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

Join us for an open house to visit the studio, register, attend free trial classes, and meet some teachers! Whether you’re new to Young Dance or have been taking classes for awhile, open houses are a great way for dancers and families to familiarize themselves with finding our space, parking, getting around the building, and seeing the studios.

Saturday, September 10, 12:30–2:3pm

Free trial classes include Family Dance, Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet, and Modern dance. A schedule of trial classes at the open house will be announced in mid-August. 

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Questions? Email Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org.

Classes and programs for Summer 2022 at the School of Ballet Co.Laboratory are now enrolling!

The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory offers the finest dance education to artists of all ages and abilities in a nurturing and welcoming environment. Our summer programming gives students the opportunity to train with locally and nationally acclaimed dance professionals who are dedicated to the growth of each individual student.

To learn more, or to register, click here!

FAIR Summer Arts Exploration for grades 9-12: Modern Dance and Choreography

Taught by long time dance educator Janet Skidmore.
Six sessions, Monday and Wednesday, July 25-August 10
3:30-4:45pm at Fair School in downtown Minneapolis.
Snack hour from 3:00-3:30!

Explore your passions for the arts this summer and learn from local professionals in the field! Join the FAIR Summer Arts Exploration and The Cowles Center for a Backstage Basics Workshop! Click HERE to register.

Backstage Basics
July 25–August 4, 2022
Monday through Thursdays, 1:00–3:30pm at The Cowles Center

Work alongside The Cowles Center’s technical staff for a four-day overview of what it takes to bring a show to life behind the scenes. Students will cover technology and basic operation of lighting, setting up sound gear such as microphones and speakers, working with backdrops and other backstage gear and more! The class will culminate in combining the learned skills into a set-up, “mini-show” and “load-out.” This course is meant to give students a taste of these areas and resources for how they may pursue work or programs for future education.

Additional classes offered through McPhail and other community partners. Questions? Contact: Adam Clark, MPS Community Education: Adam.Clark@mpls.k12.mn.us

The TU Dance Pre-Professional program is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African, and creative workshops for students ages 11 to 24.

Download the 2021 Pre-Professional Summer Program Daily Schedule: Levels 4-5.

For level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708. Placement can be done by attending an in-person (by appointment only, a class fee applies) or by submitting a video link (modern and ballet phrase), or during the first day of classes of the intensive.

To register, please complete the four-step registration process:
1) Please find the online pre-registration below under the specific level you are interested in and select a payment option,
2) Make a tuition payment (in full or by selecting a payment plan),
3) If requesting a payment plan please submit the Summer 2022 Payment Plan Form, and
4) Submit a 2022 Pre-Professional Summer Intensive online registration form.

Registration deadlines:
Level 4-5: July 25-August 13. Register by July 20, 2022
We encourage students to enroll for the full 3 weeks. Please email education@tudance.org if you are only able to attend for 1 or 2 weeks of the Intensive.

Scholarships available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment. Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Finishing out July, Mathew Janczewski subs for Javan Mngrezzo’s Moving Practice series.

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am at The Arena
Mathew Janczewski subs July 26

Drop in: $17. Buy a 10-class card and save.
Register
FREE parking on all side streets: Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, 31st

Class focuses on opening up curiosity, finding internal pathways within the body and the contrast of those same pathways. An assortment of texture, speed, density, length, force and resistance will be taught to open these skills. The Moving Practice class will differ from Mathew’s regular Contemporary Flow class by investigating, through improvisation, one’s body in space – inviting stillness, invisibility, and listening to your weight falling through space.

Originally from Illinois, dancer, choreographer, director, and creative Mathew Janczewski (he/him) has been residing in Minneapolis, MN since 1989. He was a company member, most notably with Shapiro & Smith Dance from 2007-2014 and JAZZDANCE! By Danny Buraczeski from 1992-97. As a dancer, Mathew has performed as a guest with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Bebe Miller, and Jacek Luminski of Bytom, Poland. Over the years, he has performed the works of Beth Corning, Sean Curran, HIJACK, Marge Maddux, Shawn McConneloug, Jane Shockley, Robin Stiehm, Morgan Thorson, Doug Varone, and Cathy Young.

Photo courtesy of Erik Saulitis

Threads Dance Project will hold its first-ever Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive and Audition Workshop this August 1-5 at the Threads Dance Nexus. Registration is now open! 

The program provides participants with a rigorous exploration of techniques as well as the opportunity to explore and enhance the performative elements of dance via repertory class. Classes for the advanced/professional intensive include ballet, modern, improvisation/jazz, and repertory class. These classes are aimed at professional artists and those just entering the professional dance world after collegiate or other training. The intensive closes with an informal showing on the last day, August 5, at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Threads is now offering a $25 rebate for you and a friend if both dancers register by today, Wednesday, July 20! 
To get your $25 refund, please email dancenexus@threadsdance.org with your name, your friend’s name, and the date you both registered. Please note that participants can only be claimed as a “friend” and or receive the rebate once. 

Repertory learned during the intensive will also be taught at Threads Dance Project Auditions to be held on August 6.
Please email Production Manager Karen Christ Aalgaard at kchrist@threadsdance.org or visit https://bit.ly/tdpAuditions22 for additional audition details.

August 1-5, 2022
10:00am–3:30pm
Ages 18+
Tuition: $225, $25 rebate for you AND a friend when you both sign up!

The lessons in this two-hour workshop will help improve a wide variety of functional movements, focusing on easier balance, effortless standing, and ease-filled graceful walking. We will explore in various positions including lying on the back, side, belly, and in standing.

Humans are designed to be upright in gravity. This is the human brain’s primary job – to balance and organize the body to be upright in gravity during all functional activities. Standing up on your two little feet might seem automatic and something you don’t think about too much, but this vital process of balancing keeps your brain very occupied! We will finesse our relationship to gravity, becoming more sensitive, responsive, and supple in our upright position.

This workshop is appropriate for all levels. It will help improve walking, running, dancing, jumping, and whatever your favorite functional movement is.

We are all quite different. Our attention spans and nervous systems have changed. But all of our brains have plasticity and we can form new habits yet again. We will lay on the floor together. We will orient ourselves to what it’s like to learn with others in the same room. We will get to know our feet in a novel way and experience how to find ease being upright in gravity. This workshop will only be offered in person.

Tuesday, August 9, 4:00-6:00pm
Space is limited. Pre-register to reserve your space.
There will be time for discussion and questions following the movement portion of the class.
BYOP – Bring Your Own Props
After registration you will receive an email from Sarah with the props that will be needed for this class.

This workshop will take place at the Threads Dance Center. Conveniently located in the Seward Neighborhood, Threads offers free parking and free side street parking, is a 5 minute walk from the Franklin Light Rail Station, and a 2-5 minute walk from nearest bus stops (lines 2, 9, 22, 67).

Proof of vaccination status or negative test requested. Minimum 6 participants; maximum 25 participants for live workshop. If cost is a barrier, please reach out to Sarah directly for pay-what-you-can options. Beginners to Feldenkrais are welcome!

Join ARENA DANCES for one week of movement classes taught by guest artist Shane Larson, member of the renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Participants will practice contemporary dance technique and learn a new original work as a part of this intensive. Targeted for the high-intermediate to advanced level dancer.

August 15-20, 2022
Monday–Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm
Class: 10:00-11:30am
Rehearsal of new work: 12:00-3:00pm

Culminating in an informal showing of the work on Saturday, August 20, with the possibility of a performance showing aligned with the Happy Hour Artists in the 7th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival in April 2023 at The Southern Theater! ARENA DANCES’ Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski will be present for pre-professional dancers to have career chats and be considered for ARENA apprenticeships during the creation of a new work by ARENA, Erased Steps, rehearsing March 2023-August with performances at Union Depot and Rochester Civic Center in August 2023.

Ages 16+.
Intensive capped at 15 participants.
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 24. General: $550.
Registration must be completed by August 7.

During class, dancers will build a bottom to top, floor to standing modular class that deepens with task-based repetition, while encoding new movement pathways through basic shapes. Students are encouraged to learn-by-doing, rather than to learn and ‘perform’, relying on muscle memory to strengthen pathways. Architectural forms of the body are created, deconstructed, and recycled within the containers of momentum and temperature, offering a full-body, far-reaching experience of movement.

After class, dancers will focus on creating—using skills as scaffolding for building material as a community. We’ll spend time talking about memory and time, graphing separate experiences together to focus and distill common patterns, shapes, and anecdotes. The final object created will be an investigation that is distinctly your own and something that can be taken into future experiences.

Learn more about Shane.

Photo by Jim Coleman

James Sewell Ballet is offering a summer intensive training program August 15-20.

Offering classes in ballet, JSB repertoire, improvisation techniques, conditioning and more. With personalized instruction geared toward dancers with intermediate/advanced technique between the ages 15-22. Train with dancers, choreographers and movement experts who value personal growth and agency. We combine rigor with playfulness to foster each student’s best potential!

Participation is capped at 15, so secure your spot now! Register online at jsballet.org/intensive-2

Early Bird rate is $385 until July 29, 2022.
Rate will increase to $415 following July 29.