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Come groove with guest instructor Rae Charles on July 8 at Friday Morning Jazz class at Zenon Dance School!

Thanks to a partnership with Rhythmically Speaking (RS), regular teachers Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting are excited to have several guests on our teaching roster this summer! Each choreographer from RS’ August production, The Cohort 2022: Stage, will be teaching a class this session. See the dates of all choreographers’ classes listed below.

Class runs 10:00-11:15am CST and remains hybrid, with space for 10 distanced students in-studio and a high-quality Zoom option for folks joining from home/remotely. Please note that while masks are now optional at the Cowles Center (except for performances), masks are still required at Zenon.

FMJ Summer Schedule:
July 8: Rae Charles – RS Local Choreographer
July 15: Kathleen Doherty – RS Visiting Choreographer
July 22: Karla Grotting
July 29: Laura Smyth – RS Visiting Choreographer
August 5: Erinn Liebhard
August 12: Erinn Liebhard
August 19: Karla Grotting
August 26: Karla Grotting

To learn more about these excellent guest teachers, visit the RS website, and to get more regular updates about class content, guest artists and more, follow our Facebook page!

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

Join Rhythmically Speaking for our new evening jazz class offering!

MoveTogethers are our weekly company class of sorts, titled as such to reflect their collaborative nature in which we improvise and create together in addition to moving through material from RS Artistic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard and guest artists, including the choreographers for our August show The Cohort 2022: Stage. Don’t miss your chance to take class from visiting artists Kathleen Doherty (Halifax, NS Canada) and Laura Ann Smyth (Los Angeles, CA) – selected from a wide pool of applicants to set work for our summer show, these artists have unique perspectives on jazz that they are excited to share with you!

While we’ve been holding MoveTogethers for our company for a couple of years now, we are excited to open them up to the public this summer so pre-professional and professional dancers in our community can join in the jazz! Our approach (and that of the artists we select to work with us) to jazz emphasizes the elements of groove, interaction and improvisation that we see as present within all American social dance styles, honors the African diasporic roots of the form, and is driven by jazz music.

Each class is just $10.00, and this first session of open MoveTogethers runs Wednesdays from 5:30-7:00pm at the Cowles Center in downtown Minneapolis, through August 3. As space is limited, pre-registration is suggested but not required!

To pre-register, hop over to our Venmo and pay the $10.00 class fee.

We hope to see you there!

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.

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.

The GYROKINESIS® Method coordinates breath and movement in exercises that build skill in intero/proprioception while also strengthening and mobilizing. The GYROKINESIS® Method is named such because we move in circular, semi-circular, figure-8, and spiral pathways. The foundational concept of “narrowing” allows the practitioner to harness strength and decompress the spine in our most basic tasks.

The GYROKINESIS® Method addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences.

Online Classes via Zoom – please see my website for an up-to-date class schedule.

Monday, 10:00am
Friday, 10:30am
Sunday, 11:00am

Drop-ins welcome any time. All classes use the same Zoom link, found on my website.
Gyrokinesis adapts well to the online format and is easy to follow through Zoom. All classes are 60 minutes.
Class fee is a sliding scale, $5-20 payable at http://paypal.me/nonedwards within one hour of completing class, or by check.
No one is turned away for non-payment.

In-Person Class at The ARENA
All levels. Saturdays, 12:00-1:00pm
May 15-July 31, 2022
$17 drop-in. Discount cards available. Masks and signed Covid waiver required.

Want to learn more? Please reach out! I am happy to offer free trial classes online.
Learn more from this short video, or by visiting my FAQs.

Want to explore on your own schedule? Private sessions available, also on a sliding scale.

GYROKINESIS® is a registered trademark of GYROTONIC Sales Corp and is used with their permission.

Please join us! Open classes Tuesdays and Thursdays with Hatch Dance and HoneyWorks in preparation for their annual collaboration Live @ The Shed, featuring Au, July 30-31, 2022.

Guest instructors rotate each week along with class from directors Helen Hatch (contemporary ballet) and Berit Ahlgren (Gaga-based improvisation). These 75-minute classes are open level and welcome to all.

Thursday, July 7, 2:00-3:15pm: Ballet with Berit Ahlgren

Tuesday, July 12, 2:00-3:15pm: Contemporary with Laura Virtucio

Thursday, July 14 2:00-3:15pm: Improvisation with Blake Nellis

Classes take place at St. Paul Ballet, Studio 4.
Masks required.
Pay-as-you wish sliding scale $5-15 to either Hatch Dance or HoneyWorks.
Please reach out if you have questions.

Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30pm at The Arena
Contemporary with Mathew Janczewski (sub for Elayna Waxse)

Drop in: $17. Buy a 10-class card and save!
Summer Session: May 11-July 27
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An eclectic and full bodied style of contemporary/modern dance that focuses on using codified modern techniques, exploratory improvisational tasks, oppositional directions and energies and utilizing the floor as a partner instead of just a surface. Through various set exercises to warm up, explore weight transfers and find healthy pathways in an out of the floor as well as an open ended, adaptable phrase to research movement invention, each dancer will delve into their individuality and authentic voice as a mover.

Originally from Illinois, Mathew Janczewski has now resided in Minneapolis, MN since 1989. He was a company member, most notably with Shapiro & Smith Dance from 2007-2014 and JAZZDANCE! By Danny Buraczeski from 1992-97. As a dancer, Mathew has performed as a guest with Bill T. Jones + Arnie Zane Dance Company, Bebe Miller, and Jacek Luminski of Bytom, Poland. Over the years, he has performed the work of Beth Corning, Sean Curran, HIJACK, Marge Maddux, Shawn McConneloug, Jane Shockley, Robin Stiehm, Morgan Thorson, Doug Varone, and Cathy Young.  

Photo by Aaron Warkov