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Creative Movement is a hybrid class (in studio or online) made for adult movers who are just beginning to enter, or re-enter, a movement practice and are curious about improvisation within the realm of contemporary dance. However, more experienced movers are also welcome in order to explore their own practice in a relaxed and open environment.

This workshop will include a group warm-up, several layers of prompted improvisation, and a shared improv score set to music. The atmosphere is welcoming and celebratory of all styles, levels, and abilities. It is a chance to explore your own body and self through motion and flow, bringing out your authentic movement voice. Let’s have fun, be playful, and get curious together through dance.

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
Pre-register at https://www.arena-dances.org/the-arena/
Drop in rate is $17 with flexible pricing and free parking!

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.

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.

Mental health is as important as physical health for healthy, happy dancers. Minding the Gap presents a workshop curated in 5 sessions, each presented by an accredited professional.

Remaining Sessions:

#3 – March 6, 2022
Language Matters: Shifting how we speak about food and bodies to prevent eating disorders and improve dancer health.
Presenter: Monika Saigal, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, CDN – nutritionist and eating disorder expert based in New York City.

#4 – March 20, 2022
Productive, proactive communication. How to engage students and dancers on the tough topics and disappointments.
Presenter: Jackson Jirard, M.Ed – Education psychology specialist and dance educator, associate director of Urban Improv at Rehearsal For Life in Massachusetts.

#5 – April 3, 2022
How to support an injured dancer. Best practices to get the dancer back into the studio strong both mentally and physically.
Marissa Schaeffer, PT, DPT, CSCS – licensed physical therapist and NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist in New York City.

A child and parent/caregiver creative movement class. This 8-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.

Session 2: March 12 – May 14
Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am
8 weeks. No class on April 9 and 16.
Tuition: $120.00

Join Concerto Dance for an open master class with our visiting Guest Artist Steve Rooks!

Saturday, March 12, 1:00-3:00pm at the Cowles Center for Dance

Mr. Rooks will be teaching a two-hour modern master class influenced by Horton and Graham techniques geared for professional and pre professional dancers. Space is limited. Masks required. Pre-registration highly recommended. Cost for class is $20.

Visit www.concertodance.com/classes for more info.

Steve Rooks studied dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and has performed classic works by Ailey, Donald McKayle, Talley Beatty, and Ulysses Dove. He joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1981 and was promoted to Principal Dancer. Currently he serves as Resident Choreographer and Professor of Dance at Vassar College, and is a Guest Instructor at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, The Martha Graham Dance Company, and American Academy of Ballet. He has also taught at the Ballet Nacional de Mexico, International Summer School in Sydney, Australia and the Studio Centre de Dance in Paris, France. He is a member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance. In 2020, Mr. Rooks joined the Board of Trustees for the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Offered in partnership with the Cowles Center for Dance.

Dance teacher Tamiko French has developed a program centered around revitalizing creativity of storytelling with the building blocks of dance creation that infuses the visual and literary arts.

The 8-week workshop is designed to be sequential for participants, with each class building on the previous class. From a first class in which participants will use poetry, prose, dramatic writing, spoken word, or other writing as a stimulus to create movement, participants will learn about modern and jazz dance techniques and choreographic practice, collaborate and share results with others, study facilitated improvisation and play in dance, and refine their work for a sharing event for family, friends, and the community.

This program is for adults 55+. Pre-registration required as in-studio space is limited!

Thursdays, 10:00am-11:30am CST
Session 1: March 17 – May 5
Session 2: May 26 – July 14
In-person only.
$45 per workshop.

Proof of vaccination and masks are required at the door for all participants. There will be a showing on last day of each workshop from 12:30-2:00pm.

TU Dance will offer tuition and transportation subsidy upon request. Please contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 to inquire.

Mark your calendar’s for Ananya Dance Theatre’s Upcoming Summer Intensive!

Happening every day Monday, June 13 through Friday, June 24, 10:00am-1:00pm CST.

Classes will be available to attend both online and in-studio.

Whether this is your first experience with Yorchhā, or you have been practicing for multiple summers, we will meet you where you are to steer you towards individual excellence.

Yorchhā is Ananya Dance Theatre’s trade-marked contemporary technique that intersects principles of vinyasa yoga, classical Indian dance form Odishi (from the eastern Indian state of Odisha) and martial art form Chhau (also from Odisha).

More details coming soon!