<p>I don’t know much about the ballet portion of UB’s dance program, but I believe the jazz and tap to be very strong. My d who is currently in a bfa musical theatre program took jazz and tap from Tom Ralabate when she was in high school. He taught at both UB and his sister’s local studio (where my d took classes with more advanced local students and adults and college students). We also saw a few of UB’s dance concerts and they were very good also. Although an MT major at her school, my D does very well in dance major classes at college partially as a result of taking classes from Tom Ralabate while in HS. He’s very good as I assume the other dance profs are also. I assume he is still teaching there.</p>