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Discover the vibrant world of performing arts in Chicago with classes in acting, dance, and improv, where participants can learn valuable skills in character development, stage presence, and creative expression.
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In-Studio: Troye Sivan - "Rush"
DivaDance Chicago @ 1415 N Dayton St, Chicago, IL
Join us in-studio for a high energy, fun 1 hour class - great for ALL LEVELS of dancers. All DivaDance classes start with community time to get to know the squad and kick off with a high energy warmup/stretch. Then you'll get sexy and sweaty while you learn an all levels, low-impact cardio dance choreo routine featuring original, fierce choreography influenced by your favorite music videos and pop songs. Before we finish off with a sexy...
$25
In-Studio: Beyoncé - "Alien Superstar"
DivaDance Chicago @ 1415 N Dayton St, Chicago, IL
Join us in-studio for a safe, socially-distanced 1 hour class - great for ALL LEVELS of dancers. All DivaDance classes start with community time to get to know the squad and kick off with a high energy warmup/stretch. Then you'll get sexy and sweaty while you learn an all levels, low-impact cardio dance choreo routine featuring original, fierce choreography influenced by your favorite music videos and pop songs. Before we finish off with...
$25
Joy of Burlesque! Dance Fitness
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3317 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
Experience the joy of burlesque! Embark on a thrilling journey as you follow the leader, immersing yourself in a world of electrifying bumps, mesmerizing grinds, tantalizing shimmies, and captivating struts. Embracing the power of femininity and celebrate the beauty of your unique shape. Bring your performance to life by seamlessly incorporating choreography into your own acts. Immerse yourself in the rhythmic beats and embrace your body’s movements...
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The Wedding Dance
Kathy Brown TLC LLC @ 3868 N Lincoln Ave, Illinois City, IL
Your wedding dance is your moment to express how you feel about each other. It can be as simple or extravagant as you want it to be. This class will focus on creating a romantic routine that flows effortlessly, expresses your love, and is easy to remember. Get ready for your big day!
All levels
18 and older
Hireability & Making Money
Whether you are an aspiring or established performers, some of the most important choices you'll make in your burlesque career will involve who to work with, who to turn down, and when to ask for more money. In this class, we'll discuss what characteristics make a performer hireable and how to make the most of your current and potential resources via organization, finding your niche, ettiquette, and even community politics! This class demystifies...
Professional Performer Practicum: Stage Presence
Whether your performance style is sexy or funny, whether you are standing, talking, or dancing, learn techniques that will allow you to become more accessible to the audience. With emphasis on confidence-driven movement drills, facial expressions, and mental focus and calm, this class is geared towards established and aspiring performers who'd like to appear more comfortable on stage. Teacher will guide students through techniques including...
Knitted Flowers
Hand-knit flowers can be a great way to add a personal touch to an ensemble. In this class, we will make three different types of knitted flowers and explore ways to amp them up. Basic knitting skills are required. Class fee includes materials.
Serious Doodles: Graphic Documentation
Graphic documentation is a process of illustrative note-taking. Learn how to illustrate, emphasize, and organize your notes with graphics, colors, and writing styles - think doodling on steroids. Participants will learn through case studies, start a visual vocabulary, and practice graphic documentation in class. If you are a doodler, a visual learner, or just plain like markers, this workshop is for you.
Shapeflow: Moving on Impulse
Shapeflow is a free-movement tool developed to help artists focus on mind-body connection and free themselves from the limitations that habitual movement can create. Take this workshop and find ways to move the way you want to! Shapeflow is all about impulsive movement; find the full breadth of the shapes and sizes you can make with your wonderful expansive body. In this workshop we will focus specifically on finding a neutral body through...
Hello, Gorgeous! - Wig Care
Whip that wig into shape and work it! Wig Care with Shirley Blazen covers essentials on wig maintenance, and tailoring that dream hair to your gorgeous head. We'll cover the foundations on securing wigs, styles and how to tailor them to you. Bring your favorite wig as we dive in head-first through real-time styling techniques. All levels and genders welcome.
Hello, Gorgeous! - Stage Face
We're putting our game faces on and striking a pose in this Stage Make-Up workshop designed to brush up on the basics and explore new techniques to elevate the looks you love! All levels of experience welcome as we start from the perfect foundation to the sparkly details. Bring your favorite colors and tools. We'll discuss how to maximize the impact of your products and experiment with color. Put your best face forward and flaunt a stage look...
Performer Branding 101: The Basics
This course will teach you the basics of establishing and marketing your brand as a performer. We'll cover: getting an email address, domain purchasing/hosting, what goes into a performer website, business cards, headshots, social media and more! With almost 10 years of advertising experience for brands such as Microsoft, Glade, Starbucks and bebe - let Shimmy help you get your online life!
Fundamentals of Serving Face and Body
Dress sharply head to toe and experience several exercises designed to work your every angle for an audience of one or a sold out crowd. Formalwear required
Dance Flair & Clean Lines : For Stage Performers
Add pizazz with some fun dance techniques & refine your lines with dancer & performer Gaea Lady! This workshop will teach how to be aware of and extend the lines of your body for the stage to help embody characters, invite grace, and strike clean poses. We'll then play with fun spins & turns, leg extensions, core stability, and fancy footwork to add into your stage routines. Beginner-Intermediate movers of all ages & backgrounds...
Lilly Rascal's Rock and Roll Workshop
Do you like Burlesque but always wanted to it to have an edge? Lilly Rascal is teaching her Rock and Roll workshop - she will combine rock and roll with classic burlesque moves, using different genres of rock music to teach you kick-ass combinations, across the floor and floor work that will really rip your fishnets!!
Chair and Boa Work
Learn from a burlesque legend! In this special workshop that has been taught all over the country by esteemed BHOF legend and Las Vegas resident Tiffany Carter, you will be guided through using props like chairs and boas to improve your stage presence and appearance.
Movement for Everybody
Ideal for performers with disabilities, those without dance training, big bodied performers, or movers who want to branch out from their training this movement workshop utilizes the principles of Integrated Dance to make your body work for you. Utilized by Candoco Dance Company and Axis dance company, Integrated Dance is a method of individualized technique. We will take a somatic approach to movement and explore three core principles: Intention,...
Burlesque Clownesque
Using techniques of body movement, facial expressions, humor and exaggeration, you can become a burlesque clown. The clown comes from within ourselves, from our body's creativity and discovering this gives us permission and freedom to be crazy and wacky! Polly will help you create a burlesque clown through exercises and explanations. Whether you're a clown who would like to discover burlesque or burlesque artist who would like to explore clowning,...
The Art of Asking
The hoots, hollers, and wild appause from the audience can be one of the most gratifying parts of burlesque. This class teaches an ethic of interaction and reciprocity with the audience, focusing on learning how to earn audience feedback and let the audience know when it's time to cheer. Make your "Wow!" moments land harder, and keep your character up from your first step on stage to the flutter close of the curtains.
Cane Technique & Balancing
Learn a no-fail technique for spinning, balancing, and dancing with a cane in this workshop which will leave you able to manipulate this prop with confidence.
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