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

Chicago Tap Theater Intensive with Mark Yonally at Keane
August 15-17

Mark Yonally is the founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Tap Theatre. Come with an eagerness to learn, and leave with new steps, rhythmic ideas and new tap friends. Tap games and story time included!

Intermediate: 10:00am-2:00pm
Advanced: 12:30-4:30pm

Been curious about what classes are like at the Threads Dance Nexus? Come join us this summer for our Summer Sampler Series! The summer sampler will offer participants a chance to try out fall classes before registration begins in September. 

Building on the success of our first Summer Sampler, we’d like to invite you to join us for of taste of Beginning/Intermediate Adult Ballet. The class will be an hour long, taught by Threads Artistic/Executive Director, Karen L. Charles.

Wednesday, August 17
6:30-7:30pm at the Threads Dance Nexus.
Ages 18+
Pay what you can, $10.00-$40.00

Follow the links to register, or learn more.

A dedicated performer, teacher, and creator, Karen Long Charles received a BFA Ballet/BS Computer Science from Texas Christian University and M.Ed. in Administration from Georgia State University.  Charles has performed with numerous dance companies including Room to Move Dance Company (Atlanta, GA), Susan Warden Dance Company (Kansas City, MO) and was awarded a fellowship to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Charles served as Director at Perpich Arts High School and was the founding Principal/Executive Director at Main Street School of Performing Arts. Charles has created/presented works for James Sewell Ballet, Carleton College, Macalester College, University of Georgia, University of Iowa, Main Street School of Performing Arts, and Perpich Arts High School. Charles founded Threads Dance Project (Threads) in 2011 where she is presently Artistic/Executive Director. Threads has been nominated for a MN SAGE Dance Award (2015), co-hosted McKnight International Choreographic Fellow Salia Sanou (2017), and toured nationally to Atlanta and Philadelphia. Threads now teaches and works in their new Minneapolis home, the Threads Dance Nexus, to further expand their mission to examine, expose and celebrate the Threads that connect us through dance.

Visit www.threadsdance.org for additional information about Karen Charles and Threads Dance Project.

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: 12:30–2:30pm

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. 

Learn about Young Dance
Discover what’s planned for the 2022-23 Session
Register in person
Meet Young Dance Directors and Teaching Artists
Visit Young Dance Studios
Experience moving with Young Dance!

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

Come groove with Rhythmically Speaking visiting artist Kathleen Doherty this week! Kathleen is visiting from Halifax (NS, Canada) to set a piece on Rhythmically Speaking company dancers for their production The Cohort 2022: Stage, running August 11-13 at the Southern Theater.

Kathleen is teaching two open classes:

Wednesday, July 13, 5:30-7:00pm at Cowles Center, Studio 5B – an RS MoveTogether
As space is limited, pre-registration is suggested but not required – to pre-register, hop over to our website to pay the $10.00 class via via Venmo.

Friday, July 15, 10:00-11:15am at Zenon Dance, Cowles Center Studio 4A – Friday Morning Jazz
Class is hybrid, with space for 10 distanced students in-studio and a high-quality Zoom option for folks joining from home/remotely. Please note that while masks are now optional at the Cowles Center (except for performances), masks are still required at Zenon. Register for class.

Kathleen Doherty (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, improviser and educator based in K’jipuktuk/Halifax. After completing her Bachelor’s of Commerce degree at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Kathleen moved to Calgary to attend Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ Professional Training Program. Upon returning to Halifax in 2012, Kathleen co-founded Votive Dance, and has worked as Artistic Director since the company’s inception. Kathleen enjoys sharing her passion for jazz dance as an instructor at The Maritime Conservatory, and Halifax Dance, and by hosting classes and workshops for the professional community. She will be creating a new full length jazz work with Votive Dance in 2022, and is so excited to work with the incredible like-minded jazz folks at Rhythmically Speaking. Kathleen is proud to be a working artist mom to her 3 year old son, Cillian.

Kathleen’s revisited work for The Cohort 2022, “BASS-line“ is a jazz creation which takes inspiration from the prominent bassline within the music, with the sounds influencing the movement choices, rhythmic timing, and shapes in the dancers’ bodies.

Join us to experience Kathleen’s exciting perspective on jazz dance!

Home || Body is a series of workshops celebrating diverse teaching artists and how movement can help community feel like home. Hosted at Threads Dance Nexus, July’s workshop is a collaboration between Threads Dance Project and artist Vie Boheme. The program highlights teaching artists of color and provides a platform for them to share the movement practices that help them build community and feel at home in their bodies.

Vie describes her teaching practice as rooted in rigor, rest, self-reflection, and expression of shooting energy.  These workshops will feature CoreKinetics Yoga, Yin Yoga, and The Journal Vibe. Our goal is to build a transformative heat in the body to begin a conversation with it about what it needs in order for you to feel at home within it. We will build heat through CoreKinetics Yoga, explore a conversation between sensation in the body and mental clarity through The Journal Vibe – a collective journal experience, and then rest into our discoveries through yin yoga.

July 14, 7:00-8:30pm
Pay what you can, $10-40/class session.

Register or learn more about the Home || Body workshop series here.

Join Ballet Royale for our Tangled-inspired Creative Story Ballet Workshop! Give your young dancer the joy of dance and performance! The workshop includes a short performance at the end of the workshop. 

Saturday, July 16
10:00am-12:00pm
$32
Recommended for ages 4-9.

Also, don’t miss our Frozen II-inspired workshop coming up on Saturday, August 20!

This four-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Mondays, 9:00-9:45am
Tuition: $60.00
Four-week session: July 18, July 25, August 1, and August 8

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.

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am at The Arena
Drop in: $17. Buy a 10-class card and save.
Register
FREE parking on all side streets: Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, 31st

Every student is invited to come as you are and leave feeling energized. Beginning with a thorough whole-body warmup, class will invite a time for guided improvisatory exploration, will move into centerwork that will prompt expansive physicality as well as fun coordination teasers, and will culminate with a final phrase – with a twist! Come as you are and make moving your Tuesday morning practice this July!

Javan Mngrezzo (he/him) began his dance journey his first year of college at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. He graduated in three years, magna cum laude, with a B.S. in Dance and Sociology. Javan has been a company dancer with Threads Dance Project, BodyVox, and Rainbow Dance Theatre and has had the privilege of performing as a guest artist for companies such as ARENA DANCES, Heidi Duckler Dance, Dar Vejon Jones Dance Ensemble [DJDE], and Company Movimiento. Javan has taught at dozens of Oregon studios, including at Bodyvox, Northwest Dance Project, and Shaun Keylock Studios, and is a certified instructor of The Ellové Technique®. Additional training includes summer intensives with Limón, Utah’s inaugural Dance West Festival, and PDX Contemporary Ballet. Javan is presently a company dancer with Black Label Movement.

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

Taught by long time dance educator Janet Skidmore at Fair School in downtown Minneapolis.

6 sessions
Monday and Wednesday, July 25-August 10, 3:30-4:45pm
Snack hour from 3:00-3:30!

Click here to enroll.

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

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