Archive: Ongoing Classes

Join us for our adult/teen drop-in classes!

Dance is for everyone! Get your body moving and enjoy a variety of dance and conditioning classes, including Pilates.

You can join us in-person, or virtually via Zoom. All attending dancers must sign-in on MindBody. Class sign-in will close ten minutes before the class begins. Class size is limited to 10 dancers for in-studio.

Learn more or sign up for a class here: https://bit.ly/AdultTeenBCL

Join us for Beginning Teen Ballet!

This six-week session class is for teens and adults who are new to ballet and want to learn the beginning basics of ballet technique. No dance experience is required. 

To learn more and sign up, click here: https://bit.ly/AdultTeenBCL

Wednesday, 10:00-11:15am CDT
$5-$15
Zoom

May 12 (today!)

Move BIG from home with Alternative Motion Project! Move and sweat in a weekly online contemporary movement practice. Explore mobility, length, momentum, and 3-D expansion, while pushing the boundaries and physicality of a smaller space in a curious and enlivening environment, often to fun, retro pop hits. Come as you are in the space that you have! Suitable for pre-professional/professional movers in any size space.

Register at least 30 minutes prior to class time.
The Zoom link will be sent to your email address within 24 hours of the class time. You will need a Zoom account to access the practice.

This practice is offered on a sliding scale, $5-15. Payments will directly support instructors. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email financial concerns and any questions to alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

We’ll virtually see you soon!

REGISTER: https://www.alternativemotionproject.org/weekly-virtual-movement-practice.html

Photo Credit: V. Paul Virtucio

Lisa’s welcoming ballet classes are crafted to naturally guide students in refining their body alignment, balance and technique. Her passion and love of ballet and helping dancers grow in body and mind (along with her years of experience of doing just that) translates into a very engaging and fun experience for all.  Come try it today!

Ballet–it does a body good!
All classes are offered on a sliding scale of 5-$15.

Sundays, 1:30-3:00pm: Slow Intermediate

Mondays, 5:30-6:45pm: Advanced Beginning

Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm: Intermediate

Contact Info:
lisamerickson606@gmail.com

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. As a collective, we aim to offer classes that prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment. 

Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30AM
at Saint Paul Ballet
Darrius Strong teaches in May
Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

About Darrius:
Darrius Strong is a Twin Cities based choreographer, dancer, and educator whose creative work has been chosen for the Walker Art Center, Choreographers’ Evening, and Rhythmically Speaking. He was featured in the 2015 New Griots Festival as well as an American Standard Billbooard advertisement in NYC’s Time Square in 2016. He was also a 2017 Momentum New Works recipient. Strong has created works for Threads Dance Project, Flying Foot Forum, Alternative Motion Project, TU Dance and James Sewell Ballet. Strong is a grateful recipient of a 2019 Jerome Hill Fellowship.

Strong developed his own dance company STRONGmovement in 2015. He is also a faculty at St. Paul Conservatory Performing Arts High School, TU Dance Center, and Eleve Performing Arts Center, where he focuses on teaching young dancers how to connect their identity to movement.  www.strong-movement.com

Pre-registration required: https://www.arena-dances.org/class-payment/
Flexible pricing and free parking!

Erin’s advanced level contemporary Zoom class through Zenon Dance School includes floor work, standing warm-ups, and phrase work, all designed to enhance the healthy use of joints and muscle groups as dancers release their weight fully into the support of the ground. Experiential awareness, body mapping, improvisation, and creative work are included as dancers channel their own expressive artistry within the movement. The delightful Dean Magraw will accompany on guitar.

Thursday mornings, 9:30-11:00am

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.
See you (virtually) soon!

Zenon on Zoom

Zenon Dance School is excited to offer a wide variety of adult and youth dance classes this spring. Drop-in students are always welcome!

MONDAY
5:30pm: Cardio Dance Jam with Ariel Linnerson

TUESDAY
9:30am: gaga/people with Berit Ahlgren
5:30pm: Ballet for Contemporary Dancers with Anne Lentz
7:00pm: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin-Forester

WEDNESDAY
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK
5:30pm: Intermediate Contemporary/Modern with Ruby Josephine Smith – HYBRID
5:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson

THURSDAY
9:30am: Advanced Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug – HYBRID

FRIDAY
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting
12:00pm: Intermediate Ballet with Penny Freeh

SATURDAY
9:00am: Yoga with Ariel Linnerson
10:00am: Tap with Dorian Brooke
10:15am: Youth Hip Hop, Ages 6-9 with Erin Sheppard
11:00am: Youth Ballet I, Ages 5-7 with Sarah Bartlett
11:15am: Youth Ballet II, Ages 8-10 with Kendall Kramer
12:00pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Benjamin Johnson

Register online today!

MotionArt focuses on nurturing children’s individual creativity while facilitating their understanding of the dance elements of space, time, and energy. Ages 3-5 explore these elements through playful, structured activities allowing them to expand their movement vocabulary, develop body awareness and gain self-confidence. Ages 5-7 explore the dance elements while being introduced to new movement skills and the creation of their own dances. Ages 7-12 expand their creative and kinesthetic awareness while learning basic movement skills of modern dance.

We offer ways for children to dance during these uncertain times through Zoom and outdoor classes. Please go to motionartmn.org to sign up for classes. There are various options for payment/donations, and no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

Ages 3-5: Friday, 12:00-12:30pm

Ages 5-7: Saturday, 10:00-10:45am
Zoom or outside, weather permitting. Contact Pam for info.

Ages 7-9: Saturday, 11:00-11:45am

Ages 10-12: Friday, 3:00-4:00pm

CoMoCollective offers small group classes for professionals and adult dancers alike to keep us moving together during this uncertain time. For safety, class sizes are limited, temperatures are taken at entrance, and masks are required throughout class. Come join us!

Pre-registration is required. Follow link to sign up. Classes do fill up to a week in advance, sign up early!

Monday, May 3
Ballet, 10:15-11:45AM
with Helen Hatch and accompaniment by Michael Koerner

Tuesday, May 4
9:30-10:00AM, Floorbarre and
10:00-11:30AM, Ballet
with Sally Rousse and accompaniment by Franco Holder

Thursday, May 6
10:00-11:30AM Ballet
with Jeffrey Hankinson and accompaniment by Susan Hsu

Friday, May 7
10:15-11:45AM Ballet
with Sally Rousse and accompanied by Franco Holder

Saturday, May 8
11:00AM-12:30PM Contemporary
with Elayna Waxse

Monday, May 10
Ballet, 10:15-11:45AM
with Helen Hatch and accompaniment by Michael Koerner

Tuesday, May 11
9:30-10:00AM, Floorbarre and
10:00-11:30AM, Ballet
with Sally Rousse and accompaniment by Franco Holder

$15/class, $10/virtual class. Link sent prior to class. $10, barre only.