Archive: Performances and Events

Experience The Cohort 2023: Stage, performed August 17-19 at The Southern Theater, on-demand!

Stream The Cohort 2023: Stage
Tickets – $30.00 per household
Tickets available for purchase now. Viewing available now through September 4 only.

To watch, simply purchase a ticket, and the confirmation email you receive will include necessary access information.

This is a great option if you live out of town or missed the live show, which featured vibrant jazz and American social dance-inspired works by visiting artists Cara Hagan (New York City, NY), Carlos R.A. Jones (Buffalo, NY), MN-local artist Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone and RS Artistic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard.

Tickets to the live version of this show were priced at $22.00-24.00 per person: if you are able and would like to support beyond the $30.00 per family streaming price, we welcome and appreciate (and could use!) your donations. Donations keep ticket prices accessible and offer competitive compensation to artists. To donate easily and securely online, visit our GiveMN page.

Thank you for your interest, and we hope you enjoy checking out The Cohort 2023: Stage – On-Demand!

Off-Leash Area, one of the longest-running and most recognized professional theatres in the Twin Cities, is thrilled to announce the 2023 Neighborhood Garage Tour – our grass-roots, out-of-the-box neighborhood performance program! For over seven years Off-Leash Area has been bringing original contemporary theater and dance to neighborhoods across the Twin Cities metro, delighting over 3,500 Minnesotans in over 40 diverse communities.

This year’s touring production is The Medicine Show of the 25th Century, where in the distant future we follow a troupe of A.I.-hybrid humanoids on a quest to find the mythical “perfect human being.” To fuel their quest, they travel from town to town, hawking a cure-all elixir to an audience desperate for solutions to the world’s toughest problems.

With The Medicine Show of the 25th Century, Off-Leash Area invites neighbors of all ages to a fun and imaginative tale told with both raucous comedy and whimsical beauty. Join us for a neighborhood gathering on a beautiful autumn evening in the most surprising and midwestern of venues – a two-car residential garage – where we prepare together to take off on an adventure of the imagination far, far into the future

Week 1: September 8-10, all shows at 7:00pm
Heather Zemien’s Garage
6240 Winnetka Ave N, Brooklyn Park

Week 2: September 15-17, all shows at 7:00pm
Queen Drea’s Garage with Co-Hosts Emily Kittleson and Nora Brand
886 Como Ave, St. Paul

Week 3: September 23-24, all shows at 7:00pm
Pat Sample’s Garage
7152 Unity Ave N, Brooklyn Center

Week 4: September 29-30, 7:00pm and October 1, 2:00pm
Jen and Steve Terry’s Garage
8850 Deer Ridge Lane, Bloomington

Reserve now and pay when you come!

Prairie|Concrete – Join us as we dance with plants! How do we dance for, with, and around plants and invite our communities into that experience? How can we learn to dance from the shapes, forms, and life cycles of the plants around us?

Join Aniccha Arts for a public performance gathering at Frogtown Farm. This gathering is the culmination of Prairie|Concrete, a project that brings visibility to plant cycles and growing practices through embodied listening and movement sessions with communities in Imnizaska, where the white rock bluffs form what we now call St. Paul, Minnesota. This is an opportunity to re-pattern the ways in which we connect with our environment.

Frogtown Farm
946 Minnehaha Ave. W, St Paul, MN 55104
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Come and go anytime from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

ASL interpreter will be on site for this event. For more accessibility details, please visit www.prairieconcrete.org. These are kid friendly events. Feel free to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Consider wearing sunscreen and insect repellent.

Check out a recently published essay written by lead artist Pramila Vasudevan, “My Practice of Repatterning My Art,” which speaks to the impulses behind Prairie|Concrete. Learn more about the project and events at www.prairieconcrete.org.

Aniccha Arts Team
Yasmin Abdi, Sayge Carroll, Shalini Gupta, Sequoia Hauck, Masanari Kawahara, José Luis, Cassandra Meyer, Sam Aros Mitchell, Mankwe Ndosi, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Valerie Oliveiro, Dameun Strange, Jasmine Kar Tang, Alejandra (Tobar Alatriz), Claire Wilcox, Hui Wilcox, Lynn Wilcox, Pramila Vasudevan, Kira Vega, Judith Shuǐ Xiān.

This project is a commission of Public Art St. Paul with monies and support from the Joyce Foundation. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This project is also supported by Forecast Public Art through funding from The McKnight Foundation.

A new evening-length work by José A. Luis through a Red Eye Curated Rental.

In brief: The start of National Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration of Mexican Independence Day. Three Mexican-identifying/rooted dance artists. The weight of history, identity, and intuitive yet construct of communal events permeates this new work. Departure gave urgency to this new creation and departure challenges the tangibility right now, and inevitably thereafter. This is a dance reckoning with time.

In personal: What does it mean to gather one group of people, under one vision? How do you make space for histories, stories, uncertainties, departures, and returns? Emerging from a history of solo works revolving around my own experiences, I have struggled to find a clear way of welcoming other stories to co-exist with mine. The urgency to share more of my work with my family while striving for personal growth layers my approach to this piece. What vision I had is now in a state of acceptance; an echo of where I am. I fall back on the memory of where it started and how I lead, desde aquí.

Ensemble: José A. Luis, Lizzette Chapa, and Margaret Ogas
Tickets: Donation-based, on sale September 1

Friday and Saturday, September 15-16
6:30pm: Doors open
6:55pm: Doors close
7:00pm: Performance

The doors to The Cowles Center are wide open and waiting for all dancers, choreographers, and movement artists to join the Programs and Advisory Committee and staff for a morning of connection. This is a free opportunity to get to know the building, the people within it, and the programs you might be interested in. Whether you’ve been dancing on stages for years or just learned to point your toes, we’re excited to meet you!

Saturday, September 16
9:00am-12:30pm

Open House highlights:

• Breakout sessions featuring topics like pathways to funding, movement classes, and more!
• Resource Fair
• Light breakfast
• $5 parking/transportation subsidy available.
• Translation available onsite upon request.

Kick off Alternative Motion Project’s 12th Season with BIG Moving Momentum! Help us JumpstART our year’s activities with an enjoyable and exciting event that includes:

• Cocktail/Mocktail Mixology Class with Dr. Sunshine*
• Performance by AMP Company Members
• Silent Auction
• Raffle
• Hors d’oeuvres,
• and more!

Funds will support upcoming activities including classes and workshops, our debut performance at The Cowles Center, the 12th season performance at The Southern, community engagement initiatives, and commissions and compensation for local artists.

Sunday, September 17
3:00-6:00pm
At Center for Performing Arts, Studio 105w

Tickets
General Admission: $45
Ages 5-12: $15
Children under 5: Free
RSVP by September 3 is highly preferred and appreciated, but it is not required.
Ticket prices do not reflect processing fees.

Can’t attend? We will miss you!
You can still contribute to the event’s success by making a much needed 100% tax deductible donation.

About the Cocktail/Mocktail Class
Join expert Dr. Sunshine, as he leads you through How To Make Every Cocktail in the World. We will stir and shake things up as we have fun learning secrets of the pros to making unforgettable cocktails. Dr. Sunshine will take you on a journey of cocktail history, the science behind flavor, and ways to impress your guests with your new at-home bartending skills.
Must be 21 or older to participate in mixology class using alcohol.
*Nonalcoholic versions are available with every drink we make. Please kindly note this preference in your RSVP.

Questions? Email alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

AMP Photos by Bill Cameron.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company’s 10th season opens with The Great Gatsby at The Luminary Arts Center in Minneapolis. The Great Gatsby will run September 29–October 15, 2023.

Get ready for the most exciting party in town. The 1920s roar back to life as Collide’s hit production returns to the stage. Bursting with passion and drama, the blockbuster American novel is brought to life through dance and live music. Extravagant parties, glitz, and glamor surround the life of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. But as the sparkling facade of his world begins to slip, a world full of tragedy, loneliness, and despair is exposed.

“Not unlike modern-day social media influencers, Jay Gatsby reinvents himself to increase his self-worth through money and materialism,” said Regina Peluso, Artistic Director of Collide Theatrical Dance Company. “I’m looking forward to reimagining this story once again through a modern lens. By creating an inclusive world that reflects America today, we can hold up a mirror to the tragedy and hope encased in our society.”

Tickets are available online or call 651-395-7903, ext. 701.
For group discounts and questions, please email Grace@collidetheatrical.org.

Come celebrate Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota’s new season and welcome its new professional company members and apprentices! Learn about the exciting performances coming up this season, meet and mingle with the Artistic Directors, board, staff, and dancers, and watch a preview performance by the company!

There will be many opportunities for you to support TCB throughout the night, including a silent auction, handmade items for sale, and information about tickets for upcoming performances.

Families, friends, supporters, and the curious are all welcome!

Saturday, September 30 at 7:30pm
Suggested donation: $10

Ballet Co.Laboratory rolls out the red carpet for our sixth annual benefit performance on Saturday, October 14.

Join us for an evening a cut above the rest as we celebrate the art of dance and fashion. Strut in style as you take in a fashion-inspired performance featuring the professional dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory while being treated to themed sips, bites, and other surprises. Supporting the arts is always in style so c’mon, Vogue!

Choreographed by: Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies
Performed by: The Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory 

Your evening designed beyond the ordinary will include:
·       Hosted sips-n-bites, silent auction, games
·       Fashion-themed dance performance featuring The Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory
·       Mix and mingle with company dancers and artistic staff

Before September 22: $75.
After September 22: $85.

Frankenstein, zombies, and characters of Edgar Allen Poe come to life in this family-friendly performance steeped in spooky delight and tragic majesty.

Anchoring the performance is a new choral ballet titled Unfashioned Creature, featuring Twin Cities beloved artists Timothy C. Takach (composer), Penelope Freeh (choreographer), and the MPLS (imPulse) choral ensemble. The work is poetically rooted in Shelley’s Frankenstein, and explores key aspects relating to personhood: otherness, abandonment, despair, and hopeful yearning. Music includes cello, percussion, and the stellar singers of MPLS who will perform a fractured libretto comprised of Shelley’s text.

Also on the program, remounts of two Sewell fall favorites: excerpts from “Takes on Poe” (2012); and “Grave Matters” (2011), which combines undead charm and morbid wit in a playful zombie ballet.

Saturday, October 28
2:00 and 7:30pm

Tickets: $5-34