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Dance Intensives Audition Requirements

Classical Ballet Intensive

Prerequisites

Students should have had six years of ballet training with at least three years en pointe.

Audition Requirements

  • Image file: A photograph taken in the first arabesque.
  • Video file: Center floor exercises (no barre)
    • Grand Adagio – including développés in each position, promenades, and pirouettes.
    • Petit Allegro – including jêtés and assemblés.
    • Grand Allegro – including grand jêtés, grand jêtés entrelacé, and tour en l'air for men.

Contemporary Dance Intensive

Prerequisites

Students must have had four years of consistent modern-ballet training.

Audition Requirements

  • Image file: A photograph taken in full body pose.
  • Video file: A three-minute contemporary dance warm-up or solo that includes basic dance vocabulary; the video should give a sense of the applicant's placement, line, body awareness, flexibility, and control.

Hip-Hop Intensive

Prerequisites

This program is designed for all levels of experience from beginner to advanced! Students should have a good attitude and a willingness to learn!

Audition Requirements

No audition is required for this program.

 

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Regional Dance Auditions

Audition in person for Interlochen Arts Academy and Arts Camp dance programs. Students in grades 6-12 are invited to audition at one of our upcoming events in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. You will have the opportunity to audition for the dance program of your choice, meet staff and faculty from the Dance Division, and answer questions you may have. 

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