Fine and Performing Arts
Welcome to another school term in the Fine and Performing Arts: Visual Art, Drama, Music, Dance, Film.
The fine arts embrace music, art and drama without obscuring their uniqueness. Each has a body of content, partly derived from tradition and partly developed from the insights and interests of those involved. Each has its own mode of expression and makes its own contribution to society, necessitating the inclusion of the arts as separate subject areas in the school program.
There are fundamental principles that apply to all three. Specifically, the student is involved as a creator, a performer, an historian, a critic and a consumer. Throughout the grades, an articulated fine arts program should enhance the depth and breadth of expression and intuitive response. The maturing student learns to appreciate, to understand, to create and to critique with discrimination products of the mind, the voice, the hand, and the body.
