Glenwood Dance Studio

Just a heads up—most Glenwood Dance Studio classes will be closed Friday, May 22–Monday, May 25 for the Memorial Day weekend. Check with your instructor to see if your class will be open.

Classes will resume as normal on Tuesday, May 26.

See class times/descriptions and sign up with the MindBody app or at glenwooddancestudio.com (link in bio).

New students get their first class for $6 if they sign up online in advance!

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Yup - we’re still talking about it! Last month Glenwood Dance Studio was happy to celebrate by offering our delightful and dedicated students the chance to win a FREE 5-class pass. We’re pleased to announce our winner:

Meagan Davis-Cockerill! Congratulations!

In addition to our great classes, see what other fun and engaging things GDS has going on (like our upcoming Summer Dance Festival!) by signing up for our newsletter at glenwooddancestudio.com and/or with a like and follow at on Facebook and Instagram.

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Were you inspired and moved by Josh Fletcher’s choreography in the Matter Dance Company Spring show? Sad that you missed his class in April? Well, good news: He’s back again this month!

Intermediate Jazz
Sunday, May 31
6:00–8:00 p.m.

This class will consist of a warmup and across-the-floor progressions, ending with a combination. The across-the-floor portion will include both intermediate and advanced turns, leaps, and jumps. Students should have a solid double pirouette and have the ability to roll down to the floor and back up with ease. The class will move at a quick pace that is not designed for beginner dancers.

Don’t snooze on this special class, though—it may be the last one until the Fall!

This class can be taken using regular GDS class passes. Sign up with the MindBody app or at glenwooddancestudio.com. New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.

Comments/Questions: [email protected]

Glenwood Dance Studio is happy to celebrate International Dance Day 2026! From jazz to ballet, dance is what keeps us going - literally!

Be you new to it or a seasoned performer, we’d love to share the gift that is dance with you at our studio.

You can check out and sign up for all of our classes with the MindBody app (link also in Instagram profile) or at glenwooddancestudio.com.

⭐New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.⭐

Comments/Questions: [email protected]

For National Dance Week, GDS offers a VERY brief look into Dance Fitness in America.

Dance fitness in America can perhaps be credited to Jacki Sorensen who is also credited with creating Aerobic Dancing in 1969. She was inspired to combine dance with fitness by Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s book “Aerobics” which popularized cardiovascular exercise. Judi Sheppard Missett joined the fray when she founded the popular Jazzercise movement in the 1970s.

Dance fitness reached even greater heights in the 1980s when made even more popular by celebrities and personalities such as Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons.
Fonda’s workouts, which incorporated dance elements such as disco funk, Latin dances, and ballet became some of the highest grossing VHS (Google what that is) productions of all time.

Dance fitness continues to thrive in the U.S. and has seen the rise of other popular programs such as Step Aerobics, Zumba, Tae Bo, Shaun T Fitness, and The Bar Method to name a few.
Glenwood Dance Studio is proud to be a home for another dance fitness program - BeMoved Fitness, led by Brenda Fournier. Founded by Chicagoland dancer/artist Sherry Zuckner, BeMoved Fitness is “passionate about sharing the joy of dance with people of all movement abilities”.

Come move with us every Saturday at 11:00 a.m
Sign up with the MindBody app (link in Instagram profile) or at glenwooddancestudio.com. New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.

Comments/Questions: [email protected]

For National Dance Week, GDS offers a VERY brief look into the history of jazz dance in America:

Jazz dance is often considered to be an American creation, which is true, but its roots are found in the dances and music of various African cultures that were brought here through the slave trade. These movements and expressions are what became the foundation for the stylization of jazz dance as we know it today.
The dances of the enslaved Africans were copied and appropriated by White artists leading them to gain more popularity among the masses via minstrel shows and vaudeville acts.
Both jazz dance and music continued to evolve and garner attraction over the decades, leading to dance fads and styles such as the Jitterbug, Swing, and the Charlston. Dances that again, often originated in Black social events before finding their way into main-stream culture.
By the 1940s and ‘50s, jazz dance could be found in many clubs and ballrooms in the U.S. It’s also around this time that jazz started to become a studied technique. Some early pioneers of this movement are Katherine Dunham, Jack Cole, Alvin Ailey, and a Chicagoland favorite, Gus Giordano.
Jazz dance continues to morph, and has come to include many styles and variations such as tap and other variants such as Afro, urban, and lyrical jazz. Glenwood Dance studio is happy to be able to offer a slice of the broad spectrum of this fun and malleable dance style. Come dance with us, in: 5, 6, 7, 8 - go!

Sign up with the MindBody app or at glenwooddancestudio.com (link in also in Instagram profile). New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.

Comments/Questions: [email protected]

Glenwood Dance Studio is happy to celebrate National Dance Week 2026 (April 17 - 26) and International Dance Day (April 29) by offering you chances to take class for FREE!
⭐️All Students:
Take any class from Friday, April 17th through Wednesday April 29 and get automatically entered for a chance to win a FREE 5-class card! One entry per student.
⭐️Current Students (those that have taken a class since at least January of this year):
Here’s the chance to take that one class you’ve always wanted to try risk-, or at least, cost-FREE! To get your FREE class, send an email no later than Wednesday, April 15, with the subject line “Free Dance Week Class” to [email protected]. In the email, tell us the name and date of the class you would like to take, and we will sign you up. Classes must be in the window of Friday, April 17th through Wednesday April 29. Limit one free class per student during this period.
Sign up with the MindBody app or at glenwooddancestudio.com. New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.
Additional comments/questions: [email protected]

We told you he would be back again! Hop, skip, or jump for the chance to join Josh Fletcher for another special dance class:

Intermediate/Advanced Jazz class
Sunday, April 19
6:00–8:00 p.m.

This class will consist of a warmup and across-the-floor progressions, ending with a combination. The across-the-floor portion will include both intermediate and advanced turns, leaps, and jumps. Students should have a solid double pirouette and have the ability to roll down to the floor and back up with ease. The class will move at a quick pace that is not designed for beginner dancers.

This class can be taken using regular GDS class passes. Sign up with the MindBody app or at glenwooddancestudio.com. New students get their first class for $6 with online sign-up.

Comments/Questions: [email protected]