SCA faculty is internationally recognized as a leader in research. Most of the SCA faculty members are working artists or artist-scholars. The majority of the faculty are artists, including choreographers and composers as well as filmmakers, lighting designers, visual artists, as well as directors, actors, and dramaturges. The focus of scholarly research is on art history and visual culture, cinema theory, and media. School for the Contemporary Arts is a unique interdisciplinary and intercultural dance program that is designed for today's creative dance artists. Students who are interested in exploring creative and multiple approaches to contemporary composition and movement, as well as expanding their flexibility with the task of reshaping contemporary dance's landscape. The program welcomes those coming from a 'classical', 'modern', or 'contemporary studio education, and those with movement styles that are outside of these codified forms. The studio courses are theoretical training courses that use a wide range of techniques and methods. They also integrate into the courses in composition, improvisation, and collaboration. Our lecture courses follow the same principle: they not only provide historical and aesthetic contexts for critical thinking based on our concept of practice-as-research, but they also allow our students freedom to question those contexts with information from their own socio-cultural backgrounds and experiences. Our program is based on collaboration, so we encourage students to collaborate with other SCA disciplines, including Film, Music & Sound (including Theatre Performance), Theatre Production & Design (including Visual Art), and Art, Performance & Cinema Studies to create new and exciting projects.