THANK YOU to ALL of you, for 16, GLORIOUS years of dancing, playing and growing together, enriching and transforming each other and our communities, through the nourishing, healing power of dance, movement, mindfulness, and creativity! You are a Blessing and a Joy, and I am profoundly GRATEFUL!!!
Limiting studio capacity to no more than 18 in a room, including instructors. Please check with instructors directly for questions regarding their classes. Individual contact info is listed on Class Instructor pages.
Windows on the Future
Santa Fe . Taos . Albuquerque
"Distortion in Scale"
By Tara Booth and Charlotte Thurman. Audio composed by Dylan Blanchard.
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What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
–Lynn Ungar 3/11/20
WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm, Back Door Studio, $15-$12/class, sliding scale.
Artbox’s first and second exhibitions, “Spacious Skies”, and “Tree Being: Resilience”, are on display in the front door studio at Maple Street Dance Space! This exhibition features 13 works by 13 different artists in several different mediums including paint, photography, and woodworking., and are available for sale.
Contact Leo for more info: EMAIL LEO or CALL: (505) 363-6889
Based on groove & rhythm practice. Improve your Solo & Freestyle dance skills! Welcome to drop in!
Maple Street Dance Space is pleased to welcome Judith Shaw and her body of work: Art & Myth, which will be up in the Back Door Studio, December 2019 through March 2020. If you are intrigued by the sacred feminine expressed in her work, you might be interested in her beautiful, inward spiraling Celtic Goddess Oracle Deck!
Dustin Maxwell will be work-shopping his current project: “small things dying under a clear blue sky”, over two weeks during the month of November. As part of his residency, on Saturday, November 16th, from 5-7:30pm, in the Back Door Studio, he will be offering an interactional, open rehearsal/exposed process of his work. Stay tuned for more info about this event!
Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm, Front Door Studio, $15-$5, sliding scale, starting October 3rd.
Embodied Magic is a movement laboratory, a safe space for self exploration.
Romy Keegan/Maple Street Dance Space, is honored to be hosting the FREE dance workshops offered as part of the annual Globalquerque celebrations and events this year, in Salon Ortega, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, this coming Saturday, September 21st.
Taught by Lizeth Garcia, & Enigma Dance Project
Mondays, 7:30-830pm, Back Door Studio, $7
Maple Street is honored to be represented at the inaugural Hear Here Festival, a residency program and collaborative performance experience for local choreographers, composers, poets and musicians, offered in partnership by Keshet Center for the Arts, and the City's "Tipping Points Initiative". Romy Keegan, owner and director of MSDS, and Lauren Valerie Coons, long-time Maple Street & Ballet-Afrique dancer, were both independently selected, Romy as a choreographer, and Lauren as a composer, (although of course, we both dance!), along with 5 others to create new works, within a two week intensive process. The outcome and resultant performance is at Keshet, on Saturday, June 1st, 7:30pm. Tickets are sliding scale, $5 and up, and can be purchased HERE, or at the door.
I'd be so honored and happy to see some Maple Street peeps in the audience, supporting US, and the City's initiative for continued growth and the ongoing evolution of our incredibly creative City!
The Back Door Studio will be CLOSED from Wednesday morning, May 1st through Friday night, May 3rd! NO CLASSES, Wed, Thurs, or Friday of the first week in May! Classes WILL RESUME, Saturday, May 4th, as usual. - and the newly repaired floor will be AMAZING!!!
Saturday, March 30th, 5pm & 7pm, Back Door Studio. Seats, $15-$10. Come see and support your dance class friends, and Maple Street creatives, teachers and students as we present new choreographies and works for a new year!
Kala Anjali: An Evening of Indian Dance & Music. Colorful, MEANINGFUL evening of classical Indian dance, music, and food, this is a fundraiser, produced and presented by Maple Street teacher, Trupthi Panikorfor, to benefit flood victims from last summer's intensive flooding, in her home state of Kerala, India. Flooding began in August, and survivors are absolutely still in NEED. Even if you cannot attend the performance, please consider a donation! Contact Trupthi HERE to donate.
Please join the Maple Street Dance community by supporting this fund raising event, organized to provide relief and aide to victims of the recent Kerela flood disater, in India!
Maple Street on the morning news! Click HERE for the short, fun interview.
With honest votes from the good, lovely, insightful, right on people of our fair city, Maple Street Dance Space made "Top 5 Best Dance Lessons", for the third time! (THANKS Albuquerque!)
Check out our lasted promo video - a GIFT from Nob Hill Main Street, in its ongoing mission to support the vitality, interest and prosperity,of our our historic, quirky, sweet neighborhood!
Please take a moment to wander through our GLORIOUS new web site!!! We are catching back up in the World of Web Sites.
