Lake Highland Arts provides numerous award-winning programs where students hone their creative skills and cultivate a sense of meaning through design, collaboration, and performance. Band, chorus, orchestra, dance, and theatre comprise Lake Highland Arts' outstanding performing arts experience. Student performers enter a comprehensive program from the very beginning, with a more in-depth exploration each following year. Through the performing arts curriculum, student performing artists develop creativity, imagination, critical thinking skills, patience, and trust in themselves and others. All programs are taught by passionate professional educators who guide the students toward a rewarding experience in the classroom, on stage, and throughout life.
Lake Highland’s Theatre Arts program edifies all aspects of theatre, including acting, dramaturgy, playwriting, and technical theatre. In the classroom and during rehearsals, students are encouraged to expand their sense of self through innovative thinking.
With seven ensembles spanning 5th to 12th grade, students have the opportunity to learn a wind or percussion instrument and progress through the program. Highlanders develop musicianship, discipline, and creative senses through the performance of varied repertoire in public and adjudicated performances.
Choral students at Lake Highland learn to read and perform music from diverse styles and cultures. Singers develop vocal techniques including tone quality, breath control, resonance, and musical expression.
The Orchestra program centers on developing beginning through advanced string musicians. The Jazz Ensemble program serves as a performing group with the purpose of imparting pop and commercial music skills to instrumentalists. Students in either program develop the skills necessary to be successful in the classroom and on stage, including characteristic tone, pitch, rhythm, posture, dynamics, and performance techniques.
Enhancing confidence through movement is the core of Lake Highland’s Dance curriculum. Dance classes provide students with foundational skills, knowledge, and experience to perform different styles of dance, including ballet, jazz, hip-hop and contemporary.
