Content Tagged with: Department of Dance

UC Riverside has completed construction of its newest instructional building and is gearing up to open it for classes this fall. Contractor McCarthy Building Companies, which began construction in fall 2024, finished work on the Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Facility in late July. The company and UCR’s Office of Planning, Design and...

Erika Villeroy da Costa, a graduate student in critical dance studies at UC Riverside, has been awarded a 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Da Costa will use the $52,000 grant to support her research on first-generation members of the Afro-Brazilian dance troupe Balé Folclórico Mercedes Baptista.

The grant will allow space to identify inequity in British South Asian dance.

Anthea Kraut researches the role of dance-ins during Hollywood’s Golden Age

Rosalia Lerner, critical dance studies doctoral student, received the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award.

Whitson’s work often explores the African diaspora, spirituality, and gender.

Armando García and María Regina Firmino-Castillo are both recipients of 12-month fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

A quarter-long Department of Dance course includes research presentations, demonstrations, and free workshops that are open to the campus community.