Performing Arts
The Performing Arts program at Ekya Schools offers a comprehensive curriculum, which empowers students to develop their creative and expressive abilities. The program is designed to provide students with skills in the disciplines of music, dance, and theatre, with a strong emphasis on fostering self-expression, creativity, and personal growth.
Learning Area Purpose
The Performing Arts program at Ekya Schools offers an enriching and inspiring experience that empowers students to discover and develop their talents and interests, and to express themselves with confidence and creativity. This program is offered to students from Early Years to Grade 8.
The Performing Arts Program equips learners to:
- Express themselves in a creative manner, communicating through art forms such as dance, music and Visual arts.
- Explore a variety of cultures and appreciate the various forms of artistic expressions of people around the world.
- Make connections between the arts and other disciplines.
Key Learning Experiences
Dance
Students will develop knowledge, understanding, and skills to communicate using the elements of dance, including space, time, dynamics, and relationships, learning to work with the body as the medium of dance and use dance composition processes to explore, organise, and refine movement for choreography and performance.
- Dance Exploration: Our students explore and develop their dance skills and techniques.
- Dance Composition: Our students learn to apply dance composition processes to refine movement for choreography and performance.
- Performance Skills: Our students develop performance skills and techniques to express themselves creatively.
Theatre/Drama
Students will explore, depict, and celebrate human experience by imagining and representing people through live enactment. They will see drama as a collaborative art, combining physical, verbal, visual, and aural dimensions and experience theatre by developing an understanding of the performer/audience relationship.
Emphasis is placed on collaborative projects that build teamwork and interpersonal skills.
Effective communication is cultivated through engaging presentations and discussions.
Problem-solving is integrated across subjects to strengthen critical thinking abilities.
Computational thinking principles are applied in practical, real-world contexts.
Technology is used to create immersive and interactive learning experiences.
Music
Students will use the concepts and materials of music to compose, improvise, arrange, perform, conduct, and respond to their own and others’ work. They will learn the elements of music, including duration (rhythm and tempo), dynamics, form, pitch (melody and harmony), and timbre (sound texture and quality), and be able to apply this knowledge to the voice, body, instruments, found sound sources, and information and communication technology.
- Music Expression: By composing, improvising, and performing music, students express themselves creatively.
- Music Elements: Students learn to apply music elements, including duration, dynamics, form, pitch, and timbre, to performance.
- Performance Skills: Through performance, students develop skills and techniques to express themselves creatively.