Workshops & Intensives
Alongside the weekly classes, Session House runs dance workshops over limited periods. Some are built toward a performance, some are there to move the body harder than a regular class does, some exist to push you into a genre you have never tried. Contemporary dance, ballet, hip-hop, Nihon Buyo, yoga and a good deal else.
Come to them, as we put it in Japanese, ready to loosen one more screw.
Kagurazaka Dance School
A few days, ten or more teachers, one body
At a glance
An intensive of three to five days
Held over holiday periods - typically the New Year and February, and again over Golden Week in May
Ten or more teachers, each with their own approach
Open to beginners and to working dancers
Book class by class
"There are more dreams in dance than anyone can count," says Ryohei Kondo, who serves as the school's principal. The idea is simple: over a few days you take class after class from different choreographers, each teaching their own technique, their own way into movement. You meet your own body from ten directions at once.
Each edition takes a theme. The May 2026 school was built around dance and music - techniques led by music, dance born alongside it, attempts at dance that generates its own music, and sessions that crossed the line between workshop and performance. Past editions have gathered teachers including Motoko Hirayama, Yukio Suzuki, Masako Yasumoto, Kim Ito and Ryohei Kondo himself.
Individual classes are usually priced around ¥3,300 each, with multi-class passes available. The programme, teachers and timetable change every time.
Dance Senka
Learn a choreographer's work, then perform it
At a glance
An annual course, running roughly March to May
One weekly class with one choreographer
Ends in a public performance in the B1F Theater
Choose the choreographer you want to work with
Dance Senka begins from an invitation: dance the work of a choreographer you love. The movement you meet in class becomes a piece, and the piece becomes an experience of standing on a stage - which then feeds back into your daily practice. It is the moment when the rehearsal room turns into a theater.
Each course is led by one choreographer working on one piece. Recent editions have been taught by Asami Ida, Naoka Uemura, Yasuyo Omoto, Taiju Matsumoto, Yuko Hashimoto and Sengiku Bando, covering contemporary dance, ballet and Nihon Buyo.
What it costs
| Regular classes | ¥1,650 or ¥2,500 per class, depending on the course |
|---|---|
| Special classes | ¥3,300 per class; passes from ¥6,160 for two and ¥11,000 for four |
| Performance fee | ¥11,000 |
| Ticket allocation | ¥10,000 - four tickets at ¥2,500, which you sell to your own audience |
Classes are paid for as you take them; the performance fee is paid ahead of the run. Applications close when the first class of your chosen course begins.
Workshop classes through the year
Some workshops run as a standing series rather than an intensive, and can be joined a single session at a time.
Ballet, back to basics - Yasuyo Omoto
First Tuesday of the month, 14:35-16:00, doors from 14:00. A special class with Yasuyo Omoto, who danced as prima of the Tani Momoko Ballet and still performs as its senior principal. For anyone with a year or more of basic training, for anyone returning after a break, for anyone who wants to look carefully at their foundations again, and for dancers coming from other genres. Continuing through 2026.
Quantity 1/2 with Breathing - Taiju Matsumoto
Friday mornings, 10:30-11:30. Half the amount of choreography of the Monday and Wednesday classes: floor work with gravity, sequences for awareness through movement, then combinations that move from dancing with the brain to dancing with the whole body and a deep breath.
Both are priced with the regular class system: ¥2,500 for a single class, ¥9,600 for a four-class pass valid one month, ¥23,000 for a ten-class pass valid three months, tax included.
Joining a workshop
Book through the class reservation form, or simply write or call. Advance reservation is required for all workshops.
Email: mail@session-house.net
Tel: +81-(0)3-3266-0461 (11:00-19:00)
Dates, teachers and themes change with each edition, and the current programme is published in Japanese on the workshop page. If you are visiting Tokyo and want to know what is running while you are here, ask us in English and we will tell you what is on and help you book.
