The advanced modern dance intensive is ideal for the preprofessional student of modern dance. It provides an opportunity to work with experienced instructors from the professional dance community in an inspiring and challenging atmosphere. Students will expand their modern technique and garner practical knowledge to fulfill their learning goals.
To ensure individual attention and growth, class sizes will be limited.
The curriculum integrates contemporary skills, ballet technique, repertory, choreography and body conditioning.
Dance-related topics such as health, audition preparation and résumé composition will be addressed.
Prerequisites
Students must have had four years of consistent modern-ballet training.
How to Apply
- Prepare the audition materials listed below.
- Complete the online application.
- Submit your audition materials online.
Required Materials
Image file: A photograph taken in full body pose
PDF file: A list of training experiences. Please include subject (modern, ballet, jazz, composition, other), dates, names and locations of schools and names of teachers. A video audition, if not attending a live regional audition.
Center floor exercises (no barre):
Video file #1: A three-minute modern dance warm-up that includes basic vocabulary; the warm-up should give a sense of the applicant's placement, line, body awareness, flexibility and control.
Video file #2: Performance of one solo piece no longer than two minutes. The choreography for the solo may be the applicant's or another person's creative work and should include dynamic range, ability to move in space, change levels and use of the floor. Please identify the choreographer and piece.
Video file #3: Performance of one solo piece no longer than two minutes. The choreography for the solo may be the applicant's or another person's creative work and should include dynamic range, ability to move in space, change levels and use of the floor. Please identify the choreographer and piece.
Additional Opportunities
Students may also apply to attend our three-week intermediate or high school modern dance summer programs.
Interlochen is also home to the Arts Academy boarding high school, which offers a dance major for grades 9-12, as well as a post-graduate year.
Faculty
Kim Neal Nofsinger
Instructor of Dance, Interlochen Arts Camp
Artistic Director and Founder, Shelter Repertory Dance Theatre
Sara Semonis
Instructor of Dance, Interlochen Arts Camp
Head of Dance, Illinois State Univeristy
