ARENA DANCES’ New School: The Arena – Open House – September 10 to September 11

Come experience our new school, The Arena! The Open House will feature FREE preview-style classes of all of our class offerings:

Friday, September 10
6:00-6:30pm – Creative Movement with Tori Casagranda
6:30-7:00pm – Capoeira with Jim Bozic and co-instructor Miles
7:00-7:30pm – Contemporary Forms with Mathew Janczewski

Saturday, September 11
9:00-9:30am – Pilates with Amy Jones
9:30-10:00am – Contemporary Forms with Mathew Janzcewski
10:00-10:30am – Creative Movement with Kendall Kramer
10:30-11:00am – Capoeira with Jim Bozic and co-instructor Miles Blount
11:00-11:30am – Gyrokinesis with Non Edwards
11:30am-12:00pm – Unicorn Sweat with Abigail Whitmore and Annika Hansen

Pick and choose your own movement adventure, and decide which offerings you want to build into your fall schedule!
We will also be offering tuition discounts at the Open House, including $10 off Discount Cards (10 class-pass) and 20% off enrollment.

Learn more at our Facebook event page!

A few ways to keep informed of class offerings and school updates:
-Follow our new IG page at https://www.instagram.com/thearenaschool/
-Check out our website at http://www.arena-dances.org
-Subscribe to our school newsletter at https://www.arena-dances.org/join-our-mailing-list/

Cassandra School Online and In-Studio Classes

Join our dance-learning community of all ages, sizes, and levels of experience to participate in the creative expression and health and fitness benefits of Middle Eastern dance. The beauty of this dance form is that it makes you feel wonderful in your own body.

We now have in-studio options for beginners and all students!
Or, you may choose to take these same classes online through Zoom.

Go to cassandraschool.com to choose from our ongoing classes, register, and pay in advance using PayPal. Purchase four or more classes and receive a $2 discount per class! All class registrations close at 8:00pm CT the night before each class.

TU Dance Center: Adult Beginning Ballet with Tina Anderson Wallum

Provided by Tina Anderson Wallum, the class work is based on the principles of classical ballet technique, including turnout, distribution of weight, counter pull, plumb line, balance, squareness, alignment and stance, transfer of weight, lift, and counter balance. Also it is based on centering, core strength, flexor tone, extensor tone, muscle currenting, cogwheeling, coordination, and musicality. By the end of the workshop students should understand a basic level of vocabulary and be able to execute it with ease and confidence. Students are intellectually, emotionally and physically supported with validation, engagement, and a sense of belonging.

Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Session One: September 14–October 20. Six weeks.
Session Two: October 26–December 8. Six weeks, no classes November 22-27.

Cost: $85/workshop, per session.

Universal Dance Destiny 17th Showcase

Come experience diversity of culture like never before as you witness dance ensembles from various cultures perform their “Dances of Nature”! Two professional dance artists will fly in from Los Angeles as special guests performers for the evening. Come see who they are! Also, enjoy tasty exotic snacks, desserts, and appetizers from across the globe!

UDD presents one of the most unique, diverse showcases in the Midwest. Mark your calendars and let’s get ready to heat up the city – it’s on for the SEVENTEENTH time. You don’t want to miss this!

Universal Dance Destiny showcases brings the community together by providing a platform for new and seasoned performers to present their work to a diverse audience. Its family-friendly environment is defined within its high spaced and high energy performance experience designed to ignite excitement that will leave viewers talking about it to friends and families after the event. The showcase highlights dance performances of various cultures in the UNIVERSE.

UNIVERSAL DANCE DESTINY – the ongoing movement.

Celebrating Diversity in the Community.
Universal Dance Destiny 17th Showcase!

Friday, September 10
Doors open at 6:15pm
Showtime: 7:00
Admission: $16 adults, $10 kids.

The Cornerstone Church is ADA accessible, with on-site parking lot and near public transportation.
Exotic refreshments on sale, donations welcomed! Meet and Greet Performers Reception after the show.
The showcase will be available on zoom/Some clips will be on Facebook Live/Social distancing seating available upon request
Change your profile and/or cover pic (landscape version) to the flyer and get in for $2 off admission!
Let’s make it happen once again folks! We have our social distance guidelines in place.

Make your donation toward our non profit dance organization and ministry: https://universaldancedestiny.com/donate/
ALL presenters are compensated for their artistic dance work!

Graphic Design by one of the best worldwide: Bbe G

Hubbard Street Dance: Chicago Dance Films

Premiere: Friday, September 10 at 7:30pm CT
Available on-demand through September 17, 2021.

Select your own price to view this event ($0-$50). Please note: ticket revenue from this film screening will be shared with the artists.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is committed to keeping its dancers creating and finding innovative ways to share exceptional contemporary dance with the community, and their recent acclaimed series of films did just that. These three short film explorations were produced after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 and presented free to the public as part of Hubbard Street’s Season 43: A Virtual Homecoming.

A Tale of Two by Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer Rena Butler is filled with tension and tenderness, reflecting the vulnerability of youth in a violent world. In Half of Us, former Hubbard Street Dancer and Princess Grace Award-winner Robyn Mineko Williams creates a mesmerizing ebb and flow of melody and movement, as two dancers and two musicians merge their artistry upon a lonely landscape. Ended When, a cinematic solo, features an excerpt of Mineko Williams’ popular work, Cloudline

This event will be captioned, with other accessibility services available upon request.

TU Dance Center: Adult Beginning Modern with Jennifer Ilse

This workshop with Jennifer Ilse approaches movement with a goal of balance – fluidity in strength, power in softness, centering on breath and economy of movement to teach internal and external body awareness, rhythm and phrasing, and ensemble dancing through modern dance patterns and improvisation.

Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Session One: September 14–October 20. Six weeks.
Session Two: October 26–December 8. Six weeks, no classes November 22-27.

Cost: $85/workshop, per session

Reservations Open for José A. Luis’ Solo, w/ You

Solo, w/ you
Produced pieces in Milwaukee were a spark in what is now a nine-year journey of solo making. With long pauses in between due to lack of finances and general life, I ask myself “Why wait any longer?” I have dreamt, and now I create.

Solo, w/ You is a summary of being my own choreographer and dancer, but longing to be with you (audience, family, friend, partner, mentor, peer, new face). I have created these dance pieces by remembering those that came before and those yet to come. Much like life, I hold a space for a small amount of time (45 minutes) until we are in the next chapter – solo, but together.

September 17 and 18, 2021
7:00PM CST
Ticket details:
www.jose.dance/soloreservations
Please note, this will be a masked event and limited to t30 seats.

Solo, contigo
Producciones hechas en Milwaukee fueron una chispa en lo que ahora es un viaje de nueve años de creación en solos de baile. Con largas pausas en el medio debido a la falta de finanzas y la vida en general, me pregunto “¿Por qué esperar más?” He soñado y ahora creo.

Solo, w/ You es un resumen de ser mi propio coreógrafo y bailarín, pero anhelando estar contigo (audiencia, familia, amigo, compañero, mentor, compañero, nuevo rostro). He creado estas piezas de danza recordando las que vinieron antes y las que están por venir. Al igual que en la vida, mantengo un espacio por una pequeña cantidad de tiempo (45 minutos) hasta que estamos en el próximo capítulo – solos, pero juntos

Twin Cities Ballet FREE Season Preview Performance

Come celebrate Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota’s new season and welcome its new professional company members and apprentices! Learn about the exciting performances coming up this season; meet and mingle with the Artistic Directors, board, staff, and dancers; enjoy refreshments; and watch a preview performance by the company!

There will be many opportunities for you to support TCB throughout the night, including a silent auction, handmade items for sale, and performance tickets available for purchase.

Saturday, September 25
7:00-9:00pm

FREE and open to the public!
Families, friends, supporters, and the curious are all welcome!

Pop-Up FALL Sound Garden on West River Parkway

Dancers Leslie O’Neill, Megan Mayer, Sarah Baumert, and Erika Hansen perform their site-specific, roving, durational movement scores across a three-acre site along West River Parkway as part of composer/director JG Everest’s immersive FALL Sound Garden sound and performance installation event.

The roving movement scores will begin by 1:00pm and will come and go throughout the space until 4:00pm.

The third of four seasonal “pop-up” Sound Garden events along West River Parkway in 2021, the FALL Sound Garden features layers of site-specific dance, music, poetry, and visual art among some of the oldest trees in Minneapolis.

Sound Gardens are designed as durational, self-guided experiences intended for audience to connect more meaningfully to a particular place and the natural world. The spatial sound score and live dance and musical elements are meant to accompany the sounds and physical elements that are already there – the birds, the trees, the wind, the leaves. Audiences are encouraged to both circulate and linger at their own pace, following their own impulses for what to pay attention to.

Saturday, October 2
12:00-4:00pm
Free admission, but reservations required

Limited capacity.

Studio Stories with Lou Fancher

Join ARENA DANCES for our weekly Studio Stories Podcast, where each week we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history with a new special guest. This week, we sat down with Lou Fancher to learn about her journey.

Lou Fancher is a San Francisco Bay Area writer. Her work has been published by WIRED.com, Diablo Magazine, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, InDance, East Bay Express, Oakland Magazine, SF Weekly, and others.  She is a children’s book author, designer and illustrator, with over 50 books in print. Also a choreographer, ballet master and teacher, she coaches professional ballet and contemporary dance companies in the U. S. and Canada.

Visit http://www.arena-dances.org to listen, or check it out wherever you get your podcasts!