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

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.

“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).

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.

What is Included in the Series:

Movement

• 12 livestream classes – each lesson is taught twice, once on Sunday and once on Wednesday.
• Mini lessons to practice throughout the week.

Educational Talks

• Pre-lesson anatomy.
• The philosophical framework for ATM.

Connection

• 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.

Ways to Continue Practicing

• Stream recordings indefinitely.
• Option to download recordings.

Concerto Dance is excited to announce that registration is now open for our third annual summer intensive. Open to advanced, pre-professional, and professional dancers ages 16 and older. Intensive includes classes in jazz and modern dance technique along with company repertoire. Company auditions will take place on August 4 following the intensive from 3:00-5:30pm. 

Monday, July 31-Friday, August 4
9:00am-2:00pm

Full intensive is $250 or à la carte for $50/day.
Financial assistance available – please contact us for more information.

No audition required.
Register by July 1.
Learn more!

 

2023/2024 Apprentice Program, September 2023–May 2024

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice 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 include 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.

Posture, Mood, and Well-Being – A Feldenkrais Workshop with Sarah Baumert
Friday, June 23, 10:00am-12:30pm
At Soma Studios

Improve your mood and well-being with Feldenkrais!

Develop comfort, choice, authenticity, confidence, control, resilience, and optimism through a gentle movement practice. The lessons in this workshop will focus on the psychological benefits of Feldenkrais to help you:
-Relax and reduce stress
-Free yourself from long-time self-limiting patterns
-Bring your nervous system back to a relaxed, parasympathetic state

In addition to these psychological benefits, Feldenkrais can also improve your physical health by:
-Increasing range of motion
-Improving posture and coordination
-Reducing pain
-Boosting energy levels

This is a novel way to get to know yourself better and experience how gentle movement can be a powerful tool to support the nervous system.

$55 early bird fee – pay before June 19.
$65 regular price.

Work with former Rockette Melinda Farrell as well as other industry professionals. Come razzle dazzle ’em and immerse yourself in a week of dance and theatre technique. Train like a Rockette, working precision and showmanship. Learn challenging show-stopping choreography and polish leaps and turns. This camp is a must for those who desire a challenge.

Intermediate/Advanced/Pre-Professional – Grades 4-12
June 26-30
9:00am-1:30pm

Wear jazz or character shoes, a leotard, and tights.
Bring a bag lunch and a water bottle labeled with your name.

This intensive is offered for accelerated levels 3-7.
New to Creo? Call for placement.

Free improv jam with Berit Ahlgren on Friday, June 30 from 7:00-8:00pm at Peavey Plaza – open to all!

Berit Ahlgren leads Gaga for all, with live musical accompaniment by Joe Strachan (keyboard). We encourage all visitors to the Plaza to jump in—all ages and abilities are welcome! Berit will lead a portion with spoken prompts and dance-along inspirations.

Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and the imagination. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. Berit guides the learning process to permeate the boundaries of dance, carrying through to all aspects of the participant’s life.

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.

Learn more about women’s pelvic health at Paragon Pilates and Physical Therapy.

This workshop will cover:

• Basic anatomy and function of the pelvic floor.
• Some symptoms of a dysfunctional pelvic floor.
• Strategies to help improve pelvic health.
• What is pelvic health physical therapy?
• How pelvic health strategies can be integrated into a Pilates-based practice.

Taught by Dr. Annie Chesterfield PT, DPT, OCS, CPT.  Annie is a women’s pelvic health physical therapist and nationally certified Pilates teacher. Call or email the studio for more information.

July 26 from 5:30-7:30pm
Cost: $75