DANCE

Creating Art with Authenticity

While dancing together we find ways to connect on stage, whether that be through eye contact, breathing together, or partnering. While creating movement we seek processes that develop original content, or connect us to universal feelings or moods.

We offer four levels of dance. In all classes, we touch upon various dance techniques, including contemporary concert dance, ballet, hip-hop, jazz and yoga/pilates, as well as composition and choreography. Our dance companies, which meet outside of the school day and are audition-based, perform in the annual Dance Concert, during some prayer services and other school-related events throughout the year. Company auditions are held every May and are open to incoming freshmen.

The annual Dance Concert is a major event across the entire school, with approximately 25 percent of the student body participating. Recent productions have paid tribute to literature, identity, different genres in the sciences, film, religion, and language.

Dance Courses

DANCE
DANCE II
DANCE III
DANCE IV
DANCE V
DANCE COMPANIES

View the dance program curriculum.

Ms. Jessie Ryan

- Dance Instructor

List of 3 frequently asked questions.

How do you see Veritas, the Latin word for truth, take shape in your classes?

I encourage the dance students to create art with authenticity. While dancing together we find ways to connect on stage, whether that be through eye contact, breathing together, or partnering. While creating movement we seek processes that develop original content, or connect us to universal feelings or moods.
What do you see is the greatest impact that the arts can have on a student?

Arts teach empathy and connection. At this age, most students see dance as an opportunity for expression of some kind of mood, thought, feeling, or truth. Sometimes they can speak of it, but at other times it needs to be danced. Dance gives students a platform to express their inner lives, and to understand and relate to each other when they share it.
How is the teaching environment at Flintridge Sacred Heart different than other places you have taught or worked?

The dance world can tend to be very competitive, but the environment at Flintridge Sacred Heart is supportive and team-oriented. The students look to find ways to build each other up, and the energy in the room is sometimes so
positive that it is palpable.

The dance program at Flintridge Sacred Heart was the first thing that made me want to appear in the world."
—Sarri Sanchez '01

DANCE

Creating Art with Authenticity

Dance Courses

Ms. Jessie Ryan

Dance Instructor

List of 3 frequently asked questions.

How do you see Veritas, the Latin word for truth, take shape in your classes?

What do you see is the greatest impact that the arts can have on a student?

How is the teaching environment at Flintridge Sacred Heart different than other places you have taught or worked?

—Sarri Sanchez '01

Watch Our Dancers in Action

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