ASTA Dance offers tuition for students in Prep to Year 12. Students learn a range of dance styles whilst developing coordination, strength and confidence.
The ASTA Dance Academy provides students with a supportive and encouraging learning environment that builds their confidence in every way. There is a focus on storytelling and documenting the human condition through Dance.
Students are empowered to take creative risks as they explore a wide variety of styles and many students build their personal choreographic style. We believe that learning to dance gives birth to performance and thus endeavour to provide students with many and varied performance and learning opportunities.
The Dance Academy is made up of Ensembles and Performance Troupes:
Ensembles, Prep-Year 9
Prep - Year 9 students can elect to join a Jazz or Hip Hop Dance ensemble. Students enrolled in these groups focus on developing fundamental movement skills to develop competence and confidence in Dance. Students learn and develop technical and expressive skills in the specific style studied.
Performance Troupes (Platinum & Gold), Years 5-12
Elite students in Years 5-12, with highly developed technical and performance skills, can audition for a place in a number of specialist dance troupes, e.g. Contemporary, Hip Hop and Jazz. These Performance Troupes are divided into Gold (Years 5-9) and Platinum (Years 10-12).
Each year, all groups are carefully constructed based on the skills, ability and age of individual students. Teachers are proactive in monitoring student progress to ensure that students are placed in a suitable ensemble. Student numbers vary each year and are a consideration when finalising classes.
All ASTA Academy dance groups perform in the annual dance celebration, ‘Just Dance’, in June each year. Other performance opportunities include weekly College Assemblies, Arts Academy Awards and the annual Arts Festival in November. Members of the Performance Troupes also compete in local dance eisteddfods.
For more detailed information regarding the Co-curricular Dance opportunities at Sheldon College, as well as an example timetable, please download the Arts Co-Curricular Brochure.