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′

Ananya Dance Theatre’s Shawngram Institute Ongoing Classes

Ananya Dance Theatre’s Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice offers the following classes online:

Tuesdays: Yorchhā Strong, 9:00-9:30am, CDT – Alexandra Eady
Wednesdays: Advanced Yorchhā, 6:30-7:30pm, CDT – Kealoha Ferreira
Fridays: Intro to Yorchhā, 6:30-7:30pm, CDT – Kealoha Ferreira
Sundays: Intro to Yorchhā, 3:00-4:00pm, CDT – Parisha Rajbhandari

Yorchhā is Ananya Dance Theatre’s trade-marked contemporary technique that intersects principles of vinyasa yoga, the classical Indian dance form Odishi (from the eastern Indian state of Odisha), and the martial art form Chhau (also from Odisha).

Classes are donation based. We suggest $10-20 per class but please donʻt let financial limitations stop you from participating. Another way to contribute is by sharing information about the classes on your social media or inviting people in your orbit to take class with you!

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

MotionArt Virtual Children’s Dance Classes

MotionArt focuses on nurturing children’s individual creativity while facilitating their understanding of the dance elements of space, time, and energy. Ages 3-5 explore these elements through playful, structured activities allowing them to expand their movement vocabulary, develop body awareness and gain self-confidence. Ages 5-7 explore the dance elements while being introduced to new movement skills and the creation of their own dances. Ages 7-12 expand their creative and kinesthetic awareness while learning basic movement skills of modern dance.

We offer ways for children to dance during these uncertain times through Zoom and outdoor classes. Please go to motionartmn.org to sign up for classes. There are various options for payment/donations, and no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

Ages 3-5: Friday, 12:00-12:30pm

Ages 5-7: Saturday, 10:00-10:45am
Zoom or outside, weather permitting. Contact Pam for info.

Ages 7-9: Saturday, 11:00-11:45am

Ages 10-12: Friday, 3:00-4:00pm

BCL – Adult Drop-In Classes

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 ten 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

Join AMP for Virtual Movement Practice

Wednesday, 10:00-11:15am CDT
$5-$15
Zoom

May 12 (today!)

Move BIG from home with Alternative Motion Project! Move and sweat in a weekly online contemporary movement practice. Explore mobility, length, momentum, and 3-D expansion, while pushing the boundaries and physicality of a smaller space in a curious and enlivening environment, often to fun, retro pop hits. Come as you are in the space that you have! Suitable for pre-professional/professional movers in any size space.

Register at least 30 minutes prior to class time.
The Zoom link will be sent to your email address within 24 hours of the class time. You will need a Zoom account to access the practice.

This practice is offered on a sliding scale, $5-15. Payments will directly support instructors. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email financial concerns and any questions to alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

We’ll virtually see you soon!

REGISTER: https://www.alternativemotionproject.org/weekly-virtual-movement-practice.html

Photo Credit: V. Paul Virtucio

Cubicle3: Work. Now.

Free. Online.
Short video responses to a long year.

Featuring work by Akiko, Leila Awadallah, Pedram Baldari, Zoe Cinel, Lauren Coleman, Masanari Kawahara, Ifrah Mansour, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Pedro Pablo, Sharon Picasso, Kim Schneider, Moheb Soliman, Truely Squires, Chitra Vairavan, J H Shuǐ Xiān, and Jaylin Z.

In 2009-2010, Skewed Visions presented a series of short online videos meant to be watched at work. Called Cubicle, it was a way for Art to steal back some time from Work. The next series, Cubicle 2: on the internet, nobody knows, began to explore the intersection of the internet and identity in 2010-2011.

Ten years later, so much has changed.
In the midst of a global pandemic, work and the internet have both changed. Also, thanks to the heroic efforts of activists and organizers there is growing attention to racial injustice and white supremacy, and the relations between identity and the internet inhabit a fundamentally changed space.

In the middle of this turbulence, we present Cubicle3: Work. Now.
We have requested short videos inspired by these changes and our new circumstances. We present these here as a marker of that time a very long year ago when the pandemic became a serious reality for many.

 

Ballet with Lisa Erickson via Zoom

Lisa’s welcoming ballet classes are crafted to naturally guide students in refining their body alignment, balance and technique. Her passion and love of ballet and helping dancers grow in body and mind (along with her years of experience of doing just that) translates into a very engaging and fun experience for all.  Come try it today!

Ballet–it does a body good!
All classes are offered on a sliding scale of 5-$15.

Sundays, 1:30-3:00pm: Slow Intermediate

Mondays, 5:30-6:45pm: Advanced Beginning

Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm: Intermediate

Contact Info:
lisamerickson606@gmail.com

Analog Dance Works Offers Monthly Contemporary Dance Workshops

Start your weekend right with movement through imagery and downright specific detail.

This workshop is offered in-person, with precautions in place to protect us against Covid. Zoom option is also available.

Class will be held at the Threads Dance Nexus, featuring free parking lot and street parking, a two-minute walk from the Franklin Light Rail Station, and 2-5 minute walk from the nearest bus stops: lines 2, 9, 22, 67. Class size is limited to nine, so contact Brenna in advance to reserve your spot. You can also join us via Zoom! Contact Brenna no later than one hour before class to get the link.

These workshops are designed for the advanced/professional dancer of any background and explore technical and performance skills through imagery, spatial orientation, and detailed use of the kinesphere.

Suggested price: sliding scale, $5-15. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome here!

Eddie Oroyan on Studio Stories this Week

Join ARENA DANCES for our NEW season of Studio Stories, a podcast reminiscing on Twin Cities dance history. Commencing this week, we sat down with Eddie Oroyan to learn about his journey. 

Oroyan is a founding mover and Artistic Associate of Black Label Movement, a company with roots deep in his heart and body. In 2012, in joy and sadness, he moved to Brussels and worked with Ultima Vez for six years, having toured and performed primarily with What the Body Does not Remember and In Spite of Wishing and Wanting. Oroyan continues to dance in Europe and has been working since 2017 with Emmanuel Gat Dance.  Eddie is also teaching extensively the practice he continues to research and develop, Animal Mindfulness. After an injury in late 2014, Oroyan began a practice of meditation and observation. Animal Mindfulness came through his search for balance. 

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!