dance

  • Dancing their way to a cure

    Swirling and twirling in the spotlight, the performers at the eighth annual Dance for Hope charity event on Feb. 3 poured their hearts on the floor as they raised money for cancer research. The Interact Club project, led by Amiya Prasad, sophomore, and Sonia Patel, senior, was designed to showcase and unite different cultures…

  • Dance Team Starts Competition Season With a Bang

    Dance Team Starts Competition Season With a Bang This past weekend, the NPHS dance team started their competition season by clinching third overall grand champions and placing five soloists in the top 16 out of over 200 competing dancers. The competition took place in San Diego at Rancho Bernardo High School with over 15…

  • Dance concert captures hearts and pikachus

      The curtain for DancersGo first opened to reveal two rival Pokemon Teams facing off to find out who was the superior team. After the introductory duel, the dance team, period 2 and 3 dance classes, IB dance, and guest studios gave performances. For the finale, the entire dance department took the stage in…

  • Dancing With the Star Panthers 2016

    Watch the Panther Prowler’s Snapchat story from Dancing with the Star Panthers. Add npprowler on Snapchat to see live updates of events throughout the year!

  • Lark Detweiler: A journey of passion and perseverance

    As she moves across the stage, the first things immediately apparent about Lark Detweiler, sophomore, are her technique, her strength, her poise, and her passion. What isn’t immediately apparent is that the ballerina has been hard of hearing since her childhood. After going through an unidentified illness that burned the cilia in both of…

  • Solo artists win big at talent show

    Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes past 6 o’clock and people were still filing into Newbury Park’s Performing Arts Center. At twenty minutes past the scheduled start time, the lights dimmed, quieting the crowd of excited students and anxious parents. ASG’s NPHS Talent Show was under way. The spotlight first shown on Masters of…

  • Continuing a winning tradition: Dance team starts fresh

    After a win at nationals last year, the dance team has been revamped with new coaches, dancers, and routines. The loss of last years coaches has led the team to adjust and keep the strength of the program alive. The turnover has taken time, but the dance team is now back to winning competitions,…

  • A New Wave of Coaches

    From the top! The dance team is starting fresh as they welcome a new director, Katelyn Miller, and two new assistant coaches, Erik Sosa and Jess Steinkamp. After saying goodbye last year to their director Cameo Carolan and their assistant coaches Mandy Korpenin and Elizabeth Petrin, the team and coaches are restaging to take…

  • News in Brief

    The Prowler wins a Pacemaker On April 18, the National Scholastic Press Association of America (NSPA) awarded the Panther Prowler an Online Pacemaker Award, largely considered the highest honor in online student journalism. Co-Editor-in-Chief Grace O’Toole, senior, traveled to Denver, Colorado to enter the publication and website in the National High School Journalism Convention.…

  • Intermediate dance: Bridging the gap

    In previous years, students who have taken Beginning Dance and wanted to progress further into the dance program without taking the IB dance class or joining Dance Team have been forced to retake Beginning Dance. However, this year, those students who want to progress further into program can take the Intermediate Dance class. Intermediate…