The Family Foundation School Arts

Music and Dance Festival

by admin on May 20, 2012

The Family Singers and Dancers present a “Music and Dance Festival.” Performed May 18, 2012 at The Family Foundation School.

Hershey, here we come!

by admin on March 20, 2012

By Roderick O.

Every year The Family Foundation School chorus takes a trip to Hershey Park to participate in a choral competition. Whether they bring home a trophy or not, the overall experience is one to remember. With the contest approaching, Paul has been preparing the students for the intense competition. There are 16 kids in the choir and each of them brings something unique. “It’s fantastic, I love the energy and the dancing,” said chorus member Connor S.

In preparation for the Hershey Park Paul has the members learning vocal pedagogy. This entails different types of breathing techniques, phonation, tone quality, posture, vowel shaping and most importantly, discipline. When interviewing Paul he told me that the student energy was super and there was a tremendous amount of focus and energy.

One Print at a Time

February 7, 2012

New printmaking class at the Family Foundation School By Roderick O. A new wave of art classes have recently come to the school. The majority of them are taught by Judith R. One of these new classes is a printmaking class. Since I was little my parents always told me I was a gifted artist [...]

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A Splendid “Night” at FFS

December 15, 2011

By Ileana A. The Family School Players did a wonderful job in Night of the Shepherds this past Saturday. The gym was packed with family and friends who definitely got a kick out of the playful jokes made throughout the musical. The cast and crew alike worked well together to make the show run smoothly. [...]

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Night of the Shepherds

December 10, 2011

Today a full house at The Family Foundation School enjoyed the debut performance of Night of the Shepherds by Tim Janis featuring eleven musical numbers performed by the Family School Players with guest performer Lars Valdor Heglund. The performance, the centerpiece of Family Day at the school, ushered in the holiday season on campus.

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Musical Coming Soon

December 8, 2011

By Ileana A. The Family Foundation School Performing Arts Department will soon be presenting the debut performance of Night of the Shepherds. This Christmas musical was written by Tim Janis, who also composed the songs that the chorus performed last year at Carnegie Hall. Night of the Shepherds focuses on a side character from the [...]

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Dance Class

November 20, 2011

By Ileana A. Here at The Family Foundation School, professional dancer, Tom Kovaleski, teaches three different dance classes. These are jazz, tap, and ballet. Tom has received dance scholarships in high school and college. He has danced with the North Carolina Dance Theater, and with the California Dance Company and Cincinnati Ballet Company as a [...]

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Journal Writing and Nature Exploration

November 15, 2011

By Judith Reeve Art Teacher The root of creativity, I believe, springs from two things- “keen” observation of the natural world as well as of man and secondly, taking note of what lies within oneself at all times. The artist must be an attentive observer of the natural world both of large and small phenomena- [...]

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Yuri’s Art Class

November 8, 2011

By Ileana A. In the one-hundreds wing of The Family Foundation School building, you will find a room filled with brightly colored paintings and dozens of still-life sketches. Yuri Kuchukov, the art teacher, says, “Art is just as important as math and science because it is about forming another side of intellectuality. Art helps to [...]

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A New Perspective

October 9, 2011

By Ileana A. The Family Foundation School welcomed a new art teacher, Judith Reeve, on September 12th, 2011. She works Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and currently has seven students. She also teaches at the Woodstock School of Art. Judith studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut. The Academy was an atelier and [...]

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