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The Arts at BFS

Some @BFS! features about ARTS at BFS:

• A Showcase of Student Art and Music
• Rave reviews for Midsummer!
• Virtual Art Show: Highlights of recent student art
• Photo Essay: Inside an Upper School Ceramics Workshop
• Annual BFS art show extravaganza!
• Art Extravaganza!
• The All-School Art Show (and Features Wrap-Up)
• A Dazzling Dance Concert
• Photo essay—fourth grade Halloween dance
• Lights, cameras, pumpkins, dance!
• Alphabet acrobatics
• Back to BFS: The 25th Anniversary BFS Dance Concert
• Middle School String Orchestra Shows Plenty of Pluck
• Bringing Out the Sun: Lower School Students Soar in Music Class
• Middle School animation classes bring ideas to life cel-by-cel
• “Kindness Works”

VISUAL ARTS : Our visual arts program develops each student’s innate creative abilities by encouraging visual awareness and self-expression. The program builds a greater understanding of the arts as part of an integrated and increasingly complex curriculum. Students explore design, shapes, color, texture, composition, balance, and both abstract and representational themes through a variety of media that includes paints, craypas, oils, watercolors, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking, collage, and video.

DANCE: Our dance curriculum is based on Laban/Bartenieff movement principles fostering self-expression. Students explore the range of human movement through classes in improvisation, choreography, creative movement, and modern dance. The curriculum focuses on technique work, as students learn dance combinations and develop coordination; creative work with improvisation and choreography projects; and analysis and discussion of peer and professional choreography. Students regularly perform their own choreographed work for other classes, assemblies, and the wider community.

MUSIC: Beginning with Kodaly training and using Orff instruments in the Lower School and Preschool, the music curriculum at BFS at all levels includes training in sight-reading and choral work. Private instrumental instruction in piano, violin, cello, flute, and guitar is available, and students can join an all-school orchestra.

THEATER: Our drama program offers classroom work in improvisation, oral interpretation, dramatic reading, and the full-scale production of comedies, dramas, and musicals. Students become involved in all aspects of these productions, including prop making, set design, make-up, lighting, and sound.

VIDEO: Various aspects of film and video production are explored as students gain an understanding of media technique and the impact it has on the viewing public. Students become competent in the creative and technical aspects of video production.