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

The Dancing Together Workshop is a child and parent/caregiver Creative Movement class. This 8-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who is interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am at TU Dance Center.
Session 2: January 20-February 24
Session 3: March 16-May 4; No class on April 6 and 13.

To register, please click here.

Special holiday gift for the dancer in your life? Or a “treat yourself” holiday gift?

Wednesdays, March 6 – April 24, 2024
8:00–9:30am
Pre-registration required – no drop-ins.

Early bird registration – now open: $120
After February 6: $160
Registration closes: February 25.
Register.

Contemporary Forms
The core themes of this practice will include sensory exploration, movement as meditation, and engaging with the body’s intuition. In each class, we will move through improvisation and phrase work to engage the senses and awaken the body. Movement material will have an expansive, animal-like virtuosity. Over the course of the series, we will extend phrase work, using imagery and prompts from our research to explore individual choice making. This series is designed for intermediate/advanced movers that are interested in researching their unique movement modalities in a space based in curiosity and joy.

Sarah McCullough (she/her) is a Minneapolis-based movement artist and educator. Originally from Virginia, she attended James Madison University and earned her BA in Dance and Mathematics. Since joining Minneapolis’ dance community in 2018, she has performed the works of Carl Flink, Mathew Janczewski, Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Berit Ahlgren, Helen Hatch, Marisol Herling, and more. Alongside her performance work, Sarah is an educator in contemporary forms. While at JMU, she served as Co-Director of JMU’s Associate Dance Ensemble where she led a weekly company class and mentored 20 first year dance majors in the early stages of their collegiate dance journey. She has lead classes at the Limón Twin Cities Intensive, ARENA DANCES’ Instinct Summer Intensive, The University of Winchester (UK), North Carolina State University, as well as several high school dance programs and studios across Minnesota and Virginia.

December 18-21
11:30am-2:00pm
Join for one, two, three, or all four days!
Discounts apply for multiple days.

James Sewell Ballet hosts a movement workshop series geared toward adult dancers (18+) with intermediate/advanced technique who are:

• interested in “trying out” the movement vocabulary of various dance-makers
• committing to their movement practice ahead of a holiday break, and
• looking for a friendly creative environment without commitment to a long-term project.

Move with emerging leaders in the Twin Cities contemporary dance scene!
Featuring Javan Mngrezzo, Berit Ahlgren, Jarod Boltjes, and Elayna Waxse.

The goal of this series is pure process. The leaders get to see ideas actualized on movers in the room, and movers get to experience a single-day choreographic workshop with each leader.

Move BIG while building awareness and exploring the expansive physicality possible in the body. Within an empowering environment, we will utilize improvised and structured movement vocabulary to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, choice-making, and agency. Led by AMP Director, Joanna Lees.

Suitable for professional, pre-professional, and/or intermediate/advanced movers, ages 18+. Knee pads recommended. This is a great way to keep moving over school or holiday breaks. Come as you are!

December 21 and 22 – 10:00am-12:00pm
Sponsored by Zenon Dance School
Drop in for one or both days!
Pre-registration highly preferred.

Rates
Single day/drop-in rate: $18
2-day bundle rate: $34
Low/no cost options available by emailing alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

Generating Room Artist Body Watani presents EMBODY PALESTINE: Solidarity, Resistance, Liberation

Thursday, December 21
5:30-6:45pm: For anyone who wants to embody Palestinian solidarity. No dance experience necessary.
7:00-8:30pm: For dancers and folks with movement experience who want to embody Palestinian solidarity!

Registration required: email bodywatani@gmail.com.
Donation: $10-30. All proceeds will be donated to support Palestinian artists. More specifics to be announced.

Notes:

• Feel free to come to both sessions if you’d like. Know that the second workshop will have more advanced movement material.
• For our safety, you must pre-register at bodywatani@gmail.com, and if we do not know you, please introduce yourself.
• Know that we are happy to welcome ways to adapt to you and your body’s needs, and we invite you to also take the initiative to connect with us on how we can support you.
• Parking is not always easy in the area, come early!
• There is an elevator and wheelchair accessible entrances and bathrooms.

Please join Erin Thompson for a “Ring in the New Year” contemporary dance class in honor of the turning of the year on Thursday morning, December 28 from 10:00am-11:45am.

Before you make your New Year’s resolutions, come find peace with internal awareness, thrust your holiday limbs into the ground, and fly across the floor flinging 2023 away!

Intermediate-Advanced Contemporary/Modern
Thursday, December 28
10:00am-11:45am
In-person only!

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal.

The Dancing Together Workshop is a child and parent/caregiver Creative Movement class. This 8-week workshop is designed for children (ages 2-4) and their parent/caregiver who is interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Session 2: January 20-February 24
Session 3: March 16-May 4; No class on April 6 and 13.

Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am
At TU Dance Center.

To register, please click here.

December 18-21
11:30am-2:00pm
Join for one, two, three, or all four days!
Discounts apply for multiple days.

James Sewell Ballet hosts a movement workshop series geared toward adult dancers (18+) with intermediate/advanced technique who are:

• interested in “trying out” the movement vocabulary of various dance-makers
• committing to their movement practice ahead of a holiday break, and
• looking for a friendly creative environment without commitment to a long-term project.

Move with emerging leaders in the Twin Cities contemporary dance scene.
Featuring Javan Mngrezzo, Berit Ahlgren, Jarod Boltjes, and Elayna Waxse.

The goal of this series is pure process. The leaders get to see ideas actualized on movers in the room, and movers get to experience a single-day choreographic workshop with each leader.

The Dancing Together Workshop is a child and parent/caregiver Creative Movement class. This 8-week workshop is designed for children (ages 2-4) and their parent/caregiver who is interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Session 2: January 20-February 24
Session 3: March 16-May 4; No class on April 6 and 13.

Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am
At TU Dance Center.

To register, please click here.

Ballet Royale has a wonderful and exciting opportunity for young dancers! On Saturday, November 25, we will be offering a specialty workshop for dancers to learn Nutcracker inspired dances. Le Petit Nut will bring out the Sugar Plum Fairy and Toy Soldier in every child!

Saturday, November 25, 2023
10:00am–12:00pm, with a mini-performance.
For dancers ages 4 through 9 years old.

Each registered student will receive a goodie bag at the end of the workshop.