UCLA Puts International Focus on 1994-95 Season : Performing arts: Two of the 12 packages will be devoted entirely to world music and dance.

The UCLA Center for the Performing Arts’ 1994-95 season--featuring 12 series of dance, music and theater--will showcase performances by artists from around the globe, including Egypt, Turkey, Australia, Finland, Brazil and the South Pacific.

Two series will be devoted entirely to world music and dance, including the Turkish Whirling Dervishes, recently featured in the film “Baraka” and appearing in the United States for the first time in a decade, on Nov. 19 at the Wadsworth Theater. That series will also offer the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, a group of Mario Bauza’s original Latin jazz musicians, on Jan. 28 at the Wadsworth; the Drummers of Burundi on March 31; and an Australian Aboriginal troupe, the Dancers of the Dreaming, on May 3, at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center.

Included in another world music and dance series will be Uakti, a progressive Brazilian quartet of classical musicians making their first appearance in Los Angeles on Nov. 12 at the Wadsworth; the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the 1992 Grammy Award winners for best gospel album, performing their blend of gospel and rhythm and blues Feb. 4 at the Wadsworth; the Tahitian Choir, making its L.A. debut March 18 at the Wadsworth; and a group of Egyptian dancers and singers in the Festival of the Nile April 7 at the Wadsworth.

The UCLA season also presents the West Coast premieres of “Wind,” a movement/theater piece by Japanese performance artists Eiko & Koma, co-commissioned by UCLA and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Jan. 13 at Schoenberg Hall; and Anna Deavere Smith’s “Hymn,” a tribute to Alvin Ailey, performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Feb. 17-26 at the Wiltern Theatre.

This season’s family series will feature the children’s theater company, the Night Kitchen, performing Maurice Sendak’s “Really Rosie,” with music by Carole King, Feb. 10-12 at the Freud Playhouse; and “Journey to Cordoba,” a musical set in modern-day L.A. and performed by the Los Angeles Music Center Opera March 4 at the Wadsworth.

Other highlights of the season include: the Southern California premiere of O Vertigo Danse, Ginette Laurin’s Canadian dance company, presenting “The White Room” Nov. 4-5 at the Wadsworth; Anonymous 4, an all-female a cappella group performing medieval chant and polyphony Feb. 5 at the Westwood United Methodist Church; Della Reese singing the blues Feb. 17 at the Wadsworth; and violinist Itzhak Perlman March 4 at the Wadsworth.

The season begins with the previously announced “Stomp!,” the international stage hit from Britain, on Sept. 30 at the Wadsworth.

Some season events will include a CenterStage pre-performance discussion with UCLA faculty members, artists and critics one hour before show time.

Jazz at the Wadsworth, the free concert series sponsored by the UCLA Student Committee, will continue the first Sunday of each month at 7 p.m.

* Series subscription tickets go on sale July 10. For ticket information and a complete listing of the season’s offerings, call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101.