This week, Friday Morning Jazz is again taught by multi-faceted special guest artist Gabby Abram! Gabby is a Gary, Indiana native, and a 2020 Momentum New Dance Works fellow. She is a self-taught, multi-lingual Hip Hop artist and has received training in ballet, modern, West African, and jazz at The Perpich Center for Arts and Education, TU Dance Center, and Columbia College Chicago. She has performed works by local and international choreographers Mathew Janczewski, Vanessa Voskuil, Orlando Hunter, Marciano Silva Dos Santos, and Nildinha Fonseca (Brazil). An active artist in the Twin Cities’ Hip-Hop community, Abram has danced in productions, Mixtape Vol. 1; Mixtape Volume 2; and Rooted: Hip Hop Choreographers’ Evening. Abram made history as the first black woman to teach American Jazz dance at the University of Minnesota in September of 2020. Gabrielle is a member of STRONGmovement, directed by Darrius Strong, and Atlantis13 Dance Collective, directed by Peace Madimutsa and Johnathan Van Arman. In 2018 Abram co-produced Listen., at The Lab Theater – a collective of 9 choreographers sharing Pan-African perspectives and personal stories of black identity. Abram continues to produce, dance, and create work in the Twin Cities. Come groove with Gabby this Friday!
The rest of our exciting line up of fall guest artists is as follows:
November 12 – Jennifer Glaws
November 19 – Karla Grotting (regular FMJ co-teacher)
November 26 – NO CLASS
December 3 – Jennifer Glaws
December 10 – Jolene Konkel
December 17 – Jonene Konkel
Find out more about our awesome guests by following our class Facebook page and keeping your eye out for posts about them! Class will remain hybrid, offering 10 physically-distanced spots for masked folks to come into the studio to take class, and unlimited spots for folks to attend from home via a high-quality Zoom experience.
Register here: conta.cc/39fJDXN
We hope to see you soon! #zenondanceschool #wewillmoveyou #getyourasstoclass