Archive: Performances and Events

Come join the fun with Young Dance by building and playing miniature golf! 

On Saturday, March 25, everyone is invited to build their own miniature golf hole for Young Dance’s unique, one-day-only miniature golf course. We will gather and build at Lake Monster Brewing Company from 1:00-4:00pm. Participants can sign up to build and design the course as an individual or bring a group of friends. 

This year, we will be building with the theme of Chocolate Factory. 

Materials like cardboard, pieces of gutter, tubes, wood, pallets, nails, screws, tape, and more will be provided, or you can bring your own supplies. Skilled construction workers will be in attendance to help make your Oompa Loompa and golden-ticket-building dreams come true. 

Once the course is complete, golfing will open at 4:00pm.  Free to build, then pick your price to play! All proceeds go to Young Dance.

Marketing oneself whether it be for promoting an upcoming show, weekly workshops or just yourself as an artist is not an easy feat. Let’s come together to discuss tips and strategies with one another. Questions that will be addressed will include: How do you market your shows, classes and/or yourself as an artist? How can you make sure you’re reaching your target audience? How can we expand to a new audience? How do you control the tone in which you try to communicate? What are the tips and tricks around social media?

“There is a keen theatrical intelligence at work here, with moving intimations of the solitude of human existence and moments of dream-like intensity.” —The Guardian on Ponifasio’s Requiem

Love to Death (Amor a la muerte) is a traditional yet radical work conceived and directed by internationally renowned Samoan artist Lemi Ponifasio, a champion of both the avant-garde and Indigenous people. This new work brings together Chilean artists Mapuche singer and composer Elisa Avaendano Curaqueo and contemporary flamenco dancer Natalia Garcia-Huidobro. The work was sparked by events detonated after the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, a Mapuche former student activist and farmer. Voices and bodies weave together in a ceremony revealing their own stories: two lives that reflect both Chile’s history and the search for its future. Touching on questions of identity, destiny, and nature, the work transcends conventional ideas of theater, dance, and activism.

Copresented with Northrop.

Kitchen Dances is a dancing history exploring how women’s power of choice and agency over their own lives have evolved throughout various time periods and cultures. Witness the metamorphosis of the heart of the home from a place of duty to an experimental playground of possibilities. Dance styles featured in this production include contemporary ballet, flamenco, and modern as the Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory performs in collaboration with guest dance artists from around the Twin Cities.

Choreography by: Claire Davison

Performed by: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory with guest artists Nieya Amezquita, MonaLisa Berman, Susana di Palma, and Juliana Johnson

Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Tickets
Adults: $40
Seniors: $35
Children/Students: $30
Groups of 10+ to the same performance: $30

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Founded in 2017 by Choreographer and Dancer Helen Hatch, contemporary dance company Hatch Dance celebrates its first five years with vibrant performances showcasing the company’s collaborative spirit and expansive range.

Along with repertory favorites, this celebration features the world-premiere of Notjustmoreidlechatter, a new duet for Dylan Wald and Elle Macy, Principal Dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet, showcasing technical virtuosity and emotional vulnerability from two of ballet’s brightest stars.

Sunday, April 2 performance includes Pay As You Are!

The 15th Anniversary of Flink’s masterwork Wreck — which explores the depths of physical and psychological endurance and human fortitude in the face of impending and inevitable destruction. The show features Mary Ellen Childs’ glorious original score and a live onstage musical ensemble led by Pat O’Keefe.

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 at oshag.stkate.edu/events/ or contact The O’Shaughnessy Ticket Office at 651-690-6700.

To get us ready for spring’s exuberance, Patrick’s Cabaret is going to celebrate dance!

Join us:
Friday, March 3
7:00pm Central Time

This online Dance Celebration features:
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser
Sarah Konner and Austin Selden
Meridian Movement Co. – Colin Edwards, Cecil Neal, Canaan Mattson
and me – Patrick Scully – with friends!

Floorwork: a communal conversation and shared meal. Every first Saturday! Floorwork was developed to hold conversations, knowledge-sharing, and a supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move.

The next Floorwork is:
Saturday, March 4
3:00-5:00pm
RSVP by Thursday, March 2.

This March Floorwork will focus on the value of the dancer through comparing budget resources – shall we pay by the hour, by the project, performance fee, etc.? 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.

It’s Physical — Part 1
Saturday, March 4 – 5:30-8:30pm
Sunday, March 5 – 12:00-3:00pm

Tickets available at the door. Sliding scale $15, $20, $25. Venmo @jaggedmoves or cash.

A new durational performance project by Jennifer Glaws’s Jagged Moves and culminating presentation at Red Eye Theater, after a two-week production residency though the Curated Rental Program: It’s Physical is a performative movement conversation responding to capacities for dialogue and challenges with change. It’s a practice in testing time and approaching listening, leaning in, presence, embodied impulses, and physical discussion in worlds fabricated by liminality and opposition.

Audience are invited to stay as long and go as they please.

Direction, choreography, and production by Jennifer Glaws in creative collaboration with set designer and sculpture artist, Jess Kiel-Wornson and performing artists Ayumi Shafer, Genevieve Waterbury, Ruby Smith, and Sharon Picasso.