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at Dent Middle School


Here is a great student portfolio piece to view. Hats off to 8th grade Advanced dance student, Anoushka Bhaskar on her Virtual Dance Performance for Mrs. Graham's Advance Dance II (2021)
Audition video for Dance Portfolio
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ADVANCED FAME COURSE APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE for the 2021-22 School Year.

FAME offers classes in the following areas: Advanced Art, Advanced Choral Music, Advanced Dance, Advanced Theater, and Advanced World Drumming/Percussion

Application links describing the classes and the audition requirements are below:

Advanced ART       
https://forms.gle/9riWRL3wKyzLV2Xt5

Advanced CHORUS 
https://forms.gle/o6ZQQFfkxNG5jSQL7 
 
Advanced DANCE 
https://forms.gle/hNayh3A4XcqjK2aa6 

Advanced THEATER 
https://forms.gle/9zbm6RkjpWyhCyPU6
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Advanced WORLD DRUMMING/PERCUSSION
https://forms.gle/DFkUrBsbfsZh6n9p8 
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Another great student portfolio piece to view. Hats off to 8th grade dance student, Kalei Colter, on her Virtual Dance Performance for Mrs. Graham's Advance Dance II (2021)
Assignment: Choreography using the Movement Alphabet and Audition video for Dance Portfolio 


CONGRATULATIONS
​to the 2021-2022
TEACHER OF THE YEAR....FAME's very own
SHARONDA HILL

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Check out our very own
8th Grade Advanced Dance student Isabel Thomas
with her choreographed dance entitled Shallow
as part of Mrs. Graham's Advance Dance II (2021)
Virtual Dance Performance 
Assignment: Choreography using the Movement Alphabet and Audition video for Dance Portfolio 
Way to go, Isabel!
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Click HERE for a link to our FAME Brochure


Welcome our new FAME Directors:
Genny Nelson (Strings)
Erin Boyd (Choral Music)

Check out their bio's on our Director's Page!


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We are proud to announce that we have been selected as a Magnet Schools of America National Award of Distinction winner.  Hats off to TLC, Two Academies and FAME for this distinction.  Thank you to all of our staff, students and parents for your assistance in the application process!



Please help us congratulate the following students for making the SCBDA Region Band.  We represented both our school and our district well:
 
Elizabeth Huffman- 4th Chair All-State
Aaron Ruopp- 6th Chair All-State
Shrihan Ganesh Babu- 5th Alternate All-State 1st Chair Region Symphonic Band
Satvik Nelakuditi- 7th Chair Symphonic Region Band
Kavin Saravanan- 2nd Chair Symphonic Band Region Band
Joseph Ravindran-16th Chair Symphonic band Region Band
Albert Babinec- 1st Chair Symphonic band Region band
Max Berg- 1st Chair Chair Symphonic Band Region Band  
Sahil Agarwal- 1st Chair Symphonic Band Region Band 
McKenzie Kaufman- 3rd Chair Symphonic Band Region Band  
Alexander Lance- 3rd Chair Symphonic Band Region Band  
Micah Hicks- 2nd Chair Symphonic Band Region Band   
Trystian Starr- 3rd Chair Concert Band Region Band   
Mehul Bellukutty- 18 Chair Concert Band Region Band   
Kady Beatty- 3rd Chair Concert Band Region Band   
Emma Wargel  7th Chair Concert Band Region Band  

Dent had 14 students make Region Band and 3 students make All-State!




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Congratulations to Patrik Li and Kartik Valluri for being accepted into the 2020 SC All State Orchestra.  Patrick is 3rd chair and Kartik is an alternate.


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Congratulations to 8th Grade Advanced Art student, Lailoni Gidron, who is representing Dent Middle in the Lion's Club International Peace Poster Contest.  Lailoni will be competing against other district middle school students. 
​Way to go, Lailoni!


ORCHESTRA NEWS:
Please help us in congratulating these students on being accepted into the 2019 Midlands Region Orchestra! These three students will be participate in the Region Orchestra event in November, and then will audition for All-State Orchestra in January. 7th grader Emna Guedhami was selected as a 3rd alternate. We are very proud of these students-way to go Dent Orchestra students! :) 


Jayden Gaskins (6th Grade)
Patrick Li (7th Grade)
Katrik Valluri (8th Grade)
Alternate: Emna Guedhami (7th Grade)

BAND DATES:
January:
11th Region Band Auditions Blythewood High School(All Day)
25th All-State Auditions Lexington High School(All Day)  

February:
21st and 22nd  Region Band Clinic Nation Ford High School
25th Elementary School Visit  
 
March:
5th Pre-festival Concert Richland Northeast High School 6:30
13th-15th All-State Band Clinic Furman University
25 Concert Performance Assessment Batesburg-Leesville High School Time TBD  

April:
2nd  Richland Two Fine Arts EXPLOSION Night!! R2I2 6-8

May:
1st and 2nd  Solo and Ensemble Dutch Fork High School (All Day)
15th Carowinds
19th Spring Concert 6:30 Richland Northeast High School


Please join us in congratulating Mr Patterson for receiving the SCBDA Outstanding Performance Award. This is the highest possible award given to a band program in the state of South Carolina!!

Mr Patterson, congrats on this OUTSTANDING accomplishment! Thank you for your hard work & dedication to the students here at Dent!! 


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Orchestra News!
FAME is pleased to announce that Dent 6th grader Patrick Li was accepted into the 2019 All-State Orchestra! There were only TEN Richland Two students to be accepted into this prestigious ensemble, and Patrick was THE ONLY middle school student from Richland Two accepted! In the 6th-8th grade orchestra, there were 88 violin students who auditioned, and Patrick ranked 6th overall out of the 88 (the first 5 students in front of him are all 8th graders!). 

All-State Orchestra will take place the weekend of February 22-24, 2019 at the Irmo Center for the Arts at Irmo High School. Patrick will have the experience of working with for a nationally renowned conductor during rehearsals and will present a concert on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 24th at 2:00 pm. 

Please help us congratulate Patrick Li!  We are all so very proud of him and this monumental accomplishment!




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Dent Advanced Dance Classes performed at Longleaf Middle School in honor of Latin American History Month.


Thank you to Rachel Tustin who compiled one of the two FAME performances on June 1st!  Hats off to all of the talented FAME students and teachers!  This is the highlight:


Congratulations to the following Dent Orchestra students for an outstanding performance at this weekend's SCMEA Orchestra Division Solo and Ensemble Festival! They participated in solos, duets and trios. These students achieved SUPERIOR and EXCELLENT ratings at this event, and also received valuable feedback from the judges. I am so proud of their hard work! 

​7th Graders: Madison Gwin, Madison Han, Ashlyn Martin, Meghan Pasala

8th Graders: Ella Blalock, Eileen Chen, Joseph Hicks, Micah Huddlestun, Christopher Li, Kennedy Martin, Apurva Mitta, Evelyn Plakal, Pranav Poola, Shreya Thiagu​
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​Congratulations to the Advanced 8th grade World Percussion Ensemble who performed in a steel band festival at the South Carolina Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion.  They received a score of 94 out of 100 for a superior rating.  These students have worked very hard for the past few months preparing for this event and performed a very challenging program among the best percussion groups in the state:
Hayden Blalock, Kara Boston, Andrew Boysia, Anna Carroll, Carolina Cervantes,
Kennedi Cleckley, Austin Garrick, Noah Harmon, Angel Huang,
 James Huffman, Tyler Jackson, William Johnson, Savien Jones, 
William Lambert,  John-Gabriel Lashley,  Samuel Munteanu, Connor Quirk,
Nicholas Roberts, Katie Ryan, Leia Smith, Kayla Tuazon,
 Blakely Wild, Lauren Williams, Nathaniel Williams

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BAND DOES IT AGAIN.....
The Dent Band achieved for the 11th year in a row a Superior Rating at the South Carolina Band Director's Association Concert Performance Assessment.  This is the high rating the band could achieve at this event. 
We still have one more event to achieve the SCBDA Outstanding Performance Award which marks the best band programs in the State. 
We've previously one that award for the past 10 years and are primed to receive this award again this year.  
Way to go Dent Band --- we are proud of you!





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