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Theatre Arts, Drama & Dance

Theatre Arts (Drama and Dance) offers a huge variety of performance opportunities for girls of all ages.

Both drama and dance form part of the curriculum for Years 7 to 9 and become options for Years 10 to 13. Drama and Dance are very popular curricular and co-curricular activities at Rangi Ruru and hundreds of girls each year get involved in school productions as cast and crew.

There are a number of opportunities for girls to get involved with drama and dance, including a major production (senior and junior) as well as Stage Challenge.

Recent major productions, performed with Christ’s College include Jesus Christ Superstar, Romeo & Juliet and the hit Broadway musical Cats. In 2015 Rangi Ruru performed Julius Caesar with an all-female cast. In 2016 we reunited with Christ’s College to perform Our House.

Drama is offered to girls from Years 7 to 13. Drama is an approved subject for University Entrance, and Drama achievement standards meet Literacy requirements for NCEA. A number of girls each year go on to achieve outstanding results in Scholarship Drama. We also have strong links with a number of professional theatrical companies both in New Zealand and overseas and girls have the opportunity to work alongside industry practitioners.

Senior drama classes also undertake a number of public performances each year and the girls get the opportunity to enter the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival as performers. Senior girls may also act as student directors for this festival. In 2015, Rangi Ruru’s senior theatre students took their performance of the play Passengers to London. A group of Year 13 students also received Best Youth Production and Runner-up Best Overall Production at the acclaimed Norfolk Island Theatre Festival for their performance of Breaking News.

All girls from Years 7 to 9 study Dance. The programme exposes girls to a wide range of dance styles, provides an opportunity to develop skills in performance, elementary composition, and to study the History of Dance. In Year 10, Dance is a half-year option.

There are three dance companies allowing girls from Years 7 to 13 to participate in dance. These companies are involved in performances throughout the year including Cultural Concert and Prize Giving, as well as the Annual Dance Show.

There is a Junior Drama Club, Theatre Sports and a very active group of girls who work within technical theatre as part of stage crews and lighting and sound operators.