My Experience on a Dance Team at UCLA

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCLA chapter. Over the past two quarters, I’ve had the opportunity of being on a dance team here at UCLA. You’ve probably seen us dancing away in the parking lots late into the night, blasting music super loudly out of speakers as you try to peacefully walk to class past Pauley. But the dance community at this school– specifically the open-style dance community– is a wonderful, vibrant, welcoming space, and I wanted to share a little bit about my experience after a year on the team! The team I’m on here is called ACA All Day, an open-style dance team. Open-style dance is like an amalgamation of a bunch of different dance genres like hip hop, popping, breaking, lyrical, contemporary, and more. It emphasizes learning and performing choreography rather than training. There are multiple different teams here at UCLA that focus on open-style choreography like VSU Modern, NSU Modern, Samahang Modern, Foundations, and ACA All Day.  I tried out for my team, ACA All Day, at the beginning of winter quarter. They hold auditions in the beginning of the school year and at the time I tried...