The Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, known unofficially as “VAPA” by students, is a performing arts public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the United States. It is located on the site of the old Fort Moore at the corner of Grand Avenue and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Chinatown. Grand Arts anchors the north end of Los Angeles' "Grand Avenue Cultural Corridor". The school's distinctive architecture has made the facility noteworthy beyond the Los Angeles area. The school admits 400 incoming freshmen students each year, with Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts accounting for 100 students each. Students are admitted via a lottery which takes place each spring. Admission requires no prior training or auditions, and there are no fees or tuition. The school's leadership history includes, founding administrator and former principal Ken Martinez, and former Executive Artistic Director, Kim M. Bruno (former principal of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and Professional Performing Arts School). Programs The school offers a full range of standard academic programs as well as specialty programs in four arts academies. Dance Academy Grand Arts treats dance as an integral part of a student's education. Students in the Dance Academy take classes in ballet, modern, tap, hip hop, cultural dance, and choreography. Music Academy All music students receive training in theory, sight reading, technical studies, history, and performance. The curriculum is anchored in the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards, and is augmented by extended partnerships with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Opera; adjudicated festivals; and master classes with renowned visiting Master Artists. In the Music Academy, students can take classes in vocal and instrumental performance. Music theory, music composition, concert band, symphonic band, jazz band, string orchestra, symphonic orchestra, concert choir, vocal jazz, vocal technique, and guitar are part of the curriculum. Theatre Academy The Theatre Academy offers stents a variety of classes that develop skills in acting and directing through a four-year acting program. The scope and sequence of each year's curriculum is designed to propel students into higher levels of acting achievement, regardless of initial experience. Based in the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards, each grade level includes work that "begins with basic techniques in discovery of self through classes that