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Taft Dance Team: This Team has a legacy of excellence, our students are committed and dedicated to growing, improving, and succeeding in and out of the dance room. The Dance team is a Spirit team, the team brings pride to the students, staff, and community of Taft. The dance team is a year-long commitment, during the Fall the team focuses on Football games, pep rallies, school spirit, and dance concerts. The Spring semester focus is competitions, dance concerts, and the dance team audition. Our goal on the dance team is to teach Life through dance, for students to develop body awareness and musicality with its relation to time, space, and energy. Students will choreograph their own Dances. Dancing alone or with others, the body will be used as an instrument to communicate emotions and to express individuality through movement. We are committed to academic and dance excellence.
Taft Dance Team AUDITIONS!!
for the 2024-2025 school year
audition Clinics are May 22nd ,23rd, 24th from 4pm to 6pm
The Audition Is Wednesday May 29th from 4pm-7pm
In the Dance Room (connected to the gym)
you will learn Jazz and Hip-Hop Dance
Watch the Audition Video at: www.tafthigh.org or
www.taftdanceteam.weebly.comThings to know for Clinics:
You must wear black shorts, sweats, or leggings & white shirt/no logos
all clothes must be fitted or lose fitted /not baggy
*If you use inappropriate language or act inappropriately you will be disqualified from auditioning.
*We look forward to meeting and dancing with you
?’s: Email Mr. McKinley at [email protected]
Summer Dance Camp 2024
July 22 - August 9th
9 am - 3 pm
In the dance room
If you missed the auditions you can participate in two weeks of dance camp
We will audition participants who complete 2 weeks of camp on August 2nd
complete and athletic packet and registration form
*When an athletic packet is complete turn it into the athletic director box (school is open for summer school)
*non-team members bring the registration form completed on the first day of camp
July 22 - August 9th
9 am - 3 pm
In the dance room
If you missed the auditions you can participate in two weeks of dance camp
We will audition participants who complete 2 weeks of camp on August 2nd
complete and athletic packet and registration form
*When an athletic packet is complete turn it into the athletic director box (school is open for summer school)
*non-team members bring the registration form completed on the first day of camp
Dance Classes -Students can simply enroll in Dance to earn their Physical Education credit.
Beginning dance:
This class will introduce the basic styles, techniques, vocabulary, and history of dance: Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, and Contemporary dance. Students will develop body awareness, spatial awareness, and musicality with its relation to time, space, and energy. Students will choreograph their own dances. Dancing alone or with others, the body will be used as an instrument to communicate emotions and to express unique individuality through movement.
Intermediate Dance: (for 10th Graders who have already taken Beginning Dance)
This class will build on the basic styles, techniques, vocabulary, and history of dance: Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, and Contemporary dance. Students will develop body awareness, spatial awareness, and musicality with its relation to time, space, and energy. Students will choreograph their own dances. Dancing alone or with others, the body will be used as an instrument to communicate emotions and to express unique individuality through movement.
The Dance Program
Our program's Objective is to teach students various styles of dance such as Jazz, modern, hip-hop, ballet, lyrical, and many more. We use dance to teach our students how to express their ideas, feelings, or concerns, we want to teach life through dance. Some of our goals are that students gain an appreciation for dance as an art form, Develop physical and energetic coordination, Develop musical and rhythmic awareness, Feel and experience movement, Create choreography, And Experiment with personal boundaries.
Dance Class Syllabus
