Workshops, Intensives, Master Classes, and Open Houses

Join guest artists Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag for a series of dance classes at TU Dance Center.

Morning Open Class: Wednesday, April 9, 9:30-11:00am
Community Class: Saturday, April 12, 10:00-11:30am

The community class is designed for intergenerational participants with a wide range of to no dance experience. Classes begin center floor with an emphasis on alignment, rhythm, and using the body to express ideas and themes: strength, prayer, and celebration.

This new 8-week series will be focused on concepts of strength explored from a Feldenkrais perspective. How do you define strength? How/when do you feel strong? We’ll be exploring ways to feel your strength and resilience in the midst of a changing world. Feldenkrais asserts that Moving sensing thinking and feeling are inseparable – can we feel a sense of strength in each of these integral parts of ourselves allowing for a more vibrant whole? When we find our skeletal alignment and integrity, and learn to move from this foundational support, our musculature does the required work, and extraneous effort falls away. Find strength and vitality by connecting to the essence of who you are.

“. . . Feldenkrais’ approach rests on an appreciation of the fact that a key role of the nervous system is to establish order in the midst of a world that has much chaos in it.” – from the foreword to The Elusive Obvious (M. Feldenkrais) written by Norman Doidge, M.D.

April 10-May 29
Thursdays, 7:00-8:15pm CST
Instructors: Jeffrey Wells and Krista Langberg
Cost: $120-$200 income-based sliding scale for the full series
Forms of payment accepted: cash, check, Venmo, and PayPal to kristalangberg@gmail.com
Register here!

Series includes:

• 8 distinct ATM lessons and post-lesson discussion
• Access to lesson audio recordings if you have to miss or class or want to repeat a class on your own.
• Flexibility—come in person or watch the recordings at a time convenient for you.

The Body Pattern of Anxiety: In-Person Feldenkrais Workshop

Saturday, April 19
1:30-4:00pm at East Lake Aikido
Instructors: Jeffrey Wells and Krista Langberg
Cost: $45 early registration by April 12, $60 after April 12

Register here!

Join American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Regisseur Susan Jones to elevate your ballet technique and learn an excerpt from ABT’s upcoming performance of Giselle at Northrop. Class is open to intermediate/advanced dancers and available to participants thanks to a partnership between Northrop and Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT).

Saturday, April 19 from 9:30-11:30am
Click here to learn more about Susan Jones.

Cost: $20. The class is free for University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff. This class has a capacity of 40 students and registration is required. Upon registering for class, participants will receive a 50% off discount code to attend the Giselle performance on either Friday, April 18, or Saturday, April 19.

Copresented by Northrop and Minnesota Dance Theatre.

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!

Prima Master Class with Jacqueline McDaniel
April 27, 2:00-4:00pm

Elevate your technique and artistry with an exclusive Prima Master Class led by Jacqueline McDaniel, founder and director of Prima Classical Coaching. With a distinguished career in ballet training and mentorship, Jacqueline brings her expertise to this immersive class designed to refine your precision, strength, and expression.

This master class offers a unique opportunity to learn from one of the industry’s leading coaches, gaining personalized insights to take your dancing to the next level. Don’t miss this chance to train with Prima Classical Coaching’s visionary leader and experience the difference of elite coaching.

Reserve your spot now! Spaces are limited—secure your ticket today!

Tree.Lock//Productions (Sterling Melcher and Meg Singh) is seeking collaborators for our 2025 Minnesota Fringe show. We are offering a free Devised Performance workshop at Young Dance in St. Paul; open to all levels and abilities.

Sunday, April 27 from 1:00-4:00pm

Working at the intersections of physical theater and somatic dance practices, our collaborative approach to performance relies on improvisational structures, scores, play, and shared reflection. Join us for an afternoon of creative exploration grounded in Tree.Lock//Production’s methods for creating, analyzing, and editing performance—culminating in a collaborative creation period. This workshop will lead you through the basics of our practices, during which we will investigate themes of memory, technology, and the limits of our collective digital archives.

This workshop will serve as an introduction to our process as well as an audition for our show for those who are interested. If you would like to attend the workshop but do not want to be considered for the show, feel free to note that in your RSVP. If you can’t attend the workshop and would like to be considered for the show, please let us know!

To RSVP for the workshop or express interest in performing with us, please click here or send us an email at Tree.Lock.Productions@gmail.com.

Discover dance this summer at Threads Dance Nexus!

Creative Connections for ages 4-6: June 16-20 and June 23-27, 9:00-10:15am
$125 for one week or $230 for both weeks. Need-based scholarships are available.

Young movers will explore a variety of dance styles and how dance intersects with music, numbers, art, theater, and more. They will learn the importance of healthy bodies and minds, discuss basic nutrition, and how emotions can be defined, demonstrated, and calmed using movement. This journey of creativity and self-expression will be shared in a casual showing for family and friends at the end of each week.

NexGen/YDP (Youth Dance Project) for ages 8-12: July 7-11 and July 14-18, 9:00am-12:00pm
$279 for one week or $499 for both weeks. Need-based scholarships are available.

NexGen/YDP PLUS for ages 8-12 with 2+ years dance experience: July 7-11 and July 14-18, 9:00am-1:00pm
$329 for one week or $579 for both weeks. Need-based scholarships are available.

Embark on a fun and holistic dance experience for your child in this comprehensive approach to summer dance learning. Dancers will grow in confidence, strength, and self-expression as they study ballet and modern techniques. They will learn self-care for their bodies and minds through nutrition and embodied movement exploration. Journals will be provided as a tool for self-reflection and discovery. Students will share what they’ve learned in a casual showing at the end of each week.

No prior dance experience is required. A limited number of partial and full scholarships are available – visit our website for more information.

The Threads Dance Project Advanced/Professional Summer Intensive is an intensive workshop that explores advanced dance techniques to enhance both performance and choreography for professional and pre-professional dancers.

Participants can choose one or both tracks and are encouraged to register for both tracks for a full immersive experience.

Performer’s Track: June 23-27 from 10:30am-2:45pm
Strengthen technical mastery and performance skills in Contemporary-Modern, African Dance, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and more.

Choreographer’s Track: June 23-27 from 1:30-5:30pm
Focus on creation with classes in Repertoire, Composition, and Improvisation, plus studies in Grant Writing, Show Production, and more.

Final Showing: Friday, June 27 from 5:30-6:00pm
Tuition: $260 per track or $449 for both tracks

For more details and registration, click here.

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.