Spotlight on the Performing Arts
By: Danielle Hu and Nia McKinley
By: Danielle Hu and Nia McKinley
All of the Performing Arts Encores!
Dance students are currently focusing on different skills and techniques.
Eight-grade majors are starting their hip-hop units and learning different foundational skills. They have also began to create their own dances with different choreography and movements. These will be performed at the upcoming concerts.
Modern Music/Music Appreciation students are developing their skills taking on a specialized instrument, further advancing their learning in music theory and specialization, instead of learning through a fixed plan, emphasizing creativity.
Students are now preparing their Carowinds pieces, working to improve their musical technique, and learning new songs. New pieces from different styles of music and tempos are being discovered and selected to be played for a potential Spring concert.
Eight-grade students have been practicing a jazz chaconne and incorporating their own elements into it. Soon, they will create their own jazz solos inspired by a variety of elements in the jazz chaconne.
Chorus students are currently preparing for their concert and rehearsing their performances along with sight reading different notes and passages of music. They are also working on a few different projects.
Band students are currently working on playing duets and trios with their classmates, and music for Carowinds and MPA (Music Performing Arts). One song they are currently practicing is "Too Beautiful for Words".
Both art majors and minors have concluded working on two-point perspectives and incorporating them in scenery. They also did a brief mannequin study. Currently, they are learning how to match colors from different paintings. By using this technique, they are able to recreate famous art pieces.
Theatre majors are currently working on "A Snow Day" class play and their musical theatre pieces. They have also learned about communication in an ensemble. By doing so, they can incorporate characterization and play their part to the fullest. With their musical theatre pieces, they are required to sing and characterize a specific song from a musical.
Many students are also working on Beetlejuice and rehearsing their parts with other actors in the play.
Piano students are further developing their skills using both their left and right hand. They are currently practicing and refining their skills with musical aspects such as tempo, dynamics, rhythms, and melodies.