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Dance Courses at DHS

Dance Company

  • our highest level performing company requiring advanced technique and choreography

  • contemporary, jazz, modern, ballet, and hip-hop styles

  • workshops and collaboration with professional dance companies

  • superior preparation for college dance programs/majors or a future in teaching dance

  • 10-15 performance opportunities (year-round) including performances at Capitol Theater, Weber State University, Rose-Wagner Theater, DHS auditorium, and other quality venues

  • spring UDEO festival with adjudication of student choreography and senior scholarship auditions

  • themed spring concert featuring works from professional choreographers and student choreography

  • audition required

Advanced Dance
Technique & Choreography

  • centered on refining dance technique and expanding dancer confidence with creative composition and choreography

  • designed to prepare students who want to pursue dance after high school or teach in a dance studio setting

  • established dance training required

  • class enrollment by invitation or request (enrollment open to members of Dance Co., DHS Drill team, or dancers with equivalent training)

  • opportunity to perform in DHS Dance Co. spring concert (collaborative student-led choreography)

CE Dance

  • learn dance history/styles of dance through movement

  • CE college credit course

  • movement-focused class requiring changing into gym clothes

  • open enrollment for dancers or non-dancers of any level

  • opportunity to perform in DHS Dance Co. spring concert (collaborative student-led choreography)

Social Dance

  • learn to dance a variety of social and partnering dances including swing dance, American square and folk dance, ballroom styles, and hip-hop

  • open enrollment for dancers or non-dancers of any level

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