ThePerforming Arts department at Landmark School provides our students with the opportunity to participate in Dance, Music, Theater, and Technical Theater in a variety of ways and times throughout the school year. During the school day, we offer classes in all of those areas as electives and all are also offered as after-school activities.
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts bunch explore life's great questions through song and dance in this revised version of the beloved classic cartoon. Family friendly and lots of fun!
The Landmark Dance Program offers students, from beginner to advanced, the opportunity to learn different styles, including modern, ballet, contemporary, jazz, musical theater, hip hop, improvisation, choreographic devices, Chinese water-sleeves/fans, and dance conditioning. Classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance history, vocabulary, and musicality. Every year, dance elective students have the opportunity to perform in our spring dance concert, Evening of Dance.
The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning (Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history. Students who choose to enroll in the dance elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company. They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April. This class is open to students new to dance.
The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning(Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history. Students who choose to enroll in the Dance Elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company. They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April.
The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning (Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history. Students who choose to enroll in the Dance Elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company. They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April.
The Landmark Stage Company produces three plays a year: a fall musical, winter dinner theater, and spring play. We strive to offer a variety of dramas and comedies, drawing on classic and contemporary scripts. Students prepare through daily after-school rehearsals and develop not only their performance skills but also integrate into their work the reading, time management, expressive language, and other skills they study during the school day. All students who want to participate are offered roles.
The Acting and Directing class elective offered during the school day allows students to practice a variety of acting skills and techniques in an individualized and intensive setting. Units of study include improvisation, script-writing, and modern and classic script study, among others. Students have the opportunity to act in and direct performance pieces over the course of the year.
The Music Program at Landmark offers students a wide variety of ways to be musically creative on campus. We offer an introduction to music history, theory, and appreciation in the Exploring Music class and the Chorus class allows students the opportunity to be in a vocal ensemble that performs classic and contemporary works from a range of genres in multiple performances every year. After-school Music provides students a flexible way to be involved in a student band or take voice or guitar lessons (private instrument lessons can also be arranged). Solo Night, coffee houses, and other performance opportunities are also open to all students.
The Technical Theater Program at Landmark is designed to give students the skills they need to build the sets and run the light and sound systems for all of the plays, concerts, and performances held at the High School. Students learn the basics of tool use and safety and also can gain experience working with professional-quality lighting and sound equipment and taking individual responsibility for the different backstage roles during performances.
Theatre at ODU is home for creative people exploring the possibilities, excitement, and energy of the performing arts beyond the safe boundaries of the familiar. We feature individualized instruction, rigorous curriculum, dedicated faculty, and professional internship options
Performance Emphasis students are mentored as pre-professionals and should be passionate about performance. That passion should lead them towards doing the work of the actor - reading scripts, finding audition material, keeping in shape, and rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing!
Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, motion picture productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.
Develop and design manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.
Produce or direct stage, television, radio, video, or motion picture productions for entertainment, information, or instruction. Responsible for creative decisions, such as interpretation of script, choice of actors or guests, set design, sound, special effects, and choreography.
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
At ODU, we understand that as a transfer student you have unique needs that require a wide array of campus resources. The Center for Advising Administration and Academic Partnerships aims to create a transfer inclusive culture that supports the successful...
An introduction to the physical and vocal principles of performance coupled with an opportunity to increase awareness of the constructed nature of social interactions. Students will explore confident self-expression through the physical, vocal, emotional and technical aspects of acting, as an art form and a daily experience, in a format that encourages freedom of imagination and personal growth. Emphasis is on the fundamental communication skills of presence, body language, imagination, and social communication.
With over 120 undergraduate programs, 130 graduate programs at the master's, education specialist and doctoral levels plus a wealth of certificate and professional development programs, Old Dominion University has the program for you. Visit our academic program listing page to see other programs ODU has to offer.
The drama program at Dr. Garcia High School is inclusive and highly competitive. Whether there is an interest in design and tech or performing on stage, there is something for everyone. Students involved may take classes, participate in district and state level competitions, as well as participate in the after-school theatre program. Training is comprehensive in nature and offers opportunities for students to serve in leadership roles as part of a student-led theatre company. Over the course of a student's four year journey, they will develop performance skills and a portfolio of work that will serve them in any wlak of life as well as prepare them for professional theatre training programs at the collegiate level.
Acting 1 (#0400370)
Through improvisation, simple scripted scenes, performance projects, and/or practical application, students learn to identify what makes performances believable and explore the tools used to create, articulate, and execute them. Upon completion of this course, students have a strong foundation for future scene work, script analysis, and play production. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom.
SPECIAL NOTE: Co-Curricular- No Prerequisite required
Theatre Improvisation (#0400620)
Students learn to communicate effectively, both verbally and non-verbally; develop and build critical listening and collaborative skills, and think and solve problems quickly and appropriately on the spot, which transfers well to academic, career, and social arenas. Through collaboration, communication, and performance activities, students engage in improvisation as a stand-alone art form and as an acting methodology. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom.
SPECIAL NOTE: Co-Curricular- No Prerequisite required.
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