Important dates for Spring 2025 Registration!
Friday, December 6 at 11am: Spring 2025 Schedule posted (view-only)
Monday, December 9 to Saturday, December 14: Priority Re-Registration for returning Fall 2024 students only
Monday, December 16: Online registration opens for everyone!

Jump Into Jump Start

Want to get back into the groove before the Fall session? Join our Jump Start intensive!

With Bettina Montano and Fiona Scruggs

Levels 2-3, ages 11+ | For new students with prior dance experience and returning Level 2-3 students

September 3-6

Tuesday-Friday

4:00-8:00pm

This program offers Levels 2-3 students a week of afternoon classes to resume their training, and prepare physically and mentally for the Fall session. The afternoon will begin with a Modern class where students will build upon the fundamentals of dance technique through the exploration of traditional modern dance principals. Students will explore center practice techniques, dynamic traveling sequences, basic phrases, improvisation, and dance making, fostering a strong sense of alignment, rhythm, musical versatility, and freedom of expression.

Dancers will also take a daily ballet class to review the fundamentals of ballet technique learned in Levels 2-3 while rebuilding stamina and strength. Correct alignment, coordination, mobility, and conditioning for pointe will be emphasized in technique class. Pointe/pre-pointe exercises will be done to prepare students for returning to regular pointe practice and to continue developing their pointe technique. Students will learn a classical ballet variation to develop their artistry and musicality while learning about the art of storytelling in classical repertoire.


Join us for Spirits of Chesterwood on August 14, 15, 16, and 17 for an intergenerational dance project inspired by historic photographs of people, places, and captured moments on the Chesterwood grounds in Stockbridge!


New 3-Week Samba Series with Luana Dias David!

Our 3-week Samba course with Luana Dias David starts tomorrow! Be sure to register before class.

All Levels – 13+

Wednesdays, August 7, 14, 21

6:00-7:00pm 

Have fun and learn Samba together! Samba is a Brazilian ballroom dance characterized by its forward and back steps, tilting, and music in 4/4 time. Ideal for absolute beginners (no dance experience required) or beginner-level Samba students who want to refresh their basic skills. Areas covered include Rhythm History and Development.

Spring Classes Are Here!

Let’s dance all this winter cold away! Our community classes and upper level PAP classes are officially back in full swing—and our younger students will return to start the spring session on January 29th. (You can review the limited changes we’ve made to the PAP schedule here.)

Haven’t signed up for a class yet? Don’t forget—for the month of January, try any of our community classes, including one of our 6 brand new community classes, for FREE!


Two New Community Classes to Try!

Brazilian Percussion Ensemble

with Tarcísio Ramos Dos Santos

Ages 11+, Thursdays 5:45-6:45pm

In this class we will learn several iconic Brazilian rhythms. We will learn Samba, Samba Reguea, Baião, Xaxado and Maracatu. All these rhythms have an African influence and they are the back bone of the Brazilian musical soul. We will learn to play traditional Brazilian instruments that compose the Brazilian percussive ensemble called Bateria! It will be fun and we will learn together one beat at the time!

Intro to Brazilian Samba Dance

with Tarcísio Ramos Dos Santos

Ages 16+, Thursdays 7-8pm

Samba is the most popular Afrobrazilian dance known and practiced in Brazil and around the world. The peculiar and fun samba dance steps is a fun workout and a way to express yourself. The meter is a simple 2/4 but its syncopation brings an authentic energy where the dancer will play, dance, create and the most important, have fun. This is an introductory Samba class and no dance experience is required.


BODYSONNET presents: Art Tonic

January 30- February 1

Art Tonic is a virtual celebration and a platform to premiere new work developed and produced by BODYSONNET, a collective of contemporary dance artists. As a collective committed to innovative and accessible art, BODYSONNET will be hosting Art Tonic on bodysonnet.org as a private website open for 72 hours to audience members who make a tax-deductible donation of ten dollars or more to receive a ticket.

Included in the virtual space is a talkback hosted by creative consultant, and educational developer Antonio Viva, the world premiere of BODYSONNET’s new film The Mount: a visually captivating short set at the historic home of Edith Wharton, and exclusive season previews.

Go to bodysonnet.org for tickets or contact collective@bodysonnet.org.

Berkshire Pulse