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

Zenon Dance School – Winter Workshop Week and Free Open House Day

Join us for a week of exciting workshops and a free open house day!

Zenon Dance School’s Workshop Week offers unique opportunities to take class from Zenon instructors and local community artists in between sessions.

Winter Workshop Week Schedule:
Thursday, December 29, 10:00-11:45am: Ring in the New Year with Erin Thompson
Tuesday, January 3, 9:00-10:30am: Restful Movement with Chloe Nagle
Tuesday, January 3, 7:00-8:30pm: All Levels Jazz with Ali Rubin Forester
Wednesday, January 4, 5:30-7:00pm: Modern and Music with Ariel Linnerson
Thursday, January 5, 9:30-11:00am: Modern Master Class with Randee Paufve
Thursday, January 5, 12:00-1:00pm: Ballet for Today with Janet Skidmore
Click here to register for Winter Workshop Week!

Zenon’s Open House allows dancers to get a sneak peek at no cost of some classes to look forward to during our Winter Session, and use exclusive discounts when purchasing winter class passes throughout the week.

Winter Open House: Saturday, January 7
9:00-9:45am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linerson – ONLINE
9:00-10:00am: Beginner/Intermediate Jazz with Jennifer Glaws
10:00-11:00am: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
11:00am-12:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug
12:00-1:00pm: Intermediate Contemporary with Ruby Josephine Smith
Pre-registration encouraged but not required.

Tuition Discounts: January 2-9
$10 off Class Cards with code OH10OFF
20% off Enrollment with code OHENROLL

TU Dance Center: Dancing Together Workshop

This eight-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

January 14-March 4
Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am

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 2022-2023 Payment Plan form
4. Click here to submit the 2022-2023 Children and Teen Program online registration form

Zenon Dance School – Youth Jazz Workshop with Hannah Pierce

Hannah Pierce offers a great 4-week workshop series for new and continuing jazz dancers who love to move! Students will learn fundamental techniques and choreography while expanding their knowledge of rhythm and movement.

This class is a great foundation for any young dancer ages 7-10 years. All levels of experience are welcome!

Youth Jazz Workshop – Sundays, 12:00-12:45pm
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12

Full enrollment: $55
Single class drop-in: $15
In-person only; limited space available. Drop ins welcome.

Register today!

Critical Conversations Series – Art of Business: The World of Grants

Grants are a substantial part of maintaining one’s self as an art business, that is unique to Minnesota. With that process arises a lot of questions. How do you fit yourself into the application process? How do you make sure you are reading the requirements right? How do you put together work samples, what different types of work samples? What makes a strong resume? How do you articulate yourself as a person, artist, and your vision in a digestible way? What even are the grants that I’m eligible for and how can I understand if I am or not?

Join us in conversation as we gather to unpack the world of grant writing. This discussion will be open to all. Come to share your thoughts or just listen.

January 22, 2023
2:00-3:30pm
The Cowles Center – Tek Box, 2nd Floor

Free and open to the public
Refreshments provided.

Moderators:
Jessi Fett, The Cowles Center Director of Programming and Education
Colin Edwards, Programs Coordinator and McKnight Artist Fellowship Programs Assistant for Dance and for Choreographers

Participants will include:
Dana Kassel, McKnight Artist Fellowship Programs Director for Dance and for Choreographers 
Mirella Espino, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council

Special Last Friday Morning Jazz Class Before Our Pause

Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting are so grateful for the past eight years of co-teaching Friday Morning Jazz Class at Zenon together. We have decided to put FMJ on “pause” for a bit; we’re both spinning a lot of plates right now and had to set one down so the rest don’t drop. “Pause” means we intend to teach an open jazz class together again sometime in the future, continuing to offer the community a chance to engage with a jazz-music-forward, history-infused jazz class inspired by both social and concert dance ideas – we are invested in the presence of great open jazz class offerings for our community!

This Friday, December 16 we are offering a special class before this pause: Erinn and Karla will be co-teaching, and we’ll have a little celebration and mingle afterward. Stay, socialize, feel community! Class runs 10:00-11:15am.

Thank you all: regulars, drop-ins, folks we see once every two years, and all of you who keep up with us in our Facebook group. We’ve thrived by sharing in this great sense of community and in the joy of dancing together. We appreciate you all, look forward to seeing you around the community, and will be back with an open public class for you when the timing is right!

Please note: Zenon Dance School WILL be continuing to offer a jazz class in this slot – more to come from them on that soon – so keep showing up to get your jazz on!

#GetYourAssToClassThreeMoreTimes #ButAlsoKeepTakingJazzAtZenon #AndOtherClasses #Everywhere #AllTheTime

tandem | shift | hold – hosted by José A. Luis and Kat Purcell

Saturday, December 17
11:00am-2:00pm and/or 3:00pm-6:00pm
At Affirmation Space in the Northrup King Building, 3rd Floor Gallery, Studio 332. Look for signs that say “Affirmation Space.”

About Affirmation Space: Affirmation Space | Love Your Self Love | Minneapolis

José A. Luis and Kat Purcell are hosting space! Join us for a formal exploration of our existing modes of expression (through body, voice, writing), followed by open group explorations. In this sharing session, we arrive individually knowing we will be with others. We endeavor to settle into a song of self, but hold that our songs will not be separated from the chorus of the many. We will draw on themes and mechanisms of somatics, landscapes, Greek tragic chorus, and communal relations.

What to bring:

  • The floor of Affirmation Space is not a barefoot-safe floor. Please bring sneakers, clothing you like to move and sweat in, and layers to accommodate your body’s changing temperature, since sometimes we will be moving a lot and sometimes, we will be moving less.
  • Writing utensils and something to write in, like a personal notebook.
  • Water – we will have some refreshments, but be sure to bring water or a vessel to keep yourself hydrated.
  • Snacks to share, if you are able.

Cost of Attendance: No one turned away for lack of funds. Suggested donation of $25. All proceeds go to support Affirmation Space.

Entrance: For ramp access to Northrup King, go to accessible parking area by Dock 8, which is a couple hundred feet to the right of the main entrance of Northrup King Building (main entrance says “1500” above the doorway). Then use the double doors that have an access button by the sign for Dock 6. This will lead you into the first floor pretty close to the elevator!

Elevators: The elevator is a bit of a walk from studio 332. Feel free to take a break on one of the chairs or benches in the hall! There are signs on the walls with maps.

Seating: Several options are available, including folding chairs, lounges and hammock seats.

Restrooms: Unfortunately, the accessible bathrooms are a bit far from studio 332, over by the elevators, and they are gendered. The restrooms closest to the studio have two steps up for entry and are also gender segregated.

Parking: Free onsite parking.

COVID Protocol: We highly encourage you to take a COVID test before attending this session. If you are experiencing COVID-like symptoms or have recently been exposed to a confirmed COVID positive case, please do not attend. Session facilitators reserve the right to require masking and testing if the session becomes crowded or local health guidelines and conditions change unexpectedly.

Heat Up December with AMP’s Winter Workshop

Move big, sweat, and play while building awareness and exploring expansive possibilities within your own body. Within an empowering environment, we will utilize improvised and structured movement vocabulary to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, choice-making, and agency. For intermediate/advanced level. Knee pads recommended. Low/no cost options available. Come as you are!

AMP’s Winter Workshop
Sponsored by Zenon Dance School
Monday, December 19 through Wednesday, December 21
10:00am-12:00pm

How to Attend
Drop in for one day or attend all three!
Pre-registration highly encouraged.
Drop-in rate: $18
Two-day bundle rate: $32
Three-day bundle rate: $45
Suitable for professional, pre-professional, and/or intermediate/advanced movers, ages 18+.
For more information and registration, visit AMP’s website.

The Arena – Moving Practice with Brenna Mosser

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

Brenna Mosser teaches December Moving Practice:
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Pre-register here.

Suggested $17 per class; however, there is a pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

Class description: Let’s play with physics physically. I am currently researching internal expansion and space while giving into gravity and weight to carry me with minimal effort within dance phrase work. This class series will build on oldies but goodies of choreutics concepts (dynamics/division of space/decentralization) while delving into newer waters of intentional ambiguity.

Brenna Mosser (she/her) is a dance artist who seeks to illuminate the awe in her surroundings by sculpting falls, stumbles, and asymmetries gracefully. She spent two years in the Conservation Corps, where she faced the reality of climate change and has since dedicated her work to bringing awareness and justice to this crisis. She earned her bachelor’s in dance performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK. She supplemented her degree at le Centre national de la danse contemporaine in Angers, France where she earned the US equivalent of a BA in dance performance and in arts management. Brenna founded Analog Dance Works in 2019, a dance company whose mission is to explore the intersection between dance and science through choreographic works and roundtable discussions. Alongside her own practice, Brenna currently dances for Threads Dance Project, Alternative Motion Project, and Bernadette Knaeble.

“Ring in the New Year” Class with Erin Thompson

Please join Erin Thompson for her “Ring in the New Year” contemporary dance class in honor of New Year’s Eve on Thursday morning, December 29, 10:00-11:45am.

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 2022 away! Accompaniment by the wonderful Dean Magraw.

Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary
Thursday, December 29, 10:00-11:45am
In-person only!

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

TU Dance Center: Dancing Together Workshop

This eight-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

January 14-March 4
Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am

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 2022-2023 Payment Plan form
4. Click here to submit the 2022-2023 Children and Teen Program online registration form