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

Our 2025 Summer Intensive will explore dancing together as a practice of dreaming, entering a state of continuous rhythmic embodiment that portals joy into acts of resistance.

In this dense practice of dancing, where the rhythms roll us into waves of movement, we practice the awakening of spatial and temporal awareness, heightening our sense of dancing together as a mode of Self-Determination. Some of the cornerstones of this methodology are engaging repetition, finding the beat, losing the fixation on verticality, stimulating cellular and nervous awakening, and building multiple fronts. We dream this gathering as a crucial  moment for strategizing this next resistive phase of our lives.

Each meeting will begin with instruction in Yorchhā. Whether this is your first experience with Yorchhā or you have been practicing for multiple summers, we will meet you where you are, opening paths towards your individual excellence. After a brief break, the daily focus will shift to structured improvisational and choreographic processes. We will provide accepted applicants with a more detailed daily schedule by the beginning of May.

Application Deadline: Monday, June 9

Please note that each application requires a non-refundable deposit of $50.00. Scholarships and housing assistance for out-of-town artists are available. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at admin@ananyadancetheatre.org.

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 a 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 a video (one minute of Ballet Adagio with pirouettes and one minute of Jazz) or referral name and contact information to Auditions@collidetheatrical.org.

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 class (by appointment only and a class fee applies), 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 is available)

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

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.

Join us for a series of community classes this spring that feature some of the choreographers and artists involved with TU Dance’s 20th Anniversary Season!

Join Mora-Amina Parker for a dynamic, community-centered dance class drawing from Camille A. Brown’s choreography. Open to all ages, this class explores movement from “New Second Line” and “I AM”, celebrating Black joy, resilience, and storytelling through dance. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced mover, come connect, express, and move with intention in a welcoming space that honors the history of social dances and personal expression.

Saturday, April 5
10:00-11:30am
Cost: $20
For more information and to register, click here.

Ms. Parker is currently the rehearsal director and restager for Camille A. Brown and Dancers. She has performed with the Savage Jazz Dance Company, Robert Moses’ Kin, Philadanco II, Dallas Black Dance Theater, and Philadanco. In 2009, Ms. Parker was invited to perform with Camille A. Brown and subsequently joined her company. In 2014, Ms. Parker was a member of Ms. Brown’s Mr. Tol E. RanCE which received a Bessie Award for outstanding production. Ms. Parker has assisted Ms. Brown in staging her choreography for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2019) and on the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, nominated for seven Tony Awards including best choreography. Alongside her dedication to dance practice, Ms. Parker is a PhD candidate drafting her dissertation, “The Expressive Black-Life Worlds of Talley Beatty’s Choreographies: Embodiments of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism” at Temple University.

Minnesota Dance Theatre invites dancers ages 13-19 for a master class with American Ballet Theatre’s Principal Dancer, Isabella Boylston, on Tuesday, April 8.

Master Class
4:30-6:00pm
Price: $35

Add-Ons
Variations: 6:00-7:00pm
Price: $15
Available to master class students only.

Q&A: 7:00-7:30pm: Open to ALL, registration required

Registration is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us at TU Dance Center for a 6-week GYROKINESIS® workshop for adults with Wendy Anderson—starting with breathing patterns and progressing 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. No experience is necessary.

Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45pm
March 19-April 30 with no class on April 2.
Online registration is required. Cost: $90

Single class enrollment also available. For more information about Wendy and to register, click here.

Wendy Anderson has trained as a dancer, fitness professional, Pilates trainer, and presently Gyrotonic Trainer. She is an authorized teacher and teacher trainer (Pre-Trainer) of both Gyrokinesis and Gyrotonic. Having the good fortune of working with some of the most renowned Master Trainers, including Juergen Bamberger, Juliu Horvath (creator of Gyrotonic), and Paul Horvath (physiotherapist), Wendy has also trained on all pieces of Gyrotonic equipment. She trains all levels of students from highly accomplished athletes to the very beginner who has started their adventure with Gyrokinesis or Gyrotonics later in life. “Always amazed by the beauty, depth, and sophistication of this movement modality and how people can benefit from gyro on all levels of their being.”

Balanced Body® Trapeze Table/Cadillac/Tower Instructor Training provides a thorough introduction to Trapeze Table and Tower exercises as well as applications for beginning, post–rehabilitation and advanced clients. Sequencing, program design and exploration of exercise applications are covered as well as equipment set up, safety and maintenance.

Friday, April 11, 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, April 12, 11:30am-7:00pm
Sunday, April 13, 9:30am-5:30pm

Fee: $599 + $60 materials
Prerequisites: Mat 1 and Reformer 1
Instructor: Matthew Hodge-Rice and Annie Chesterfield, DPT

CANDY BOX Dance Festival Master Classes:
Monday, April 21, 4:00-5:15pm – Alexandra Bodnarchuk of Doma Dance Theater
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00-5:15pm – Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance
Wednesday, April 23, 4:00-5:15pm – Joe Chvala of Flying Foot Forum
Thursday, April 24, 4:00-5:15pm – Cheng “Technica” Xiong
Friday, April 25, 4:00-5:15pm – Connor Berkompas of NERVOUS THEATRE

Price: $10-$25

Sign-up here!