Professional Performing Arts School: Difference between revisions

The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) is a New York City public school "created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study the arts as an avocation. PPAS continues that mission today as students follow a daily schedule of academic work at school each morning and intensive performing arts instruction at professional studios each afternoon. The performing arts curriculum offers students in grades nine through twelve a unique opportunity to study the arts in a professional environment."

The school is located in 48th Street in Manhattan, about two miles (3 km) south of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

Notable alumni and students

• Claire Danes, actress (My So Called Life)
• Jesse Eisenberg, actor (The Squid and the Whale)
• Alicia Keys, singer
• Julianna Rose Mauriello, actress (LazyTown)
• Connor Paolo, child actor (Alexander)
• Alisa Reyes, actress (All That)
• Stephen Scarpulla -actor- Broadway "Les Miz" "Gypsy" "Oklahoma"etc.
• Britney Spears, singer
• Lee Thompson Young, actor (The Famous Jett Jackson)

Partnerships

• The Actors Institute
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• School of American Ballet
• Songs of Solomon Academy for the Arts

See also

• Professional Children's School
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

External links

• Professional Performing Arts School
• The Actors Institute
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• School of American Ballet
• Songs of Solomon