Calendar
Find information about our upcoming performances, classes, workshops and other events.
Spring 2025: Creative Connections Project (Ages 4-6)
Give your child aged 4-6 the gift of dance. Kids will learn the basic techniques of ballet and modern dance, enjoy music and storytelling, and focus on creating positive self-image.
Spring 2025: Young Dancers Project (Ages 7-12)
Give your child aged 7-12 years the gift of dance. They will learn technical skills, wellness and nutrition, and creative self-expression through movement.
Adult Beginning Modern Dance Workshop
This 7-week series introduces the foundational principles of modern dance in a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment. Students will explore fundamental techniques, including floor work, center exercises, and basic movement phrases, while developing strength, coordination, and creative expression.
Perfect for beginners and those looking to build confidence in their movement journey!
Drop-in Adult Class: Advanced Modern
This Horton-based modern dance class is taught by Artistic Director Karen Charles. The weekly class is designed for advanced/intermediate advanced dancers.
Drop-in Adult Class: Advanced Ballet
This weekly ballet class is designed for advanced dancers and is taught by Artistic Director Karen Charles. The class seeks to deconstruct classical ballet training, emphasizing on artistry and performance, and dancers’ internal knowledge of how to use the technique with their specific body type, while honing their technical skills.
Bloom: A fundraiser for Threads Dance Project
Join us for Bloom: A fundraiser supporting Threads Dance Project
Tapestries 9.0
Tapestries 9.0 continues Threads Dance Project’s tradition of highlighting new choreographic voices. This year’s production features original works by Colin Edwards, Rachel Lieberman, and Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies.
The program also includes Karen L. Charles’ repertory work Let America Be America, inspired by the chant “Make America Great Again” and the idea that America has never been great for everyone. Through a series of spoken word and dance vignettes, the piece highlights the joys and struggles of “the America that is” and “the America that could be.”
Tapestries 9.0 reflects Threads Dance Project’s commitment to showcasing different viewpoints and stories through movement.
Save the Date: Bloomington Center for the Arts 2024-25 Discover Dance Series Mainstage Performances
Threads Dance Project is part of the 2024/2025 Discover Dance Series, including the June 2025 mainstage performance.
Summer 2025: Creative Connections Project (Ages 4-6)
Give your child aged 4-6 the gift of dance. Kids will learn the basic techniques of ballet and modern dance, enjoy music and storytelling, and focus on creating positive self-image.
Summer 2025: Young Dancers Project PLUS (Ages 7-12)
*The PLUS version of Young Dancers Project includes a specialized hour of focused training and additional repertoire within a smaller cohort of dancers with 2+ years of dance experience.
Summer 2025: Young Dancers Project (Ages 7-12)
Give your child aged 7-12 years the gift of dance. They will learn technical skills, wellness and nutrition, and creative self-expression through movement.
Tapestries 9.0 Masterclass: Contemporary w/ Rachel Lieberman
This contemporary-based class begins with a structured, improvisatory warm-up and offers exercises and phrase work focused on directing energy and focus, on controlled gesture and big release, and on functional weight share and soft partnering. In her facilitation, Rachel aims to always center not just the 'what', but the experience, the joy, and the 'why' of dance.
Tapestries 9.0 Masterclass: Waving & Animation w/ bzychln
This class will focus on the techniques of animation movement and waving, stacking on drills, foundations, and concepts to develop a well-rounded understanding of self-expression.
Moving Towards Joy Workshop
Join Threads Dance Project on a restorative journey away from grief, stress, and trauma towards joy, healing, and connection. The Moving Towards Joy workshop is a powerful experience that combines movement, introspection, and journaling to guide you toward a more joyful and peaceful self.
Threads Sneaker Ball
Inspired by our Fall show, which will feature a new work about SHOES, the Sneaker Ball is a great opportunity to dress up and have fun while supporting Threads.
IMPRESSIONS
Threads Dance Project ‘s Fall season performance excavates how our notions and impressions about each other and the world inform our sense of space, place, and knowing.
Bloomington Center for the Arts 2024-25: Discover Dance Series
Threads Dance Project is part of the 2024/2025 Discover Dance Series with performance and education opportunities taking place Sept. 28, 2024.
Fall 2024: Creative Connections Project (Ages 4-7)
Give your child aged 4-7 the gift of dance. Kids will learn the basic techniques of ballet and modern dance, enjoy music and storytelling, and focus on creating positive self-image.
Fall 2024: Young Dancers Project (Ages 8-12+)
Give your child aged 8-12 years the gift of dance. They will learn technical skills, wellness and nutrition, and creative self-expression through movement.
Out of the Ashes
Come experience the powerful and evocative dance film created by Threads Dance Project showing one night only at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis.
Registration Deadline: Auditions
Threads Dance Project is seeking a diverse group of male-identifying and female-identifying dancers, ages 21+ who are versatile, quick learners, and fluent in a variety of dance forms.
Tapestries 8.0 Show
Tapestries 8.0 is Threads Dance Project’s annual showcase of emerging choreographic talents. This year’s show commissions new works from three choreographers – Da’Rius Malone, Averie Mitchell-Brown, and Shoko Tamai.
Bloom Fundraiser 2024
Join Threads for one of our favorite events – Bloom! Our annual Spring fundraiser will include a catered breakfast and performances by the Threads company dancers.
Threads Dance Project’s Monster Mash Bash Fundraiser
Our annual fall fundraiser will take place Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 3:00-5:00pm at Threads Dance Nexus. Come dressed in your Halloween best for festive games, a costume contest, treats, and of course, dancing!