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

I A.M. Arts Workshop Series: “Re-Imagining Station” with Jamie J. Philbert

I A.M. Arts presents “Re-Imagining Station” with Jamie J. Philbert: Frequencies for Healing and Illustrating African Diasporic Consciousness

Saturdays, May 20-June 17
In-person and virtual
10:00am-12:00pm CST
Center for Performing Arts – Room 205w
Series cost: $200/person. Limited need-based scholarships are available.

Over the course of 5 sessions, each two hours, interdisciplinary artist, martial artist, and cultural movement scholar, Jamie J. Philbert, will guide participants in developing collaborative community “stations” that seek to benefit African diasporic mediascapes and landscapes.

Sessions will be framed through Philbert-Kalinda Technique for dance and performance and include reflexive writing practice, sonic extra-somatic experiences, and an African diasporic martial arts-based movement vocabulary.

Learn more and RSVP here.

National Tap Dance Day Workshops

Saturday, May 27
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Workshops from guest faculty and more!

Workshop: Adult Tappy Hour
12:00-1:00pm – Free!

Community Performance
2:00-4:00pm

Want to perform? Fill out this form to submit a piece for consideration.

James Sewell Ballet Summer Dance Intensive

Join James Sewell Ballet this summer for our dance intensive running June 12-July 1, 2023.

Featuring Guest Choreographer and Instructor, Shohei Iwahama!
Geared toward pre-professional and young adult dancers with intermediate/advanced technique.

Class Schedule
9:00am-4:00pm
Two or three-week option! Dancers can sign up for June 12-24 or June 12-July 1.
Ballet, JSB repertoire, new choreography, improvisation techniques, conditioning, and more.
Public performances on Saturdays, June 24 and July 1.

World-Class Faculty with Personalized Instruction
Train with dancers, choreographers, and movement experts who value personal growth and agency. Learn from JSB Artists, Berit Ahlgren, Leah Gallas, Shohei Iwahama, Deirdre Murnane, Eve Schulte, James Sewell, and Yuki Tokuda.

We combine rigor with playfulness to foster each student’s best potential. Program includes thoughtful goal-setting and mentorship.

Early Bird Rate – Register through April 28: $495 per week
Regular Rate – After April 28: $550 per week
Flat rate includes 34 hours of professional instruction and development per week.

2023 Shawngrām Summer Intensive: Processing to Re-Frame

Monday–Friday, June 19-30, 2023
10:00am–1:00pm CDT
Two community showings, times TBD.
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This two-week intensive in ADT’s signature movement aesthetic, Yorchhā, and our choreographic practice, Shawngrām, will invite participants into building physical strength and emotional stamina through a daily movement practice. Yorchhā combines movement principles from Odissi, the traditional Indian dance technique; Chhau, the martial art form from Odisha; and from Vinyasa Yoga. Shawngrām is the creative process for ensemble-based choreography to share a mosaic of stories and emotional landscapes and build justice-based collectivity through movement. This year’s thematic focus takes its inspiration from community processions taking up public space to re-direct our relationships to power and each other.

Our theme this year is “Processing to Re-frame.” We are inspired by the BIPOC organizers of The Uprising and other justice movements who interrupt constructed “normals” and publicly refuse to accept systemic violences. Processions are designed to reveal the potential of movement and dance as a methodology for organizing. Your participation will enrich our work and our commitment to route choreography through justice and community. We hope it will offer us all different provocations about the role of art and dance in civic life and movements for social change.

We are currently exploring an opportunity to offer the culminating performance as part of a procession across city streets in keeping with our theme of “processing to re-frame”, and in partnership with leaders from our BIPOC communities.

Ways to Participate:
1) In-person at the Shawngrām Institute – limited capacity
2) Remotely, via Zoom

Attendance:
Your presence in this process has deep value to us and to your fellow participants. We expect everyone to attend all ten Intensive sessions, including both showings.

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Threads Dance Project Summer NexGen/Youth Dance Project

Join Threads Dance Project this summer for an expanded version of our NexGen/YDP (Youth Dance Project)!

NexGen/YDP uses a holistic approach to training future dance artists. Youth will receive high-level training and education in ballet technique, modern dance technique, embodied movement exploration, and nutrition from dance and healthcare professionals.

July 3-15
For youth ages 8 and older.

Group 1 – Beginning
Monday-Friday, 9:30am-1:30pm

Group 2 – Intermediate/Advanced
Monday-Friday, 1:30pm-6:00pm

Showcase on the final day, July 15, 9:00-11:30am.
Cost: $450. Need-based scholarships available!

TU Dance Center: Pre-Professional Summer Intensive

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.

Click the respective level group to download the 2023 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule: Level 1-3 and Level 4-5.

Level 1-3: July 10-22
Registration Deadline: June 26, 2023

Level 4-5: July 24-August 12
Registration Deadline: July 17, 2023

Threads Dance Project Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive 2023

We are proud to announce the return of our Summer Intensive. This workshop will provide a meticulous study of technique and elements valuable for the advanced/professional dancer. The workshop will include ballet, modern, improvisation, repertory class, and African Diasporic Movement. We will close with an informal showing of learned repertory work.

Tuition: $250

Registration and full tuition balances must be paid by July 3, 2023.

Open to all advanced/professional dancers 16 and up.

Zenon Dance School – Camp Zenon

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 (Age 4-6): July 17-21, 9:00am-12:00pm
Session 2 (Age 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 (office phone, if no answer please leave a voicemail) with any questions.

AMP Hosts Master Classes – Part of ELEVEN

AMP is hosting a series of three master classes that engages Twin Cities dance artists as part of our eleventh season performance. During show week, three of the ELEVEN choreographers will lead a master class. Join us in moving on the Southern stage with three distinct movement experiences in a welcoming atmosphere!

Master Class Schedule:
Friday, April 14: 10:00-11:30am – Joanna Lees
Saturday, April 15: 10:00-11:30am – Brianna Rae Johnson
Saturday, April 15: 11:45am-1:15pm – Khary Jackson

Class Rates
Take more classes and save money!
Single Master Class – $18
2 Master Classes – $30 ($15/class)
3 Master Classes – $39 ($13/class)
Pre-registration and -payment preferred.*
Cash, Venmo, credit card, and check accepted at the door.
*If not pre-registered, please arrive at least 10 minutes early.

No one turned away for lack of funds. Email alternativemotionproject@gmail.com for low/no cost options.

About the Workshops

Joanna Lees/Contemporary Movement Practice: Move BIG, sweat and play in an energizing atmosphere supported by pop hits in this Contemporary Movement Practice. Participants will build awareness and explore expansive possibilities within their own individuality and identities. Through improvised and structured movement vocabulary, participants will be encouraged to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, and agency in choice-making and empowerment with each individual’s own unique body.

Brianna Rae Johnson/Flying and Falling: With weight and momentum as our guides, we’ll begin low and slow to gradually ease joints into dynamic and athletic movement.

Khary Jackson/Embodying the Music: We will explore movement while listening in detail to the many sounds present in any given song. While isolating instrumentation, layering sonic textures, re-contextualizing lyrics and imagining fresh connections between music and movement, we will play and share as dancers and/or choreographers.

Email AMP with any questions. We look forward to moving BIG with you soon!

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Paula Mann/Time Track Productions Present a New Workshop Series

Paula Mann, Founder of Time Track Productions swings an arm overhead as she steps across her body with the opposite foot

Speed, Force and Timing

4 Saturdays: April 15, 22, and 29; and May 6
2:00-4:00pm
at Cowles Center Studio 5B

Class will include a modern/contemporary warm-up based on Mann’s 30 years of teaching Limon technique, improvisation/creative process practice exploring these principles, and learning new movement ideas for Mann’s next work with phrases based on speed, force and timing.

Price: $10 for each 2-hour workshop.