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Join ARENA DANCES for one week of movement classes taught by guest artist Shane Larson, member of the renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Participants will practice contemporary dance technique and learn a new original work as a part of this intensive. Targeted for the high-intermediate to advanced level dancer.

August 15-20, 2022
Monday–Saturday, 10:00am-3:00pm
Class: 10:00-11:30am
Rehearsal of new work: 12:00-3:00pm

Culminating in an informal showing of the work on Saturday, August 20, with the possibility of a performance showing aligned with the Happy Hour Artists in the 7th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival in April 2023 at The Southern Theater! ARENA DANCES’ Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski will be present for pre-professional dancers to have career chats and be considered for ARENA apprenticeships during the creation of a new work by ARENA, Erased Steps, rehearsing March 2023-August with performances at Union Depot and Rochester Civic Center in August 2023.

Ages 16+.
Intensive capped at 15 participants.
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 24. General: $550.
Registration must be completed by August 7.

During class, dancers will build a bottom to top, floor to standing modular class that deepens with task-based repetition, while encoding new movement pathways through basic shapes. Students are encouraged to learn-by-doing, rather than to learn and ‘perform’, relying on muscle memory to strengthen pathways. Architectural forms of the body are created, deconstructed, and recycled within the containers of momentum and temperature, offering a full-body, far-reaching experience of movement.

After class, dancers will focus on creating—using skills as scaffolding for building material as a community. We’ll spend time talking about memory and time, graphing separate experiences together to focus and distill common patterns, shapes, and anecdotes. The final object created will be an investigation that is distinctly your own and something that can be taken into future experiences.

Learn more about Shane.

Photo by Jim Coleman

James Sewell Ballet is offering a summer intensive training program August 15-20.

Offering classes in ballet, JSB repertoire, improvisation techniques, conditioning and more. With personalized instruction geared toward dancers with intermediate/advanced technique between the ages 15-22. Train with dancers, choreographers and movement experts who value personal growth and agency. We combine rigor with playfulness to foster each student’s best potential!

Participation is capped at 15, so secure your spot now! Register online at jsballet.org/intensive-2

Early Bird rate is $385 until July 29, 2022.
Rate will increase to $415 following July 29.

Chicago Tap Theater Intensive with Mark Yonally at Keane
August 15-17

Mark Yonally is the founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Tap Theatre. Come with an eagerness to learn, and leave with new steps, rhythmic ideas and new tap friends. Tap games and story time included!

Intermediate: 10:00am-2:00pm
Advanced: 12:30-4:30pm

Been curious about what classes are like at the Threads Dance Nexus? Come join us this summer for our Summer Sampler Series! The summer sampler will offer participants a chance to try out fall classes before registration begins in September. 

Building on the success of our first Summer Sampler, we’d like to invite you to join us for of taste of Beginning/Intermediate Adult Ballet. The class will be an hour long, taught by Threads Artistic/Executive Director, Karen L. Charles.

Wednesday, August 17
6:30-7:30pm at the Threads Dance Nexus.
Ages 18+
Pay what you can, $10.00-$40.00

Follow the links to register, or learn more.

A dedicated performer, teacher, and creator, Karen Long Charles received a BFA Ballet/BS Computer Science from Texas Christian University and M.Ed. in Administration from Georgia State University.  Charles has performed with numerous dance companies including Room to Move Dance Company (Atlanta, GA), Susan Warden Dance Company (Kansas City, MO) and was awarded a fellowship to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Charles served as Director at Perpich Arts High School and was the founding Principal/Executive Director at Main Street School of Performing Arts. Charles has created/presented works for James Sewell Ballet, Carleton College, Macalester College, University of Georgia, University of Iowa, Main Street School of Performing Arts, and Perpich Arts High School. Charles founded Threads Dance Project (Threads) in 2011 where she is presently Artistic/Executive Director. Threads has been nominated for a MN SAGE Dance Award (2015), co-hosted McKnight International Choreographic Fellow Salia Sanou (2017), and toured nationally to Atlanta and Philadelphia. Threads now teaches and works in their new Minneapolis home, the Threads Dance Nexus, to further expand their mission to examine, expose and celebrate the Threads that connect us through dance.

Visit www.threadsdance.org for additional information about Karen Charles and Threads Dance Project.

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 awhile, 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 include Family Dance, Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet, and Modern dance. A schedule of trial classes at the open house will be announced in Mid-August. 

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Questions? Email Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org.