Phillips Exeter Academy

Theater and Dance

Selected Topics in Dance
Theater and Dance

The topics for this course vary from year to year and are dependant upon the interests and backgrounds of the students...

Theater & Dance Tech Crew
Theater and Dance

Tech crew is designed to provide students with skills and knowledge to work backstage on theatrical and dance productions as part of the stage crew. Through hands-on learning, students gain knowledge of theater technology, safety and design. Tech crew assists...

New Plays Ensemble
Theater and Dance

The New Plays Ensemble is a performance opportunity designed for students to explore contemporary plays and collaborative ensemble-building while deepening their acting abilities. There will be a focus on presenting new work by artists from communities that...

Advanced Dance
Theater and Dance

This course focuses on Western concert dance disciplines: ballet, modern and jazz. Composition and improvisation skills will be...

Advanced Dance – Intensive
Theater and Dance

This accelerated course provides advanced dancers with intensive training in concert dance disciplines (ballet, modern, contemporary, and jazz). Classes consist of warm-up, technique and complex choreographed phrases, along with composition, and...

Dance Technique Warmup
Theater and Dance

This course is taken in conjunction with DAN040. Dance technique warm up will include multi-genre movement...

Theater Production Warmup
Theater and Dance

This course is taken for PE credit in conjunction with enrollment in THR020, THR030 and THR040. Theater Production Warmup meets the physical education requirement and will include vigorous activity that prepares students for production...

Introduction to Dance
Theater and Dance

This course introduces students to four primary disciplines: ballet, modern, jazz and hip-hop. Basic composition and improvisation skills will be...

Introduction to Street Styles
Theater and Dance

This course introduces students to the culture of hip hop and a variety of street dance styles under the Hip Hop umbrella. Disciplines may include party/social dances, breaking, house, vogue and waacking. Classes will consist of a warm up, historical context,...

Intermediate Dance I
Theater and Dance

This course focuses on Western concert dance disciplines: ballet, modern and jazz. Composition and improvisation skills will be...