Archive: Performances and Events

Celebrating Dance at Patrick’s Cabaret

To get us ready for spring’s exuberance, this Patrick’s Cabaret is going to move! We’re celebrating dance!

Featuring:
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, Sarah Konner and Austin Selden, Meridian Movement Co. (Colin Edwards and Canaan Mattson), and Patrick Scully, with friends.

Join us for this online dance celebration!

On Zoom. Tickets: $15.00

It’s Physical — Part 1

A new durational performance project by Jennifer Glaws’s Jagged Moves and culminating presentation at Red Eye Theater from a 2-week production residency through 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 members 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.

Including photography direction and videography by Cully Gallagher, and media and sound design by Jennifer Glaws.

Tickets: Venmo @jaggedmoves or pay cash
Sliding scale: $15, $20, $25

Saturday, March 4, 5:30-8:30pm
Sunday, March 5, 12:00-3:00pm

ARENA DANCES Floorwork

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.

Wild Rumpus

Calling mischief-makers of all ages! Ballet Co.Laboratory invites you to venture where the Where the Wild Things Are for Ballet Co.Laboratory’s interpretation of the colorful children’s tale by Maurice Sendak. Join upper-level students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory as they set out to find freedom in imagination and the resilience of the human spirit.

Choreography by: Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies, part of the Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program.

Performed by: Upper-level students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory

Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 2:00pm
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 6:00pm
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:00pm

Tickets
Adults: $30
Seniors: $28
Children/Students: $25
Groups of 10+ to the same performance: $25

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Andy Mor and CABARAVE: Glass Ceiling

Andy Mor and CABARAVE break the rules in their new, dynamic experience you can’t get anywhere else!

Featuring aerialists, fire performers, performance painting, live music, pole, and dance – tap and hip hop to African and jazz.

The ominous glass ceiling (suspended above the stage) is a reminder, not only of where we are, but what is yet to come. Throughout the night, the audience will participate in the spectacle, and watch as the glass ceiling moves in closer and closer. The only question is, When the glass ceiling is in reach, will you have the strength to break through?

Wednesday, March 15 performance includes Pay As You Are!

James Sewell Ballet and Ahn Trio – EMBRACE

EMBRACE with the Ahn Trio

James Sewell Ballet reunites with the extraordinary Ahn Trio in a program featuring a reimagining of 2018’s Connections. Like the best embrace, there’s known comfort and new spark combined. The three sisters of the Ahn Trio – Lucia on piano, Angella on violin, and Maria on cello – were born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at the Juilliard School in New York City. These growing-up experiences in two cultures, along with their extensive international touring, infuse their celebration of 21st-century classical music with a particular flare and style.

Friday, March 17 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 18 at 2:00pm

This performance runs approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with one intermission. Tickets: $5-$35.

Alexandra Bodnarchuk Presents Rock, Paper, Scissors

a dark-skinned dancer leans to the right and looks toward her left. A light-skinned dancer stands in front of her, looking toward her

Alexandra Bodnarchuk presents Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS), an evening length contemporary dance duet. RPS explores the generational passing down of rules and customs of our bodies. What traditions do we choose to pass down? Which rules will we break?

Situated on a set comprised of a floor and two opposing walls, Alexandra uses text, play, and contemporary phrase work to draw inspiration from her heritage and create a surreal playground of problem solving.

This work features dancers Nieya Amezquita and Sarah McCullough, sound design by Brandon Anderson Musser, with directoral and dramaturgical support by Marcela Michelle. Each performance will be followed by a conversation with Alexandra and a guest speaker.

This work has been supported in part by the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow under the direction of Dianne McIntyre and Risa Steinberg, and mentorship of Andrea Miller and Abby Zbikowski.

Collide Theatrical Presents SKOL!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents its first dance musical with an original score:

SKOL! plays at the Southern Theater March 23–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.

The Joffrey Ballet

New Dates: The Joffrey Ballet’s January 20-21 performances have been rescheduled for Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26 at 7:00pm.

Serenade
Of Mice and Men
The Times Are Racing

The Joffrey Ballet returns to Northrop with a dynamic program of three works: Serenade—the first ballet George Balanchine created in America in 1934, an electric “sneaker ballet” from Tony Award winner Justin Peck, and the Northrop Centennial Commission Of Mice and Men adapted by choreographer Cathy Marston. This new take on John Steinbeck’s tender tale of friendship, perseverance, and sacrifice features an original score by 14-time Academy Award nominee, Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall, Finding Nemo), played live by Northrop’s Ballet Orchestra.

ENCORE: The Joffrey Ballet Cast Party

New date: The January 20 ENCORE: Joffrey Ballet Cast Party has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 25 at 9:00pm.

Northrop made a public announcement and contacted ticket holders on Wednesday, January 18 about The Joffrey Ballet’s January 20-21 performances and the January 20 ENCORE: Joffrey Ballet Cast Party. Read the blog.

Tickets: $55 (A $20 donation is included in your ticket price.)

Celebrate with the dancers of Joffrey Ballet after their performance! Join us for the ENCORE: Joffrey Ballet Cast Party, an insider event including drinks, live music, and delicious bites while meeting the dancers—plus remarks from The Joffrey Ballet’s MBE Artistic Director, Ashley Wheater.