Adult Studio Workshops
Summer Workshops with Alissa LaVergne Martin
Saturday June 20th
10:00a - 11:30a Inter. Jazz Technique
11:45a - 12:45p Theatre Jazz/ Choreography
1:00p - 2:00p Ball Room
Saturday July 18th
10:00a - 11:30a Inter. Jazz Technique
11:45a - 12:45p Theatre Jazz/ Choreography
1:00p - 2:00p Theatre Tap / Choreography
Class Descriptions:
Theatre Jazz is a high-energy, expressive dance class. Designed for combining traditional jazz technique with storytelling, and theatrical showmanship. The open level class will begin with a warm up, then focus on a choreographed combo set to songs from broadway musicals.
Theatre Tap is an open level tap class, focusing on the classic style of broadway tap musicals. We will focus on practicing tap technique in a warm up, then incorporate those steps into a choreographed combo set to music from broadway musicals.
Ballroom is an open level, structured class where the dancer will learn Latin dance steps, technique, and a combination without a partner. It will focus on learning technical footwork and styling for dances like Cha-Cha or Samba. No partner or any prior experience is needed!
Adult Pointe Workshops
Tuesday 7:30-8:15p POINTE I w/ Michelle Smith
Thursday 7:30- 8:15p POINTE II w/ ALISA MITTEN
The Pointe I workshop is for students who are currently taking Beginning/Intermediate Ballet at HMD but have never been on Pointe or have not been on Pointe in a while.
The Pointe II workshop is by approval only. To be approved for Pointe II, students will need to have taken the Pointe I workshop for at least one session.
Pointe workshops are a monthly workshop and students must Re-Register at the beginning of each month. Pointe workshops are not available for single-class purchase
Students are screened for entry into this class by taking the Tuesday or Thursday Beginning/Intermediate 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
Students wishing to do pointe in a Regular Ballet Class must first speak with the instructor for permission. Students will be asked to remove pointe shoes if permission has not been granted prior to class.
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.