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Threads Dance Project will hold its first ever Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive and Audition Workshop this August 1-5 at the Threads Dance Nexus. Registration is now open! 

The program provides participants with a rigorous exploration of techniques as well as the opportunity to explore and enhance the performative elements of dance via repertory class. Classes for the advanced/professional intensive include ballet, modern, improvisation/jazz, and repertory class. These classes are aimed at professional artists and those just entering the professional dance world after collegiate or other training. The intensive closes with an informal showing on August 5 at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Discount: Threads is now offering a $25 rebate for you and a friend if both dancers register by Wednesday, July 20! 
To get your $25 refund, please email dancenexus@threadsdance.org with your name, your friend’s name, and the date you both registered. Please note that participants can only be claimed as a “friend” and or receive the rebate once. 

Repertory learned during the week will also be taught at Threads Dance Project audition held on August 6.

Please email Production Manager, Karen Christ Aalgaard at kchrist@threadsdance.org or visit https://bit.ly/tdpAuditions22 for additional audition details.

August 1-5, 2022
10:00am–3:30pm
Ages 18+
Tuition: $225

Unique in Minnesota, this is a focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions. Following daily ballet technique class, dancers learn classic ballet variations and receive professional coaching. This workshop benefits all dancers, whether preparing for a competition, an upcoming performance, or simply wanting to polish and improve their artistry, technique, and quality.

Class sizes are limited. Pre-competitive, Junior, and Senior Divisions. Ages 9 and older.

August 8-19

Audition required – as all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio to schedule a private audition.

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!

Ages 16+.
Intensive capped at 15 participants.
Registration must be completed by August 1.
Early Bird: $475 – register by July 15. General: $550.

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

Classes and programs for Summer 2022 at the School of Ballet Co.Laboratory are now enrolling!

The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory offers the finest dance education to artists of all ages and abilities in a nurturing and welcoming environment. Our summer programming gives students the opportunity to train with locally and nationally acclaimed dance professionals who are dedicated to the growth of each individual student.

To learn more or to register click here: https://bit.ly/SummerBCL