Students develop their core skills in the Centre of Excellence for Dance program through the Australian Curriculum, while extending their understanding to meet current industry expectations.
Our program provides students with multiple opportunities to perform at school events, showcases, and eisteddfods. Additionally, companies and creatives at the forefront of this field are invited to hold incursions/excursions for students, providing them with industry insight and the opportunity to further their skillset.
This program fosters the development of ensemble and team work by building spaces that are safe for students to explore self-expression and creative autonomy over their artistic visions.
Throughout the course of the program, students will enhance their skills while building their own portfolio of work, essential to supporting their pathway into the industry.
Unique program elements of Dance
Current achievements and pathways
- 2024 Dance X State Champion for Junior Secondary Jazz and All Abilities Solo, as well as second place for Senior Lyrical and Junior Hip Hop.
- 2024 Gold Coast Eisteddfod’s Most Memorable Routine for Junior Hip Hop, and Most Outstanding Routine for Senior Jazz.
- Awarded the adjudicators’ ‘Most Outstanding Routine’ award at Quota Eisteddfod in 2023 and 2022.
- Students are prepared for entry into Certificate IV Dance in Senior School.
- Past students have secured full time jobs in the industry.
- Students have been accepted into the highly regarded dance programs at Brent Street Studios, Dargie Fulltime and Dynamite Performance Stream.
- Students have gone on to teach in studios, choreograph award winning dances and compete at the World Hip Hop Championships in the USA.
- Students regularly secure roles outside of school in musicals and pantomimes in the local community.
- Students performed to sold out audiences on the annual dance nights and biannual musical.
- Future pathways may include: Dancer, dance teacher, choreographer, dance studio director, on set movement co-ordinator, suit performers, sport and exercise science pathways or allied health movement careers.