Archive: Ongoing Classes

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!

Thursday, April 22
Ballet, 10:00-11:30AM
with Leah Gallas and accompaniment by Susan Hsu

Friday, April 23
Ballet, 10:15-11:45AM
with Sally Rousse and accompaniment by Franco Holder

Saturday, April 24
Contemporary, 11:00-12:30PM
with Scott Willits

Monday, April 26
Ballet, 10:15-11:45AM
with Penny Freeh and accompaniment by Michael Koerner

Tuesday, April 27
9:30-10:00AM, Floorbarre and
10:00-11:30AM, Ballet
with Sally Rousse and accompaniment by Franco Holder

Wednesday, April 28
11:00-11:45AM Gaga/Dancers
with Berit Ahlgren – in person only

Thursday, April 29
10:00-11:30AM Ballet
with Leah Gallas and accompanied by Susan Hsu

Friday, April 30
10:15-11:45AM Ballet
with Sally Rousse and accompanied by Franco Holder

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

In Dance Together, children and their caregivers discover the joys of movement through movement games, stories, and songs. These early classes introduce children to group learning environments, while using movement to develop strong bonds with their caregivers and cooperatively work with others in the class. Children also develop large and fine motor skills in classes that emphasize observation, exploration, manipulation, imitation, and repetition. For ages one to three with a caregiver; crawlers and walkers welcome.

Mondays, 5:15-5:45pm
Fridays, 10:15-10:45am

Our academic year programming runs through May 22, 2021.

Visit our registration page for 2020-21 class information and registration.

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. Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30AM at Saint Paul Ballet
Morgan Thorson teaches in April

About Morgan’s classes:
Moving is dancing and dancing is working. We will work with prompts sourced from image, sound, drawing, touch-points, and text, to enhance states of feeling and moving. As we practice with these prompts, we grow somatic grounding, concentration and curiosity for how we make decisions, embody action and cultivate images. With this research we consider the witness as active participant, and frame and space as dynamic materials. I aspire to facilitate a space for personal and collective journey as well as the reorientation of self-perception to the magic we make when we work. Bring your notebooks.

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

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 ten 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

Ananya Dance Theatre’s Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice offers the following classes online:

Tuesdays: Yorchhā Strong, 9:00-9:30am, CDT
Wednesdays: Intro to Yorchhā, 6:30-7:30pm, CDT
Fridays: Intro to Yorchhā, 6:30-7:30pm, CDT
Sundays: Advanced Yorchhā, 3:00-4:00pm, CDT

Yorchhā is Ananya Dance Theatre’s trade-marked contemporary technique that intersects principles of vinyasa yoga, the classical Indian dance form Odishi (from the eastern Indian state of Odisha), and the martial art form Chhau (also from Odisha).

Classes are donation based. We suggest $10-20 per class but please donʻt let financial limitations stop you from participating. Another way to contribute is by sharing information about the classes on your social media or inviting people in your orbit to take class with you!

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Erin’s advanced level contemporary/modern 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

In Dance Together, children and their caregivers discover the joys of movement through movement games, stories, and songs. These early classes introduce children to group learning environments, while using movement to develop strong bonds with their caregivers and cooperatively work with others in the class. Children also develop large and fine motor skills in classes that emphasize observation, exploration, manipulation, imitation, and repetition. For ages one to three with a caregiver; crawlers and walkers welcome.

Mondays, 5:15-5:45pm
Fridays, 10:15-10:45am

Our academic year programming runs through May 22, 2021.

Visit our registration page for 2020-21 class information and registration.

This weekly class is for anyone and everyone! Every class begins with a theme for embodiment exploration that can range from anatomical knowledge to imagery or poetry. We will explore how we are feeling and sensing ourselves in the present moment by following short and gentle movement variations that leads into authentic movement. Come with an open heart and mind to connect with yourself, follow your senses, learn of your movement desires, and sometimes get a little groovy.

Class Registration is available through Healing Elements MindBody app and taught on Zoom.

Let loose your love of BALLET!

Lisa’s ballet classes are crafted to naturally guide students to body alignment that enhances their balance, technique and potential, while also discovering the value and importance of the use of weight in their dancing. Equally important, she trains dancers to develop the positive mindset that leads to success (that ballet, like life, is about 90% related to the stories we tell ourselves). Add to that her expectation that students have fun and appreciate and learn from their mistakes (the bigger the better! i.e., the bigger the mistake the faster we learn!), and each tudents’ experience is one of challenge, growth, empowerment and fun! Come experience it for yourself!

Thursdays: 5:30pm, Intermediate

Sundays: 1:30pm, Slow Intermediate

Mondays: 5:30pm, Advanced Beginning

All classes are offered on a sliding scale of $5-15.