Archive

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.

Spring into Summer at Ballet Royale

Unlike any other in Minnesota, this intensive is a great way to kick off the summer!

For motivated dancers: Experience Ballet Royale’s groundbreaking training featuring Progressing Ballet Technique® cross-training, the industry’s most advanced and cutting edge regimen specifically designed to improve ballet dancers’ core stability, weight placement, alignment, and muscle memory. This program will maximize improvement and accelerate students’ progress and is crucial for those preparing to attend summer intensive programs.

Audition required. Please contact the studio for a private audition. Intermediate/advanced through professional, ages eleven and up. Girls must have completed a minimum of one year en pointe.

We are offering both online-only options and in-person classes. Class sizes are limited!

Twin Cities Ballet Open Company Positions

Twin Cities Ballet has an open position for a male company dancer, Soloist and Principal level. Competitive salaried position, 34-week season. Strong classical ballet and contemporary technique required. 

Submit the following audition materials by email:

  • Your resumé.
  • Two photos: 1) first arabesque; and 2) a headshot showing at least 3/4 face. Either attach small format photos or provide a link.
    Video link showing classwork or performance clips, clearly demonstrating your classical ballet technique.
  • State whether you are currently eligible to work in the United States.

Please send information to info@TwinCitiesBallet.org. We will contact you after we have reviewed your audition materials to set up an audition.

Special Series of Studio Stories Podcast with CANDY BOX Artists

Join ARENA DANCES for our weekly Studio Stories Podcast, where each week we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history with a new special guest. The next several weeks we are airing a special series, featuring artists that will premiere new work at our CANDY BOX Dance Festival July 12-16! Kicking off this mini series is Leila Awadallah – one of the festival’s Happy Hour Artists.

Leila Awadallah [leilawa] is a Palestinian American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based between Minneapolis and Beirut. She is in the beginnings of Body Watani, a dance project that engages performance, film, and workshops. Body Watani is premiering it’s first collaborative work-in-progress TERRANEA: hakawati of the sea at the Candy Box festival this year, following the premiere of a solo-version at the Arab American National Museum in 2020.

Studio Stories will air each Thursday at noon with new guests joining the host to reminisce and share their memories and history with our dance scene.

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

Zenon Dance School – Summer Classes Online and In Person

Zenon Dance School is very excited to announce our summer session that begins this week! Join us for virtual and hybrid classes all summer long.

MONDAY
5:30pm: Cardio Dance Jam with Ariel Linnerson
5:30pm: Ballet for Contemporary Dancers with Anne Lentz

TUESDAY
9:30am: gaga/people with Berit Ahlgren
5:30pm: All Levels Hip Hop with Arturo Miles
7:00pm: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin-Forester

WEDNESDAY
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK
5:30pm: Intermediate Contemporary/Modern with Ruby Josephine Smith – HYBRID
5:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson

THURSDAY
9:30am: Advanced Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson – HYBRID
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Intermediate Modern with Dustin Haug – HYBRID

FRIDAY
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting – HYBRID
12:00pm: Intermediate Ballet with Penny Freeh

SATURDAY
9:00am: Yoga with Ariel Linnerson
10:00am: Tap with Dorian Brooke
10:15am: Youth Hip Hop, Ages 6-9 with Erin Sheppard – Begins June 19
11:00am: Youth Ballet I, Ages 5-7 with Sarah Bartlett
11:15am: Youth Ballet II, Ages 8-10 with Kendall Kramer
12:00pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Benjamin Johnson

Register online today!

Threads Dance Nexus: Rent Our Space

Our 1,480 square foot space has a professional grade speaker sound system, sprung floors, barres and mirrors, is ADA compliant, and has two gender neutral changing rooms. Its large windows and garage door allow for an abundance of natural light and fresh air.

A new ventilation system and thorough cleaning between each use are compliant with guidelines for Covid-19 preparedness plans. Face coverings are required at all times and our maximum studio capacity is ten people, to allow for adequate distancing.

Conveniently located in the Seward neighborhood, we offer free parking and free side street parking. We are a five-minute walk from the Franklin Light Rail Station, and a 2-5 minute walk from nearest bus stops (lines 2, 9, 22, 67).

A nonrefundable deposit equal to one hour at the renter’s base rate is due to secure space.

To request space, please email nexusrentals@threadsdance.org.

Ananya Dance Theatre: Altars of Our Sacred Geometries

Join us as we perform again In Response!

A series of artistic rejoinders to urgent issues in BIPOC, women, womxn, and femme communities.

Altars of Our Sacred Geometries explores the vibration, life-force, collaboration, and live public performance as we emerge from pandemic. Five 90-minute performances will feature dancers performing duets with live musicians. No performances will be the same, but all will connect vibrationally and resonate thematically.

Sound Artists: Maestro Douglas Ewart, Queen Drea, Michelle Kinney, Joe Strachan

Performances:
Friday, June 11, 7:30pm
Saturday, June 12, 5:30pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, June 13, 4:30pm and 6:30pm

Witness on the sidewalk and through the windows at Ananya Dance Theatre’s Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice.

Altars of Our Sacred Geometries is supported, in part, by The MAP Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Cassandra’s Zoom Cabaret

Join Cassandra and fellow dancers Anjela, Emalee, Margo Abdo O’Dell, and Theresa for a fun night of dance, pretty costumes, and good music!

Cassandra’s Zoom Cabaret
Saturday, June 12
Show begins on your screen at 7:00pm CT

Only one $20 reservation per home is needed.
Payment in advance is required by 12:00pm CT the day of the show.

Beginning Doushin Butoh Workshop Online

Beginning Doushin Butoh Workshop is designed to learn and experience the basic physical methods of Subbody Butoh Method and basic movements and meditation techniques of Spring Forest Qigong. It is a prerequisite for the Advanced Doushin Butoh Workshop.

This workshop will focus on the essential aspects of Doushin Butoh, such as quieting down your daily consciousness, creating movements that are novel and unique to the individual body, and resonating with everything around you.

Doushin Butoh Workshop is a group process and this workshop requires no previous dance experience. Anyone who would like to explore his or her hidden creative potentials is welcome!

Thursdays, 6:30–8:00pm

Summer Term 2021: June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Schedule is subject to change.

Offered via Zoom. You will receive the link after registration.

Tuition: $135

 

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 offer three in-studio classes for intermediate and advanced belly dance students each week, as well as continuing on Zoom for all classes, including beginning belly dance!

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