Select a section: Calendar | Registration | School of the Minnesota Ballet Adult Division | Summer Programs | Online Payment Page The School of the Minnesota Ballet offers a one-week intensive of the Creative Dance class for children with developmental challenges: Creative Dance Workshop July 28 – August 1 10 – 11:15 a.m. Grain Exchange Adams Studio 301 W. First St., Suite 800 $70 tuition Registration & information: 218-529-3742 The workshop includes strengthening and stretching exercises, dance instruction to a variety of music, and a student presentation Friday, July 1. The class is supported in part by the Van Gorden Fund of the Miller-Dwan Foundation. Saturday Sampler—September 6, 2008 Ballet Depot Studios, 506 W. Michigan St. Go in the theatre entrance on the right of the Depot. Go down the spiral staircase to the right. Free trial classes: no reservations needed. No special dance clothes needed for the Sampler. Wear comfortable clothing. 10:00 – 10:30 Creative Movement (age 3–5) 10:30 – 11:00 Pre-Ballet (age 6–7) 11:00 – 11:30 Ballet Technique (age 8–10) 11:30 – 12:00 Ballet Technique (age 11–adult) 12:00 – 12:30 Tap for Children (age 8–12) 12:30 – 1:00 Jazz (age 12–adult) 1:00 – 1:30 Modern (age 12–adult) Before or after Sampler classes, you may register for Semester II (September 8, 2008 – January 17, 2009). The School of the Minnesota Ballet is the most sophisticated ballet academy in the Northland region. Children from age three to adult can learn to dance. The staff of the ballet utilizes a positive approach to the dance arts while developing discipline in our young students and future professionals. The Nutcracker Experience Dance students from the School of the Minnesota Ballet have the opportunity in early October to audition for The Nutcracker. This full-length performance has roles for approximately 75 young dancers ages 8-18. Rehearsals begin in October and require extra Saturday classes. With great excitement, children are cast in the first act party scene as young guests (perhaps even as Marie) or in the playful prologue scene, or as tiny wooden soldiers fighting the menacing mice; some are selected as Mother Ginger children or as little shepherdesses for the second act. Students also have many other opportunities to advance their performing skills in the School of the Minnesota Ballet. Thank you to all the students who performed so admirably in The Nutcracker December 14–16, 2007.

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