Archive: Workshops, Intensives, Master Classes, and Open Houses

This workshop with Jennifer Ilse approaches movement with a goal of balance – fluidity in strength, power in softness, centering on breath and economy of movement to teach internal and external body awareness, rhythm and phrasing, and ensemble dancing through modern dance patterns and improvisation.

Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Session One: September 14–October 20. Six weeks.
Session Two: October 26–December 8. Six weeks, no classes November 22-27.

Cost: $85/workshop, per session

Ballet Royale has designated specific times where staff will be available to meet you, answer questions, and show new families our beautiful facility. FREE placement evaluations are available at each open house. You can join us for one of our Registration Open Houses on September 2 and September 7.

Registration Open Houses:

Thursday, September 2: 2:00-4:00pm and 5:30-7:30pm

Tuesday, September 7: 5:30-7:30pm

Come experience our new school, The Arena! The Open House will feature FREE preview-style classes of all of our class offerings:

Friday, September 10
6:00-6:30pm – Creative Movement with Tori Casagranda
6:30-7:00pm – Capoeira with Jim Bozic and co-instructor Miles
7:00-7:30pm – Contemporary Forms with Mathew Janczewski

Saturday, September 11
9:00-9:30am – Pilates with Amy Jones
9:30-10:00am – Contemporary Forms with Mathew Janzcewski
10:00-10:30am – Creative Movement with Kendall Kramer
10:30-11:00am – Capoeira with Jim Bozic and co-instructor Miles
11:00-11:30am – Gyrokinesis with Non Edwards
11:30am-12:00pm – Unicorn Sweat with Abigail Whitmore and Annika Hansen

Pick and choose your own movement adventure, and decide which offerings you want to build into your fall schedule!
We will also be offering tuition discounts at the Open House, including $10 off Discount Card (10 class-pass) and 20% off enrollment.

Learn more at our Facebook event page!

A few ways to keep informed of class offerings and school updates:
-Follow our new IG page at https://www.instagram.com/thearenaschool/
-Check out our website at http://www.arena-dances.org
-Subscribe to our school newsletter at https://www.arena-dances.org/join-our-mailing-list/

We are thrilled to invite you to Zenon Dance School’s first HYBRID Open House on Saturday, September 11.
This will be a great day to enjoy free classes (online and in person), great tuition discounts, and get a sneak peak of our classes the fall.  Below is the schedule of events!

9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson – Online

10:00am: Contemporary Ballet with Anne Lentz – Online

11:00am: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug – Hybrid

12:00pm: Creative Movement for Ages 4-6 with Sarah Bartlett – In Person

12:30pm: Youth Ballet for Ages 7-10 with Kendall Kramer – In Person

In person sections are limited to 10 students, please reserve your spot today through our MindBody Portal!

A strong and supple spine is essential to a healthy body. Your spine is a centerpiece of skeletal movement, it is literally the back bone of your ability to sleep, function, and move properly. By learning to distribute effort evenly along the spine, these lessons will improve your ability to bend, twist, and extend, offering you more options in your daily movement repertoire. Through novel movements, interspersed with rest, these lessons will help disentangle patterns of overuse and habits in the spine that no longer serve you.

September 19-November 10
Sundays, 4:00-5:00pm CST
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm CST
Each lesson is taught twice. You have the choice to come to one or both days.

In Awareness Through Movement®, we explore how we can move with the smallest amount of effort. The smallest amount of effort or exertion will facilitate the maximum amount of sensory differentiation and thus make information available for new learning. Slow movements will facilitate a parasympathetic response, the rest and digest response of the nervous system. This is a non-judgemental, non-corrective, and liberating way to experience your body in motion.

What you receive by registering for the series:

• 2 weekly Awareness Through Movement® lessons, 60 minutes each
• Community discussion after each lesson with time for asking questions, harvesting, and sharing
• Recordings automatically available 48 hrs after each live class
• Stream recordings indefinitely
• Option to download recordings
• Optional individual consult with Sarah

Katha Dance Theatre (KDT) has been teaching and performing Kathak, the North Indian classical dance form, for over three decades. Kathak is an elegant dance form characterized by rhythmic footwork, graceful hand gestures, pirouettes, lyrical movements, and storytelling.

KDT is excited to be offering an Open House via Zoom for prospective students who would like to get a sense of what we offer.

The free class will take place at 11:00am CT on Saturday, August 28, and is open to dancers of all backgrounds over the age of 6. If you would like to join, please email us at info@kathadance.org with your name and contact info! You’ll receive a Zoom link once class numbers are decided.

Should you decide to join our fall class session, go here for more information about how to participate: https://kathadance.org/school/classes/fall-session-2021/

Email us with any questions you may have. We hope to see you there!

Ballet Royale has designated specific times where staff will be available to meet you, answer questions, and show new families our beautiful facility. FREE placement evaluations are available at each open house. You can join us for the Grand Open House on August 28, or for one of our Registration Open Houses on August 20, September 2, and September 7.

Grand Open House
Saturday, August 28 – 10:00am-2:00pm

The Grand Open House is FREE and Open to the public.
Grand Open House events include:

• Sample Creative Dance classes
• Face painting
• Coloring and craft activities
• Mini performance by Ballet Royale dancers
• Prizes
• New student evaluations
• And much more!

Registration Open House dates:

Tuesday, August 30 – 5:30-7:30pm
Thursday, September 2 – 2:00-4:00pm and 5:30-7:30pm
Tuesday, September 7 – 5:30-7:30pm

TU Dance Center will be holding an Open House where students and families can learn about The School at TU Dance Center.

Students who are interested in enrolling in our fall classes will have the opportunity to participate in a sample class, tour the facilities, ask questions about our upcoming fall programs, and register!

Open House – Saturday, August 28
10:00am-12:00pm

August 28 sample class – Creative Movement
For children ages 6-10
11:00-11:30am

Home//Body – a series of workshops celebrating diverse teaching artists and how movement can help community feel like home.

The first workshops of our ongoing Home||Body series is led by Palestinian American artist, Leila Awadallah

Body Watani (body-as-homeland practice + Arabic dance)

Weaving questions around ancestral, home/land roots and memories of place and beings, the first half of Body Watani practice is a series of guided improvisation endeavors. Serving as a soft container to support the participant’s research in their personal body-as-homeland practice, we will utilize dancing as a way to unravel, deepen, and grapple with notions of home, embodied memory and crisscrossing histories within our bodies.

The second half of Body Watani activates specific movement techniques and choreographic material rooted in Arabic dance styles and music; ranging from working with folk forms and traditional rhythms to contemporary interpretations and experimental sounds from the SWANA region. In addition to dancing, this section engages in conversations around culture, politics, colonialism, and orientalism relevant to the context.

Thursday, August 19, 6:30-8:30pm

Home||Body workshops are free of cost with a suggested donation of $20, and will take place at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Thursday, August 19, 1:30-3:30pm

FREE and open to those interested in or signed up for the Young Dance Performing Company for the 2021-22 school year. Join Chitra Vairavan, YD Program Director, and Anat Shinar, YD Artistic Director, in a team-building afternoon through service to our community. At Young Dance, we believe in being dedicated members of our communities and that service to others empowers us and those around us.

We will meet at Young Dance and then head to the neighboring parks to do some park clean-up and movement, as well.

Email Anat to RSVP, anat@youngdance.org.