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

Ballet Royale is offering a brand new Student Choreographic Workshop this June! This one-week choreographic workshop includes both dancers seeking to learn and perform new works, and emerging student choreographers seeking to experience the creative process. All dancers and student choreographers attend daily morning ballet and pointe classes, followed by rehearsals to develop and learn new choreography. The workshop is overseen by a professional choreographer in the afternoon.

June 27-July 1, 9:30am-2:30pm
Dancers ages 12 and older. Choreographers ages 15 and older.

Dancers: Receive the opportunity to learn new pieces and work with new choreographers, providing them invaluable experiences, allowing them to grow artistically and technically. Dancers are an important part of the creative process, and play an integral role in bringing choreographers’ visions to life.

Emerging Student Choreographers: Mentored by a professional choreographer, student choreographers receive choreography assignments designed to guide them through the choreographic process, including the conception, selection of music and dancers, and the creation of a new work. They will also receive space, time, and dancers to set a new piece of choreography culminating in a choreographic competition on the last day.

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
Mathew Janczewski subs June 28

Drop in: $17. Buy a 10-class card and save.
Register
FREE parking on all side streets: Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, 31st

Class focuses on opening up curiosity, finding internal pathways within the body and the contrast of those same pathways. An assortment of texture, speed, density, length, force and resistance will be taught to open these skills. The Moving Practice class will differ from Mathew’s regular Contemporary Flow class, by investigating and improvisation of one’s own body in space by inviting stillness, invisibility, and listening to your weight falling through space.

Originally from Illinois, dancer, choreographer, director, and creative Mathew Janczewski (he/him) has been residing in Minneapolis, MN since 1989. He was a company member, most notably with Shapiro & Smith Dance from 2007-2014 and JAZZDANCE! By Danny Buraczeski from 1992-97. As a dancer, Mathew has performed as a guest with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Bebe Miller, and Jacek Luminski of Bytom, Poland. Over the years, he has performed the works of Beth Corning, Sean Curran, HIJACK, Marge Maddux, Shawn McConneloug, Jane Shockley, Robin Stiehm, Morgan Thorson, Doug Varone, and Cathy Young.

Photo by Aaron Warkov

An 8-week Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
Soften the System, June 29-August 28
Wednesdays at 6:30pm CST and Sundays at 4:00pm CST
Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom.

Our instincts RESIDE in the BODY. The lessons in this series are not just exercises in relaxation, mindful awareness, or feeling good. They are ways to better know, experience, and understand your body. Most importantly they can help you develop the ability to settle your body whenever you wish.

These are not just tools that you can lean on during times of stress or anxiety. These are ways to practice what it can feel like to be settled. To get to know the sensation of a settled nervous system, so that you can return to that place when you need to.

This is an alternative view of what we can do to grow in how we relate to the world, to settle our own nervous system, to then be able to engage with the world and in relationships in a way that feels skillful, wise, and from a place of compassion.

We will approach these lessons as a call to action to recognize that in order to create change in larger systems such as our community, our country, our world, understanding our body and softening the system is an important step for that change.

See the links below to learn more about the course and/or register!

Pay as able available, as well as full and partial scholarships. Reach out to Sarah to inquire!

The TU Dance Children & 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.

Click here to download the 2022 Children & Teen Summer Program Daily Schedule.
For questions and level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708.

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 Summer 2022 Payment Plan Form,  and
4) Submit a 2022 Children & Teen Summer Program online registration form.

Registration Deadline: July 1, 2022

Scholarships available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.

Been curious about what classes are like at the Threads Dance Nexus? Come join us this summer for our Summer Sampler Series! The summer sampler will offer participants a chance to try out fall classes before registration begins in September. Our first sampler session will be an hour-long modern class catered to adult dancers at the beginner to intermediate level. Taught by Rae Charles Harge, this class will invite participants to explore the fundamentals of modern dance with a focus on alignment, mobility, and expression.

Saturday, July 9
11:30am-12:30pm
Ages 18+
Pay what you can, $10.00-$40.00

Intstuctor Bio: Rae Charles Harge made her professional performance and choreographic debut in 2011 as a Guest Artist and Choreographer for the Threads Dance Project. The following year, Charles Harge was awarded a BFA in Dance with honors from the Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed the repertoire of Robert Battle, Ron K. Brown, David Dorfman, Alonzo King, Sydney Skybetter, Kate Weare, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar among many others. Charles Harge joined Threads Dance Project as a full-time company member and arts administrator in 2014.

Since then, she has gone on to become an educational leader and Dance Instructor at local dance institutions and colleges including PiM, Summit Dance Shoppe, Carleton College, Macalester University, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Charles Harge is currently combining her passions for the arts, educational reform, and social justice as a Doctoral Candidate researching race and dance education at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and serving as Managing Director for Threads Dance Project since 2021.

Register, or learn more.

Ballet Royale’s July Intensive has been developed to give students the ultimate experience in dance, featuring top-quality professional teachers and guest Master Teachers. Under the supervision of Ballet Royale’s Directors, this program has been designed to develop a well-rounded dancer by providing strong classical ballet training as well as exposure to a mixture of other styles of dance. This intensive includes group special events, Ballet Royale Summer Intensive T-shirt, and culminates in a Summer Showcase Performance.

Audition required for Division II and up (dancers nine and older). As all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio for a private audition.

July 11-29
Ages 8 through professional – multiple progressive divisions.

On the last day of the Summer Intensive, Twin Cities Ballet will be hosting a Summer Carnival fundraiser that is open to all!
Dancers performing in the Summer Intensive will receive 5 free tickets for the Carnival.

The Karen L. Charles Threads Dance Project is excited to offer three training opportunities for youth as well as adult professional dancers. This summer’s teaching faculty will include present and former Threads company members, our esteemed Teaching Artists, and even Artistic/Executive Director Karen Charles.

Creative Connections I
July 11-15, 10:00-11:30am
Ages: 5-7
Tuition: $125
Participants must register and balances paid in full by June 20.

This program introduces participants to the five basic elements of movement (body, action, space, time, energy) as well as the basics of ballet and dance techniques. Participants will enhance kinesthetic awareness and begin to explore the body as a tool of self-expression.

Creative Connections II with Malia Craft
July 11-15, 1:00-3:30pm
Ages: 12-16
Tuition: $175
Participants must register and balances paid in full by June 20.

This program will provide participants with an expanded exploration of ballet and modern dance techniques and begin to explore how the five basic elements of dance are used to create movement motifs. Classes offered include ballet, modern, and introduction to composition skills. Participants will additionally reflect upon movement and movement creation through journaling.

More information available at www.threadsdance.org/summer.

Registration online at https://bit.ly/TDPcc.

Explore your passions for the arts this summer and learn from local professionals in the field! Join the FAIR Summer Arts Exploration and The Cowles Center for two different workshops taking place for 9–12 graders. Click HERE to register. Both workshops are free.

Cultural Exploration of Dance
July 11–21, 2022
Monday through Thursday, 1:00–2:00pm at The Cowles Center
This two-week dance camp will explore multiple dance styles (such as breaking, flamenco, latin social dance, and more). 8 sessions total. At the Cowles Center Target Education Studio.

Backstage Basics
July 25–August 4, 2022
Monday through Thursday, 1:00–3:30pm at The Cowles Center
Work alongside The Cowles Center’s technical staff for a four-day overview of what it takes to bring a show to life behind the scenes. Students will cover technology and basic operation of lighting, setting up sound gear such as microphones and speakers, working with backdrops and other backstage gear, and more! The class will culminate in combining the learned skills into a set-up, “mini-show” and “load-out.” This course is meant to give students a taste of these areas and resources for how they may pursue work or programs for future education.

Additional classes offered through McPhail and other community partners.

Questions? Contact: Adam Clark with MPS Community Education at Adam.Clark@mpls.k12.mn.us

The TU Dance Pre-Professional program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African, and creative workshops for students ages 11 to 24.

Click the respective level groups to download the 2021 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule: Levels 1-3 and Levels 4-5.

For level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708. Placement can be done by attending an in-person (by appointment only, a class fee applies) or by submitting a video link (modern and ballet phrase), or during the first day of classes of the intensive.

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 Summer 2022 Payment Plan Form, and
4) Submit a 2022 Pre-Professional Summer Intensive online registration form.

Registration deadlines:
Levels 1-3: July 11-23. Register by July 1, 2022
Level 4-5: July 25-August 13. Register by July 20, 2022

Scholarships available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.