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

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.

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

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.”

Join Caitlin Valentine—former BalletMet dancer and current BalletMet Academy teaching artist—for a community class thanks to a partnership between Northrop and Ballet Co.Laboratory.

Class is open to intermediate-level dancers and will begin with a warm up at the barre, followed by center combinations inspired by repertoire and phrases that will be featured in the BalletMet performance at Northrop.

Thursday, March 27 from 4:30-6:00pm
Cost: $17 – free for University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff
Free Parking!

This class has a capacity of 35 students and registration is required. Participants will receive a 50% off discount code to attend the Friday, March 28, 7:30pm BalletMet performance at Northrop.

Free and open to the public, but the organizers ask you to sign up here! Free parking at Macalester College.

Workshops
The Body as Landscape with Eiko Otake and The Body as Archive with Wen Hui
Sunday, March 30, 1:00-4:00pm
Macalester College, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Fox Dance Studio

No Rule Is Our Rule (2023)
Monday, March 31, 4:45-6:30pm
Film screening and talkback with Eiko Otake and Wen Hui. Moderated by Mina Kinukawa
Macalester College, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Art Commons 102

Dance Dramaturgy: A Conversation on Practice
Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm
Liz Engelman (past president of LMDA, Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater, April Sellers Dance Collective), Iris McCloughan (Eiko Otake, Joan Jonas, Alex Tatarsky), and Talvin Wilks (Bebe Miller, Camille A. Brown, Urban Bush Women), moderated by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
Walker Art Center, Garden Terrace Room – 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis

A self-select playlist of films created by Eiko and Wen Hui will be available for view before the panel in the Walker’s Mediatheque.

Friday, April 4 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, then improvise together based on movement ideas offered by participants.

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

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

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.

In A Blending of Yoga and the Feldenkrais Method with Sarah Baumert, full body classes will awaken, stretch, strengthen, and calm the body. As one student recently described Monday nights, “That felt like I just gave myself a massage!”

April 7 – June 2
Mondays 9:00-10:15am CST – no class May 26
This series is included in the Body Matter Library Membership
Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom — each class will be recorded and the videos to access at your own time will be available for those who purchase the series.

For new comers, come with no expectations. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome. This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create friends with your body (yourself!).

Each class is an original, innovative creation of Sarah’s teaching. She blends a more traditional gentle yoga practice with the novel Feldenkrais® awareness practices. But that’s not all! She also incorporates joint specific training, functional range exercises, self-massage, breathing exercises, and a compassionate non-competitive mindset. It’s a true experience of movement therapy! You will train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive, vibrant and spacious.

Series Includes:

• 8 Yoga and Feldenkrais classes
• Community discussion after each lesson with time for asking questions, harvesting, and sharing
• Recordings automatically available (48 hrs after each live class) on member page
• Access to stream recordings indefinitely

For more information and class testimonials, click here!

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
Q&A: 7:00-7:30pm
Price: $15
Available to master class students only.

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

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, 4:00pm-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