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Join Ballet Royale for Mermaid-inspired Story Ballet Workshop

Give your young dancer the joy of dance and performance!

Saturday, July 17, Ballet Royale is offering a mermaid-inspired Creative Story Ballet Workshop! The workshops include a short performance at the end. One more workshop is coming up on August 14. Take one or both!

Recommended for ages four through nine. Class sizes will be limited to maintain social distancing.

On Saturday, July 17 there will be two classes for our Mermaids inspired class:

Saturday, July 17 at 10:00am-11:00am – Mermaids 

Saturday, July 17 at 11:15am-12:15pm – Mermaids

Our last workshop will be:

Saturday, August 14 at 10am-11am – Beauty and the Beast

Please contact the studio with any questions. We would love to dance with you!

Friday Morning Jazz: In-Person and on Zoom with Erinn This Week

Join us for Friday Morning Jazz through Zenon, in person or online!

Summer is in swing at Zenon Dance School, and Friday Morning Jazz has shifted into a hybrid format this session! You can register to be one of the eight in-person, masked, socially-distanced students to dance in Zenon Studio 4A or you can Zoom into class from anywhere.

Class runs 10:00-11:15am CST most Fridays.

Co-teachers Karla Grotting and Erinn Liebhard, along with Zenon, are taking great care to ensure that both the in-person and Zoom options will be high-quality, so join us!

This week, Erinn is teaching, and will focus on individual interpretation within her approach to jazz that emphasizes groove, interaction and improvisation, is inspired by both social and concert dance movement (particularly that with African diasporic roots), and is driven by jazz music. To dance in-person, register by 5:00pm this Thursday night. To dance with us via Zoom, register by 9:50am on Friday. Both types of registrations can be done at zenondance.org.

Questions? Connect with erika@zenondance.org.

#getyourasstoclass, and we’ll see you Friday!

Classical Music and Ballet by Mirage Performing Arts

Mirage Performing Arts will showcase a live performance at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to spread the joy and hope of the arts.

Thursday, July 1 at 6:00pm

Featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Cassado, Bach, Debussy and more.

Dance, Choreography – Yuki Tokuda

Piano – Rie Tanaka

Cello – Jesse Nummelin

Free to the public.

Concerto Dance Presents Girls in the Band!

Concerto Dance by Jolene Konkel presents a special preview performance of our new work Girls in the Band!

Join us for our Summer Bandshell Tour July 8-10, featuring a guest performance by Kaleena Miller Dance and KMD2.

All shows 7:00pm.

July 8: Central Park, Roseville.
July 9: Town Green Park, Maple Grove.
July 10: Lake Normandale Bandshell, Bloomington.

All performances are outdoors and open to the public. No ticket required.  Suggested donation $20. Cash, venmo@concerto-dance, or visit our website to donate. Performances will be rescheduled if inclement weather. Check our website or Facebook page for updates. Please bring your own lawn chair/blanket and we ask guests to respect social distancing with others not in your group.

Join us as we celebrate the “Ladies Who Swing The Band!”

Limón Twin Cities Intensive with Black Label Movement

UPDATE: five more in-person spots have become available due to changing COVID capacity restrictions!

The Limón Dance Company and Black Label Movement join forces to bring you a two-week summer intensive filled with powerful and compelling dance! Join Artistic Directors Dante Puleio and Carl Flink in celebrating the brilliant artistry of José Limón.

Experience 1 or 2 weeks of: classical and contemporary technique, repertory from both companies, conversations and celebrations of the Limón legacy and learning about the dynamic Twin Cities dance scene.

The program offers top quality teachers comprised of current and former company members who are dedicated to the learning process and growth of each individual dancer.

Additional events will include evening sessions of improvisation, dance-making, and discussions designed to deepen participants’ embodied practice. The intensive concludes with the participants’ final showing on Saturday, July 31.

Sponsored in part by the University of Minnesota Dance Program and Black Label Movement.

Registration and Information

JSB Open Classes in July

You are invited to partake in advanced level open ballet class with the artists of James Sewell Ballet!

Leah Gallas and Kerry Parker teach weekly, with live accompanists Eric Jensen and Pat Lyles!

Visit http://www.jsballet.org/classes for class listings several weeks out.

Please note change in times:
June 28-July 9, 9:30-11:00am
July 12-onward, 10:00-11:30am

Sliding scale $5-20.
Visit http://www.jsballet.org/classes to connect.

Northrop Presents ABT Across America

Mixed Repertory program including:

La Follia Variations
Let Me Sing Forevermore
Indestructible Light
Don Quixote pas de deux (July 10 and 11, 5:00pm)
White Swan pas de deux (July 10 at 8:00pm, July 11 at 2:00pm)

 

American Ballet Theatre will take to the road this summer, traveling by bus and truck to eight U.S. cities including Minneapolis, Minnesota. Northrop will present ABT Across America for four outdoor performances at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

In addition to the opportunity to see America’s National Ballet Company® in this breathtaking outdoor performance, your ticket purchase will include free parking and all-day admission to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Named the Best Botanical Garden in North America by USA Today readers in 2017 & 2019, the Arboretum is known for its beautiful display gardens, award-winning tree collections, and extensive hiking and walking trails.

About ABT Across America

ABT Across America builds on ABT’s history of cross-country tours in the 1940s and 1950s. 20 ABT dancers and 28 support crew will travel across 14 states, for a total of 3,100 miles, performing outdoors. These unique performances will take place on a custom-built 40’ x 76’ stage that folds out of an 18-wheeler truck.

Each 50-minute show will be performed without an intermission. Repertory for ABT Across America will feature Lauren Lovette’s La Follia Variations, a work for eight dancers set to music by Francesco Geminiani, Jessica Lang’s Let Me Sing Forevermore, a pas de deux blending ballet and jazz vocabulary set to songs sung by Tony Bennett, Darrell Grand Moultrie’s Indestructible Light, a celebration of American jazz music, and the high-spirited, energetic pas de deux from the full-length ballet Don Quixote alternating with the White Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s classic Swan Lake. Dancers scheduled to participate in the ABT Across America tour include Lauren Bonfiglio, Jacob Clerico, Michael de la Nuez, Carlos Gonzalez, Kiely Groenewegen, Sung Woo Han, Catherine Hurlin, Anabel Katsnelson, Kanon Kimura, Melvin Lawovi, Tyler Maloney, Joseph Markey, Abbey Marrison, Hannah Marshall, Betsy McBride, Duncan McIlwaine, João Menegussi, Chloe Misseldine, Cory Stearns, and Devon Teuscher.

TU Dance Center: Outdoor Dancing Together

A child and parent/caregiver creative movement class.

This 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.

July 20-August 24
Six-week session

Location: Raspberry Island, Saint Paul

Tuesdays, 10:00-10:45am

Tuition: 85.00

Coordi™ Class

Engage in fun physical brain teasers to hone your balance, coordination, and brain health. This movement-based virtual class is open to all abilities — no dance experience necessary. It’s a work out for both brain and body!

Mondays, 6:00PM CT, more active

Wednesdays, 10:00AM CT, lower impact

Both classes are led by James Sewell, are one hour in length, and are geared toward adult participation.
Sliding scale, $5-15.
Visit https://jsballet.org/coordi/ to connect.

Highlighting CANDY BOX Dance Festival Artists in Studio Stories Podcast

ARENA DANCES weekly podcast shares a mini series featuring artists that will premiere new work at our CANDY BOX Dance Festival July 12-16! This week we sat down with Berit Algren of HoneyWorks and Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone of Slo Dance company – their episodes air this week! 

HoneyWorks  – July 29 at Noon
Ahlgren established HoneyWorks in 2019, a dance organization to house interdisciplinary work. Native to St. Paul, MN, Berit Ahlgren trained at Minnesota Dance Theater with both Loyce and Lise Houlton. A founding member, Ahlgren performed with TU Dance 2006—2016. In 2011, Ahlgren had the opportunity to study the Gaga Movement Language in Tel Aviv, and moved to Israel to pursue a year-long Gaga teacher certification. Ahlgren obtained her MFA in Dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in 2016, where she expanded her interests to film and technology, actively collaborating with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Slo Dance Company – July 30 at Noon
As the founder and artistic director of Slo Dance Company, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone collaborates with an ever-evolving group of artists to build performance work seeded in slowness, focused on embracing the rich process of intimate relationship-building and developing collective awareness that challenges perception of time. Laura is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts as a Teaching Fellow at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While pursuing her bachelor’s degree in dance and fashion studies at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Laura had the opportunity to perform the work of modern/contemporary dance choreographers Nora Chipaumire, Gregory Dolbashian, Maurya Kerr, and Garth Fagan among others. She was a member of Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis 2016-2019.

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