Arts
Performing Arts
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Lower Campus Music
Lower School students participate in weekly music classes and are encouraged to participate in after school music enrichment: String Party, String Ensemble, Chorus, and Rock Band. Concerts are showcased in the winter and spring. -
Lower Campus Performances
Throughout the school year, each Lower School grade level puts on a curriculum based assembly performance that incorporates speaking, singing and dancing. Students are encouraged to participate in after school performance enrichment: Sierra Canyon Dance Company and Sierra OnStage. Performances are showcased in the winter and spring. -
Dance
The Dance Program at Sierra Canyon is an energetic and dynamic opportunity for students to express themselves and communicate meaning through movement. The biggest goal is to nurture the love of dance in a supportive and noncompetitive environment. -
Instrumental
Middle and Upper School students are welcome to join the Chamber Orchestra, which is a formal ensemble of intermediate and advanced instrumental musicians. The Chamber Orchestra has seasonal concerts and is showcased at several events throughout the year. -
Theatre
Through improvisation, acting exercises, character study and rehearsals, Middle and Upper School students hone their acting skills. The Theatre Company is a formal cast of passionate students, who study and produce a wide range of plays and musicals.. -
Voice & Music Production
Upper School students with a passion for music explore developing their own musical and lyrical work. Various types of song structure and form as well as lyrical content and musical arrangement are taught.
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The Performing Arts Department
The Sierra Canyon Performing Arts Department is central to the School’s objective to educate the whole person. Students develop the skills and the discipline to be intuitive, imaginative creators and observers in all areas of their lives. The teachers of the arts are also practicing artists; they inspire and challenge their students to participate in the creative process.
Performing Arts events are also an integral part of the Sierra Canyon community. Concerts, plays and performances fill the school calendar and celebrate artistic accomplishments. Introductory Performing Arts courses are required, but many students go beyond the basic requirements. Some students are involved in many facets of the arts, while others specialize as dancers, musicians, or actors.
Each school year, the Performing Arts Department presents four professional quality and thematically advanced productions. Another annual celebration of the Performing Arts Department is an event called “One Night Only.” This special evening is a culmination of Middle and Upper School students’ yearlong work in the Vocal, Instrumental, and Dance programs.
Performing Arts events are also an integral part of the Sierra Canyon community. Concerts, plays and performances fill the school calendar and celebrate artistic accomplishments. Introductory Performing Arts courses are required, but many students go beyond the basic requirements. Some students are involved in many facets of the arts, while others specialize as dancers, musicians, or actors.
Each school year, the Performing Arts Department presents four professional quality and thematically advanced productions. Another annual celebration of the Performing Arts Department is an event called “One Night Only.” This special evening is a culmination of Middle and Upper School students’ yearlong work in the Vocal, Instrumental, and Dance programs.
View the 2019-20 Performing Arts Season here.
The Music Program
The Sierra Canyon Music Program is designed to instill an appreciation for and enjoyment of music through exposure to a variety of musical genres; students will experience both making music vocally and instrumentally; thereby enhancing the probability that music will be a part of a lifelong enjoyment of the arts.
Lower and Upper Campus students are taught a comprehensive, multifaceted music curriculum that encompasses a range of topics, idioms, and styles. With our diverse musical curriculum, students at all levels have the opportunity to cultivate and refine their technical and musical skills.
Lower and Upper Campus students are taught a comprehensive, multifaceted music curriculum that encompasses a range of topics, idioms, and styles. With our diverse musical curriculum, students at all levels have the opportunity to cultivate and refine their technical and musical skills.
Performing Arts Team
Lower School: 11052 Independence Avenue
Middle and Upper School: 20801 Rinaldi Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311 | 818.882.8121
Middle and Upper School: 20801 Rinaldi Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311 | 818.882.8121
Sierra Canyon School is a private, independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12 located in Chatsworth, California. The highly cosmopolitan campus community is reflective of the Greater Los Angeles area and the world at large. Students are empowered to realize their greatest creative, ethical, intellectual and physical promise through small class sizes, a diverse student-teacher culture and a family-like environment.
