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

The TU Dance Pre-Professional program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African dance, and creative workshops for students ages 11 to 24. The TU Dance Summer Intensive builds a strong technique while exploring individual artistry.

Levels 1-3: July 5-24
Registration Deadline: June 30, 2021

Levels 4-5: August 2-21
Registration Deadline: July 26, 2021

For program details, level placement and to register visit https://www.tudance.org/summer/ or contact School Coordinator Maxine Yamazaki at education@tudance.org or (612) 235-7634.

Scholarships available!

July 28-August 24

In partnering with TU Dance, Equipoise will provide the unique, hybrid (online/in person), opportunity of having individualized curriculum alongside one-on-one assessment sessions and coaching that compliment and deepen professional training.

Equipoise is a diverse collective of established professionals offering expertise in relevant areas of the performing arts – supporting and mentoring young dance artists and providing tools and resources to nurture the growth, development, and success of professionally oriented dancers.

In addition to the TU Dance Summer Intensive classes, Equipoise will provide the following workshops and sessions: Self-care/Health and Wellbeing, Contract Fluency, Audition Coaching, Self Advocacy, Personal and Professional Budgeting, Personal Branding, Injury Prevention, Resume Preparation, Workers’ Rights, and more.

Registration Deadline: July 7

Scholarships and payment plans are available for qualifying students. Scholarship application deadline: July 26, 2021. Please contact TU Dance School Coordinator Maxine Yamazaki at education@tudance.org for more information.

The TU Dance Center Children and Teen Program introduces the joy of creative movement and beginning dance technique. Classes, divided by age, provide a comprehensive base on which to expand by developing body awareness, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength and musicality.

Registration Deadline: June 30, 2021

Creative Movement: July 19-23
A one-week program for children ages 5-8 where students will experience the connection between movement and creativity.

Bridge Level: July 12-24
A two-week program for students ages 9-13 preparing for a deeper engagement in dance that includes introductory dance technique classes with a focus on the creative process.

Teen 1: July 5-24
A three-week program, typically for students aged 14-19, where students learn the fundamentals of dance while exploring individual artistic expression with a focus on modern technique, Hip-Hop and African Dance as well as workshop/choreography.

For more information and to register visit https://www.tudance.org/summer/ or contact School Coordinator Maxine Yamazaki at education@tudance.org or (612) 235-7634.

Scholarships available!

Discover movement possibilities with Young Dance this summer!

Register now for summer classes and camps in creative movement, Afro-Brazilian, body percussion, ballet, hip hop, modern, and more. Summer programs are offered in a hybrid format, unless otherwise noted in registration, with both in-person and online options for participation.

Classes and camps include:
Creative Movement 1 – Ages three to five
Creative Movement 2 – Ages five to seven
Dance a Story – Creative Movement and Storytelling Adventure! – Ages four to seven
Dance Together – Ages one to three with a caregiver
Create! Dance and Photography Camp – Ages eight to fifteen
Explore the World Variety Dance Camp! – Ages eight to eighteen
Dance Pass to Explore – Allows dancers to drop in and experience a variety of classes – Ages seven and older
All Abilities Dance and Stories – Ages seven and older

Dance Pass to Explore allows dancers to drop in and experience a variety of classes.

Classes include: All Abilities Dancing, Ballet, Modern, and Hip Hop.
This program is offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online options for participation.

Mondays, June 21, 28; July 5, 12, 19

All Abilities Dancing
Ages seven and older
5:00-6:15pm

Tuesdays, June 22, 29; July 6, 13, 20

Ballet
Ages seven to twelve
5:00-6:00pm

Modern
Ages seven to eighteen
6:15-7:30pm

Thursdays, June 24; July 1, 8, 15, 22

Hip Hop
Ages seven to eighteen
6:15-7:15pm

Tuition:
Drop-in class: $16
5-class pass: $75
10-class pass: $150
Unlimited: $225

Discover movement possibilities with Young Dance this summer! Register: register.youngdance.org.

The Walking Series
an 8-week Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert

This series will start from the ground up by addressing the form, function, suppleness, and responsiveness of your feet. These lessons will help you integrate and find coordination between the feet to the legs, all the way up through the pelvis, spine to head. We will play with finding the springy innate intelligence of the feet, allowing you to connect to the earth with greater adaptability.

From there, we will explore the head and pelvis relationship, how to move from the whole spine, and improve the freedom of your head. All of these are critical components of balance, maintaining ease in an upright posture, and effortlessness in walking.

The later part of the series will work with standing lessons to learn more about how you shift your weight. This clarification of the hip joints and their relationship to your feet and your spine will translate towards more ease and grace when walking.

These lessons can not only make you feel taller and stand with more ease, but in general can dramatically help you improve your balance and walk with more ease, grace, and confidence. Walking is complex, but when done efficiently, it can feel simultaneously buoyant and grounded!

June 13 – August 15 – It is not too late to join this series.
No class July 4, August 4, or August 8.

Sundays, 4:00-5:00pm CST
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm CST
Each lesson is taught twice. You have the choice to come to one or both days.

$150 for the series.
Please contact Sarah directly to inquire about scholarships for the series.

Give your young dancer the joy of dance and performance!

Saturday, June 19, Ballet Royale is offering a Dalmatians-inspired Creative Story Ballet Workshop! The workshops include a short performance at the end. Two more workshops are coming up July 17 and August 14. Take one, two, or all three!

Recommended for ages four through nine. Class sizes will be limited to maintain social distancing.

Three separate in-person workshops (take one, two or all three):

Saturday, June 19, 10:00am-11:00am – Dalmatians-inspired

Saturday, July 17, 10:00am-11:00am – theme TBA

Saturday, August 14, 10:00am-11:00am – theme TBA

Please contact the studio with any questions. We would love to dance with you!

Dance Pass to Explore allows dancers to drop in and experience a variety of classes.

Classes include: All Abilities Dancing, Afro-Modern, Ballet, Modern, and Hip Hop.
This program is offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online options for participation.

Mondays, June 21, 28; July 5, 12, 19

All Abilities Dancing
Ages seven and older
5:00-6:15pm

Afro-Modern
Ages ten and older
6:30-7:30pm

Tuesdays, June 22, 29; July 6, 13, 20

Ballet
Ages seven to twelve
5:00-6:00pm

Modern 1/2
Ages seven to twelve
6:15-7:30pm

Thursdays, June 24; July 1, 8, 15, 22

Hip Hop 2
Ages thirteen to eighteen
5:00-6:00pm

Modern 3/4
Ages thirteen to eighteen
6:15-7:30pm

Hip Hop 1
Ages seven to twelve
6:15-7:15pm

Tuition:
Drop-in class: $16
5-class pass: $75
10-class pass: $150
Unlimited: $225

Discover movement possibilities with Young Dance this summer! Register: register.youngdance.org.

To continue the mission of bringing dance to all, Ballet Royale has created two different day workshops especially catered for the adult recreational dancer. The Beginner/Intermediate workshop is coming up on June 26, 2021.  A logo water bottle is included. Ask the office for dance teacher price or level placement.

This workshop includes the history of ballet and PBT®, ballet, jazz, and Haitian dance. Lunch will be outside, bring blankets!

Beginning/Intermediate Adults

Saturday, June 26, 2021: 9:30am–2:00pm

Price: $100

Four Progressive Divisions (I, II, Advanced Division II and UPPER) for ages eight through professionals. Variable length, ballet-only, and online-only options are available. Audition required for Division II (age nine) and up.

An exciting three-week, full day rigorous ballet-based dance program featuring Artistic Directors Denise and Rick Vogt with special guest teachers Gary Joyce, formerly with Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Kiel Ballet, and Nevada Dance Theatre; and Muriel Joyce, formerly with Bavarian State Ballet in Munich and Los Angeles Classical Ballet. 

Ballet Royale offers small class sizes, so each student will receive the finest personalized professional instruction allowing them to reach his or her full potential. Students attending the full in-studio program will be highlighted in an end of program Summer Showcase performance.

Classes include Ballet Technique, Pointe, Preparation for Pointe, Modern, Jazz, Character, Variations, Men’s class, Progressing Ballet Technique, Hip Hop, Acting, Choreographic Methods, History of Ballet, Stretching, Injury Prevention, plus enrichment classes.