Archive: Ongoing Classes

Join our online learning community of all ages, sizes, and levels of experience to participate in the creative expression and health and fitness benefits of Middle Eastern dance.

The beauty of this dance form is that it makes you feel wonderful in your own unique body! Go to cassandraschool.com to choose your classes and learn from home. Each class is held through Zoom, is 75 minutes in US Central Time, and $15 each.

Purchase four or more classes and receive a $2 discount per class – that’s $13 each!

Be sure to choose, register, and PAY for your class ahead of time as class registrations close at 8:00pm CT the night before class. We take payments through our PayPal or using your credit card as a guest through our PayPal.

Wednesday, 10:00-11:15am CDT

$5-15 on Zoom

Each week: 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!

Register at least 30 minutes prior to class time. Suitable for pre-professional/professional movers in any size space.

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.

April Dates: April 7, 14, 21, 28

REGISTER

 

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.
Morgan Thorson teaches in April!
Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

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!

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

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

Register at least 30 minutes prior to class time! Zoom link will be sent to your email address within 24 hours of the class. 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. Email alternativemotionproject@gmail.com with questions.

Photo: Bill Cameron

Join Karla Grotting for another Friday Morning Jazz class this spring session!

Karla and Erinn Liebhard are thrilled to be in their sixth year of running the Friday Morning Jazz class through Zenon, a long-standing Twin Cities dance scene tradition. Their approach is body-friendly, history-infused, music-based and community-building: all are welcome to this class that skews intermediate-advanced, including drop-ins and first-time attendees!

Keep yourself groovin’ safely by joining us for this Zoom-based class: register at least ten minutes in advance of class at http://www.zenondance.org. Need help navigating how to join, or a discount? Email erika@zenondance.org.

Don’t You Feel It Too? is the thirteen-year practice of moving our brave, honest, loving and ridiculous selves.

DYFIT addresses our present needs for racial healing and cultural change by offering parallel embodied practices of joy and belonging. Everyone is welcome in their respective caucus groups or to the Open Practice. No previous experience is necessary. In this new format the work will be more specific and authentic within and across groups.

Tuesday, April 6: 5:30PM-6:30PM – Open Practice in front of the Weisman Art Museum.

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: Fridays, 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

Walk in ready to grow.
Leave EVOLVED.

Join us at evolution studio for dance and fitness classes geared specifically for adults. We have contemporary, jazz, musical theatre, yoga strength, prenatal yoga, and more! See our full list of classes on our website: evolutionstudiomn.com

All of are classes are a drop-in style, but please register in advance at evolutionstudiomn.com

Let loose your love of ballet!

Students call Lisa’s ballet classes magical, referring to their experience of feeling both more grounded and “up on their legs” in her classes. She helps students strengthen their mindset, encourages and facilitates the expression of their own unique style, and uses her eagle eye to fine-tune students’ technique. And, most importantly of all, has fun doing so! The end result: lots of fun and the expansion of each student’s full potential! All classes are offered on a sliding scale of $5-15.

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

Sundays, 1:30-3:00pm: Slow intermediate                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Mondays, 5:30-6:45: Beginning 2

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!