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Guided by an interdisciplinary faculty of artists, dance scholars, and ethnographers, the academic programs in World Arts and Cultures are organized around three fundamental missions:

• The formulation of critical and intercultural insights into the nature of human creativity.
  
• The creation and interdisciplinary study of dance and other body-based modes of performance.
• Mutually beneficial engagement with the diverse cultural and artistic communities of Los Angeles.

The Department of World Arts and Cultures is an interdisciplinary unit, which finds its raison d'être in a set of intellectual and artistic problems rather than an established academic discipline. The programs of teaching, research, and performance in World Arts and Cultures are unified around a shared concern with problems of cultural identity and difference; the meaning of tradition in contemporary societies; the forging of connections between critical theory and artistic practice; and the changing social roles and responsibilities of artists and scholars of the arts, both in the United States and world-wide.

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