Adult Drop-In Classes at BCL

No matter if you are a veteran dancer or slipping on your first pair of ballet shoes, Ballet Co.Laboratory is an artistic home for everyone. With 11 different adult drop-in classes offered each week, including conditioning and Pilates, we know we have the right class for you! 

Join us in person or virtually via Zoom. All dancers must sign in on Mindbody. Class sign-in will close 10 minutes before class begins. Single class and 10-class cards are available and parking is always free! 

Learn more or sign up for a class here.

Rent Space at BCL

Need space to train, create, and/or rehearse? Ballet Co.Laboratory has five affordable studio spaces for rent. With sprung floors, high ceilings, natural lighting, surround sound speakers, lobby space, changing rooms, wi-fi access, kitchenette, and free parking we can accommodate groups of any size. 

To inquire about your rental, please email info@balletcolaboratory.org or call 651.313.5967.

Please Support DanceMN This Fall

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Dear Dance Community:

In this season of change and reflection, we at DanceMN wish to express our deep and sincere appreciation for YOU, the stalwart dance community!

DanceMN wouldn’t exist without the ongoing support from our dance community. The opportunities that each of you create and publicize in our weekly newsletter and calendar enrich our vibrant dance scene. Working together, you help us to fulfill our vision statement:

All are connected to dance in Minnesota.

Thank you for being creative forces and change agents in our neighborhoods, communities, and beyond. Here’s to continuing meaningful contributions to the fabric of our shared existence!

In this moment of changing seasons, we ask for your financial help. Please DONATE to support our work at DanceMN through November 17, known as Give to the Max Day. GiveMN is waiving its fees on donations now through November 17, and Springboard for the Arts – our fiscal sponsor – will waive their fees for contributions made on November 17. We need your dollars to sustain our ongoing work to help connect dance opportunities with dancers and enthusiasts.

Earlier this year, DanceMN hired Annie Carlson to join Non Edwards as Co-Editor, supporting our organization’s growth. DanceMN’s ongoing work includes sending out the weekly e-newsletter, maintaining the website, and developing our social media presence. This new Co-Editor role is structured for stronger sustainability, including a flexible schedule and balanced workloads.

We THANK YOU in advance for your generous contributions. Your financial support will enable DanceMN to continue on the path of vitality and connection for Minnesota dance so that all of our work can be experienced.

Warmly,

DanceMN’s Steering Committee:
Ashley Chin-Mark
Rahila Naomi Stadem Coats
Joanne Gordon
Sarah LaRose-Holland
Jim Lieberthal
Alys Ayumi Ogura
Eve Schulte
Julie Warder
Arneshia Williams

DanceMN Co-Editors:
Annie Carlson
Non Edwards

Collaborative Instructor and Performer – Dance Projects by ME

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Dance Projects by ME is seeking a dance instructor and performer to assist in leading a series of adult community workshops and performances. This project will run April-June 2023.

Our Movement As Language workshop series provides an introduction to modern/contemporary dance and choreographic tools for participants to express themselves with movement. An ideal candidate will be open to a collaborative work environment, have teaching and choreographic experience, and be comfortable working with movers from diverse backgrounds with all levels of dance experience. The project will culminate in a public performance at the Southern Theater.

Position Title: Performer and Workshop Instructor

Planned dates and time commitments – exact times to be defined:
Three Workshops: April 14-16, April 21-23, and April 28-30
Rehearsals: Two hours Tuesdays and Thursdays in April; two hours Monday-Thursday in May and June
Tech and Performance Dates: June 12-18

Instructor and Rehearsal Rate: $40/hour
Choreography and Performance Stipend: $1450
Hours: approximately 90 total hours

Dance Projects by ME seeks to cultivate space for dance projects inspired by diverse styles and community exchange. We strive to create dance accessibility through choreography, education, and performance.

To apply, please send a resume and dance sample to Erika Martin and Carmen Lucia Lincoln by Friday, November 18.

The 3-Women Project by TU Dance

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Featuring choreographers Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Alanna Morris, and Stefanie Batten Bland.

TU Dance seeks dance artists for The 3-Women Project featuring choreographic works from a group of three internationally renowned black female artists who will each work individually within their own creative processes while simultaneously seeking to explore and discover synergistic and unifying themes throughout the process. The project will incorporate educational opportunities and culminate in live, in-person performances on May 12 and 13, 2023 at The O’Shaughnessy in St. Paul. Through this 11-week creative process, TU Dance seeks to create artistic space for these three dynamic and award-winning dance artists to share their distinctly strong voices in choreographic work and their deep investment and investigations into their own artistic practice and identity as black women. TU Dance looks forward to engaging with local and national dance artists and our community to share and celebrate the perspectives of these three women through this exciting and ambitious project.

We have a strong interest in cultivating a culturally diverse group of dance artists for this project and creating a cast that represents our diverse world. Seasoned professionals to emerging dance artists with a minimum of 5 years of professional dance experience are encouraged to apply.

For more information on the choreographers and how to audition, click here.

Submit Jazz and American Social Dance-Inspired Work for RS’ Cohort 2023

Rhythmically Speaking, a Twin Cities-based dance company with a 15-year history and a national reputation for excellence in jazz, seeks works for stage and screen for presentation as a part of our program The Cohort 2023.

Submissions are due November 30, 2022. For full info about important details, dates and compensation, and to access the submission form, visit this link.

The program includes a live stage production in the Twin Cities in Summer 2023 and dance film screenings in Colorado (summer 2023) and the Twin Cities (fall 2023). The call for works for screen is in partnership with the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO), one of the longest-running and most reputable screendance festivals in the nation. Our 2022 film screening partners were the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop (CO) and the Twin Cities Film Festival (MN).

Submitted works must explore jazz and/or American social dance ideas from forms including but not limited to tap and hip hop styles. Join the ongoing conversation around the connections between and sociocultural impact/s of these styles by submitting! Artists 21 and older at any point in their careers are welcomed to submit.

We look forward to seeing your work, and thank you for your interest!

Audition Notice for Flying Foot Forum Concerts

Saturday, December 3 from 2:00-4:30pm
At Ballare Teatro in South Minneapolis.

Flying Foot Forum (FFF) is a Minneapolis-based percussive dance/theater company.

Casting for:
A. The Red Walls – highly physical, rhythmic dancers. Bring clean street shoes.
B. Also casting for strong tap dancers who can sing. Bring tap shoes.
You may audition for both parts.

We will have space for 30 people to audition. Email flyingfootforum@gmail.com to claim a spot for the audition. Must be 18+. Must be up-to-date on COVID vaccinations. Please bring a mask.

Must be available April 9-23, 2023.
Rehearsals: Sundays starting in January: The Red Walls, 2:00-5:00pm; tap dancers/singers, 6:00-9:00pm.
This project will pay a minimum of $1,000.

Questions? Please contact us at flyingfootforum@gmail.com.

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) – University of Minnesota Dance

We seek an active, innovative practitioner with a developing national or international profile whose creative research focuses on contemporary lensing of dance and movement practices, styles and techniques from across the global field of dance to join our program as an Assistant Professor on the tenure track.

This position will work with the dance program community to continue and expand its commitment to its vision of Contemporary Dance in Global Contexts and the education and training of Thinking Dancers and Dancing Thinkers both through their research and pedagogic practices. If applicable, they will be asked to teach in their specific movement track, as well as, in the program’s more general and expansive contemporary technique and dance composition tracks. If they have the necessary background, they will also have the opportunity to teach courses in the rest of the dance program curriculum e.g. Dance Studies and Dance Production, as well as, propose new courses. Our dance program works intentionally to build a contemporary technique track that is informed by a wide range of aesthetics from across the globe.

Apply online here.
Job ID: 351233

Young Dance Seeks Teaching Artists for 2022–23 Session and Beyond

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Young Dance is seeking teachers, assistants, and substitutes for 2022-23 and beyond. Teachers with experience in the following styles are encouraged to apply: Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theater, Afro-Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, Percussive, and Creative Movement. Experience working with dancers of all abilities is a plus, but not required.

Founded in 1987, we believe young people are artists with something important to say and that working across differences is a benefit to all. Our mission is to transform lives through movement. We are an inclusive community where creativity flourishes and healthy risk-taking is encouraged. Our classes are open to everyone of all levels and abilities. Participants enjoy our collaborative and student-led approach to dance education. Our curriculum emphasizes technique, improvisation, and choreography through the elements of dance: Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy. Dancers develop skills in observing, participating, and reflecting in a safe and supportive environment that values a commitment to self, to the group, and to lifelong learning.

Pay rate is $48/hour for lead teaching, $24/hour for assisting.

Contact Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org, with a resume and brief introduction.

Pianist Wanted

Work With BCL – Seeking Accompanist Artists

Ballet Co.Laboratory is seeking an experienced accompanist, skilled in piano, to play for ballet classes. This is a part-time position, for which candidates must have at least 1-3 years experience accompanying ballet classes, as well as hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in music or equivalent experience.

The ballet accompanist selects and plays appropriate music for ballet technique classes. The accompanist shall choose and play at a moment’s notice music to match the tempo, meter, musicality, and length of various ballet exercises; and/or must be able to spontaneously compose/improvise to the movement appropriately. If you are primarily a reader, you should have some improvisational skill to accommodate instructions, extended endings and to edit/alter music (possibly in real time) to meet phrasing needs of given exercises.

To learn more, visit our website, or contact us at info@balletcolaboratory.org.