Orange Grove High – Dance Performance 3a-3b

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Dance Performance 3- Production is designed to be an advanced level Dance course for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students focusing on the Composition and Production of Original Student work. Enrollment in the course is through instructor approval only, with pre-requisite completion of Dance Performance 1 and/or Dance Performance 2. This course encourages the development of compositional techniques to move students to an advanced level of mastery and create an awareness of principles such as form, matter, context, purpose, weight, space, time, effort, and shape, introducing elements, methods and structures of dance composition. This course enables the student artist to develop his or her individual creativity. Through advanced compositional studies, they further master articulation and communication of ideas, as well as the analysis and critical evaluation of movement. Student artists will have the opportunity to perfect movement invention; to expand variety, contrast, and originality in their choreographic process; and to further develop their personal aesthetic range.