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Heat Up December with AMP’s Winter Workshop

Move big, sweat, and play while building awareness and exploring expansive possibilities within your own body. Within an empowering environment, we will utilize improvised and structured movement vocabulary to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, choice-making, and agency. For intermediate/advanced level. Knee pads recommended. Low/no cost options available. Come as you are!

AMP’s Winter Workshop
Sponsored by Zenon Dance School
Monday, December 19 through Wednesday, December 21
10:00am-12:00pm

How to Attend
Drop in for one day or attend all three!
Pre-registration highly encouraged.
Drop-in rate: $18
Two-day bundle rate: $32
Three-day bundle rate: $45
Suitable for professional, pre-professional, and/or intermediate/advanced movers, ages 18+.
For more information and registration, visit AMP’s website.

The Arena – Moving Practice with Brenna Mosser

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment.

Brenna Mosser teaches December Moving Practice:
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Pre-register here.

Suggested $17 per class; however, there is a pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

Class description: Let’s play with physics physically. I am currently researching internal expansion and space while giving into gravity and weight to carry me with minimal effort within dance phrase work. This class series will build on oldies but goodies of choreutics concepts (dynamics/division of space/decentralization) while delving into newer waters of intentional ambiguity.

Brenna Mosser (she/her) is a dance artist who seeks to illuminate the awe in her surroundings by sculpting falls, stumbles, and asymmetries gracefully. She spent two years in the Conservation Corps, where she faced the reality of climate change and has since dedicated her work to bringing awareness and justice to this crisis. She earned her bachelor’s in dance performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK. She supplemented her degree at le Centre national de la danse contemporaine in Angers, France where she earned the US equivalent of a BA in dance performance and in arts management. Brenna founded Analog Dance Works in 2019, a dance company whose mission is to explore the intersection between dance and science through choreographic works and roundtable discussions. Alongside her own practice, Brenna currently dances for Threads Dance Project, Alternative Motion Project, and Bernadette Knaeble.

“Ring in the New Year” Class with Erin Thompson

Please join Erin Thompson for her “Ring in the New Year” contemporary dance class in honor of New Year’s Eve on Thursday morning, December 29, 10:00-11:45am.

Before you make your New Year’s resolutions, come find peace with internal awareness, thrust your holiday limbs into the ground and fly across the floor flinging 2022 away! Accompaniment by the wonderful Dean Magraw.

Intermediate/Advanced Contemporary
Thursday, December 29, 10:00-11:45am
In-person only!

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.

TU Dance Center: Dancing Together Workshop

This eight-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.

January 14-March 4
Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am

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 2022-2023 Payment Plan form
4. Click here to submit the 2022-2023 Children and Teen Program online registration form

Making it Public – Free Workshop

Making it Public is a free, two-day intensive workshop designed for artists who are interested in exploring and expanding their public art making practice. Facilitated by Cándida González from Forecast Public Art, with guest speakers. Topics include project management, best practices, funding, site analysis, community engagement, and project ideation.

Space is limited! Participants must be Minnesota residents 18 years or older, with priority consideration given to artists residing in the Bloomington area or South/Southwest/West suburbs.

Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29
12:00-6:00pm CST

In-person at Bloomington Civic Plaza.
Registration Closes: Tuesday, December 20, 11:00pm CST
More information and registration form.

Zoom-Ready Studio Space at Jawaahir in South Minneapolis

Over 2000 square feet with windows, two mirrored walls, and a sprung hardwood floor. We are fully set up for you to conduct or record your classes or rehearsals. We have daytime availability, as well as some primetime evenings and weekends. The Jawaahir Studio is conveniently located at 3010 Minnehaha Ave in the Hook and Ladder building. Only two blocks from the Lake Street/Midtown light rail station, and on the 7, 21, 27, and 53 bus routes. Free lot and street parking.

For more information, go to jawaahir.org or email genmanager@jawaahir.org.

Starts at $20 per hour. Rate quoted is for dance-related rentals only. Sorry, no party rentals. No Irish shoes or tap shoes permitted. Rental fee may change at the discretion of Jawaahir.

Erin Thompson Teaches Advanced Contemporary Classes in Person and on Zoom

Erin’s advanced-level contemporary hybrid class through Zenon Dance School includes floor work, standing warm-ups, and phrase work, all designed to enhance the healthy use of joints and muscle groups as dancers release their weight fully into the support of the ground. Experiential awareness, body mapping, improvisation, and creative work are included as dancers channel their own expressive artistry within the movement. The delightful Dean Magraw will accompany on guitar.

Thursday mornings, 9:30-11:00am 

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.
See you in person or virtually soon!

Modern Dance Class with Thern Anderson at Tapestry

A light-skinned dancer with white hair supports herself on one hand and one knee, with the other arm and leg outstretched

Anyone can dance and find pleasure in movement! Thern Anderson’s modern dance class at Tapestry Folkdance Center will focus on body awareness, rhythm, movement patterns through space, and ensemble dancing. Improvisation will give dancers the opportunity to explore their own movement creativity and its relation to others. Floor work using somatic principles will build strength, ease and flexibility. All ages are welcome!

Mondays, 12:00-1:30pm
12-week session beginning September 19 with drop-ins welcome.

$15-20, sliding scale. Cash or check made out to Kathryn Anderson.

Zenon Dance School – Final Week of Fall Classes and 2023 Winter Session

This is the final week of fall classes at Zenon Dance School! Fall Session concludes Sunday, December 18.

Winter Session registration is now open! Winter Session runs January 9-March 19, 2023. Register for winter classes here.

Remaining Fall Session Classes:
Classes are held in person unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, December 14
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK – Online
5:30pm: All Levels Hip Hop with Averie Mitchell-Brown
5:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Lisa Erickson – Online
6:30pm: Intermediate 1 Contemporary with Ruby Josephine Smith

Thursday, December 15
9:30am: Advanced Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson – Hybrid
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug – Hybrid

Friday, December 16
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting – Hybrid (Community Celebration!)
12:00pm: Intermediate 2 Ballet with Penny Freeh

Saturday, December 17
9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson – Online
10:00am: Beginning 1 Modern with Roxane Wallace
12:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Ben Johnson

Sunday, December 18
Fall Youth Showcase – Private

Zenon Dance School – Winter Xchange Program/Work-Study

We are looking for volunteers to be a part of our Xchange Program for the upcoming Winter Session!

Xchange is Zenon’s work-study program that allows students to volunteer in exchange for dance class credit. The Winter Session will run from January 9-March 19, 2023.

Online shift = one class credit
In-person shift = two class credits

If you are interested in working with the Xchange Program, please email Carmen Lucia Lincoln, Zenon’s Xchange Coordinator, at xchange@zenondance.org.