Minneapolis Public Schools

This high-energy workout combines traditional West African movements with contemporary dance styles for a fun, accessible fitness experience. Learn choreography that celebrates African cultural heritage while getting a cardio workout suitable for all levels. AfroContIgbo is a West African dance and performing arts company dedicated to preserving culture, promoting wellness, and spreading joy through movement.

Continue to improve your classical ballet techniques and further develop your core strength, flexibility and balance. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.

Improve your coordination, musicality, and core strength and flexibility while learning the basic steps of belly dance. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.

Learn belly dance technique and movements through basic steps, isolations and layering. Choreography will also be taught that you can perform for friends. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.

Expand your belly dance skills beyond the basic steps and technique learned in Belly Dance 1. In this class we will explore dancing with finger cymbals, and veils, while adding to our isolations, layering skills, and musicality. Materials fee is used to purchase a set of 2 1/4 inch finger symbols to keep. If you already have cymbals, please select the price option without the materials fee. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.

Discover the art of Capoeira, a dynamic Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends movement, music, and culture. In this class, you’ll learn basic kicks, escapes, and flowing sequences that build strength, flexibility, and rhythm. This class is all levels, no experience is necessary, come ready to move, have fun, and connect with a supportive community while exploring the history and traditions of Capoeira.

Discover the art of Capoeira, a dynamic Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends movement, music, and culture. In this class, you’ll learn basic kicks, escapes, and flowing sequences that build strength, flexibility, and rhythm. This class is all levels, no experience is necessary, come ready to move, have fun, and connect with a supportive community while exploring the history and traditions of Capoeira.

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.

Morris dancing is a traditional English folk dance characterized by rhythmic stepping and choreographed figures performed by a group, often wearing bell pads on their shins. The dance has a long history and features various styles and costumes, with props like handkerchiefs and sticks, and live music from instruments such as fiddles and accordions. Key elements include a band or single musician accompanying the dancers and the presence of traditional characters like a "Fool" who interacts with the dancers and audience.

Prerequisite Salsa 1 or approval from the instructor. We will continue from the building blocks that were formed in Salsa 1, in a fun and safe environment. New techniques will include the Cross Body Lead Inside Turn, Checks, Enchufe/Enchufe Doble, Kentucky, Candado, Exhíbela, and Adios con la hermana. Sign up with a partner or rotate with partners in class! Registration is for one person; *partners must register separately. *This class fills quickly; dance partners should register around the same time to ensure they get into class together. If class is full, please enroll in the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.

Popular social dances from 1907 to today will be taught considering the conventions of their time. Discover how the electronic world is changing the way we dance and how we teach, view and learn the popular dances of the day like the American Tango and Waltz, Big Apple, line dances and contemporary social hits as well. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.