Archive: Workshops, Intensives, Master Classes, and Open Houses

Friday, March 7 from 6:30-8:00pm
Center for Performing Arts, Studio 105w – next to 38th Street entrance

This event is open to people of all ages and abilities. Enjoy being present in the moment, responding to other dancers, finding new ways of moving, and discovering form as it emerges during this fun evening of creative movement. We’ll begin with an informal warm-up before improvising together based on movement ideas offered by participants.

Come to move, to dance, to observe, or some of each!

Suggested donation is $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Balanced Body® Reformer 3 Instructor Training is the pinnacle of the Reformer work and includes advanced and super-advanced exercises. Challenge clients to achieve their best with progressive sequences designed to teach students advanced movement skills. In addition, our principle-based programming will guide you in the creation of safe and successful multi-level classes.

Friday, March 7, 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, March 8, 11:30am-6:00pm
Sunday, March 9, 9:30am-4:30pm

Fee: $549 + $60 materials
Prerequisite: Movement Principles, Reformer 1 and 2
Instructor: Matthew Hodge-Rice

This 7-week class series introduces the foundational principles of modern dance in a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment. Students will explore fundamental techniques including floor work, center exercises, and basic movement phrases while developing strength, coordination, and creative expression. Perfect for beginners and those looking to build confidence in their movement journey!

Adult Beginning Modern Workshop:
March 10-April 21
Mondays, 5:30-7:00pm
Instructor: Lily Conforti
Cost: $155

Take class from the Twin Cities’ most celebrated healer for dancers, Maryann Johnson, PT. On Tuesday, March 11 from 6:30-8:00pm, join Ballet Co.Laboratory for a Postural
Restoration Institute-integrated ballet class.

The class begins with stabilizing exercises developed by the Postural Restoration Institute,
followed by barre and center exercises that Maryann has crafted to support proper alignment and promote core strength for healthier dancing.

This class is appropriate for intermediate-level dancers with at least two years of experience. Class is capped at 25 dancers, so sign up soon!

In the clinical setting, the Pilates Chair provides sitting and standing movement work, both bilaterally and unilaterally. This course is an introduction to Chair exercises and includes regressions for the client in active rehabilitation and progressions for post-rehabilitation and advanced wellness. Pilates chairs featured: the Wunda Chair, Combo Chair and Exo Chair. Includes equipment set up, clinical applications and safety.

March 14 and 21, 12:00-4:00pm
Fee: $325
Instructor: Ann-Marie Chesterfield, DPT

The TU Dance Intermediate and Advanced Summer Intensive is an intensive course of study integrating modern, ballet, African dance, and creative workshops for students ages 11-24. Click the respective level group to download the daily schedule: 2025 Intermediate Program Daily Schedule and 2025 Advanced Intensive Daily Schedule.

For level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708. Placement can be done by attending an in-person (by appointment only, a class fee applies) or by submitting a video link (modern and ballet phrase), or during the first day of classes of the intensive.

To register, please complete the four-step registration process:

• Please find the online pre-registration below under the specific level you are interested in and select a payment option.
• Make a tuition payment in full or by selecting a payment plan. If requesting a payment plan please submit the Summer 2025 Payment Plan Form, and submit a 2025 Intermediate Summer Intensive online registration form or 2025 Advanced Summer Intensive online registration form.

Registration deadlines:
Youth and Teen Intermediate Levels: July 4
Advanced Level: July 23 (single week registration available)

Full and partial scholarships available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.

Improve your technique and advance your artistry in a positive and welcoming environment with one of the top dance companies in the Twin Cities! Classes in our Summer Dance Intensive include Musical Theatre Jazz, Classic Jazz Technique, Ballet, Leaps and Turns, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and more. Students may register for one or both weeks.

The Intensive culminates with our Collide Showcase. Video will be taken so dancers have professional-grade copy to use for future auditions and submissions. Local students are also invited to perform excerpts from the Intensive at the Minnesota State Fair in August!

Level placement requires a referral from a teacher or Collide company member, or a two minute video submission. Please send video (one minute Ballet Adagio with pirouettes and one minute Jazz) or referral name and contact information to Regina@collidetheatrical.org.

The TU Dance Children and Teen Program introduces the joy of creative movement and beginning dance technique. Classes, divided by age, provide a comprehensive base on which to expand by developing body awareness, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength and musicality. Click here to download the 2025 Creative Movement Daily Schedule and the 2025 Beginning Program Daily Schedule.

For questions and level placement, please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708.

To register, please complete the four-step registration process:

• Please find the online pre-registration below under the specific level you are interested in and select a payment option.
• Make a tuition payment in full or by selecting a payment plan. If requesting a payment plan please submit the Summer 2025 Payment Plan Form, and submit a 2025 Creative Movement and Beginning Level Summer Program online registration form.

Registration deadlines:
Creative Movement: July 22
Beginning Youth and Teen: June 11

Full or partial scholarships are available. Contact us at education@tudance.org or (651) 724-9708 for more information.

You are invited to a short series of practice sessions as part of a multifaceted, ongoing choreographic research project led by Emily Gastineau. 0, 1, group, ∞ is a collective research on collective research. Sessions are pay-as-you-wish, with $10-35 suggested.

Key areas of investigation include: epistemology and relationality, methods for collective study, the erotics of knowledge, boundaries, and edges, dances as effects rather than objects, reading and misreading, and the unspoken and the unknown.

These sessions are for: dance artists who like to analyze, writers who are into embodiment, improvisers of any form, theory nerds, group facilitators, students of collective organization, scholars who want to open up method, artists of any discipline who are into research, and the committed and the curious.

Practice Session: Focus on Writing
Saturday, February 22, 2:00-4:30pm

Practice Sharing with Discussion
Saturday, March 15, 2:00-4:30pm