April 27, 2012

High Standards for BISD Dancers

BISD held a Dance Evaluation Contest on Saturday, April 12 at Veterans High School. All 6 district high schools and 5 middle schools participated. The dance groups were evaluated by 3 college dance professors in the areas of lyrical modern, contemporary, ballet, tap, and jazz. BISD has raised its standards so in order to evaluate dance students at the same level as students in band and choir. No other Texas district uses an evaluation system like this for fine arts dance education. This is the 5th year that this evaluation has been conducted and BISD students have shown amazing progress. The rating scale is 1 - Superior, II – Excellent, and III – Good. View this year’s evaluation results. Amazing Manzano