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You’re invited to join us for Ballet Royale’s July Summer Intensive:

Recommended for ages 8 through professional with multiple progressive divisions to give each student the ultimate experience in dance. Featuring top-quality professional teachers and guest Master Teachers.

Under the supervision of Ballet Royale’s Directors, this program has been designed to develop a well-rounded dancer by providing strong classical ballet training as well as exposure to a mixture of other styles of dance. This intensive includes group special events, Ballet Royale Summer Intensive T-shirt, and culminates in a Summer Showcase Performance.

July Day Summer Intensive: July 11-29
Dancers accepted into Division II, III and Upper Division. Recommended ages: 9-26 years old.
Audition required. Guest Faculty: Gary Joyce, Muriel Joyce and Giselle Mejia.

July Division I Two-Week Intensive: July 18–29
Dancers accepted into Division I. Recommended ages: 8 and older. No pointe.

As all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio to schedule a private audition at (952) 898-3163 or info@balletroyalemn.org.

Explore your passions for the arts this summer and learn from local professionals in the field! Join the FAIR Summer Arts Exploration and The Cowles Center for two different workshops taking place for 9–12 graders. Click HERE to register. Both workshops are free.

Cultural Exploration of Dance
July 11–21, 2022
Monday through Thursday, 1:00–2:00pm at The Cowles Center
This two-week dance camp will explore multiple dance styles (such as breaking, flamenco, latin social dance, and more). 8 sessions total. At the Cowles Center Target Education Studio.

Backstage Basics
July 25–August 4, 2022
Monday through Thursday, 1:00–3:30pm at The Cowles Center
Work alongside The Cowles Center’s technical staff for a four-day overview of what it takes to bring a show to life behind the scenes. Students will cover technology and basic operation of lighting, setting up sound gear such as microphones and speakers, working with backdrops and other backstage gear, and more! The class will culminate in combining the learned skills into a set-up, “mini-show” and “load-out.” This course is meant to give students a taste of these areas and resources for how they may pursue work or programs for future education.

Additional classes offered through McPhail and other community partners.

Questions? Contact: Adam Clark with MPS Community Education at Adam.Clark@mpls.k12.mn.us

Discover dance with a week-long camp for young artists! Not sure if your dancer has a style they like best, or looking for a way to try out something new? We’ll explore a variety of dance styles and creative movements in this one-week camp. There will be an informal showing on the last day. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome. In-person only at the Zenon Dance School studios.

July 18–22, 2022
Session 1: Ages 4-6 with Philip Hommes, 9:00am-12:00pm
Session 2: Ages 7-10 with Hannah Pierce, 12:30-3:30pm

Tuition: $195. Need-based scholarships are available for full or partial tuition.

Register online today! Registration closes one week before each camp begins.

This four-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play.

Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises that incorporate elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class as students will be asked to respond to sounds as well as make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Mondays, 9:00-9:45am
Tuition: $60.00
Four-week session: July 18, July 25, August 1, and August 8
At TU Dance Center or outdoor location TBD.

Restoring the Dancing Body: Heal, Re-align, and Strengthen
Workshop by DJinza Thayer at Tofte Lake Center
August 8-14, 2022

Tired of managing your injuries?  Does it take you longer to recover from physical exertion?  Do you just ache? Perhaps it is time to re-orient your training practices. In this workshop, we will introduce an alternative training system that leads to less pain and more ease, more strength and mobility, so that you can keep dancing. The complexity of dancer’s movement requires a multi-faceted and more enlightened approach.  This workshop will help unwind the body from specific movement patterns and introduce new ones by re-patterning the muscular, fascial, bone, and nervous systems.

In this five-day workshop, you will learn how to:
•Unwind your compensation patterns
•Use strength and flexibility training to promote alignment and override imbalances
•Build a new foundation of support (it’s not strengthening your core) by stimulating the nervous system to make better choices, find specific alliances of muscular support to weave it into the fascial lines
•Activate fullness of organs, boney clarity, and fluid support in your personal movement signature

Your week will entail a balance of physical training, and optional yoga, nature activities, and group gatherings. TLC’s staff Liz Engelman and Thea Sheldon will offer elective life/career coaching sessions as there is interest. Kayaks, paddle boards, canoes, and a sauna are available for exploring and enjoying the lake. There will be plenty of free time to explore the lake and property, or simply relax, sitting on the dock and taking in the peace and calm nature has to offer.

“Jinza has a deeply comprehensive, intuitive understanding of each part of the body and how they are all connected… She is able to teach us how to feel those connections in our own bodies (even through Zoom!!) so that we build stability and strength that serves us in every aspect of living.” – Student Testimonial, Online Classes Winter 2020

Learn more about DJinza Thayer.

Join Ballet Royale for our Grand Prix Variations Workshop, August 8-19!

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 classical 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 nine and up. 

Audition required. As all group audition dates have passed, please contact the studio to schedule a private audition at (952) 898-3163 or info@balletroyalemn.org.

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.

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

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.

Shane Larson was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in Austria. Since living in New York City, he’s branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, film makers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He is also a multimedia video artist making collage-based work about memory. Shane joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2015.

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

Photo by Jim Coleman