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Performing Arts Calendar 2024-2025 (Upcoming Events)
Upper School Fall Production
Antigone (translation TBD)
Thursday, November 7 – 4:00 pm
Friday, November 8 – 7:00 pm
Saturday, November 9 – 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
Stage Band Jazz Brunch
Sunday, November 17 – noon
Hajjar Auditorium
MS & US Orchestra Concert
Thursday, December 5 – 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
Handbells & Chorus Concert
Thursday, December 12 – 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
Jazz Rock
Thursday, December 19
Schenck
MS & LS Chorus Concert
Thursday, January 23 – 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
US Band & Chorus Concert
Monday, February 3 – 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
Upper School Musical
Into The Woods
Thursday, February 27 – 4:00 pm
Friday, February 28 – 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 1 – 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
LS Music Concert
Thursday, March 13 – 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
Jazz Rock Concert
Thursday, April 17 – TTBA
Fifth Grade Opera
Thursday, April 24 – 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
Orchestra Extravaganza
Friday, April 25 – 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
Middle School Musical
High School Musical, Jr.
Friday, May 9 – 4:30 pm
Saturday, May 10 – 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium
Cabaret Night
Monday, May 19 – 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
All-School Chorus & Drumming Concert
Tuesday, May 20 – 7:00 pm
Schenck Auditorium and Leggett Field
Student Directed One Act
Thursday, May 22 – 4:00 pm
Leggett Theatre – Room 111
Music Lesson Recital
Thursday, May 29 – 7:00 pm
Hajjar Auditorium
All performances are subject to change. Please come back here for showtimes, locations, tickets, and more!
A Look Back: "Sixth Night"! A Senior One Act
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A Look Back: All-Choral & African Drumming Concert
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A Look Back: Cabaret Night 2024!
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A Look Back: "The Wizard of Oz Youth Edition" Middle School Musical
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A Look Back: Senior Spotlight Show 2024
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A Look Back: Orchestra Extravaganza Concert 2024
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A Look Back: Jazz Rock Spring Concert 2024
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NEW! The D-E Performing Arts Spotlight eNewsletter
Check out the latest in D-E Performing Arts news, from our students, faculty and staff!
A Look Back: Stage Band, US Chorus & Jazz Workshop Winter Concert 2024
Bravo to our Stage Band, US Chorus and Jazz Workshop musicians for a lively and wonderful Winter Concert! The ensembles performed to a highly appreciative audience, opening with a spirited rendition of “The Flintstones”. Individual musicians showed off their improvisational skills during numbers including “Lucky Seven” and “Afternoon in Paris”, and our vocalists’ blended voices in “Lullabye” and “Funny Valentine” were truly D-Elightful. The concert finale – Benny Goodman’s jazz classic “Sing Sing Sing” – then featured a drumming battle! Cheers to all our Performing Arts Department musicians, directors, and supporting crew!
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A Look Back: Alumni Artist Ambrose Proctor '21 Shares "Three of Hearts" Exhibit
This exhibit explored the history of playing cards and visualizes how relationships with others can change. Ambrose is currently a student at Union College and is studying Anthropology and Visual Arts as they continue to pursue their artistic creativity. Ambrose’s work has covered many mediums, from embroidery and painting to printmaking and sculpture. In their art, they explore themes of intimacy, attachment, and their relationship to nature. Thank you Ambrose for sharing your work and perspectives with us!
Bravo to our Middle/Upper Schools Orchestral Ensembles!
Bravo to our Middle and Upper School musicians for their exceptional Winter Orchestral Concert this past Friday. Selections from the concert included, “O Mio Babbino Caro” by the Middle School Strings Ensemble, “Farandole from L’arlesienne Suite No. 2”, and a Cello Concierto with soloist (and D-E Concerto Competition winner) Giana Kim ’24! Again, cheers to our incredible student-musicians and faculty!
A Look Back: Stage Band Jazz Brunch D-Elights Audience
Bravo to our Stage Band!
CONGRATS to Cast & Crew of "She Kills Monsters"
BRAVO! D-E Performing Arts Department proudly presented the Upper School Fall Play, “She Kills Monsters” (SKM), to appreciative audiences in early November. The play was performed in D-E's Hajjar Auditorium and featured memorable scenes and a fantastic set, compelling costumes, and dramatic, futuristic lighting and backdrops.
Written by playwright Qui Nguyen, the play follows Agnes Evans after she’s lost her family, including her younger sister, Tilly, in a car crash. Amidst her grief, Agnes uncovers Tilly’s Dungeon and Dragons game set-up and embarks on a fantastical journey to connect with her late sister.
Congratulations to the entire "SKM" cast and crew for an unforgettable dramatic event!
Written by playwright Qui Nguyen, the play follows Agnes Evans after she’s lost her family, including her younger sister, Tilly, in a car crash. Amidst her grief, Agnes uncovers Tilly’s Dungeon and Dragons game set-up and embarks on a fantastical journey to connect with her late sister.
Congratulations to the entire "SKM" cast and crew for an unforgettable dramatic event!
Swartley Gallery Presents: Transpessimism by Coco Klockner '10
The exhibit will be open from October 20-November 20, 2023.
The Swartley Gallery Presents "A Study of Lascaux & Paleolithic Mark-Making," A Lower School Exhibit
Curated by LS Art Teacher Christine Maloney, K-5 students took inspiration from this historical finding. Cheers to our Lower School Artists! The exhibit was open in the Swartley Gallery from October 10 to October 13.
A Look Back..."Dabbling" Exhibit by Tara Weinstein
Welcome!
A structured involvement in the arts unleashes the kind of creativity that can invigorate one’s entire learning experience. Studying the arts can also help a student grasp mathematical and visual concepts, develop critical literacy, and see patterns across academic disciplines.
At Dwight-Englewood, the arts play an important role from Preschool through the 12th grade.
All Lower School students learn how to listen to and create music. One activity that defines the Lower School experience is the Creating Original Opera program, in which all fifth-graders participate. Additionally, our studio-art program offers children the opportunity to explore many forms of visual art. Students work from both their own imagination and direct observation. By starting out early in life making art, our students ignite a lifelong love for the arts.
At the Middle School level, drama, music, and studio art challenge students to become confident and imaginative innovators. This growth continues in the Upper School, where a program such as Jazz Rock helps aspiring singers and musicians select the right composition to show-case their talents.
In the Upper School, students can choose from courses in studio art, sculpture, ceramics, and photography/video production; theater courses that explore acting technique, writing for the stage, production, and the technical arts; and music courses in orchestra and chamber ensembles, chorus, stage band, or handbell choir.
One of the most exciting things about Dwight-Englewood’s arts program is that so many of our instructors boast significant professional experience. Many are active on Broadway, play in musical ensembles, or pursue visual-arts careers. By sharing their real-world experience with students, our teachers serve to inspire and to prepare a new guard made up both of people who make art and those who deeply appreciate it.
Private Music Lessons Program Information for 2023-2024
Questions? Email Jake Lloyd at lloyd@d-e.org
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Located in Englewood, New Jersey, Dwight-Englewood is a greater New York City area private school with a rigorous college prep curriculum for boys and girls in preschool through grade 12.