Arts
The school offers various opportunities to take part in the arts, both in and outside of class. Courses in the visual arts are offered through the AP level. Shakespeare performance projects are performed by each grade beginning in grade 6. The school stages at least 4 major dramatic productions per year. Dance classes range from ballet to jazz to modern to liturgical, and the upper school Dance Team performs in competitions throughout New England. The Middle School Chorus and Upper School Chorale are at the core of the music programs, and are supplemented by the Gospel Choir, the Heartbeats (a cappella group), and the Instrumental Ensemble, among other groups.
NCDS performs annually in the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild. In 2007, the group performed an original adaptation of Edith Wharton's short story Xingu, and reached the semi-final round, earning 4 all-star cast awards and an award for best stage design.
The Medley, Newton's annual literary journal, is student-run under the direction of a faculty advisor, and accepts submissions of prose, poetry, photography, and other art. The Medley was named a 2007 National Scholastic Press Association Magazine Pacemaker Finalist, with comments by the judges naming the Medley a "smaller but beautifully focused presentation".
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“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
—Patricia Mainardi (b. 1942)