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 6:15 p.m. and must continue to register and take the ballet class prior to pointe throughout the session.

• Registration requires the purchase of an 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

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.