DANCE AT LI

Dance is considered a core curricular subject and delivered through arts content.  This curriculum meets state and national standards for dance education and is age appropriate for all levels of instruction and development.  Dance is available to all students and taught by a certified dance educator with extensive training in movement, wellness, and education.  

Dance at LI aligns to:

  • teaching and learning goals, objectives, and curriculum with industry standards and college readiness expectations
  • developmental needs of each student and encouraging healthful practices for lifelong wellness
  • the creative process for developing and refining self direction, creative and practical problem solving, collaboration, responsible and involved citizenship, and effective communication
  • art appreciation and the value of the arts in communities and ourselves/one another as citizens of the world

Dance Education Values:

  • dance is basic to human nature and is a basic form of individual and cultural expression
  • dance provides learning and growth in one's physical health, emotional maturation, social awareness, cognitive development, academic achievement
  • dance standards provide progression of learning and scope of skills and knowledge to support curriculum and guide learning tasks and serve as a springboard for creativity
  • core of the dance experience teaches performance, creativity, responding and connecting to work
  • the context of dance experiences present knowledge of the elements, personal meaning, aesthetic, and cultural/history meaning in work

The Child's Bill of Rights in Dance, NDEO, 1998

The courses for the department are listed below but to learn more about content and expectations within a course see the downloads on the right side of the page.

All LI Dance Courses are aligned to the last version of the LI Transferable Skills and the current National Core Arts Standards for Dance Education.

  • Improvisation/Composition          
  • Dance History 
  • Dance Intern or Student Aide (for students who have taken the class previously, passed, and want to take it again for credit as a teaching assistant)
  • Dance Techniques and Elements
  • Jazz Dance
  • Ballet Techniques
  • Modern Dance
  • Dance Company (audition based ensemble, teaching and performing opportunities, grades 10-12)
  • Career/College Preparations in Dance (available to seniors who want to pursue dance after high school)