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

Autonomy and Personal Freedom – Free Intro Class Offer

Free Intro Class for Autonomy and Personal Freedom: Lessons to Connect with Yourself, a 6-week Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert.

Sign up here to join the first lesson of this session for free on Wednesday, July 19 at 6:30pm.

Full series runs from July 23-September 3
Wednesdays at 6:30pm and Sundays at 4:00pm

The Feldenkrais Method® views health as the ability to meet the challenges of life with ease and grace. It is a state of being that allows us to move and function with confidence and to adapt to change with resilience. The lessons in this series will help you discover how to utilize ground forces through your skeleton so you can find your own internal sense of length, lift, and personal freedom. These teachings will aim to empower you to find agency over your own health and sense of well-being. We use imagination, appreciation, and the relationship to both space and ourselves.

If you are looking for a way to improve your health and well-being, your sense of wholeness, or your artistic/athletic performance, this series may be a good option for you. ATM lessons can help you to become more aware of your body, improve your movement patterns, and reduce pain.

Included in the Series:

  • 12 livestream classes – each lesson is taught twice, once on Sunday and once on Wednesday.
  • Mini lessons to practice throughout the week.
  • Pre-lesson anatomy.
  • The philosophical framework for ATM.
  • Recorded Q&A to listen to questions, connect with the other students, and discuss the method and tools we are learning.
  • Optional 10-minute consultation with Sarah.
  • Online forum to connect and ask questions if you are doing the recordings.
  • Email support.
  • Ability to stream recordings indefinitely.
  • Option to download recordings.

“It (Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement) is listening, thinking, feeling, appreciating both internally and externally what is happening, how the body moves in space.” –Moshe Feldenkrais

Free Workshop from McKnight International Choreographer Sandy Silva

We are thrilled to invite you to an exciting dance workshops led by the 2023 McKnight International Choreographer Sandy Silva. As part of her residency this summer and fall, Sandy will be conducting a workshop at The Cowles Center that is free and open to the public.

Saturday, July 22
​1​2:00​-3:15pm
The Cowles Center, Studio 2B

During this workshop, hosted by our residency partner Twin Cities Tap, Sandy Silva will introduce participants to new and unexplored ways of approaching collective walking, movement, rhythm, vocal expression, and storytelling. Through her personal and cultural practices, she aims to ignite your imagination and foster a sense of personal and communal bodily connection. Learn more about Sandy on our website.

We hope you can join us for an inspiring and transformative dance experience that will leave you with a renewed sense of connection and imagination. Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to reserve your spot.

TU Dance Center: Pre-Professional Summer Intensive

Several dancers dressed in black take the figure-4 pose in the Horton Technique

The TU Dance Pre-Professional Program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African dance, and creative workshops for students ages 13-24. The TU Dance Summer Intensive builds a strong technique while exploring individual artistry.

Download the 2023 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule:
Level 4-5, July 24-August 12

Building Dreamscapes: A Multidisciplinary Workshop with Margaret Ogas

Building Dreamscapes: a multidisciplinary workshop with Margaret Ogas at RESOURCE

Thursday, July 27
6:00-8:00pm
At RESOURCE – 512 E 24th St Minneapolis, MN 55404

Open to all types of artists and makers! Choreographer Margaret Ogas will lead a workshop centered around dreams, storytelling, and abstracted narratives. Participants will explore these themes and shape the space through a collage of writing, installation, sound and/or movement. No dance experience required. 

Margaret Ogas is a dance artist based in Saint Paul. Using an interdisciplinary approach informed by Chicana cultural sensibilities, her works tell surreal everyday stories through movement, text, and sound. She is a 2023 Jerome Hill Fellow.

Open Class and Showing with Visiting Artist Carlos R.A. Jones

Rhythmically Speaking 2023 visiting artist Carlos R.A. Jones will be in town to work with Rhythmically Speaking July 24-29, and there are two public chances to experience his work!

Open Class: All Levels Jazz
Friday, July 28 from 10-11:15am
At Zenon

Open Showing
Saturday, July 29 at 4:30pm
At Cowles Center Studio 5B
Come see what Carlos will have created for us for our upcoming show The Cohort 2023: Stage (running August 17-19 at The Southern)! His description: this new work, Groove: A Communal Love, invites everyone from dancer to observer to sit in the pocket of the music and ride the joy of feeling the funk.

More on Carlos: Carlos R. A. Jones is professor of musical theater and dance, coordinator of Africana Studies, and associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Buffalo State. He has also served on faculty at Chapman University, Loyola Marymount, UCLA and St. Cloud State University. His early career was in television, film, musical theater, and concert dance, where he worked with Broadway legend André De Shields, SNL veteran Ellen Cleghorn, and television icon Carol Burnett, among others. A few of his credits: Film/TV – The Drew Carey Show, The Nanny, Dance With Me, and Uptown Girls. Directing/Choreography – Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, Camelot, Beehive and Hairspray. Concert Dance – Jazz Antiqua Dance and Music Ensemble, Bethune Theaterdanse, Movement Source and his self-named, Carlos Jones and Company. He is a contributing author and co-editor of Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century. @thegroovydean

We hope you can join us for class, the showing or both!

Action Theater™ Improvisation Workshop at The Arena

Sten Rudstrøm
Be Here Now!
Action Theater™ Improvisation Workshop

Weekend Physical Theater Training
July 28-30, 2023
At The Arena, Minneapolis, MN

Action Theater™ is an advanced improvisation and awareness training that combines movement, voice and language in intriguing and fantastic ways. The work invites you to step into the unknown. It brings your attention into the present moment with simple and challenging structures. You learn how to produce aesthetic visuals, embody physical actions that reflect your imagination, embrace your sense of timing, recognize the sensorial body as a guide into un-experienced territories, awaken to non-linear narratives and explore the relationship between the sound of your voice and the words that you are saying.

Schedule
Friday, July 28: 6:30-9:30pm
Saturday, July 29: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sunday, July 30: 10:00am-5:00pm

Registration and further information
Joshua Lorris: joshualorris@gmail.com, (641) 629-1299
Fee: $175.
PayPal: stenrudstrom@gmail.com

The Blending of Yoga and Feldenkrais

The Blending of Yoga and Feldenkrais with Sarah Baumert
Mondays through September 4, 6:00-7:15pm CST

No class on July 24 and August 14.
Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom.

Each class will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method. Sarah’s teaching for each class changes based on the seasons and the students in the room. These classes are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, joint-specific training, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. You will train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive, vibrant, and spacious. For all of you who have been joining Monday nights, it will be a continuation and deepening of your personal process of discovery and listening to your body. For newcomers, come with no expectations. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome.

There will be time for questions and community discussion after the livestream class, as well as an option to engage with Sarah and the other students in the class through the online comments following each lesson. If you cannot attend all the live classes, each class will be recorded and the videos will be available for those attending the series. You will have access to stream the recordings. Space will be limited so that I can manage to watch everyone, sign up early to hold your spot!

Series Includes:

  • 7 Yoga + Feldenkrais classes.
  • Community discussion after each lesson with time for asking questions, harvesting, and sharing.
  • Recordings automatically available on the member page 48 hours after each live class.
  • Stream recordings indefinitely.

Testimonials:
“I feel amazing after your classes. It’s like the best of meditation and movement combined. Your open-heartedness and encouragement of our own curiosity is wonderful to experience with you. Thank you.”

“I love how the Monday night classes interweave and focus us on an evolving practice! The instruction is very clear and Sarah’s teaching style is calm, consistent, and precise. I feel the poses in a whole new way. I look forward to this class each week and when I can’t make it I do the recorded session as soon as I can.”

Concerto Dance Summer Intensive

Concerto Dance Summer Intensive
Monday, July 31 – Friday, August 4
9:00am-2:00pm
At Creo Arts and Dance Conservatory, Minnetonka

Concerto Dance is excited to announce registration is now open for our third annual summer intensive. Open to advanced, pre-professional and professional dancers, ages 16 and up.

The Concerto Intensive includes classes in jazz and modern dance technique along with company repertoire. Company auditions will take place August 4 following the intensive from 3:00-5:30pm. 

Full Intensive: $250 or a la carte $50/day
Financial assistance available – please contact us for more information.
Register by July 24.
No audition required.

Mini Feldenkrais Workshops

Come get an afternoon dose of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement. Whether you’ve studied Feldenkrais before or are curious to try it out for the first time, these mini workshops are a great way to delve into learning and to improve your coordination and mobility. Take one or both.

Pelvis: The Root of the Spine
Saturday, August 5 from 2:00-5:00pm

The Passage from Your Head to Your Torso
Saturday, August 12 from 2:00-5:00pm

$60 for one workshop
$100 for both workshops (saves $20)

Workshops take place at East Lake Aikido in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis.

Register here!

Collide Theatrical Mentorship Program

2023/2024 Mentorship Program, September 2023–May 2024

Collide Theatrical’s Mentorship Program is a beginning/intermediate-level adult intensive program designed to strengthen basic dance technique in a safe and inclusive environment.

This is a 9-month training program with 3 trimesters (September–November, December–February, March–May). Interested dancers must sign up for a minimum of 3 months, or 1 trimester. Those who commit to the entire 9-month program will receive discounted monthly tuition and a chance to perform in a culminating showcase performance at the end of the program.

Mentorship Program participants (Mentees) will take technique class 3 days a week. The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, but might also include tap, acting for dance, hip hop, and more. Mentees will also have an opportunity to participate in master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals. Classes take place Monday/Wednesday evenings 7:00-8:30pm, starting Wednesday, September 6. Mentees can choose to attend one of our morning classes (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30-11:00am) as their third weekly class option.

Participants must be over the age of 16. Enrollment is open to anyone who is committed to improving their dance technique and serious about growing as a performer; however, space is limited.

Instructors include Collide Company Dancers Nathan Huberty, Renee Guittar, Patrick Jeffrey, and Brittany Brown, as well as Artistic Director Regina Peluso and Collide Associate Director Heather Brockman. Master classes will be announced this fall.

Click here to register. For more information, please visit www.collidetheatrical.org/mentorship-program or contact Grace at admin@collidetheatrical.org.