The West Orange High School Dance Program offers students a vibrant, high-quality dance education rooted in the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, National Core Arts Standards, and best practices from the field of dance education.

Whether you're an experienced dancer or exploring movement for the first time, our program helps you grow as a performer, choreographer, thinker, and artist.

Through technique classes, choreography projects, and collaborative work, students will:

• Build strength, flexibility, coordination, and endurance

• Explore various dance styles and forms

• Learn to create and perform original choreography

• Analyze and respond to dance as an art form

• Connect movement to history, culture, and identity

• Engage in wellness practices that support lifelong health

Our high school also offers National Dance Honor Society as a co-curricular experience.