Archive: Performances and Events

Join us Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 4:00-7:00pm at the Ballet Co.Laboratory studios for our first performance of the 2022/23 season:

Dirty Dancing – a benefit performance for Ballet Co.Laboratory.

You’ll have the time of your life at Ballet Co.Laboratory’s fifth annual benefit performance and celebration. Take in a Dirty Dancing-inspired performance that will make you want to sway your body and move those hips. Proceeds will directly benefit the company dancers, students, and outreach efforts of Ballet Co.Laboratory.

Enjoy a performance by dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory, themed sips and bites, and mix and mingle with the Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory!

Learn more or purchase your tickets: https://bit.ly/BCL5thanniversaryseason

Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth

Visionary Choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham and pioneering producer/electronic music composer Jlin have come together to create a reimagining of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor through abstracted themes of afterlife, reincarnation, mythology, and folklore. In collaboration with costume designer Giles Deacon, and lighting and set designer Dan Scully, ten dancers from Abraham’s company – A.I.M by Kyle Abraham – take the stage to the music of Jlin, who has transformed Mozart’s score into an electronic opus that memorializes ritual and rebirth.

If you missed the opportunity to see Minotaur in person, here’s your chance to catch what some audience members are calling “our best work yet.”

Buy a virtual ticket for an online viewing of the performance film, and you will get the link to the video, which you can watch anytime you choose between now and September 30. No matter what date you buy the ticket for, you can watch any time you choose before it closes at the end of September.

With Minotaur, Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Directors, choreographer Jennifer Ilse and production designer Paul Herwig, lead a gender-diverse, multi-generational, and fiery cast to take audiences on a thoroughly interdisciplinary and utterly imaginative journey exploring the possibilities laid bare by the metaphorical beheading of the patriarchy. With this production, the artists ask: Once we’ve chopped off this monster’s head, can we really avoid its seductive power and finally be free of this labyrinthine system of oppression?

Dancers Nieya Amezquita, Gabby Garcia, Jennifer Ilse, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, and Joseph Wurm perform Minotaur with contemporary dance and mask performance. Accompanying the performers and immersing the entire audience is live music and sound score by Dameun Strange, and a live animated projection design by OLA Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig, with costume design by long-time OLA collaborator, Kym Longhi.

All together, Off-Leash Area takes the audience to an otherworldly space where memories of ancient myth, our urgent present, and dreams of an uncertain future collide.

Online now through September 30
Tickets: $10-$30 sliding scale

Get your tickets online at Off-LeashAreaMinotaur.eventbrite.com.

Acknowledgment: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Off-Kilter is Off-Leash Area’s new cabaret performance program designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities both on stage and in the leadership of the program. Through Off-Kilter, Off-Leash Area makes space for and gives voice to artists with disabilities in the design and leadership of the program.

Curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Group, the inaugural year is organized around the theme “Organ Recital.” Off-Leash Area was excited to partner with Young Dance, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.

Tickets are $5-30 sliding scale, suggested donation. Get your tickets online at OffKilterCabaret.eventbrite.com.

When you purchase a ticket, you’ll be emailed a link to the filmed performance of Off-Kilter Cabaret, which you can watch anytime between now and September 30 from the comfort of your own home! No matter what date you buy the ticket for, you can watch any time you choose before it closes at the end of September.

Seven artists share their captivating takes on the theme “Organ Recital” in the Off-Kilter Cabaret. Using dance, storytelling, theater, spoken word, puppetry, and performance, artists with disabilities explore the theme in wildly different ways, ranging from hilarious and thought-provoking to heart-breaking and profound.

Featuring the following artists: Braille, Atlas O Phoenix, Daniel Reiva, Amy Salloway, Pat Samples, Scott Sorensen, Young Dance

Acknowledgment: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue (“Precious Mother Earth”) is a Kalpulli (“learning community”) of Indigenous people who perform traditional Aztec and Indigenous dances from Mexico. KetzalCoatlicue pursues this spiritual, mental, and physical vocation with music from the sacred drum, conch shells, seeds, and other instruments. KetzalCoatlicue’s cultural learning center is located in South Minneapolis.

The dancers are rooted in cultural understandings of the environment weaving together the Nahuatl cosmovision and creation stories of Mexican ancestors. These presentations by Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue provide a basic understanding of the Nahuatl/Aztec representations of life through dance.

Wonderland

September 8-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.

Additionally, there will be two outdoor performances of Wonderland at Harriet Island Park in St. Paul on Sunday, September 11 at 2:00pm and 5:00pm. Tickets for these shows include reserved seating and can be purchased here: www.collidetheatrical.org/wonderland.

$10 tickets!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company will be having two outdoor performances of their hit show Wonderland on Sunday, September 11 at Harriet Island Park. Performances take place on the Target Stage at 2:00pm and 5:00pm.

Ticket Info:
Normal tickets: $40 – reserved seating, chair provided
Discount tickets: $10 – general admission, must bring own chair/blanket

To buy the discounted tickets, use code ALICE10 for the 2:00pm performance or HATTER10 for the 5:00pm performance.

For tickets and more details about the show, visit www.collidetheatrical.org/wonderland.

An evening of six world premieres.

Each year three exceptional Minnesota dance artists receive the coveted honor of a McKnight Dancer Fellowship. To celebrate their artistry, we commission a solo dance from a choreographer of their choice. The 2020 and 2021 dance fellows have selected an outstanding group of local, national, and international dance artists who will bring their choreographic imaginations into new works expressly tailored for each fellow. The result is an evening of world premieres ranging from innovative hip hop to rhythmic Chicago footwork to Brazilian contemporary choreographic explorations and more.

SOLO Dancers and Commissioned Choreographers
Melissa Clark (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Alhassane Bangoura (Guinea/MN), John ‘Boodilla’ King (IL), René Thompson (Cuba/MN)
Alexandra Eady (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Maria Bauman (NY)
Non Edwards (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Anna Shogren (MN)
Hassan Ingraham (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Norbert De La Cruz III (NY)
Marciano Silva dos Santos (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Gil Mendes Coelho (Brazil)
David Stalter Jr. (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Sheopatra (CA)

Friday and Saturday, September 16-17.
In-person and live streamed.
Live stream tickets are pay-as-able!