Rhythmically Speaking is a Twin Cities, Minnesota-based 501(c)3 nonprofit dance organization with a mission to spark vibrancy and connectedness through jazz and American social dance ideas. Driven by the rhythm that is at our shared human core, we have been cultivating vibrant, embodied human connection since our founding in 2008. Touted by Dance Magazine as “revitalizing jazz dance in the Twin Cities area,” we are the only organization in Minnesota and one of few in the nation dedicated to creating, presenting and conducting education-based outreach work inspired by jazz and other American social dance ideas including tap, hip-hop styles, and many others. We fulfill our mission through performance and education-based outreach programming.
Our education-based outreach programming serves school-age students, senior care facilities, professional development trainings, libraries and community events. All of our education programs can be tailored to serve goals that are based in arts education (i.e. fundamental, practical skills for arts creation and presentation) or arts integration (i.e. use of creative strategies to teach core curriculum, offering students multimodal learning experiences). More specifically, our specialties are often best-suited to music, social studies, history, language arts, art and health/ physical education learning for K-12 students, as well as culture, problem solving, social/ emotional learning, leadership and personal/ professional development, for this and the other listed populations of learners.