OSA Dance - OWW Lunchtime Performance Series (3.13.24) #2

Join us at Latham Square this Wednesday (3/13) from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm for our AMP Lunchtime Student Performances Series in partnership with the Oakland School for the Arts. This Wednesday we will be featuring OSA’s Dance: Spring Repertoire Sample. Students will be performing two pieces; "When Did You?" a contemporary duet set to Marvin Gaye and “Bad Man” a Hip Hop piece examining what it means to have "girl power." 💃🏾🕺🏽
OSA's Dance Department is a serious dance training program. As such, it is important to note that it is not a dance enrichment program. Students are pushed daily with an emphasis on training, self-discipline, and etiquette. Daily classes in ballet technique are geared toward developing a greater comprehension and continued awareness of how strong ballet training is an essential component in developing the full potential of the professional contemporary dancer and performer. In addition to their daily training with professional dance artists, students will be able to experience dance styles and techniques not emphasized in the curriculum through classes with master guest teachers. 💃🏾🕺🏽
This is a new series as part of the Oakland Works Wednesday Initiative in collaboration with Oakland Central.💃🏾🕺🏽
We are super excited to showcase the amazing talent of our youth to our downtown employees, residents, and visitors to sit back and enjoy the sounds of student musicians. The series will continue until May 2024 on two Wednesdays of every month (weather permitting).
Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) is a nonprofit public charter school founded in 2002. Now in its 21st year, OSA serves over 780 students in grades 6-12 tuition-free. OSA is housed in Uptown Oakland’s historic Fox Theater, Newberry Building and Sweet's Ballroom.
OSA is a Linked Learning Pathway School offering an immersive arts program and a strong academic curriculum. We serve youth from across the Bay Area with a preference for Oakland-based students. Many of our students are from under-resourced elementary schools and communities.
OSA students complete a challenging academic curriculum with an emphasis in one of ten artistic fields: Audio Production and Engineering, Dance, Digital Media, Fashion Design, Instrumental Music, Literary Arts Production Design, Theatre, Visual Media and Vocal Music.
Students are taught by working artists and receive 10 to 15 hours of intensive arts instruction a week.
For more information go to www.oakarts.org
The Literary Arts Department at OSA offers an inventive and intensive exploration of the art and practice of creative writing. Our program is a comprehensive, dynamic, and innovative introduction to literary genres, styles, and techniques driven by a faculty who are both dedicated teachers and practicing, published writers. Rigorous, craft-oriented writing workshops-with literature and literary analysis folded into the curriculum-comprise the core of our program.
Literary Arts courses are differentiated to allow students at all experience and accomplishment levels to feel comfortable yet challenged. Courses include readings intended to inspire students via a diverse array of writers, both traditional and experimental, contemporary and canonical, from many intersecting cultures and identities. Literary Arts also focuses on project-based and collaborative learning, and students get hands-on experience in editing, designing, and producing publications.