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Arts and Movement

Every student at the EWS High School experiences both art and movement classes during a typical school week. Physical Education emphasizes skill building and team sports with highlights placed on education and experience in physical development in strength and aerobic conditioning. In their core art classes, students at Emerson will take Drawing, Painting, Clay Sculpture (I-III), Stone Carving, Fine Woodworking, Coppersmithing and Basic Wood Construction as they move from grades 9-12. Additionally, students are offered practical art and movement electives from which they may choose classes as varied as Circus Arts, Bookbinding, Magazine Production, Blacklight Theater, Solar Greenhouse Construction, Biodynamic Gardening, Theater Set Design, Drumming, Puppetry and more.

As in many Waldorf schools, the arts and movement classes at EWS are offered in the afternoon as a balance to a morning of intellectual activity. Students are called upon to physically shape, form, move, push, manipulate, create, and experience their world in real and tangible ways. This “outbreath” creates a rhythm that provides a satisfying structure to their weekly school experience.