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Escalade: Pay-As-Able Pop-Up Dance and Music Performance

This one of a kind Pay-As-Able Pop-Up Dance and Music Performance brings Nic Lincoln’s choreography and the Twin Cities community together to provide a captivating and enriching experience. Lincoln’s work features Gemma Isaacson in a dazzling and mesmerizing solo performance. Transgender, glam-punk rock-star, Venus de Mars, showcases her musical talent and keeps you at the edge of glory. Lincoln keeps art and activism close to his heart as his Escalade conveys a poignant journey with themes of human rights and bodily autonomy. This is a performance you won’t want to miss!

Monday, March 31 at 7:00pm.

For tickets, click here!

Minnesota Dance Theatre: Adult Fundamentals Series Spring Sessions

Learn the fundamentals of ballet at Minnesota Dance Theatre! We offer 6-week or 12-week sessions of Ballet Fundamentals I and II.

Ballet Fundamentals I — 6-week session
April 14 – May 19
Mondays, 7:00-8:30pm
Session Tuition: $100

Ballet Fundamentals I — 12-week session
April 1 – June 17
Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30pm
Session Tuition: $175

Ballet Fundamentals II — 12-week session
April 2 – June 18
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00pm
Session Tuition: $175

Classes require a minimum of 7 registrants. If for any reason you need to cancel your registration you will receive a refund, less a $25 cancellation fee, provided you cancel prior to Thursday, March 27. Cancellation requests should be emailed to school@mndance.org.

Zenon Dance School – Call for Dance Educators

Zenon Dance seeks to establish a pool of qualified dance educators/teaching artists to facilitate classes, workshops, and K-12 school residencies for our partner organizations. We invite individuals interested in joining Zenon’s teaching artists, who are committed to fostering children’s developmental growth through dance.

Teaching Artists
In close collaboration with Zenon Dance, the teaching artist will develop a syllabus and lesson plans for classes, workshops, and K-12 school residencies, attend a one-week paid program planning session, and facilitate hands-on and immersive dance-based experiences for K-12 students that integrate core curricular content at partner sites.

To Apply
Send materials to Danielle Robinson-Prater at danielle@zenondance.org. Application priority deadline is April 2.

Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please see the website for full details, qualifications, and terms of employment.

Broadway Dancin’

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents Broadway Dancin’! Taking off from last year’s sold-out limited run, the second installment of this high-energy tribute will feature brand new pieces from some of Broadway’s biggest hits, including Pippin, Chicago, Carousel, West Side Story, Moulin Rouge, and more!

Featuring: Jarod Boltjes, Emily Trapnell, Megan Carver, Nathan Huberty, Patrick Jeffrey, Emily Rose Phelan, Bella West, Johanna Engebretson, and Peter Hoffman.

April 4 at 7:00pm
April 5 at 7:30pm
April 6 at 2:00pm
April 9 at 1:00pm
April 10 at 7:00pm
April 11 at 7:00pm
April 12 at 7:30pm
April 13 at 2:00pm

Price: $35-$60; student tickets are available. Buy tickets now!

Threads Dance Project: Bloom – A Spring Fundraiser

Join us for our Spring Fundraiser to support our Tapestries program and operations at the Threads Dance Nexus.

Breakfast will be served, and a short program will be provided. Your support is graciously appreciated as we continue to provide beautiful, socially conscious dance to the community.

Friday, April 4
8:00-9:00am

Tickets: $75 per individual; $600 per table of eight.

MotionArt First Friday Improv Gathering

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.

Floorwork: Conversations and Knowledge Sharing Potluck

Floorwork, a communal conversation and shared meal, was developed to hold conversations, knowledge sharing, and a supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move.

The next Floorwork is to gather and discuss the state of the art form on the local and national scale. Each share what they are doing and how we are navigating it- express what is working and what is needed. Bring a dish to share if able, ARENA DANCES will supply utensils and water.

Saturday, April 5 from 12:00-2:00pm

In-person at The Southern Theater and over Zoom.
Suggested RSVP by 12:00pm, April 4. Free to attend.
Attendees are asked to fill out a new RSVP form for each monthly Floorwork event.

Join Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 815 5674 0058
Passcode: 020090

TU Dance: Community Class with Mora-Amina Parker

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.

Blending Yoga and Feldenkrais with Sarah Baumert

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!