{"id":502,"date":"2025-07-03T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:53:57","slug":"dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/departments\/visual-and-performing-arts\/dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dance at NWSS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our dance program offers a supportive and energetic space where students can build skills, confidence, and exercise creativity through bodies in motion. Courses focus on technique, collaboration, and self-expression, with students working together toward a showcase performance at the end of a semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link to view the full program for Teen Dance Movie:  <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/PROGRAM-Teen-Dance-Movie.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PROGRAM &#8211; Teen Dance Movie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-05-084854.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-05-084854.png 720w, https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-05-084854-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous dance shows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each semester, NWSS dance students demonstrate their hard work in high-energy performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user\/214782234\/folder\/19746801?isPrivate=false\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user\/214782234\/folder\/19746801?isPrivate=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch past dance performances on Vimeo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Courses offered by our department are based on the province\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/curriculum.gov.bc.ca\/curriculum\/arts-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arts education curriculum<\/a>. Examples of available courses (may differ from year to year) include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>GRADE 9<\/th><th>GRADE 10<\/th><th>GRADE 11<\/th><th>GRADE 12<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Dance 9<\/td><td>Dance Technique and Performance 10<\/td><td>Dance Technique and Performance 11<\/td><td>Dance Technique and Performance 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Dance Company 10<\/td><td>Dance Company 11<\/td><td>Dance Company 12<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For detailed course information, requirements, availability, etc., refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/students\/course-selection\/\">most current course description booklet.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance at NWSS Our dance program offers a supportive and energetic space where students can build skills, confidence, and exercise creativity through bodies in motion. Courses focus on technique, collaboration, and self-expression, with students working together toward a showcase performance at the end of a semester. Click the link to view the full program for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":205,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/1196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}