Archive: Performances and Events

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
Minneapolis Showplace ICON Theater
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.

Be a part of history when Kyiv City Ballet comes to Northrop on its first United States tour. “We are honored to share the beauty of ballet with US audiences, through Ukrainian artists,” said Ivan Kozlov, Artistic Director. “Touring the States for the first time with a range of ballets makes an important global statement. It demonstrates the resilience of the Ukrainian people” (Broadway World). The program will include two pieces created in response to the war in Ukraine – Tribute to Peace by the company’s Artistic Director, Ivan Kozlov, and Ekaterina Kozlova, set to music by Edward Elgar, and Thoughts by company dancer, Vladyslav Dobshynskyi. Step out in welcome and solidarity.

October 26 at 7:30pm

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

Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues’s Companhia de Danças performs with visceral physicality through scenes of dominance and submission, exuberance and apathy, joy and pain. Firmly rooted and conceived in the favela of Maré in Rio de Janeiro, this intoxicating work takes a stand against racism and social segregation. The performance depicts a transformation moving from celebration to uprising, building with energy and fury into an hour-long arc of choreographic catharsis.

October 28 and October 29 at 8:00pm

This performance contains nudity and simulated violence.

Related Events:

Talking Dance with Brazilian Choreographers Lia Rodrigues and Mário Nascimento
October 25, 7:00pm at Macalester College
Free

Lia Rodrigues Dance Workshop: Discovering New Movement Language
October 27, 5:00pm
Free

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 performing a rep work and showing a segment of our RadioBody film in preview of an evening-length premiere in February 2023 featuring the music of Radiohead – both performed with live music – while also sharing a segment of BASSline, a recent guest work by Kathleen Doherty (Halifax, NS Canada).

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 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.”

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

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.

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.

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, with live stream tickets Pay As You Are. Purchase a ticket to all four weekends and receive 20% discount. Click HERE to learn more about each weekend and get tickets!