Performing Arts

Our Scholars Learn Performing Arts in Many Ways

Performing Arts is a required class for all scholars at JPII.  Scholars learn skills in various performing arts, such as dance and movement, yoga, music and singing, theater, clowning and much more.

Grades K-2 learn basic acting skills through exploring actor tools (body, voice, and imagination) to create a character. They learn how to create short plays by understanding basic story structure and gain experience performing onstage in front of others.

Grades 3-5 add to this foundation by creating more complex stories, plays, and skits.  They become choreographers for movement pieces, and learn the importance of clowning and pantomime to tell a story in many different ways.

Grades 6-8 continue building skills learned in younger grades by creating complex relationships between characters through extensive scene work.  Scholars in middle school begin learning basic theater technical skills, such as lighting, prop creation, set creation, costuming and running crew backstage.  Middle schoolers also learn basic directing skills, and how to rehearse and perform a play for a wider audience.