Performing Arts Programs

The KSU Academy of Performing Arts features four pathway programs. 



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Dance

The art of dance uses movement to communicate meaning about the human experience.  While it can be used for exercise or entertainment, dance is also a powerful medium to express one’s values, thoughts, and aspirations about our lives and our world.  This pathway focuses on movement, choreography, and careers in the movement arts.  


Instrumental Music

Do you love playing a musical instrument?  Students in this pathway will take courses that broaden their understaning of music by focusing on the musical ensemble and composition.  Students will explore possible careers that include music education, recording and technology, music therapy, church performance, private music contracting, and composition. 

Theatre

Students in the theatre pathway explore and practice the craft of acting performance in a safe and supportive environment. A physical style of acting is emphasized as students work on character and scene study as well as improvisation and acting styles. This pathway provides students numerous opportunities to appear on stage and to contribute to the creative process via a backstage, design, or technical role. Our students are not just actors but also designers and technicians; students learn with their hands as well as their brain while serving as a stage manager, designing and building costumes and props, or working to help create sound, light, and scenic designs for our productions. 

Visual Art

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Vocal Music

Is singing in a solo or choir area your passion?  Do you enjoy advanced level choir music?  Consider a pathway in vocal performing arts.  This pathway focuses on vocal performance in a solo and choral setting, music theory and music history knowledge, composition skills, and musical theater.  Potential careers include recording artist, solo performer/entertainer, arts business/management, music teacher, music therapist, sound recording engineer and many more.