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Article: Interlochen Center for the Arts. (summer dance program)(special section: Summer Study)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Wherever you may wander throughout the 1,200 wooded acres of Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, music seems to follow you: youthful string quartets practice under the pine trees; choral music swells through an open classroom window; and piano scales issue from a cabin studio. Then follow a path toward the sunlight glinting off the waters of Green Lake to the Hildegard Lewis Dance Building. Here the piano music issuing from its three studios blends with the beat of teachers' counts or the whir of twenty-five pairs of feet slipping through degages.
Although for many years Interlochen (founded in 1928) was known as the National Music Camp, other performing ...