Fine Arts Department
West Johnston High School offers Fine Arts courses in the following areas: art design, modern dance, band (marching and ensemble performance), choral groups, and theatre classes.
As of 2010, the Fine Arts Department of West Johnston has performed several musicals as well as straight plays.
- 2003: The Wizard of Oz
- 2004: The Music Man
- 2006: Grease
- 2007: Into the Woods
- 2008: Les Misérables
- 2009: Evita
- 2010: Guys and Dolls
In 2009 West Johnston was inducted into the North Carolina Theatre Capital Awards, showcasing high school musical theatre excellence. For the 2010 musical "Guys and Dolls" was nominated for several awards including:
Ensemble
Choreography
Lead Actor-Elgin Giles
Best Musical
Featured Performer-Kelsie Jayne
Costumes
Musical Direction
Orchestra
Supporting Actor-Jordan Clifton
West Johnston High School has an outstanding dance department that has won several dance awards locally and nationally. Richard Patten, a former Juilliard student, is the dance department's artistic director.
The award-winning Chorale Ensembles, headed by Sarah Phelps, present many concerts throughout the year and were selected to represent North Carolina in the Festival Of The States 2008 in Washington D.C. West Johnston High School offers Fine Arts courses in the following areas: art design, modern dance, band (marching and ensemble performance), choral groups, and theatre classes.
Read more about this topic: West Johnston High School
Famous quotes containing the words fine, arts and/or department:
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 16:19-22.
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
““Which is more important to you, your field or your children?” the department head asked. She replied, “That’s like asking me if I could walk better if you amputated my right leg or my left leg.””
—Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women and the Work Family Dilemma, by Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, ch. 2 (1993)