Dance Club

Dance Club is a District Wide club open to all UCVTS students.

No prior dance experience required. Dance Club is a student lead club, providing students with the opportunity to share their love for dance with their peers. Students get the opportunity to explore all forms and styles of dance. Club members get to teach any style or choreograph dances for members. Dance Club members aspire to share their talent and creativity with the UCVTS campus and the surrounding community. Dance Club is a great way to create, learn, share and discover what you have in common with other students on campus.

Dance Club meets once a week, in the APA building Studio D room 118.(Please note the Club membership will alert interested members when the club will meet).

Dance Club 2020-2021 Virtual Club Meetings

A video message from our club leaders: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4z-OjUVOr8yRVK_Jb5ArZtQexEeHLB_/view?usp=sharing

Students can join Dance Club with the following link: https://classroom.google.com/c/NDIwMzAwMzUwMjda?cjc=zgah7dt

We are looking for new club members for the 2020-2021 school year. New members get the opportunity to teach a virtual dance class to our members or keep fit while enjoying a fun-filled  Zoom Meeting dance class . Our Student leaders are looking forward to seeing you soon. 

NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY FOR DANCE ARTS (NHSDA)

UCVTS ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS NJ CHAPTER 17

APA Dance Majors may apply to be inducted into NHSDA during their junior and senior years

What is National Honor Society for Dance Arts? The National Honor Society for Dance Arts is an elite society that celebrates the artistic and academic achievements of exceptional dance students.  It helps to create honor and prestige within the dance field as well as awareness to those outside of the field. The NHSDA is sponsored by the National Dance Education Organization. The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and promotion of high quality education in the art of dance. NDEO provides the dance artist, educator and administrator a network of resources and support, a base for advocacy, and access to programs that focus on the importance of dance in the human experience.

The Goals of NHSDA

1. To promote and honor outstanding artistic achievement in dance students 11-18 years of age. 
2. To encourage young dance artists to be leaders in their communities.  
3. To identify honor students of junior and senior high school age for nomination to the NDEO Artistic Merit, Leadership and Academic Achievement Award, one of the highest honors programs for dance in the United States. 

Eligibility and Criteria for Induction

Student induction into the NHSDA is awarded on the basis of points earned for meritorious work in dance.  Criteria for the Union County Vocational School Academy for Performing Arts NHSDA Chapter 17 are as follows:

• Final GPA of 92 or above in Dance and Dance Lab from Freshmen Year through to the end of Sophomore Year. Inducted students must maintain their Chapter Site Dance GPA and selected Chapter Site Community Outreach activities  through to their Senior Year.  
• Characteristics that exemplify cooperative teamwork, motivation, positive attitude, professionalism and etiquette, a willingness to learn and strong work ethic in technique class and rehearsal/performance environments.  
• Full participation in Chapter Site Technique Classes, Rehearsals and Performances totaling a minimum of pre-determined hours.
• Chapter Site Dance-Related Community Outreach 
• Off Site Dance-Related Community Outreach

Benefits of NHSDA

Inductees receive a Certificate of Membership, added prestige in scholarship applications and future resumes, wear NHSDA honor cords and gold honor pins during graduation ceremonies and are eligible to apply for the NDEO Artistic Merit, Leadership and Academic Achievement Award.  

The NHSDA program brings well deserved recognition to outstanding students and our school.  Administrators will recognize the importance of dance as an art form and an academic discipline that contributes toward academic achievement, workforce skills, and life skills. The point system reinforces the values the dance educator considers important in dance, art, education and life. Congratulatory letters from the Executive Director of NDEO are sent to the principal, superintendent and state arts coordinator when a student/school progresses to national adjudication of the NDEO Artistic Merit, Leadership and Academic Achievement Award.