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

Join us for Hopkins Dance Company’s summer camps for ages 4-9! No experience necessary!

Little Mermaid Camp
June 24-27, 10:00am-12:30pm

Super Mario Camp
July 22-25, 10:00am-12:30pm

Nutty Nutcracker Camp
August 19-22, 10:00am-12:30pm

Discover dance this summer at Threads Dance Nexus!

Creative Connections for ages 4-7
July 8-12 and July 15-19, 9:00-11:30am

Young movers will explore a variety of dance styles and how dance intersects with music, numbers, art, theater, and more. They will learn the importance of healthy bodies and minds, discuss basic nutrition, and how emotions can be defined, demonstrated, and calmed using movement. This journey of creativity and self-expression will be shared in a casual showing for family and friends at the end of each week.

NexGen/YDP (Youth Dance Project) for ages 8-12
July 8-12 and July 15-19, 12:30-4:30pm

Embark on a fun and holistic dance experience for your child in this comprehensive approach to summer dance learning. Dancers will grow in confidence, strength, and self-expression as they study ballet and modern techniques. They will learn self-care for their bodies and minds through nutrition and embodied movement exploration. Journals will be provided as a tool for self-reflection and discovery. Students will share what they’ve learned in a casual showing at the end of each week.

Register by June 22. No prior dance experience is required.
A limited number of partial and full scholarships are available – apply here by June 22.

For intermediate to advanced dancers ages 14-22.

Improve your technique and advance your artistry in a positive and welcoming environment! Classes include Musical Theatre Jazz, Classic Jazz Technique, Ballet, Leaps & Turns, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and more. Students may register for individual weeks, or sign up for all 3 weeks and save!

The Intensive culminates with our Collide Showcase (for those who register for all 3 weeks of the intensive). Video will be taken so students have professional-grade copy to use for future auditions and submissions. Local students are also invited to perform excerpts from the Intensive at the MN State Fair in August!

Level placement requires a referral from a teacher or Collide company member, or a 2-minute video submission. Please send your video (one minute of ballet adagio with pirouettes; one minute of jazz) or referral name and contact information to Nathan@collidetheatrical.org.

Performers and creators, join us for a powerful week of dance exploration from July 22-26.

Threads is proud to announce the return of our Summer Intensive. We are offering a new structure that allows us to better support artists whose focus is performance, creation, or both.

Performer’s Track – 10:00am-2:30pm
Classes include Contemporary-Modern, Ballet, Hip Hop, African, and more.

Creator’s Track – 1:00-5:00pm
Classes include Repertoire, Composition, Improvisation, and studies on topics such as grant-writing and funding, producing a show, and more.

Both Performer’s and Creator’s Tracks – 10:00am-5:00pm
Offers a rigorous, full-day exploration of techniques and the chance to enhance yourself as a performer and choreographer.

Repertoire learned in the intensive may be part of the Company audition on Saturday, July 27.

Come for part of the day or the full day! Learn more and register by July 6.

Sign-up for a summer at the Center! Center for Performing Arts summer camps are an opportunity for youth to fully explore their curiosities, interests and talents while gaining access to the rich community of artists and practitioners at the CFPA.

We offer half day (mornings) and full day camps. Join us for all or one of our 3-week sessions; each with a focus that incorporates dance, storytelling, music and the technical traditions rooted in various cultures.

Explorations in Theater-Making
June 17-28 and July 8-12

Immersive West African Dance Theater
July 15-August 2

Immersive Latin Dance and Theater
August 6-23

For ages 7-11 and 12-16.
$975 per camp.

The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory’s Recreational Program offers classes for dancers ages 10-20 with a more flexible schedule and fewer hours per week than our Pre-Professional Program.

The Recreational Program includes ballet technique classes, add on sessions, rehearsals, and performance opportunities.

Open Enrollment: this program will run through May 2024.

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.

Our offerings include:

• Pre-Professional Summer Intensives,
• Young Dancer Summer Camps, Sessions,
• Youth Summer Workshops, and
• Adult Workshops and Sessions

Join us for  this weekly workshop with Roxane Wallace at Studio K!
Fridays, 10:00-11:00am
March 22-April 19

Dance 101 with Roxane Wallace
In this class for adults 55+, we will explore elements of dance (body, action, space, time and energy) using low-impact, fun, modern dance-based sequences in these drop-in sessions with dance artist and instructor Roxane Wallace. Participation will result in increases in kinesthetic awareness, flexibility, balance, ease of movement and general health.

Please bring a small blanket, towel or yoga mat for floor work that will include stretching and strengthening at the beginning and cooling down at the end of each session.

Roxane Wallace has been active in the arts as a performer, instructor, choreographer and teaching artist since graduating from UC Berkeley in 1993 with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Ethnic Studies. She was seen nationally and internationally as a principal artist with Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater Company for 15 years and has been working with Paula Mann/Time Track Productions for over 10 years.  Mrs. Wallace  was voted “Best Dancer” in the City Pages “Best of the Twin Cities”, awarded a Minnesota Sage Award for Outstanding Performer, and honored to be named as a 2008 McKnight Artist Fellow in Dance.  Currently, she provides inspiration and dance instruction through Zenon Dance School and Lundstrum Performing Arts, and as a teaching artist for the VocalEssence WITNESS Program and the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts.

Zenon Dance School is excited to welcome you to our free Open House on March 23, and to another great season of dance this spring! Registration is open for the Spring Session, running March 25-June 2. Classes are held in person unless otherwise noted. Visit our website to learn more!

Open House
Saturday, March 23
Register for free Open House week
Spring Open House schedule:
10:00-10:45am: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin Forester
10:30-11:15am: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson
11:00-11:45am: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug
11:30-12:15pm: Choreography Lab with Kendall Kramer
12:00-12:45pm: Beg Ballet with Benjamin Johnson

Open House Discounts, valid March 18-25
20% off Spring single class enrollment – code: OHENROLL
$10 off 10 class card – code: OH10OFF

Come join a community dance making process and project as a part of National Water Dance in the heart of the Driftless region in southeastern MN on the Mississippi River!

Driftless Water Dance Workshop
Saturday, March 23
12:30-4:00pm
At the Widespot in Wabasha: 611 Broadway Ave

More Ways to Participate
Outside dance-making events Saturdays, March 30, April 6, and April 13.
We are building a site-specific dance piece about this unique region using the theme for National Water Dance 2024 of “Remembering Waters Way” based on the Toni Morrison poem. We are looking for dancers and those that don’t consider themselves as such to share river stories, movement and ideas in the creation of this piece. Committing to participation in the final performance is not necessary but encouraged.

Public Performance
Saturday, April 20 at 3:00pm
National Eagle Center Amphitheatre in Wabasha – part of the national festival.
Free!

Contact espoir.delmain@gmail.com if you have any questions, or find us on Facebook.