Archive: Performances and Events

Introducing The Snow Queen! Travel to magical lands through this sparkling holiday production that will warm you from the inside out. From the screen to the stage, Ballet Co.Laboratory’s original 2020 ballet made for film will be transformed for the theater with newly expanded scenes and choreography.

Join us December 2-4, 2022 at The Cowles Center for Dance & Performing Arts as we follow Gerda, a little girl filled with moxie on a quest to rescue her brother, whose heart has been frozen by an icy fragment from the Snow Queen’s enchanted mirror.

Tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/BCLSnowQueen

Get the best seat in the house by securing your Who Brought the Humbug? tickets today! Ricci Milan and the artists of Rhythm Street Movement are back December 9–18 with the fun, funky, hilarious show that pairs live music with amazing tap dance for a unique mix of comedy, drama, and mystery that’s sure to be a memorable evening for the whole family. This year Rhythm Street is bringing new music, new choreography, and new dancers to stage to help celebrate the holiday season!

Regular, in-person single tickets are $45 while student/senior tickets are $35. Audiences are invited to boost their holiday cheer by getting close to the action at a front-row cabaret-style VIP table. VIP tickets will enjoy the performance with a complimentary sparkling drink, macarons from Nikkollette’s Macarons and a more immersive experience.

Pay-As-You-Are tickets are available for our Saturday, December 17 matinee performance at 2:00pm.
Click here to learn more about our Pay-As-You-Are tickets.

2017 McKnight Dancer Fellow Sachiko “La Chayí” invites audiences to join her Southern Spanish tablao-style Flamenco in which music, voice and movement harmonize and create vibrant and nuanced colors of emotions.

The show features internationally recognized artists, singer Juan Pedro Jiménez from Cádiz, Spain and guitarist Juanito Pascual.

COLORES FLAMENCOS will take place from October 12-16 at three venues:
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center in New York Mills, MN – October 12
Zeitgeist Teatro Zuccone in Duluth, MN – October 13
Icehouse MPLS in Minneapolis, MN – October 16

Artists
Sachiko “La Chayí”, Dancer, Director
Juan Pedro Jiménez, Singer (Cádiz, Spain and New York City)
Juanito Pascual, Guitarist
Colette Illarde, Dancer (Minneapolis only)
Deborah Elias, Dancer (Minneapolis only)
Ross “El Vecino” Fellrath, Guitarist
Eva Makiko, Dancer, Singer

Work-In-Progress Showing

Within this work, dance artist Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel investigate how psychosomatic “diagnosis” are consistently used to dismiss women, queer, and nonbinary people’s pain and health concerns. The medical industrial complex often denies how the interconnectedness of mind-body affects our health. As the artists reflect on their creative collaboration process and individual healing journeys, it’s clear that cultural values of individualism and willpower prove counterproductive to healing. This project asks, how can we work in collaboration and create a new work that supports an imaginative and holistic future for disabled, chronically sick, and/or traumatized people?

This is their first attempt at generating an immersive feedback system of video and dance improvisation structures to create interactions among audience, projection, and dancer(s). The projection has the agency to transform the landscape and emotional weather, creating the illusion of spatial boundaries and belonging (or lack thereof). The relationship between projection and dancer acts as a psychological feedback loop, physicalizing ways in which we are interconnected and affected by pain and the environment. The work values choice over control by creating performance structures with elements of unpredictability, a metaphor for how pain shapes our interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment.

Tickets for all shows $7-$70. Suggested $20, pay as you are.

Zorongo Flamenco is thrilled to present Juan Pedro Jiménez as part of a Studio Series performance. Experience an intimate, informal concert by Juan Pedro Jiménez. His cante (song) will bring the power of his native Andalusia to our studio.

A native of Cádiz in the South of Spain, Juan Pedro was raised performing with the gypsy family Romeros de Vejer. A singer and guitarist, he studied music at the Royal Conservatory.

Recently, he has toured the Ferias in Sevilla, Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Sanlucar, Algeciras, and Cordoba, Spain. He has also played in El Rocio with the Hermandad de Jerez and in Peñas Flamencas and Festivals throughout the Province of Cádiz.

COVID-19 Policy – Please read carefully:
Zorongo requires proof of vaccination (for all those eligible to be vaccinated) plus masks while in the studio. Proof of vaccination includes bringing a physical card or showing a digital photo of your vaccination card at the door.

Celebrate 35 years of Young Dance! Play and build community at the Fall Fling on Saturday, October 15 from 3:00–6:00pm.

This outdoor celebration is fun for the whole family! Enjoy performances and interactive demonstrations by Young Dance, CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, Ripple Effect Community Fitness, Smiling Drum, St. Paul Ballet, and Youth Performance Company. Visit the family-friendly makers’ market including Tough Cookies Art, addis/Decolonize Clay, The Munchies, StartseedUrban, Mrs. E’s Teacher Treats, and more. Play games, blow bubbles, make art, eat cake, dance, and more!

We will provide audio description and an ASL interpreter. Parking is wheelchair-accessible and seating will be available. Individuals with and without disabilities regularly engage with the organizations at the Fairview Business Center. We value access and continue working to improve our programming and space to better meet people’s needs. Please let us know if any other accommodations are needed to participate in this event.

Activities will be outdoors, but in the event of rain, the event will continue inside at each partner’s location. The schedule and more information can be found on the Facebook Event page.

The Fall Fling is free! 

The Seven Deadly Sins
October 21–November 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.

Floorwork was developed by Mathew Janczewski and ARENA DANCES to hold conversations and knowledge sharing spaces for creatives. Join ARENA DANCES’ Founder and Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski, for a communal conversation and shared meal on the culture and climate of dance today in the Twin Cities.

Saturday, October 22, 12:00-2:00pm
RSVP here by Wednesday, October 19.

The eighth Floorwork will focus on Dance and Community in the Twin Cities. We will ask these questions together:

• How do we “show up” for one another within the dance community?
• What needs to change in the Twin Cities presently to support a dedicated career in dance?
• What does the landscape of being a dance artist in the Twin Cities look like today?

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.

Rhythmically Speaking is thrilled to share SFF + RS @ TCFF with Twin Cities audiences! What are all those acronyms, you say? RS is, of course, Rhythmically Speaking. SSF is Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO), one of the longest-running and most reputable of screendance organizations, and TCFF is the Twin Cities Film Fest (MN), our area’s premiere film screening organization!

This year, we’ve worked with SSF to curate a collection of jazz and American social dance-inspired short films, which screened at the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop (CO) in July and will be screening here in MN this month!

The Cohort 2022: Screen – SFF+RS Jazz @ TCFF
Sunday, October 23, 12:15-1:45pm
At the Minneapolis Showplace ICON Theater through Twin Cities Film Fest

More information and tickets!

Two of our filmmakers – Rick Perry and Jody Oberfelder – will be in attendance at the screening. Catch our red carpet interview at 11:45am before our screening, and stick around for our Q&A immediately following!

This work makes up the new screen component of The Cohort 2022, our long-running and recently reimagined annual summer program that supports and presents new work by local choreographers while providing opportunities for artists based outside of Minnesota to show their work here. 2022 marks our first year of offering both stage and screen components of this program. We hope you can join us to view this delightful, thought-provoking and vibrant collection of films!

Join the Alexandra Bodnarchuk and the artists of ABDP for an afternoon at their new space in the Cowles Center!

Event will include a short performance, refreshments, and mementos.

All proceeds will support the premiere of their new work, Rock, Paper, Scissors, at The Southern Theater in March 2023.