It’s hard to believe that until recently, the University of Southern California did not have a dance program. In fact, it wasn’t until Beverly Hills resident Glorya Kaufman learned of the university’s deficiency at a dinner in 2012 that a solution began to germinate. Three years later, in fall 2015, the prestigious Southern California university opened its first new school in almost four decades, the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (USC Kaufman).