Arts
Arts at CA
Upper School Arts
What are you interested in? Performing Arts?
CA debuted the Leach Center for the Performing Arts in 2021, and students performed in many plays and musicals, including The 39 Steps, Mary Poppins and the 24-Hour Play Project. Check out the trailers from a variety of prior shows, such as Les Misérables, Proof, Lucky Stiff, American Buffalo, and Black Comedy, or a recent Dance Concert. Tune into the last Choir Concert and listen to Rise Up, Shosholoza, Baba Yetu, or Lullabye, and hear performances by the Jazz Band and the Rock Band.
Our dance program offers a wide variety of choices—from tap and contemporary, to hip hop and musical theater. We've also introduced vertical dance, which is performed using ropes, silks, and harnesses. Dance students may attend the state dance conference.
Learn about the new Leach Center for the Performing Arts and CA’s long commitment to the performing arts. And learn about the Orchestra and opportunities for private music lessons.
Read about a visit—which included a master class for Upper School theater students—from Bryan Terrell Clark who played George Washington in Hamilton on Broadway.
Or, perhaps your passion is Visual and Digital Arts.
Explore the recent in-person Senior Portfolio exhibitions and read more about the visual and digital arts program here. Meet CA's 2021 Guest Artist Patricia Aaron, and learn about the 2022 All-School Art Festival.
Finally, read about CA alums who are thriving, successful artists, including:
CA debuted the Leach Center for the Performing Arts in 2021, and students performed in many plays and musicals, including The 39 Steps, Mary Poppins and the 24-Hour Play Project. Check out the trailers from a variety of prior shows, such as Les Misérables, Proof, Lucky Stiff, American Buffalo, and Black Comedy, or a recent Dance Concert. Tune into the last Choir Concert and listen to Rise Up, Shosholoza, Baba Yetu, or Lullabye, and hear performances by the Jazz Band and the Rock Band.
Our dance program offers a wide variety of choices—from tap and contemporary, to hip hop and musical theater. We've also introduced vertical dance, which is performed using ropes, silks, and harnesses. Dance students may attend the state dance conference.
Learn about the new Leach Center for the Performing Arts and CA’s long commitment to the performing arts. And learn about the Orchestra and opportunities for private music lessons.
Read about a visit—which included a master class for Upper School theater students—from Bryan Terrell Clark who played George Washington in Hamilton on Broadway.
Or, perhaps your passion is Visual and Digital Arts.
Explore the recent in-person Senior Portfolio exhibitions and read more about the visual and digital arts program here. Meet CA's 2021 Guest Artist Patricia Aaron, and learn about the 2022 All-School Art Festival.
Finally, read about CA alums who are thriving, successful artists, including:
- an actor and activist who appeared in Back to the Future
- a Broadway and Tony Award-winning actor
- an international muralist
- an Academy Award nominee and producer
- a science-inclined YouTube star, producer, and host of, Vsauce3, which has 4 million subscribers and 400 million views; his series Could You Survive the Movies? was nominated for a 2020 Emmy.
- an artist and co-founder of a design-build firm
- an international theater & opera lighting and set designer
- a Second City improv actor
- a music composer and figure skater turned designer
- an artist and sculptor
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