• 7 guest artists per year
• National Honor Society for Dance Arts- it’s the only chapter in Charleston
• National HS Dance Festival every other year- classes, performances, and scholarship opportunities for college dance programs and summer intensives and programs
• Regional HS Dance Festival every other year in Norfolk, VA- classes, performances, and scholarship opportunities for college dance programs and summer intensives and programs
• SCDancing Festival- dance classes, performances, and South Carolina teachers and college dance programs recruiting for programs
• Monday and Friday are coffee days in the dance department
• Third Thursdays lunch socials
• Technical Theatre- lighting, sound, backstage, stage manager, usher
• Senior thesis reception hosted by juniors
• Seniors earn a thesis medal and wear it at graduation
• Seniors recognized at the departmental performance the end of the year
• Senior gift from the dance department
• Middle School Dance Night
• Dance Day in Charleston field trip
• Gaillard Center field trips

Performance opportunities:

• Students choreography showcase
• Convocations
• Junior composition- 2 performances of your work
• Senior thesis- 2 informal adjudication performances- pieces judged by community dance professionals
• 2 senior thesis performances
• Seniors perform at graduation
• Dancing With the Teachers!
• 8th grade solos spring concert
• Winter showcase
• Departmental Annual Showcase
• School musicals & operas