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Dance Professor Kelli Sharp Collaborates with Undergraduate Students in an Innovative UCI Research Program

October 14

Meet the team working on a groundbreaking study on dance students’ wellbeing during the unprecedented time of COVID-19, and the scholarship program that made the study possible.
Leading the Arts Through a Pandemic: Dance with Chair Molly Lynch

October 1

Dean Barker speaks with the Department of Dance Chair Molly Lynch about adjusting to remote learning; the Student Resource Campaign; forthcoming New Slate Online performances in December; and welcoming the two new Assistant Professors in hip hop.
New Slate Online

December 10 - December 12 Online

For the first time, the New Slate dance concert can be watched all over the world! Multiple choreographers in the UCI Dance Department graduate program stream live and virtual dances. Fantastic, illuminating and thought-provoking, this online concert ...
Claire Trevor School of the Arts Virtual Tour

October 21

Visit the arts campus in the virtual world.

Claire Trevor School of the Arts Virtual Tour

With the current restriction of COVID-19, our campus is closed to the public. If you are looking to get a closer view inside the school, take our new virtual tour! You may also learn more through our Student Affairs pages on the main menu..

Faculty, Student

Dance Professor Kelli Sharp Collaborates with Undergraduate Students in an Innovative UCI Research Program

By Richard Chang At most universities, undergraduates don’t typically get opportunities to do serious research with their professors, let alone get published alongside them in professional journals. But through UC Irvine’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), undergrads are...

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The latest volume of Dance Major Journal is now available

Dance Major Journal 2020 is out! The 2020 Edition of Dance Major Journal “Dancing Still Goes On,” is now online, with timely writing by dance majors and graduate choreographers. Donald McKayle with his last Etude Ensemble, author Sadie Sandoval at right. McKayle’s influence goes on, with the...

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Artist for the Future

Gabby Miller, M.F.A. ’20, crosses disciplines to explore the possibility of a future that is not predetermined.