HATCH
DANCE

Expansion: Hatch Dance Winter Workshop 2025
December 28th-30th

 

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

St. Paul Ballet Studios
655 Fairview Ave. N, St. Paul, MN 55104

Tuition: $300

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Registration Deadline: Dec. 23rd, 2025

Register Here

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Join Hatch Dance for Expansion: Winter Workshop, a three-day intensive designed for the next generation of dance artists, ages 14–22.

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Dancers will begin the day investigating ballet with Hatch Dance Artistic Director Helen Hatch. Through a contemporary lens, Helen’s approach to ballet prioritizes the individual, inviting dancers to explore efficiency through coordination, expansion through energetic length, and precision through articulation. Students will be encouraged to take ownership of their technique and cultivate artistry through presence.

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Following class, dancers will dive into phrasework from Hatch Dance’s repertory, celebrated for its rigor, technical complexity, and musicality.

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After lunch, participants will stretch their creativity with a special improvisation workshop inspired by the critically acclaimed work In C, taught by its creators: HoneyWorks Artistic Director Berit Ahlgren and Helen Hatch. 

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Dancers will end the day with restorative practices that support physical and artistic longevity, including yoga and Gyrokinesis®.

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Requirements: Minimum 4 years of ballet and contemporary/modern training.
Scholarships: Limited full and partial scholarships available. Email hatchdancemn@gmail.com for more information.

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Faculty:

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Helen Hatch is a Minneapolis based performer, choreographer, director, and teacher. Recognized as one of MN Monthly’s 10 Artists to Watch in 2012, she began her career with Minnesota Dance Theatre, performing a diverse range of repertory and creating her own choreographic works. In 2018, she formed Hatch Dance, which has produced critically acclaimed interdisciplinary performances. Additionally, she has sustained a robust freelance career including appearances with The Moving Company and The MN Opera. Her choreography has been presented at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival, The Southern Theater, throughout Mexico and Guatemala by the Juntos Collective, and commissioned by MN Dance Theatre, St Paul Ballet, Aveda, Mareck Dance, and The Cowles Center. In 2022, Helen was selected for the Choreographic Institute Residency at the U of NC School of the Arts. In 2023 she served as an Artist in Residence at Moulin/Belle in Mareuil en Périgord, France. Helen has been teaching dance in the Twin Cities since 2013. Her students have gone on to dance professionally with ballet and contemporary dance companies across the nation, and have pursued dance degrees at top university programs.

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Native to St. Paul, Minnesota, Berit Ahlgren gained her foundational dance training from Minnesota Dance Theater and received a BFA in Dance from St. Olaf College, where she also studied biomedical studies. Ahlgren was a founding member of TU Dance under the artistic directorship of Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands, and performed with the company between 2006—2016. Receiving Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant in 2011, Ahlgren traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to study the Gaga Movement Language, and subsequently moved to Israel to pursue teacher certification between 2011— 2012. Ahlgren earned her MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts in 2016, and has since been on faculty at the University of Minnesota and Winona State University, performing with independent choreographers between Minneapolis and New York, and choreographing her own body of work for both stage and camera under her dance organization, HoneyWorks. Berit collaborated with Helen Hatch in 2020 to create “Live @ The Shed”, now an annual, summer, outdoor dance event featuring the collaborative choreography of Ahlgren and Hatch. In addition to collaborations with Hatch Dance, HoneyWorks has been featured at  The Cowles Center (2020/21) and the Southern Theater (2023). Ahlgren has had the great pleasure as a dancer to work with Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Netta Yerushalmy, Dimitri Chamblas, Gregory Dolbashian, Dwight Rhodan, Lise Houlton, Ashwini Ramaswamy, Carl Flink, and Helen Hatch among others. In addition to her work as performer and choreographer, Berit opened Sunna, a Pilates and Yoga studio in NE Mpls, in April 2024, and teaches daily classes in Vinyasa Yoga, Pilates Reformer, and the Gaga Movement Language.

 

Non Edwards is a dancer, choreographer, and movement trainer based in MN since 2009. An Outstanding Performer Sage Award nominee and a McKnight Dancer Fellow, Non works across a range of dance styles, performing modern, postmodern, improvisation and performance art. Non was first introduced to the GYROKINESIS® Method by somatics teacher and choreographer Jinza Thayer. Certified in 2019, Non teaches independently, through virtual live stream, and at Berit Ahlgren’s studio Sunna.

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Erin Jorich has always had a passion for physical movement. Her love of dance guided her to study Dance at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. In 2009 she shifted her focus and became a yoga instructor. Her approach to the practice of yoga emphasizes refined, efficient movement patterns while giving students space to explore how the practice impacts them physically and mentally.