After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Teen Parent Services is dedicated to keeping teen parents on the track to graduation by providing them with parenting education and supports while providing high-quality early childhood education services to their children.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
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See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
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An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
Give the gift of learning. Gift vouchers can be purchased in a variety of denominations and can be used for most Community Education Youth & Adult Enrichment classes. Some restrictions apply.
In Improvisation and Contemporary, we will explore two distinct dance styles. While these styles are complex and expansive in their own right, I’ve found that putting the two directly in conversation is a beautiful exploration. Each of these movement forms have had a strong influence on the ways in which I interpret the other.
So what are these styles all about? Dance Improv offers us tools to express ourselves through movement in a spontaneous and organic way. Through individual and interactive “dance games” and guided exercises, participants will learn to cultivate free form movement and set aside preconceived ideas about what dance should or shouldn’t be. Contemporary Dance foundations explored in this class will include body alignment, weight transfer, expansion/contraction, floorwork, and storytelling, among others!
Over the duration of the class, participants will practice contemporary techniques and learn short movement phrases taught by the instructor. They will also collaboratively develop a short phrase of their own, building upon improv exercises and support from the instructor. This class welcomes dancers of any and all skill levels and dance experience. Join me in sharing stories, space, and movement!
If class is full, please enroll in the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.
Nate Gehrenbeck-Miller was born and raised in South Minneapolis. He graduated from Macalester College in 2023, where he studied Spanish, Psychology, and Dance. In 2022, Nate studied abroad in Costa Rica. It was there, taking Salsa and Bachata classes and letting loose in the discotecas, that a deep passion for movement was born. Today, Nate’s stylistic influences include Modern/Contemporary, Hip Hop, Latin, Ballet, and Dance Improv. He has performed in two Macalester dance concerts, the 2024 Zenon Zone Winter Showcase, and two productions with 8:20 Dance Company. Nate is also an emerging choreographer, most recently debuting his work in 8:20’s summer show.
Looking forward, Nate is excited to continue dancing with 8:20 this season, working as a Care and Safety Team rep. at Dance Church Minneapolis, and sharing his love for movement as a choreographer and instructor! In rare moments of non-dance, you may find Nate climbing a tree or savoring each bite of a quesabirria taco.
Nathan Gehrenbeck-Miller
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