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

Making it Public is a free, two-day intensive workshop designed for artists who are interested in exploring and expanding their public art making practice. Facilitated by Cándida González from Forecast Public Art, with guest speakers. Topics include project management, best practices, funding, site analysis, community engagement, and project ideation.

Space is limited! Participants must be Minnesota residents 18 years or older, with priority consideration given to artists residing in the Bloomington area or South/Southwest/West suburbs.

Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29
12:00-6:00pm CST

In-person at Bloomington Civic Plaza.
Registration Closes: Tuesday, December 20, 11:00pm CST
More information and registration form.

An event where you get to join us in the experience of making a dance video alongside other dancers from the community! Check out the previous dance video project here!

Saturday, December 10
4:30-8:00pm
Intermediate level. $20.

Schedule
4:30: Doors Open
5:00: Choreo
6:00: Choreo/Formations
7:00: Film
8:00: End

Register

Additional Info:
Levels are based on choreography and set formations within the time frame listed.
We will send out a confirmation email once you register and make payment. The performance outfit info will be in the email once you register.
Any questions or comment, please message or email us at EliteFamilyConnection@gmail.com.

The Blending of Yoga and Feldenkrais Winter Series
December 5-February 6
Mondays, 6:00-7:15pm CST
Available as a livestream on Zoom or using the self-paced recordings.

This will be a time to create space and feel what it is like living in this body.

When we have the courage to release places that feel physically stuck, mentally tight, or emotionally restricted, we can uncover a new internal landscape of this body we are living in. In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. We will explore ways to move in harmony with our unique needs and how we feel each day, to encourage the body to soften and connect with the feelings of space and freedom.

Scholarships are available for this series. Please contact Sarah directly at sarah@body-matter.com for scholarship inquiries.

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.

Brenna Mosser (she/her) is a Minnesota native who loves the physicality of dance, Laban Movement Analysis and environmental conservation. She went to the Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance for her bachelor’s and supplemented her degree with a level 3 license in Performance Dance and Arts Management from the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers, France. On returning home, Brenna joined the Conservation Corps, an Americorps program that focuses on prairie restoration in Minnesota. Alongside AMP, Brenna dances for ARENA Dances and Bernadette Knaeble. She teaches Modern and Jazz at the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, and is currently choreographing her first evening-length work based on evolution, science fiction and the environment.

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
December 19-21 from 10:00am-12:00pm

Your Poetic Pelvis
December 4 – February 8
Sundays at 4:00pm CST and Wednesdays at 6:30pm CST
Available as a livestream on Zoom or using the self-paced recordings.

Over ten sessions, we will explore the pelvis and its connections to the whole self. Everything is related to even small changes in the pelvis. The pelvis is a highly mobile structure, constantly responding to movement above and below it. Muscles that attach to the pelvis move in many directions, some connecting all the way to the upper spine, others crossing the hip joints and connecting into the legs all the way to the knees. This series will help you improve and clarify the fundamental movements of your pelvis for more effective action in your daily functions like walking, standing, and sitting. For those that recently took the pelvic floor series, this series can act like a Part 2, as we will continue to understand the pelvis through a whole new series of creative explorations (less focused on the pelvic floor itself).

Curious? Attend the Free Intro Class on Wednesday, November 30 at 6:30pm to find out more. Register here for the intro class.

Pay-as-able options are available for the ten week series. More details for the Your Poetic Pelvis series can be found by clicking the links!

The Blending of Yoga and Feldenkrais Winter Series
December 5 – February 6
Mondays, 6:00pm-7:15pm CST
Available as a livestream on Zoom or using the self-paced recordings.

This will be a time to create space and feel what it is like living in this body.

When we have the courage to release places that feel physically stuck, mentally tight, or emotionally restricted, we can uncover a new internal landscape of this body we are living in. In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. We will explore ways to move in harmony with our unique needs and how we feel each day, to encourage the body to soften and connect with the feelings of space and freedom.

Scholarships are available for this series. Please contact Sarah directly at sarah@body-matter.com for scholarship inquires.

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

Joanna Lees subs for Brenna Mosser on December 6!
Brenna Mosser teaches the rest of December.
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.

Move BIG, sweat and play in an energizing atmosphere, supported by pop hits, for this contemporary movement practice. Participants will build awareness and explore expansive possibilities within their own individuality and identities. Through improvised and structured movement vocabulary, participants will be encouraged to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, and agency in choice-making and empowerment with each individual’s own unique body.

Curiosity // Connection// Community // Choice // Change

Learn more about Joanne, here.