Archive: Performances and Events

The Seven Deadly Sins
November 4-6, 2022

Wall Street investment trader Laura Oxford has spent most of her life in pursuit of power and wealth. Reaching a tipping point, she stumbles through a series of doors illuminating her path through The Seven Deadly Sins.

Enjoy our immersive dance theater performance told through a variety of dance styles and popular music.

Audience members will be seated in a cocktail table–style setting surrounded by haunted house elements. Enjoy your favorite guilty beverage while nibbling on sinful treats provided.

Threads Dance Project concludes its 11th year with the commissioned premiere of Abolition in Evolution (Part 1) as part of the Cowles Center Fall Forward Festival Week 2. Choreographer Karen Charles explores the potentialities of a new embodied abolitionist movement and the idea that one person/one act can change things for the common good. If abolition can be defined as radical imagining, where would that radical imagining take us and how do we manifest that place physically? What would be eradicated if we could all move towards instead of away from one another?

An encore performance of Abolition in Evolution (Part 1) will be part of a longer program at the Bloomington Center for the Arts that includes Threads repertory that further asks us to reflect on how we can move towards a new abolitionist movement to eradicate the ills that prevent us from fully realizing our humanity.

At the Cowles Center
Fall Foward Festival Week 2
November 5 at 7:30
November 6 at 2:00

At Bloomington Center for the Arts
November 17 at 7:30pm
November 18 at 7:30pm

Saturday, November 5
12:00-1:00pm
Immediately following Mario Nascimento’s  Master Class, 10:00-12:00pm.

Cowles Center, Studio 5B
Free and open to the public.

International McKnight Choreographer Mario Nascimento and Contempo Physical Dance invite any interested guests to experience the company during their creative process.

The Fall Forward Festival is a month-long festival of shared evening performances celebrating the incredibly talented and robust Minnesota dance community. New dance audiences will experience a sampler of genres in one sitting, while avid dance-goers will see their favorite artists alongside equally stellar new-to-them artists. Each weekend features a new roster and a variety of experiences from new work commissions and Cowles stage debuts to community favorites and Cowles Center veterans.

Week Two: November 5–6
Atlantis13 brings together dancers from around the black diaspora to explore how we can choose inner peace in an imperfect world intent on our destruction. Threads Dance Project explores the potentialities of a new embodied abolitionist movement and the idea that one person, one act can abolish societal ills and move us towards instead of away from one another.

Week Three: November 12-13
Featuring Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, Black Label Movement, and Crash Dance Productions

Week Four: November 19-20
Featuring Aparna Ramasawmy and HIJACK

In-person tickets are $25. Click here to learn more about each weekend and get tickets!

Critical Conversations Roundtable Discussion: “Raising Awareness around Environmental and Climate Concerns Through Art”

Sunday, November 6 from 11:30am-1:00pm
The Cowles Center – Tek Box
Free. Lunch Provided.

Inspired by the recent choreographies of Mario Nascimento around the Amazon rainforest degradation and moderated by 2018 McKnight Choreography Fellow Taja Will. This conversation is open to the public and artists of all mediums. Come and share your own experiences or join us to listen to others.

Come see the Black Label premiere of Riding The Maelstrom during the third weekend of The Cowles Center’s Fall Forward Festival.

Riding The Maelstrom is A non-linear work that visualizes the dynamic energies released from the poisons of chemotherapy during Flink’s mother’s fight with cancer. This work, commissioned for St. Louis’ MADCO had a 2020 postponement/2021 premiere in Missouri – and we’re eager to share this work in our community this fall.

Join Concerto Dance for a night of dancing, drinks, and dessert!

Sunday, November 13
6:30-8:30pm
At Creo Arts and Dance, Minnetonka, MN

The evening includes performances by the company, followed by a social hour with drinks, dessert and a 30-minutes swing dance lesson taught by Corey and Betsy Mills.

All ticket sales for our fall fundraiser will go toward supporting our dance artists and presenting our upcoming performance at the Southern Theatre in March featuring two new premieres by visiting guest artists Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner and Steve Rooks along with repertory by Artistic Director Jolene Konkel.

Can’t make it to the event but would like to support the work of Concerto Dance? Consider making a tax deductible donation during Give to the Max day on November 17!

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Give to the Max Donations can be made by visiting: https://www.givemn.org/story/ConcertoDance

Concerto Dance is a fiscally sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts, a MN non-profit arts service organization.

MIRAGE Performing Arts will bring their performance Verano, a program of music for lovers. Pianist Rie Tanaka and cellist Jesse Nummelin will play a diverse music selection while ballet dancers Yuki Tokuda and Jarod Boltjes perform Tokuda’s theatrical, narrative choreography.

Sunday, November 13 at 3:00pm
at Hastings Arts Center
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November 18 at 9:30pm
Tickets: $55

Celebrate with the dancers of Limón Dance Company following their performance! Join us for the ENCORE: Limón Dance Company Cast Party, an insider event including drinks, live music, delicious bites, and a meet and greet with dancers—plus remarks from Limón Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Dante Puleio.

These celebratory events support Northrop Centennial Commissions to create new dance works, elevate artists, and bring extraordinary presentations to our stage. You can be part of ensuring that artists’ creative works will be seen by audiences and youth in our community for years to come.

In this decade, leading up to Northrop’s 100 year anniversary in 2029, the Northrop Centennial Commissions project helps create new dance works to ensure that there will be amazing performances far into the future.

With your support, Northrop’s Centennial Commissions program provides:

• The creation and presentation of exquisite new works
• Opportunities for students, youth, and communities to experience transformative arts
• Connections through art that will be shared for generations
• Arts programming for youth arts and education programs
• A deeper understanding and insight about art, self-expression, and communication through discussions with artists, inspiring the community and young people

In celebration of their seventy-fifth anniversary, Artistic Director Dante Puleio leads the company in a program that reveals aspects of José Limón’s life and honors his Mexican-American legacy. The evening includes the Northrop Centennial Commission, Migrant Mother, by Raúl Tamez; the reimagination of Limón’s first major solo and partially lost work, Danzas Mexicanas; and co-founder Doris Humphreys’ timeless Air for the G String. The Limón modern dance classic Psalm (featuring student performers from UMN’s Dance Department) will include the original score not heard by audiences in decades.

November 18 at 7:30pm