Visual and Performing Arts

Mission Statement

The mission of the Visual and Performing Arts Program of Queen City Academy Charter School is to provide high quality instruction aligned with the National Core Arts Standards and the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Visual and Performing Arts and to increase student participation and engagement in the Arts.

Vision Statement

The Visual and Performing Arts Program of Queen City Academy Charter School will empower 21st century learners through a cross-curricular platform, cultivate well-rounded individuals in a multicultural world, and prepare creative, critical thinkers who enrich their communities through the Arts.

Music, Dance and Art Elective Courses:

Our music course includes activities that provide many opportunities for students to sing, play instruments, move to music, listen and analyze, learn musical notation, create, and perform.

Our dance course equips our scholars with experiences of movement in different styles of dance, appreciate dance as a performing art both historically and culturally, identify the elements of dance, and express themselves with original choreography. Scholars will have opportunities to perform throughout the year for various school events, the winter concert, and the spring production.

Scholars in this elective course will focus on dance technique, explore choreography, and study historical and cultural connections to dance. This course will give scholars an opportunity to participate in a more intense dance class and improve their individual movement range, technique, and vocabulary in a variety of dance styles. Scholars will study dance history and analyze choreography in order to inform their own dancing. Dance genres will include, but not be limited to Ballet, Jazz, Modern and World Dance.