Current Classes & Workshops
FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT
Structured • Foundational • Sustaining
Fundamental Movement gives dancers a dependable base practice for building strength, flexibility, coordination, and control. Its consistent, repeatable sequence tunes the whole body and develops stamina and awareness, providing a strong physical foundation to underpin your dance practice.
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Fridays, 5:00–6:00 PM — in person at Tula Yoga & Wellness, 1162 Selby Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104. Price: $22 or Tula class cards available.
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Sundays, 10:00–11:00 AM — online via Zoom. Price: $5 per class.
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Open level; ongoing; drop-ins welcome.
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Friday Registration: Register and pay directly through Tula Yoga & Wellness.
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Sunday Registration: Register through Minnesota Dance Consort to reserve your spot. Pay in advance via Venmo or PayPal, or pay by cash at class.
MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE
Grounded • Expansive • Intentional
Modern Dance Technique is a focused, one-hour practice centered on creating dance through clearly defined movement dynamics. Class work develops and recombines walks and glides, curves and circles, swings, falls, turns, and grounded rhythmic propulsion to cultivate strength, clarity, and expressive authority.
Rather than phrase memorization, the work prioritizes dynamic intention, spatial awareness, and compositional structure. Dancers engage contrast, weight, breath, and momentum as tools for shaping choreography in real time.
Rooted in Wigman-based practice and contemporary craft, this class builds technical precision while developing artistic confidence and embodied performance capacity.
Class information:
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Fridays 7:00–8:00 PM — Out on a Limb Dance Studio
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Sundays 3:30–4:30 PM — Out on a Limb Dance Studio
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Open level; ongoing; drop-ins welcome
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First two classes: $10; Drop-in: $12; 6-class card: $60; 8-class card: $72
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Class Registration: Register through Minnesota Dance Consort to reserve your spot. Pay in advance via Venmo or PayPal, or pay by cash at class.
Note: Text Ray at (612) 275-5602 for studio door access code.
MOVEMENT, MUSIC, & CONNECTION: DANCING WITH JOY
Welcoming • Expressive • Connected
Dancing with Joy is a welcoming and joy-filled contemporary movement experience for older adults centered on music, creativity, and connection. Through gentle preparation, expressive movement, and accessible group activities, this class invites participants to explore rhythm, balance, coordination, and the shared pleasure of moving together.
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Tuesdays, 1:00–2:30 PM — Tapestry Folkdance Center, 3748 Minnehaha Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406
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Open level; ongoing; drop-ins welcome
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$10 General | $8 Tapestry Members
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No previous dance experience or partner needed
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Wear comfortable clothes, bare feet, socks or soft soled shoes
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Class Registration: Register and pay through Tapestry Folkdance Center
Photo Credit: Stan Waldhauser
COMING WINTER 2027
Zenon Zone Performance Group
Ray Terrill has been invited to create a work for Zenon Dance School’s Zone Performance Group as part of its 2026–27 season. The project will culminate in a public Zone showcase. Additional details will be announced soon.
Project Information:
Program: Zone Performance Group
Choreographer: Ray Terrill
Status: Scheduled for winter 2027 session
Additional details will be announced soon.
WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL PROGRAMS
RTDG offers workshops, master classes, and special programs exploring modern dance technique, movement practice, dance history, and the artistic lineage that informs Ray Terrill’s work.
ABOUT THE TRAINING
RTDG’s teaching practice is rooted in the lineage of Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, Margret Dietz, and Ray Terrill’s teachers and mentors Judith Catterall and David Harrington. The work emphasizes dynamic intention, spatial awareness, whole-body integration, and the development of each dancer’s individual artistic voice.
MOVEMENT, COMPOSITION & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
A customizable workshop integrating movement practice, improvisation, composition, and performance studies. Programs can be designed for dancers at a range of experience levels and tailored from a single session to a multi-week intensive. Participants explore movement dynamics, spatial awareness, ensemble relationships, choreographic structure, and individual artistic expression.
SURVEY OF THE MOVEMENT PRICIPLES AND LEGACY OF MARY WIGMAN
This one-session workshop traces the roots of the technique of modern dance pioneer Mary Wigman through her student and colleague, Margret Dietz. Wigman was a pivotal figure in the development of modern dance where her influence is felt deeply in the United States and in Europe. She left a legacy where her philosophical teachings are firmly rooted and expressed in the work of many contemporary choreographers. A historical profile of the artist, plus photos and video excerpts of her dances are interwoven with insights into Wigman’s teaching and seminal quotes designed to demonstrate the impact of her work on the art of dance.
A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN DANCE IN AMERICA
This four-session workshop is comprised of presentations, discussions and Q&A as a result of viewing video excerpts of pivotal modern, post-modern and contemporary choreographers. In addition, master dance works are screened. This workshop explores technique, style, and the artistic sensibilities of modern dance pioneers and many of their descendants.
RESIDENCY
Select a concert program, which feature dances from the repertory and performed by RTDG (ranging from three to six dance artists); or request the setting of an original or repertory dance work(s) on student or professional group. Expand the program with the addition of master class(es), workshop or historical presentation on modern dance or the teachings and influences of Mary Wigman/Margret Dietz.