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Dance with us for Global Water Dance

Come join us for the filming of Global Water Dances Minneapolis 2021!

We will learn VERY short dance phrases, then videotape the movement, then on to the next short sequence until we have filmed the whole five-minute dance. Because of Covid this year, we will create a five-minute video and it will be shown in mid-June on the Global Water Dances online festival – www.GlobalWaterDances.org.

Arrive at 10:30am at Boom Island, dressed in white. Any shoes will do. Bring your friends!

Rain or shine.

Sunday May 16
10:30am-12:30pm

Meet at the steps going down to the river, Boom Island Park, Minneapolis

Plus we will film some water rituals.

We’d love to see you. Bring friends!

Choreography Intensive – INSTINCT Summer Dance

Join ARENA DANCES’ professional dancers and local pre-professionals this summer for one week of transformative movement exploration. Hone your technique with daily modern classes and then craft your artistry in choreography development with Artistic Director Mathew Janczewksi. 

Work directly with Mathew, as he embarks on a new choreographic process with the intensive students – a unique opportunity! With career development being an emphasis of this intensive, Mathew will also be available for scheduled 1:1 conversations with dancers to offer feedback specific to the dancer or share insights on the field. 

Unique opportunity to dance in Northrop Auditorium’s Hubbard Broadcasting Rehearsal Studio. The week will culminate in an informal showing for friends, family and the community. Additionally, participants will be considered for apprenticeship positions with ARENA DANCES for the ‘21-22 Season. 

Flexible payment options available. 

June 14-19
10:00AM-3:00PM, with a short lunch break

More information and registration can be found at http://www.arena-dances.org/instinct-dance-intensive/

Zenon Dance Zone Showcase

Zenon Dance School – Zone Winter/Spring 2021 Showcase

Saturday, May 22 at 7:30pm

ZenONLINE on Zoom

Tickets: Free. Registration required.

New choreographic works by artists:

Kendall Kramer, José A. Luis and Ruby Josephine Smith

Zenon Dance School’s Zone Scholarship Program will showcase the work of three local choreographers at its second virtual showcase on May 22.  All are welcome to celebrate new screen dance works by the Zenon Zone dancers and Winter/Spring choreographers. Works have been created and rehearsed virtually during the 20-week Winter/Spring Zone Session.

Zone offers adult dancers of all ability levels, ages, and dance styles the opportunity to challenge themselves in a session-long program. Dancers can choose from two tracks: Performance – for students with a strong intermediate or advanced level of dance technique and who are looking for opportunities to perform. Or Technique – a class-focused program where dancers work on increasing skills and challenging themselves with new styles of dance. Students are selected via a digital application submission and are offered a subsidized tuition.

Zone is an incredible platform for emerging choreographers to create innovative work and hone material, and has helped launch the careers of many successful Twin Cities choreographers.

Young Dance Company Audition and Information Session

Join us on Saturday, May 22 to get a taste of the Young Dance performing company.

Introductory Workshop/Audition, 11:45am-12:45pm
For dancers ages seven through 18 of all abilities and all levels of experience.
This session will include an introduction about the company with current company members, and a workshop led by incoming Artistic Director, Anat Shinar.

Following the workshop at 12:45pm, Executive Director Gretchen Pick will hold a Q&A for interested participants.

The audition will be held as hybrid. Participants can attend in-person at Young Dance or online through Zoom.

The Young Dance Performing Company is a group of passionate dancers committed to exploring themselves and their world through dance. Young Dance company members take dance classes, collaborate with professional choreographers, create dances themselves, and perform throughout the year. The company is open to dancers of all abilities and all levels of experience. We encourage anyone excited about dance to audition.

Register for the audition by emailing info@youngdance.org or calling 612-423-3064. Participants will then receive in-person or online Zoom meeting information.

Threads Dance Connections Summer Intensive is Open for Early Enrollment

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. Register by June 1 to receive a discount. Come learn, experience, create and connect with us!

SPRING Sound Garden at Harbor Park, Grand Marais

Composer / Director JG Everest returns to Grand Marais, MN to present his site-specific Spring Sound Garden sound + performance installation at Harbor Park on May 29 and 30 as part of the annual ART ALONG THE LAKE open gallery tour event. This self-guided, spatial “concert you can move through” was originally composed specifically for Harbor Park, and is being re-mounted to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of this special place with over 30 participating artists and collaborators.

The Spring Sound Garden features a temporary sound installation of 50 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park, each playing a different part of the larger piece of music, creating a multi-layered, immersive experience. The sound installation is accompanied live by the roving Free Range Orchestra & Choir, with a durational site-specific movement score by Minneapolis-based dancers Leslie O’Neill, Sarah Baumert, Megan Mayer, and Erika Hansen.

The Spring Sound Garden is the second installment of Everest’s four-part WATER SUITE: Four Seasonal Sound Gardens that first premiered in 2018, at four different outdoor locations around Minnesota. Each seasonal Sound Garden in the Water Suite was composed for one of the four seasons, and for a specific site that was on or adjacent to a significant body of water. As part of the SPRING Sound Garden event in 2021, Everest is also releasing a new album of the soundtrack, Harbor Park: A Spring Sound Garden, including site-specific stories and poems that were commissioned for the original event.

The Spring Sound Garden at Harbor Park is a family-friendly, free, outdoor event open to all ages and will take place from 12:00-5:00pm on Memorial Day weekend, both Saturday May 29 and Sunday May 30, 2021.

The Spring Sound Garden celebrates the coming of spring, the sacredness of water, and the history, geography, and ecology of Harbor Park and Lake Superior, and includes oral histories and archival photos, spotlighting the community of local volunteers and community members who brought the park into being.

The event will also feature visual art elements by local artists such as plein air oil painter Neil Sherman, muralist Mila Horak, art students from Cook County Middle School, and stories by storyteller Staci Lola Drouillard. Presented by Wavelets Creative in partnership with the Cook County Historical Society, Grand Marais Park Board, and Art Along The Lake / Visit Cook County.

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

https://jgeverest.com/spring-sound-garden/

BCL: Artists Wanted

Five paintings will be chosen to be used by our dancers on stage.

All other submissions will be featured as part of our artist gallery at Como Lakeside Pavillion on June 5-6.

To enter the contest, bring your 16 x 20″ vertical canvas creation to the Ballet Co.Laboratory studios by Friday, May 28. All artist creations will be returned after the production.

For questions, contact us at info@balletcolabortory.org or 651.313.5967.

Join Ballet Royale for In-Person and Virtual Summer Workshops

Ballet Royale is offering three separate summer intensive programs for talented and focused ballet students. In-person and online options are available all summer long!

June 7-25:  Spring Into Summer, featuring Progressing Ballet Technique®
Audition Required. Intermediate/Advanced through Professional. Recommended ages: 11-26 years old.

July 5-23: Full Day Summer Intensive – a collaboration with Twin Cities Ballet
Four progressive divisions: I, II, Advanced Division II and UPPER for ages eight through professional. Variable length, including ballet-only, and online-only options available. Audition required for Division II (age nine) and up.

An exciting three-week, full day rigorous ballet-based dance program featuring Artistic Directors Denise and Rick Vogt, with Master and Guest teachers. Ballet Royale offers small class sizes, so each student will receive the finest personalized professional instruction, allowing them to reach his or her full potential. Students attending the full in-studio program will be highlighted in an end of program Summer Showcase performance.

Classes include ballet technique, pointe, preparation for pointe, modern, jazz, character, variations, men’s class, Progressing Ballet Technique®, hip hop, acting, choreographic methods, history of ballet, stretching, injury prevention, plus enrichment classes.

August 2-13: August Grand Prix Solos and Variations
Audition required. Pre-competitive, Junior, and Senior divisions. Workshop for intermediate (ages nine and up) through professionals.

Ballet Royale introduces a focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions. Following daily classical ballet technique class, dancers learn classic ballet variations and receive advanced personal coaching. All dancers will perform a classical variation in front of a panel of judges and will be scored. Scored sheets will be handed to each dancer privately.

Young Dance Summer Classes and Camps – Registration Open

Discover movement possibilities with Young Dance this summer!

Registration is now open for summer classes and camps in Creative Movement, World Dance Forms, Ballet, Hip Hop, Modern, and more. Summer programs are offered in a hybrid format, unless otherwise noted in registration, with both in-person and online options for participation.

Classes and camps include:
Creative Movement 1 – Ages three to five
Creative Movement 2 – Ages five to seven
Dance a Story – Creative Movement and Storytelling Adventure! – Ages four to seven
Dance Together – Ages one to three with a caregiver
Create! Dance and Photography Camp – Ages eight to fifteen
Dance Pass to Explore – Allows dancers to drop in and experience a variety of classes – Ages seven and older
All Abilities Dance and Stories – Ages seven and older

For summer session information and registration visit: register.youngdance.org.
We can’t wait to dance with you!