About Us

Mission Statement

• CIP will support the creation, critical analysis, production and documentation of the performing arts in order to generate new ways of understanding and stimulating diverse artistic and cultural practices in the U.S. and abroad.
• CIP will serve as a resource for artists, scholars and educators who want to develop community based, grassroots strategies for thinking about and working with cultural difference, convergence and fragmentation.
• Through the Center, individuals will participate in and stimulate larger national and international debates regarding the relationship of the arts to intercultural processes and transnational pressures.
• As an integral aspect of the Department of World Arts and Cultures, the Center will investigate and generate new modes for arts education.

The Center sponsors

• workshops
• conferences
• public events

in which we consider how the arts can be more effective within the dynamic social conditions of today’s world.

CIP has launched two major initiatives

• The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange(APPEX) and
• The UCLA National Dance/Media Project