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6:00 – 7:15pm | Beginning/Intermediate Modern Workshop w. Mary Willmeng (IN PERSON)

The Alexander Technique teaches skills that are foundational to healthy movement, whether it’s an ordinary task like reaching for something on a shelf or a complex dance phrase. It teaches us how to move with a greater degree of ease and coordination. Alexander Technique provides space for being present, available, and adaptable in our dancing and our daily lives. Together we will build awareness around how we are moving, thinking, and interacting with ourselves. We will apply principles of the Alexander Technique in movement explorations, sequences, and games, leaving time for discussion for a fun and playful approach to exploring the Alexander Technique.

This class is open to all levels of experience as well as to movers of all practices and forms. Touch feedback will at times be offered from the instructor and will always be optional.

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal and closes ten minutes before class.

Save the date for our Spring Open House, happening Saturday, March 26! Classes will take place both online and in-person between 9:00am – 2:00pm.

Zenon offers FREE classes and GREAT PROMO DISCOUNTS during our Open House, so you don’t want to miss out on this special sneak-peek of what’s to come this Spring Session!

• 9:00am – Yoga with Ariel Linnerson (Online)
• 10:00am – Cardio with Ariel Linnerson (Online)
• 10:00am – Jazz with Ali Rubin Forester
• 11:00am – Contemporary with Ruby J. Smith
• 12:00pm – Modern with Dustin Haug

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment. Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am at The Arena
Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān teaches throughout March!

Drop in rate is $17 with flexible pricing and free parking!

Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān is an interdisciplinary choreographer, improviser and sound artist whose work is interested in engaging with the deconstruction and parody of dominant culture narratives and conventional performance expectations, and standing in allyship to communities going through persecution and discrimination in the days we are living in. She has presented works at venues including Fresh Oysters Performance Research (R.I.P.), Public Functionary, Bryant Lake Bowl, Tek Box, The Southern Theater, Intermedia Arts (R.I.P.), Frey Theatre (Twin Cities, MN) and 9 Herkimer Place (Brooklyn, NY). She has recently enjoyed performing for/collaborating with others including Dua Saleh, Valerie Oliviero, Leila Awadallah, Judith Howard, Rosy Simas, Sophiaaaahjkl;8901, Shayna Allen, Pramila Vasudevan, Megan Mayer, Emily Gastineau, and Erin Drummond. She is a 2017 Q-Stage: New Works and 2019 Momentum: New Dance Works recipient, and currently works with the Lightning Rod Arts Organism as a teaching artist and ensemble member. She is currently working on a piece to be premiered as part of Red Eye’s New Works 4 Weeks festival from May 26-28.

“So excited to share my practice of improvisation and collaborative decision making in the Moving Practice series! In this set of classes I will be focusing on the development and practice of improvisational scores, and what it looks like to allow them to be consistently generative practices that change with you over time as you continue living in them. You will be led through scores I’ve been working with for the past four years to warm up, and then prompted (either by direct text or conceptual/aesthetic stimuli or reflection on personal experiences as impetus, etc.) to develop your own scores in which you can continue to be in dialogue with and build skills to share and relay with those you’re in artistic conversation with. These classes will build on each other sequentially, but also be accessible to drop in for one at any point! Depending on the comfort of those in workshops there may be an element of contact improvisation/weight sharing.”

The Spotlight of Attention 
A Six-Week Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series

You are sensing an unbelievable amount of information all the time, both internally and externally. Only when you focus your spotlight of attention can you begin to bring all that sensation to the foreground of your consciousness. By doing this you can make choices about what is and is not useful, and learn how to move with ease and grace. Using the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement (ATM) Jeffrey Wells and Krista Langberg will lead you through a series of classes to help you explore and refine your innate ability to perceive yourself and the world around you.

Registration Process
If you are interested in attending class, please register through Zoom at the links below.

Register for Tuesday Morning Class, 10:00-11:15am CDT, March 29-May 3

Register for Thursday Evening Class, 7:00-8:15pm CDT, March 31-May 5

Class Fee: $60-$150 for full series, sliding scale.

Once you’ve registered you will receive confirmation, payment and class info, and reminder emails to the address you provided with the Zoom link for class. On the day and time of your class, click the link in your confirmation or reminder email to join.

Join us at The ARENA for a special offering partnered with Northrop in the Martha Graham Technique with Denise Vale accompanied by percussionist Tarek Abdelqader.

Friday, April 1
10:00-11:30am
In place of Mathew Janczewski’s Contemporary Flow class

$17 Regular Class Pricing
FREE to U of MN students and staff
Pre-register at https://www.arena-dances.org/the-arena.

This class is intended for intermediate/advanced students.

Graham Technique builds strength, balance, stamina, focus, extended kinetic vocabulary, and provides an introduction to fundamental Graham phrases and repertory.

ARENA DANCES follows the CDC guidelines. Masks will be required to participate in this class and a COVID waiver to sign upon registration or arrival.

Denise Vale danced with the Company for ten years dancing many of the major roles of the Graham repertory.  She is well known for her performance as Woman in White in Diversion of Angels, and widely acclaimed as the first Leader in the reconstruction of Steps in the Street. She starred in Night Chant, a ballet created for her by Martha Graham, and in the Graham solos Lamentation, Frontier, Satyric Festival Song, and Serenata Morisca. As Senior Artistic Associate, Ms. Vale serves primarily as the rehearsal director for the Martha Graham Company, is on the faculty of the Graham School, and travels throughout the world teaching master classes in the Graham Technique for dancers of all ages and abilities. Ms Vale also restages the Graham ballets for major dance companies such as Ballet de Lorraine, Ballet Flanders, Semperoper in Dresden, Germany and the Grand Theater Opera in Lodz, Poland.