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

Two-time McKnight Dancer Fellow Sally Rousse offers a joyful, helpful, three-day mini-series of contemporary ballet classes to teens/adults who want to head into the new year feeling like the good, capable, resilient people we are. Come once, twice, or thrice!

12:00-2:00pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, December 28-30, 2021
Lundstrum Performing Arts – free parking

$15 per two-hour class or $40 for all three days.

Register, inquiries and payments:
sallyrousse@gmail.com

Please join Erin Thompson for a “Ring in the New Year” contemporary/modern dance class in honor of New Year’s Eve on Thursday morning, December 30, 10:00am-11:45am.

Before you make your New Year’s resolutions, come find peace with internal awareness, thrust your holiday limbs into the ground and fly across the floor flinging 2021 away! Accompaniment by the wonderful Dean Magraw.

Intermediate-Advanced Contemporary/Modern
Thursday, December 30, 10:00am-11:45am
In person only!

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.

Thursday, December 30
10:00-11:45am – Ring in the New Year with Erin Thompson
In Person

Tuesday, January 4
9:30-11:00am – Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary with Chloe Nagle
In Person

Wednesday, January 5
5:30-7:00pm – All Levels Modern with Ariel Linnerson
In Person

Thursday, January 6
9:30-11:00am – Alexander Technique with Chloe Nagle
In Person

Friday, January 7
10:00-11:30am – Intermediate Ballet with Penny Freeh
Hybrid

Register online today!

Save the date for Zenon’s Winter Open House on January 8!
Join us for a great day of free classes, tuition discounts, and a preview of our New Year programing!

In Person:
10:00am: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace – Studio 4A
10:00am: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin-Forester – Studio 4B
11:00am: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug
12:00pm: Intermediate Contemporary with Chloe Nagle
1:00pm: Contemporary Floorwork with Javan Mngrezzo

Online:
9:00am: All Levels Yoga
10:00am: Cardio Dance Jam
11:00am: Contemporary Ballet

Learn more at: zenondance.org/class-schedule/

Creative Movement is a workshop for adult movers who are just beginning to enter, or re-enter, a movement practice and are curious about improvisation within the realm of contemporary dance. However, more experienced movers are also welcome in order to explore their own practice in a relaxed and open environment.

This class will include a group warm-up, several layers of prompted improvisation, and a shared improv score set to music. The atmosphere is welcoming and celebratory of all styles, levels, and abilities. It is a chance to explore your own body and self through motion and flow, bringing out your authentic movement voice, and taking whatever it is you need from what is offered. Let’s have fun, be playful, and get curious together through dance. 

This is an optionally hybrid class if you would like to livestream it on Zoom. The maximum number of participants in studio is 12, so if it fills up, or you feel more comfortable dancing at home, please feel free to join online. 

Over the course of this three-day contemporary movement workshop, move BIG, sweat, and play with us while we build awareness and explore expansive possibilities within our own bodies. With improvised and structured movement vocabulary, we will research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, agency in choice-making, and empowerment within ourself. Led by AMP Co-Director, Joanna Lees.

Suitable for professional, pre-professional, and/or intermediate/advanced movers, ages 18 and older. Knee pads recommended. This is a great way to keep moving over school or holiday breaks. Low/no cost options available. Come as you are!

In person and virtual options available. Drop in for one, two or all three days. Pre-registration highly encouraged through AMP’s website. Those who pre-register will be given priority should class size need to be limited. Current CDC guidelines for COVID-19 safety will be followed.

Monday, December 20
Tuesday, December 21
Wednesday, December 22
10:00am-12:00pm

Rates
Single day/drop in rate: $18
Two-day bundle rate: $32
Three-day bundle rate: $45

Registration and more info at alternativemotionproject.org. Email questions and inquiries to alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

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

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30AM at The Arena
Elayna Waxse teaches throughout December.
Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome

Elayna’s class contextualizes contemporary dance technique as an ongoing process of body awareness within larger ecological systems. How we exist in our bodies replicates how we exist in the world. Utilizing improvisation, set phrase work, somatic exercises and conversation, we will explore physical prowess, performativity, and authenticity in movement and activism. 

Elayna Waxse is originally from Overland Park, Kansas and is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began her training at nine years old with Alecia Good and also at the Kansas City Ballet School under the direction of Karen P. Brown, spending her summers at the School of American Ballet in New York City.  She continued her training at the Professional Division program at Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, WA., where she regularly performed with the company. 

Professionally, Elayna has danced with Minnesota Dance Theatre, Colorado Ballet/Colorado Ballet Studio Company, Black Label Movement, BodyCartography Project, and with Cie. Ismael Ivo at ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival 2014.

She was a member of TU Dance from 2012 to 2019, and was part of the original creation team of Come Through, the collaboration between TU Dance and Grammy-award winning musical group Bon Iver. Through this collaboration Elayna performed at the Hollywood Bowl (LA, CA), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), and at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (Manchester, TN).

Other credits include work by George Balanchine, Glen Tetley, Loyce Houlton, Eliot Feld, Uri Sands, Dwight Rhoden, Francesca Harper, Gioconda Barbuto, Katrin Hall, Greg Dolbashian, and Stephanie Batten-Bland. Elayna is a 2019 recipient of a McKnight Fellowship in Dance. 

Pre-register at https://www.arena-dances.org/class-payment/
Flexible pricing and free parking!

Join us for Amy Jones’ Pilates mat class from 9:30-10:00AM before Moving Practice!

Join Erin Thompson for a Ring in the New Year dance class!

Please join Erin Thompson for a “Ring in the New Year” contemporary/modern dance class in honor of New Year’s Eve on Thursday morning, December 30, 10:00am-11:45am.

Before you make your New Year’s resolutions, come find peace with internal awareness, thrust your holiday limbs into the ground and fly across the floor flinging 2021 away! Accompaniment by the wonderful Dean Magraw.

Intermediate-advanced contemporary/modern
Thursday, December 30, 10:00am-11:45am
In person only!

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.

Join Young Dance and Alexandra Beaumont for: 

Get Up to Get Down: Exploring Joy and Solidarity through Group Dances

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
7:00-9:00p.m.

More than a traditional workshop, this is a semi-choreographed dance party. Participants will start with a few classic group dances, feeling what it’s like to move together. Then, Beaumont will teach a movement phrase she’s been developing, exploring group movement in the form of parade and procession.

“My hope is to share some joyful movement and experiment with a group dance that travels across space. The goal is to find a choreographic passage that is easy to share, learn, and join. One that can be repeated again and again without becoming boring, and that maintains a coherent structure and flow while leaving room for individual flourishes.” –Alex Beaumont

Alexandra Beaumont, a black, mixed-race woman born and raised in South Carolina, is currently a Workroom Resident at Young Dance. Alex has a degree in design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and explores her creative work in dance and textile work in Minnesota and nationally.

Please register by December 8 at noon: https://forms.gle/6skcY77NTXAwMLHY6. We can also take registration at the event.

More information or to share: https://fb.me/e/33D36KKs6

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
Elayna Waxse teaches throughout December

Pre-register at https://www.arena-dances.org/class-payment/
$17 drop in. Flexible pricing and free parking!

Elayna’s class contextualizes contemporary dance technique as an ongoing process of body awareness within larger ecological systems. How we exist in our bodies replicates how we exist in the world. Utilizing improvisation, set phrase work, somatic exercises and conversation, we will explore physical prowess, performativity, and authenticity in movement and activism.

Elayna Waxse is originally from Overland Park, Kansas and is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began her training at nine years old with Alecia Good and also at the Kansas City Ballet School under the direction of Karen P. Brown, spending her summers at the School of American Ballet in New York City.  She continued her training at the Professional Division program at Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, WA., where she regularly performed with the company.

Professionally, Elayna has danced with Minnesota Dance Theatre, Colorado Ballet/Colorado Ballet Studio Company, Black Label Movement, BodyCartography Project, and with Cie. Ismael Ivo at ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival 2014. She was a member of TU Dance from 2012 to 2019, and was part of the original creation team of Come Through, the collaboration between TU Dance and Grammy-award winning musical group Bon Iver. Through this collaboration Elayna performed at the Hollywood Bowl (LA, CA), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), and at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (Manchester, TN).

Other credits include work by George Balanchine, Glen Tetley, Loyce Houlton, Eliot Feld, Uri Sands, Dwight Rhoden, Francesca Harper, Gioconda Barbuto, Katrin Hall, Greg Dolbashian, and Stephanie Batten-Bland. Elayna is a 2019 recipient of a McKnight Fellowship in Dance.