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Hamel Dance Academy

📍Lafayette, OR
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12/11/2025

WOOHOO! Marie is back with another winter workshop. This time she will be focusing on contemporary partnering 🕺🪩

Learn a fun and complex duet from her recent work at the University of San Francisco (in collaboration with Mirage Witzer), while also learning the fundamentals of partnering in a contemporary/modern dance format.

🗓️Dec 22nd | 12PM-3PM
📍Hamel Dance Academy
💵 Pay what you can sliding scale. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
📧Register via [email protected] or send a message via social media!

10/08/2025

Do you have a little one who can't stop moving? Sign them up for dance class! 🕺 🩰 💃

We still have room in Creative Movment on Monday nights. Learn more:

📍Lafayette, OR
🗓️ Mondays
⏰ 3:00-3:45PM
👶Starting at 3 years old
🔗 hameldance.com

Reach out to us via email at [email protected] OR dm us here!

07/26/2025

First pair of pointe shoes! So proud of your hard work. Congratulations, Miss Esther!! 👏🩰🤩

Thank you for making this experience special!

📷 PC:Kalina Morgan and Christine Hamel

07/23/2025

What a fantastic workshop with Sweta and her parents Ravi and Kousi 🤩‼

This comprehensive workshop included yoga with Kousi, musical rhythmic notation with Ravi and Sweta, and classical Indian dance with Sweta accompanied by live music performed by Ravi.

Thank you for this phenomenal experience 👏

07/13/2025

ANOTHER WORKSHOP AT HAMEL DANCE ACADEMY?! SIGN ME UP 🤩 ‼️

Join us this Monday with for a workshop in Classical Indian Dance, specifically Bharatanatyam.

🗓 Monday, July 14th
⏰ 10:30AM - 1:30PM
📍Hamel Dance Academy

A Bharatanatyam performing artist, teacher, and choreographer, Sweta Ravisankar began her journey in this art form nearly three decades ago. Sweta holds a Masters in Bharatanatyam, MFA, and is the artistic director of Sarada Kala Nilayam (SKN), where she teaches Bharathanatyam and Nattuvangam (cymbals). She performs extensively throughout the US and India as a solo artist and freelance dancer performing with other dance companies. Sweta also trains beginner youth and adult dancers who are now growing into serious cultural arts practitioners. She believes that dance is a mode of communication, and has performed socially engaging, emotive, and rhythmic pieces at community engagement festivals throughout the west coast of the US. Some of the themes taken up by Sweta, either as a solo or an SKN production are depression, community building during the pandemic, joy of dancing, rhythmic expressions, and principles of learning.

07/09/2025

Today's to-do list: Ellové Technique master class with Lisa Buchmiller!! 🙀👯✨

HDA students (and the wider Yamhill County community) are enjoying a masterclass with Lisa Buchmiller in RIGHT NOW😁

The Ellové Technique® is a conditioning and cross-training class taught by certified dance and fitness specialists . The techniques of dance, yoga, fitness, and Pilates are set to music in a seamless movement sequence that improves strength, flexibility, and control. The Ellové Technique reduces injury risk by targeting muscle imbalances, refining alignment, increasing endurance, and practicing safe stretching techniques.

Did you know Christine Hamel is ALSO a certified Ellové Technique® teacher?!? 😎

✅Take her class every Monday (7:20-8:05PM) and Wednesday (10-10:45AM). It's only $10 for a drop in class 🤭

📷PC: Melissa Saliski

05/08/2025

Congrats to the HDA students who were admitted into the National Honors Society for Dance Arts! We are beyond proud of you 😁

The National Honors Society for Dance Arts is a program that highlights students for their outstanding artistic merit, leadership, and academic achievement.

03/23/2025

Congratulations to these two lovely HDA dancers for officially being en pointe! 🩰 🥳

Thank you for making this experience magical for our students.

02/23/2025

What a wonderful evening watching the incredible dancers of the Martha Graham company! The HDA students absolutely LOVED it!!! 💕

01/07/2025

HDA students had a wonderful time working on contemporary floorwork with !! Keep an eye out for the reel of these dancers' work 👀

11/30/2024

With the rainy season incoming ☔️ , we reminisce on our outdoor photoshoot with HDA dancers 👯‍♂️ 🍁

11/28/2024

HDA doesn't just teach your child how to dance, but also how to take care of their body! With stretching and conditioning weaved into their classes 💪, they will learn all the ways they can prevent injuries 🩹

Address

421 3rd Street
Lafayette, OR
97127

Website

https://hameldance.com/

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