Archive: Workshops, Intensives, Master Classes, and Open Houses

Threads Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive and Audition Workshop

Threads Dance Project will hold its first ever Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive and Audition Workshop this August 1 to August 5 at the Threads Dance Nexus. Registration is now open! 

This program provides participants with a rigorous exploration of techniques as well as the opportunity to explore and enhance the performative elements of dance via repertory class. Classes for the advanced/professional Intensive include ballet, modern, improvisation/jazz, and repertory class.

August 1-5, 2022
10:00am–3:30pm
Ages 18+
Tuition: $225
Participants must register and balances must be paid in full by July 18.

More information at: https://www.threadsdance.org/summer/.

Registration online at: https://bit.ly/TDPIntensive

ARENA DANCES – Instinct Movement Intensive

Join ARENA DANCES for one week of movement classes taught by guest artist Shane Larson, member of the renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Participants will practice contemporary dance technique and learn a new original work as a part of this intensive. Targeted for the high-intermediate to advanced level dancer.

Instinct: August 15-20, 2022
Monday–Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm
Class: 10:00-11:30am
Rehearsal of new work: 12:00-3:00pm

During class, dancers will build a bottom to top, floor to standing modular class that deepens with task-based repetition, while encoding new movement pathways through basic shapes. Students are encouraged to learn-by-doing, rather than to learn and ‘perform’, relying on muscle memory to strengthen pathways. Architectural forms of the body are created, deconstructed, and recycled within the containers of momentum and temperature, offering a full-body, far-reaching experience of movement.

After class, dancers will focus on creating—using skills as scaffolding for building material as a community. We’ll spend time talking about memory and time, graphing separate experiences together to focus and distill common patterns, shapes, and anecdotes. The final object created will be an investigation that is distinctly your own and something that can be taken into future experiences.

Shane Larson was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in Austria. Since living in New York City, he’s branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, film makers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He is also a multimedia video artist making collage-based work about memory. Shane joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2015.

Ages 16+.
Intensive capped at 15 participants. 
Registration is open and must be completed by August 1.
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 15.
General: $550.

Photo by Jim Coleman

Summer Programs at Ballet Co.Laboratory

Classes and programs for Summer 2022 at the School of Ballet Co.Laboratory are now enrolling!

The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory offers the finest dance education to artists of all ages and abilities in a nurturing and welcoming environment. Our summer programming gives students the opportunity to train with locally and nationally acclaimed dance professionals who are dedicated to the growth of each individual student. 

To learn more or to register click here: https://bit.ly/SummerBCL

Zenon Dance School – Open House Week

Join us in person or online for a week of FREE classes and great discounts! Zenon Dance School’s Open House Week allows dancers to get a sneak peek of some classes to look forward to during our Summer Session, June 13-September 2, and use exclusive discounts when purchasing summer class passes throughout the week.

Class Schedule, June 6-9, 2022
Monday, June 6, 5:30-6:15pm: Cardio Dance Jam with Ariel Linnerson  – Online
Tuesday, June 7, 7:00-8:30pm: Jazz with Ali Rubin Forester – In Person
Wednesday, June 8, 5:30-7:00pm: Contemporary with Ruby J. Smith – In Person
Thursday, June 9, 7:00-8:30pm: Modern with Dustin Haug – In Person

No Open House Week classes on Friday, June 10.

Open House Discounts, June 6-12, 2022
Take 20% off enrollment with code OHENROLL and $10 off class cards with code OH10OFF from Monday, June 6 through Sunday, June 12 in our online store.

Young Dance Summer Open House – June 6 and June 10

Join us for an open house to visit the studio, register, and meet some teachers! Whether you’re new to Young Dance or have been taking classes for awhile, open houses are a great way for dancers and families to familiarize themselves with finding our space, parking, getting around the building, and seeing the studios.

Monday, June 6, 4:30–7:30pm
Saturday, September 10, 12:30–2:30pm

Learn about Young Dance
Discover what’s planned for this summer and our Fall 2022-23 session
Register in person
Meet Young Dance Directors and Teaching Artists
Visit Young Dance studios
Experience moving with Young Dance!

Questions? Email Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org.

The Arena – Moving Practice with Taja Will on Tuesdays

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment. Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am at The Arena
Taja Will teaches through June 21.

Drop in: $17. Buy a 10-class card and save. Register
FREE parking on all side streets: Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, 31st

Duo and Ensemble Improvisational Partnering. Class is a place for co-learning, collaborative training and meeting in places of creative focus, skill building and current fascination.

Class culture: My pedagogy is grounded in healing justice and restorative justice at its foundations; this is to say all histories of power, privilege and oppression live in the room, when we don’t pay attention to them we maintain a status quo based on oppression. For me, giving voice and space to the practices of equity and awareness in creative/artistic spaces encourages the field to diverge from the status quo. Classes are open level,  you are invited, regardless of your experience in the dance form/style. Classes will center accessibility and inclusion for QT + BIPOC folks.

Class content: Drawing from my longtime commitment to Contact Improvisation this class will focus on duo and ensemble improvisational skills and structures. We’ll use somatic modalities to warm up awareness, and compositional instigations to encourage movement from small isolations to greater locomotion and possibly bombastic movement emergence. This is a place for us to gather and practice improvisational technique, awareness of our individual choice making alchemies, attunement to each other, and I will invite partnering that includes weight sharing and touch to your desire.

Taja Will (pronouns Taja/they/them) is a queer, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist and Healing Justice practitioner based in Mni Sota Makoce, on the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe. Taja’s approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text and vocals in contemporary performance. Their aesthetic is one of spontaneity, bold choice making, sonic and kinetic partnership and the ability to move in relationship to risk and intimacy. Will’s work explores visceral connections to current socio-cultural realities through ritual, archetypes and everyday magic.

Photo credit: Nanne Sorvold

Dance as Second Language Workshop

This workshop will provide an introduction to modern dance and choreographic tools for participants to express themselves with movement. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own choreography as a way of storytelling. The workshops will be open to adults of all abilities and levels of dance experience. The focus of these workshops will be to learn how to use our bodies as an instrument for expression.  At the end of the workshop, there will be a small informal showing of work developed during this process.

June 10–12, 2022
10:30am-1:30pm
Target Studio at The Cowles Center
Free

In-person attendance: 10 maximum, 3 minimum
Online attendance: 10 maximum
Register

Meli (MX) is a freelance dance artist in the Twin Cities, creating dance work and promoting access to cultural activities for over a decade. Since 2007 she has taught ballet and modern dance. Meli holds a Masters’s in Tourism from Colorado State University. She has combined her work with an extensive professional dance career in Mexico to provide access and empower communities to share their culture.

Erika Martin (USA) is a Minneapolis-based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and engaged citizen. Erika holds a BA in Modern Dance and American Studies from Connecticut College. They have taught modern and ballroom dance for over 15 years and investigate the human experience through choreography. Erika has served as School Coordinator for Zenon Dance School since 2019.

Fakoly Drum & Dance Conference

After a 3-year hiatus Duniya Drum & Dance is bringing back Fakoly – an authentic, culturally immersive experience into the world of traditional West African drum and dance. This workshop offers hand drumming and dance classes for the community at any level and any age, beginner through advanced. Instruction is provided by professional master drummers and dancers from Guinea West Africa who are dedicated to sharing their knowledge of traditional percussion and movement. We have a star studded line up of Guest Artists, don’t miss this amazing opportunity!

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Friday, June 17
5:00pm – Youssouf Koumbassa
6:30pm – Naby Bangoura

Saturday, June 18
11:00am – Family Jam – by donation
11:00am – Beginner with Sana
12:00pm – Youssouf Koumbassa
1:30pm – Seny Bangoura
3:00pm – Baba Bangoura

7:00pm – Fakoly Performance

Sunday, June 19
11:00am – Naby Bangoura
12:30pm – Baba Bangoura
2:00pm – Seny Bangoura

$20/class

Summer Intensive at Hopkins Dance Company

Hopkins Dance Company will be creating a new original piece for our Summer Intensive!

Monday through Thursday evenings, June 20–23 and June 27–30
In-studio performance on June 30!

Dancers ages 7–18 are invited to join. No audition necessary. Register at www.hopkinsdance.com.

TU Dance Center: Pre-Professional Program Summer Intensive 2022

The TU Dance Pre-Professional program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African, and creative workshops for students ages 11 to 24.

Click the respective level groups to download the 2021 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule: Levels 1-3 and Levels 4-5.

For level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708. Placement can be done by attending an in-person (by appointment only, a class fee applies) or by submitting a video link (modern and ballet phrase), or during the first day of classes of the intensive.

To register, please complete the four-step registration process:
1) Please find the online pre-registration below under the specific level you are interested in and select a payment option,
2) Make a tuition payment (in full or by selecting a payment plan),
3) If requesting a payment plan please submit the Summer 2022 Payment Plan Form, and
4) Submit a 2022 Pre-Professional Summer Intensive online registration form.

Registration deadlines:
Levels 1-3:July 11-23. Register by July 1, 2022
Level 4-5: July 25-August 13. Register by July 20, 2022

Scholarships available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.