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Dance

Through continuous exploration through a variety of dance forms, dance students discover new ways of moving and innovative ways of creating in a collaborative environment, while establishing themselves as part of a community. Dancers will gain a deeper understanding of dance as a cultural experience through daily movement classes, choreography, and performance.  Whether you have always wanted to learn how to dance or have been dancing all your life, PiM Arts High School fosters a safe environment for students to challenge themselves artistically and academically.

18 credits required for Endorsement:

  • Dance Technique I -IV (11 quarters)
  • Dance Composition I
  • Dance Composition II
  • Dance Composition III
  • World Dance
  • Dance Wellness
  • Dance Elective (2 quarters)

Dance Electives Include:

  • Movement Studies
  • Arts Activism through Movement
  • American Dance Studies I & II
  • Special Topics in Ballet
  • Somatic Fitness
  • Dance Pedagogy
  • Improvisation and Partnering
  • Careers
  • Arts Internship
  • Arts Collaborative
  • Senior Capstone
  • Dance Conditioning and Somatics

Instructors

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Lara Ciganko

With over 35 years of teaching experience Lara Ciganko has taught at Minnesota Dance Theatre, Ballet Arts Minnesota, Florida School of the Arts; St. John’s River State College, Tallahassee Ballet, Booker High School VPA, and Deborah Vinton School of Ballet with whom she began her training. She earned her MFA and BFA (magna cum laude) in Dance from Florida State University and holds her Associate teaching credentials with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and Cecchetti USA. Aside from her extensive ballet training in the Cecchetti Method, she has also studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

She has performed with the Cleveland Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, Tallahassee Ballet, Ballet Arts Minnesota, and the Vanaver Caravan. Ms. Ciganko is co-director and teacher of the Midwest School of Ballet, and director of both the Lipa Slovak Dancers and Carpathy (an adult and children’s Carpatho-Rusyn and Slovak dance ensemble). She is currently serving on the National Committee for Cecchetti USA, and is an Emmett Advanced Practitioner; a gentle muscle release therapy that addresses and improves pain and discomfort, body movement and the overall quality of life.

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Danielle Ricci

Danielle Ricci is an educator, choreographer, director, and dancer. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from University of California, Irvine in 2006 under direction of Donald McKayle. In 2014 she graduated with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and earned an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University in 2018. She has studied at The Ailey School in New York City as part of their Certificate in Dance Program studying with Milton Myers, Tracy Inman, Nancy Turano, and Sharon Wong. Danielle has danced professionally in California, Texas, and Minnesota performing with Loretta Livingston and Dancers, Austin Classical Ballet, and Austin City Ballet.

Danielle is the Founding Artistic Director of Borealis Dance Theatre- a professional modern dance company based in Minneapolis and Dance Camera North- International Dance Film Festival. She has also been a professor of dance at Winona State University and has presented work and taught at the American College Dance Festival Association upper Midwest conference in association with University of Wisconsin, River Falls where she has been a guest choreographer for the past five years. Her choreography has been recognized as “Best of the Festival” at the Frontera Fringe Festival in Austin, TX in 2010 and 2012. Danielle is currently working toward her certification for personal training and corrective exercise. She teaches modern, jazz, tap, musical theatre, improv and partnering, social justice through movement, and movement studies at PiM Arts High School. Learn more about Ms. Ricci at www.daniellericci.net.

Dance training can’t be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion, and humanity.
~Alonzo King

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Happy opening to @emergingprofessionalsmn's produc Happy opening to @emergingprofessionalsmn's production of Ride the Cyclone! Performances run tonight through August 6th in our White Box Theatre. You don't want to miss this incredible show!

Tickets are available now through the link in our bio!
Have you always wanted to join PiM's community of Have you always wanted to join PiM's community of creatives? Now is your chance! 

PiM is hiring for the upcoming 22-23 school year. Tap the link in our bio to learn more!
Congratulations to the cast of The Battle of Boat Congratulations to the cast of The Battle of Boat for your incredible performance at @spotlight_mn earlier this week! 

A special congratulations to Dylan Peterson, '22, the very first recipient of Spotlight's Ferrell Dance Award! The Ferrell Dance Award is given to a senior dancer demonstrating leadership, fearlessness, and passion in the rehearsal space.

We are so excited for you and proud of you, PiMsters!
Congratulations to the class of 2022! We can't wai Congratulations to the class of 2022! We can't wait to celebrate your graduation with you this evening.

Remember that graduation is tonight, May 27th, at Hopkins Center for the Arts. Commencement will begin promptly at 6:30. 

And don't forget to join us tomorrow from 3-7 at Normandale Lake Bandshell for our biggest fundraiser of the year, Spark in the Park!
Did you know that this year’s Spark in the Park Did you know that this year’s Spark in the Park will be headlined by none other than @gullyboysband ? Featuring MSSPA alum @riahmercedes ?? 

Tickets for our biggest annual fundraiser are on sale now through the link in our bio. You don’t want to miss this!
Spark in the Park is this weekend! Join us at Norm Spark in the Park is this weekend! Join us at Normandale Bandshell in Bloomington on Saturday, May 28th from 3-7pm for live music from @gullyboysband, food trucks, a silent auction, and more!

This is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Help us continue to support our students by joining us for a night celebrating PiM! 

Tickets are available through the link in our bio.
You don't want to miss our final vocal music conce You don't want to miss our final vocal music concert of the year - happening tonight at 7pm at the Masonic Heritage Center in Bloomington!
hii everyone!! i’m Carmina (she/her), i’m a 10 hii everyone!! i’m Carmina (she/her), i’m a 10th grade musical theater major and i’ll be taking you along today on our last two shows of the spring dance concert “The Piper”!! :)
Hi pimsters!!!! It’s Izzy Leto I’m a senior vi Hi pimsters!!!! It’s Izzy Leto I’m a senior visual arts major and I will be taking over the pim Instagram for the art fair today! 

U guys should also follow me  @_iz.zyyy_
Great show tonight!!! Hope to see you all tomorrow Great show tonight!!! Hope to see you all tomorrow and/or Saturday! I love everyone in this cast everyone was so good 🙂
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Hi guys! Im Sophia Sauter rice, a junior musical t Hi guys! Im Sophia Sauter rice, a junior musical theater major at PIM. You may have seen me this year in sleepy hallow or battle of boat but today I’ll be taking over for the opening night of this springs dance concert!!!! Hope to see you here 🙂
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Tomorrow is PiM's Film and Animation Festival! Com Tomorrow is PiM's Film and Animation Festival! Come and watch the best of PiM students' animation and film projects produced over the last year.

Happening tomorrow in the Loading Dock from 4-6pm (during our final gallery show of the year).
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