Ballet, Modern & Technique


Ballet
Presented by Community Movement Collective


Helen Hatch
Elayna Waxse
Kerry Parker
Penny Free
Yuki Tokuda
Anna Novak
Maryann Johnson

Join Community Movement Collective's esteemed dance masters for a traditional ballet class, including barre, across the floor, and center work. This class is for adult dancers, including intermediate dancers with previous ballet experience, and for advanced, pre-professional, or professional dancers.

This class is for adults ages 17+.


Ballet Fundamentals

Kendall Kramer

Build strength, gain flexibility, and nurture your inner elegance. This beginning/intermediate adult ballet class prioritizes structure of movement, body placement, and pristine beauty. Whether this is your first ballet class, or have some past experience under your belt, come to the barre and enjoy a welcoming environment where we go through the basics together and come away stronger and in tune with our own bodies.

Leotard and tights are welcome, but not required. Wear comfortable, form-fitting clothing with ballet slippers or socks, and hair pulled away from the face.

Contemporary


Contemporary Combo

Laura Sukowatey
Ruby Smith

Come feel the feels. Each class will begin with a dedicated warm up and stretch, with a different combo each week. Expect contemporary movement ranging from slinky spines, to quirky intricacies, and maybe a ballet-infused gesture or two.

Contemporary Technique

Crash Dance Productions
Rotating Instructor

Join Minneapolis company Crash Dance Productions for a contemporary warm up, technique, progressions and combinations, and improvisational exercises. Class is instructed by various company members, so each week offers a little something special.

Contemporary Movement Practice

Sarah McCullough

This class creates a space where every mover can indulge in the movement their body desires. The core themes of this practice include sensory exploration, movement as meditation, and engaging with the body’s intuition. Move through guided improvisation and phrasework to engage the senses and awaken the body with a focus on curiosity and aliveness. You'll spend time on the floor, upside down, on one leg, moving through space.

Contemporary Movement Practice is for intermediate and advanced movers interested in researching their unique movement modalities and how it informs the class material. Get into what you like, shake away what you don't!

Hip Hop/Krump/Popping


Swag Out Hip Hop

Darrius Strong

Swag Out Hip Hop is an intermediate combo class that will get your weekend started on a positive and upbeat note! Each session, dancers will have the chance to level up in their character work, movement vocabulary and swag, so throw on your best outfit and come show out!

This class may incorporate music with explicit lyrics.

Hip Hop Fundamentals

Wass Kalema

Come get down with a variety of social Hip Hop moves. You’ll learn about Hip Hop fundamentals, as well as dig in to the origins of
Hip Hop freestyle.

Discover Your Mode

Zhané Jackson & Desaré Cox

Discover Your Mode is an intermediate hip hop combo class that will get you moving, grooving and feeling yourself. Each session will invite you to tap into a new character, discover a new "mode," and have fun along the way. Wear your best 'fit and get ready to move!

This class may incorporate music with explicit lyrics.

Get Into It

New Black City
Rotating Instructors

No mid-week slump here! Wednesdays just got better, now that you can hang out with your favorite crew, New Black City. Every week you’ll be instructed by one of the crew members, each with their own unique take on hip hop, making each class a brand new experience... so GET INTO IT!

Hip Hop Combo

Averie Mitchell-Brown

Get in the pocket and groove! This intermediate/advanced hip hop class brings hot & fresh choreography, so dancers and choreographers alike can stay sharp and build their personal style. Gain access to community space and connect with members of the culture!

This class may incorporate music with explicit lyrics.

RnB

Wass Kalema & Averie Mitchell-Brown

Dive into what it means to be in the rhythm and blues pocket, focusing on foundational bounce, groove, and movement articulation. At each class, you'll learn an intermediate/ advanced combo, specializing in feel-good grooves and music. 

Krump

Cecil “Virgo” Neal

Krump one, krump all! Beginners to the style will learn all the foundations of Krump, from grooves and textures, to timing and body composition. Experienced dancers will get to touch up their skills, and dig in to their personal style of this hard hitting, expressive genre of hip hop.

Popping Fundamentals

Nebula

Perfect your popping in this all-levels class for newcomers and experienced dancers alike. Learn how to hit, focus on one muscle group at a time, and drill away!

Litefeet

Chui

Get the party started in this intermediate hip hop class, including warm up, combo, and cypher. Litefeet is a fun, energetic style of hip hop, and this class is for dancers who want to build their hip hop aesthetic, learn choreo, and flex their freestyle skills.

Heels


Feel Yourself Heels

Suzette Jornae

Find the joy in self-love. Feel Yourself connects dance of the African Diaspora to street and classical styles for a unique movement experience that celebrates the power of presence. Class begins with a warm up to improve body awareness, teaches choreography to develop balance and fluidity, and incorporates moments of community building, affirmations, and manifestations. Like a master-class, each session will have a different flavor, but will always take you on a journey outside your comfort zone, bringing you closer to yourself.

Look good, feel good, but come prepared: bring socks, sneakers, and heels.

This class is for adults ages 17+.

Vibe’d Heels

LT

Heel’d Vibes is an intermediate/advanced adult community heels experience. Dancers gain confidence, healing and empowerment through art and movement. Classes include stretching, across the floor, center combos and affirmation techniques. Come and get Heel’d Vibes with LT!

In this empowering space you are free to wear whatever makes you confident.

Heels Fundamentals

LT

If you've been feeling like a newborn giraffe when dancing in heels, we got you. Focus on building a sturdy foundation for heels dancing through strength exercises for the core and legs, breathing methods, and various across the floor & center combinations. This class will introduce newcomers to dancing in heels, and get advanced dancers ready to take LT's combo class, Vibe'd Heels.

Dancers new to heels should try a closed toe, lace up boot with a 2-3" block heel; but take it as high as you'd like!


Jazz

Broadway Jazz

Abby Magalee

Focusing on rhythm, musicality, and storytelling, Broadway Jazz starts with a jazz warm up and then takes off into an exciting tour of musical theater styles. Pushing technique and performance quality, our across the floor progressions and combinations will be inspired by choreography from multiple popular musicals both old and new!

Jazz Funk

Andy Mor

This is your music video moment! This intermediate class will work your style through movement that marries the musicality of jazz dance with the body lines of funk and street styles. Jazz Funk is perfect for experienced dancers working to stay on top of their quick learning skills, or for any dancer who also wants to be their own pop star.

Jazz Funk can be practiced in any footwear.

Pop Jazz

Rachel Doran

Calling all dancers, used-to-be dancers, and wannabe dancers! Pas de bourree your way to a one-hour jazz jam, including a classic warm up (isolations!), progressions & combos (pivot turn, jazz square!), and a cool down (no splits required!). Flex your inner Flashdance, or never do more than one full rotation at a time; this is a no judgement jazz class!

Movement


Intro to Dance

Suzette Jornae

Have you always dreamed of taking a dance class, but you don't know where to start? Suzette's got you covered! This class is for capital-B Beginners- we will show you how dance classes work, from warm up to combo, and everything in between. 

Expect a different stylistic focus each week, including favorites like jazz, contemporary, and hip hop. Got requests? Let us know!

Foundational Arabic Dance

Renee Szudy

This class will overview all things Arabic dance: core movements, footwork patterns, coordination and strengthening, with a focus on technique and drills. Advanced students will be encouraged to add movement layers.

Topics in Arabic Dance

Renee Szudy

Come for Foundational Arabic Dance, stay for Topics! In this class, dancers will focus on a particular movement, styling, or musicality, and learn sequences. Example topics include turns & spins, shimmies, veilwork, saidi (canework), finger cymbals, and more!

Gaga/dancers

Berit Ahlgren

Gaga-based improvisation deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.

Presented by Community Movement Collective.