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

2023/2024 Apprentice Program, September 2023–May 2024

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program is a professional training and rehearsal program for advanced professional-track dancers. The program provides the skills needed to pursue formal positions within the Collide company and in the world of theater dance. Selected Apprentice dancers will take technique class with the company 3 days a week, have an opportunity to perform in a Collide show, and, for those who commit to the full 9-month program, participate in an apprentice showcase at the end of the year.

The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, but also including tap, acting for dance, and hip hop. Apprentice dancers will also have an opportunity to participate in monthly master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals.

This is a tuition-based program.
Scholarships are available for underrepresented artists.
Enrollment is competitive and audition based.
Video submissions accepted.

For more information, please visit www.collidetheatrical.org/apprentice-program.

The TU Dance Pre-Professional Program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African dance, and creative workshops for students ages 11-24. The TU Dance Summer Intensive builds a strong technique while exploring individual artistry.

Download the 2023 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule: 

Level 1-3 and Level 4-5.

Level 1-3: July 10-22
Level 4-5: July 24-August 12

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 Children and Teen Summer Program Daily Schedule.

Introduction to Dance: July 11-20
2-week program for ages 9-12 welcomes beginners and introduces various techniques and concepts of dance to offer young movers the chance to experience a variety of ways to approach movement.

Bridge Level: July 10-22
2-week program for students ages 10-14 preparing for a deeper engagement in dance that includes introductory dance technique classes with a focus on the creative process.

Teen Level: July 10-22
This 2-week program is entry-level for students typically aged 14-19 that will focus on the techniques of modern, ballet, hip hop, and African dance. Students will learn basic fundamentals of dance technique along with exploring their individual artistic expression.

Mover-Maker-Writer-Curator Artist Extraordinaire Cara Hagan will be in town to work with Rhythmically Speaking July 10-15, with two public chances to get to experience her work:

Open Class: All Levels Jazz
Friday, July 14 from 10-11:15am
At Zenon

Open Showing
Saturday, July 15 at 4:30pm
At Cowles Center Studio 5B
See Cara will have created for us for our upcoming show The Cohort 2023: Stage August 17-19. Come check it out!

More on Cara: Cara Hagan’s work exists at the intersections of movement, digital space, words, contemplative practice, and community. Hagan’s work has been presented at numerous events including recent appearances at Performatica in Cholula, Mexico, the Conference on Geopoetics in Edinburgh, Scotland, Roehampton University in London, The Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center in New York City, The Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, NC and right here in Minnesota at the DanceBARN Festival! Hagan is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the MFA in Contemporary Theatre Performance at The New School in New York City. carahagan.net/ @carahagan_art

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

We are thrilled to invite you to two 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 two workshops at The Cowles Center that are free and open to the public.

Sunday, July 16 and Saturday, July 22
​1​2:00​-3:15pm
The Cowles Center, Studio 2B

During these workshops, 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.

Discover dance with a week-long sampler camp for young artists! Not sure if your dancer has a style they like best, or looking for a way to try out something new? We’ll explore a variety of dance styles and creative movements in this one-week camp.

Informal showing on the last day. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome.

Session 1 – Ages 4-6
July 17-21, 9:00am-12:00pm

Session 2 – Ages 7-10
July 17-21, 12:30-3:30pm

Click here to learn more and register for Camp Zenon! Registration closes one week before camp begins.

Tuition: $195 – No person will be refused because of inability to pay. Need-based scholarships are available for partial and full tuition upon inquiry.

Click here to learn more about Zenon Dance School’s Youth Program. Please email info@zenondance.org or call 612-338-1101, ext. 2 with any questions. This is our office phone. If there is no answer, please leave a voicemail.

6-week Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert titled Autonomy and Personal Freedom: Lessons to Connect with Yourself.

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 about.
• 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).

5-day immersion with Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad, Laura Cruz, and Ninoska Gómez
dance – Body-Mind Centering® – water dancing – forest walking – relational practices – contact improvisation

On our 25th anniversary, BodyCartography joins an intergenerational teaching team from Costa Rica exploring dance and ecosomatics in the tropics. Through movement and voice, we will immerse ourselves in the elements and ecosystems of Montezuma.

We will share embodied practices to extend our relational webs into more-than-human ecosystems of earth, forest, river, and ocean. We will offer practices for living, dancing, and dying together on a damaged earth. Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, and decomposing to help us perceive more of the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us and around us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after.

Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body, and consciousness. It is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice, and mind.

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
$150 if paid in full by July 15, 2023. After July 15: $175.
PayPal: stenrudstrom@gmail.com