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Nexus Grand Opening

Come celebrate the grand opening of the Threads Dance Nexus as we officially open our doors to the community!

Thanks to your support, we are in our new home in the Focus Arts Building and cannot wait to thank each of you for helping us make this dream possible.

We will be offering staggered tours of the space, sample dance classes, and a chance to view our custom glass Donor Wall, where capital campaign contributors can find their name.

We invite everyone who supports the work we do to come celebrate with us!

Visit our website to see the schedule and to RSVP.

Threads Dance Connections Summer Intensive: Early Enrollment Extended

Threads Dance Project is excited to announce the return of our unique summer intensive experience! Even more exciting is that this year’s intensive will serve as a preliminary workshop where students can get early practice with audition material in preparation for our upcoming audition for our new pre-professional dance training program, Youth Dance Project (YDP), scheduled for July 31.

Our Dance Connections 2021 Summer Intensive includes developmentally appropriate movement classes in ballet, modern, creative movement, composition/choreography, improvisation, and hip hop. We are especially eager for your student to experience the distinctive arts activism and dance history course that gives our summer intensive its name!

We invite you to join us in our bright and airy new studio this summer where your student will enjoy rigorous dance education in a fun and inclusive atmosphere. Early enrollment is now extended to June 12. Come learn, experience, create and connect with us!

New at Ballet Royale: Adult Dancer Workshops

To continue the mission of bringing dance to all, Ballet Royale has created two different day workshops especially catered for the adult recreational dancer. This year we will have two levels, Beginner/Intermediate and Intermediate/Advanced. a logo water bottle is included. Ask the office for dance teacher price or level placement.

These workshops include the History of Ballet and PBT®, ballet, variations (Intermediate/Advanced only), jazz, and Haitian dance. Lunch will be outside, bring blankets!

Intermediate/Advanced Adults
Saturday, June 12: 9:30am–2:30pm
Price: $110

Beginning/Intermediate Adults
Saturday, June 26: 9:30am–2:30pm
Price: $100

Friday Morning Jazz HYBRID CLASS: Karla This Week

Let’s get back to it, dancers!

Summer session at Zenon Dance School started this week, and that means Friday Morning Jazz is back with it!

Our first hybrid class runs this Friday, June 11 from 10:00-11:15am CST.

You can register to be one of the eight in-person, masked, socially-distanced students–sign up by 5:00pm on Thursday–or you can Zoom into class, as we have been this past year.

We, along with Zenon, have taken great care to ensure that both the in-person and Zoom options will be high-quality, so join us!

Got questions? Send an email to erika@zenondance.org for a quick reply!

Hop into class for a body-friendly warm-up, to build some heat, to find your groove, and to dig into jazz dancing – #getyourasstoclass!

See you Friday!

Casting BIPOC Dancer for Goodnight, Absalom! Tour

The Fox & Beggar Theatre is taking its latest show “GOODNIGHT, ABSALOM!” on a fully-outdoor theater tour this September around the Great Lakes, in a solar-powered double-decker mobile pop-up proscenium theater! We are currently seeking a substitute for one of our cast who is no longer able to tour.

First preference given to MN-based dancers of color with contemporary dance training, comfortable touring with a large group of energized and rabble-rousing weirdos for six weeks. 

“GOODNIGHT, ABSALOM!” is a surreal dark comedy about American capitalism and political polarization, set inside a very strange game of chess in the Wild West.

Performances will be FREE and ALL-AGES via pop-up shows in public parks of Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Northfield, Wykoff, Viroqua, Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Detroit.

Cast members will receive a daily stipend of $20/day for all rehearsal and performance days, as well as 5% of all earned tips/donations, with a $1,000 total project guarantee. Meals, transportation, and lodging provided on tour.

If interested in learning more, check out bit.ly/absalom–auditions and/or send an email to nat@foxandbeggar.com for more info!

Bright Spring, Dazzling Dance

CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, “Heart of Dance, Soul of China”, retakes the stage to bring culture, connections and community to the Twin Cities this coming Sunday, June 13 at 2:00pm at Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Connect with Chinese culture, friends and dances that will dazzle your eyes and touch your heart. On stage for first time in front of a live audience since January 2020. You don’t want to miss it!
Tickets for sale ONLY ONLINE, but you can see the show in-person or streaming (live and viewable for 24 hours after the show). Links available for both at www.caamcdt.org

Summer Feldenkrais Series

The Walking Series
an 8 week Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert

This series will start from the ground up by addressing the form, function, suppleness, and responsiveness of your feet. These lessons will help you integrate and find coordination between the feet to the legs, all the way up through the pelvis, spine to head. We will play with finding the springy innate intelligence of the feet, allowing you to connect to the earth with greater adaptability.

From there, we will explore the head and pelvis relationship, how to move from the whole spine, and improve the freedom of your head. All of these are critical components of balance, maintaining ease in an upright posture, and effortlessness in walking.

The later part of the series will work with standing lessons to learn more about how you shift your weight. This clarification of the hip joints and their relationship to your feet and your spine will translate towards more ease and grace when walking.

These lessons can not only make you feel taller and stand with more ease, but in general can dramatically help you improve your balance and walk with more ease, grace, and confidence. Walking is complex, but when done efficiently, it can feel simultaneously buoyant and grounded!

June 13 – August 15
No class July 4, August 4, or August 8.

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.

$150 for the series.
Please contact Sarah directly to inquire about scholarships for the series.

Laura Selle Virtucio Leads Moving Practice Professional Classes in June

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. As a collective, we aim to offer classes that prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment. Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30AM
at Saint Paul Ballet
Laura Selle Virtucio teaches throughout June

Modern/Contemporary Movement Class with Laura Selle Virtucio will lean into joy, flow, and dynamic disruption. Classes will utilize set patterns and improvisational strategies to prepare for the embodiment of culminating phrase work.

$15 drop-in, and free parking!

This weekly class series is geared at fostering professionals’ artistic voices and technical talents. Train with fellow professionals in a range of contemporary dance aesthetics.