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4 reasons to enroll in America’s premier high school of dance and significantly improve your skills.
Young artists interested in pursuing a dance career or learning from premier performance instructors find life-changing opportunities at Interlochen Arts Academy. For decades, students have attended Interlochen’s summer arts camps and world-class boarding school, recognized as the leading educational institution for rising young artists. The dance training at Interlochen’s high school is the best available, the facilities and campus setting are gorgeous, and the academic curriculum is challenging. Interlochen’s track record as a nationally known high school of dance stems from the school’s consistency in offering aspiring dancers an exceptional learning experience. Here are four reasons to consider attending Interlochen Arts Academy as a dance major.
Reason #1: You’ll receive the best available pre-professional dance instruction.
At Interlochen Arts Academy, you have the opportunity to enroll as a dance major, learn under expert faculty-mentors, and develop your confidence as a skilled performer. Interlochen’s high school of dance will help you learn technique and refine your form through group classes, individualized lessons, focused rehearsals, and regular performance opportunities.
Each student is coached in exploring a diverse dance repertoire, and dance instructors work to encourage your personal artistic interpretation while exposing you to traditional and contemporary dance styles.
Reason #2: You’ll enjoy multiple performance opportunities every year.
Arts Academy dance students perform multiple times every year, presenting two full-length ballets accompanied by live orchestras. Students practice in class daily and participate in extensive rehearsals for seasonal dance shows, studio events, and multi-disciplinary concerts. Dance majors also learn contemporary dance in addition to in-depth ballet studies.
Reason #3: You’ll grow stronger as a person and be ready for the future.
Your classroom learning, practice sessions, and performance opportunities as a student at Interlochen’s high school of dance are all designed to prepare you for a lifetime of beautiful artistry that benefits you personally and the communities around you. With these goals in mind, faculty-mentors at Arts Academy create learning opportunities for you that challenge you physically, stretch you mentally, and inspire you emotionally to be a better, stronger person.
Reason #4: You’ll benefit from the instruction and the collaboration.
Educators at Interlochen provide individualized instruction that match your interests, skill level, and experience. Your abilities as a dancer will develop through classes and rehearsals with Interlochen’s world-class instructors. They are dedicated to their craft as dancers themselves. With careers in education and the performing arts, they understand the dance industry and can successfully prepare you for life inside and outside of the arts.
You will also grow at Interlochen through the influence of friends and fellow dancers as you learn and perform together in dance productions and on tours. Collaboration and camaraderie make the Arts Academy experience unforgettable.
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Young classical and contemporary dancers find Interlochen Arts Academy the perfect place to study pre-professional dance while completing college-prep academics. Join us to discover your potential as a dancer and experience the difference of an Interlochen dance school education.
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