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BCL – Adult Drop-In Ballet

A light-skinned dancer in a red leotard reaches arms out in first arabesque

Join us for our adult/teen drop-in classes! 

Dance is for everyone! Get your body moving and enjoy a variety of dance and conditioning classes, including Pilates. 

You can join us in-person, or virtually via Zoom. All attending dancers must sign-in on MindBody. Class sign-in will close 10 minutes before the class begins. Class size is limited to 10 dancers for in-studio.

Learn more or sign up for a class here: https://bit.ly/AdultTeenBCL

 

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. 

We would love for you to come dance with us!

Mulier Dierum – Pop Up Performance Fundraisers

Mulier Dierum (Chronicles of Woman) is an epic project celebrating the generational wisdom and wildness of women and femme power. Support the creation of this new women-led work, see excerpts from the upcoming evening length performance of Mulier Dierum and pieces from the repertoire of See Change Treble Choir, and enjoy a Covid-safe celebration of returning to in-person live performance with lots of space for outdoor social distancing!

Featuring dancers from Mulier Dierum: Rachel Lieberman, Jennifer Mack, Heather Klopchin, Christine Maginnis, Esther Ouray.
Featuring vocalists from See Change Treble Choir: Kirsten Suppler, Jacquelyn Lutz, Allyss Haecker, and Marie Scholtz.

Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6 from 7:00-7:30pm
Off-Leash Art Box – parking lot
4200 E. 54th St, Minneapolis

Saturday and Sunday, June 12 and 13 from 4:00-4:30pm
Keg and Case Market – outdoor stage
​928 7th St W, St. Paul

Directed and choreographed by Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Ilse, Mulier Dierum is being created in collaboration with See Change Treble Choir under the direction of Allyss Haecker, singing an original score by Linda Kachelmeier, with performances by dancers Gemma Isaacson, Christine McGinnis, Parisha Rajbhandari, Julie Warder, Heather Klopchin, Rachel Lieberman, Jennifer Mack, Esther Ouray, and Jennifer Ilse; with Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig‘s immersive live animation projection design and sound design, edited and mixed by Reid Kruger.

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

Pre-registration required – https://www.arena-dances.org/class-payment/
Flexible pricing 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.

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.

Tuition: $135

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.

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!

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, 2021
9:30am–2:30pm
Price: $110

Beginning/Intermediate Adults
Saturday, June 26, 2021
9:30am–2:30pm
Price: $100

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 14. Come learn, experience, create and connect with us!

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!

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.