Creating art requires learning to experience art. For over a decade we have been developing relationships with New York City theaters and theater-related programs. Though only available to smaller groups, experiencing the magic of the theater adds a dimension to students' lives and a way to escape the every day.
Students have seen performances of the Thunderbird Native American Dancers in the East Village at Theater for the New City, Dance Africa and Arabian Nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Broadway production of The Lion King and Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech at the Joyce Theatre.
For fifteen years we at Jamaica High School have built a relationship with New York Theatre Workshop where students have seen productions of the musical Rent, Will Power’s Flow, Tony Kushner’s Homebody Kabul and adaptations of Dostoevsky’s The Devils and Flannery O’Conner’s Everything That Rises Must Converge. We desire to continue and further develop this collaboration. www.nytw.org
In the fine arts program, Jamaica High students have attended the American Museum of Natural History, the Americas Society, the Asia Society, the Forbes Museum, the Museum for African Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty.
