(September 28, 2006) — With wall-length mirrors and balance bars set in various parts of the stage, anyone who walks into the auditeria during third period will think they entered the wrong room. The familiar round tables and green chairs that usually occupy the auditeria are nowhere in sight in the transformed domain of Clark’s new dance class. Students received information about a dance class being offered to junior and senior girls over the summer. “When I heard about the dance class I was really excited,” senior Armig Khodanian said. “Dancing is one of my passions, and taking a class for it as an elective was going to be a blast.” The class actually came into being when dance teacher Jessie Moorehead, who also goes by Mrs. M, asked the Glendale Unified School District if any of the high schools were looking for a dance teacher, since she was currently interviewing in the area. According to Moorehead, the district notified her that Clark was interested in starting a dance class almost immediately after she asked. Moorehead danced all through high school and college and professionally with Collage Dance Theater, Making Faces Production and A Company of Strangers—all in Los Angeles. Moorehead also teaches dance and cheerleading at Glendale Community College and Temple City High School. In addition to teaching, Moorehead is a competitive national choreographer in the West Coast area. The semester-long class is comprised of 30 girls and is only offered during third period. “Every single class is set for a professional,” Moorehead said. Students will learn about the mediums of dance and what it would take it to succeed in the professional dance world. Modern dance, ballet, contemporary jazz, site-specific and hip-hop are some of the genres students will cover. “I teach everything using ballet as my base, because it is the basic and fundamental for all dances,” Moorehead said. Students will also learn historical aspects of each field of dance and be tested on the material in small routines taught in class. The final for the class will be an audition-like scenario. Moorehead and other individuals will then take place of the judges. “Students will have resumés and head shots and come into class as if they were going to an actual audition,” Moorehead said.