PAPA – Public Academy for Performing Arts

PAPA Students Participate in Albuquerque Youth Symphony Scholarship Recital
Congratulations to Alanah Harley and Maricella Pajan on their Albuquerque Youth Symphony scholarship recitals. Their playing was artistic and fantastic!

Sing it!
Congratulations to all PAPA Choir large group participants for an outstanding job at the Large Group Festival. You should be proud you represented our school well.

6th – grade received a Division 2 Excellent rating for performance and a Division 1 Superior rating for sight reading

7th and 8th grade received a Division 2 Excellent rating for both performance and sight reading

High School Concert Choir – Received Division 2+ Excellent rating for performance and a Division 1 Superior for sight reading

Les Chanteuses and our string Camerata received a 1+ superior rating for performance and a 1+ superior for sight reading.

Thank you for all your hard work – Next concert is Senior Farewell – in April.

WISHERS Rule at PAPA
We have two WISHERS at PAPA! What is a WISHER? A WISHER is a Woman In Stem High School Aerospace Scholar. Only 135 students from across the United States were accepted into the first round of this program including PAPA’s very own Stephanie Babington and Elicia Larribas. If they make it past round one they will receive an all expense paid trip to the NASA – Johnson Space Center.

PAPA Students Participate in NMMEA All State Choir January 5-7

Our school is well represented at this years choral All State Festival, many of the states larger schools do not have this many students make it through the audition process – So Be Proud PAPA of the following students:

Blaise Koller

Raeven Ortiz

Maricella Pajan

Alexandra Tibble

Austin Torrez

Nathaniel Torrez

Thanks

Ed Torrez

Thank You Anonymous!
PAPA’s Theatre department had the opportunity to apply for a “wish list” donation from an anonymous donor,
via The Albuquerque Theatre Guild. We were one the the lucky recipients of a generous donation, which was
earmarked to buy a karaoke machine and karaoke music. With our new karaoke equipment, the Theatre department
will be able to hold fundraising events with the fun of live karaoke! We will be announcing special karaoke nights soon!
Thank you to our anonymous supporter!

To view information on the PAPA Art Fest click this link:
papaartfest2011

Active in the PAPA Dance World!
PAPA dance students were able to attend FREE workshops from the following dance luminaries:

Public Academy for Performing Arts Advanced dance students had the opportunity to take Master Class at the University of New Mexico with Rochelle Zide-Booth.  Ms. Zide-Booth is a former soloist of the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo and former principal at the Joffrey Ballet.  Ms. Zide-Booth is also a former Artistic Director of the Netherlands Dance Theater, was head of the ballet program at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, directed the Dance Program at Adelphi University, directed the New Zealand School of Dance, and was an Associate Professor of Butler University’s Dance Department.

PAPA students also had the opportunity to take Master Classes with Daniel Ulbricht, principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and Jonte Culpepper – a dance major at UNM but also a singer, actor, comic, and choreographer.

ALL STATE CHOIR
Congratulations to the following students who will represent PAPA at this years NMMEA High School All State Choir in the first week of January 2012:

Raeven Ortiz, Alex Tibble, Maricella Pajan, Blaise Koller, Austin Torrez  and Nathan Torrez