The Wayne State University Department of Dance and the Michigan Opera Theatre will collaborate with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) for its annual four-week dance residency program July 6-31 in Detroit.

Directors for the summer intensive program are Eva Powers, chair of the Wayne State's dance department, and Bradley L. Stroud, director of dance at the Michigan Opera Theatre.

More than 150 young dancers from across North America will attend. Auditions were held in January and February in 16 cities across the country; 30 participants were chosen from metropolitan Detroit.

The young dancers will work with professionals in a series of classes, workshops, lectures and rehearsals. Four levels of classes will be held in Wayne State's dance studios in the renovated Old Main Building and one level in the Detroit Opera House.

Local dance instructors Rose Marie Floyd, Powers, Betty Mawhinney and Samantha Shelton will teach the sessions with ABT dance staff Alaine Haubert, Cornelius Carter, Roger Van Fleteren, Michael Owen and Christine Walton.

The program will close with two public performances at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, July 31, at the Detroit Opera House.

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the American Ballet Theatre studios in New York City also will host a summer intensive program.

For more information call the dance department at (313) 577-4273.