Archive: Performances and Events

CAAM Chinese Dance Theater launches its 30th anniversary season with an original program at the O’Shaughnessy on October 15, 2022.  Entitled Invite the Moon to Dance, this live, in-person event under the artistic direction of Jinyu Zhou, formerly artistic director of Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater, invites not only CAAM Chinese Dance Theater artists to ‘dance with the moon’ but also many more amazing guest artists.

Featuring solo dance performances by Ao (Aloe) Liu, former soloist for world renowned Yang Liping Dance Company, (also known as the “Peacock Queen”), who joined CAAM Chinese Dance Theater in 2022, she will perform “Moonlight”, honoring the mystery and power of the moon during this season. A Walker Art Center’s 2022 Choreographers’ Evening soloist artist, Ao Liu will also perform a world premiere collaboration with Gao Hong, an international award-winning pipa artist, in this October 15 program.

To celebrate this auspicious 30th anniversary celebration, CAAM CDT will share the stage with Katha Dance Theater, a Twin Cities based Kathak professional dance company as well as select dancers from St. Paul Ballet, featuring choreography of Helen Hatch, and Carleton College’s Chinese Instrumental Orchestra.

CAAM Chinese Dance Theater has built a reputation in arts and dance circles with its entertaining, professionally choreographed and marvelously executed programs on stage.  CDT is also recognized for its welcoming and inclusive work in the broader community with its extensive outreach in schools and in the community.

The Seven Deadly Sins

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.

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

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

This eighth iteration of 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.

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.

Toward Utopia is a contemporary dance performance exploring the conflict between my needs and the greater good.

Five performers interrogate the dynamics of individual struggles and attempt to connect across a chasm of miscommunication and animosity with raw emotion and physicality.

The work explores the desire to create a more perfect world, charting the emotional struggles of individualism vs the group dynamic, seeking a common purpose toward an equitable future. What will it take to create systemic change?

Choreography: Paula Mann
Projection by Steve Paul
Sound score by Tarek Abdelqader

Performed by: Leila Awadallah, Carmen Lucia Lincoln, Erika Martin, Johnathan Surber and Roxane Wallace

September 22-October 2

Welcome to Wonderland, a premier psychiatric hospital. Dr. Knight has the difficult task of treating a man who refers to himself as a “White Rabbit” who suffers from a severe anxiety disorder, a young woman named Alice with body dysmorphia, and a Queen figure suffering from narcissistic rage. But as the doctor digs deeply into the causes and roots of their disorders he begins to ask: what does “normal” really mean?

Collide brings its newly improved hit production onto the stage in a co-production with Artistry Theater. For tickets visit www.artistrymn.org/wonderland. Seating is general admission.

This vibrant, technicolor, evening-length experience explores the energies swirling before (Canary) and during (Crimson) the height of COVID lockdowns – then offers a vision (Emerald) of glorious reconnection and physical embrace as essential bridges to imagining and manifesting a renewed and recharged community on the other side of the pandemic.

Come celebrate Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota’s new season and welcome its new professional company members and apprentices! Learn about the exciting performances coming up this season, meet and mingle with its Artistic Directors, board, staff, and dancers, and watch a preview performance by the company!

There will be many opportunities for you to support TCB throughout the night, including a silent auction, handmade items for sale, and information about tickets for upcoming performances.

Families, friends, supporters, and the curious are all welcome!

Saturday, September 24 at 7:30pm – the Dance Cube performance space at Ballet Royale.

Suggested donation of $10.

We are celebrating dances of the past, present, and future with Universal Dance Destiny – the ongoing movement. UDD presents one of the most unique diverse showcases in the midwest. Yes, it’s that time again folks. Mark your calendars and let’s get ready to heat up the city – it’s on for the eighteenth time!

Saturday, September 24 from 7:00-9:00pm

Come experience a timeline of dances like never before as you witness dance presenters of various genres. The theme of this showcase is “dances of the past, present, and future” featuring our favorite choreographers and dancers. Come see who all will be blessing our stage! Also, enjoy tasty refreshments and you can meet and greet the performers after the show. Don’t miss out!

Outdoor event – bring your own lawn chair or blanket.
ADA accessible, street parking lot, and near public transportation.
Pay What You Can with donations welcomed.

Event link to RSVP and share here.
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