How diverse is the dance community at UCLA? I understand there are really competitive hip hop teams such as ACA who compete at VIBE, but what other teams are also based at UCLA? Especially competitive teams. Also how many resources do they have in dance styles such as jazz and contemporary lyrical?
Not too familiar but I do know there are a bunch of teams and they all practice quite a bit.
My sophomore daughter dances with contemporary dance group run by students called Icarus. You can see videos on youtube and facebook. There is actually not very much jazz/contemporary at UCLA. Icarus has some dance majors and some ex-professional dancers. They do not compete but perform a showcase every year, my daughter loves the group and school. UCLA dance department has a cultural/anthropologic emphasis. The official dance team for UCLA looks very busy performing at football/basketball games, but (I’m not sure of this) does not seem to compete in these intense dance competitions that you see Big10 schools competing in (insanely athletic and skillful).
Nobody has facilities for practice, they fight over parking lot spaces. Very sad. Overall seems rather weak compared to other schools, as I have had to keep my eyes open as I have another daughter looking at schools now, also wants high quality experience but not dance major.
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