MMF Workshops 2025

Welcome to Mini Movement Fest (MMF)!

MMF is a one-day celebration of dance in Dallas, hosted by Agora Artists. This year’s festival features three unique movement workshops led by visiting Festival Artists from across Texas:
🌟 Key’Aira Lockett (Houston)
🌟 Tawanda Chabikwa (El Paso)
🌟 Ty Graynor (Austin)

Whether you're a seasoned dancer or just curious to move, all experience levels are welcome, high school age and up. Come take one workshop or spend the whole day with us—we can’t wait to dance with you! 🪩🕺

Workshop Pricing:

• 🎟 $5 – Single Workshop

• 💃 $25 – MMF Pass (includes access to all four workshops, lunch, and a concert ticket!)

• 🍽️ Lunch available for purchase on-site for $10

Want to join us for the evening concert and dance party? A concert ticket is included in the MMF Pass—or get your concert ticket separately here! 🎟️

🗓️ MMF Workshop Schedule

(see full workshop descriptions below)

10:00–11:00am – Community Warm-Up w/ Jen
11:00–12:30pm – Contemporary Movement w/ Key’Aira 🔥🔥🔥
12:30–1:30pm – Lunch Break
1:30–3:00pm – Ritual-iD w/ Tawanda 🔥
3:15–4:45pm – Limón-Based Modern w/ Ty 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Workshop Descriptions

Contemporary Movement w/ Key’Aira
This contemporary modern movement class offers an inclusive and supportive environment for movers of various backgrounds and experience levels. The class begins with grounding breath work and a Pilates-inspired warm-up that focuses on developing core strength, improving posture, increasing flexibility, and enhancing overall body awareness. From there, we explore center combinations influenced by both classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. The class concludes with traveling phrases and choreography, encouraging full-bodied movement, creative expression, and a deeper connection to self through dance.
Experience Level: 🔥🔥🔥 (some experience — I can learn and follow)

Ritual-iD w/ Tawanda
This class explores dance as a practice of transformation, contemplation, and healing. Through improvisation and breath, we’ll discover how movement can awaken new cognitive directions, deeper self-knowledge, and shared vulnerability. You’ll draw from practices like mhande rhythm (Karanga, Zimbabwe), Brazilian candomblé, physical theater, martial arts, and meditation.
Experience Level: 🔥 (trying something new — all levels welcome)

Limón-Based Modern w/ Ty
Inspired by the principles of José Limón, this class explores falling, rebounding, and stretching into gesture and shape. Rooted in breath and weight, we’ll explore movement that aligns with the natural world and the desire to transform space. All movement backgrounds are welcome.
Experience Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (dance is my career — professional level)

Learn more about the Festival and Agora Artists here!