Visual and Performing Arts
Express yourself like a Tiger.
Art has the potential to expand and transform every Tiger in miraculous ways. Many NDB students share their artistic skills with their peers and have an opportunity to teach others. Some students arrive feeling as if they are not creative, only to find an opportunity to unleash a talent they had only imagined! NDB students explore a variety of artistic mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking, dance, theatre, video production, photography and graphic design. No matter what career our students choose, whether it be the arts, education or medicine, NDB’s Visual and Performing Arts program empowers students to learn to express themselves and utilize design thinking that can be applied to all aspects of life.
Arts Concentration
Launching with the Class of 2028, the Arts Concentration immerses students in creative expression in the classroom, on the stage and in the studio. Students explore historical and cultural meanings of art to intensify visual perceptions. Students gain insight into the technical processes involved in the production of art while they learn how to both express and create something greater than themselves, in and out of the classroom.
Who is an Arts Tiger?
An Arts Tiger doesn’t quite “fit the mold,” their expansive mind wildly beautiful and unique. Quirky, imaginative and creative, the mind of an Arts Tiger is visionary. Whether they are drawing a scene created from the depths of their mind or acting out the experience of a charismatic, complex character in a play, an Arts Tiger is expressive and dynamic. Unapologetically innovative, an Arts Tiger paints their own path and expresses themselves without limitations.
Arts Concentration Students Develop:
- An understanding of art history
- Skills to conduct the technical processes involved in the production of art
- Confidence to express themselves in innovative ways
- Exposure to all facets of film; language, genre and visual and narrative structures
- Creative self-expression
Courses and Opportunities
The Luggage Project
Tri-School Productions
NDB InStep Dance Company
Winter Dance Assembly
Nothing gets us in the holiday spirit like our musical theatre and dance students! NDB InStep Dance Company and dance levels I-IV performed fun dances and skits for the student body.