Arts

Performing Arts

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts Department, recognizing that the performing arts are at the core of human existence, offers ensembles and classes in a supportive environment that provides for performance-based assessment and process-oriented learning. Students are encouraged to exceed previous levels of achievement, discover self-confidence, develop self-esteem, build self-discipline, and achieve self-awareness. Teachers are models for active learning, risk-taking, and self-expression. Students are taught the arts for the sake of the arts and as a model for all learning. Motivated students are prepared for advanced study.

The study of the performing arts is a major component of a well-rounded education. As such, the performing arts at Rivers aim to help students understand how to listen to and interact with other performing artists as well as to express themselves confidently, articulately, and artistically.






2024-25 Nonesuch Players Season

Upper School Fall Play:
Almost Maine
November 7, 8, and 9, 2024

Middle School Fall Play:
Insert Name of Show
November 15, 2024

Upper School Winter Musical:
Mean Girls
February 20 and 21, 2025

Middle School Spring Musical:
May 15-19, 2025


Performing Arts Events

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Music Ensembles

List of 3 items.

  • Instrumental Program

    Select String Ensemble (US) - Ben Carson, director
    Select Wind Ensemble (US) - Dan Shaud, director
    Select Piano Ensemble (US) - Victor Cayres, director
    Chamber Ensemble (US) - Dan Shaud, director
    Chamber Ensemble (MS) - Dan Shaud, director

  • Jazz Program

    Rivers Honors Big Band (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Rivers Big Band (US) - Bill Jones, director
    Select Combo I (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Select Combo II (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Intermediate Jazz Band (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Beginning Jazz Ensemble (MS) - Clayton DeWalt, director
    Middle School Jazz Ensemble (MS) - Bill Jones, director

  • Vocal Program

    Select Chorus (US) - Krissy Skare, director
    Chorus (US) - Krissy Skare, director
    Middle School Chorus - Krissy Skare, director


Performing Arts News

List of 3 news stories.

  • Building their Own Show: Middle School Players Put on Original Play

    Rivers Middle School students created a world of their own in the Black Box Theater for this year’s fall play. The latest Middle School production, [Insert Name of Show], was a show fully conceived, scripted, and acted by four Middle School students—Maggie Tompros ’30, Charlotte Hardgrave ’30, Alma Peña ’31, and Bea Ketcham ’30—under the direction of Ellie Strayer. The original show premiered in the Black Box Theater on Friday, November 15, with two additional community performances on Monday and Tuesday.
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    The Rivers School Jazz Festival: Celebrating Music and Community

    The 17th annual Rivers & RSC Jazz Festival featured an afternoon of performances by small ensembles directed by RSC faculty members, as well as a concert featuring the Rivers Middle and Upper School Big Bands and Select Combos, along with featured artist Felipe Salles and his 18-piece band.
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  • Upper School Fall Play Explores Life, Love, and Maine

    Almost, Maine, is an almost place that is almost magical. Almost, Maine is also the name of the Nonesuch Players’ fall production, performed in the Black Box Theater on November 7, 8, and 9. The play consists of eight short vignettes (plus a prologue, epilogue, and “interlogue”), tied together by the Northern Lights and by the theme of love.
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