Archive: Performances and Events

MIRAGE Performing Arts presents a live dance and music performance in collaboration with Finnish fiber artist Anita Jain. The program is inspired by nature, cycles of life, and folktales, and encompasses cultural crossroads of Finland, Japan, and America.

Works by Selim Palmgren, Michio Mamiya, Kaija Saariaho, Kenneth Frazelle, Antonin Dvorak, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Choreographer, Dancer: Yuki Tokuda
Musicians: Rie Tanaka, Jesse Nummelin

Friday, August 18 at 6:00pm
Saturday, August 19 at 2:00pm

Free to the public.

This performance is part of Summer at Peavey Plaza! Performing Arts Series by Green Minneapolis.

Erased Steps is an abstract dance theater work taking place at Union Depot in St. Paul. The work includes an original score, performed live by local composer Zack Baltich, alongside 15 dancers whose relationships are gradually revealed through the work’s deft abstraction, incorporating dance, visual symbolism, and imaginative staging. Shining a light on both personal and societal expectations, Erased Steps exposes themes of the past and the present; what things seem like on the surface versus what they might actually be.

“The Present and the Past entwine in lingering questions.”

Thursday, August 24 at 8:00pm
Friday, August 25 at 8:00pm

Get Tickets
Before August 20: $25 online. $20 student/senior discount.
After August 20: $30 online and at the door. $20 student/senior discount.

Dancers for Erased Steps:
Gabriel Anderson, Kendall Edstrom, Non Edwards, Annika Johansson, Dustin Haug, Isaiah Langowski, Javan Mngrezzo, Jake Nehrbass, Leslie O’Neill, Addie Reine, Betsy Schaefer Roob, and Laura Selle Virtucio; with Apprentices Gibran Murrieta, Maeve Seymour, and Allison Wheeler.
Composer/Musician: Zack Baltich
Voice Actors: Gabriel Anderson and Linnea Mohn
Lighting: Heidi Eckwall

Come early and enjoy dinner at Station 81 Drink and Eatery – an establishment that donates a percentage of sales to Appetite for Change (AFC) which uses food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. AFC brings people together to learn, cook, eat, and grow food, creating change that lasts.

Provide ample time to arrive, as the State Fair opens this same weekend. Parking information.

We look forward to sharing this work with you!

Join James Sewell Ballet for a free improv jam led by Blake Nellis with live music by Linnea Mohn at Peavey Plaza.
Everyone is encouraged to participate!

July 28, 7:00-8:00pm

Mary Willmeng/Willmeng Dances presents Little Pieces as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

An evening of dance created at different times and in different places. Little Pieces is a collection of choreographed dances created during intensive rehearsal processes over the last five years presented in a single evening. Each piece looks at the dynamic of relationships through expressive movement and gesture.

Created in collaboration with and performed by cast members Hunter Batterson, Jamie Carr, Kaitlin Craven, Eliana Durnbaugh, Autumn Goetting, Dienae “D” Hunter and Ayumi Shafer.

Showtimes:
Thursday, August 3 at 5:30pm
Sunday, August 6 at 4:00pm
Tuesday, August 8 at 7:00pm
Friday, August 11 at 10:00pm
Sunday, August 13 at 5:30pm

At Theater in the Round, 245 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454. Tickets can be purchased online here.

Come enjoy good drinks, good tunes and good company while supporting 15 years of Rhythmically Speaking at our Second (Annual?!) Happy Hour Dance Party Fundraiser for Rhythmically Speaking

Thursday, August 3, 2023
5:00-7:00pm
BlackStack Brewing

If you:

• love to go out dancing but find it difficult to rally the required energy at 10pm, COME!
• love BlackStack/local brewing and wanna try a new beer, COME!
• think Rhythmically Speaking does some really cool work and you wanna support, COME!

You can dance your booty off, enjoy your beer with food from Jamo’s New Zealand Pie Company, and support by:

• Requesting your favorite dance tunes from 2008 – the year we were founded – for $5.00, and for $15.00, we’ll shut down what’s playing and play your request immediately;
• Buying a $15.00 raffle ticket for a chance to win sweet prizes, including Rhythmically Speaking swag and tickets to our upcoming show The Cohort 2023: Stage & Screen, Blackstack Brewing gift cards, swag and beer, Saint Paul Saints tickets, and more;
• Trying out our collab beer with Blackstack Brewing – a portion of the proceeds will go to support Rhythmically Speaking!

RSVP to the Facebook Event here!

At Rhythmically Speaking, we believe in the power of moving and grooving together to connect us (so tell your friends to come too!), and we look forward to sharing the joy with you at this event!

Nic Lincoln presents a unique fundraiser with pay-as-able performances featuring Gemma Isaacson and Venus DeMars, an optional yoga class, and a silent auction.

Thursday, August 3

Fundraiser Includes:

• Optional Beginning/Intermediate yoga class from 5:30-6:30pm
• Venus De Mars sings some of her greatest hits from 6:45-7:15pm
• Gemma Isaacson dances Escalade from 7:15-7:45pm
• Final bids for the silent auction at 8:00pm

The silent auction includes jewelry by David Yurman, massage gift certificates, restaurant gift cards, manicures, and more. Visit the silent auction today!

Can’t make it to the performance but still want to show your support? Donate now or at the event. All donations will fund a tour of Nic’s full-length show Escalade to Los Angeles, Austin, and Montreal in the fall of 2023 with possible tours in 2024.

Help us show the world what Minnesotan artists can do!

Floorwork: a communal conversation and shared meal.

Every first Saturday! Floorwork was developed to hold conversations, knowledge sharing, and supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move.

The next Floorwork is being hosted at Red Eye Theater.
Saturday, August 5
12:00-2:00pm – new time
RSVP by Friday, August 4

This August Floorwork will focus on practice/perseverance for a desired long dance career – conversation assisted by Marciano Silva dos Santos of Contempo Physical Dance and independent teachers and performers Erin Thompson and Leslie O’Neill. Conversation will be held over a communal meal – bring your own dish to share in our potluck! ARENA DANCES will supply beverages, plates, napkins, and utensils.

The internationally renowned Tamburitzans performing ensemble, based in Pittsburgh, PA, is the longest running stage show in the United States.

Since 1937, The Tamburitzans have dazzled audiences, bringing musical entertainment to millions throughout their tenure as artistic ambassadors. 

Monday, August 7 at 7:30pm

The show includes music, songs, and dances from countries such as Bulgaria, Ukraine, Germany, Croatia, and Serbia, and a suite of music and dances in the Jewish tradition. Hundreds of original costumes, intricate choreographies from cultures around the world, sophisticated lighting, and passionate music—you will experience all of this neatly captured in their stunning live performance.

Twin Cities Flamenco Collective inspires audiences through its passionate and soulful expressions of Flamenco music and dance featuring award-winning artists.

Rhythmically Speaking presents The Cohort 2023: Stage and Screen

A reimagining of RS’ long-running annual August production, The Cohort is built to support and share different perspectives on and via the vibrancy of jazz and American social dance ideas, now through both staged and screened works.

Stage
Thursday, August 17 at 7:30pm
Friday, August 18 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 19 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 19 at 2:00pm

Screen
Saturday, August 19 at 4:00pm

The Southern Theater
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The Cohort 2023: Stage & Screen marks our fifteenth annual summer show – yes, 15 years! – and second year including a film screening. This production features the following artists/ works:

Stage:
Cara Hagan – Visiting Artist, New York City, NY
Carlos R.A. Jones – Visiting Artist, Buffalo, NY
Erinn Liebhard – RS Artistic and Executive Director
Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone – Local Artist

Hagan’s new piece is a whirlwind ride through grooves in different tempos and meters, with all the audio and visual provided by body percussion, and Jones’ new work, Groove: A Communal Love invites everyone from dancer to observer to sit in the pocket of the music and ride the joy of feeling the funk. Liebhard’s revisited piece Feist(meist)er is a lively romp exploring the cacophony of everyone in the room wanting to be the leader, and the harmony that can be found when that role gets shared, and Osterhaus Rosenstone’s new work what time is an embodied exploration of how we define, track, and relate through time, asking questions such as how do we experience time as individuals/a collective, and how can we find agency and freedom within that?

Screen:
Nadav Heyman – Los Angeles, CA
Erinn Liebhard – RS Artistic and Executive Director
Taylor Madgett – Denver, CO
Anthony Morigerato – New York City, NY
Yusuf Nasir – Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Olwell – Staunton, VA
Alexis Robbins – New Haven, CT

Heyman’s Old Man at the Corner Store follows an elderly man crossing paths with neighborhood mischief, and Liebhard’s RadioBody is a wintery romp exploring the toil and triumph embedded in the work of pioneering alt-electronic band Radiohead. Madgett’s Tenets is a fusion of Afro dance, House and Hip-Hop dance styles seeking to establish American street dance as a direct extension of West African culture, and Morigerto’s To: Everything I Love tracks a young woman falling in love who enlists her personal A.I. system to decide if the relationship is worth it. Nasir’s Regret to Inform You follows a difficult day in the life of a performer becoming undone after one too many rejections and retreating into a dance fantasy to combat the reality of a society that has no place for him. Olwell’s Oh, Excuse Me features two dancer-clowns exploring eccentricity, compromise, agreement and disagreement, and the ever-human desire to be seen, and Robbins’ Deconstructed navigates tap rhythms with and sans shoes.

Our mission is to spark vibrancy and connectedness through jazz and American social dance ideas, and this show always delivers – we hope you’ll join us to experience this joy through jazz!