Heartbeat Studios of Rosemount

Heartbeat Studios of Rosemount is a dance studio in Rosemount, MN. Founded in 1998 by Deborah Lysholm and Kristin Freya, a mother-and-daughter team, it operates as a performing arts center offering training in dance, singing, and acting for students of all ages. The studio serves youth through college-preparatory tracks as well as adults and younger children taking classes for personal enjoyment, and it holds a rating of 4.80 based on 58 reviews.

Heartbeat began as a dance-only studio and expanded into a full performing arts center that includes travel study programs in Tokyo, London, and Barcelona, a recognized academy program, performing companies, and the professional award-winning dance company Vox Medusa. The Academy Program and performing companies are designed to develop dancers, singers, and actors for college and professional careers, while a broader class schedule welcomes those who want to enjoy the arts recreationally. The studio uses only age-appropriate music, choreography, and costumes and regularly hosts master classes in dance, singing, and acting. Instructors listed on the staff include Deborah Lysholm, Kristin November Freya, Karen Christ, Emily Colay, Trudy Gustafson, Ahriana Lovely Huyaban, Levi Martin, Grace Mollenkopf, Lexy Hilton, Daniel Rosas, Sophie Lorsung, Rick Ausland, and Daria Gordhamer, with additional workshop instruction from David Stanoch, Tona Dove, Julie Marie Muskat, and Andy Ausland. Notable guest teachers have included Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Dianne Walker, Jason Samuels-Smith, members of the Paul Taylor and Alvin Ailey Dance Companies, Tap Dogs, Riverdance, Roxane Butterfly, Max Pollak, and Guillem Alonso.

The studio presents four musical theater productions each year along with two choir concerts and a self-produced Academy Program show. Past productions include Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Shrek, Chicago, Legally Blonde, West Side Story, and Princess Bride, and Heartbeat has received rare permissions to stage adaptations of Star Wars (courtesy of Lucas Films, 2010), Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (courtesy of Middle-earth Enterprises, 2014), and Dr. Who (courtesy of BBC-UK, 2015).

Heartbeat's Academy Program includes self-produced shows since 2004, with Vox Medusa performances at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in 2014, 2015, and 2017.