Advanced Performance Dance Ensemble 

Students will continue to refine their skills and dance techniques. They will develop more advanced dance skills and expand their knowledge in the understanding and performance of more abstract dance forms, staging and rhythms. Students will apply the principals of composition in order to choreograph performances and are expected to participate in a dance concert at the end of each semester which will include rehearsals outside of normal school hours. Dancers will explore the historical and academic areas related to the field of dance. Students will also be required to attend at least one live dance performance, each semester, off campus.
*Teacher approval through audition or DBHS Dance Teacher recommendation 

Suggested Technical Skills before entering Advanced Performance Dance Ensemble  

• Clean double pirouette with exposure to triple pirouettes 
• Battements in all directions including fan kicks 
• Pique turns and chaine turns 
• Saut de Chats (leaps), surprise leaps, and 2nd leaps 
• Foundational ballet skills (i.e. feet positions, plie, tendu, degage, etc.)