Archive: Ongoing Classes

No matter if you are a veteran dancer or slipping on your first pair of ballet shoes, Ballet Co.Laboratory is an artistic home for everyone. With 14 different adult drop-in classes offered each week, including conditioning and Pilates, we know we have the right class for you!

New: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday classes now with live accompaniment!

Join us in person or virtually via Zoom.
Single-class and 10-class cards are available.
Parking is always free!

Zenon Dance School is excited to welcome you back for another season of dance this fall! Registration is open for the Fall Session, running September 11-December 17. No classes November 22-26. Classes are held in person unless otherwise noted. Visit our website to learn more!

Monday
10:30am: gaga/people with Berit Ahlgren
5:30pm: Contemporary Floorwork with Amanda Sachs

Tuesday
6:00pm: All Levels Hip Hop with Arturo Miles
7:00pm: Beginning 1 Jazz with Allison Rubin Forester

Wednesday
9:30am: Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary with Joanna Lees
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK (Online-only October 11 and 25, November 8, and December 6)
5:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Lisa Erickson (Online)
5:30pm: Horton-based Modern with Anna Pinault
7:00pm: Contemporary Ballet with Kendall Kramer

Thursday
9:30am: Advanced Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson, with live accompaniment by Dean Magraw
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug

Friday
12:00pm: Intermediate 2 Ballet with Tina Wallum, with live accompaniment by Susan Hsu

Saturday
9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson (Online)
9:15am: Creative Movement for ages 3-4 with Eliana Durnbaugh
9:15am: Creative Movement for ages 5-6 with Sofia Arisian
10:00am: Youth Modern for ages 11-14 with Sofia Arisian
10:00am: Beginning Modern with Roxane Wallace
11:30am: Musical Theatre Jazz with Xan Mattek
12:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Benjamin Johnson, with live accompaniment by Pat Lyles

Sunday
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 3-4 with Hannah Gonzalez and Mary Willmeng
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 5-6 with Sofia Arisian
11:00am: Youth Hip Hop for ages 7-10 with Sofia Arisian
12:00pm: Youth Ballet for ages 7-10 with Sofia Arisian

Erin’s advanced-level contemporary dance class at 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 incredible Dean Magraw will accompany on guitar.

Thursday mornings, 9:30-11:00am

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal.
See you soon!

Dancing and finding pleasure in movement is for everyone of any age!

I’ve taught dance for all ages and experience levels for over fifty years. In my weekly session of modern dance classes, we’ll be working with somatic movement, structured improvisation, and floor work to build strength, flexibility, and ease of movement. You’ll learn patterns that move through space in community with other dancers, encouraging spatial and group awareness.

Mondays, 12:00-1:30pm
Drop in: $15-20. Cash or check made out to Kathryn Anderson.

Free parking in the lot south of Tapestry.

Join CULTIVATE, A Trainee Program dancers for a series of open classes this fall. Teaching artists include TU Dance Founder and Artistic Director Toni Pierce-Sands, guest choreographers Christopher Ralph and Anna Pinault, and TU Dance Center teaching artists Wendy Anderson, Laurel Keen, and Abdo Sayegh-Rodriguez.

These classes are for intermediate/advanced dancers.
All classes are from 9:30-11:00am unless specified.
Please check the Open Class Calendar as classes and/or teaching artists might change.

Cost: $16/Class or $140/10 Classes

For more information and to register, click here.

The TU Dance Pre-Professional Program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African dance, conditioning, and creative workshops for students up to age 24.

Click here to download the 2023-2024 Pre-Professional Daily Schedules. All classes in the Pre-Professional Program are offered in person with a virtual option, unless otherwise noted.

For more information and to register, click here.

The TU Dance Center Children and 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 2023-2024 Children and Teen Daily Schedule. All classes in the Children and Teen Program are offered in person with a virtual option, unless otherwise noted.

For more information and to register, click here.

Open dance and fitness classes seven days a week! Class offerings include ballet, Arabic dance, contemporary, The Ellové Technique®, jazz, BollyX, hip hop, Zumba, heels, bodyART, sessions, and more.

Hothouse is a multi-purpose studio space in Minneapolis featuring drop-in classes for teens and adults. Whether you’re already involved in the local arts scene, an aspiring dance professional looking to bolster your training, or just a human who loves to move, Hothouse offers classes that celebrate the bliss of movement and embrace you for who you are.

Come as you are, leave as more.

Visit our website or find us on MINDBODY to view the full schedule and book your next class!

Free lot and street parking.

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment.

Berit Ahlgren teaches Moving Practice in October.
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Pre-registration and payment beforehand are encouraged.
Suggested price of $17 per class. Pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

We will start class slowly, warming up the muscles, joints, fascia, and mind through sensation-based movement research and creative multi-tasking within the body. Based in the Gaga Movement Language, this entry point will support the phrasework taught from the HoneyWorks repertoire, as well as time for generative engagement amongst the participants in the room. Students should expect a supportive environment, a class that meets them where they’re at, and a fun, inspirational time to move both independently as well as in unison, whether in guided improvisation or shared choreography.

Native to St. Paul, MN, Berit Ahlgren trained at Minnesota Dance Theater with Loyce and Lise Houlton, and was a founding company member of TU Dance, performing between the years of 2006-2016. Receiving Metropolitan Regional Art Council’s Next Step Grant in 2011, Ahlgren studied the Gaga Movement Language in Tel Aviv, and shortly thereafter moved to Israel to pursue an intensive, yearlong teacher certification. Ahlgren transitioned to New York City in 2014 to obtain her MFA in Dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, developing ties in the community while teaching Gaga at both Gibney and Mark Morris Dance Centers. Returning to Minnesota in late 2016, Ahlgren has been working as a dance educator, performer, choreographer, and collaborator across the U.S. and abroad, using her relationship with Gaga as a lens to define her artistic process. Ahlgren established the organization HoneyWorks in 2019 to house her creative work, and most notably co-created “Live at the Shed” in 2020 with Helen Hatch (Hatch Dance), an annual, summer, outdoor dance production with a rotating cast of 25+ dancers from the community.