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A Bruin guide to some of this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

Snyder’s research areas included performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy and film as a method of preserving and documenting dance.

The graduating dancer and choreographer will speak at UCLA Arts’ virtual commencement on June 12.

The distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance will deliver the 129th Faculty Research Lecture.

Rawls, a 2020–2021 UC Regents professor, will explore themes that inform his research into stop-motion filmmaking.

Classrooms created artwork that was presented during the ‘10 Questions’ program.

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance moves to an online stage, focusing on rebuilding financial stability for artists.

The Artist Residency Program has provided dozens of Los Angeles and national artists time and space for the development of new work.

Featured among the 200-plus events: Paul McCarthy, Ibram X. Kendi, Jane Fonda and Marike Splint.

Through UCLA’s Dancing Disability Lab, choreographer Victoria Marks brings international artists to campus to study and help shape the future of disability in dance.

Featured among the 200-plus events: Lari Pittman, Lucinda Childs, Wendy Whelan and Ain Gordon.

The weeklong course was part of UCLA’s Disability Inclusion Lab, an initiative designed to reframe cultural understanding and practices around the concept of disability.

Beginning at 4 p.m., the free event will discuss how a new generation of dancers are performing consumerist modernity in India.

UCLA’s club scene is eclectic and manifold. Here are three favorites.

Meredith Monk, Allen Ruppersberg, Batsheva and Lars Müller are among those featured among the 150-plus events, which include exhibitions, lectures, screenings and performances.

A $2 million gift left by the late actor will support students in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Featured among the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s 100-plus events: Kyle Abraham, Angélique Kidjo, Kenya HARA and Brett Steele.

UCLA’s North Campus is home to a number of works by renowned sculptor Robert Graham.

A diverse array of artists, dancers, writers and musicians from around the world will showcase their talents on campus and new this year also in downtown Los Angeles.

The more than 100 public events include exhibitions at campus museums and galleries; lectures by artists, alumni and faculty; and performances by students and professionals.

The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance celebrates UCLA’s vivid history of the academic and performative dance discipline at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 21 in Kaufman Hall.

In her fifth season as the leader of UCLA’s public performing arts presenter, Edmunds continues to find innovative ways to champion this most ephemeral of art forms.

Site-inspired performances reframe modern dance icon Trisha Brown’s exploration of sculpture, architecture and spatial design.

Brett Steele, the director of London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, one of the world’s oldest and most influential schools of architecture, has been appointed dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Learn to hulu and see Hawaiian dance group Hālau Hula O Na Mele ‘Āina O Hawai’i, led by native-Hawaiian choreographer Luana Haraguchi. Free.