Summer Residential Governor's School for Visual & Performing Arts - Dance

Three-week residential state program on the Radford University campus for rising junior and senior Virginia high school students, admitted into ONE arts discipline. Dance is a standalone adjudicated discipline alongside Visual Arts, Music and Theatre, with its own audition requirements (a self-choreographed 1-1.5 minute solo in any genre, plus a contemporary/modern combination with floorwork, inversions, balances, turns and leaps, plus ballet centre with adagio, pirouettes, petite allegro and grand allegro). Students live in residence halls with 24-hour staff supervision; the program is described as focused on process rather than finished works. Director Jennifer McDonel Rivers, rugovschool@radford.edu.