A 6-Week Festival of Dance Exercises the Mind as Well as the Body

"There's a strange energy out there right now, and it's intense -- kind of halfway between fatigue and euphoria," says Donna Faye Burchfield.

Halfway between fatigue and euphoria puts her 10 dance students from Hollins University in week five of the six weeks this summer that they are spending at the American Dance Festival here at Duke University.

The festival is an unusual hybrid -- dance school, performance venue, mecca for dancers, choreographers, and audiences -- that The

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