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Young Dance Summer Classes and Camps

Weekly Classes
Creative Movement 1: Ages: 3-5. Monday or Tuesday, 4:30-5:15pm
Creative Movement 2: Ages: 5-7. Monday or Tuesday, 5:15-6:00pm
Dance Together: Ages 1-3 with caregiver. Monday or Tuesday, 5:15-6:00pm

Camps
Session 1: June 24-27
Session 2: July 8-11
Session 3: July 22-25
Session 4: August 5-8
Session 5: August 19-22

Dance A Story: Creative Movement and Storytelling for Ages 4-7
Monday-Thursday, 9:30am-12:00pm. Tuition: $150
Explore movement with a focus on storytelling.
Session 2: July 8-11 is designed for neurodivergent youth and individuals who may be sensitive to stimulation.

Camps for Ages 8-18
Morning Camps: Monday-Thursday, 9:00-11:30am. Tuition: $150
Afternoon Camps: Monday-Thursday, 12:00-4:30pm. Tuition: $250
Explore several dance genres and real-world applications in the morning, afternoon, or full day.
Session 3: July 22-25 offers an additional camp for dancers with Down Syndrome.

All Abilities Dancing Classes
Dancing with Wheels for Ages 11+
Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00pm. Tuition: $150 or with a class card.
Build dance skills and express yourself through movement for youth and adults with wheeling devices.

All Abilities Dancing for Ages 18+
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm. Tuition: $150 or with a class card.
Express yourself while you explore the elements of dance and develop skills in improvisation and collaboration. For adults with and without disabilities.

Enhance the Connecting Power of DanceMN

Dear All,

Spring has come, new growth surrounds us, and DanceMN asks you to please help us reach our strategic goals!

We developed and released a new vision in 2021:
All are Connected to Dance in Minnesota.

This is such a significant statement that we want to set it as our core strategic goal: we want the people of Minnesota to feel connected to dance from their living rooms, the street, or on-stage. We aim to develop a stronger social-media presence. If you use Facebook or Instagram, follow us and tag us on your dance endeavors: @DanceMN_News

Why do we care so much? “We love dance!”

We’ve begun activities to support our vision statement within the community by participating in events such as Open Streets (Minneapolis) and the Cowles Center Resource Fair. In 2024, we released a survey to better understand our subscribers and held three engaging community conversations to help learn how we may better support our community. We hope to widen the reach of our audience and to find ways to connect with people who haven’t used our free and un-curated services!

To these ends, we turn to you to help DanceMN attain our strategic goals. Your contribution is not just financial aid, but a catalyst that helps transform our vision statement into results-oriented action. Your support is essential to our ability to continue to provide our services to you: GiveMN.org/DanceMN

We all do better together!

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

DanceMN’s Steering Committee
Maggie Bergeron
Jarod Boltjes
Rahila Naomi Stadem Coats
Colin Edwards
Kealoha Ferreira
Joanne Gordon
Sarah LaRose-Holland
Jim Lieberthal
Alys Ayumi Ogura
Eve Schulte
Cheng Xiong

DanceMN Co-Editors
Annie Carlson
Non Edwards

Off-Leash Area Seeks Loading and Set-Up Crew Members

Off-Leash Area is currently seeking to hire 2 individuals to join our Loading and Set-Up Crew for our Eighth Neighborhood Garage Tour scheduled this fall. The annual Neighborhood Garage Tour is Off-Leash Area’s grass-roots, community-building program that brings professional, family-friendly contemporary dance and theater directly into neighborhoods across the Twin Cities and 7-county area.

Job Description: As a member of our Loading and Set-Up Crew, you will play a crucial role in the successful execution of our tour events. Responsibilities include loading and unloading equipment, setting up stage platforms, and ensuring all logistical aspects of the event are handled efficiently. One crew member will also be responsible for box office duties, while the other crew member will handle driving the U-Haul vehicle.

Requirements:

  • Ability to lift heavy objects, including heavy platforms, with the assistance of one other person.
  • Possession of a valid driver’s license.
  • Background in the performing arts preferred.

Duration and Schedule: The position entails working 4 two-day weekends throughout September. Each weekend shift will be approximately 10 hours. Candidates must be available for the duration of the tour period.

Compensation: $20 per hour.

This role is not technically difficult but is a great way to pick up extra cash in a fun, unique environment. Everybody has a great time!

How to Apply: If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your inquiries to offleash@offleasharea.org.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

Analog Dance Works Presents: The Awe Factor – On Demand

If you missed The Awe Factor, have no fear. Watch it from the comfort of your own home now through June 15, 2024.

The Awe Factor, choreographed by Artistic Director, Brenna Mosser, interweaves single-use plastic waste with the science of awe. In this fantastical and surreal world, 10 dancers examine how we access awe, what we do when we are confronted by it, and how we can harness this emotion to better our collective lives.

Portions of choreography presented in The Awe Factor were commissioned by Threads Dance Project for their Tapestries 7.0 program and by Alternative Motion Project for their Tenth Season Performance.

Feldenkrais Walking Series: Methods for Mindful Movement with Sarah Baumert

Walking From Your Spine: Fluid Torso and Weightless Limbs is an 8-week Feldenkrais® Guided Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert.

May 29-July 21
Wednesdays, 6:30pm
Sundays, 4:00pm
Live classes will be taught on Zoom.
All lessons are recorded. Registering for the series gives you access to the recorded lessons indefinitely.

While we often credit our legs for walking and running, the spine actually plays a more central role than we realize. This series of lessons is designed to build awareness and skill in how the spine and torso initiate and help control our gait during walking.

Through gentle, mindful movement explorations, you’ll learn how to improve balance, coordination, and range of motion, all leading to a more enjoyable and effortless walking experience. Feldenkrais is different than gentle yoga, but similar in the way that the lessons are like a mindful movement meditation. Each lesson builds upon the next lesson so that the students can feel how the practiced movement patterns benefit each other.

Most lessons in this series will be done on the floor, lying on the back or the side, with short explorations in standing, walking, and chair sitting. This gentle somatic program is suitable for anyone, including those recovering from hip or back surgery, or managing chronic pain in their walking.

Red Eye Presents: New Works 4 Weeks Festival

A cornerstone of the Twin Cities arts landscape, Red Eye’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival is an annual gathering for inter/anti/transdisciplinary performance. Each year, a cohort of ten artists develops new performance works that cross disciplines of dance, theater, and music, pushing artistic form and interrogating the contemporary world. The 2024 festival contains a throughline of futurisms, bringing together many lineages and approaches to imagine how we might be otherwise.

Running through June 15

June 6-8: Masanari Kawahara, Benny Olk
June 13-15: Marcela Michelle, Dameun Strange

$15-50 sliding scale

Off-Leash Area Presents The Knave of Knives – The Duchess of Dawn

At once dreamlike, unsettling, and absurd, Off-Leash Area’s new show, The Knave of Knives – The Duchess of Dawn, introduces two strange and haunting figures from an otherworldly court who engage in a fantastical struggle for power over the multiverse. Taking place in an immersive installation surrounding both stage and audience, the show is performed with movement and music/sound, inspired (loosely) by string theory, and is populated with melancholy stuffed animals and mysterious trophies, dispersed among the fragile threads of a clandestine karmic history.

Created and performed by Jennifer Ilse and Paul Herwig, co-artistic directors of Off-Leash Area.

June 7-9, 7:00pm
Tickets on sale now.

Admission is by suggested donation between $10-$30. Seating is limited to approximately 40 seats and the garage fills up fast, so make your reservation early! You can also make your donation at the door by cash or card via Square.

Stick around afterward for popcorn, drinks, and conversation by the fire!

MotionArt First Friday Improv Gathering

Friday, June 7
6:30-8:00pm
Center for Performing Arts, Studio 105w, next to 38th Street entrance.

This event is open to people of all ages and abilities. Enjoy being present in the moment, responding to other dancers, finding new ways of moving, and discovering form as it emerges during this fun evening of creative movement. We’ll begin with an informal warm-up, then improvise together based on movement ideas offered by participants. 

Musician Dave Stagner will enhance our in-the-moment creations with his incredible guitar playing, and Klee Burke will help us wind down with her beautiful sound bowl playing. A fun and relaxing evening for all!

Come to move, to dance, to observe, or some of each!

Suggested donation $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.

BRKFST Dance Company Presented by Northrop

BRKFST Dance Company presents two wildly different works of art in celebration of their 10-year anniversary. BRKFST continues to “show us the future of dance” (Star Tribune) with STORMCLUTTER, a world premiere co-commissioned by The Cowles Center and Northrop, with composition by company member Renée Copeland. Their unique style of breaking and storytelling shines through in a restaging of Dancers, Dreamers, and Presidents by composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. 

STORMCLUTTER is an exploration of relationships and ongoing efforts to resolve opposing states of interpersonal tension. Misunderstanding, compassion, resentment, egoism, love, loss, betrayal—moving through or attempting to compartmentalize complex dynamics between family and friends and the emotional baggage collected over time becomes an overwhelming task, while maturation requires people to accept that which they cannot change. BRKFST members illustrate the efforts individuals may take when working to resolve the inner chaos that triggers feelings of dissociation, paralysis, and isolation.

BRKFST interprets Dancers, Dreamers, and Presidents as a commentary on American life that is filled with a mix of ambition, passion, blame, justice, hope, and love. And while this country is deemed the “land of the free,” it is riddled with systemic problems that seem impossible to overcome. For many, the “American Dream” remains just that—a dream.

Saturday, June 8, 7:30pm
Sunday, June 9, 2:00pm

Rescheduled from April 27-28 at The Cowles Center.

Zenon Dance School – Summer Open House and Studio Sale

Free classes at Zenon Dance School’s Summer Open House, plus a studio sale!

Join us for a day of free classes at Zenon’s Summer Open House! This is a great chance to get a sneak peek at some of the classes in the Summer Session, running June 10-August 31, at no cost to you. Class card discounts will also be available the week of the Open House. Let’s dance!

Studio Sale – Zenon Dance is embarking on spring cleaning, and we’re excited to share what we can’t keep with you! All sale proceeds directly support Zenon’s adult and youth scholarship programs. Come find some treasures!

Saturday, June 8
9:00am-3:00pm – Studio Sale!
9:30-10:15am – Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin Forester
10:30-11:15am – Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson
11:30am-12:15pm – Musical Theater with Xan Mattek
12:30-1:15pm – Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug
1:30-2:15pm – Beginning Ballet with Mary Willmeng

Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. All classes will take place in person only. All levels are welcome!

Open House Week Discounts – June 3-10 only
20% off single class spring enrollment code: OHENROLL
$10 off one 10 class card code: OH10OFF