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Join us for a week of free classes and great discounts!

Zenon Dance School’s Open House Week allows dancers to get a sneak peek of some classes to look forward to during our fall session, September 12-December 18, and use exclusive discounts when purchasing fall class passes throughout the week.

Fall Open House Week
Tuesday, September 6–Saturday, September 10
Tuesday, September 6 at 7:00pm – Jazz with Ali Rubin Forester
Thursday, September 8 at 7:00pm – Modern with Dustin Haug
Saturday, September 10 at 10:00am – Modern with Roxane Wallace

More classes TBA! Pre-registration encouraged but not required.

Tuition Discounts: September 6-12
$10 off Class Cards with code OH10OFF
20% off Enrollment with code OHENROLL

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 a while, 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:
Family Dance, 12:30–1:00pm, Ages 1–4 with Caregiver
Jazz Sampler, 12:30–1:00pm, Ages 8–14
Modern, 1:00–1:30pm, Ages 7–18
Ballet, 1:30–2:00pm, Ages 7–18
Hip Hop, 2:00–2:30pm, Ages 7–18
Creative Movement, 2:00–2:30pm, Ages 3–7

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.

The doors to The Cowles Center are wide open and waiting for all dancers, choreographers, and movement artists to join the Programs and Advisory Committee and staff for a morning of connection. This is an opportunity to get to know the building, the people within it, and the programs you might be interested in. A $5 parking/transportation subsidy will be available for attendees.

We’ll have a light breakfast, get to know the ways you can be engaged with The Cowles, hear from some artists, as well as demystify grant writing, intellectual property, and unions.

Whether you’ve been dancing on stages for years or just learned to point your toes, we’re excited to meet you!

Saturday, September 10
9:00am-12:00pm
Free

Erin Sheppard offers a great workshop series for new and continuing hip hop dancers who love to move. Students will learn fundamental techniques and choreography while expanding their knowledge of rhythm and movement.

This class is a great foundation for any young dancer ages 7-10 years. All levels of experience are welcome!

Classes are held on Sundays from 12:00-12:45pm. Class dates are:

September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2

For 7-10-year-old dancers: In person only; limited space available.

Four-week workshop enrollment: $55
Single class drop-in: $15

Register today!

Dance teacher Tamiko French has developed a program centered around revitalizing creativity of storytelling with the building blocks of dance creation that infuses the visual and literary arts. See a video.

The 8-week workshop is designed to be sequential for participants, with each class building on the previous class. From a first class in which participants will use poetry, prose, dramatic writing, spoken word, or other writing as a stimulus to create movement, participants will learn about modern and jazz dance techniques and choreographic practice, collaborate and share results with others, study facilitated improvisation and play in dance, and refine their work for a sharing event for family, friends, and the community.

Thursdays, 10:00-11:30am
September 15-November 3 with a showing on November 3.
In-person only. $45 per workshop.

This program is for adults 55+. Pre-registration required as in-studio space is limited!

Proof of vaccination and masks are required at the door for all participants.
TU Dance will offer tuition and transportation subsidy upon request. Please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708 to inquire.

Pelvic Floor and Deep Core Rapport

An 8-week Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert

September 25-November 23
Sundays at 4:00pm CST
Wednesdays at 6:30pm CST

Available to take via livestream on Zoom or using the self-paced recordings
16 livestream classes
8 Awareness Through Movement lessons in total

A series of lessons to establish a harmonious relationship for your hips, buttocks, pelvic floor, and deep core muscles. Learn to relax and build strength as we relate to the abdomen and pelvis as a center of power sensitivity. This is a whole-body approach to pelvis and abdominal health.

For both men and women, improving the ability to both relax and engage the pelvic floor and the deep abdominal muscles can have positive effects and create a marked improvement for:

• Back pain
• Sensing a deeper and more relaxed breath
• Easier standing and walking
• Improved Balance
• Healing from hip replacements or abdominal surgeries
• Better sex through increased awareness, sensation and control
• More effective bladder control
• Lack of strength, coordination, or sensation in this area after giving birth

A Feldenkrais approach to pelvic and abdominal health:

A secret to this method is to reduce the force we create in our muscles in order to maximize the amount of information we have available for feedback. This means practicing intelligently and reducing the effort to get more refined sensations.

It may seem paradoxical to relax a muscle in order for it to become stronger. However, if a muscle is always contracted it has less ability to contract any further. It has less ability to move through its dynamic range of actions. A habitually contracted muscle is a weak muscle!  We will practice learning how to relax the pelvic floor and deep abdominal muscles in order to engage them when necessary. This will not be a practice of isolating the pelvic floor muscles with exercises like Kegels. These sessions will support you to become aware of and relax compulsive muscular tension in the pelvis and abdominals, so that you can then learn to integrate them into functional everyday movements.

The Blending of Yoga and Feldenkrais Fall Series

An 8-week series with Sarah Baumert

September 26-November 21
Mondays from 6:00-7:15pm CST
Live classes will be taught on Zoom

In this Monday night series, each class will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method. I like to keep the theme for these Monday night series open, as I follow the lead of the seasons and needs of the students who attend.

Each of Sarah’s sessions are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Increase your ease and efficiency in movement, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your natural capacity for graceful and organized movement through these classes.

This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create friends with your body (yourself!), and will specifically focus on helping settle the nervous system during these challenging times. You will train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive and vibrant.

Scholarships are available for this series. Please contact Sarah directly at sarah@body-matter.com for scholarship inquiries.

2023 Spring Apprentice Program
January 1-May 31

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program is a tuition-based professional training and rehearsal program for advanced professional-track dancers ages 18-25. The course provides the necessary skills for dancers to pursue formal positions within the Company and in the world of theater dance.

Apprentices are mentored by and work alongside Collide’s artistic staff and Company dancers.

Tuition-based and BIPOC scholarship-based positions available.

Details:

• Technique classes – theater jazz, classic jazz, ballet, contemporary – Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00-10:30am from January-May
• Opportunities to observe company rehearsals and choreography sessions
• Apprentice rehearsals – Sundays, 5:00-7:00pm from February 11-March 12
• Perform with the professional company in SKOL! – March 23-April 1 at The Southern Theater
• Audition required
• Monthly tuition – BIPOC scholarships available

To schedule an audition or for more information please contact Grace by emailing admin@collidetheatrical.org.