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Foundations Pomegranate Improvisational Dance
Pomegranate Improvisational Dance (PID, formerly known as ATS®) class begins with postural, anatomical technique and teaches 20 basic movements and their cues, from both the slow and fast families of these movements. Basic zil patterns, costuming, and musical interpretation specific to this style, its history, and philosophy are taught.
Wednesdays @ 6pm MT in-person or virtual.
Drop-In $20, or take Foundations & Intermediate back-to-back for $35. Cash is preferred, otherwise pay below:
Intermediate Pomegranate Improvisational Dance
This class covers the Slow, Fast and Medium family of Intermediate level Pomegranate Improvisational Dance (formerly ATS) movements, along with transitions, learning to lead and follow, basic performance format, improvisational technique, and musical interpretation.
Wednesdays @ 7pm MT in-person or virtual.
Drop-In $20, or take Foundations & Intermediate back-to-back for $35. Cash is preferred, otherwise pay below:
Raks Sharqui Foundations
Known in the Middle East as Raks al Sharqi (which translated means dance of the orient) this class offers an introduction to the foundational movements, rhythms and history of Egyptian style belly dance while interweaving dance from many different regions and cultures of the Middle East. Focus is on anatomical technique, posture, isolation, separation, articulation and layering.
Thursdays @ 6pm MT in-person or virtual.
Drop-In $20, or take Foundations & Intermediate back-to-back for $35. Cash is preferred, otherwise pay below:
Raks Sharqui Improvisation (Intermediate)
This class expands on Raks Sharqui vocabulary. Focus is on layering, rhythmic fluency, improvisation, and performance technique.
Thursdays @ 7pm MT in-person or virtual.
Drop-In $20, or take Foundations & Intermediate back-to-back for $35. Cash is preferred, otherwise pay below:
Funk-Ex Fitness
Created by Myra Krien, this class incorporates jazz, funk, hip-hop, bellydance, salsa, flamenco, tango & more… Move to music that makes you want to dance, for the most FUN you have ever had in a cardio workout!! Class ends with a weighted work, abdominal exercises, & deep stretching. 60 min.
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12-1pm MT in-person or virtual.
Drop-In: $15. Class Card: $120 (10 classes at $12). Cash is preferred, otherwise pay below:
In addition to our studio classes, Pomegranate is home to several fantastic instructors of many different disciplines in the Santa Fe community! Please see below for these offerings.
Commercial Dance Fusion & Modern Dance
Begins May 19
Mondays 6-7pm - Commercial Dance Fusion
Mondays 7-80pm - Modern Dance
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This fun and energetic class blends the styles of contemporary, jazz, funk, lyrical and more. Class begins with a warm-up and goes right into learning choreography. Learn routines akin to today's popular choreographers such as Parris Goebel, Shawn Bankman, and more to all of today's best music! No air-to-floor work is incorporated into routines.
CLASS TIME:
MONDAYS: 6:00-7:00PM -
INTRODUCTION TO MODERN DANCE
This modern class begins introducing adult students to the beautiful technique modern dance showcases. While we do not work in a particular style of technique, CB's class blends styles of Horton, Limon, and Graham to create a class ideal for the adult body.
We limit floor work and do not do any air to floor movements. This class is a great way to build balance, stability, and learn how to move with joy in a technique that complements ballet training so well.CLASS TIMES:
MONDAYS: 7:00-8:00PM
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Cadenza Ballet classes are a welcoming, inclusive space where students are amplified for the people, dancers and artists they are. We celebrate the joy in movement and make our classes fun while providing high-quality ballet training. CB also provides performing opportunities for adult ballet dancers through our company, Zenith Ballet Project.
All classes are taught by founder and Artistic Director, Leigh Grant, who has 4 decades of professional ballet training and 7+ years of teaching experience. She has trained with artists from Ballet West through artÉmotion Ballet School, Kathryn Morgan, Runqiao Du, Skylar Brandt and more as an adult dancer herself, and in her youth received elite pre-professional training in Lancaster, PA, Philadelphia, PA, and New York City.
Advanced Intermediate Technique
Tuesdays 6:00-7:15PM
Saturdays 10:00-11:15AM
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This class builds on the previous two levels. Students must have a mastery of foundational and intermediate technique for this faster paced class. Emphasis is on musicality, precise footwork, and learning advanced jumping and turning skills such as grand pirouettes, fouettés, jumps en tournament and more.
CLASS TIMES:
TUESDAYS: 6:00-7:15PM
SATURDAYS: 10:00-11:15AM
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Cadenza Ballet classes are a welcoming, inclusive space where students are amplified for the people, dancers and artists they are. We celebrate the joy in movement and make our classes fun while providing high-quality ballet training. CB also provides performing opportunities for adult ballet dancers through our company, Zenith Ballet Project.
All classes are taught by founder and Artistic Director, Leigh Grant, who has 4 decades of professional ballet training and 7+ years of teaching experience. She has trained with artists from Ballet West through artÉmotion Ballet School, Kathryn Morgan, Runqiao Du, Skylar Brandt and more as an adult dancer herself, and in her youth received elite pre-professional training in Lancaster, PA, Philadelphia, PA, and New York City.
Intermediate Ballet Technique & Pre-Pointe/Conditioning
Saturdays 11:00AM-12:30PM Intermediate 2 Technique
Saturdays 12:30-1:00PM Pre-Pointe/Conditioning
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Intermediate Ballet technique classes introduce the student to more complex and challenging footwork and combinations while concurrently building musicality and artistry. Intermediate 1 class is ideal for students who have been in ballet for a minimum of 1 year, while Intermediate 2 students typically have 2+ years of training. Intermediate classes assume dancers are both familiar and comfortable with French terminology and foundational ballet moves.
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Pre-Pointe/Conditioning provides students with additional strengthening, flexibility, and core conditioning exercises. This is an ideal class for any dancer wanting to improve their ballet technique and prepare for advancement, and for those dancers wanting to dance sur la pointe.
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Cadenza Ballet classes are a welcoming, inclusive space where students are amplified for the people, dancers and artists they are. We celebrate the joy in movement and make our classes fun while providing high-quality ballet training. CB also provides performing opportunities for adult ballet dancers through our company, Zenith Ballet Project.
All classes are taught by founder and Artistic Director, Leigh Grant, who has 4 decades of professional ballet training and 7+ years of teaching experience. She has trained with artists from Ballet West through artÉmotion Ballet School, Kathryn Morgan, Runqiao Du, Skylar Brandt and more as an adult dancer herself, and in her youth received elite pre-professional training in Lancaster, PA, Philadelphia, PA, and New York City.
To register & for more
information, please visit: cadenzaballet.org or Call/Text: 505-946-7953
CB now offers a free trial class. Please email us to Sign-up!
For Returning Students:
Single Class/Drop-in: $20 for Technique $10 for Pre-Pointe/Conditioning
Class passes available on our website cadenzaballet.org/tuition
Salsa with Darrin
Sundays 3-4:30pm Intermediate, 4:30-6pm Beginning
Registration/More Info:
Contact Darrin @ 209.923.3905 nmsalsa.synthasite.com
Mythosomatic Qigong
with Sunny Smyth
Mythosomatic Qigong forms are tools of sensitivity and a means of contacting our vital essence (Jing) through the imaginative power of the mind combined with specific archetypal movements. In this context, archetypal means the fundamental emotional patterns of our psyche's functioning reflected in universal, symbolic images. The practice of mythosomatic forms inspires the formation of a new mythic story in one's life that is more closely aligned with one's destiny and one's Jing, the original procreative energy. A fundamental concept of these practices is that mythos (personal, cultural, and ancestral mythologies or stories) and soma (the felt experience of the body's materiality) combine in highly attuned forms to draw the body and the soul toward one another.
Tuesdays 10am - 11am
$15/class. More info: www.hiddentemplearts.com
Hip Hop Grooves & Choreo
Using a fun mix of music this dynamic and lively class will warm-up with isolations and hip hop grooves that are incorporated into a dance combination to dance it out and leave you feeling bright and breezy at the end of class.
Instructor: Tina Anderson.
Tina is a professional/dancer choreographer that has studied and performed in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Locally she has been on the faculty of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Dance Arts Los Alamos, NDI-NM, and has been an Adjunct Professor for the Santa Fe Community College.
Tuesdays 7:30 - 8:30PM
Single/Drop-in $15
Class Card $60 for 5 Classes
To Register and for more information please visit:
www.dancesantafe.com/adult
Iron-wing
Self Defense / Mixed Martial Art / Meditation / Lifestyle Fitness
Small Group Classes - Every Friday
Morning: 9:55 -11:00 AM
Evening: 6:55 - 8:00 PM
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Iron-wing combines the best disciplines of an over fifty year Journey in the martial arts. Iron-wing Martial Art is a composite of Kyokushin Karate-Do, American Kenpo Karate, Taekwondo, Hapkido, Aikido, Iron-Palm Kung Fu, and Wing Chun and meditation.
The Iron-wing mission: is to develop a confidence in each student by helping them find a tangible set of martial arts skills which fit their range-of-motion and physical realities. The student develops lightning fast techniques, and maximize their personal inner power. (chi) This inner-power translates into an effective self defense technique repertoire that most perfectly fits the student, and not the other way around.
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Instructor / Master David
Starting at age 10 and opening his first Karate studio in 1980 called East-West Martial Arts at age18 in a large two room apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area and later opened a studio in the Seattle area. The mixed style was originally designed for women or smaller fighters who could level-up to be equal to larger opponents. A vast range of teaching experience includes teaching military special forces to children. Iron-wing's "shotgun" punch and Iron-wing strike, may just be two of the most powerful hand techniques in martial arts.
Today's Iron-wing represents an amalgamation of the best parts of the best systems in martial arts while tossing scripted and often ineffective techniques out. Iron-wing self defense configures to each students personal strengths and range-of-motion. Students will quickly develop powerful strikes and techniques while gaining inner strength and peace.
Some Iron-wing techniques include:
Shotgun-punch (invisible punch)
Iron-wing strike
Inside-up back-fist
Inside-out ridge hand
Teen's are highly encouraged to join
Full hour and ten minute class is $15 (Spring-Summer 2025)
$25 per class (Fall-Winter 2025)
Required Uniform: Black Tang Shirt (white is ok too) tan or black parachute paints with pockets. Kung Fu style shoes or court style shoes with gum rubber soles. Street clothes with non-marring shoes to start.
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