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TU Dance Center: Children and Teen Summer Program

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:

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.

Rent TU Dance Center Studios

TU Dance Center is available for rental when not in use by TU Dance’s programming. TU Dance Center features a reception area and front desk for check-in or event use. Access to the adjacent dressing room and green room with kitchenette are available upon request.

Studio 1: 60 x 34
Studio 2: 46 x 21

Both studios feature:
Sprung dance floor with Marley-type surface by Harlequin
Wall of mirrors
Portable ballet barre units 10′ in length
Room-level sound system with CD and mini-jack inputs
50″ LCD TV cart for presentation and videoconferencing
Large windows providing ample natural light

Studio 1 only: A curtain that can be drawn on the entire mirror and wall-mounted ballet barres of 27′ and 33′.

Rental fees:
Individual artists: $18/hour
Nonprofit organizations: $22/hour for rehearsals
Other rental inquiries (for-profit, classes, workshops, auditions, life events, photo sessions, filming, etc.), please contact us.

Concerto Dance Open Company Jazz Class

Join Concerto Dance for open company class Friday mornings, April 25 – May 30, for Advanced Jazz with Artistic Director Jolene Konkel.

Classes consist of our unique blend of vernacular and classical jazz with a focus on musicality, virtuosity and dancing in community. Classes include a walk around exercise, center warm up, across the floor exercises and ends with a short combo. Over the six weeks, classes cover African roots of jazz, vernacular jazz of the Swing Era, classical jazz, Broadway jazz and jazz funk.

Fridays, April 25 – May 30
9:00-10:15am
Creo Arts and Dance — Studio 3
Cost: $20/class drop-in rate — cash, check or Venmo @concerto-dance

All are welcome! Pay-as-able option available. Please reach out to info@concertodance.com to inquire or with any other questions.

Sally Rousse Teaches Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®

Sally Rousse Teaches Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®: Join me for a positive, healing, 55-minute class that is part physical therapy, part exercise, part meditation.

Sundays at 10:00am
Studio 2B of Hennepin Center for the Arts
Cost: $12/class or $100/10-class card

Without the pressure of gravity, Floor-Barre® corrects alignment, lengthens, and strengthens the joints and muscles. Floor-Barre™ takes a holistic approach to help with numerous issues such as arthritis (knees, hips, feet), tendonitis and back pain while improving balance, posture and mobility.

Strengthen, Align, and Lengthen. 

Zenon Dance School – Spring Session

Zenon Dance School’s Spring Session is in full swing! We invite you to explore the class schedule and discover the exciting adult and youth dance classes from March 24 to June 1. Registration is now open.

Session highlights include:

Monday
9:30-11:00am: Intermediate Contemporary with Sean Scantlebury
7:15-8:30pm: Beginning Ballet with Erin Landers

Tuesday
5:45-6:45pm: Stretch and Flow with Nina Ebinghousen – New Time!
7:00-8:30pm: Beginning Jazz with Allison Rubin-Forester

Wednesday
9:30-11:00am: Advanced Composition/Improvisation with HIJACK – online today!
5:30-7:00pm: Horton-based Modern with Anna Pinault

Thursday
9:30-11:00am: Advanced Contemporary with Erin Thompson – hybrid

Friday
12:00-1:30pm: Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Jennifer Mack
1:45-2:15pm: Beginning/Intermediate Adult Pointe with Jennifer Mack

ARENA DANCES Presents the 9th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival

The CANDY BOX Dance Festival is a week-long dynamic sampling of featured performances, master classes, and in-progress showings, hosted by ARENA DANCES and presented April 23-26 at The Southern Theater. The CANDY BOX Dance Festival features both emerging and established choreographers, Happy Hour work-in-progress performances, and master class offerings. Tickets are on sale now with prices from $10-$27.

Featured Artists Performances: April 24-26, 7:30pm and April 26, 2:00pm
Doma Dance Theater
Flying Foot Forum
Cheng “Technica” Xiong
Featured Artists Tickets; Saturday’s matinee is pay-as-able.

Happy Hour Artists Showings: April 23-25, 5:30pm
Wednesday – Yukina Sato
Thursday – Nieya Amezquita and Kaitlyn Hawkins
Friday – Nervous Theatre
Happy Hour Tickets

Master Classes: April 23-25, 4:00pm
Wednesday – Joe Chvala of Flying Foot Forum
Thursday – Cheng “Technica” Xiong
Friday – Connor Berkompas of NERVOUS THEATRE
Master Class Tickets

A very special thanks to our sponsors: Sher Demeter and City of Minneapolis Arts and Cultural Affairs Department – Cultural District Arts Fund Initiative.

Master Classes at CANDY BOX Dance Festival

CANDY BOX Dance Festival Master Classes:
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

Environmental Attunement: Writing/Dancing Workshop with Margaret Ogas

Join us at the Como Conservatory for a workshop with Marggie Ogas. We will spend time attuning with the environment (plants, sounds, smells, etc.) indoors and outside, if weather allows. Bring a notebook and a writing utensil. We will practice solitary and group attunement, meditation, and improvisation.

Wednesday, April 23 from 4:00-6:00pm

Margaret Ogas is a choreographer and performer based in the Twin Cities. Working at the confluence of dance, storytelling, and experimental performance, her works tell surreal narratives through a collage of movement, text, sound, and object.

Ogas is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and was a 2021 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Her work has been presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Candy Box Dance Festival, Minnesota International Dance Festival, Center for Performing Arts, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, and others. She has been a core collaborator with the Taja Will Ensemble since 2018.

Presented by the Taja Will Ensemble

TU Dance Celebrates 20 Years at The O’Shaughnessy

Join us in the spring of 2025 as TU Dance celebrates its 20th anniversary and marks this significant milestone by featuring the works of prominent and renowned African American choreographers who have been supportive and connected to TU Dance since its inception.

Works will include Alvin Ailey’s Witness, an excerpt from Ronald K. Brown’s Four Corners, Alonzo King’s MA (duet from Who Dressed You Like A Foreigner?), and an excerpt from Camille A. Brown’s New Second Line and Yusha-Marie Sorzano’s recently premiered work This World Anew, commissioned as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition at the Whitney Museum. TU Dance is deeply honored to share works by makers that have contributed so richly to the American dance landscape through their multidimensional perspectives while voicing the shared human experience, which has been core to our own twenty-year history.

Thursday, April 24 at 10:30am – Educational Performance
Friday, April 25 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 26 at 7:30pm

Tickets can be purchased online or by contacting The O’Shaughnessy Ticket Office at 651-690-6700.