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

Sensing the Flow
Saturday, October 28
10:00-11:30am

Pricing – suggested donation $25
Register via email: cie.ooops@gmail.com
Teaching Artist: Kata Juhasz

Workshop Description
After an exhilarating release technique-based technical warm-up, which allows flowing movements in space, we will have a short phrase followed by some creative improvisation tasks. The exercises open up and disrupt movement vocabulary and composition methods to propose an unprecedented dance language and helps dancers to explore non-habitual, spatial, dynamic and body-level choices.

In addition to the work on the individual body we’ll focus on composing the movement of a group. The movement of individuals within a group can be connected and united. Shapes or positions in space can be related and given the visual equivalents of harmony or dissonance. As dancers, we can create connections referring to past or future events, like melodies, rhythms and dynamics. As a result of the workshop, a short joint group choreography will be created.

Kata Juhász is a dancer, choreographer from Budapest, Hungary. She has presented her own choreographic works internationally since 2005. Read more about her background here.

Balanced Body® Pilates Mat 2
November 3-5, 2023
Fee: $449 + $60 materials

Friday: 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday: 11:30am-6:00pm
Sunday: 9:30am-4:30pm

Mat 2 teaches the remaining intermediate and advanced level Mat exercises for a complete understanding of the Pilates Mat program. Lectures include progressive skill development to achieve the advanced exercises, programming for intermediate and advanced classes and creating successful Mat classes.

Prerequisites: Movement Principles, Mat 1
Instructor: Ann-Marie Chesterfield, DPT

Come experience the joy of Arabic movement in this two-hour, in-person workshop!

We will learn fundamental core isolations, foundational arm pathways and positioning, common footwork patterns, traditional steps, and more – all while getting a taste of classical and popular Arab music!

Intro to Belly Dance with Renee Szudy
Sunday, October 8
12:15-2:15pm
$25

Bring a hip wrap if you have one. There will be extras for you to borrow if you don’t.

Come with a friend to receive $5 off!
Sign up at hothousempls.com/schedule.

Step by Step: An Intro to Stepping Workshop with Step Afrika! is 60 minutes of highly energetic, percussive unity in motion.

In this assembly-sized introductory workshop, participants enjoy learning step choreography and discovering how dance brings people together. The program introduces the ties between stepping, college life, and academic achievement while discovering the rhythm, physicality, and history of stepping.

All are welcome! Space is limited, and registration is required. 

Monday, October 9
6:30pm

Embark on a profound 8-week journey of self-discovery and creative expression with Tamiko French’s innovative dance fusion class. In this transformative course, you’ll delve deep into the realm of movement, sound, memories, and words to illuminate the vibrant landscape within you.

October 10-November 21 (8 weeks)
Tuesdays, 9:30-11:00am
Informal showing on last day from 11:30am-12:30pm.

Pre-registration required.
$45 per workshop.
Financial assistance available upon request.

For more information and to register, click here.

Join us for a special workshop with Alexis Zanety this fall at Zenon!

In collaboration with the MN International Dance Festival and Dance Projects by ME, Alexis Zanety hosts a unique Circular Movement Drawing Technique workshop at Zenon Dance School this October. Alexis created the Circular Drawing Movement technique, which is a combination of Cuban Modern Dance, Neoclassic, and Afro-Cuban Dance techniques, characterized by fluid continuous organic movements. Click here to learn more about the technique and Alexis’ work.

Circular Drawing Movement with Alexis Zanety
Friday, October 13, 10:00-11:30am
In person. Register here.
Drop-in: $15

Alexis Zanety is a contemporary teacher and choreographer and former first soloist for Cuba’s National Dance Company (CNDC). In 2002, he reallocated to Mexico by invitation from the Teatro Degollado to enrich the dance community with his artistry while performing and choreographing at the most important international festivals and operas in the country. In 2016, he reallocated to Houston, Texas, and began sharing his expertise and passion at the local and national level at places such as Cornish College of the Arts, University of Washington, University of Houston, University of Oklahoma, and Afro Latin Fest. He was also invited to the 2018 and 2019 International Association of Blacks in Dance Congress as a guest teacher. In November 2019, he was recognized by the Congress of Texas for his many accomplishments in the Houston cultural landscape. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, proclaimed November 9, 2019, as “Alexis Zanety Day” to honor Alexis’ passion for the arts and overall contributions to the arts scene.

Click here to learn more about the 2023 MN International Dance Festival, October 17-21!

Balanced Body® Introduction to the Chair for Rehabilitation Professionals
October 13, 12:00-4:00pm
Fee: $175

The chair, created by Joseph Pilates, provides a wide variety of exercises in a small footprint. In the clinical setting, the chair offers opportunity to work functionally in sitting and standing both bilaterally and unilaterally. This course is an introduction to Chair exercises and includes regressions for the client in active rehabilitation as well progressions for the beginning, post-rehabilitation and advanced wellness client. This training is appropriate for clinics working with the Wunda Chair, Combo Chair and ExoChair. This course will include equipment set up, clinical application, and safety.

Instructor: Ann-Marie Chesterfield, DPT

Dance is the art of being.

Ayako offers this workshop as a daily practice of being – as a human, mover, performer, artist, dancer, and choreographer. Through this practice, Ayako will share the way to find our centered, grounded, and balanced selves through exercises based in imagery (and physical reality).

Through improvisational and simple compositional exercises, participants will raise a keen awareness of the expansiveness as well as the depth of being. Participants will explore ways to open up the body-mind as an empty conduit to welcome new wind flow through themselves and feel fullness. Ayako will share how to expand and develop the tangible and intangible tensegrity (tension x integrity) through our bodies and minds to sense new relationships within and around us. Participants will be asked to create their own short dance.

Minneapolis-based Mary Willmeng has been a dance colleague of Ayako since 2007. Together, Mary and Ayako are excited to be able to realize an in-person workshop and share the Art of Being worldview with Minneapolis!

This JSB Dance Intensive is intended for adult dancers with some dance training beyond fundamentals. The over-arching goal of this Intensive is for participants to deepen their understanding of ballet and related movement modalities; engage in a creative physical pursuit in a friendly environment; and commit to wellness and regenerate their energy.

Train with movement experts who value personal growth and agency. Our instructors love sharing the joy of dance with participants of all ages and abilities!

October 17-21, 2023
Tuesday-Thursday evenings
Friday-Saturday daytime
With optional Friday and Saturday evening activities!

Multiple Enrollment Options:

• Entire Intensive, Tuesday through Saturday
• Partial Evening, Tuesday through Thursday
• Partial Daytime, Friday and Saturday

Concerto Dance is hosting an Intermediate/Advanced Jazz master class to kick off our performance in Weekend One of the Fall Forward Festival!

Join us as we examine jazz dance from a historical perspective with a concentration on classical jazz dance technique, musicality, and moving as a community. Class will conclude with a combination from our signature work Ode to Opus Jazz, part of the Fall Forward Festival, October 21-22.

Intermediate/Advanced Jazz
Friday, October 20
9:00-11:00am

At The Cowles Center for Dance, Target Education Studio
Cost: $20, cash or Venmo: @Concerto-Dance
Drop-ins welcome!

More information.