Attend UCLA to "plug into" LA Dance Scene?

ucsb82
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:47:47 +0000

@ Twoin18 - thanks for the insight

Yes, checking the UCLA catalog, 12 units is the minimum. After reading the UCLA dance department, the Dance major seems a bit unfocused (following the merger with another program etc.).

My current UCLA thinking for DD would be to try and get her into pre-psychology, or cognitive science, with the goal of three years to her degree. During her “free time” she could go off and dance somewhere (on campus, or off).

Since the DD world transfer ~ 90 quarter units, I think she could get the three year Psych program down to around three classes a quarter

http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/degreepath/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Degree-Map-Psych-181.pdf

Yes, dance wise, it looks like UCI has the best UC BFA program, and DD’s GE transfer credits would make life easier at UCI, but like most BFA programs it will take four years any way you slice it (Tisch is the odd man out). UCI’s on campus BFA audition is the day after UCLA’s dance audition (1/31), so, DD should be able to do both on the same trip (from FL).

The odds of getting into USC’s BFA program are slim, UCSB is a great experience (been there) but I doubt DD will go for it (even if accepted). I could see her telling her dance posse that she decided to go to UCLA pursuing an academic major with the hope of making it in show business (insert something a dancer would say).

DD did a summer intensive in LA (I think with one of the instructors that is now associated with USC), maybe there’s a nice studio (think BDC) somewhere local (I’d guess in the valley, somewhere).

DD had an audition at Pace over the weekend (her first), of many I expect.