Yoga (with dancers in mind)

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Taught by Dustin Maxwell
EMAIL or phone: (505) 553-3450

Sundays, 12:45-1:45pm, Back Door Studio
$20-$10 sliding scale

YOGA (with dancers in mind)
This class uses yoga postures, breathing, visualizations, and other yogic tools to stretch and strengthen the body for steadiness and ease in dance and all other physical engagements; to expand the breath for lightness and clarity of body and mind; to enhance the practitioner’s sensitivity to gross and subtle body awareness; and to center the mind in Presence. The intention is not only to prepare the body for dancing (or whatever other activities you’re engaged in) but to weave the friendly, kind, and loving pristine awareness into all our engagements. May our whole life be the most precious,, graceful, and faithful Dance.

dustin maxwell (500hr ERYT, AYS) is a dancer, maker, performer, death doula, yoga practitioner, yoga guide, and Ayurveda Yoga Specialist with 30 years of experience in dance and 13 years teaching yoga. His yoga classes are supported by his teachers in the Himalayan Tradition, Srividya, Kashmir Shaivism, Yoga, Tantra, Vedanta, as well as his own devoted practice of yoga, dance, and other somatic modalities. He believes that the Truth the yogic texts point to is inherent in the body and that by diving deeply into the body with heightened awareness, humility, and reverence those Truths are revealed to the practitioner. Therefore, his yoga classes use movement, stillness, breath, visualization, deep listening, and mediation to facilitate the proper conditions for Self-realization through gradual and patient opening rather than force or aggression. He knows that he is also a student of yoga who is responsible for holding sacred and safer space for other students to reveal the Innermost Self.

Ecstatic Dance

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Sundays, 12-1:30pm, Front Door Studio
$15+

First Sundays: Contact Dance Improv
Second Sundays: LGBTQ+ Ecstatic Dance
The rest are just Ecstatic Dance. 

More info, please contact Zhenya Novareign EMAIL

Ecstatic Dance invites participants to embody all parts of themselves and explore free-form movement in the presence of community. There is no instruction, and dancers are invited to stay connected to their inner experience. Contact and dancing with others are optional only if consent is established each time, and it is always okay to decline interaction with other dancers.

The mission of Dance Medicine ABQ is to provide a weekly, trauma-informed, ecstatic dance container with live, high-quality music and sound. Our goal is to support the knowledge and experience of somatic-based movement practices and support community building. Opening and closing circles nurture space for establishing the container, sharing experiences, and insights, and building community.




Dance Fitness Bliss

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Taught by Sarah Saenz (Mackenzie)
Mondays, 4:30-5:30
Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30
Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30
All in the Front Door Studio,
$7/class. $60 for 10 classes

Dance Bliss is a class that is essentially Latin dance aerobics.  Taught by a Zumba instructor of 11 years, this class utilizes salsa, merengue, reggaeton, lambada, and a variety of other types of dance with music ranging from Ray Charles to Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa to Don Omar.

Participants are welcome to move in any manner that they like, the energy is free-flowing and welcoming, you can burn anywhere from 200 to 600 calories and tone your body with low, medium or high impact. 

There is zero pressure to dance well or follow the instructor, as long as you are moving.

Also, Maple Street has a sprung dance floor, which will act as a shock absorber for your body. It is the perfect floor for people with injuries, as it protects your spine.

Please contact Sarah at 505-977-8881 with any questions! Let’s get down!

Ballet For Little Ones

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Taught by Deidre Haley 
MUST PRE-REGISTER: CLASS SIZES LIMITED TO 8 CHILDREN.
PLEASE CONTACT DEIDRE IN ORDER TO ATTEND.
$15/class. Cash or check only.
Intermediate Ballet Combo, invitation only.
11:05am -12:05, Front Door Studio

Parents are encouraged to stay while their student participates.

Early dance fundamentals are introduced in a playful but structured classroom setting, exploring Tap, Ballet, Creative Movement, and Tumbling, each class. 

Students will eventually need Ballet & Tap shoes, as well as leotard and tights.  Ballet skirts and tutus are optional and always welcome!  Boys wear sweats, t-shirt, tap shoes, and Ballet or jazz shoes.

 “I wanted to pass along feedback of how much my daughter enjoy's Ms. D's pre-ballet class on Saturdays. After searching online I didn't like the vibe & commitment required of other studios and am really happy with my decision to join Ms. D's class. The space is great and she is so focused on their personal growth and happiness, at a great pace. This is our first dance class (we've been coming since June '19) and I can safely say that I wouldn't pursue another studio after having such a great experience at Maple. Thank you for your time!”

Bosque Center for Spiritual Living

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In person services begin again 6/13/21!

Offered by Reverend Drew Groves with Music Director, Patty Stephens 
Every Sunday Morning, 10-11am, Back Door Studio - enter through Front or Back

WHO WE ARE
Bosque Center for Spiritual Living is a creative community fostering personal fulfillment and universal connectedness, manifesting a kinder and more loving world.

WHAT WE DO
We practice open-hearted and open-minded spiritual realism, explored through the Science of Mind philosophy, New Thought, ancient wisdom, and our own immediate relationship with the Divine.

HOW WE DO IT
We provide supportive structures in which we can do our work together with authenticity, mindfulness, and compassion. These include weekly Sunday services, classes, art and music, care and counseling, and sacred service within and outside the Bosque CSL community.

Ballet de la Terre: Original, Contemporary, Community Dance Classes

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Ballet-Afrique has a new name! Welcome to Ballet de la Terre!
Original, Exuberantly Graceful, Contemporary, Community Dance Classes!

Basics, Intermediate & Advancing
Taught by Romy Keegan
with Live Drumming by Jefferson Voorhees, Javier Saume, or Talon VanHowten, alternating.
(See below for days, times and levels!)

new online class: $15

otherwise,
$20 + 1.58 tax/class.
$75 + 5.91 tax for 4 classes.
$140 + 11.03 tax for 8 classes - VALID FOR 3 MONTHS - COME DANCE!

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Now offering (Magickal) Ballet de la Terre ONLINE Beginning and Mixed Level Class:
Wednesdays, 3:33-4:44pm, $15 online.
More info and REGISTER FOR ZOOM CLASS HERE
NOTE: after registering, check your email for the passcode.

SCROLL DOWN FOR CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Ballet de la Terre: Original, Exuberantly Graceful, Contemporary Dance, with live drumming!

Playful, beginner friendly, community oriented dance classes, Ballet de la Terre is intended to intelligently build strength and stamina, while inspiring dancers to move and to express themselves, with grace and joy! Sunday and Tuesday classes are designed for anyone to drop in, anytime, with or without previous dance experience, and it is my goal and my JOY to provide a welcoming, fun, playful dance experience grounded in accessibility for newcomers, and layered with optional complexity for anyone more experienced. Pop in for just one class, or follow a developing progression of exuberantly graceful weekly choreographies that begin slowly, and evolve in complexity and speed over the week! For dancers with a little more experience, scroll down for Ballet de la Terre Advancing - a Thursday evening class for intermediate (+) dancers!

Ballet de la Terre, Beginning
Sundays, 3:30-4:45pm Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This is a mixed level class, great for adults who have either never danced before, or have limited experience, and are ready to move! It introduces body awareness, balance, coordination, basic natural movement as well as foundational dance concepts, steps & combos, and, builds strength, balance, coordination, agility, stamina and flexibility. Oh, and it’s super fun!

Ballet de la Terre, Beg/Intermediate
Tuesdays, 5:30-7pm, Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This beginning to intermediate level class is great for adult dancers with SOME dance experience, at any point and in any style, OR brand new dancers who have a natural ease with movement in general.  It builds balance, coordination, agility, stamina and flexibility, further introduces natural movement expression and general classical dance concepts, steps and combos, as well as developing body and spatial awareness, coordination, and grace.

Ballet de la Terre, Int/Advancing
Thursdays, 5:30-7pm, Front Door Studio
$20 + 1.58 tax Thank you!

This intermediate/advancing level class, building on choreography from earlier in the week - while standing on its own - is focused on expanding and developing choreography, skills, and technique. Including live drumming but not limited to it, this class is also a space for me to experiment, play, explore, and expand creatively, with a group of trusted, intermediate/advancing/advanced dancers, while continuing to develop the unique and original Ballet de la Terre specific movement vocabulary, which fosters exuberance, agility, and grace.

More about Ballet de la Terre

With a reverent bow to ALL my Teachers along the Way, Ballet de la Terre, (formerly known as Ballet-Afrique), is the original, joyful expression and continued exploration and development of my own unique, personal, dance and movement vocabulary. It is inspired by a lifetime of ballet training and over 25 years of West African dance, and intended to capture the spirit, energy, and open-accessibility of a community African dance class, (with its repetitive, organic and natural movement), while harnessing the focus, flexibility, strength, and grace, inherent in the most accessible elements of ballet technique. The original and creative utilization of both styles of movement produces a playful, dynamic, and exuberantly graceful contemporary fusion, suitable and accessible, for everyone who LOVES TO DANCE! Ballet-Afrique, now called Ballet de la Terre, was first introduced to my closest students in the autumn of 2012, and continues to blossom and grow through these on-going, supportive, playful, community dance classes. It is also the unique and magickal movement used for choreography in Dancing Our Magick: Dancing the Directions to Awaken a Magickal Life, a seven week workshop blending magickal principles with magickal movement. Curious?
www.DancingOurMagick.com

CLASS: Naturally aerobic and energizing movements are broken down and moved across the floor, both right and left sides, for initial exercise and pure joy of natural movement. Totally accessible lines, shapes & movements that flow, utilize core strength and develop inherent grace, are then woven throughout, embellishing and accenting the overall expression of the choreography and of the dancers present.

Class begins and ends with stretching and strengthening exercises and important technique designed for the whole dancer. Each class is its own full lesson, so dancers have the freedom to drop-in, building their abilities and comfort levels based entirely on their own time and inspiration!

ATTIRE: Wear anything that you can move and stretch in, and feel joyful, beautiful, handsome and free in - we tend to wear leggings or dance shorts with a dress or skirt & shirt on top.  We dance barefoot, but ballet shoes, jazz shoes, and even sneakers are welcome if needed or desired! 

Adult Ballet Basics + Contemporary

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Beginning to Intermediate Contemporary Ballet:
Basic, Foundational Ballet Technique for Wisdom, Strength and Grace, highlighted and expanded with Contemporary Choreography, to Nourish and Free the Spirit.
And, a Restorative, Gentle, Ballet + Contemporary, daytime Class
Taught by Romy Keegan (Scroll down for days, times and levels.)

$15 + 1.16 tax for 1 class, drop-in
$56 + 4.41 tax for 4 classes
$104 + 8.19 tax for 8 classes - VALID FOR 3 MONTHS - COME DANCE!

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Special Note: The last week of each month I devote to developing my new dance project, “Dancing Our Magick”. During this time very special guest instructors teach my classes. This provides my students with extra sparkle each month from other gifted teachers who I greatly respect, and myself with a little extra time to work on the exciting new programs I have in store for us! I hope you will take advantage of the talent and super fun classes my guest teachers offer!

Friendly, welcoming, community dance classes, beginning to intermediate levels, with a freakish focus on mechanics and technique at the barre, and playful, fun, skill building classical and contemporary combinations in the center and across the floor. 

Great classes for beginners with at least an intro class under their belt, dancers returning from short to long breaks, and dancers of any level looking to strengthen basic technique, for stronger, long-term dancing in any form.

Ballet Basics + Contemporary, Levels I & II
Wednesdays, 5:30-6:45pm, Front Door Studio

Ballet Basics + Contemporary, Levels II & III
Sundays, 2:00-3:15pm, Back Door Studio

GENTLE Ballet Basics
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30pm, Front Door Studio
Gentle Ballet Basics for women over 55 - and anyone else looking for a gentle, beginner class! Come enjoy the benefits of ballet in a welcoming, playful and ultra supportive environment in order to develop strength, balance, flexibility, focus and concentration, as well as grace and ease of movement. This body positive class builds confidence, community and JOY!

Private, in-person lessons available
30 minutes — $40 + 3.00 tax
45 minutes — $50 + 3.75 tax
EMAIL ME HERE to schedule

Afro-Cuban Folkloric & Last Monday of the Month - Samba!

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OUR DEEPEST CONDOLANCES TO PILAR’S HUSBAND AND CO-TEACHER, FRANK LETO, THEIR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, TO ODARA DANCE ENSEMBLE, AND THE EXTENSIVE DRUM, MUSIC AND DANCE COMMUNITIES IN HER ORBIT.

Pilar passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, February 11th. She was a bright and radiant Light of Love and Joy, and the studio is emptier without her.

To stay up to date with the future of this dance class please follow ODARA DANCE ENSEMBLE for more info!

CLASS CURRENTLY ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Pilar Leto
Mondays, 6-7:15pm, Front Door Studio
Drop-in: $15, 4 class card for $50, 8 class card for $90

Afro-Cuban Folkloric: Sacred dances for the Orishas (dieties) of the Yoruba pantheon that were brought to Cuba centuries ago and are kept alive today. Each class focuses on a different Orisha. If you drop in, you might join us in dances for Oshun, the goddess of love and fresh water, Yemaya, the goddess of the ocean or Chango, the god of thunder and lightening.

Each class starts with a warm up conducive to the movement subtleties of this style of dance. This class is accompanied by live Bata drum and song accompaniment, featuring Frank Leto, Cesar Bauvallet, Tomas White and Nick Baker.

Brazilian samba: The last Monday of the month is Brazilian samba class. Samba, the national dance of Brazil celebrates life. Come join in Carnaval steps, carioca style. Live samba rhythms played on Brazilian percussion instruments accompany this fun, high-energy class.

Holiday classes will be taught by an Odara Dance Ensemble core member.