
The exhibit, showcasing her printmaking works, celebrates "the beauty, importance, and complexity of positive representation of African American children."
The exhibit, showcasing her printmaking works, celebrates "the beauty, importance, and complexity of positive representation of African American children."
After 13 years leading Big Blue Football, Coach Shilts passes the torch to New Jersey State Coaches Association Hall of Famer Rick Mantz.
A mouse-eating corn snake, blue-tongued lizard, 40-pound tortoise, and nearly 8-foot-long, gleaming yellow Burmese python were among the reptiles entertaining Short Hills students this week.
Flexibility and added motivation are just a few of the lessons learned this winter season by a senior co-captain of the Girls' Varsity Swim Team.
During this annual event for sophomores and juniors, she raised the question, "What defines a politician?"
Recently, more than 60 members of the Pingry community, from all three divisions, gathered on Zoom for the school's first-ever HBCU alumni panel. Six Pingry graduates shared their experiences—here's what they had to say.
Lower, Middle, and Upper School students immersed themselves in a celebration of Black culture and achievements.
The three captains of the Girls' Varsity Basketball Team talk about their experience this season, including a new coach and high hopes for the future.
The program honors students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Scholarships will be awarded this spring.
Capping a remarkable season, freshman Dylan Jay and senior captain Rosemary Collins '21 both took second at the Race of Champions on Wednesday, among many other highlights for Big Blue this winter.
As a part of the academic curriculum, the four elective courses that comprise the Drama program in the Upper School demand that the students use themselves, express their unique personalities and life experiences, find their own voice in the service of artistic creation. In a real sense they are the primary material of all the Drama courses. At the same time the courses in the program require that the students learn a discipline, a craft that develops a variety of personal resources and academic skills: listening, concentration, physical flexibility, emotional self awareness, openness to others, critical reading skills and analysis, problem solving, etc. At the core of the work is the development of the dramatic imagination. This kind of learning is unique to the dramatic arts.
Unlike the other academic disciplines, Drama is always about the “Other.” This requirement to involve, acknowledge and, at times, sublimate the “Self” in favor of the “Other” makes the Dramatic Arts and its most visible creation--the stage play--an invaluable experience for young adults. The student actor is trained to place his attention on the other actors in the scene, to react to what is happening in the other actors. In a larger sense a Drama Program that stages a variety of challenging plays gives the actors and the school community (the audience) a chance to participate in the “stories of others.” It brings the larger world into the smaller world of the school.
Drama teaches its varied “lessons” by having the students “do it.” Personal and artistic growth is “tested” by having the students continually put their “knowledge” about themselves and their craft to use in daily exercises, scene study performances and staged plays.