Dance 

Term 1, 2025

Dance Club

Our fabulous extra curricular dance group runs every Tuesday morning from 7:15am - 8:15am in the dance studio. This includes students from Year 7-12. Some students have had an extensive background in dance while for others this is a new learning experience and the chance to explore dance. Over the year, the students develop dance technique and learnt dances from a range of different styles. Dance Club students performed at the semester two, 2024, performance evening and the school's annual Celebration Night. Our dance teachers have been supported by our fabulous 2024 Dance Captains: Chloe Hildebrand and Sarah Mathews as well as Liana Samson-Piniata in Semester 2. 

Our 2025 Dance Captain: Lily Woods and Emma Wilson-Doidge assisting the 2025 Dance Club, enhancement program. 

If you are interested in joining Dance Club please see Ms Taryn Sabell or Ms Jennii Johnson. 

Wakakirri 2025

 

Our captains Lily and Emma and the creative team have been working lots behind the scenes planning and preparing for Waka 2025. We have just completed 3 rounds of auditions and the students are ready and excited to start rehearsing!

We are very excited about a fantastic dance production for 2025!

 

Semester two Dance Performance Evening: (Flashback)

Semester two Dance Performance Evening, shared the practical aspects of Year 11 VCE Dance work, both student’s own choreography, with the composition solo, and also the Learnt dance choreographed by past student and dancer, Liana Samson Piniata. This evening also featured Dance Club, performing their whole group dance (choreographed by Ms Johnson, Ms Sabell and the senior dance students) and their own small groups dance that the students choreographed, for family and friends. With a fabulous performance evening held at the college theatre on Thursday, 24th October, 2024.

 

Year 11 VCE Dance student: Lily Woods, performing her composition solo

Dance Club whole group dance: (featuring students from year 7 - 12)

Dance Club student small group choreographies:

 

VCE Dance, year 11, Lily Woods, Learnt Dance:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F block Dance Training and Technique take out the prestigious award ‘Best Wild card entry’ at the annual film festival! 

 

This is a new subject, in just its second year of conception. This subject is designed to compliment and prepare students for the skills required for Year 11 and Year 12 VCE Dance, as well as provide an enriching creative outlet for all students interested in dance. This subject provides a unique experience where students develop both technique and choreographic skills. Once students have produced choreography they then take this out into various community locations (such as gardens, National parks, beach etc.) to film. Once returning, subsequent classes are spent editing the footage to culminate in a dance film that is shared at the Dromana College Film Festival, held at the Rosebud cinemas in October. 

This is a particularly valuable experience, by immersing our students in the emerging technological world of dance, especially as many professional dances are now regularly shared with the public through film. 

This year our F-Block Dance Training and Technique class took out the prestigious award ‘Best Wild card entry’ at the film festival! 

Our students are to be congratulated. 

This subject is an unparalleled opportunity for all students interested in dance, and looking for both an exciting, practical, skilled enhancing dance subject in F Block, look no further. You will experience skills that you will take away for the future and remember for life!

 

 

Any students interested in taking part in this subject in the future or wish to know more about it, please feel free to see Ms Sarah Mann or Ms Taryn Sabell

 

 

 

Our Year 11 VCE Dance student Lily Woods goes to Joffrey Ballet School! 

One of our Year 11 VCE Dance students, Lily Woods, had the privilege to be selected to the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School, Jazz and Contemporary summer intensive program in August of this year.

Lily travelled to New York city and spent two weeks training with some of the best dance teachers and choreographers in the world. She spent her time there training mainly in Ballet, Contemporary and Jazz, with performance experiences at the end of each week. 

 Lily said, “It was the best dance experience, I learnt so much especially about technique and artistry. I was so grateful to have had this opportunity to train overseas with the most amazing coaches as well as being offered a place  to join their full time training program.”