DFMS DRAMA

Mark your calendars!

The Honors 8th-grade Drama Students will perform the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, JUNIOR in collaboration with the Exploratory Semester One Dance students on November 14 and November 15 on the stage in our DFMS cafeteria space.  Both shows begin at 6:30 p.m.  There will be an admission charge for all students and adults.  There is no admission charge if you are a DFMS employee (or a family member of one).  

The Honors 8th-grade Drama students will perform a SPRING PLAY (TBA) on May 1 and May 2 on the stage in our DFMS cafeteria space.  Both shows begin at 6:00 p.m.  There will be an admission charge for all students and adults.  There is no admission charge if you are a DFMS employee (or family member of one).

Employability Skills Acquired Through Study of Theatre 

• Apply performance and production skills to communicate with an audience.

• Apply group processes in the creation of original work.

• Communicate in writing, orally, and through performance.

• Exercise critical, analytical, and physical skills, and conduct research.

• Apply creative and imaginative skills through the realization of practical projects.

• Think reflectively and independently, and concentrate and focus for extended periods.

• Develop ideas and construct arguments and present them in appropriate ways.

• Handle creative, personal, and interpersonal issues and negotiate and pursue goals with others.

• Manage personal workloads and meet deadlines under pressure with flexibility, imagination, self-motivation, and organization.

• Produce written work with appropriate scholarly conventions.

• Apply information retrieval skills involving gathering, sifting, and organizing material.

• Use IT skills such as word processing, training in professionally-related software programs, electronic mail, and accessing electronic data.

Adapted from Student Employability Profiles: A Guide for HE Practitioners, The Higher Education Academy