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Curriculum
Fine Arts
DANCE
(one year)
Dance introduces the basic
technical and interpretive skill
of
various dance forms including
but not limited to ballet, jazz,
tap,
hip-hop, Pilates, and lyrical
jazz. Students will increase
their
coordination, concentration,
flexibility, strength, postural
alignment, self-discipline,
musicality, and appreciation for
dance
as a live art form. Safe use of
the body is emphasized in order
to
prevent injuries and assure a
life-long ability to enjoy
dance.
Basic dance vocabulary and
history are also taught.
Students are
required to perform at scheduled
concerts. Additionally, they
will have the opportunity to
audition their own choreography
to be
presented in the concert.
A repeatable elective course for
Upper School students.
This course may be taken for
Fine Arts or Physical Education
credit.
ADVANCED DANCE
(one semester)
Dance builds upon the technical
and artistic foundations
developed
in Dance. Critical thinking is
emphasized by analyzing and
integrating increasingly
complicated movement
combinations
into the students’ dance
vocabulary. Students are
required to
perform at scheduled concerts as
well as compose written
critiques of those performances.
Prerequisite: Dance or
instructor approval.
A repeatable elective course for
Upper School students.
This course may be taken for
Fine Arts or Physical Education
credit.
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