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Pre-Professional Summer Jazz Intensive with Collide

July 19-23 and July 26-30, 2021
Ages sixteen and older.

Train with some of the Twin Cities top talents in theatrical jazz dance while taking your dance and performing skills to the next level. Our program is tailored to meet the individual goals and needs of EACH dancer. ALL ARE WELCOME.
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Classes take place at the Collide Studio and virtually.

Monday-Friday, 9:30am-3:30pm

Daily Class Sample Schedule:
9:30-11:00am: Ballet Technique
11:00-12:30pm: Jazz Technique
12:30-3:30pm: Classes in Acting, Commercial Jazz, African, Contemporary, Hip Hop and more!
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Teachers include Chelsea Rose, Allyson Richert, Katie Bradley, Emily Madigan and more! The two-week intensive culminates with an opportunity to audition for Collide’s 2021/2022 Performing Apprentice Program.

Scholarships available for BIPOC applicants and those underrepresented in dance. Email Chelsea@collidetheatrical.org for more information.

Drop-in GYROKINESIS® Method Classes

The GYROKINESIS® Method was developed by Romanian émigré and professional ballet dancer Juliu Horvath in the late 1970s and early 80s. Movement patterns are rhythmic, with a coordinated breath. The GYROKINESIS® Method will connect you to your center and build functional strength in parallel and rotation.

Level 1:
Friday, 10:30am – https://zoom.us/j/556949877
Monday, 10:00am – https://zoom.us/j/597696618

Foundations:
Tuesday, 6:00pm – http://zoom.us/j/85360225028 – No class May 11
Thursday, 12:00pm – https://zoom.us/j/86006978332
Sunday, 10:30am – https://zoom.us/j/637871744

All classes are 60 minutes. Drop-ins welcome any time.
Class fee is a sliding scale, $5-20 payable at http://paypal.me/nonedwards or by check. No one is turned away for non-payment.

Want to explore on your own schedule? Private sessions available, also on a sliding scale.

GYROKINESIS® is a registered trademark of GYROTONIC Sales Corp and is used with their permission.

Dance Educators in Higher Education: Please Share With Your Seniors

THE OPEN SOURCE DANCE METHODOLOGY:

The Open Source Dance Methodology [OSD] identifies the first two to three years, immediately following a BA/BS degree in Dance, as the most critical period in sustaining a dance career and provides a framework for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary peer environment, focusing on all aspects of dance, which collectively, contributes to a cost effective and sustainable, transitional environment, from student to professional, for the 21st century dancer. It is another option to consider, in planning their professional careers, especially now during the added obstacles of a universal pandemic.

“What Open Source Dance provides is unprecedented in Dance and it is greatly needed….”- Dr. Julie Kerr-Berry, Dance Scholar, 2008.

I began developing OSD in 2004 based on the extensive theoretical developments that had occurred in modern/post-modern dance during the 20th century, the open source philosophy in the technology industry, and the increasing trends towards a 21st century global dance community, and published it in 2008 under a creative commons license as free to apply and use, by any applicable dancer, anywhere. – Manjunan Gnanaratnam. 2010

Dance and Music: The 21st Century Direction

The Avant-garde of any art form is spearheaded by its artists, then documented by its scholars, theorists and historians. During the 20th century, dance [Concert Dance], with the kinesthetic body as its instrument, deconstruction as its primary process for investigations, movement vocabulary as its language, and choreography as its creative outlet, examined its inherent multi-disciplinary identity extensively resulting in the development of modern dance, followed by post-modern dance, leading us into the 21st century. Music/Sound, an integral component of this multi-disciplinary identity of dance, negotiated all aspects of these developments through both periods into the latter part of the last century, establishing a direction and a comprehensive practice in music that is now specific to dance. However, scholars and theorists on this are yet to emerge, leaving the discourse on this subject to those from both music and dance fields to collaborate on viewpoints, when called upon, deferring to each other for analysis and conclusions and almost often now, falling short. Hence, until dance music theorists and scholars emerge, those who don’t need to collaborate on the subject for analysis and conclusions, the attached diagram, incorporating Yvonne Rainer’s from 1980, reflects the extensive developments in this collaborative art form that occurred during the 20th century, from Louis Horst’s work with Martha Graham, to now, beyond the micro cycles of limited affect/effect of the situational and now ubiquitous conventional music and dance collaborations through choreography, to the macro cycles of complex affect/effect of the feedback loops and pathways of a symbiotic artistic flow of influence through movement vocabulary, and from it, the extensive multi-disciplinary explorations that occurred between some of the critical figures from both music and dance, including, extending their own creative capabilities beyond the conventional practices of their own art, all of which in turn influenced both art forms while establishing a specific, complex lineage and practice of dance music, pointing to where future directions of it will come from. Hence, the discourse on this collaborative art form of Dance and Music doesn’t have to begin at point A, as it has long ceased to be a novelty. The 21st century conversations on it can and should continue from point R.  Beyond 20th century conventional collaborations to a 21st century symbiosis.

@ Manjunan Gnanaratnam, 2018

Multi-Instrumentalist, Technologist, Composer, Developer & Theorist, Manjunan Gnanaratnam, works as an Interdisciplinary Artist within all contexts of Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary and  Experimental Dance. With an extensive career spanning 35+ years, he is considered one of the foremost thinkers on the relationship between Movement and Sound in the US today.

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!

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. Class size is limited to ten dancers for in-studio. All attending dancers must sign-in on MindBody. Class sign-in will close ten minutes before the class begins.

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

 

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 – in collaboration with Twin Cities Ballet.

Four Progressive Divisions (I, II, Advanced Division II and UPPER) from ages eight through professionals. Variable lengths, ballet-only, and online-only options are available. Audition required for Division II (ages 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) 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.

Pop-Up SPRING Sound Garden on West River Parkway: 12:00-4:00pm

Dancers Leslie O’Neill, Megan Mayer, Sarah Baumert, and Erika Hansen perform their site-specific, roving, durational movement scores across a three-acre site along West River Parkway as part of composer/director JG Everest’s immersive SPRING Sound Garden sound and performance installation event.

The first of four seasonal “pop-up” Sound Garden events along West River Parkway in 2021, the SPRING Sound Garden features layers of site-specific dance, music, poetry, and visual art among some of the oldest trees in Minneapolis.

Sound Gardens are designed as durational, self-guided experiences intended for audience to connect more meaningfully to a particular place and the natural world. The spatial sound score and live dance and musical elements are meant to accompany the sounds and physical elements that are already there – the birds, the trees, the wind, the leaves. Audiences are encouraged to both circulate and linger at their own pace, following their own impulses for what to pay attention to.

Free admission, but reservations required, with limited capacity.

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

Dance and More at Patrick’s Mothers’ Day Cabaret: A Matinee Online

Patrick’s Cabaret presents a matineé for Mothers’ Day, with lots of dance, and more!

Sunday, May 9, 2021. 1:00 PM Central Time.

This hour long performance features:

Wang Ping reading a poem, against a background where she performs a dance for Buddha.

Paula E. Paul and Sirko Knüpfer sharing excerpts from their new film, “Kunstpause”, exploring empty stages and deserted backstages during the corona shut down.

Berlin-based Kara Johnstad, a Wisconsin native and former Minneapolis resident, sharing a powerful circle song uniting women worldwide, songs off her new Moon in Capricorn album, and perhaps a few sweet surprises.

Patrick Scully, also master of cerermonies, will present his first Boat Ballet from 2010, created and performed on the Havel River in Potsdam.  For this viewing, the Boat Ballet is sped up, condensing the hour long performance into 6 minutes.

The suggested ticket price is $15. We use a pay as you are able system. All details, including zoom link and password are available on the website listed.