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Summer Programs at Ballet Co.Laboratory

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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.

Young Dance Seeks Program Director

Young Dance, a Twin Cities based dance education nonprofit whose mission is to transform lives through movement, seeks a Program Director, to begin in June 2021.

The Program Director will collaborate with the Young Dance Artistic Director to implement programming for our classes, youth performing company, and community partnerships.

Young Dance serves approximately 450 youth annually through our classes, youth performing company, and community partnerships. Founded in 1987, we believe young people are artists with something important to say, that there is great benefit to working across differences—be it differences in age, in ability, in race, in background—and that every body is capable of physical creative expression.

The Program Director is a 0.5 FTE position with an annual salary of $20,000.
Applications will be accepted through April 19, 2021.

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.

Online Classes at the Cassandra School

Join our online learning community of all ages, sizes, and levels of experience to participate in the creative expression and health and fitness benefits of Middle Eastern dance. The beauty of this dance form is that it makes you feel wonderful in your own unique body! Go to cassandraschool.com to choose your classes and learn from home.

Each class is held through Zoom, is 75 minutes, in US Central Time, and $15 each. Purchase four or more classes and receive a $2 discount per class – that’s $13 each! Be sure to choose, register, and PAY for your class ahead of time as class registrations close at 8:00pm CT the night before class. We take payments through our PayPal or using your credit card as a guest through our PayPal.

Zenon Dance School – Spring Virtual and Hybrid Classes

MONDAY
10:00am: All Level Modern with José A Luis
5:30pm: Cardio Dance Jam with Ariel Linnerson

TUESDAY
9:30am: gaga/people with Berit Ahlgren
5:30pm: Hip Hop with Arturo Miles
5:30pm: Beginning/Intermediate Ballet with Anne Lentz
7:00pm: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin-Forester

WEDNESDAY
9:30am: Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK
5:30pm: Int. Contemporary/Modern with Ruby Josephine Smith – HYBRID
5:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Lisa Erickson

THURSDAY
9:30am: Adv. Contemporary/Modern with Erin Thompson
5:30pm: Afro Modern with Roxane Wallace
7:00pm: Int. Modern with Dustin Haug – HYBRID

FRIDAY
10:00am: All Levels Jazz with Erinn Liebhard and Karla Grotting
12:00pm: Int. Ballet with Penny Freeh

SATURDAY
9:00am: Yoga with Ariel Linnerson
10:00am: Tap with Dorian Brooke
10:15am: Hip Hop (Age 6-9) with Erin Sheppard
11:00am: Ballet (Age 5-7) with Sarah Bartlett
11:15am: Ballet (Age 8-10) with Kendall Kramer
12:00pm: Beginning 2 Ballet with Benjamin Johnson

Register online today!

Morgan Thorson Teaches with Moving Practice for Professionals

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professionals. Offering classes that prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment.

Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30AM at Saint Paul Ballet
Morgan Thorson teaches in April.
Professional level dancers of all styles are welcome.

Morgan’s classes:
Moving is dancing and dancing is working. We will work with prompts sourced from image, sound, drawing, touch-points, and text, to enhance states of feeling and moving. As we practice with these prompts, we grow somatic grounding, concentration, and curiosity for how we make decisions, embody action, and cultivate images. With this research we consider the witness as active participant, and frame and space as dynamic materials. I aspire to facilitate a space for personal and collective journey as well as the reorientation of self-perception to the magic we make when we work. Bring your notebooks.

Pre-registration required.

Dance Together with Young Dance

In Dance Together, children and their caregivers discover the joys of movement through movement games, stories, and songs. These early classes introduce children to group learning environments, while using movement to develop strong bonds with their caregivers and cooperatively work with others in the class. Children also develop large and fine motor skills in classes that emphasize observation, exploration, manipulation, imitation, and repetition. For ages one to three with a caregiver; crawlers and walkers welcome.

Mondays, 5:15-5:45pm
Fridays, 10:15-10:45am

Our academic year programming runs through May 22, 2021.

For 2020-21 class information and registration visit: https://register.youngdance.org/classes/calendar-day?_=1613756900617

Photo by Blake Nellis.

MotionArt Virtual Adult Modern Dance Classes

MotionArt’s mission is to share the art of dance and the joy of movement with people of all ages and abilities. We strive to enrich lives by fostering creativity, body awareness, and self-expression in a fun, non-competitive, welcoming environment.

We offer ongoing dance classes during these uncertain times both virtually on Zoom and outside (maintaining physical distance). Paying the regular rate helps keep our organization afloat; however, no one will be turned away for inability to pay. There is also an option to pay what you can. Please go to motionartmn.org to sign-up for classes, or contact Pam for info.

Beginning Modern Dance
Tuesday, 5:00-6:15pm – Zoom

Intermediate Modern Dance
Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm – Zoom

Ageless Dance
Thursday, 4:30-5:45pm – Zoom

Mixed Level Modern Dance
Saturday, 4:00-5:30pm – Zoom

Adult/Teen Drop-In Classes at Ballet Co.Laboratory

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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 ten dancers for in-studio.

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