The Visual and Performing Dance classes at Mission Hills High School perform several times each year.  They create dances in modern, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, musical theater, and hip-hop.  Annually the students also create a dance film, which is presented at our ArtsFest performance.  Past dance films took the students around campus and devising site-specific dance in unusual and unsuspecting locations.  The students are taught to work with choreographic design, texture, background, and symmetry versus asymmetry patterns.  Our winter and spring shows features student choreography.
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Mission Hills High School provides a great opportunity for students to explore their range of creative and technical abilities.  The students create numerous dances themselves, as well as working with collegiate and professional dancers and choreographers.  Progressive Steps is an annual production in which guest artist offer master classes, as professionals teach technique and set choreography on the students.  It culminates in an evening performance including Mission Hills dancers, college dancers, and professional dancers.  It is a unique experience and a valuable connection for our students with the progression from high school, to college and universities in the area, and professional company dancers and choreographers.