This program provided a home for young dancers, elevated Hip Hop and street dance within one of the world’s leading universities, and helped shape generations of artists, educators, and community leaders.
To every student, counselor, teaching artist, faculty member, volunteer, parent, and supporter—thank you!
A special thank you to our longtime partners: • UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance Department • UCLA Summer Sessions
We’re also deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to our scholarship fund over the years. Many of our students would not have been able to attend without your generosity. Your support opened doors and created opportunities that had a lasting impact.
If you participated at UCLA Intensive, comment your year and share one of your favorite memories! 💙💛
20 days agolpdavidlee
#2009 - Such a life changing experience and a beautifully designed program for aspiring artists. It opened the doors for so many of us ✨ nothing but love you you guys and all of the counselors and fellow students! 🤍
22 days agogabrielmcortez
What a beautiful rite of passage not just for your students, but your counselors, teachers, and directors. I am grateful I got to grow alongside you. Love from a year 1 alum 🌊
22 days agoleanne.i.poirier
The program that impacted so many lives including mine! Honored to have been a participant then counselor, assistant director and co-director of such an incredible experience ❤️
22 days agochatati
💜2011💜 - UGH I have soooo many. Bottom line, this program is top tier. All my love!!! #1 When Coach @missfunk79 said she'd whack me with her cane if I didn't dance 200% because she knew I had it in me. #2 When @fullout89 held my shoulders from crying-shaking so I could play the finale on the piano. #3 When @gbaridenzel said "Ya, I've been dancing for a while" & then blew us out of the water with the most incredible freestyle to a Nicki Minaj track.
23 days agodanyelmoulton
this program really opened me up to future i had no idea i was preparing for. seeing the people from my year go on to do such amazing things both in & out of the dance world still makes me so happy. will hold these memories for the rest of my life ♾️♥️
24 days agosway.jjs
UCLA Summer Intensive 2023! Made so many amazing memories and friends I can call family. And i’m so grateful for the opportunity to learn from such incredible people! Blessed to have experienced this 🙏🏽
24 days agochristine.reg
2014 cohort 💙💛 the intensive will always be a core memory during my formative hs and dance years 🫶🏾
25 days agoiamrianadams
2023!!! made some amazing friends and learned so much from the incredible teachers 🙏🙏 so grateful for this opportunity, it will be sooooo missed 🥹
25 days agofullout89
I love seeing this post and all these comments! From being head counselor, to teacher, to Director, and back to teacher, I am honored to have been a part of it!!!
a month agosarah_luds
2016!! Still find myself inspired by so many of the people I got to share this experience with :)
a month agoyorgelysbelen
2015! Met amazing people and made so many memories! Thank you for such a beautiful experience! ❤️
a month agojaegtv
Wow, 2024 - Thank you for teaching me to believe in myself and giving me a space where I and so many others could find pieces of who we were through hip hop. Forever cherishing the memories and energy we exchanged on that dance floor 🥲
a month ago__sigaaa
I did the program in 2016 and came back in 2018 to fulfill my dream job 😍 this program made me want to be a dancer! 🥹
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