse cultural and 

artistic communities of 

Los Angeles. 

Announcements of other events, guest residencies, and projects will be placed in our calendar on the 

newly designed website set to be launched by the beginning of winter quarter. Watch for information on 

the Centers’ programs, and upcoming faculty and student concerts, lecture series, and guest artists and 

scholars’ visits. 

Despite these trying times, the department is still providing its extra-ordinary programs to our students. As 

well, the two centers housed in the department, Center for Intercultural Performance and the Art | Global 

Health Center each have brought an immense energy through their respective activities – engaging not 

only our students campus-wide, but also in our Los Angeles community and beyond. View the many 

accomplishments and accolades of our students, faculty, alumni and staff, as you page through this 

newsletter. 

I hope to hear from you regarding your work and perspectives from time to time. Contact us at 

wacinfo@gmail.com as well as be sure you are updated on our WAC Alum/FOW email list (“Join Our 

Mailing List” at www.wac.ucla.edu). 

Wishing you the best, 

Angelia Leung 

Angelia Leung, Chair 

Department of World Arts and Cultures 

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People 

Congratulations Judy Mitoma 

Enduring Legacies – Celebrating the work of Judy Mitoma – June 5, 

2010, Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater 

THANK YOU 

WENDY! 

On May 28th, our 

much-loved Student 

Affairs Office 

counselor of over 30 

years Wendy Temple 

had a send-off that 

truly brought out many 

accolades of Wendy’s 

work. The event, 

spearheaded by 

Wendy’s daughter and 

WAC student, Molly 

Temple, current and 

past students’ 

performed and 

presented in her 

tribute. UCLA staff 

colleagues joined the 

WAC students, alums, 

and faculty in this 

memorable event. 

In the fall of 2010, Judy will embark on a nine-city tour of Gamelan 

Çudamani. The following year, she will produce a fifth World Festival 

of Sacred Music—Los Angeles as well as curate, produce, and tour The 

Water is Rising. Ever prescient, Judy calls Water one of the most 

important projects of her life. It features 45 artists from the Pacific 

Island atolls of Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Tokelau, all of which are under 

threat of submergence due to global climate change. Follow these and 

other activities at www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/ 

New WAC Staff 

The Department of World Arts and Cultures and the UCLA community thank Judy for her years of 

service, for her innovative and far-reaching projects, for her dedication to the growth of the 

department, for the creative contributions of her Center for Intercultural Performance, and for 

creating deep connections with communities near and far. Judy will always be a member of the 

extended WAC family. Her warmth with students, staff, faculty, and the greater Los Angeles 

community helped create the sense of connectedness we enjoy in WAC today. 

The gathering of WAC alums and friends was an opportunity to celebrate her contributions as an 

alum and professor, and to renew our connections with each other. We wish her the best on her 

post-UCLA journey. The department thanks the School of the Arts and Architecture and Dean 

Christopher Waterman for their support. Special thanks to the program participants, the Mitoma 

family, departmental staff, student assistants, Marcia Argolo, Anu Kishore, Sabrina Lynn Motley and 

scores of former students and colleagues whose enthusiastic response to this event bears witness to 

Judy’s enduring legacy. 

A brief chronology of Judy: 

BA ’70; MA ‘75 

Faculty member since 1975 

Acting Director, Ethnic Arts (then an interdisciplinary program) 

1981 

Director, World Arts and Cultures Program 1982-1991 

Chair, World Arts and Cultures Department 1991-1997 

Chair, Department of Dance 1993-1995 

Director, Center for Intercultural Performance, 1995-Present 

Larry Blanco has joined the WAC staff as Student Affairs Officer. Larry received his Masters 

in Education and Counseling in Student Affairs at UCLA, where he also got his 

undergraduate degree, double majoring in Business Economics and Psychology. For the 

past two and half years, he has been an SAO with UCLA’s Undergraduate Admissions and 

Relations with Schools, and is well-verse undergraduate and graduate affairs. He comes 

with very high recommendations for his people and technological skills. 

On Sept.7 th , the department also welcomed the new assistant to the SAO, Nicole Fucich. She 

replaces Marissa Tinloy (BA ’09) who moved on to graduate studies in creative writing at 

UC Davis. Nicole served as the Undergraduate Accounting Student Counselor while 

completing her BA degree in Political Science. 

We have a dynamic team at the Student Affairs Office in the department! 

Wendy Temple, Angelia 

Leung, and Silvily Kessler 

For the last twenty some years Lorrie Snyder has been a Technical Director and Designer. 

She has worked in film, television, theater, opera, music, and dance and has been lucky 

enough to work with John Sayles, Elizabeth Streb, Long Beach Opera, and The Builders 

Association, among many others. She was the founding resident Technical Director for 

REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 

downtown Los Angeles, under the direction of Mark Murphy and acted as a technical 

consultant to the project during construction. Lorrie is also a Technical Consultant 

specializing in the design and equipping of new performance spaces. Ms. Snyder is the 

recipient of a 2004 EDDY award for sustained excellence in technical direction. She is 

currently the Technical Director for UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures. 

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Awards & Highlights 

DAVID GERE has been Awarded the Faculty Gold Shield Prize 

David Gere arrived at UCLA in 1993, and his work in WAC 

has earned kudos from students and colleagues ever since. He 

was recently awarded the $30,000 Gold Shield Faculty Prize — 

sponsored by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA — a prize 

bestowed annually upon a full professor in mid-career who 

has demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in 

undergraduate teaching, public service, and research or 

creative activity. Gere received the Gold Shield prize for a 

number of reasons, not the least of which is his work with 

"Make Art/Stop AIDS", a project he created under the aegis 

of the Art | Global Health Center. "Make Art/Stop AIDS" got 

its roots in 2004, when Gere went to India on a Fulbright 

fellowship to identify artists working to bring attention to the 

AIDS epidemic. He quickly found himself in the role of liaison, 

bringing together artists from India and the United States. 

Gere teaches courses on performance theory, AIDS and arts 

activism, but "Make Art/Stop AIDS" is his signature course. 

"Since meeting David my first year, he has provided me with 

mentorship and opportunities to learn both in and outside of 

the classroom," quoted by Arianna Taboada, 

2010 WAC graduate 

http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/gold-shield-facultyprize-winner-163309.aspx 

Congratulations Dr. Harris! 

WAC Adjunct Faculty and choreographer Lorenzo “Rennie” 

Harris received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the 

Bates College 144th commencement ceremony on May 30, 2010. 

Founder and Artistic Director of Rennie Harris Puremovement, 

Harris was one of five honorary degree recipients this year. 

Credited for being one of the first to bring hip hop dance to 

concert stages around the world, Bates College trustee Geri 

FitzGerald introduced Harris by stating, “he has transformed not 

just the art of dance, but our very notion of what art is and where 

it comes from." 

Congratulations 

Lester Horton Award Winners! 

Members of our Los Angeles dance community for 

joined to celebrate the many accomplishments of 

their peers at the 19th Annual Horton Awards on 

May 16th. Congratulations to the winners! 

Of the long list of awardees, the following are 

WAC-related: 

Outstanding Achievement in Performance & 

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - 

Long Form (more than 15 minutes) 

Company David Rousseve/Reality (WAC faculty) 

for Saudade 

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male 

Kevin Williamson (BA ’04) for Fruit - 

KDUB DANCE 

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - 

Female Marissa LaBog in Really All About Eve 

Collage Dance Theater Heidi Duckler, company 

director (WAC alum) 

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - 

Short Form (less than 15 minutes) 

Bradley Michaud (BA alum) for volenti non fit 

injuria Method Contemporary Dance 

Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design 

Eileen Cooley (MA alum) for The Crossings - 

Regina Klenjoski Dance Company 

Outstanding Achievement in World Dance 

Viver Brasil -Feet on the Ground/Aiye- 

Linda Yudin (MA alum) and Luiz Badaró 

From left, mace bearer Sawyer Sylvester; 

honorands Rennie Harris, James McCarthy, 

Jane Pauley, Elizabeth Strout '77 and Teresa 

Woodruff; and President Hansen. 

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Feature Article 1 

2010 WAC Summer High School Dance Theater 

Final Report, submitted by Kevin Kane, Program Director 

The fifth annual 2010 WAC Summer High School Dance Theatre Intensive was held on June 20 - 27, 

2010 at WAC. Directed by Kevin Kane (MFA ’03), the program brought together a diverse mix of high 

schoolers to our department. This year a total of 44 students (30 girls, 14 boys) ages 15 - 18 attended, 

with participants from nearby Los Angeles communities and beyond: Southern and Northern California, 

Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, Miami, and as far away as Hong Kong and Panama. In addition, the 

students represented a wide variety of performing arts experiences: beginners to proficient, dancers 

trained in numerous forms, theatre performers, spoken word poets, scholars, writers, singers, and 

musicians. The creative and social processes of the program allowed the diverse group to bond, live 

together, study, play, create, and perform as a collective. This gathering of dynamic young artists 

formed what could be considered an ideal first-year WAC undergraduate class. 

Collaboration is a keyword of the program-- between the WAC Department, the UCLA Summer Sessions 

Institutes and Special Programs Office, and The Flourish Foundation, which this summer made it possible 

for 20 students to participate on full scholarship. The intensive proves not only to be an opportunity for 

a unique group of young artists to deepen their arts practices and cultural identities at the same time 

they are creating a new kind of collective identity, but is turning out to be a successful outreach tool for 

the department. Many have expressed interest in applying to WAC upon graduating from high school. 

Past intensive participants who are current WAC undergrads and leaders in our WAC community 

attribute their experience in the program as the primary reason they chose WAC to continue their arts 

education, activism, and scholarship. 

Another exciting “pipeline” benefit to the summer intensive program is the participation of the WAC 

undergraduate peer counselling staff: these are current WAC undergraduates who engage in all facets 

of the program as TAs, peer counsellors, and creative collaborators, as well as taking on the roles of 

big sister/ big brother to the high schoolers. This summer, Harry Weston served as the program head 

counsellor, with Ashley Cartwright, Leanne Lacovetta, Russell Angelico, Alli Gray, and Marina 

Magalhaes as program counsellors. Harry, Leanne, and Ashley attended the program themselves when 

they were in high school. It has become part of the program’s continuum that each summer former high 

school participants, now WAC undergrads, are able take on these vital counselling positions. 

Aptly named, it is an incredibly jam-packed and intense experience. Students attend a stream of classes: 

modern/post-modern, hip hop, Hawaiian and West African dance forms, as well as classes in 

improvisation and composition, Art as Social Action, acting technique, and daily theatre rehearsals 

culminating in a collaborative performance project. Along with Kevin, the program uses the skills and 

dedication of WAC affiliated artist/instructors Nehara Kalev, C. Derrick Jones, Jackie Lopez, Sheetal 

Gandhi, Carolina San Juan, Keali’i Ceballos, Kathy Deitch, and Olivier Tarpaga - all of whom return to 

the program year after year as it inspires the faculty as much as the students. These classes produce 

material for the program’s culminating show – ideas and themes exploring such complex issues as 

personal and group identity and identifications, the role of the artist in society, and featured intercultural 

perspectives and collaboration. It is a process that is truly a team effort. 

After eight incredible days of community building and art making, on Sunday the 27th, the students 

performed this year’s hour-long final production, entitled The Space Between (as in: the liminal space 

between adolescence and adulthood, high school and college, home and away-from home), presented 

in the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theatre to a standing-room-only house of parents, family, friends, and 

teachers - an audience that mirrored the diversity that was present on the stage. With WAC staff support 

of lighting design by Lorrie Snyder, sound by Don Tittle, and events/house management by 

Ginger Holguin, the show was a fully-produced multidisciplinary, meta-narrative dance-theatre piece-- a 

very exciting, emotional, and inspiring day for all who attended. 

In the end, the high school students earned two UC course units, formed meaningful friendships and 

bonds that are ongoing. They left WAC thinking and feeling not at all the same as when they arrived. 

Our wish is that their experiences throughout the intensive will inform their growth as they move forward 

and that they continue to see themselves as artists capable of making an impact within their 

communities. Please view the video montage about the 2010 WAC summer intensive program called 

The Making of The Space Between, documenting the process and featuring excerpts of the program. It 

is posted on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watchv=Ev1ixJowv6I 

Participant Nicole wrote, 

“…This program has 

changed my view of 

the world and has 

helped me become 

a better, more 

generous artist and 

performer. “ 

“The performance 

yesterday was very 

moving, powerful and 

FUN! I loved seeing 

all the collaborative 

work and the honesty 

on the stage… 

….Paul’s and Martin’s 

parents made it to the 

show and they told me 

that they could see 

how the experience 

had changed their 

sons….– this is going 

to have a lasting 

impact on their lives, 

their ambitions, and 

their expectations of 

themselves. … I 

worried and they 

worried about 

whether or not they 

could handle it, but I 

knew that you and 

your staff would 

embrace them and 

appreciate their 

unique gifts. They felt 

accepted and valued 

in a place where they 

could hardly have 

imagined being a 

year ago.” – Carolyn 

(local high school theater 

teacher) 

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Feature Article 2 

The Exhibition and SOUNDSUIT 

INVASIONS 

Initiatives by our faculty and students last year 

included the Nick Cave “Meet me In the Center 

of the Earth” exhibition with our neighbor, the 

Fowler Museum. “Meet Me at the Center of the 

Earth” is the largest presentation of work by 

Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave, featuring forty 

of his “Soundsuits” – multi-layered, mixed-media 

sculptures named for the sounds made when the 

“suits” are worn. Mad, humorous, visionary, 

glamorous and unexpected, the Soundsuits are 

created from scavenged ordinary materials - 

detritus from both nature and culture – that Cave 

re-contextualizes in extraordinary works of art. 

The Fowler was the first LA-area museum to 

feature Cave’s work and the only Southern 

California venue for this traveling exhibition. As 

part of the exhibition, the artist provided 20 

Soundsuits that were made expressly to be worn 

and performed. In an effort to take the 

exhibition outside the museum walls, the Fowler 

partnered with WAC to offer a course (WAC 

174B) taught by guest faculty Rachael Lincoln 

(MFA 09) directing students to develop, create, 

and perform modular performances throughout 

the city and on the UCLA campus using these 

Soundsuits. When the museum presented this 

idea to artist Nick Cave, he coined the term 

“Soundsuit Invasions” to describe these 

community outreach efforts. Throughout the run 

of exhibition, the Fowler sponsored 11 Soundsuit 

Invasions and altogether reached over 28,000 

audience members throughout the winter and 

spring quarters of 2010. The events took place 

in diverse sites ranging from on-campus locations 

to street corners in Westwood, to the Los 

Angeles Downtown Artwalk and the encounters 

at Soundsuits After Dark (a KCRW event on 

campus) – a most successful event in terms of 

numbers reached and creating an experience for 

onlookers that took them out of their everyday 

existence. 

Outreach and Education 

Nick Cave: Meet Me 

at the Center of the 

Earth 

WAC174B Projects in 

WAC: Meet me at the 

Center of the Earth 

Taught by Guest 

Faculty Rachael 

Lincoln (MFA, ’09) 

A Blessing In Disguise: A personal reflection 

by WAC B.A. student Ryan Healy June 9, 2010 

When I look back on my collegiate experience years from now I know that one of the 

most remembered times I will have had was working in the Nick Cave Soundsuits. Over 

the course I saw myself transformed both literally and figuratively into something so 

much larger than I had ever felt. 

From the first day of winter quarter in January 2010, when we met with the designer 

Nick Cave and the choreographer Rachael Lincoln, I felt right at home rather than 

trying to prove myself as something I was not. I remember as we were putting on the 

suits Nick saying, “The suits are loud enough as an image you do not need to make any 

sound,” and I remember thinking of how subtle I was going to make the movements in 

the suit and how small I wanted to be when I moved. Once the suit was on I gained an 

entirely new presence, my body felt an urge to leap and turn and try and be as virtuosic 

as possible. I felt that in the disguise of the soundsuit my baggage was checked at the 

door and I was free to experiment with finding myself and constantly brightening my 

day. 

My days were not the only ones brightened, as we performed in an array of venues 

such as downtown L.A. and Westwood, even on the UCLA Janns Steps. I witnessed the 

faces of people who were watching light up as they witnessed the unexpected. From the 

children who had their first UCLA experience on campus, transformed by our 

performance, to the homeless men on the streets of Westwood who had been there for 

years, something changed in the way they watched; the people watching became so 

inspired. 

The collaboration between the Department of World Arts and Cultures, Rachael Lincoln, 

Nick Cave and the Fowler Museum was such a beautiful experience for the twenty plus 

students who got to be a part of this artistic ensemble. From VIP dinners and brunches, 

to dancing for KCRW’s Jason Bentley or being the show stealers at the Festival of 

Books, our opportunities were limitless. It is not every day you get to be eight feet tall 

and colored like a snow cone, nor is it everyday that you are given the opportunity to 

make people smile from ear to ear and make strangers dance with one another. It is 

these rarities that made the class WAC174B Projects in WAC: Meet me at the Center of 

the Earth, one of the greatest experiences I have ever had. 

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Alumni Updates... 

2000’s 

Anthony Barbir (BA 10) 

He will be working at the John F. 

Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts as a Program Assistant with the 

National Partnerships division of the 

Education Department. Duties will 

include administration and program 

support for two signature programs of 

the Kennedy Center: the Kennedy 

Center Alliance for Arts Education 

Network and the teaching artist 

professional development program, the 

Artists as Educators Series. He will be 

working under John Abodeely 

(Program Manager of National 

Partnerships), Barbara Shepherd 

(Director of National Partnerships) and 

Darrell Ayers (VP of Education). 

Esther Baker-Tarpaga (MA and MFA 02) 

Currently an Assistant Professor at The 

Ohio State University Department of 

Dance. Baker & Tarpaga Dance 

Project is performing and teaching at 

Abok In Goma International 

Contemporary Dance Festival in 

Cameroon in April 2010 and at DTW in 

NYC this summer for a global dance 

conference. She received a grant from 

the Battelle Foundation for a new 

project titled "Shifting Centers: Creative 

Collaboration in and outside of Africa 

through Cyberlearning and Ubiquitous 

Technologies" which is for an online 

symposium/exchange with 

choreographers Gregory Maquoma, 

Opiyo Okach, Hind Benali, Andreya 

Ouamba, and our company. Windega 

Tarpaga just turned a lovely two! For 

more info: www.btdanceproject.com 

Alums Sandra Chatterjee (PHD 05), 

Shyamala Moorty (MFA 02), and Anjali 

Tata (MFA02). formed The Post 

Natyam Collective in 2004, and later 

joined by Cynthia Lee (MFA 07), 

Sangita Shresthova (PHD 08). The 

Collective will be premiering a new 

collaborative work entitled "Sunoh! 

Tell Me, Sister" (working title) in Los 

Angeles in Spring 2011, produced by 

TeAda Productions. Created largely 

through the Collective's transnational 

internet-based creative process, the 

new show reclaims the performance 

legacy of the courtesans of the Indian 

subcontinent for the globalized internet 

age, bringing to life subversive stories 

of erotic power and women's 

resistance. Most recently in August 

2010 Shyamala, Cynthia, and Sandra 

performed together in Kolkata, India 

as part of DISHA, an international 

conference on dance and 

empowerment organized by the World 

Dance Alliance, West Bengal chapter. 

Enjoy Elizabeth Zimmer's review of 

Cynthia's solo, "ruddha (rude, huh)" 

that was recently performed at Dance 

Theater Workshop in New York. 

WAC⏐⏐NYC 

WAC | NYC is a community initiative to 

unite current students and alumni of 

UCLA’s Department of World Arts and 

Cultures who have a desire to live, 

work, or visit the nation’s big apple. We 

expect WAC | NYC to be a 

springboard for artistic germination, a 

forum for information sharing and 

networking, and a social grounding for 

integration and participation within the 

performance and scholastic culture 

unique to NYC. This group was started 

by and is run by current and previous 

WAC students--all are volunteers. 

Coordinated by Alaine Handa (05) and 

Eveline Chang (Former Grad Student 

Affairs Officer)-- Here are the activities 

that we were involved in this past year: 

11/14/09 WAC|NYC Mixer at Stone 

Creek Bar & Lounge in the Winter with 

Liz Terschuur on Skype (In attendance 

were Mo Marmesh, Emily Vartanian, 

Eveline Chang, Alaine Handa, Sharon 

Parker-Frazier, Lisa Herlinger-Thompson 

2/7/10 WAC|NYC teamed up with 

UCLA Club of New York for their 

monthly "Bruin Brunch Club" in the West 

Village Fiddlesticks similarly fashioned 

as the popular "Dinner for 12 strangers" 

back at UCLA in the Spring (Attended 

by Emily Vartanian, Eveline Chang, 

Alaine Handa, Franchesca Marisol 

Cabrera. 

8/12/10 WAC|NYC Social to benefit 

Pentacle Education Programming at SIP 

Bar & Lounge this past month (Attended 

by Melinda Ring, Ann Mazzocca, 

Sharon Parker-Frazier, Eveline Chang, 

Alaine Handa) 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php 

gid=124402477596577&ref=ts 

For more on the Collective: 

Www.postnatyam.net and 

www.postnatyam.blogspot.com 

Kate Foley (MFA 07) 

Currently living and working in the port 

city of Rijeka, Croatia since the fall of 

2007. She freelances as a 

choreographer, and teach in a new 

state school for contemporary dance 

and ballet for primary school children. 

Also teaches and work as a mentor to 

emerging artists at Prostor Plus, an 

NGO which promotes dance and 

physical theater through its educational 

program and site specific productions. 

Prostor Plus is part of Molekula, a 

network of NGOs working in culture 

and activism sharing a renovated 

industrial space on the river delta here. 

Just co-founded an international and 

interdisciplinary performance group, 

Language Anonymous. Currently 

working with open form music and 

movement improvisation in local 

archeological sites, filming them, and 

experimenting with image and sound 

processing. 

Sheetal Gandhi (MFA 09) 

She has been accepted for 

representation by Pentacle and will be 

featured in a new roster called 

"Metropolitan Intersections". She is 

going to be presented this November 

in Amsterdam and at the Mu Theater in 

Minneapolis in February. Also doing a 

lot of camping, kayaking and hiking. 

Cindy Garcia (PHD 05) (Asst Prof at the 

University of Minnesota) 

Ford Foundation Fellowship for 

Postdoctoral Scholars 2010-2011; 

Elected to Board of Directors for 

Society of Dance History Scholars, 

Spring 2010; Recipient of Selma Jean 

Cohen Award for Scholarship in 

Theatre and Dance/Movement-based 

Fields. Awarded by the American 

Society for Theatre Research, San 

Juan, Puerto Rico, 2009; Recipient of 

Gertrude Lippincott Award for best 

English-language article published in 

Dance Studies in 2008, to recognize 

excellence in the field of Dance 

scholarship. Awarded by the Society 

of Dance History Scholars at the 

annual conference at Stanford 

University, Palo Alto, California, 2009. 

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Sabela Grimes (MFA 09) 

On the nearest horizon he has a show 

at the Ford in October and he was a 

presenter at the "Show and Prove" Hip 

Hop Symposium at NYU on September 

18th, 2010. Also sitting on the 

Embodiment and Meaning panel. Of 

course, you're more than welcome to 

come on out to Style Is King in 

Switzerland in October. Or, come on 

out to Croatia in November. He will be 

there performing, teaching and 

lecturing as part of Prostor Plus's Artist 

In Residence program in Rijeka thanks 

to Kate Foley (WAC MFA 07 alum). 

Alaine Handa (BA 05) 

For the past year, she has been 

developing, curating, recruiting, 

interviewing, choreographing, 

directing, and coordinating 

Chameleon. Also working with a 

jewelry designer, photographers, 

dancers, an actress, choreographers, 

musicians, third culture kids/global 

nomads, University Settlement, and her 

wonderful admin assistant, 

development associate, and company 

manager to make this work. fyi – She is 

experimenting w/ technology and 

hope to have a live twitter feed and 

live streaming video (portions of the 

performance) during the performance. 

Add her on Twitter @ahdancecompany 

and email if you would like to be 

added to the list of invited people for 

the live streaming video. 

Dylan Kendall (BA 01) 

Dylan Kendall is currently serving as 

Founding Executive Director of City LA, 

a new youth-centric museum focused on 

using play-based pedagogy to help 

youth learn about arts, culture and 

media. The museum is the first of its 

kind to program within a studioframework, 

creating interdisciplinary 

models to engage youth and 

encourage emotional, intellectual and 

social development. She was the 

Founder and Executive Director of 

Hollywood Arts from 2006-2010, the 

first educational facility in the country 

to provide an arts and music-based 

education to homeless young adults 

helping them with secondary 

education, industry internships and 

entry-level employment. Prior to that 

(2002-2003) she formed The Open 

Museum of Los Angeles, an alternative 

museum designed to involve community 

participants in the curatorial process, 

creating more accessible and inclusive 

museum exhibitions; also invited to 

write a Strategic Plan for the first City 

Museum of Los Angeles. She received 

her MA in Museum Studies from 

Leicester University in England in 2003. 

Andrea Rodriguez (BA 06) 

She is currently working in the video 

games industry and looking forward to 

paving the way in body base 

gaming. For more information: 

budaflymedia.com / http:// 

interactive.usc.edu/members/ 

arodriguez/2009/08/ 

demo_walkthrough_thesis_paper.html 

Michael Sakamoto (MFA 09, PHD 

candidate) 

Michael took a summer trip to Japan to 

research Butoh methodology and 

perform in Tactfest Osaka 2010 and at 

Iori in Kyoto and had recent 

performances at GAS Festival in 

Goteborg and Vancouver International 

Dance Festival. 

Cari Ann Shim Sham (MFA 09) 

She has a review of the new Karen 

Pearlman book "Cutting Rhythms" that 

just came out in the Screen Dance 

Journal: http:// 

journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/ 

screendanceI'm the Producer for 

Education with One Day on Earth, 

www.onedayonearth.org. Currently 

developing the writing and curriculum 

for One Day on Earth's Educational 

Toolkits to be released in mid August, 

so far we have 80,000+ students 

signed up to participate, including your 

Aparna Sharma's WAC 180: http:// 

www.onedayonearth.org/page/ 

education-1for my film "SAND”. It is 

doing exceptionally well in the film 

festival circuit. Here's the SCREENING 

LIST as of July 21, 2010: 12 festivals, 5 

of which are film festivals, 7 of which 

are dance for camera festivals. 

www.cariannshimsham.com 

Scarlet Sparkuhl (BA 00) 

WAC, Concentration in Modern Dance. 

Currently practicing Family Medicine in 

Las Vegas, NV. 

Eko Supriyanto (MFA 02) is with 

the Indonesian Institute for the Arts 

( ISI ) Surakarta, The Dance 

Department Jln. Kh Dewantoro 19, 

Kentingan-Jebres, Solo 57126. Central 

Java Indonesia Artistic Director and 

Choreographer, Solo Dance Studio, 

Surakarta Indonesia. 

www.solodancestudio.org. 

Info@solodancestudio.org. Ph.D 

Candidate (2011) Performance Studies 

Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, 

Indonesia. 

Sara Wookey (MFA 08) is a recipient of 

a Cultural Exchange International 

Grant from the Department of Cultural 

Affairs LA that supported her residency 

at the Center for Visual Arts in the 

Netherlands this past September and 

where she is developing a new work 

for Spring 2011. She is completing a 

two-year performance/public art 

project Being Pedestrian for Downtown 

LA this Fall in collaboration with Sara 

Daleiden and the Art Program of the 

Community Redevelopment Agency LA. 

Continuing her work with 

choreographer Yvonne Rainer, Sara 

was recently certified to teach the 

seminal dance work Trio A and will be 

Rainer’s research assistant in the 

Spring while launching her project 

Transmitting Trio A. Sara is a founding 

member of two Los Angeles collectives: 

the Choreographer’s Working Group 

and Dance Studies Reading Group. 

She is a guest artist at Cal Arts and 

teaches a graduate choreography 

course at Cal State Long Beach. 

http://www.sarawookey.com 

Ana Maria Alvarez (MFA 05) with her 

company, CONTRA-TIEMPO 

(www.contra-tiempo.org), a nonprofit 

Los Angeles based dance company, 

will be leading its third annual cultural 

exchange delegation to Cuba. Through 

this program, a group of artists and 

educators will travel to Santiago and 

Havana from January1st - 10th, 2011, 

engaging in meaningful cross-cultural 

dialogue, sharing artistic practices and 

learning from masters in traditional and 

contemporary Cuban dance & music. 

The company is still accepting 

applications for those interested in 

joining the delegation. Please e-mail 

admin@contra-tiempo.org for more 

information. See also www.contratiempo.org 

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Kevin Williamson (BA 04) 

Since graduating from UCLA Kevin has 

performed in Vienna, New York City, 

San Francisco, and L.A. for Julie 

Taymor, Angelin Preljocaj, Maria 

Gillespie, Stephan Koplowitz, Kate 

Hutter, and David Gordon. 

Last year Kevin premiered "Fruit" and 

his company KDUB DANCE and won 

the Lester Horton Award for 

Outstanding Achievement in 

Performance. Kevin spent the last 2 

years as director of dance at Chadwick 

School and was awarded the 

Educators Fellowship to Bates Dance 

Festival in the summer of 2009. 

He is currently dancing in New York 

and looking for new adventures in 

dance and dance-making. 

www.kdubdance.org for more info. 

1990’s 

Lisa Herlinger-Thompson (BA, Dance 90) 

recently completed her MA in Dance 

Education from New York University 

and has been teaching in a variety of 

places for the past few years. She has 

been teaching Pre-K, all the way to 

adults, in public schools in New York 

and New Jersey, as well as for Limón 

open classes at Peridance. She just was 

hired at a brand new public high 

school in New York City and am 

designing and teaching the Dance 

curriculum. She continues to 

choreograph and perform as well. 

Pamela Lappen (MA 99) is currently an 

Associate Professor at Santa Barbara 

City College. Recently she created an 

original 30 minute story ballet, Visions, 

Dreams & Memories. The film and 

theatrical production was presented at 

Center Stage Theatre in Santa 

Barbara, in May 2010. In August she 

participated in the Mark Morris Dance 

Group’s training workshop for Dance 

for Parkinson’s Disease. 

Anne (Rowlands) Paquette (BA 90) 

Since graduating in June of 1990 with 

a B.A. in Dance & Choreography, she 

produced about 10 dance concerts and 

had her work shown at LACE and 

Highways Performance Space. She was 

reviewed in several papers locally and 

not once got a bad review! She 

performed in Santa Barbara and in my 

hometown of Columbus, Ohio. She 

studied and performed with Rudy Perez 

for about 5 years which was an eye 

opening experience. She has two girls 

ages 10 and 8 years old who love to 

dance including Michael Jackson's 

"moonwalk". She has not really done 

anything serious in the dance world 

since having a family but will be 

performing December 6th 2010, at 

MAX 10, held at the Electric Lodge 

where she will do a video art/dance 

piece. 

Lisa Parra (MA- D/MT 98) was a 

graduate student at UCLA from 

1996-1998 and received an MA 

degree in Dance/Dance Movement 

Therapy. She is a choreographer and 

performer. Her work combines 

movement with audio-visual material 

and recently has included 3D image 

technology applied to scanning the 

dancer's body. Has presented work 

nationally in New York, Los Angeles 

and San Francisco, and internationally 

in Mexico and Spain. Her most recent 

work, Body/Traces, is a video 

installation. This project received a 

2008-2009 Dance Movies Commission 

and residency at the Experimental 

Media and Performing Arts Center in 

Troy, NY, and has since been 

presented in media and video-dance 

festivals in the US, Europe and Asia. 

www.lanaproject.org. Currently living 

in Madrid, Spain but will be back in 

living in the States in Winter 2011, so 

do keep her posted of any WAC 

alumni activities, and or conferences, 

etc. 

Isa Polt-Jones (ne’ Isa Polt) (BA 90) 

Enjoying life in the San Francisco Bay 

Area where she is a founding partner 

of the photography training center 

Future Light Digital Workshops. She 

works in public relations for the East 

Bay Regional Park District creating 

multimedia stories, photography and 

events promoting parks and open 

space; and through which she has the 

pleasure of intersecting 

professionally with fellow WAC Craig 

Rosa, who is a producer at KQED 

public television/media. She has 

enjoyed outdoor explorations with her 

almost-five twin girls and alumnae 

Anastasia Herold with her same age 

twin girls plus son. The Bay Area has 

much to offer any WAC or WAC at 

heart. 

www.fldigital.com/www.ebparks 

Karen Stokes (MFA 93) is currently 

Head of the Dance Division at the 

University of Houston, and runs her 

own non-profit dance company, 

Travesty Dance Group. TDG has 

received multiple grants to present 

original dance theater by Karen. In 

June, TDG was invited to participate in 

the international dance festival 

Abundance 2010 in Karlstad Sweden, 

where they performed a new duet by 

Karen. Currently, Karen is working on 

an original evening length work with 

composer Bill Ryan which will premiere 

in Fall 2011. Her program for school 

kids "Framing Dance" had over 2400 

attendees last February at the Hobby 

Center for Performing Arts in Houston, 

and is committed to serving 

economically challenged students in the 

greater Houston area. For more info 

on what's up w/Karen, go to: 

www.tdghouston.info Feel free to take 

a peek at her work on YouTube as well! 

Leo Tee (BA 90, Dance) 

At UCLA (1997-1990), he received the 

Clifton Webb Award, co-produced UC 

Dance Theatre, and was a two-year 

member of UCLA Dance Company. 

From 1988-1993, he performed as a 

member of Tina Gerstler/Danceworks 

and David Leahy & Co., along with 

Lori DuPeron & the IT Squad, Hae 

Kyung Lee & Dancers, Young Ae Park 

& Dancers, L.A. Modern Dance & 

Ballet Co. and Chopsticks & Sneakers. 

His choreography has been presented 

in Santa Barbara and L.A. (including 

Dance Kaleidoscope, Melrose Series 

and LACE's Twisted Spring), as well as 

commissioned by L.A. Modern Dance 

& Ballet Company and the L.A. 

Cultural Affairs Department. 

http://oahuleo.tripod.com 

Andy Vaca (MFA 95) debuted his new 

company of dancers, Jazzworks - Long 

Beach, in the Nannette Brodie Dance 

Theatre & Friends concert at the 

Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater on 

September 18-19, 2010. Jazzworks 

presented Vaca's Swoon, Croon, & 

Swing (2004), set to timeless classics 

sung by Michael Buble, and the 

premiere of Vaca's newest work, Build 

It Up, Break It Down, set to a 

commissioned score by Long Beach 

composer Eric Ruskin. The concert also 

celebrated Vaca's return to the 

Knoebel stage as a dancer in Grac 

Untethered, a duet commissioned by 

Vaca for Ms. Brodie and himself, 

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HOTHOUSE 2010 

Hothouse artist Reina Alejandra Prado 

This sixth annual Hothouse Program is a 

rehearsal residency program for the 

creation of new work at the Glorya 

Kaufman Hall at UCLA. The Hothouse 

Program was developed by UCLA 

professor Victoria Marks to support 

the creative process of seven local Los 

Angeles choreographers and to 

encourage interactive exchange during 

the rehearsal period. 

From August 9 - August 27, 2010 

Jesse Bonnell, Henriette Brouwers, 

Carol McDowell, Reina Alejandra 

Prado, Deborah Rosen, Laurie 

Sefton, and Meg Wolfe 

Laurie Sefton 

Carol McDowell & dancers 

1980’s 

Anna Cherekovsky (Kramer) (BA 80) 

graduated from, what was then called 

the UCLA Dance Department with a BA 

under the name Anna Kramer. The 

Department was under the direction of 

Allegra Snyder and Dr. Emma Thomas 

at that time. She studied with Lynn 

Dally, Mia Slavenska and Gloria 

Bowen, to name a few. Currently living 

in Northern California and considering 

relocating back to Los Angeles. She 

graduated Summa Cum Laude, with 

degree focused on Kinesiology and 

Performance. Since leaving UCLA, she 

has performed in regional dance 

companies in Los Angeles, the Bay 

Area and Humboldt County. She has 

extensive organizational skills for both 

profit and non-profit organizations. 

However, for the past 8 years, she has 

been Head of Wardrobe/Development 

Director and taught Adult Beginning 

Ballet for North Coast Dance in 

Eureka, California. In addition, she 

has had her own bodywork practice in 

California and Caracas, Venezuela, 

specializing in Acupressure, Structural 

Alignment work, CranioSacral Therapy 

and Visceral Manipulation. 

Lorenzo Domínguez (BA WAC IDP 89) is 

an award-winning street photographer 

who writes about fine art photography 

in New York City for Examiner.com and 

En Foco. He is also the author of the 

bestselling book 25 Lessons I’ve 

Learned (about photography), the #1 

selling photo essay on Amazon.com. In 

addition to being a WAC alum, he also 

completed graduate studies for a 

Masters in Political Science at SJSU 

and a Masters in International 

Relations at Columbia University’s 

School of International and Public 

Affairs. He is newly engaged to Dr. 

Chelsea Hollander and together they 

have three children and live atop 

Museum Mile in NYC. 

Class of 1989, concentration: cultural 

anthropology 

www.25Lessons.com 

Harlan 'Hap' Palmer (MA 83) 

New educational recordings: 1) 

Multiplication Mountain – 2009: 

Parents' Choice Gold Award 2009; 

Teacher's Choice Award 2010; 

National Parenting Publications Honors 

Winner 2009. 2) Learning In Two 

Languages – 2010: Developed in 

consultation with teachers at UCLA 

Lab School in the Learning in Two 

Languages program. 

Presentations: 24th Annual Southern 

California Kindergarten Conference 

2010; Ohio Early Care & Education 

Conference 2010; 21st Annual GSA 

Child Care Training Conference 2010; 

Professional Development Workshop 

Cerritos Center for Performing 

Arts 2010. For more information 

please visit: www.happalmer.com 

The Joyce Theater Foundation 

in partnership with The Dance Center of 

Columbia College Chicago, REDCAT 

(Los Angeles), Dance Affiliates 

(Philadelphia). ODC Theater (San 

Francisco) and On the Boards (Seattle) 

Announces 72 Participants in 

The A.W.A.R.D. 

Show! 2010-2011 

Artists With Audiences Responding 

to Dance 

Seven WAC Faculty, Students and 

Alums Have Been Selected to 

Participate! 

Maria Gillespie - MFA candidate 

Rachael Lincoln- MFA alum 

Arianne MacBean - BA alum 

Victoria Marks - Faculty 

Christine Suarez - MFA alum 

Liam Clancy (in Karen Shaffman's 

project) - MFA alum 

Peter Carpenter - MFA alum/PhD 

candidate (at the Chicago site) 

Asia Society and the Indo‐American Arts 

Council presented Erasing Borders:Festival of 

Indian Dance, Spring 2010 "...the best new 

arrival on the city's dance scene in the last two 

years..."—New York Times 

Two evening concerts on June 4 and 5 featured 

performances traditional and experimental, 

classical and post-modern, highlighting both 

dramatic and non-narrative dance. Day sessions of 

panels, workshops, and demonstrations explore 

aspects of Indian dance across genres. The UCLA 

WAC contingent included WAC alums/former 

students: Sheetal Gandhi, Cynthia Lee, 

Mythili Prakash, Purnima Shah; and 

curator of the program is WAC alum Rachel 

Cooper. 

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Carol M. Press (MA 83), Ed.D earned 

her M.A. in Dance with an emphasis in 

Choreography from UCLA. She 

earned her Doctorate in Education in 

Interdisciplinary Studies between 

Dance and Clinical Psychology from 

Columbia Teachers College in 1990. 

Currently, she is a choreographer, 

performer, scholar, writer, and 

educator, teaching dance history at 

the University of California, Santa 

Barbara and Santa Barbara City 

College. Published internationally, all 

of her scholarly work is directly 

informed by her choreography, 

exploring significant exchanges 

between action and theory. Her 

interdisciplinary book, The Dancing 

Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self 

Psychology and Transformative 

Education (Hampton Press, 2002), 

engages the relational dynamics 

between dance, creativity, dance 

history, aesthetics, psychology, 

pedagogy, and the vital exchanges 

between sense of self, community and 

culture. Continuing in this vein, her 

latest publication on “Self Psychology 

and the Modern Dance 

Choreographer” appears in 

the Annals of the New York Academy 

of Sciences and she co-edited the June 

2010 issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry: 

Forms of Creative Expression with Drs. 

Alan and Rosalind Kindler from 

Canada. She just performed her latest 

choreography, Luminous, in Santa Fe, 

New Mexico and is co-editing a book 

on creativity and performance studies 

with Edward "Ted" Warburton from the 

UCSanta Cruz and Simon Dove from 

Arizona State University (forth coming 

Hampton Press, 2012). For more 

information visit http:// 

www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/ 

people_facultyprofile.php 

ResearcherID=172 

This year brought Lula Washington (MA 

’84) Dance Theatre's 30th Anniversary 

Concert at the Luckman at Cal State 

University in Los Angeles, followed by 

a 23-city tour to Russia and tours in 

many US Cities. Lula Washington (MA 

84) as well as her daughter, Tamica 

Washington-Millner (BA nd) had an 

incredibly productive year, notably the 

choreographic and performance work 

for the film “Avatar”, as well as 

touring to 17 theaters with a grant 

from the National Dance Project. From 

New Hampshire to Montana to New 

Jersey; Alabama; Georgia; South 

Carolina; and New Mexico, the 

company found itself being praised by 

audiences for its unique blend of 

modern, African, and classical dance. 

Contact US! 

Alongside the alumni initiatives, we 

are constantly updating out FOW 

database in an effort to communicate 

and connect the community at large 

with WAC happenings and news. 

Whether you are a current 

student, alumnus, faculty, 

staff, or Friend of WAC, 

WE want to hear from you and be 

connected with YOU! 

Please visit our website and click on 

the link “Join Our Mailing List” to be 

plugged into our singularly unique 

community of artists and scholars 

here at UCLA. 

www.wac.ucla.edu 

The company's local 30th anniversary 

celebration included concerts at the 

Cerritos Center for the Arts; the 

Hollywood Bowl; Grand 

Performances; and the Santa Clarita 

Performing Arts Center. Most 

significantly, Lula has danced at 

UCLA's Design For Sharing program 

each year for the last decade, and we 

will be back in 2011. Founded by Lula 

and her husband, Erwin Washington in 

1980, LWDT started out with a $25 

loan to pay for rehearsal space. 

Dancers were given a $15 gas stipend, 

and often brought their own clothes to 

use as costumes. Today, LWDT has 

risen to become a highly respected. 

1970’s 

Marianne Jirgal Ariyanto (MA 70) 

Student name was Marianne Jirgal. 

She taught dance at University of 

Wisconsin-S.P. and College of St. 

Teresa while attending summer 

sessions at the Center for World Music 

in Berkeley. In 1977 and 1978, she 

studied classical Balinese dance, 

including forms of Legong Keraton and 

Gambuh, at the College of Dance in 

Denpasar, Bali on a Fulbright 

Scholarship. Upon returning to the 

USA, she was an assistant professor at 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln and 

presented scholarly papers at CORD, 

SE and ATA. She has lived in Jakarta 

since 1985 and taught dance at 

Jakarta International School until 

2000. 

Jeanne Nakano (BA 71 MA 79 in 

Dance) Her website: GenieYogini.Com 

Next 1971 reunion--count me in. 

Cynthia Winton-Henry (BA 78) 

Graduated from the UCLA Dance 

Department-- Carol Scothorn, Gary 

Fields, Dr. Valerie Hunt, Mia 

Slavenska, The Ledzepko's, etc. were 

some of her teachers. Cofounded 

InterPlay in 1989 with Phil Porter, an 

improvisational community art practice 

taught in over 50 cities, including 

India, Australia, Europe, Brazil, Africa 

and the US. www.InterPlay.org. Wing 

It! Performance Ensemble and other 

InterPlay based companies create solo 

and ensemble music, dance, 

storytelling, and song on the spot. Her 

books include Dance: A Sacred Art, 

What the Body Wants, and a memoir 

about her dance into and out of 

ordained ministry, Chasing the Dance 

of Life: A Faith Journey. She has taught 

in higher education and worked 

toward two Ph/D.s but art, family, and 

community always won out. 

Lula Washington (MA ’84) 

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Class of 1990 Reunion. From L to R: Lisa 

Herlinger-Thompson, Suzanne Cicala, Michael 

Molin-Skelton, Heather Leon, Darrel Ramsey- 

Musolf, Kim Prentice, Leo Tee, Anne Paquette 

Class of 1990, BA in Dance: Of the entire 

class, twelve graduated in 1990 – six from 

the initial freshman class, and six transfers. 

Eight of this class gathered on July 31 st 

traveling distances from New York, 

Wisconsin, Georgia, northern and southern 

California. Angelia Leung met all except 

Anne at GKH on that Saturday afternoon – 

shared stories, reminisced, laughed, and 

toured the renovated building. All were 

impressed by the changes, disoriented in 

some parts of the building (the entire first 

floor had been a large locker room back 

then!) and agreed that despite the 

conditions of the building back then, they 

still managed to have some pretty good 

results with their education. Wendy Temple 

joined the gathering also – reminding 

Darrel she still has some of his stuff 

discovered in her office while clearing it out 

after she retired at the end of June. After 

spending the afternoon at the building 

(then called the Dance Building), they regathered 

at Anne Paquette’s home. 

From L to R: Michael Molin-Skelton, Wendy 

Temple (Retired SAO), Kim Prentice, Darrel 

Ramsey-Musolf, Angelia Leung (Chair), Heather 

Leon, Lisa Herlinger-Thompson, Suzanne Cicala 

1960’s 

Judith Scalin (Garretson) (BA in Dance, 

68) Secondary Teaching 

Credential: Dance with minor areas of 

History and Physical Education- 1969. 

Chair of the Dance Department at 

Loyola Marymount University in Los 

Angeles, and Director of the Dance 

Program for the past 29 years. 

For more info: http://cfa.lmu.edu/ 

programs/dance/facstaff/Full- 

Time_Faculty.htm 

Gretchen Schneider (BA 65; MA 68) 

received her Ph.D. in the Cultural 

History of Performance from UC-Davis 

in 1984. Major health issues have 

side-lined her professionally for several 

years. Re-emerging and re-invented, in 

May 2010, Gretchen received an MFA 

in Film [film, video and photography] 

from the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Upon graduation, she was honored 

with a Kodak Motion Picture Production 

Grant. She announces that she is fully 

digital and a consultant on special 

projects. 

Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (BA) 

July 24th, the US Embassy Phnom Penh 

presented Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's S 

EASONS OF MIGRATION at 

Chaktomuk Hall as part of its 60th 

anniversary of US-Cambodia 

diplomatic relations celebrations. 

Sophiline's company, the Khmer Arts 

Ensemble, will present SEASONS OF 

MIGRATION again on Reunion Island ( 

in the Indian Ocean) 17-20 September. 

For more information visit 

www.khmerarts.org/ 

ensemblecalendar.htm 

Alumni Awards Highlights 

Scott Edmondson, who received his 

PhD this past summer 2009 based 

upon long-term Fulbright-Hays-funded 

research in Ghana on the making and 

interpretation of Evangelical cinema, 

is currently in a postdoc at the 

University of Michigan's Center for 

Afroamerican and African Studies. 

Katherine Smith (PhD 09) received 

the official letter for the Mellon Cogut 

Postdoctoral Fellowship in CLACS at 

NYU, she also received a letter for 

the Afro-Am/Anthro post doc at 

Princeton. Choices to make! 

Sri Susilowati (MFA 03) was honored 

on Thursday, March 25 by the Los 

Angeles Women's Theatre Festival 

with the Rainbow Award for 

contributions to diversity in the theatre 

arts in Los Angeles 

Dr. Sohini Ray (MA alum), LA’s Dance 

Resource Center Board member, has 

earned a very prestigious award: the 

JB Donne prize in anthropology of 

art. This award is given by the Royal 

Anthropological Institute in the UK. 

The RAI has awarded Sohini for her 

article that looks at hand-gestures in 

Manipuri dance from an 

anthropological perspective. It is a 

very competitive prize as it is open to 

all nationalities in the world and all 

career levels. Sohini happens to be 

the first dance researcher IN THE 

WORLD to get it. How fortunate we 

are to have Sohini in our midst. Sohini 

Ray is a WAC alum (MA in Dance) 

before going on to her PHD work in 

Anthropology at UCLA 

CWG Collective 

Choreographers Working Group 

(CWG) is a collective of five Los 

Angeles-based choreographers 

including WAC alums; Arianne 

Hoffmann (MFA 10), Sarah Leddy (MFA 

student), Kristen Smiarowski (MFA 02), 

and Sara Wookey (MFA 08), and 

UCSB Faculty Mira Kingsley. The 

collective formed in 2008. Its intention 

is to serve creative growth through 

self -reflective, improvisational and 

collaborative investigations of the 

terms, tools, and devices of their field. 

They recently received a University of 

California Research in the Arts grant to 

present their models for choreographic 

research and peer mentorship with 

Discourse in Action, a series of 

workshops and an interactive website 

that shares CWG’s collective artmaking 

methodologies. 

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UCLA Centers... 

CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE 

Judy Mitoma, Director: www.wac.ucla.edu/cip 

The Center for Intercultural Performance (CIP) is dedicated to performing arts 

research and experimentation that promotes better understanding and appreciation 

across cultures, emphasizing international exchange, creative collaboration, research 

and publications, and film/video documentation. 

Since its inception in 1995, CIP has hosted 17 international residencies (Asia Pacific 

Performance Exchange Fellowship Program (APPEX); Rockefeller foundation 

Humanities Residency; UCLA National Dance Media Fellowship; UCLA 

Choreographers Art Management Fellowship; Bridge: Choreographic Dialogues 

Residency and the 2009 UCLA/Indonesia Arts Education Exchange Residency 

Fellowship. On the local and national level, CIP has produced 4 performing arts 

Festivals (World Festival of Sacred Music-Los Angeles). These Festivals have presented 

the work of over 6,000 artists in 200 diverse venues across Los Angeles and an 

attendance of 200,000 people. 

UPCOMING 2011 EVENTS: 

Summer Institute 

CUDAMANI SUMMER INSTITUTE, Bali, Indonesi 

(June/July 2011) 

For the 5 th time, CUDAMANI hosts a core group of 

individuals from around to the world to participate in the 

study of Balinese music and dance in Bali, Indonesia. 

www.cudamani.org 

Citywide Festivals: World Festival of Sacred Music. (Oct 1-21, 2011) 

CIP is preparing to host the fifth World Festival of 

Scared Music-Los Angeles in fall of 2011. WFSM-LA is a 

16-day, 25-event festival of music and dance. Call for 

Applications at www.festivalofsacredmusic.org. 

Touring Projects: Water is Rising performance tour to 14 cities in the US (Oct/Nov, 

2011). Water features 45 artists from the Pacific Island atolls of Tuvalu, Kiribati, and 

Tokelau, all of which are under threat of submergence due to global climate change. 

Art⏐⏐Global Health Center 

David Gere, Director: http://artglobalhealth.arts.ucla.edu 

Founded in 2006, the Art | Global Health Center at UCLA seeks to nurture a global 

network of artists and advocates working in the realm of public health. Harnessing the 

communicative power of the arts, the Center creates public health interventions that 

celebrate life, buttressed by principles of human rights and social justice. Center 

programs challenge communities and individuals to reconsider preconceived notions 

of intimacy in an age of disease, and of tolerance in an age of distrust. 

The Center’s objectives are currently pursued in large part through its signature 

project, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS (MASA), an international network of scholars, artists, 

and activists committed to ending the global AIDS epidemic. Projects include: AMP it 

up!, an arts-based, multiple-intervention, peer-education HIV prevention and sexual 

health education program running in Los Angeles public high schools; Through 

Positive Eyes, an international participatory photography project featuring people 

living with HIV and AIDS, co-directed by Gideon Mendel; Are You Well an Art-in- 

Hospitals project, which offers performance- and radio-based HIV and AIDS 

communication for inpatients at the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine in 

Tambaram, India; and ArtMoves, a mobile version of the MAKE ART/STOP AIDS 

exhibition, mounted on auto-rickshaws and bamboo structures. 

www.makeartstopaids.org 

www.throughpositiveeyes.org 

Students present a lively AIDS-education 

performance to local Los Angeles high 

schools as part of AMP it up! 

The MAKE ART/STOP AIDS Exhibition at the 

2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna 

showcased work dealing with the changing face 

of the AIDS epidemic around the world. 

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Faculty Updates 

DAN FROOT 

Dan Froot’s performances of Who's Hungry - West Hollywood was featured at the 

9th International Toy Theater Festival in Brooklyn NY (June 2010). It was also 

featured in an article in American Theater Magazine (April 2010). Dan was 

awarded a MAP Fund Grant (NYC) for Who's Hungry - Santa Monica as well as a 

Southwest Oral History Association grant for Who's Hungry - Santa Monica. He 

will be teaching a collaboration workshop at the Association for Theater in 

Higher Education national conference (August 2010) He was also awarded a Los 

Angeles County Arts Commission Grant for Organizational Support. 

VIC MARKS 

Vic Marks was selected to serve as a CHIME choreographic mentor for 2010, 

working with Mira Kingsley. This Spring, under the auspices of an NPN 

residency, she created a piece about science and faith for the 100th anniversary 

of Carroll College in Helena, MT. In May 2010 she traveled to London where her 

piece Dancing to Music will be honored as the 40th year celebration of The Place 

Theater. She will spend the summer teaching at the Bates College Summer 

Dance Festival. In Fall 2010 for her sabbatical leave, she was awarded a 

fellowship at the UC Humanities Research Institute to participate in the 

residential research group “Critical Disability Studies”. 

JANET O’SHEA 

Janet O’Shea was one of two invited speakers for Movement in Context, a UC 

Berkeley Performance Studies event - April 2010. She was the keynote speaker 

for Solo Dance: Perspectives from South India and Beyond (conference), Toronto, 

June 2010. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd edition, which she coedited, 

debuted in January 2010 

AL ROBERTS 

On June 4-5, 2010 the UCLA Mellon 

Seminar in Black Atlantic Studies 

conference entitled Mumbo Jumbo: 

Critical Perspectives on Black 

Atlantic Sacred Arts was convened 

in honor of Donald J. Cosentino. 

Organized by Andrew Apter and 

Patrick A. Polk, the event 

recognized Cosentino’s seminal 

work on the Black Atlantic ritual 

and symbolic systems and included 

presentations by more than a 

dozen scholars (including WAC’s 

own PhD alum Katherine Smith) 

and was attended by more than 

100 students, scholars, and public 

guests. Funding and other forms of 

support were provided by the 

African Studies Center, the Fowler 

Museum at UCLA, the UCLA 

School of Arts and Architecture, 

the UCLA Mellon Seminar in Black 

Atlantic Studies, and the UCLA 

Mellon Faculty Seminar on 

Caribbean Cultural History 

During 2009-2010, Al Roberts wrote or co-authored nine articles, including a 

piece on twinship as embodied dilemma among Tabwa people of the Congo; a 

60-page treatise on arts, ambiguity, and transformation for a Belgian website 

specializing in Congolese ethnography; an essay on re-signification and the 

migration of images; and a reportage on recolonization of an African visual 

economy, concerning recent Chinese activities in Senegal. He translated three 

papers from French to English for the peer-reviewed journal African Arts, for 

which he is a co-editor; and served as co-editor for a special issue of the journal 

Material Religion concerning Christian arts of Africa and its diasporas. 

Anna Halprin leads WAC students in a Master Class 

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Faculty Updates Continued... 

Guangdong Modern Dance 

Festival and Symposium 

Pictured from L to R: Ting-Ting Chang, Cheng-Chieh Yu, 

Marianne Kim, Angelia Leung, and Lionel Popkin 

UCLA World Arts and Cultures was well 

represented at the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival 

and Symposium in July. Cheng-Chieh Yu was 

commissioned to set her work, "Martiality, Not 

Fighting" on 11 members of the Guangdong Modern 

Dance Company for their festival performance. Peter 

Melville provided the stage design/construction and 

tech consultation. Yu also taught master classes as well. 

Lionel Popkin performed a solo version of his 

"There Is An Elephant In This Dance,” as well as 

presented a paper at the Symposium and taught as part 

of the Dance Camp. WAC alums Marianne Kim 

(MFA in Dance) and Ting-Ting Chang (BA/Dance) 

were invited to teach at the Dance Camp. There was 

also a handful of current and recently graduated 

students Ngyuen Ngyuen, Dorothy Chen, 

Alyssandra Wu, Gladys Liu, and an 

incoming WAC freshman Cyndi 

Huang taking in the Dance Camp, Festival, and 

Symposium. Angelia Leung was invited to present 

a paper at the Symposium -- she joined the UCLA 

contingent for a few days in Guangzhou while the 

others remained for the rest of the festival events. 

MARY (POLLY) NOOTER ROBERTS delivered several invited lectures 

including a conference paper at the University of Florida, where her talk was 

entitled The Afterlife of the Original: Recycling in Senegalese Sufi Practices; two 

lectures entitled A Touch of Insight: African Arts of Tactility and Transcendence at 

the San Diego Museum of Art and at the De Young Museum in San Francisco; and 

a presentation with Allen F. Roberts on Francophone African Arts for the Siggi 

Dimanche Celebration in the Historic Leimart Park Village. She undertook three 

major research trips under the auspices of a Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for a 

new project with Allen F. Roberts on South Asian saint, Shirdi Sai Baba. Fieldwork 

conducted in Mauritius, Germany and India culminated in a paper given at the 

College Art Association meetings in Chicago entitled” Images of Efficacy: 

Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba in the Indian Ocean World”. She is 

currently writing the Introduction to a book on Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke 

Kosrof with Allen F. Roberts. 

DAVID ROUSSEVE's “Saudade” culminated a national tour with 

performances at New York's Danspace Projects. Rousseve was honored that 

Saudade went on to receive two of LA's Horton Awards for Dance: "Best 

Choreography (Long Form)" 2009, and "Best Performance by a Company" 2009. 

In June 2010 Rousseve's dance/theater piece Dry Each Other's Tears in the 

Stillness of the Night was remounted and performed by the Dance Company of 

Tshwane University in Pretoria, South Africa. 

CHENG-CHIEH YU premiered the dance work”Dancing Mother Courage” at 

the Grand Performances on June 19. The creation of “Dancing Mother Courage” 

was funded by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, COLA fellowship '08-09. 

She was in residence at the Guangdong Modern Dance Camp from July 13-24 

where she taught, choreographed on the students, and then presented a paper at 

the related Guangdong Modern Dance Symposium/Festival July 24-Aug 1. The 

paper, “Diaspora, Inter-Communities and Shared Narratives: Choreographing 

Hood Vail Shoes”, in Chinese, will be published by the Guangdong Dance Studies 

this fall, and in English by the Fontys College of the Arts in the Netherlands. 

Related to her serving as WAC Hothouse faculty co-host 2009, Cheng-Chieh has 

begun a Dance for Camera collaboration with WAC MFA alumni Marianne Kim, 

currently an Assistant Professor at the Arizona State University. The work will be 

derived from Bertolt Brecht's “Good Woman of Setzuan”. 

Cheng-Chieh Yu’s "Martiality, Not Fighting" 

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Faculty Continued... 

APARNA SHARMA 

Aparna led the Poetry and Film education workshop in Jaipur, Rajasthan 

contributing to the Indo-Cymru (Indo-Welsh) Literature exchange programme 

funded by the British Council and Academi Wales. Several achievements by 

Aparna this year include: 

• commissioned to develop a still photography project examining the impacts of 

urban regeneration and the ‘economic miracle’ in Delhi as part of the 

symposium, Utopia: Imagining the Metropolitan Imagination. This symposium 

is part of the Arcades Project in Britain that extends Walter Benjamin’s project 

by the same title. 

• conducted pre-production research in India’s north-eastern state, Assam, 

where she will be developing a new observational documentary project next 

summer. This research was supported by the Folklore Department, Guwahati 

University. 

• presented a lecture at the Indian Council for Historical Research (Assam 

Division) entitled — Observational Cinema in the Postcolonial Context. 

• published three reviews in Leonardo Reviews. The review on the exhibition, 

Continental Rifts has been selected for publication in the print edition of the 

Leonardo journal (43.1, January 2010). Presently completing an essay 

entitled, Body Politics: Inscribing the Local, Questioning the Global, for a 

catalogue published by the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 

In addition, she is developing a book object for presentation to primary school 

students in a village of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan that is now 

under control of the Taliban. Under this project artists from across the world have 

been commissioned to share folk and fairytales from their countries with the 

children of this region. 

EMMA LEWIS THOMAS Professor Emerita 

The Warsaw Theater Institute invited Dr. Thomas to lecture for two weeks in June 

with her colleague, Andrzej Wirth, the professor who founded the Institute for 

Applied Theater (Institut für Angewandte Theaterwisssenschaft) at Justus Liebig 

University in Giessen, Germany, in l982. She was his first Guest Lecturer in 

'82-'83 and since then have continued working with him (in Australia, Italy, 

Berlin and Dresden) to develop new theatrical concepts related to "Theater ohne 

Publikum" (Theater without an audience). These working principles, generally 

carried out in workshop/performance situations, that update and extend our 

understanding of Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstücke, the teaching/learning plays, They 

have been very successful in Europe; a number of our grads write plays, direct 

theater, have their own theaters, do pop music, edit and write for theater 

magazines, chair theater departments, and act. (Alas, no dancers...yet.) 

LYNN DALLY 

Lynn Dally completed her first tap documentary, Gotta Move: Women in Tap. The 

film had its premiere screening here in Glorya Kaufman Hall on April 22, 2010, 

co-sponsored by Dance Camera West, Jazz Tap Ensemble, and the Department. 

The event was also highlighted by presentation of the new book, Tap Dancing 

America, by author Constance Valis Hill, and panel discussion by filmmakers 

John Bishop, Cari Ann Shim Sham, and Dally. Gotta Move: Women in Tap will 

have its NY premiere screening at Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, on 

July 10, 2010, as part of NY Tap City Awards Event. Professor Dally will be 

introduced by Diedre Tower, Executive Director of NY Camera Dance Festival. 

Lynn Dally was awarded the Los Angeles CHIME Fellowship for 2010 in which 

experienced professional choreographers are paired with younger artists for a 

full year of mentorship. Dally will work with bharata natyam dancer/ 

choreographer Mythili Prakash. An informal showing will be scheduled in L.A. 

on Sunday, December 5, 2010, for the three teams of artists chosen in this first 

round. 

Lynn and several members of the Advanced Tap Workshop (WAC 109) 

participated in the creation of an instructional video for Tap Master Classes, a 

new series of videos posted on You Tube featuring mini lessons contributed by 

nearly 40 tap masters from across the country. Dally's 7 minute lesson is titled 

Something About Rhythm Turns. 

Lynn Dally & the Jazz Tap Ensemble have been awarded a $20,000 grant from 

the National Endowment for the Arts beginning July 1, 2010, for the initial 

documentation of the creative legacy of the Jazz Tap Ensemble (1979-2009). 

ROBERT EEN 

In April 2010, Bob Een received a grant from American Music Center, New York 

City, for original evening-length commissioned score for Risa Jaroslow Company. 

He performed a concert of original music at William Bennett Gallery, New York 

City. In May 2010 he performed original evening-length score for Lionel Popkin 

at REDCAT, Los Angeles; three concerts of original music for cello, viola, guitar, 

percussion and 45 voice chorus at Meherana, Mariposa, CA. In June 2010 he 

performed excerpts from his opera, The Escape Artist, for program honoring Judy 

Mitoma, Glorya Kaufman Theater, UCLA; excerpts from his Obie Award winning 

score, Hiroshima Maiden at gala benefit performance for La Mama Experimental 

Theater Company, New York City; excerpts from original score for Lionel Popkin 

at La Mama Moves Festival, New York City; recorded with composer Michael 

Brook for the documentary film Eco Pirates.In September 2010 Bob Een taught 

voice and performance master classes at Zen Center of New York City; 

performing a concert of original music for cello, piano, percussion and 15 voice 

chorus at Zen Center of New York City.In December 2010 the original evening 

length commissioned score for Risa Jaroslow Company will premiere at Danspace 

Project, St Marks in the Bowery, New York City. 

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Graduate Student RE:search & Achievements 

PhD student Cesar Garcia, made national 

news when his latest curation was covered by 

NPR's All Things Considered. Check the link 

here to listen to the show directly which is 

also the link to read the article about 

"Superclogger" that NPR posted on its site. He 

is traveling across South America as part of 

his own research this summer doing exciting 

work and is gaining well-deserved attention. 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/ 

story.phpstoryId=129128690 

PhD candidate Michael Sakamoto 

(MFA 09) and composer/musician Amy 

Knoles were presented this year in a special 

edition of the Vancouver International Dance 

Festival, which was this time officially 

presented as part of the Winter Olympics. 

They performed their signature work, "Sacred 

Cow". 

Cedar Bough Seiji's dissertation 

work /research was recently funded by a 

Fulbright-Hays fellowship for 12 months of 

work, primarily in Seoul, but also in other 

parts of the Korean peninsula. 

DissertationTitle: Negotiating Tradition: 

Transmission and Taxidermization in Korean 

Mask Dance Dramas. Through an 

examination of the performance skill training 

process for three Korean mask dance dramas; 

Songpa Sandae Noli, Bongsan Talchum and 

Goseong Ogwangdae, she hopes to contribute 

to discussions of intangible heritage on three 

fronts: first, the impact of global and 

transnational cultural flows in Korea and on 

traditional culture; second, the ossification of 

traditional arts after preservation programs 

are established; and third, the way memory, 

heritage and authenticity are constructed, 

maintained and negotiated through the arts. 

Deborah Cohen (PhD candidate) 

received an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship 

ACC for her field work on Contemporary art in 

Tibet where she spent a month in Lhasa, Tibet 

and a month in Beijing. 

While in Beijing she was a Red Gate Gallery 

artist/scholar in residence. She also received 

a Dissertation Year Fellowship 2009-2010 

from UCLA Grad Division to help support her 

while she is writing her dissertation while also 

working with the 18th Street Community 

Center who has applied to the ACC to bring a 

contemporary Tibetan artist from Lhasa to Los 

Angeles for a residency at the Community 

Center. She will be the liaison for the artist. 

Lorena Alvarado (PhD 

candidate) received the JEAN STONE 

DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP from 

the Center for the Study of Women (CSW). 

This fellowship was made possible through 

the generosity of Mrs. Jean Stone. She also 

received a 2010-11 Dissertation Year 

Fellowship from the Graduate Division. 

Congratulations to Cedar Bough Saeji 

and Lorenzo Perillo—these two 

graduate students were recently awarded the 

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research 

Abroad award. This award enables awardees 

to commit full-time study in modern foreign 

area and language areas. Lorenzo will be in 

the Phillipines and Cedar Bough will be in 

Korea for eight months conducting their 

respective research. 

Annie Tucker (PhD Candidate) 

was accepted into COTIM's (Consortium on the 

Teaching of Indonesian and Malay) advanced 

summer language study program at Satya 

Wicana university in Salatiga, central Java, 

and have received a Fulbright-Hays Group 

Study grant as well as additional FLAS 

funding to support my participation in this 

program. She also received a Lemelson 

Fellowship for Indonesian Studies, so that she 

may extend her stay in Indonesia after the 

program to begin pilot research for her 

dissertation. 

Wesley Days, who is writing up through 

a Dissertation Year Fellowship, is living in 

Brazil where he has offered a number of 

conflict transformation workshops using 

capoiera as a performance idiom that brings 

adversaries together through balanced 

movement. Kathy Smith, also writing up 

through a DYF, is organizing campus 

fundraising to assist relief from the 

catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, where she 

has conducted her dissertation research. 

Damola Osinulu completed dissertation 

research in Lagos, Nigeria, through a 

prestigious Social Science Research Council 

grant. Damola returns to UCLA this year to 

complete his writing supported by a 

Dissertation Year Fellowship. 

Zipporah Lax Yamamoto was the 

keynote speaker at a workshop on alternative 

public art practices hosted by the City of San 

Diego Commission for Arts and Culture in 

June 2010. Zipporah is a doctoral candidate 

in the Department of World Arts and Cultures 

and is writing a dissertation about the visual 

transformations of memory into history after 

the Bush era tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane 

Katrina. She is also a Senior Public Arts 

Officer with Metro, the Los Angeles County 

Metropolitan Transportation Authority where 

she manages the selection, commission and 

acquisition of permanent and temporary 

artworks for capital projects. Current transit 

corridor projects include the Expo Line that 

will travel from Downtown LA to Santa Monica 

and the Orange Line Extension that will travel 

from Canoga Park to Chatsworth. Both 

projects are currently under construction. 

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WAC Student Achievements 

The following students were invited 

to attend the Chancellor’s 

Distinguished Student Reception this 

past June: Alexis Bruun (BA 10) and 

April Rose Wilson (BA/MA 

candidate) 

Alexis Brunn (BA 10) and Elena 

Salazar (BA 10) were recipients of 

2009-10 Helen S. and Alexander W. 

Astin Civic Engagement Scholars 

award (two of six awarded campuswide). 

The Scholars award provides 

funds to conduct yearlong civic 

engagement research in their field of 

interest. Brunn worked community 

partner The Lamp Art Project looking 

at the benefits of arts programs with 

homeless adults. Salazar worked 

with community partner Alliance for 

Immigrant Rights, developing a 

feasibility study on municipal ID 

program in Los Angeles. 

Stephanie Woods (BA student) 

received an Astin Civic Engagement 

Fellows award. The fellows program 

offers an entry-level experience in 

civic engagement to a select group 

of sophomores who participate in 

two-quarter projects that include 

service and research in an offcampus 

community partner. She 

was one of four awarded in a 

campus-wide selection process). 

Nikki Soohoo (BA student) has a 

featured role in the recent movie 

"The Lovely Bones". 

Congratulations to the 2010-11 recipients of 

Departmental and Dean’s General Scholarships 

Dean’s General Scholarships: 

Undergraduates Lenna Assaf, Tehya 

Baxter, Allison Kochajki, Tamara 

Kohan, Erica Rey, Marissa Shue. 

Graduates Lorena Alvarado, Samuel 

Anderson 

Departmental Scholarships: Graduate students 

Jose Reynoso and Allison Wyper 

Flourish Foundation Scholarships: Undergraduates 

Jennifer McCool and Harry Weston; 

graduate student Sara Stranovsky 

Forti Family Scholarships: Undergraduate Kenji 

Igus; graduate Doran George 

Hand Scholarship: graduate student Cesar 

Garcia. 

Hyatt Scholarship: undergraduate student Netta 

Most 

Jean Irwin Scholarships: Undergraduates 

Kristina Garnett, Monique 

Hernandez. Graduates Feriyal Aslam, 

Lorenzo Perillo. 

Sandra Kaufman Scholarships: Undergraduates 

Matthew Krumpe and Madeline 

Shwarz; graduate student Maria Gillespie 

Carl Patrick Memorial Scholarship: Molly 

Temple 

Program in Dance scholarship: Alissa 

Cardone 

The World Arts and Cultures Undergraduate Society (WACUS) has many exciting projects 

it will embark upon in the upcoming 2010-2011 school year. WACUS exists to serve 

the needs of all undergraduate students of the WAC department in order to create a 

more prosperous and insightful learning experience here at UCLA. 

Some things to look forward to this year include: 

- WAClass: a series of dance classes aimed at offering both teaching experience as 

well as presenting movement styles not typically offered by the department 

- BiteSize: a lecture series designed to explore the research and creative interests of 

WAC undergraduates 

- Open Mic/Marley: a quarterly presentation of artistic works in various mediums 

In addition to these projects, WACUS will continue to fill the halls of Kaufman Hall by 

updating the various display cases with information on upcoming presentations in the 

department and artistic/performance events at UCLA and the greater Los Angeles 

area. For more information please email us at: wac.undergraduate.society@gmail.com 

Students Flannery Gregg (L) and 

April Rose Wilson (R) received the 

Soo Jin Kim Dancing Scholarship 

awarded this year – two $2000 

awards to two graduating seniors 

nominated from the dance 

concentration BA degree program. 

The awarding event took place May 

28, 2010. 

Soo Jin Kim 

Dancing Scholarship 

From R to L: From the right, Kum Ok Park, 

Sue Jung Tark, Moon Hee Chang (Board 

members), and Soo Jin Kim, with award 

recipients Flannery Gregg and April Rose 

Wilson, alongside Chair Angelia Leung, and 

Vincent Cummings from the SOAA 

Development Office. 

http://www.dancingscholarships.blogspot.com 

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Students 

CONGRATULATIONS TO CLASS OF 2010! 

Undergraduate Degrees 2009-2010 

Bachelor of Arts 

PHILLIP ALEXANDER SHINDELL ABRAMS 

BRENDA AGUILERA 

RACHEL ALADDIN 

REBEKAH ALADDIN 

CHRISTOPHER MARIO ALBRECHT 

ALEXIS ANGELA AUSTIN * 

ANTHONY B BARBIR 

ARIANA ALYSE BERLIN 

ANDREA LEANN BUENO * 

STEPHANIE LYNN CASTRO 

DIONNA NICOLE CHAMBERS 

DOROTHY YUN-CHING CHEN 

ANDREA SHANNON CHRISTMAS * 

MAIA ESTELLE D’ANNA 

SHUO DONG * 

KAREN DU 

CATHERINE ANN FERDON 

JOYA JACLIN FRANGIE 

DESIREE LEOLANI GALLARDO 

GREGORY WAYNE GEE 

MEGAN CHRISTINE GIEBER 

ALLISON MARIE GRAY * 

FLANNERY J GREGG * 

TANYA JAIN GUPTA 

CAROLYN SUZANNE HAFLICH 

KAROLYN VERENA HEIMES 

VICTORIA LEE HUGHOT 

NICOLE ASHLEY ISAACS ** 

CHARMAINE LA DONNA JORDAN 

KRISTIN SUZANNE KILLACKY 

KATHARINE JANE NICOLE KINCAID 

ADRIANNA KING 

NICOLAS DAVID KONEFFKLATT 

DENISE ELIZABETH LARSON 

KATE ELIZABETH LEWIS 

LINDSAY ELIZABETH LINDBERG 

GLADYS KA WAI LIU 

SAMANTHA LIVINGSTON 

CLAIRE HELEN LLOYD * 

PEARL APPOLLONIA LOEHNIG 

MARINA OSTHOFF BARROS FRA 

MAGALHAES * 

DANA MAMAN 

MAEVEN PATRICIA MCGOVERN 

JANET YUKI MIZUNO 

AMANDA NOELLE NORTON 

BONDY DEMARIS OWENS 

ANNA MONTGOMERY PATTON 

WESLEY PINKHAM 

ERICA LYNN PLANO 

BIANCA PONCE DE LEON* 

LAURA ANN SANCHEZ 

SETH SCHAEFFER 

JASMIN CORTNEY SCOTT 

SHAMIME SHAW 

YOON JI SONG 

NICOLE S SOOHOO * 

SOPHIA IRIS STOLLER * 

ZANDRAH LYNNE STONEBURNER 

ARIANNA TABOADA * 

REYANNA MARIE VANCE 

LAILYE MAY WEIDMAN * 

DARYN EVE WEIS 

MICHELLE LYNN WILLIAMS 

ALLISON MEI YU 

MANTAS ZVINAKEVICIUS 

Graduate Degrees 2009-2010 

Master of Fine Arts in Dance 

ARIANNE GUNDI HOFFMANN 

ANGELA NICOLE JORDAN 

MICHAEL ANDREW Y. SAKAMOTO 

Master of Arts in Culture and 

Performance 

BALAM NEDIM KENTER 

MARJAN KHOSHBAKHTI VAYGHAN 

Doctor of Philosophy in Culture and 

Performance 

SCOTT MICHAEL EDMONDSON 

TIFFANY ANNE GRAHAM 

CRISTINA ROSA-COLEMAN 

CAROLINA SAN JUAN 

GINA WORTHINGTON 

*Latin Honors Candidate 

** Cum Laude 

WAC Seniors 2010 

MFA graduate Angela Nicole Jordan 

MFA graduate Arianne Hoffmann 

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Acknowledgements 

GIVING TO WAC 

Join in Giving to WAC-- Your gifts, small or large, 

will make a difference in the lives of our students 

and our future in the fields of arts &cultures and 

dance. 

To make a gift, please designate the desired fund on your check made 

payable to UCLA Foundation, and send to: 10920 Wilshire Blvd., 

Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6516. 

For information about on donating online please visit us at: https:// 

giving.ucla.edu/Standard/NetDonate.aspxSiteNum=37 

There are both specific scholarship and general funds that you may 

designate where your contributions should go. The following are 

departmental scholarship funds that you have generously contributed to 

in the past (and into the future!): 

1. Department of WAC Scholarship – general scholarship support for undergraduate or 

graduate students; financial need and merit-based. 

2. Department of WAC Fund – Chair’s discretionary support of departmental programs. 

3. Department of WAC/Friends of Folklore Fund – unrestricted support of programs and 

activities sponsored by Friends of Folklore under the auspices of World Arts and Cultures. 

4. Carl Patrick Memorial Scholarship Fund – general scholarship support for undergraduate 

or graduate students; to honor Carl Patrick’s unflagging devotion to education at UCLA. 

5. Flourish Foundation Scholarship – For exceptional graduate and undergraduate dance 

students, whose work demonstrates a focus on community arts, social justice, and/or 

dance education. 

6. Jean Irwin Scholarship – for talented graduate and undergraduate dance students from 

underrepresented backgrounds, with a concern and awareness of social justice in the 

world. 

7. Medha Yodh Memorial Scholarship - fellowship support for graduate students from nonwestern 

dance backgrounds in the Department of World Arts and Cultures. 

8. Sandra Kaufman Memorial Scholarship – For undergraduate or graduate students with a 

dance emphasis. 

Donors 2009-2010 

Friends – ($10 to $275) 

Dr. Lisa Arbon-Tagge 

Miss Amanda J. Avis 

Ms. Kyla L. Barkin 

Ms. Brianna L. BeverageMrs. 

Margaret K. Brittingham 

Ms. Roxanne Carter-Burnell 

Ms. Ashley R. Carvalho 

Ms. Stephanie Chang 

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Mr. Gary M. Christmas 

Ms. Mary K. Conway 

Ms. Victoria J. Cressman 

Mrs. Paula J. Donahoe 

Mrs. Eugenie Ferrara-Bates 

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Ms. Etsu Garfias 

Ms. Carmen V. Golden 

Dr. Linda S. Goodman 

Dr. Stanley J. Goodman 

Ms. Nina M. Gregory 

Ms. Grace S. Harper 

Mrs. Lisa J. Herlinger-Thompson 

Mrs. Pamela A. Holmberg 

Ms. Tiffany Hsu 

Ms. Sandra Jung 

Mr. Kailash Kailash 

Ms. Angelia Leung 

Mrs. Cynthia Lewis 

Mr. Howard J. Littman 

Ms. Letitia A. Lucca 

Margarita’s Hair Design 

Mr. Stewart W. Margolis 

Mr. Gustavo Mino 

Dr. Sandra C. Minton 

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Mr. Leo A. Schwarz 

Mr. Travis Siems 

Law Offices of K.F. J. Seligman 

Ms. Diane E. Smith 

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Mr. Wilbert A. Tobar 

Tomk Productions, Inc. 

UCLA Club of Orange County 

Ms. Dawna E. Wade 

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Mrs. Marsha J. Weiss 

Ms. Leslie A. White 

Ms. Celia Ume Yniguez 

Patrons – ($300 to $900) 

Anonymous-Original (**ANON**) 

Mr. Andrew C. Gilboy 

Dr. Linda S. Goodman 

Mr. Manuel Pastor, Jr. 

Benefactors– ($999 to $5000) 

Mrs. Lori Buffalow Fonzi 

Mrs. Brenda Freiberg 

Ms. Soo Jin Kim 

Special acknowledgements go 

to our 

Stars – ($10,000 + ) 

Ford Foundation 

Flourish Foundation 

Mr. Ronald G. Lee & Ms. Liren Zhu 

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UCLA World Arts and Cultures IS: 

Departmental Chair 

Angelia Leung 

Vice-Chairs 

Victoria Marks (Undergraduate 

Affairs) 

David Delgado Shorter (Graduate 

Affairs) 

Faculty 

Anurima Banerji 

Donald Cosentino 

Irma Dosamantes-Beaudry 

Susan Leigh Foster 

Dan Froot 

David Gere 

Angelia Leung 

Victoria Marks 

Peter Nabokov 

Janet O’Shea 

Lionel Popkin 

Allen Roberts 

Mary (Polly) Roberts 

David Rousseve 

Aparna Sharma 

David Delgado Shorter 

Christopher Waterman 

Cheng-Chieh Yu 

Emeritus 

Elsie Dunin 

Pia Gilbert 

Michael Owen Jones 

Judy Mitoma 

Colin Quigley 

Marta Savigliano 

Carol Scothorn 

Doris Siegel 

Allegra Fuller Snyder 

Emma Lew Thomas 

Lecturers, Visiting and Adjunct 

Professors 

Jaynie Aydin 

Judy Baca 

Hassan Christopher 

Lynn Dally 

Robert Een 

Simone Forti 

Rennie Harris 

Ginger Holguin 

Kevin Kane 

Michael Kouako 

Adam Meckler 

Patrick Polk 

Viji Prakash 

Joel Smith 

Janna Shadduck-Hernandez 

Willy Soully 

Marielle Taylor 

Jason Tsou 

Hesen Weiren 

Sara Wookey 

Staff 

Arsenio Apillanes, Facilities Manager 

Tony Arias, Video Lab Manager 

Larry Blanco, Student Affairs Officer 

(undergraduate/grad) 

Ginger Holguin, Public Events Manager 

Daniel Millner, Management Services Officer 

Muriel Moorhead, Accounting/Payroll 

Silvily Thomas,Scheduling and Academic 

Personnel 

Lorrie Snyder, Technical Support 

Don Tittle, Sound Resources Technician 

Lilian Wu, Assistant to Chair 

Art⏐⏐Global Health Center Staff 

David Gere, Center Director 

Robert Gordon, Programs & Outreach 

Coordinator 

Ariel Stevenson, Development Coordinator 

Center for Intercultural Performance 

Judy Mitoma, Center Director 

Marcia Argolo, Associate Director 

Anuradha Kishore Ganpati, 

Director of Development and Communications 

Philip Graulty, Program Coordinator 

Photography Credits: 

Rose Eichenbaum www.rosesfoto.com 

Jorge Vismara www.jorgevismara.net 

CedarBough Saeji www.cedarsphotography.com 

Michael Sokamoto www.michaelsokamoto.com 

Sara Wookey www.sarawookey.com 

Reed Hutchinson 

Marcus Kuiland Nazario 

Lillian Wu 

Many thanks to all the students, 

faculty, and staff for their unending 

devotion and leadership that 

create the unique environment of 

inclusive learning and activism so 

unusual in WAC. 

Editors 

Angelia Leung 

Daniel Millner 

Sara Wookey 

Graphic Design 

Elizabeth Terschuur (2009) 

Sara Wookey (2010) 

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