Archive: Ongoing Classes

Anyone can dance and find pleasure in movement!

Thern Anderson’s modern dance class at Tapestry Folkdance Center will focus on body awareness, rhythm, movement patterns through space, and ensemble dancing. Improvisation will give dancers the opportunity to explore their own movement creativity and its relation to others. Floor work using somatic principles will build strength, ease, and flexibility. All ages are welcome!

Mondays, 12:00-1:30pm
Drop-ins welcome.

$15-20, sliding scale. Cash or check made out to Kathryn Anderson.

Come join the James Sewell Ballet dancers in our open professional class!
All classes are ballet unless noted otherwise.
Sign up for in-person company class or virtual Coordi™ class here.

May 24
Wednesday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Leah Gallas, with Eric Jensen on piano

May 29-June 2
Monday, May 29 – No class – Happy Memorial Day!
Tuesday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Kerry Parker, with Pat Lyles on piano
Wednesday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Leah Gallas, with Eric Jensen on piano

June 5-June 9
Monday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Yuki Tokuda
Tuesday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Kerry Parker, with Pat Lyles on piano
Wednesday, 9:30-11:00am CT – Leah Gallas, with Eric Jensen on piano

Coordi™ Class
Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00am taught by James Sewell.
Ongoing. Virtual-only at this time.

What is Coordi™? It’s a movement study based on multiple kinetic patterns happening at once. Physical brain teasers combine with ballet for unexpected pathways and alignments that challenge both your mind and body! Learn more about Coordi™ here.

Sign up now for summer classes at Hopkins Dance Company starting June 19!

Classes in ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, and contemporary. Classes offered for all ages, from three years old through adults, including special summer camps for kids! Register here.

Questions? Email info@hopkinsdance.com or call 952-935-2794.

Zenon Dance School is excited to welcome you back for another season of dance this spring! Registration is open for the Spring Session, running March 27-June 4, 2023 (no classes May 27-29).

Summer Session is announced and registration is now open! Summer Session will run from June 12-September 3, with no classes July 2-4 and September 2-4. Visit our website to learn more!

Classes are held in person unless otherwise noted.

Monday
10:00am: Intermediate 2 Contemporary with Joanna Lees
5:30pm: Contemporary Floorwork with Anna Pinault
7:00pm: Beginning/Intermediate Jazz with Jennifer Glaws

Tuesday
10:30am: gaga/people with Berit Ahlgren
6:00pm: All Levels Hip-Hop with Arturo Miles
7:00pm: Beginning 1 Jazz with Allison Rubin Forester

Wednesday
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK – Online-only May 31
5:30pm: Musical Theatre Jazz with Xan Mattek
5:30pm: Intermediate 1 Contemporary with Ruby Josephine Smith
5:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson – Online

Thursday
9:30am: Advanced Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson – Hybrid (live accompaniment with Dean Magraw)
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug

Friday
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Ayumi Shafer and Xan Mattek
12:00pm: Intermediate 2 Ballet with Penny Freeh (live accompaniment with Susan Hsu)

Saturday
9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson – Online
10:00am: Beginning Modern with Roxane Wallace
12:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Ben Johnson and Lisa Erickson (live accompaniment with Pay Lyles)

Sunday
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 3-4 with Eliana Durnbaugh (assisted by Erin Ditmarson)
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 5-6 with Sofia Arisian (assisted by Erin Ditmarson)
11:00am: Youth Hip Hop for ages 7-10 with Sofia Arisian
11:00am: Youth Modern for ages 11-14 with Eliana Durnbaugh
12:00pm: Youth Ballet for ages 7-10 with Sofia Arisian

Young Dance is excited to announce Summer 2023 programming, June 6-August 31!

Creative Movement and Dance Together classes will be offered in 3 sessions, meeting once per week on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. We’re also offering camps for 4–7 year olds, or half-day and full-day camps for dancers ages 8–18.

Camp offerings include Music as Movement, Dance + Social Justice, Dance + Photography, Choreography, Dance a Story, All Abilities Dance + Stories, and a unique collection of dance styles in each Variety Dance Camp.

More information and the full brochure can be found on our website.

Registration is open!

Join us for company class!

Mondays and Wednesdays – and Friday, May 26!
9:30–11:00am
Intermediate/advanced ballet and jazz with the company

Teachers and classes on a rotating schedule.
Pre-registration required.
View the schedule and register for class.

All Welcome
Our welcoming environment stands up to our values of inclusivity and accessibility. Work-study and BIPOC scholarships available. Please sign our liability waiver before attending class.

Our space is located in the Can Can Wonderland building in St. Paul. Parking is free:

• in front of the building – the BLUE lot is closest to our space,
• in the lots across the street,
• and in the underground parking garage – follow the Can Can Wonderland arrow.

Class Rates
Adult Drop-Ins: $18 per class or $80 for a 5-class pass. Good for either ballet or jazz; must be used within 6 months.
Professional Dancers: $15 per class. Email admin@collidetheatrical.org for a discount code.

Benny Olk teaches Cunningham at The Arena!
May 26 – June 9
Fridays, 9:30-11:00am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Registration and payment beforehand encouraged: pre-register.

Suggested price $17 per class. Pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

This class will offer an introduction to Cunningham technique, emphasizing rhythmic, directional, and physical clarity in order to organize movements with efficiency and at the same time making room for discovery. The class begins with exercises for the torso, then moves to legwork, then across the floor and finally to jumping. Each class will contain something everyone can do and something no one can do. “The only way to do it is to do it,” as Cunningham himself said.

Benny Olk (he/him) is a performing artist and teacher in Minneapolis with an interest in contemporizing and contextualizing American modern and post-modern dance. As a member of Lucinda Childs Dance Company, he performed reconstructions of pieces such as Dance and Available Light. He performed in reconstructions of Crises and Suite for Five among others by Merce Cunningham, and has premiered works by Maria Evans and Anthea Hamilton. Benny holds a BFA in Dance from NYU and an MA in New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts.

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment.

April Sellers teaches Moving Practice
Last chance – Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Registration and payment beforehand encouraged: pre-register.
Suggested price $17 per class. Pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

This class will be a laboratory for performance with an antiracist lens and an insistence upon accessibility. We will play with seeing and being seen – a chance to check in with yourself and your own sense of embodiment and engage with your inner worlds. There will be some work on the floor, improvisation, vocalization, and experiments with objects. We will engage connections, disruptions, and migrations. Each class will shape itself according to the people in the room and the inherent needs and themes.

April Sellers is a choreographer with a desire to lift and celebrate ignored streams in society, creating performance of movement, song, text, and sequins. She founded April Sellers Dance Collective (ASDC) in 2002 – a dance performance and teaching organization that celebrates complex expressions of gender and identity.