Performing
Arts

The Performing Arts department at Landmark School provides our students with the opportunity to participate in Dance, Music, Theater, and Technical Theater in a variety of ways and times throughout the school year. During the school day, we offer classes in all of those areas as electives and all are also offered as after-school activities.

Ways for Students to Perform

  • Three plays a year (two plays and a musical)
  • The Evening of Dance
  • Chorus performances
  • Solo Night
  • And more!

students performing on stage

Upcoming Performing Arts Dates 2023 - 2024

Musical

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts bunch explore life's great questions through song and dance in this revised version of the beloved classic cartoon. Family friendly and lots of fun! 

Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 12 at 2:30 p.m.

Solo Night

Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Off campus location TBD

Winter Concert

Tuesday, December 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Winter Play

The Internet is Distract - OH LOOK A KITTEN!
Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 24 at 2:30 p.m.

Ensemble Night

Wednesday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.

Evening of Dance

Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Spring Play

Thursday,  May 16:  Comedy TBD Performance (7:30) 
Friday, May 17: Comedy TBD  Performance (7:30) 
Saturday,  May 18: Comedy TBD  Performance (2:30)

Senior Showcase

Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m.

 

**All activities take place in the Performing Arts Center, unless otherwise noted 

Performing Arts Programs

Dance

The Landmark Dance Program offers students, from beginner to advanced, the opportunity to learn different styles, including modern, ballet, contemporary, jazz, musical theater, hip hop, improvisation, choreographic devices, Chinese water-sleeves/fans, and dance conditioning. Classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance history, vocabulary, and musicality.  Every year, dance elective students have the opportunity to perform in our spring dance concert, Evening of Dance.  

Dance Electives

Read descriptions of Landmark High School's Dance Electives:

Beginner Dance

The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning (Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history.  Students who choose to enroll in the dance elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company.  They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April.  This class is open to students new to dance.

Intermediate Dance

The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning(Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history.  Students who choose to enroll in the Dance Elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company. They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April. 

This class is open to students who have previous dance experience or have completed Landmark’s Beginner Dance Class.

Advanced Dance

The Landmark Dance Program offers students the opportunity to learn different dance styles including hip hop, ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, Chinese Water Sleeve/Fan dance, musical theater, choreographic devices, and dance conditioning (Pilates/yoga/Gyrokinesis). Dance classes offer a fun, positive, and safe space where students can express themselves through movement while learning the importance of dance vocabulary, musicality, choreography, and history. Students who choose to enroll in the Dance Elective are members of the Landmark Dance Company. They will have the opportunity to rehearse and perform for our annual Evening of Dance Performance in April.

This class is open to students who have previous intermediate/advanced dance experience or have completed Landmark’s Beginner and Intermediate Dance classes.

students on stage for theater production

Theater

The Landmark Stage Company produces three plays a year: a fall musical, winter dinner theater, and spring play. We strive to offer a variety of dramas and comedies, drawing on classic and contemporary scripts. Students prepare through daily after-school rehearsals and develop not only their performance skills but also integrate into their work the reading, time management, expressive language, and other skills they study during the school day. All students who want to participate are offered roles.

The Acting and Directing class elective offered during the school day allows students to practice a variety of acting skills and techniques in an individualized and intensive setting. Units of study include improvisation, script-writing, and modern and classic script study, among others. Students have the opportunity to act in and direct performance pieces over the course of the year.

Music

The Music Program at Landmark offers students a wide variety of ways to be musically creative on campus. We offer an introduction to music history, theory, and appreciation in the Exploring Music class and the Chorus class allows students the opportunity to be in a vocal ensemble that performs classic and contemporary works from a range of genres in multiple performances every year. After-school Music provides students a flexible way to be involved in a student band or take voice or guitar lessons (private instrument lessons can also be arranged). Solo Night, coffee houses, and other performance opportunities are also open to all students.

Technical Theater

The Technical Theater Program at Landmark is designed to give students the skills they need to build the sets and run the light and sound systems for all of the plays, concerts, and performances held at the High School. Students learn the basics of tool use and safety and also can gain experience working with professional-quality lighting and sound equipment and taking individual responsibility for the different backstage roles during performances.

Performing Arts Staff

Alyssa Gibbs
Performing Arts Department Head and Director of Theater
978-236-3283
[email protected]

Nate Efinger
Director of Music
978-236-3331
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Nate Haywood
Director of Technical Theater
978-236-3455
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Carey McKinley
Director of Dance
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Landmark School is a member of the National Association for Music Education