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

Take class from the Twin Cities’ most celebrated healers for dancers, Maryann Johnson, PT. 

Join Ballet Co.Laboratory for a Postural Restoration Institute-integrated ballet class:

Tuesday, December 10
6:30-8:00pm

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 2 years of experience. Class is capped at 25 dancers, so sign up soon!

Are you ready to step away from grief, trauma, and stress and take a restorative journey toward joy, healing, and connection? Join us for the Moving Towards Joy workshop, a powerful 90-minute experience that combines movement, introspection, and journaling to guide you toward a more joyful and peaceful self. No prior dance experience is needed. Come as you are, and let’s move towards joy together.

Wednesday, December 11, 6:30-8:00pm
Tuesday, January 14, 6:30-8:00pm
Price: $50

Connect with Your Body: Explore the connection between stress, trauma, and the body. Identify physical areas where tension is held and gain insight into your emotional landscape through journaling.
Embrace Joyful Movements: Discover the healing power of movement with guided exercises inspired by Resma Menakem’s primal body movements. Create and share movement phrases that evoke joy, releasing trapped emotions.
Journal for Healing: Use the provided journal to process your journey towards a more joyful and peaceful place. Document your insights, reflections, and newfound clarity.

Purpose
Reconnect with their physical and mental selves.
Understand how trauma and grief can manifest within the body.
Learn empowering movements and practices to support healing and a more joyous life.
Utilize journaling as a means to process and journey towards a happier, more peaceful place.

Come as you are, and let’s move towards joy together.

GYROKINESIS® for Adults is a 6-week workshop that will start with breathing patterns and progress into motions that mobilize the spine through arching, curling, bending, spiraling, and waving. Connecting with the breath, the movement starts to feel like a dance: oxygenating the circulatory system, stimulating the nervous system, and opening the body. Exercises are done on chairs/stools and in standing and lying positions.

Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45pm
January 8-February 12
Cost: $90

Online registration is required. For more information about Wendy and to register, click here.

The Dancing Together Workshop is a child and parent/caregiver Creative Movement class.

This 6-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play. Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises incorporating elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class, as students will be asked to respond to sounds and make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am
January 18-February 22 and/or March 15-May 3, with no classes on April 5 and 12.

Online registration is required.

Concerto Dance offers an open master class in Erick Hawkins modern technique and non-traditional partnering with our guest artist in residence Bill Wade, Artistic Director of Inlet Dance Theater in Cleveland Ohio.

Monday, December 2
11:00am-12:30pm
Cost: $20 drop in rate
More information

Bill Wade is the Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Inlet Dance Theatre. Since its inception in 2001, Inlet has earned an international reputation for artistic and education programming excellence. Wade is a nationally sought-after choreographer and dance educator whose choreography was recently enthusiastically received at Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Series and his men’s focused work has been presented twice in Seattle’s “Men in Dance”.

Mr. Wade was chosen by Ohio Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Foundation, Playhouse Square Foundation, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and The American Embassy in Santiago to conduct an award winning multi-phase international artist exchange program with artists from Easter Island (2006-2008). Inlet was the first American modern dance company to perform on the island.

In the 90’s, he enjoyed a long-term mentoring relationship with Alison Chase, then a co-artistic director of the world renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater. Alison Chase collaborated with Bill and students from Cleveland School of the Arts, creating An Urban Nutcracker, which received national attention from Dance Magazine, TIME magazine, and garnered a rave review in the Wall St. Journal.

Balanced Body® Reformer 1 Instructor Training
Friday, December 6: 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, December 7: 11:30am-6:00pm
Sunday, December 8: 9:30am-4:30pm

Fee: $549 + $60 materials

This course introduces you to what Joseph Pilates called the ‘Universal’ Reformer, which is the centerpiece of the Pilates equipment studio and an invaluable training tool. Reformer 1 teaches you how to safely utilize the Reformer and many of the beginning and intermediate Pilates Reformer exercises. Reformer 1 also reviews common modifications and variations necessary for teaching the client in front of you and gives you the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’, empowering critical reasoning skills from the very start of your training.

Prerequisite: Movement Principles
Instructor: Matthew Hodge-Rice

Are you ready to step away from grief, trauma, and stress and take a restorative journey toward joy, healing, and connection? Join us for the Moving Towards Joy workshop, a powerful 90-minute experience that combines movement, introspection, and journaling to guide you toward a more joyful and peaceful self. No prior dance experience is needed. Come as you are, and let’s move towards joy together.

Wednesday, December 11, 6:30-8:00pm
Tuesday, January 14, 6:30-8:00pm
Price: $50

Connect with Your Body: Explore the connection between stress, trauma, and the body. Identify physical areas where tension is held and gain insight into your emotional landscape through journaling.
Embrace Joyful Movements: Discover the healing power of movement with guided exercises inspired by Resma Menakem’s primal body movements. Create and share movement phrases that evoke joy, releasing trapped emotions.
Journal for Healing: Use the provided journal to process your journey towards a more joyful and peaceful place. Document your insights, reflections, and newfound clarity.

Purpose
Reconnect with their physical and mental selves.
Understand how trauma and grief can manifest within the body.
Learn empowering movements and practices to support healing and a more joyous life.
Utilize journaling as a means to process and journey towards a happier, more peaceful place.

Come as you are, and let’s move towards joy together.

GYROKINESIS® for Adults is a 6-week workshop that will start with breathing patterns and progress into motions that mobilize the spine through arching, curling, bending, spiraling, and waving. Connecting with the breath, the movement starts to feel like a dance: oxygenating the circulatory system, stimulating the nervous system, and opening the body. Exercises are done on chairs/stools and in standing and lying positions.

Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45pm
January 8-February 12
Cost: $90

Online registration is required. For more information about Wendy and to register, click here.

The Dancing Together Workshop is a child and parent/caregiver Creative Movement class.

This 6-week workshop is designed for children ages 2-4 and their parent/caregiver who are interested in a shared movement experience that engages the senses of curiosity and play. Both child and caregiver will participate in developmentally appropriate movement exercises incorporating elements such as effort, shape, and tempo. Music will play an essential role in the class, as students will be asked to respond to sounds and make sounds themselves. Participants will be encouraged to join at their own comfort level with the understanding that observation is often the best form of learning with younger children. This class will give children and caregivers the opportunity to learn more about themselves and one another through the art form of dance.

Saturdays, 9:00-9:45am
January 18-February 22 and/or March 15-May 3, with no classes on April 5 and 12.

Online registration is required.