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The Performing Institute of Minnesota Arts High School presents in the silence of the night.

Experience Edgar Allan Poe like you never have before. PiM Arts High School dance department presents an evening of thrills and chills on stage with “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Masque of the Red Death” told through dance theatre.

Two nights only!

Alternative Motion Project returns to the Southern Theater for a dynamic and captivating evening of newly commissioned works performed by AMP’s talented company of movers. Each distinct world premiere explores the multi-faceted concept of identity, reflecting the unique perspectives of each artist that threads the eclectic evening together. Don’t miss it!

New Works
Body Watani – Leila and Noelle Awadallah
Nieya Amezquita
Alexandra Bodnarchuk
Rachel Lieberman

Repertory Work
split – Joanna Lees, Artistic and Executive Director

Master classes taught by each choreographer will also be offered as part of ViewPoints ’22. More information coming soon.

Performances
Friday, October 28 – 7:30pm
Saturday, October 29 – 7:30pm
Sunday, October 30 – 2:00pm – Pay What You Can (door only); ASL Interpreted; Post-Show Q&A

Tickets
General Admission – $20 in advance; $25 at the door
Senior – $18 in advance; $22 at the door
Students/Children under 12 – $18 in advance and at the door
Online remote viewing options will also be available. More information coming soon.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Photo Credits: Bill Cameron

Rhythmically Speaking is thrilled to be making our Cowles Center debut as a part of their inaugural Fall Forward Festival!

As a company inspired by jazz and American social dance styles, forms with African roots and European influences, we are excited to share a bill on the first weekend with Duniya Drum & Dance and Twin Cities Ballet. We will be sharing a segment of our RadioBody film in preview of an evening-length premiere in February 2023 featuring original jazz renditions of the music of Radiohead, as well as a segment of BASSline, a recent guest work by Kathleen Doherty (Halifax, NS Canada) and a company rep piece.

Saturday, October 29 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 30 at 2:00pm
Tickets

From the Cowles: “This month-long festival of shared evening performances celebrates the incredibly talented and robust Minnesota dance community. New dance audiences will experience a sampler of genres in one sitting, while avid dancegoers 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.”

We hope you’ll join us for our weekend and for other weekends!

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 One, October 29-30
Featuring Duniya Drum and Dance Ensemble, Twin Cities Ballet, and Rhythmically Speaking

Week Two, November 5-6
Featuring Threads Dance Project and Atlantis13

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. Purchase a ticket to all four weekends and receive 20% discount. Click here to learn more about each weekend and get tickets!

As we continue to innovate in the field of dance – the art form of touch and breath – James Sewell Ballet shares a program with breath and exchange at its center. Take it in and let it fill you up.

Special guest Xina combines her dance and music savvy to co-create a piece blending art-pop and spiritual sensibilities – no formula, just boundless creativity. Michael Walters returns with brand new choreography after astonishing and energizing audiences with his JSB New Works Project ’22 premiere. Arimee Gambill, in her fifth season as a company dancer, debuts a work that combines rapture with decay.

What happens at the intersection of total rhapsody and utter nihilism? Rounding out the program is a restaging of Sewell’s Grey (2018), with mesmerizing moves swirling to selections from Ukrainian world-music quartet DakhaBrakha.

Wear your best costume and come celebrate the famous Thriller dance!

Threads Dance Project announces that it will be one of the thousands of groups, novice and professional participating in this year’s Thrill the World event.  Thrill the World is a yearly happening that has grown to worldwide recognition by teaching and performing Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance. We will be teaching the dance at the event and then at exactly 5:00pm will join fellow dancers causing a “Thrill” across the globe.

This is a fundraising event that will benefit Threads Dance Project. The event will take place at our home studio, the Threads Dance Nexus. We have a costume contest planned for adults and youth along with goodies and bites from a local food truck. Please consider joining us in this fun holiday event in person or through your donated monetary gift. We hope to see you there!

James Sewell Ballet’s First Chance Dance performances are geared to first-time audiences of all ages, including infants. This 60-minute performance of excerpts from the company’s regular season repertoire promises to delight! There will be no intermission, and house lights will remain partially lit so that audience members may come and go as needed.

Saturday, October 29
11:00am

As we continue to innovate in the field of dance – the art form of touch and breath – JSB shares a program with breath and exchange at its center. Take it in and let it fill you up.

Special guest XINA combines her dance and music savvy to co-create a piece blending art-pop and spiritual sensibilities – no formula, just boundless creativity. Michael Walters returns with brand new choreography after astonishing and energizing audiences with his JSB New Works Project ’22 premiere. Arimee Gambill, in her fifth season as company dancer, debuts a work that combines rapture with decay. What happens at the intersection of total rhapsody and utter nihilism? Rounding out the program is a restaging of Sewell’s Grey (2018), with mesmerizing moves swirling to selections from Ukrainian world-music quartet DakhaBrakha.

Regular, full-length performances on October 29 at 7:30pm and October 30 at 2:00pm.

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

Raising Awareness around Environmental and Climate Concerns Through Art

Inspired by the recent choreographies of Mario Nascimento around the Amazon rainforest degradation and moderated by 2018 McKnight Choreography Fellow Taja Will.

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.