Hundreds of arriving American Dance Festival students filled Duke's Epworth Residence Hall Thursday to register for classes on the festival's first day. Rebecca Burcher (left), a staff assistant for the Memory for Movement Project, discusses the project, which studies how dancers remember their moves, with ADF student Jessica Alexander.
ADF performances also began Thursday with Shen Wei Dance Arts. The festival continues through July 27.
Photo by Jonathan Alexander, a 2013 N.C. Central graduate who is working this summer with Duke's Office of News and Communications.