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I love having my studio here at the Center for Performing Arts. The building and community here allows me the freedom and flexbility to do my work as well as teach classes and play concerts. Check the place out — lots going on here!
— Frank DiCristina | Harmonic Sound Therapy and Healing Touch
Wonderful staff — heavily involved in the community. Provides support and flexibility. Variety of options involving yoga, healing, music, arts, etc.
— Social Media Comment
I have been teaching Zumba Fitness classes here since 2014! We have great attendance for the Turkey Burnoff, Day after Christmas, and New Year’s Day events. I love the community that we’re building here!
— Darryl Sellers | Zumba Fitness Instructor
Great place for arts studios. Specifically, the dance lessons offered from this location are great.
— Social Media Comment
We just love the space, it’s warm open and airy, and people around here all have our common goal of bringing the arts to the community.
– Pam Gleason | Modern Dancer and Dance Teacher with MotionArts
This workshop connected innovative and experimental artists from a variety of disciplines within the local arts scene. In the short time we were together, we shared a wealth of work, engaged in critical discourse, and formed a fellowship of previously-unaffiliated performers. I left the workshop feeling invigorated about building community, entering new collaborations, and enlarging my circle.
— Addison Sharp | Performance Artist
Hub for everything from therapy to tuba lessons. Individuals use specific office space for their area of expertise.
— Social Media Comment
My commute is beautiful: I walk to work. It’s the ideal spot for us, we love this space.
– Phala Tracy | Professional Harpist/Harp Teacher at Studio Fidicina
It’s no accident I came here. Because what is happening here is what I’m also working to create in my own way. I’m really proud to be part of this community because I feel like it’s a major force in South Minneapolis and even beyond that to really create different approaches, ways that people can support each other and yet be doing their own thing.
– Drake Powe | Yoga and Medidation Instructor, Skellegence
Great ballroom dance lessons on Mondays!
— Social Media Comment
One of a kind space for performing, teaching, and healing artists. Love this old building; love the people; love the vibe. . . It’s a building with some history. . . It seems to be at the nexus of all kinds of neighborhoods. It feels like its at the center of things . . .
– Doug Rohde | Professional Musician and Piano Teacher
I [taught] at CFPA for 15 years. Having the space here gave me that first initial doable/tryable/experimentable [opportunity] where it wasn’t going to cost ten thousand dollars to “find out” [if I could make a go of teaching.] And then . . . to also get the extra bonus of having [the building] be full of all these different people doing these similar things. All the spaces are really great in this building. They all have their different energy.
– Devin Hill | Guitar Teacher
This [was] the first time I have had the space and resource to develop a work over a long period of time. . . That is indispensable and I will be forever grateful.
— Kat Purcell, artist-in-residence
