Archive: Workshops, Intensives, Master Classes, and Open Houses

Ballet Co.Laboratory Intermediate and Advanced Summer Intensives

Build strength and develop your artistry. Our Summer Intensives include classical and contemporary technique classes and the opportunity to perform dance works created for the professional Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory.

Intermediate Intensive: July 29-August 15, Tuesday-Friday from 9:30am-4:00pm
Dancers aged 12-16 spend three weeks immersed in classes including classical ballet technique, pointe, jazz, contemporary, musical theater, character, conditioning, and repertoire. Dancers should have at least 1 year of pointe experience.

Advanced Intensive: July 28-August 15, Monday-Friday from 9:00am-4:30pm
Dancers aged 15-22 spend three weeks immersed in classes including classical ballet technique, pointe, partnering, jazz, contemporary, modern, musical theatre, character, improvisation, conditioning, and repertoire. Dancers should have at least 2.5 years of pointe experience.

Summer Jazz Dance Intensive

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.

TU Dance Center: Intermediate and Advanced Summer Intensive

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:

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.

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.

TU Dance: Contemporary Dance Classes with Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag

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.

Open classes for beginning/intermediate/advanced dancers begin with meditation and floor work that includes stretching and mind-body centering exercises. Center floor work or barre work includes alignment and the introduction of the various dance techniques that are incorporated in the vocabulary of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company. Phrases across the floor use influences from Western modern dance as well as traditional and social dances from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Cost: $16 for the open class payable at the door (class cards are accepted), and $20 for the community class.
Pre-registration is required.

Strength: Zoom Feldenkrais Series

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.

Ballet Technique Class with American Ballet Theatre

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

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!

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