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

Friday, April 5
6:30-8:00pm

Center for Performing Arts, Studio 105w – next to 38th Street entrance.
Suggested donation is $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.

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!

Wanna get jazzy with the Rhythmically Speaking crew? Come dance with us at a MoveTogether!

MoveTogethers are our version of a company class, but more collaborative. These classes offer opportunities to improvise in solo and social ways, manipulate material offered by RS Artistic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard, and build and manipulate your own material based around jazz and American social dance-inspired prompts! Our approach to jazz emphasizes groove, interaction and improvisation (elements we see as present in all American social dance forms), honors the African diasporic roots of these forms, and is driven by jazz music. We are excited to open our company MoveTogethers up to the public once again this spring so pre-professional and professional dancers in our community can join in the jazz. Options:

Community MoveTogether
Sunday, April 7: 7:30-9:00pm
At Young Dance

What’s this, you ask? It’s a low-to-no pressure way for us to get to know you better and for you to move with us as we look forward to upcoming projects, seeing whose out there and interested while offering the community a free class opportunity. Pre-registration is not be required: just show up with an open heart and ready to groove with other neat humans!

Spring MoveTogether
Monday, April 8: 3:30-5:00pm
At Hennepin Center for the Arts – Studio 5B

This is the last class of the spring series. Drop-in, $10-$15 sliding scale, paid via Venmo before or after class, or in cash after.

Hope to see you at one or both!

Injury Prevention for Dancers: Intrinsic Foot Strengthening
Monday, April 8 – 5:30-6:30pm
Cost: $25
A minimum of 5 registered clients is needed to run the class.

The foot plays an integral role in how our entire body functions, balances, and moves through space. Dancers need to have this system finely tuned for optimal stability and mobility. The foot strength, flexibility, and mobility affect everything from the foot, knee, hip, pelvic floor, low back and spine – even up to the shoulders, neck and head. It is important that we not neglect these tiny, yet impactful muscles.

This workshop will be part lecture and part movement. You will walk away with a better understanding of this system in order to dance in a healthier way and prevent future injury. Come prepared to learn some basic anatomy and function of the foot, as well as exercises to perform before dance class or a performance. Join us!

Taught by Dr. Annie Chesterfield PT, DPT, OCS, CPT. Annie is a women’s pelvic health physical therapist with a special interest in dance medicine and a nationally certified Pilates teacher.

Register through our website, or call or email the studio for more information.

Join Graham Lustig, artistic director of Oakland Ballet Company, for a ballet master class, available to participants thanks to a partnership between Northrop and JSB. This class is for intermediate/advanced level dancers and will bring focus to placement, musicality, and expression.

Thursday, April 11
9:30-11:00am

Since his appointment as Artistic Director in 2010, Graham Lustig has revitalized Oakland Ballet Company and helped the organization reclaim its position as a leading San Francisco Bay Area arts institution and premier dance company. Lustig’s stewardship has brought the company a reputation for presenting community-based programming that makes the art of dance relevant, accessible, and engaging to the diverse community Oakland Ballet serves.

Free for University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff. Participants will receive a 50% off discount code to attend 10,000 Dreams on either April 12 or 13.

Balanced Body® Movement Principles
Friday, April 19 – 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, April 20 – 11:30am-6:00pm
Sunday, April 21 – 9:30am-4:30pm

Fee: $549 + $65 materials
In person or online attendance available.

Paragon Pilates and Physical Therapy offers Pilates teacher training through Balanced Body Education. The foundation of Balanced Body’s program, Movement Principles (16 hours) shows how to recognize, improve and teach fundamental movement. It is the prerequisite and sole entry point for the Balanced Body Pilates teacher training program.

This course is designed for both new and experienced instructors to refine their understanding of the body in motion. It provides the foundational knowledge necessary for you to understand fundamental movement and become a truly transformative instructor. Movement Principles is a program requirement for the Balanced Body Pilates Instructor Training and Integrated Movement Specialist certificate.

Instructors: Matthew Hodge-Rice, Ann-Marie Chesterfield, DPT

For intermediate to advanced dancers ages 14-22: Improve your technique and advance your artistry in a positive and welcoming environment! Classes include Musical Theatre Jazz, Classic Jazz Technique, Ballet, Leaps and Turns, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and more. Students may register for individual weeks, or sign up for all 3 weeks and save!

The Intensive culminates with our Collide Showcase – only for those who register for all 3 weeks of the intensive. Video will be taken so students have professional-grade copy to use for future auditions and submissions. Local students are also invited to perform excerpts from the Intensive at the MN State Fair in August.

Level placement requires a referral from a teacher or Collide company member, or a 2-minute video submission. Please send your video with 1 minute of ballet adagio with pirouettes and 1 minute of jazz; or referral name and contact information to Nathan@collidetheatrical.org.

Come dance in Peru from July 19-25, 2024!

Marylee Hardenbergh will be teaching along with Vannia Ibarguen (Director of Global Water Dances and a native Peruvian) and Wendy Morrell (President of the Sacred Dance Guild).

We will be celebrating the Divine Feminine and connecting with Pachamama/Mother Earth in an amazingly beautiful retreat center in the Sacred Valley. 

Most of us will stay after the retreat to visit Machu Picchu. Come with us to explore inner and outer wisdom and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Retreat information.