Return to the Showcase Directory Awards and Recognition: Presenter, Performers California Dance Educators Annual Conference, 1994 Community Performances, Modesto, California 1994-1995 Townsend Opera Players Guest Artists, 1995 Stroud Elementary Service Award (high school dancers worked with elementary students in creative movement), 1995 California Dance Educators Newsletter Highlight, 1995 Guest Artists, Hillsborough, Caligornia High School Dance Concert Guest Artists, Dance Collaboration, Modesto, California, 1993, 1994, 1995 Guest Artists, Modesto Jr. College Repertory Dance Concert, 1995 Music and Dance Collaboration with musician Lisbeth Scott, 1995 Guest Artists, Performance for Kyoto Student Exchange 1994, 1995 Arts Education Background: Arts Instruction: Johansen High School Dance Program Modern/ Jazz/ Composition/ Improvisation Three Levels of Dance Beginning Intermediate Advanced/ Production Number of Students: 120 Cuuriculum: Students take daily technique classes emphasizing alignment, strength, flexibility, phrasing, and performance qualities. Compostion and Improvisation classes are also required within the curriculum as is the study of Dance Artists influential in the art form past and present. Students learn the elements of Composition and the development of choreography creating specific studies and full length compositions. Dancers also produce their own formal concerts, acting as choreographers, d ancers, costumers, lighting designers, and stage managers. Throughout the year the dance curriculum is enhanced by the offering of Master Classes by professional artists, guest residencies, and field trips to see professional dance companies in performance. Students develop critical thinking skills in their viewing and understanding of dance and other art disciplines. They are exposed to the professional world of dance; its challenges, realities, job opportunities, and the wondrous magic of expression. Johansen Dance ensemble works closely with the Modesto Jr. College dance, theater, and media professors. Classes in lighting design with hands on experience is a highlight, as is the annual Ensemble video created by the dancers and media department. Johansen dancers work with elementary school children in creative movement, take part in the World Cultures Festival at Johansen High School and perform throughout the community with local Theater, Opera, and Charity events. Arts and the Community: Modesto City Schools opened its fifth high school four years ago with the vision of creating a quality fine and performing arts program. To date, Johansen High School is well on its way in developing a full dance program, a complete theater arts program and has the largest music program in the district. The Johansen dance program is in its third year and growing by leaps and bounds. The school has a beautiful state of the art theater that seats four hundred and ninety people. The theater is also available to the community and frequently many of the professional arts groups in the area use it for performances and concerts. Modesto is rich in its cultural offerings. It is home to an excellent and established symphony, an equally respected opera company, many fine professional and semi-professional theater companies and a ballet company with a full concert season. Students at Johansen High School have the privilege to participate in many varied and splendorous arts experiences. This exposure to the arts is invaluable to the students as it enhances their knowledge, widens their perspective and broadens their experiences in t he arts. We are very fortunate to be able to offer to our students such fine facilities along with a dynamic fine and performing arts program which certainly enhances their total arts experience. Return to the top
Arts Education Background:
Arts Instruction: Johansen High School Dance Program Modern/ Jazz/ Composition/ Improvisation Three Levels of Dance Beginning Intermediate Advanced/ Production Number of Students: 120 Cuuriculum: Students take daily technique classes emphasizing alignment, strength, flexibility, phrasing, and performance qualities. Compostion and Improvisation classes are also required within the curriculum as is the study of Dance Artists influential in the art form past and present. Students learn the elements of Composition and the development of choreography creating specific studies and full length compositions. Dancers also produce their own formal concerts, acting as choreographers, d ancers, costumers, lighting designers, and stage managers. Throughout the year the dance curriculum is enhanced by the offering of Master Classes by professional artists, guest residencies, and field trips to see professional dance companies in performance. Students develop critical thinking skills in their viewing and understanding of dance and other art disciplines. They are exposed to the professional world of dance; its challenges, realities, job opportunities, and the wondrous magic of expression. Johansen Dance ensemble works closely with the Modesto Jr. College dance, theater, and media professors. Classes in lighting design with hands on experience is a highlight, as is the annual Ensemble video created by the dancers and media department. Johansen dancers work with elementary school children in creative movement, take part in the World Cultures Festival at Johansen High School and perform throughout the community with local Theater, Opera, and Charity events.
Number of Students: 120 Cuuriculum:
Students take daily technique classes emphasizing alignment, strength, flexibility, phrasing, and performance qualities. Compostion and Improvisation classes are also required within the curriculum as is the study of Dance Artists influential in the art form past and present. Students learn the elements of Composition and the development of choreography creating specific studies and full length compositions. Dancers also produce their own formal concerts, acting as choreographers, d ancers, costumers, lighting designers, and stage managers. Throughout the year the dance curriculum is enhanced by the offering of Master Classes by professional artists, guest residencies, and field trips to see professional dance companies in performance. Students develop critical thinking skills in their viewing and understanding of dance and other art disciplines. They are exposed to the professional world of dance; its challenges, realities, job opportunities, and the wondrous magic of expression.
Johansen Dance ensemble works closely with the Modesto Jr. College dance, theater, and media professors. Classes in lighting design with hands on experience is a highlight, as is the annual Ensemble video created by the dancers and media department. Johansen dancers work with elementary school children in creative movement, take part in the World Cultures Festival at Johansen High School and perform throughout the community with local Theater, Opera, and Charity events.
Arts and the Community:
Modesto City Schools opened its fifth high school four years ago with the vision of creating a quality fine and performing arts program. To date, Johansen High School is well on its way in developing a full dance program, a complete theater arts program and has the largest music program in the district. The Johansen dance program is in its third year and growing by leaps and bounds. The school has a beautiful state of the art theater that seats four hundred and ninety people. The theater is also available to the community and frequently many of the professional arts groups in the area use it for performances and concerts. Modesto is rich in its cultural offerings. It is home to an excellent and established symphony, an equally respected opera company, many fine professional and semi-professional theater companies and a ballet company with a full concert season. Students at Johansen High School have the privilege to participate in many varied and splendorous arts experiences. This exposure to the arts is invaluable to the students as it enhances their knowledge, widens their perspective and broadens their experiences in t he arts. We are very fortunate to be able to offer to our students such fine facilities along with a dynamic fine and performing arts program which certainly enhances their total arts experience.
Modesto is rich in its cultural offerings. It is home to an excellent and established symphony, an equally respected opera company, many fine professional and semi-professional theater companies and a ballet company with a full concert season. Students at Johansen High School have the privilege to participate in many varied and splendorous arts experiences. This exposure to the arts is invaluable to the students as it enhances their knowledge, widens their perspective and broadens their experiences in t he arts. We are very fortunate to be able to offer to our students such fine facilities along with a dynamic fine and performing arts program which certainly enhances their total arts experience.
