Conferences

Inroads/Asia
An International Conference on the Performing Arts of Asia

"After my return to India, I had an opportunity to share my workshop experience with six hundred college students and professors. Everyone listened eagerly about UCLA's environment of learning, about the people and their interest in the arts and their lifestyle. At least this must have opened a few people's eyes."
Keremane Shivanand Hegde August, 1997

An international performance-centered conference for artists, arts presenters, policy makers, educators, scholars, administrators and critics from Asia and America, Inroads/Asia provided leaders in the field with the cultural and aesthetic, as well as intellectual, information that would better enable them to support artistic work from Asia.

Through workshops, master classes, plenary sessions, video screenings and the presentation of the four projects presented by artists in the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Program as works-in-progress, the Conference provided an appropriate culmination to the creative and collaborative to exchange experienced by the APPEX artists in the preceding weeks.

Over 300 attendees participated in this second of a series of three Inroads Conferences in conjunction with the Ford Foundation and Arts International/IIE, (Inroads/Africa, 1996 with 651 Majestic; Inroads/Asia, 1997 at UCLA; and, Inroads/Americas, 1998 with Miami-Dade Community College).

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Conference on Dance, Media and Documentation, Fall, 2000

The first conference designed to articulate a broad vision and enhanced standards for dance documentation/preservation will be held at UCLA in the fall of 2000. Leading artists, historians, archivists, educators, videographers, and multimedia producers from around the world will present outstanding examples of documentation strategies, ranging from experimental work in new information and media technologies, to the more traditional archival approaches. The diverse needs of individuals such as the choreographer, the small and large company manager, the educator, and the media producer will be addressed. A festival of dance film and video will be held.