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

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 August 5 at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Discount: Threads is now offering a $25 rebate for you and a friend if both dancers register by 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 week will also be taught at Threads Dance Project audition 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

Unique in Minnesota, this is a focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions. Following daily ballet technique class, dancers learn classic ballet variations and receive professional coaching. This workshop benefits all dancers, whether preparing for a competition, an upcoming performance, or simply wanting to polish and improve their artistry, technique, and quality.

Class sizes are limited. Pre-competitive, Junior, and Senior Divisions. Ages 9 and older.

August 8-19

Audition required – as all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio to schedule a private audition.

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!

Ages 16+.
Intensive capped at 15 participants.
Registration must be completed by August 1.
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 15. General: $550.

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

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: https://bit.ly/SummerBCL

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. Our first sampler session will be an hour-long modern class catered to adult dancers at the beginner to intermediate level. Taught by Rae Charles Harge, this class will invite participants to explore the fundamentals of modern dance with a focus on alignment, mobility, and expression.

Saturday, July 9
11:30am-12:30pm
Ages 18+
Pay what you can, $10.00-$40.00

Instructor Bio: Rae Charles Harge made her professional performance and choreographic debut in 2011 as a Guest Artist and Choreographer for the Threads Dance Project. The following year, Charles Harge was awarded a BFA in Dance with honors from the Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed the repertoire of Robert Battle, Ron K. Brown, David Dorfman, Alonzo King, Sydney Skybetter, Kate Weare, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar among many others. Charles Harge joined Threads Dance Project as a full-time company member and arts administrator in 2014.

Since then, she has gone on to become an educational leader and dance instructor at local dance institutions and colleges including PiM, Summit Dance Shoppe, Carleton College, Macalester University, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Charles Harge is currently combining her passions for the arts, educational reform, and social justice as a Doctoral Candidate researching race and dance education at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and serving as Managing Director for Threads Dance Project since 2021.

Ballet Royale’s July Intensive has been developed to give students the ultimate experience in dance, featuring top-quality professional teachers and guest Master Teachers. Under the supervision of Ballet Royale’s Directors, this program has been designed to develop a well-rounded dancer by providing strong classical ballet training as well as exposure to a mixture of other styles of dance. This intensive includes group special events and a Ballet Royale summer intensive T-shirt, and culminates in a Summer Showcase Performance.

July 11-29
Ages 8 through professional – multiple progressive divisions.
Audition required for Division II and up (dancers nine and older). As all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio for a private audition.

On the last day of the summer intensive, Twin Cities Ballet will be hosting a summer Carnival fundraiser that is open to all! Dancers performing in the summer intensive will receive 5 free tickets for TCB’s Carnival.

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.

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.

Our summer iteration of the program features renowned movement artist Vie Boheme. Vie’s teaching practice is rooted in rigor, rest, self-reflection and expression of shooting energy.

This workshop 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.

Workshops will take place from 7:00-8:30pm Tuesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 14 at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Pay what you can, suggested $10-40/class session.

Refine the art of the the pas de duex this summer with Sam Neale at CREO Arts & Dance Conservatory. Dancers will enjoy a full ballet technique class, pointe or conditioning class, and pas de deux class. They will learn foundational handholds, footwork and skills for effortless partnered pirouettes and lifts.

Mondays and Wednesdays, July 18-27
9:00-10:30am: Classical Ballet Technique
10:30-11:30am: Conditioning or Pointe
11:30am-12:00pm: Lunch
12:00-1:00pm: Partnering

Sam Neale: Australian born and raised, Sam began his training at the Atelier School for Classical Ballet before being accepted on scholarship into The McDonald College, where he was also a member of Premier State Ballet. Sam stayed there for two years under Josephine Jason and Allan Cross. After spending the summers of 2009 and 2010 at Milwaukee Ballet Summer Intensive, Sam was accepted into Milwaukee Ballet II, where he danced from 2010 to 2012. Some of Sam’s highlighted roles are Lila York’s Celts, Mauro de Candia’s Something I Had in Mind, and Salvatore Aiello’s Clowns and Others. Sam joined Minnesota Ballet in 2012 where he danced for eight seasons. Sam has also been a guest artist with St. Lucie Ballet, Miami International Ballet Competition, Ballet Co.laboratory and Twin Cities Ballet. Sam has been a guest teacher throughout his career and is excited to joined the Creo teaching staff.

Discover dance with a week-long 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. There will be an informal showing on the last day. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome. In-person only at the Zenon Dance School studios.

July 18–22, 2022
Session 1: Ages 4-6 with Philip Hommes, 9:00am-12:00pm
Session 2: Ages 7-10 with Hannah Pierce, 12:30-3:30pm

Tuition: $195. Need-based scholarships are available for full or partial tuition.

Register online today! Registration closes one week before each camp begins.