Archive: Performances and Events

The 3-Women Project will feature choreographic works from a group of three internationally renowned black female artists who will each work individually within their own creative processes while simultaneously seeking to explore and discover synergistic and unifying themes throughout the process. The project will incorporate educational opportunities and culminate in live, in-person performances in May 2023.

The choreographers include Stephanie Batten Bland, Alanna Morris, and Yusha-Marie Sorzano. TU Dance seeks to create artistic space for these three dynamic and award-winning dance artists to share their distinctly strong voices in choreographic work and their deep investment and investigations into their own artistic practice and identity as black women. TU Dance looks forward to engaging with our community to share and celebrate the perspectives of these three women through this exciting and ambitious project.

May 12 and 13, 2023 at 7:30pm (CST)
Ticket price: $35. Discounts for students and seniors.

Tickets can be purchased online here or by contacting The O’Shaughnessy Ticket Office at 651-690-6700.

Join Twin Cities Ballet for the return of Cinderella 1944: A Love Story, May 12–14 at Ames Center in Burnsville. Set in World War II England, Cinderella 1944 is one of TCB’s most popular original story ballets. Featuring TCB’s signature blend of incredible dancing and poignant storytelling, Cinderella 1944: A Love Story is sure to delight audiences of all ages. Tickets on sale now!

Performances:
Friday, May 12 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 13 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, May 14 at 2:00pm

About Twin Cities Ballet: 
Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota (TCB) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional ballet company located in the Twin Cities’ South Metro. Our mission is to connect and enrich communities by making ballet approachable, relatable, and fun, through professional and original productions and educational outreach.

 These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

QUARTET 

A sound-focused dance work in 4 parts. A series of structures for exploration, collaboration, listening, and sounding.

Choreographed by Kaleena Miller.

Featuring guest performers from the East Coast including Benae Beamon from Philadelphia, Madison Hilligoss from New York, and Michael J. Love from Princeton, alongside Minnesota-based dancers Audrey Bartley, Bobby Hamilton, Abby King, Nina Maxwell, Emma Parker, and Tony van de Ligt.

Saturday, May 13 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 14 at 2:00pm

Get tickets here.

Ballet Minnesota is thrilled to present the 34th Minnesota Dance Festival at E.M. Pearson Theater at Concordia University May 13-14.

MDF will feature the classic ballet Paquita restaged by Cheryl Rist and Andrew Rist’s new work Friends, while sharing the stage with many guest artists including CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, Elena Hollenhorst, Eva Igo, Jim Lieberthal, Juliana Johnson, Kala Vandanam, Keane Sense of Rhythm, O’Shea Irish Dance, and Universal Dance Destiny.

You won’t want to miss this eclectic show!

At Young Dance, we approach each season with a theme. This year, our theme is “Radically One (Together).”

As a youth arts organization, we work hard to foster an environment where students can safely and confidently express their individuality. Concurrently, we strongly believe in the power of building community through movement.

One of our core values is to foster in our students a commitment to self, to the group, and to lifelong learning. This year, we spent time digging deeper into these words, unpacking and dissecting the question: “How can we support the individual, radically accept one another, build community, and fight collectively for the change we want (and need) to see in the world?”

The Young Dance Performing Company is pleased to be returning to the theater to present original pieces choreographed by Aneka McMullen, Blake Nellis, and Margaret Ogas, plus a piece collectively made by the upper-level dancers. Additional guests include students from the Choreography, Hip Hop, Breaking, Modern, and All Abilities Dancing classes.

Friday, May 19 at 7:00pm – ASL Interpretation Provided
Saturday, May 20 at 7:00pm – Audio Description Services Provided
Sunday, May 21 at 4:00pm

Students from Young Dance classes will perform dance pieces created in collaboration with their Teaching Artist and other students. 

Saturday, May 20 at 11:00am
Saturday, May 20 at 2:00pm
Sunday, May 21 at 11:00am

Tickets will be available for purchase by April 15 at the Luminary Arts website.  

$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Senior
$5 Child Admission (Ages 3–5)
Lap Pass: Free for those 2 years of age and younger

Contact the Luminary Arts Center Patron Services for ticketing assistance at 612-333-6669, Monday-Friday from 10:00am-5:00pm, or email info@luminaryartscenter.com.

Contact Young Dance at 612-423-3064 or at info@youngdance.org for other questions.

Swing dance goes en pointe with this playful yet fiery twist on an opera classic. Dance through the roaring 20s with Carmen, a fiercely independent charmer on a journey of fated love. Accompanied by a live jazz ensemble to a fresh arrangement of Georges Bizet’s bold score, Carmen in the 1920s bristles with excitement, danger, and destiny.

Choreography by: Zoé Emilie Henrot
Music by: Richard Erickson
Performed by: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory, students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory, and a live jazz ensemble

May 19–21
Friday, May 19 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 20 at 2:00pm
Saturday, May 20 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 21 at 2:00pm

Tickets
Adults: $40
Seniors: $30
Children/Students: $30
Groups of 10+ to the same performance: $30

Saturday, May 27
Learn more.
Workshops from guest faculty and more!

Workshop: Adult Tappy Hour
12:00-1:00pm – Free!

Community Performance
2:00-4:00pm

Want to perform? Fill out this form to submit a piece for consideration.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents its first dance musical with an original score — SKOL! plays at the Southern Theater through April 9, 2023.

When a mysterious illness befalls a Viking clan, a young woman is called to fulfill her destiny as a great warrior leader in a battle for the cure with the Christian army. Inspired by the Norse gods, her journey tests the boundaries of her faith, shakes the ground of the relationships with the men dearest in her life, and causes her to question the definition of female strength.

Inspired by recent evidence of the grave of a female Viking holding the accoutrements and injury marks of a prestigious warrior, a discovery that cast a new light on gender roles in Scandinavian history. Collide explores this fascinating story with an original pop rock/rap score composed by Twin Cities musician Mike Michel (The Orange Goodness), with lyrics by vocalists Rush Benson (Ordway) and Katie Gearty (Dakota Jazz Club).

Created by Collide Artistic Director, Regina Peluso, the production stars Renee Guittar and Jarod Boltjes.

For tickets visit www.collidetheatrical.org/skol or call 651-395-7903, ext. 701. Group rates available: more info.

TERRANEA: hakawati of the sea is a dance performance searching for memories inside diasporic bodies to reflect on notions of home while simultaneously asking, “what does the water of the Mediterranean Sea remember?”

In blurring researched realities and mythology-making, TERRANEA examines Palestinian experiences of occupation, refugee crisis (of land and sea), and politics around movement and nation within this body of water; only to depart into dream. A sea spirit, Terranea, emerges as mother for those lost in waves — welcoming souls of migrants into a fluid and mythical shared space, world-making endeavors towards imagining a collective home.

Conceptualized and choreographed by Leila Awadallah in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah and the Body Watani Dance Project artists joining them: Nakita Kirchner, Sharitah Nalule, Emma Marlar and Erica Jo Vibar Sherwood. Original music by Renée Copeland featuring Amal Kaawash singing Palestinian / Levantine folk songs, percussion and more by PJ Roduta, and oud by Clarissa Bitar.

Friday, April 6 – Sunday, April 8 at 7:30pm

Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum celebrate 30 years of creating vibrant, bold, and deeply creative works; fusing percussive dance and music to tell unusual tales, create a wild variety of characters, and explore universal ideas in inventive and exciting ways. Joined by powerhouse guest artists Patricia Brown (AfroFusion), Susana Di Palma (Zorongo Flamenco), and Clayton Schanilec (Old Time fiddler and Appalachian clogger), FFF brings a panoply of repertory pieces and exciting new collaborations while also providing a peek at their award-winning short films!

April 13-23, 2023

Tickets: $33.
Discounts available for students, educators, seniors, and more