404 W. 30th Street • Austin, TX • 512.474.0980
The Fluent Body with Sarah Brumgart offers group Yoga classes for all skill levels and ages, Wednesdays noon-1pm and Thursdays 6-7pm.
Classes held @ Austin Center for Holistic Healing & Yoga, 5515 Balcones Drive, 2nd floor, near 2222 & Mopac, across from Chez Zee Restaurant, above Independence Title, entrances to staircase by Pakmail or Nails.
Register at sarah@sarahbumgart.com
512-241-1915
The Dance Zone’s popular, sexy/nightclub style cardio classes are back and better than ever with a new instructor, Amber Prowell, and new vibe Wednesdays 7:45-8:45pm. This class will focus on combining sexy choreography and freestyle 
dance techniques to help tone and build stamina. Done in a nightclub environment with dark lighting and bangin’ beats from Lady Gaga to Beyonce, this class will be “lots of booty, cute and sassy, high energy and upbeat”!
Prowell has been a member of the GoGo Gadgettes, a high energy dance troupe made up of contemporary dancers, hula hoopers, flag and fire spinners since 2007. The Gadgettes perform regularly at Austin’s top nightclubs, music festivals, with many of the world’s top headliners and at major events like the P-Diddy Superbowl After Party.
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The Dance Zone is hosting a Pro Dance Prep Workshop and Team Training Camp on April 30th from 1-4pm taught by instructor and owner, Liz Walter.
You will learn style-specific routines from professional dance teams, kick lines, special pro team specific workout moves to get you in your best shape as well as tons of other tips and tricks to help you prepare for the upcoming audition season. Including how to get the judges attention, what the directors/judges for each of these teams is looking for ie: what to wear, how to do your makeup and hair, what technical skills to focus on most in your private lessons, why you should add cardio classes and whether or not this is really right for you.
Special guest and Dallas Cowboy’s Cheerleader, Alyssa Sarasani, will also be
attending and is eager to share her extensive knowledge about auditioning for professional dance teams. Sarasani began her dancing career in Austin by taking Walter’s UT Informal Street Jazz classes before The Dance Zone opened in 2003 and since then she has danced and cheered with the Ice Bats Batgirls Dance Team, Texas Wranglers, Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Cowboys. She will be an invaluable source of information regarding the audition process for these professional dance teams.
To RSVP ASAP for this event email liz@inthedancezone.com
Pre-registration is open and recommended.
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Feb 26-27 @ Third Coast Dance Center, 2565 Jackson Keller Rd, San Antonio TX 78230, Beg & Adv levels, 210-863-5190, www.pilarandujar.net
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The Chaddick Dance Theater’s contemporary dance performance exploring self image, feminine energy and anger “Tender Voices in Flight” will be Feb 17-19th at 8pm and 20th at 2pm, Austin Ventures Studio Theater at Ballet Austin, 501 W. 3rd St. This event will include four evocative pieces with choreography and dance by Cheryl Chaddick and three performances by company members. Purchase tickets in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com. **A percentage of the proceeds from Thursday night’s performance will go to Safeplace.**
Tapestry Dance Co presents the jazzy rendition of everyone’s favorite holiday story entitled Of Mice And Music: A Jazz Nutcracker at the Long Center, Dec 14-19. This professional, non-profit dance company has prepared a rhythmic masterpiece of flappin’ and tappin’ feet that you can’t afford to miss this season. Sunday matinee is already sold out! To get your tickets quickly click here.
Ballroom, Swing, Tango, Salsa, Scandinavian, Contra-whatever the style, the beginning class is so beautiful. Everyone is transformed into a band of alien explorers on a distant planet. No one is safe and yet together they know they will get each other through. Every type of alien is there, the shy, the awkward, the cool, the stubborn, the bossy, even the “how did I get here” humanoid.
Whether the class is in a secluded studio or the hottest night club, their is an air of excitement like the space ship has landed and what will we do now.
The first test of man with woman comes way too soon and there you have two people with empty brains trying to navigate on an alien planet. The smile, the grimace, the pause, and then the music begins. “I can’t really get this.” “Sorry I got your toe.”
Then the fun begins. “Oh I think I know this, try just a little of this” “That’s better, didn’t think I could do that.” Giggles and chuckles become laughs and then you change partners. The next partner is moving with a little more bounce or charges the movement different somehow. Then the next partner floats from move to move and you wonder where you are in the dance.
Catching the fun of each partner is like bouncing a balloon around the room at a party. Some people send it straight to you and some people are just playing.
Stuck. Two partners inevitably find themselves in a frozen piece of alien ice. To the rescue, the social dance instructor. These are your highly skilled navigators trained on the best starships. The whole body is their tool kit and in one minute, the partners are unstuck, laughing or gliding away with serious looks on their faces.
In the whole evening there are probably at least 10,000 breaths of relief that every person there actually had fun and that no one was devoured by their partner. Sometimes an alien planet is the best place to be.
Virginia’s Ballet Austin Experience
Dance class as an adult can be a little scary. Our bodies don’t recoup as quickly as a hard workout, our brains run a little bit slower than they did at age 16, and I am sure none of us look the same as we did 10 years ago.
At the Butler Community School at Ballet Austin these fears all seem to disappear. I have been taking class at Ballet Austin for about 6 months and couldn’t feel better about myself. Not only am I working out with fantastic teachers, I am invited into this amazing environment of people who make art all day and want me to get involved. And let me tell you about the facility. WOW!! State of the art to say the least.
Whether you’ve never put on a pair of dance shoes, or are just squeezing back into that leotard, everyone deserves to take a dance class at Ballet Austin.
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