Contact:

Lauren Holmes
lauren@zenondance.org
612-338-1101
zenondance.org

Zenon Dance School Announces:

Winter Workshop Week

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Zenon Dance School will offer a week of workshops, DEC 30- JAN 3. Dance into the New Year! Join us for a week of workshops December 30January 3! Close out 2013 dancing and start 2014 on the right foot! All workshops are drop-in only no need to pre-register!

Winter Workshop Week No reservations needed.

Who: Zenon Dance School When: Dec 30-Jan 3 Where: The Hennepin Center for the Arts, 528 Hennepin Avenue #400

Cost: $13-$16 depending on workshop length

Named Best Lesson in Minnesota Monthlys 2013 Best of the Twin Cities, Zenon has been teaching dance in the Twin Cities for over 30 years. Zenon Dance Company and School continues as forerunner in dance education and is the most diverse dance school for adult and youth students in Minneapolis (Dance Magazine, Jan 2012).

Class Descriptions:

Intermediate/Advanced Tap

This workshop will be an Intermediate/Advanced level class consisting of warm ups and some movement across the floor leading into a combination. The goal of the workshop will be to create as much of a combination/piece in the hour and a half as we can. This workshop will be Stephanie Harmons return to teaching! Harmon, Zenons long time tap instructor, has been out of the country on tour since last May.

House Dance

This street dance is danced to House Music, a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid 1980s. This style emphasizes footwork, movement from the torso area (jacking), and large movements focused with grace and control (lofting). Arturo Miles has been dancing for over a decade. He was an original member of the Hip-Hop Co-op, which has since reinvented itself as the Collective. Arturo has performed, choreographed and taught throughout Minnesota at venues like the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota State Fair, The Minnesota Fringe Festival, Patricks Cabaret and Zenon.

Advanced Modern

Erin Thompson danced in New York City in the companies of Nina Weiner and Bebe Miller, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award, Bessie, in 1986. Erin's advanced professional modern dance class integrates internal awareness and sensation with physicality that is weighted and daring. Her warm-up includes articulation of bones, joints, and muscles, lending maximum ease and efficiency to her extended movement phrases. Her class also focuses on the play between learning set movement phrases and each dancer's ability to uniquely inhabit and personalize those phrases. Erin Thompson is on faculty at the University of Minnesota's Department of Theater Arts and Dance and is also an Alexander Technique teacher.

Intermediate Ballet

This workshop is appropriate for students with at least one year of ballet training. Students do a full barre and center work, with sequences that are relatively simple and short to allow strong technical development while challenging students to do more. Marcia Keegan currently teaches for Zenon, MDT and the Dance Institute, Phipp's Center for the Arts,Edina community Center and Eastview High School. She has performed locally with Children's Theatre company, Minnesota Opera, and the Guthrie. Marcia received her local training with Hy Somers, Jo Savino, and Frank Bourman. In Cannes, France, she danced and trained with Rosella Hightower.

Hip Hop Fusion

Madeline Howie, aka Maddie Fresh, has been dancing, teaching and performing in the Twin Cities for almost 10 years. As a member of B Girl Be and ally of The Collective, Maddie Fresh has taught at multiple schools around the Twin Cities including the Perpich Center for the Arts (of which she is Alumni), SPCPA , as well as Zenon. Maddie Fresh has the goal of educating her students in the history of the moves through music of past & current pop culture in developing fusion choreography that utilizes fundamental Hip-hop/breaking, funkstyle, house & contemporary dance moves. This workshop is designed for Beginning to Intermediate level dancers. Class will consist of a warm up, deep stretching, movement drills that will be utilized in the choreography, freestyle period and cool down. We will explore different forms of movement & dance including but not limited to: Toprock, Body rolls and House.

Foam Roller
We will address the whole body in this one and a half hour class. We will be using foam rollers and balls to massage out the fascia and muscles to increase flexibility, mobility and pain prevention. This class is for dancers, athletes and ANYONE who wants to feel more open in their body.

DETAILS:

$13 per class- no need to pre-register! Zenon accepts visa, mastercard, cash or checks for

workshops! We cannot accept workstudy cards, class-cards or free-class cards. Classes are taught at Beginning level - no experience necessary!