The HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE INTENSIVE offers pre-professional training for the student who is focused on dance. The six-week program is an immersion in dance at the highest possible level. Students take technique classes in Ballet and Modern dance. These may be supplemented with classes in Jazz, Dance Composition, Pointe, Tap, Trapeze and Repertory. In addition to intensive dance technique and elective classes, students will have the opportunity to learn and perform original choreography and repertory by faculty and guest artists. All students have the opportunity to observe and interact with faculty and guest artists whose backgrounds include performing with Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, David Parsons, José Limon, Robert Battle, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Mannheim Ballet, New York Theater Ballet, Twyla Tharp, The Lion King and others.

The Dance Department is led by Linda Kent, who toured internationally for over twenty-one years as a principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Her national television appearances include Ailey's On Being Black, Memories and Visions, Cosby Celebrates Ailey, and five Taylor programs for the PBS Series, Dance In America. Miss Kent has staged works by Taylor, Ailey and David Parsons for dance companies around the world, including Joffrey Ballet, Bat Dor Company of Israel, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, London Contemporary Dance Theater, La Scala Opera Ballet and the Juilliard School. Miss Kent graduated from the Juilliard School and has been on its faculty since 1984. She has also taught at the Taylor School, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the University of Illinois, and Wake Forest University. In 1992, she was the first modern dancer invited to teach at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow.