Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy

Theater and Dance

Acting I
Theater and Dance

Through individual and ensemble work, this course introduces students to the essential tasks of the actor’s craft. We develop vocal and physical technique, and engage in exercises to develop imagination and characterization skills. Students apply this...

Public Speaking
Theater and Dance

This course offers theory and practice in writing, preparing and delivering speeches. We emphasize effective communication skills between speaker and audience, looking at selection and structure of material and at the vocal and physical skills necessary for...

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...

Intermediate Dance II
Theater and Dance

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

Hip-Hop and Choreography
Theater and Dance

This course will expose students to a variety of hip-hop dance styles. Breaking, locking, krumping, tutting, K-pop, jazz funk, and street jazz are among disciplines that may be explored. Classes will consist of a warm up, followed by technique and...

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,...