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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!

Young Dance Seeks Marketing and Communications Director

Young Dance, a Twin Cities dance education nonprofit whose mission is to transform lives through movement, seeks a Marketing and Communications Director to spearhead communications related to promotions, programming, and fundraising, to begin June 2021.

The Marketing and Communications Director will be responsible for print and web-based communications related to programming, events, general news, and marketing. They will collaborate with other staff to create engagement with new communities, specifically BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.

Young Dance serves approximately 450 youth annually through our classes, youth company, and partnerships.

The Marketing and Communications Director is a 0.45 FTE position with an annual salary of $17,500.
Applications will be accepted through April 19, 2021.

Dance with Ballet Royale this Summer

Master teachers join our renowned faculty to provide incomparable summer experiences in a structured and focused setting.

June 7-25: “Spring into Summer” intensive, featuring Progressing Ballet Technique® cross-training regimen. Intermediate/advanced to professional. Audition required.

June 14-18: Male Dancer Intensive. Ages ten through professional, multiple levels. Audition/pre-approval required.

July 5-23: July Summer Intensive. Ages 8 through professional. Multiple progressive divisions. Audition required for Division II and up, dancers nine and older. 

August 2-13: Grand Prix Variations Workshop. Ages nine and up. Pre-competitive, Junior, and Senior Divisions. Audition required.

August 16-20: Youth Ballet August Jump-Start.

August 22-27: Pointe Preparatory workshop. Girls ages eleven and older.

Plus weekly evening classes July 5-August 12 for all ages, Creative Dance through adult and pre-professional.

Season Four of Studio Stories Kicks Off with Cathy Young

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 Cathy Young to learn about her journey. 

Cathy Young brings 34 years of experience as an artist and educator to her work as Executive Director of Boston Conservatory at Berklee. During the course of her career she has been a performer with leading American dance companies, the artistic director of her own dance company, a nationally recognized choreographer and teacher of jazz dance, a professor of dance, co-founder of a college dance program, and the Dean of Dance at Boston Conservatory.  

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!

BCL – Summer Programs 2021

Take your dancing a step forward! Ballet Co.Laboratory is thrilled to announce 2021 Summer Programs. Registration is now open for classes, workshops, and intensives for dancers ages three to adult. In-person and virtual options and flexible scheduling are offered to fit dancers’ individual needs.

Take your dancing to the next level. View all our programs at: http://bit.ly/SummerBCL

 

Ballet Royale Accepting Video Auditions for Summer – Deadline

We are accepting video auditions for our June Spring into Summer Intensive (June 7-25), July Full-Day Summer Intensive (July 5-23); and our August Grand Prix Solos and Variations Intensive (August 2-13) until April 28!

We are offering both in-person and fully online programs.

Spring into Summer: With stretching, conditioning, and Progressing Ballet Technique®, this intensive is a great way to launch your summer dance training.

July Full-Day Intensive: An exciting and rigorous ballet-based dance program featuring Artistic Directors Denise and Rick Vogt with master and guest teachers and classes in a variety of dance genres!

August Grand Prix Intensive: A focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions.

Our summer classes and programs will be structured to maximize safety and minimize health risks, including limiting class size, staggering class times, continuing rigorous social distancing/sanitizing, and more. A fully online “Ballet Virtuale” option is also available. 

An audition form is at our website: http://www.BalletRoyaleMN.org

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 class begins. In-studio class size is limited to ten dancers.

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