Minneapolis Public Schools

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.

*UPDATE 8.25.25 The title, schedule and location of this class has changed since the brochure was printed. This class meets at South High School on Thursdays from 7:35-8:55pm, Oct. 9 - Dec 11 (no class Oct 16 or Nov. 27). 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.

Line dancing is individuals dancing in unison to predetermined music in predetermined patterns. Individuals will not dance with a partner, nor have physical contact with other dancers. Feel energized as you dance to fun popular music from several decades and genres of music. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.