Students develop their core skills in Dance through the Australian Curriculum, while extending their understanding to meet current industry expectations.
Our program caters for students to have multiple opportunities to perform at school events, showcases, eisteddfods, and participate in industry workshops. We have worked with companies and creatives that are at the forefront of their field including Mad Dance House, Australasian Dance Collective, HOTA, QPAC, and have established partnerships with surrounding dance schools.
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
- Eisteddfod and performance teams.
- Industry workshops with leading professionals.
- Extensive exposure to contemporary, jazz, hip hop, lyrical and more.
- Excursions to see live performances / musicals.
- Build skills through reflecting current performing arts industry trends developing 21st Century Skills.
Current achievements and pathways
- Students are prepared for entry into Certificate IV Dance in Senior.
- 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.
- Awarded the adjudicators’ ‘Most Outstanding Routine’ award at Quota Eisteddfod in 2022 and 2023.
- 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.