Houston Met dance Adult Studio Workshops

Adult Pointe Workshops

Tuesday 7:30-8:15p w/ Michelle Smith

Thursday 7:30- 8:15p w/ Pattie Obey

  • This Intro/Beginner Pointe workshop is for students who are currently taking Ballet at HMD but have never been on Pointe or have not been on Pointe in a while.

  • Pointe workshops are not available for single class purchase

  • Workshops enroll at the beginning of each month to ensure students have a regular entry point.

  • Workshops are sessioned into 3, 4 or 5 week enrollments depending on the number of weeks in the month.

  • Students are screened for entry into this class by taking the Tuesday or Thursday Ballet Class at 6:15p and must continue to register and take the ballet class prior to pointe  throughout the session.

  • Registration requires purchase of a Adult Studio Workshop Series, as well as a class card for the prerequisite classes.

  • To register for this workshop, please click the link below and scroll till you find the session dates you are looking for

Questions? Contact classes@metdance.org

Adult Dance Making Laboratory Workshops

Dance Making Lab is facilitated by Lori Yuill

Sessions 1 | 7/15-8/19 | Tuesdays 8-9p

Sessions 2 | 9/2-10/7  | Tuesdays 7:30-8:15

Sessions 3 | 10/14-11/18 | Tuesdays 7:30-8:15

  • This workshop/ Lab will use movement scores as a catalyst for movement invention and exploration.

  • Participants will spend time exploring movement invention in response to different sources of inspiration, ex: visual art, music, poetry. Students will be encouraged to bring in ideas they are interested in exploring through dance.

  • Workshops are sessioned into 6 week enrollments.

  • Students are screened for entry by taking the 6:15p Contemporary Post-Modern on Tuesday s and must continue to register and take this class throughout the session.

  • Registration requires purchase of a Adult Studio Workshop Series, as well as a class card for the prerequisite classes.

Dance as Meditation: A Return to Self

Facilitated by Ajhay this workshops Meets Monthly on Sundays from 3-4:30p

Workshop dates: 6/22, 7/27, 8/24, 10/15

Dance as Meditation: A Return to Self -

  • a space where movement becomes medicine, and the body becomes prayer. No steps to memorize. No experience needed. Just you, your breath, your rhythm.

  • This is for anyone seeking to heal, to feel, to come home to themselves—mindfully, joyfully, and with intention.

  • Come as you are. Leave a little lighter. All levels welcome. All bodies are sacred. Let’s move toward wholeness—together.

  • Bring a yoga mat, water, and a journal—
    come ready to move, reflect, and remember.

  • This class also includes the use and burning of sage and incense.

  • No Prerequisite classes are screenings

  • Registration requires purchase of a Single Adult Studio Workshop

Contact Improvisation

Workshop and Jam facilitators: Brian Buck and Persi Mey

Each Jam features a facilitated workshop at 6:30pm, followed by an Open Jam Space from 7:30 - 9:30pm

Summer Jam 2025 dates:

June 13th, June 27th, July 11th, July 25th, August 22nd

Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.