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Jawaahir Dance Academy In-Studio and Online Classes

Join our dance-learning community of all ages, sizes, and levels of experience to participate in the creative expression and health and fitness benefits of Middle Eastern dance. The beauty of this dance form is that it makes you feel wonderful in your own body!

Dance with us in-studio or online. Go to jawaahir.org to choose from our fall classes, starting September 6.

Purchase 4 or more classes and receive a $2 discount per class! Come dance with us now!

Zenon Dance School – Fall Xchange Program/Work-Study

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

Xchange is Zenon’s work-study program that allows students to volunteer in exchange for dance class credit. The Fall Session will run from September 12-December 18, 2022. There will be no classes the evening of Wednesday, November 23 through Sunday, November 27.

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

If you are interested in working with the Xchange Program, please email danielle@zenondance.org

In-person:
Mondays: 9:30-11:30am – 1 volunteer
Mondays: 5:15-7:15pm – 1 volunteer
Tuesdays: 10:00am-12:00pm – 2 volunteers
Tuesdays: 5:15-7:15pm – 1 volunteer
Wednesdays: 9:15-11:15am – 2 volunteers; class meets in person every other week
Wednesdays: 5:15-7:15pm – 2 volunteers
Thursdays: 9:15-11:15am – 2 volunteers
Thursdays: 5:15-7:15pm – 2 volunteers
Fridays: 9:15am-12:15pm – 2 volunteers
Saturdays: 12:15-2:15pm – 1 volunteer
Sundays: 9:45-11:30am – 1 volunteer
Sundays: 10:45am-12:30pm – 1 volunteer

Online: 
Tuesdays: 5:15pm-6:45pm – 1 volunteer
Wednesdays: 9:15-11:00am – 1 volunteer
Thursdays: 9:15-11:00am – 1 volunteer
Fridays: 9:45-11:15am – 1 volunteer
Saturdays: 8:45-10:00am – 1 volunteer

Friday Morning Jazz: Last Class of the Session with Karla

Come groove with Karla Grotting at this week’s Friday Morning Jazz class at Zenon Dance School!

Class runs 10-11:15am CT and remains hybrid, with space for 10 masked and distanced students in-studio and a high-quality Zoom option for folks joining from home/remotely. Karla’s body-centric class skews toward an intermediate to advanced level while prioritizing musicality, personal and social expression, and technical and stylistic approaches to jazz dance. 

This is our last class of the summer session – we’ll be off Friday, September 2 for extended Labor Day Weekend, and we’ll start back up on Friday, September 16, with regular teachers Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting co-teaching to kick off fall session!

Drop-ins encouraged, register for class at zenondance.org, and #GetYourAssToClass!

Zenon Dance School – Fall Schedule Announced and Registration Now Open

Zenon Dance School is excited to welcome you back for another season of dance this fall! Registration is now open for the Fall Session, September 12-December 18. There will be no classes the evening of Wednesday, November 23 through Sunday, November 27.

Classes are held in person unless otherwise noted.

Monday
10:00am: Intermediate Contemporary with Joanna Lees
5:30pm: Contemporary Floorwork with Anna Pinault
7:00pm: Beginning/Intermediate Jazz with Jennifer Glaws

Tuesday
10:30am: GAGA/PEOPLE with Berit Ahlgren
5:30pm: Cardio Dance Jam with Ariel Linnerson – Online
6:00pm: All Levels Hip-Hop with Arturo Miles
7:00pm: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin Forester

Wednesday
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK – Online-only every other week: September 21; October 5 and 19; November 2, 16, and 30; December 14
5:30pm: Open Level Hip Hop with Averie Mitchell-Brown
5:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson – Online
6:30pm: Intermediate Contemporary with Ruby Josephine Smith

Thursday
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
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting – Hybrid
12:00pm: Intermediate 2 Ballet with Penny Freeh

Saturday
9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson – Online
10:00am: Beginning Modern with Roxane Wallace
12:30pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Ben Johnson and Guests
2:00pm: Ballet Fundamentals with Ben Johnson – Class only meets select dates: October 7, 15, and 29; November 12 and 19; December 3 and 10

Sunday
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 3-4 with Kendall Kramer
10:15am: Creative Movement for ages 5-6 
11:00am: Youth Ballet for ages 7-10 with Kendall Kramer
11:00am: Youth Ballet for ages 11-14
12:00pm: Youth Modern for ages 11-14 with Kendall Kramer

Ongoing Classes at Ananya Dance Theatre

Pop-Up Class: Body Watani, July 5–August 30
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30 am with Noelle Awadallah
Body Watani (watani means homeland in Arabic) is both an improvisational movement practice and an emerging contemporary dance form developed by Leila and Noelle Awadallah, two Palestinian American dancers. The practice is a container with soft edges where improvisational research guides practitioners into their personal ‘body watani’ through spending time with ancestries, contemplating our complex relations to land/water/home, and activating embodied memories into one’s own dancing. Body Watani also manifests as a contemporary form with roots in dances of Arabic / *SWANA / Mediterranean lands through specific movement techniques, music of the region, and cultural/political content to engage with that deepens our relation to Body Watani’s context.

*SWANA: South West Asia North Africa

Wednesday Water Dances
Wednesday, 9:30-11:00 am with Kealoha Ferreira
A weekly dedication to the vitality and life force of Water. We will offer breath, dance, meditation, story, song, and reflection in class. Each class will take shape a little differently, staying responsive to the ongoing movements protecting the value and longevity of water worldwide. Facilitated by Kealoha Ferreira, an Ananya Dance Theatre Artist, Wednesday Water Dances will begin with grounding movement, flow into dedicated time for personal practice/research/reflection, and close with collective sharing. All committed to deepening their relationship with water are welcome to participate.

Yorchhā** Elements
Saturdays, 3:00-4:00 pm with Kealoha Ferreira
Envision justice through rhythmic footwork, flowing torso, and sustained breath in Intro to Yorchhā. Each class begins with a warm-up followed by foundational Yorchhā exercises and a fun choreographed phrase.

**Yorchhā is Ananya Dance Theatre’s trade-marked contemporary technique that intersects principles of vinyasa yoga, classical Indian dance form Odishi (from the eastern Indian state of Odisha), and martial art form Chhau (also from Odisha).

Yoga: Aligning With Land
Sundays, 3:00-4:00 pm with Kealoha Ferreira
From Tadasana (mountain pose), the first asana in Surya Namaskar (sun salutation) A, we connect our feet to the ground and shift our internal landscape to find equity with the land that sustains us. Our practices of relationality and reciprocity are also building blocks for sustainable and regenerative body practices. This Vinyasa class introduces and deepens the fundamentals of structural and energetic alignment in Yoga while moving towards the right relationship between place and community. All are welcome to participate. Variations and modifications will be provided for multiple access points in each class. Mats and blocks are encouraged with limited supplies available at the Institute.

Rent Space at Ballet Co.Laboratory

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.

Twin Cities Ballet Performance Ensemble Auditions

The Twin Cities Ballet Performance Ensemble is an innovative group of non-professional adult ballet dancers whose mission is to share the love of dance with those in the Twin Cities metro area. The Performance Ensemble is a dancer-led program with performance and choreographic opportunities readily available. In order to maintain a level of excellence, high quality of technique and artistry, dancers will rehearse once a week on Saturday evenings. Performance ensemble members will have the opportunity to perform ballet excerpts during community outreach, seasonal, and charitable events throughout the term.

Advanced dancers aged 18 and older are invited to audition for the Twin Cities Ballet Performance Ensemble fall 2022 term on August 20 from 5:00-7:00pm. The fall term will run from September 3-December 22.

  • Dancers that are auditioning should be at least 18 years of age, as well as high school graduates.
  • At least three years of pointe experience is required.
  • Please wear ballet attire, ballet shoes, and pointe shoes for the audition.
  • Headshot and first arabesque shots are required.
  • No audition fee is necessary.
  • Dancers should feel free to arrive thirty minutes before the audition to warm up.

Video auditions may be submitted now through August 26. Video auditions must show proficient classical ballet technique to an advanced, non-professional, or professional level.

Dancers will be notified via email regarding acceptance no later than August 31.

Ballet Royale: Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division Auditions

Ballet Royale’s new Pre-Professional Program provides students with an even more rigorous and demanding training schedule, designed and created for students striving towards a professional or post-secondary dance career. Building on the ongoing success of Ballet Royale’s elite Professional Division program, the Pre-Professional program expands these opportunities to students of all ages—not just the highest levels.

Ballet Royale’s Professional Division is an elite day training program that provides a comprehensive advanced course of study for advanced, talented, and ambitious students. Students accepted in this program have demonstrated commitment and dedication, are at the highest technical and artistic level, and are approaching and preparing for a post-secondary or professional career. Select Professional Division students may be invited to dance as Student Trainees with the professional ballet company, Twin Cities Ballet.

Admission and acceptance into the Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division is by audition and invitation only.

Audition: Saturday, August 20
Ages 11-21 (with pointe) from 12:30-2:00pm
Ages 7-13 (no pointe) from 2:15-3:45pm

Pre-registration and completed audition waiver is required.

Twin Cities Ballet: Openings for 2022/23 Season

Twin Cities Ballet limited openings for unpaid apprenticeships and student trainee positions for both male and female dancers. 

Please submit the following audition materials by email to auditions@TwinCitiesBallet.org and info@TwinCitiesBallet.org. We will contact you after we have reviewed your audition materials to schedule an in-person or virtual audition.

  • Your resumé.
  • Two photos: First arabesque and a headshot showing at least 3/4 face. Either attach small format photos or provide a link.
  • Video link showing classwork or performance clips, clearly demonstrating your classical ballet technique.

About Us
Twin Cities Ballet (TCB) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit professional dance company that creates original full-length and shorter story ballets, a rare and nearly lost art, as well as more abstract contemporary ballet-based works. An emerging gem in the Twin Cities, TCB has carefully built a financially solid and growing organization that is making its mark both regionally and nationally through its creative and innovative artistic endeavors. Our mission is to connect and enrich communities by making ballet approachable, relatable, and fun, through professional and original productions and educational outreach.

TCB prohibits discrimination against any employee, applicant for employment, or patron because of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

ARENA DANCES – Call for Teaching Artists

ARENA DANCES is seeking 6-9 part-time teaching artists for K-12 students, during school and after school DanceON programs.

Contracts are for Fall 2022, September-December.
Pay is $50-$75/hour; dependent on time commitment in accordance with the school’s committed schedule.

No prior experience of teaching dance in schools is necessary, ARENA DANCES will assist in curriculum and guidance as needed. Free or paid training will be supplied accordingly.

To inquire, please send an email to Artistic Director Mathew Janczewski’s attention with your interest and a resume attached.

Please apply by Saturday, August 20.