Ballet, Modern & Technique
INT/ADV Ballet
Helen Hatch
Elayna Waxse
Yuki Tokuda
Anna Novak
Join us 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
Lindsey White
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 Company 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.
Beginner Contemporary
Lindsey White
Novice dancers and movers new to contemporary- this class is for you! Contemporary dance is a melange of styles from the classical (ballet, modern, jazz) to the current (hip hop, funk), all rolled into one gooey, beautiful mess.
Class begins with a warm focused on joint mobility, and short, guided improvisation exercises that will help you explore your own unique way of moving. After a few simple combinations of movements across the floor, class culminates in learning a phrase of contemporary choreography.
Wear comfortable clothes you can move in; contemporary can be practiced in socks or bare feet.
Advanced Contemporary
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 & Waving
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.
BEG/INT Hip Hop
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 Hip Hop
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
Darrius Strong
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.
Open Style Choreo
Alex Arce
Open Style Choreo combines various hip hop genres including waacking, popping, house & more. Dancers will be challenged with elements such as speed changes, level changes, and variations in textures. This class provides a unique opportunity for dancers to expand their skills and fuse diverse styles of hip hop choreography.
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.
Bootywerk (Twerk)
Vibrant
Shake what your momma gave ya! Build confidence and break a sweat in this intermediate Twerk class. Develop coordination through guided warm up, then put it all together in a fun combination, sure to leave you stress-free and smiling.
Wear any fitness attire that makes your booty look good, and comfortable footwear; it's recommended to have knee pads.
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
Jordan Case-Allan
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
Totti & Selly
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!
All Other Styles
Reggaeton
Carlos Juarez
The vibe is vibing! Learn the free spirited movement that inspires this sexy, showy, energetic dance style. Reggateon focuses on body isolations, hip movements, and footwork; this class is made for beginners to the style, including lots of repetition of the basics, to help build confidence.
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
ON PAUSE
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.