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Studio Rentals at Collide Theatrical in St Paul

Need space to rehearse, choreograph, teach, or hold an event? Collide Theatrical has two studios available for rental in our beautiful St. Paul location.

Studio 1 has 1700 square feet of sprung floor, full wall-length mirrors, Rosco Adagio Marley dance floor, high ceilings, sky lights, and three chandeliers.

Studio 2 has 550 square feet of sprung wood floor.

Both studios have the following amenities:

  • Ballet barres for up to 18 students
  • Free and accessible parking and access to public transportation line
  • Gender-specific bathrooms (non-gender-specific bathroom available in the adjacent building)
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth room speakers
  • Cubbies for holding shoes and clothes
  • 2 long folding tables
  • Access to up to 30 folding chairs
  • HVAC heated and cooled spaces with temperature control
  • Hallway drinking fountains. Access to kitchenette area available upon request.

Single Rental:
Studio 1 – $30/hour
Studio 2 – $20/hour

Long-Term or Multiple-Day Rental:
Studio 1 – $20/hour
Studio 2 – $15/hour

Payment for rental bookings must be made 48 hours prior to your booking to hold your reservation. A signed rental agreement and certificate of insurance must be provided prior to your reservation. Please contact us at 651-395-7903 to schedule a visit. COVID safety rules and cleaning are at the highest priority.

Twin Cities Ballet: Join Us for Our 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!

ARENA DANCES’ New School – The Arena – Open House

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
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 Card (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/

DECADANCE: Featuring Duniya Drum & Dance and Rhythmically Speaking

This year at The Cowles Center, we are eating our dessert first!

In honor of our tenth anniversary, please join us as we celebrate a decade of dance with the decadence of desserts, all while raising $75,000 to expand our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives!

DECADANCE will feature desserts by Eat Street’s farm-to-table landmark The Copper Hen Cakery & Kitchen and drinks from nightlife hotspot Gold Room Restaurant & Bar (including a one-of-a-kind anniversary cocktail and mocktail), as well as short and sweet performances by Rhythmically Speaking and Duniya Drum & Dance Company – plus a special announcement that will celebrate our amazing local dance talent. In case you were wondering, DECADANCE is not a gala-style event, which means no formal dress code. Be yourself!

RSVP: https://www.thecowlescenter.org/tickets/decadance

Early Bird Tickets will be on sale through September 8, 2021.

Zenon Dance School – Hybrid Open House

We are thrilled to invite you to Zenon Dance School’s first HYBRID Open House on Saturday, September 11.
This will be a great day to enjoy free classes (online and in person), great tuition discounts, and get a sneak peak of our classes the fall.  Below is the schedule of events!

9:00am: All Levels Yoga with Ariel Linnerson – Online

10:00am: Contemporary Ballet with Anne Lentz – Online

11:00am: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug – Hybrid

12:00pm: Creative Movement for Ages 4-6 with Sarah Bartlett – In Person

12:30pm: Youth Ballet for Ages 7-10 with Kendall Kramer – In Person

In person sections are limited to 10 students, please reserve your spot today through our MindBody Portal!

Space at The Arena

Located in the heart of the LynLake neighborhood, The Arena is available for your rehearsal, class, and event needs!

Our space offers 1,305 square feet, 30’×40′ of sprung floor, Marley dance flooring, wall-length mirrors (with curtains to cover if preferred), free wifi, and a changing room.

We are situated on multiple bus lines, including the 21, 4, 23, 612, and 18; with plenty of free, street parking around the building.

To request space, please email arenadances@gmail.com

TU Dance Center: Renting TU Dance Center

TU Dance Center is available for rental when not in use by the school.

TU Dance Center features:

Reception area and front desk for check-in or event use. Access to adjacent dressing room and green room with kitchenette are available upon request.

Both studios: sprung dance floor with Marley-type surface by Harlequin, wall of mirrors, portable ballet barre units 10′ in length, room-level sound system with CD and mini-jack inputs, 50′ LCD TV cart for presentation and videoconferencing. Large windows providing ample natural light.

Studio 1 only: a curtain that can be drawn on entire mirror, wall-mounted ballet barres of 27′ and 33′.

Studio 1: 60′x34′
Studio 2: 46’x21′

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.

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Your Creative Coordinated Spine – A Feldenkrais Series

A strong and supple spine is essential to a healthy body. Your spine is a centerpiece of skeletal movement, it is literally the back bone of your ability to sleep, function, and move properly. By learning to distribute effort evenly along the spine, these lessons will improve your ability to bend, twist, and extend, offering you more options in your daily movement repertoire. Through novel movements, interspersed with rest, these lessons will help disentangle patterns of overuse and habits in the spine that no longer serve you.

September 19-November 10
Sundays, 4:00-5:00pm CST
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm CST
Each lesson is taught twice. You have the choice to come to one or both days.

In Awareness Through Movement®, we explore how we can move with the smallest amount of effort. The smallest amount of effort or exertion will facilitate the maximum amount of sensory differentiation and thus make information available for new learning. Slow movements will facilitate a parasympathetic response, the rest and digest response of the nervous system. This is a non-judgemental, non-corrective, and liberating way to experience your body in motion.

What you receive by registering for the series:

  • 2 weekly Awareness Through Movement® lessons, 60 minutes each
  • Community discussion after each lesson with time for asking questions, harvesting, and sharing
  • Recordings automatically available 48 hrs after each live class
  • Stream recordings indefinitely
  • Option to download recordings
  • Optional individual consult with Sarah

Twin Cities Ballet: Auditions for A Minnesota Nutcracker

Twin Cities Ballet’s beloved holiday classic with a Minnesota twist returns to Ames Center December 10–12, live and in person! 

Open auditions will be held on Sunday, September 26. All are welcome! 

Consisting of a cast of approximately 120, TCB’s A Minnesota Nutcracker is seen by over six thousand audience members over a single weekend each year and has become one of the most attended and cherished annual professional holiday events in the Twin Cities. Every year TCB also performs a special matinee performance of A Minnesota Nutcracker for elementary and special education students and seniors. This year we are also kicking off our new Sensory-Relaxed Performance Series, the first of its kind in Minnesota! These performances are designed to be more accessible for persons with sensory sensitivities and families with young children.

Please visit our website HERE for more information. Audition registration will be open soon.