World Arts and Cultures / Dance

Kona born and Los Angeles raised, Gina Basile (she/her) is a senior Dance major and Education minor. Her work addresses awkwardness, loneliness, and how to care for her young self.

Carmen Casillas is an artist who aims to inspire, empower, and heal through movement, aspiring to become a dance educator or therapist after earning a Bachelor's Degree at UCLA.

Cheyenne's work explores performance through the lens of Black and Brown spirituality and cultivates the conception of movement as ritual practice.

As a dancer and mixed media/medium artist, Sophie Fouladi hopes to use her interdisciplinary approach to help others find solace in art and create works that reflect our humanity.

Amane Hirano was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She began dancing at the age of ten in street styles. Dancing/Moving is one of languages for her to communicate with others.

Sophia, a Chinese dancer, globally embraces ballet and modern/contemporary dance. Inspired by music, literature, and film, she relentlessly explores the boundless power of art.

Marimar, born and raised in Mexico, is a Dance Major with a Minor in Film. She uses a humanistic approach to interdisciplinary art where dance is the glue to storytelling.

Belén Moreno (she/her) is a 1st generation double major in Dance and Sociology. Her
passion for social justice work fuels her devotional journey with critical dance-making.

- Graduating from Dance with an emphasis in Modern and Improvisational Dance
- UCLA Spirit Squad Dance Team 2021-2023
- Applying to PA school following graduation

Alejandra Rodriguez raised in Tijuana Baja California, Mexico, is now graduating with two majors in Political Science, Dance, and a minor in Education. Gracias mamá y papá por todo.

I am proud to be graduating cum laude from UCLA as a dance major and entrepreneurship minor. I'm beyond grateful for WAC/D and will forever cherish my time on the UCLA Dance Team.

Jessica Warshal is a dancer/choreographer/creative director who debuted six dance works at UCLA. She will pursue a Master's degree in Dance Performance at The Place London '24.

May Yates (she/her) is a dance and psychology double major interested in work that disrupts dance performance through absurdity and the juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy.

My life’s work revolves around understanding embodied experiences, curious about our interconnected nature and unique perceptions of this world we all call home.

I love making and studying art. I am appreciative of the numerous ways art has inspired people to think and do, becoming a catalyst for change.

Art is a universal language, one that simultaneously can celebrate diversity, yet remind people of the fact that at the end of the day we are all human beings.

I am incredibly thankful for the professors and faculty at UCLA for helping me realize my creative potential. Studying pre-med&art has been a blessing and I am forever grateful!

I am a mixed-media artist who specializes in sewing, drawing, and creative writing. I strive to make the arts more accessible to people of all social backgrounds and skill levels.

My name is Elise Ramos. Next year I will be pursuing my M.A in elementary teaching and education at Pepperdine University.

Tom is an AV artist and performer. He has just presented the first iteration of WORKSHOP, an ever-evolving trash installation, at WACD Senior Projects/Connective Tissue.

brianna spiker ruiz is
trying to do all she can with words
trying to work with tools
and then with the body*

*eat rice have faith in women by Fran Winant

Madi Tanguay (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and creator. With movement as her mother tongue, she explores ways of being with each other and the world through the body.

Cristina Williams is a multi-media artist. She hopes to continue exploring art through tattooing, therapy, and education.

Chang Zhou (she/her) is a multimedia visual artist from Huntington Beach, California. Her practice is rooted in painting influenced by her parents’ garden and her cat, Jupiter.

I am a queer interdisciplinary artist using theater, performance art, and movement to interrogate issues surrounding sexuality, gender expression, and power dynamics.

I think we're here to be happy and help others do the same. I'm happiest learning dance, so I wish dancers to be the happiest. Here's to the hardest working artists I'll ever know!

As an artist, researcher, and educator, I believe that we practice the world into being. I am committed to developing ways to use "critical moving" to expand critical thinking.

Clementine (Sicangu Oglala Lakota) is a community-based researcher that focuses on Lakota ontology, Indigenous feminisms, Relationality, and visual and material culture.