• Open Ballet - Fidel Ernesto Orrillo Puga, Location: George 102

Come participate in a regularly scheduled Ballet class. Get the chance to dance with and learn from a Nazareth Dance Program faculty member. 

• Tap - Cheryl Johnson, Location: George 154

Come participate in a regularly scheduled Tap class. Get the chance to dance with and learn from a Nazareth Dance Program faculty member. 

• Improv - Heather Roffe, Location: George 102

Come participate in a regularly scheduled Improvisational class, with the Nazareth Dance Program Director, Heather Roffe. 

• Intro to Contemporary: Cat Olson, Location: George 154

Come participate in a regularly scheduled semester Contemporary class. Get the chance to dance with and learn from a Nazareth Theatre and Dance Department faculty member. 

• Power, Rhythm, Speed - Modern Technique in Action: Daniel Gwirtzman, Location: George 102

Rooted in Daniel’s contemporary choreography, this energetic master class challenges coordination, stamina, and speed. Known for a unique style blending modern dance, theater dance, and folk, Daniel cultivates the physicality of the athlete and the expressivity of the artist. This fun class blends virtuosity with pedestrianism, casualness with precision. Rewiring the body to tackle rhythmic work and unexpected coordination challenges the dancer both physically and intellectually.

• Contemporary Technique: Cat Olson, Location: George 154 

Come participate in a regularly scheduled Contemporary class. Get the chance to dance with and learn from a Nazareth Dance Program faculty member. 

• Contemporary/Modern: BDT Company Member, Location: George 154

Come take class with a company member from Boston Dance Theater  

• Ballet III - Beth Bartholomew, Location: George 102 

Come participate in a regularly scheduled Ballet class. Dance with and learn from a Nazareth Dance Program faculty member. 

• Contemporary Partnering - Heather Roffe, Location: George 102

A regularly scheduled semester class opened up to the public. Learn foundational contemporary/modern partnering skills to promote safety and efficiency when when moving intricately alongside other dancers

• Stepping and Stomping - The Art Of Folk Dance: Daniel Gwirtzman, Location: George 102 

High-energy folk dances from around the globe are introduced in this fun and cardiovascular class. Learn partner and group dances and enjoy the spirit of dancing together as a community! A great way to experience the joy of moving.

• Ballet II - Alexandra Insigna, Location: George 102, Level - Beginner to Intermediate  

 Come participate in a regularly scheduled Ballet class. Dance with and learn from a Nazareth Dance Program faculty member. 

• Modern MOVES: Marisa Ballaro, Location: George 154

Modern MOVES is a high-energy, exploratory class rooted in early American modern dance. Open to all levels, it blends biomechanics, expressive movement, and spatial awareness. Students build strength, articulation, and injury-free efficiency through technical exercises and creative challenges. The class incorporates floor-work, standing phrases, and traveling sequences emphasizing breath, joint alignment, and intention. Peer feedback and collaborative exploration are central, fostering a “classroom as lab” environment where dancers connect body, mind, and space through dynamic practice.

• Modern Dance Partnering in Motion - Teresa Fellion, Location: George 102

This workshop explores modern dance partnering through the lens of momentum, trust, and shared weight. This class will emphasize fluid transitions, responsive listening, and grounded physicality. Participants will investigate counterbalance, weight exchange, and lifts, while centering anatomical awareness, consent, and adaptability. Rooted in contemporary and release-based practices, the workshop supports inclusive partnering, encouraging dancers to move collaboratively while honoring individuality, connection, and safety.

• Jazz Technique - Teresa Fellion, Location: George 102 

This class explores jazz as a dynamic, evolving form rooted in history, musicality, and individual expression. Drawing from Broadway, concert jazz, and the African diaspora, the class emphasizes technique, rhythm, and embodied storytelling. This workshop centers on inclusivity, creative inquiry, and socially informed practice. Dancers will experience a head-to-toe warmup, across-the-floor technique exercises, and eccentric jazz combination, which builds physical strength, versatility, and a deeper connection between movement, music, and lived experience.

• Community Imprints - Marisa Ballaro, Location: George 154

Community Imprints is a sensory-rich, somatic movement workshop that centers breath, sensation, and embodied awareness. Beginning with improvisation, participants explore and awaken deep listening within the body and space; illuminated imagery is encouraged and sensed through an engagement with lighted lanterns throughout the studio. Guided navigation leads to the creation of mini movement studies, emphasizing personal storytelling, connection, and reflection. The class builds in intensity based on participants' levels, inviting authentic, holistic exploration.

Boston Dance Theatre Performance - Location: Callahan Theater 

Experience Boston Dance Theater perform in Callahan Theater, located in the Arts Center. Strong Women is an evening of short works that the company commissioned from renowned choreographers Sidra Bell, Rena Butler, Rosie Herrera, Micaela Taylor, and Yue Yin. Go to the box office webpage to order tickets now!

• JLDC (Jon Lehrer Dance Company) Technique - Jon Lehrer, Location: George 154

The JLDC class integrates the approach and fluidity of modern dance, the excitement and energy of jazz dance, and the laws of physics to create an expressive, and highly physical style of movement. Focusing on the 3-main elements that embody Jon Lehrer's trademark athletic style: Circularity, 3-Dimensionality, and Momentum, the exercises and warm-ups will prepare the dancer for movement that is organically athletic and supremely dynamic. Learn the technique and style that Dance Magazine says, “is on the cusp of jazz/modern fusion.”

• Dance Lab - Emotion in Motion: Teresa Fellion, Location: George 102

This dance lab blends modern and contemporary dance techniques with improvisation and choreography, guiding participants through a process of discovery and creation. Together, we will generate movement rooted in emotional and thematic material, exploring how personal stories and shared ideas can shape dynamic performance. Through embodied practice, dancers will engage in deep expression, cultivate collaborative creativity, and develop choreography that reflects both individual voice and collective vision.

TWO classes are offered during this time slot

• Jazz Dance Explorations: Sarah Zehnder, Location: George 154

Get ready to move, sweat, and groove to tunes from Bublé to Beyoncé! Class will explore a wide range of jazz influences including movement practices from Katherine Dunham, Matt Mattox, Salsa, Contemporary, Funk, and Improvisation. Zehnder’s class is dynamic and energized with an emphasis on musicality, groundedness, isolations, shape flow, core stability, and the fluidity of the spine.

• BDT Guest Artist Class - Instructor TBD, Location: George 102

Come take class with a company member from Boston Dance Theater  

• Dancing With Our Ancestors - Catching Mangoes Dance, Location: A14 (Located in the Arts Center)

Dancing With Our Ancestors invites participants to explore movement as a bridge to memory, heritage, and healing. Guided by Catching Mangoes Dance, the workshop includes creating a collective ancestral altar—participants may bring an artifact or offering, returned afterward. Through improvisation, partnering, and somatic practice, we honor ancestral presence in our bodies while engaging storytelling and reflection.

TWO classes are offered during this time slot

• JLDC (Jon Lehrer Dance Company) Repertory: Jon Lehrer, Location: George 154 

Learn the dynamic, world renowned JLDC repertory that Dance Magazine describes as ’strikingly original” and “an energy field of super-charged particles”.

• Technique and Partnering: Sarah Zehnder, Location: George 102

• Modern - Teresa Fellion, Location: George 102

This class will develop students' modern and contemporary dance foundations, while challenging our minds and bodies to approach movement from a unique and sometimes unfamiliar lens. This class will focus on Horton, Graham, release techniques and organic movement approaches. Students will also explore elements of Laban technique and Limon, in addition to grounded release work and spirals informed by anatomical awareness inherited from Irene Dowd and Peggy Gould. Dancers will discover ways to integrate these techniques into their own individual movement practice and generate phrase work.

• Authentic Artistry: 32nd Pack Dance Company, Location: George 154

This class will explore intermediate/advanced contemporary floorwork and company repertoire. Dancers will be guided to nurture their mind-body connection to help develop their artistry. As dancers learn company repertoire they will be challenged to find their own authentic voice through movement choices & performance skills. Dancers will also work on using their full kinesphere while smoothly transitioning in and out of the floor throughout warm up, improvisation, and company repertoire.

• Contemporary Ballet: Stevie Oakes, Location: George 102 

At the intersection of classical ballet and (post) modern technique, this class seeks to introduce ideas of off-balance, isolation and floor work to the traditional form and shape of ballet. Exaggerated line, internal sensation and technical virtuosity will be at play, following the arc from barre to center-floor to larger traveling movements phrases. We will explode and explore the technique to provide dancers with a more thorough understanding of the possibilities inherent within the danse d’ecole. Full-bodied physicality is encouraged as we push the boundaries of classical form with a mindful, sensitive, and anatomically responsible approach to contemporary movement sensibility.

The Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company is presenting the film, Framing Ménerbes in the Shults Forum located in the Shults Center. The Forum doors open at 5 PM, film starts at 5:30 PM. There will be an Artist Talk Back immediately proceeding the screening of the film between Daniel Gwirtzman himself and a local Rochester artist going from 6:30 - 7:00 PM. Go to the eventbrite link to view ticket pricing and to purchase advance tickets. 

MAD Weekend Mixer

Community members, guest artists, and college students will all meet in the Reading Lounge located in Shults Center. Come to network and interact with fellow artists, dancers, students, and instructors from around Rochester and beyond. Food and beverage will be supplied.

THREE classes offered during this time slot

• Contemporary Partnering: Catching Mangoes Dance, Location: George 102

This contemporary partnering class explores weight sharing, balance, and trust through dynamic movement. Dancers will practice improvisation, counterbalance, and fluid transitions while learning lifts and partnering tricks that expand connection and creativity. Class also includes learning excerpts of Catching Mangoes Dance repertory, applying partnering techniques to choreographic material. Emphasis is on communication, play, and discovering new pathways together.

• JLDC (Jon Lehrer Dance Company) Technique and Style: Jon Lehrer, Location: George 154 

The JLDC class integrates the approach and fluidity of modern dance, the excitement and energy of jazz dance, and the laws of physics to create an expressive, and highly physical style of movement. Focusing on the 3-main elements that embody Jon Lehrer's trademark athletic style: Circularity, 3-Dimensionality, and Momentum, the exercises and warm-ups will prepare the dancer for movement that is organically athletic and supremely dynamic. Learn the technique and style that Dance Magazine says, “is on the cusp of jazz/modern fusion.”

• Restorative Movement For Nervous System Regulation: Michaela "M" Neild, Location: Sands Studio located in the Arts Center(A125)

THREE classes offered during this time slot

• Ballet For Musical Theater Performers: Full Body Dynamics - Felipe Panama, Location: George 102 - Sponsored by Theatre League 

Felipe focuses on mastery of concepts that are available to all bodies and empower students to explore and push their physical limits by breaking down the math of dance. In this course, dancers will be guided through an intermediate ballet technique class. Class focuses on full body engagement through mindful use of the arms, legs and eyes, as well as finding dynamics that are musical and impactful. The concepts of classical dance are presented as movement mechanics that help all performers discover how their own bodies, with unique proportions, react to momentum when turning, jumping and transferring their weight across the space. Movement and musical concepts are presented together for the student to explore dynamics and artistry. The class combines each element of mechanics and their relationship to time signatures and tempo, as well as momentum and muscular efforts.

• JDLC (Jon Lehrer Dance Company) Repertory: Jon Lehrer, Location: George 154

Learn the dynamic, world renowned JLDC repertory that Dance Magazine describes as ’strikingly original” and “an energy field of super-charged particles”.

• Pilates with The Oov- Nancy Hughes, Location: Sands Studio (A125) located in the Arts Center 

The Oov is a small, dynamic piece of equipment that will be provided during class. Designed to challenge stability and alignment, it invites the body to address rigidity patterns and develop deeper strategies for efficient movement. Using Pilates, we will explore how the Oov highlights global responses that often mask a lack of local control. This class will target insufficiencies in passive and motor control systems, improve awareness of positioning and demand, and regulate breath to help support pain reduction, increased stability, and freer movement.

THREE classes offered during this time slot 

• Pre-Professional Ballet - Aldo Katton, Location: George 102

This class applies the principles of Cuban classical dance technique with a special emphasis in dynamics and musicality adding elements from other dance techniques. The barre focuses on establishing and consolidating precise movement, mechanics for jumping and turning, while building endurance and developing full body coordination. Center work pushes the dancer to transfer their weight quickly, move across the space with freedom and develop moments of personal artistry. My approach to technique is a body positive focus on movement concepts that are available to all body types, while creating a safe space for students to explore trial and error.

• Contemporary Explorations: Sarah Zehnder, Location: George 154 

THREE classes offered during this time slot

• Neo-Classical Ballet: Aldo Katton, Location: George 102 

This class applies the principles of classical dance technique with a special emphasis in dynamics and musicality adding elements from contemporary dance and jazz. The barre focuses on establishing the center to play with balance outside of it. Using electronic and modern music we explore how free can a movement go instead of the controlled movements of a classical ballet class. My approach to technique is a body positive focus on movement concepts that are available to all body types, while creating a safe space for students to explore trial and error.

• Musical Theater Repertoire - "Be Italian" From NINE:  Felipe Panama, Location: George 154

 Class begins with a center warm-up that utilizes concepts from jazz codifications such as Luigi, Matt Mattox and Jack Cole, as well as modern dance and ballet technique through a jazz filter. Through dance and traditional conditioning, fundamentals of alignment guide students through exercises to strengthen, lengthen and prepare the body for dancing. Full body awareness and isolations provide the dancers with tools for musicality, style, and control.

• Who Has Time for Cross-Training? - Getting the Most Out of Class Time for Dance Fitness: Stevie Oakes, Location: Sands Studio (A125) located in the Arts Center 

As dancers and athletes are inundated with messages of “more is more,” the realities of recovery and rest are sometimes lost. This class is designed for the dancer and dance educator to bring attention to dance fitness and wellness goals with balance in mind. We’ll EMBODY a variety of movement activities to center approaches to class taking (and pedagogy) that promote aerobic endurance, strength gains, flexibility and mobility, and agility. We will also make time to discuss tips for appropriate warm-up, cool-down, and recovery. Bring your questions and curiosity so we can begin to develop an individualized plan based on your goals and your body.

• MAD Guest Artists Showcase and Post-Show Talk-Back - Location: Callahan Theater 

A curated showing of choreographic pieces from guest artists and a chance to discuss their work after the show.