Performing Arts-Dance News

 Semester 1 Dance News

What an exciting and busy year we have had so far at Dromana College.

We have had classes running where students have elected Dance from Year 9 through to Year 12. We have also had Dance Club running each Tuesday morning before school and Thursday afternoon after school.

We have introduced Dance Captains this year, and congratulate Kate Strickland and Megan Honnery who have taken on these roles.

The year began with an excursion to Top Class, a performance of some of the highest grading VCE Dance solos from the previous year, attended by Semester 2’s year 10 Dance class along with the year 11 and Year 12 VCE Dance classes.

In Term 2 we had many of our dance students performing in our acclaimed school musical “Barnum” in May, followed by our end of semester dance evening later that month. This saw Dance Club perform 3 items, one of these was the year 7 dance co choreographed by our dance captains. Our Year 9 and the VCE Dance classes performed their Learnt (class) dances and their own choreography.

During jump start (the end of term 2) we were privileged to yet again have workshops run by professional dancer Luke Alleva. This was a very exciting day when all year levels studying dance as well as dance club had a session with Luke learning a range of different styles and dances and developing choreographic skills. Our students were again very inspired and enthused by all they learnt from Luke.

Coming up for Semester 2:

• Dance excursion to “100 Years of Dance History” at Cube 37 in Frankston on August 29th.
• Year 12 Dance students perform on September 16th.
• End of Semester 2 Dance Evening / assessment night Friday, October 18th. This involves all classes studying dance in Semester 2, along with Dance club.
• Celebration Evening, many dance students will be performing on this evening.