Archive: Performances and Events

JumpstART 2022
AMP Game Night Fundraiser
In honor and celebration of Kristin Howe, Co-Director

August 18, 5:00-8:00pm
Lake Monster Brewing Company, St Paul

Tickets and Info: https://www.alternativemotionproject.org/818—jumpstart-2022.html

The event will take place in the designated indoor event area in Lake Monster Brewing Company. Weather permitting, some outdoor space may be available. Mask wearing will be optional and this policy is subject to change – you will be notified via email of any changes.

Join us in celebrating Kristin Howe’s tenure at Alternative Motion Project and help us raise money to JumpstART our 2022-23 Season. This casual game night includes delicious beers and appetizers, AMP trivia and Bingo, a silent auction, raffle, tributes, prizes, and more! All proceeds go toward supporting local dance artists and audiences through performance and education programs. Don’t miss Kristin’s final AMP event acting as Co-Artistic Director! Additional food for purchase will be available on site from Samurai Teppanyaki Food Truck.

Schedule of Events
5:00pm – Event Begins and Silent Auction Opens, Outdoor Games (weather permitting)
5:30pm – Welcome
6:00pm – Trivia and Bingo – win prizes!
7:00pm – Tribute Video and Reflections by Joanna Lees and Kristin Howe
7:15pm – Silent Auction Closes
7:30pm – Silent Auction and Raffle Winners Announced
8:00pm – Event Concludes

TICKETS, not including processing fees
$30 in advance, $35 at the door
$20 children under 12
No refunds or exchanges. All sales are final. Alternative Motion Project is a 501c3 tax exempt organization.

More about the event and Alternative Motion Project can be found on our website here.
Can’t make the event, but would still like to contribute? Make your donation here.

PC: Bill Cameron

Zenon Dance School – Zone Summer Showcase

New choreographic work by artist
Javan Mngrezzo, plus Guests!

August 19 and 20 at 7:30pm
Free

Zenon Dance School’s Zone Program will feature choreography by instructor, dancer and choreographer, Javan Mngrezzo, performed by the Zone dancers!

Zone is an intensive adult dance program for all levels, ages, and dance backgrounds, who wish to deepen their dance journey and experiences. The program offers two tracks and new movers are welcomed through a brief and relaxed audition.

Performance Group – for movers with a strong intermediate/advanced level of dance technique and searching for opportunities to perform with local choreographers.
Technique Group – for movers to enhance creative and technical skills and explore different genres of dance.

Zone is a platform for emerging and established choreographers to create work and hone material, while celebrating Twin Cities movers.

The pioneer cohort of the Artist Citizen Ensemble presents Solace, an immersive experience utilizing multiple art forms!
join us on August 20 to embrace comfort and cultivate safety together as artists, audiences, and community.

August 20 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
Elision Playhouse in Crystal, MN
Tickets: $15 adults, $5 kids. Group discounts available, contact julie.muskat@gmail.com.

The Artist Citizen Ensemble is an application-based program for any creatively-minded person aged 14-18. It is built on a model of collaboration and mentorship, and provides the tools for a group of young artists to build an idea from the ground up, including production elements, fundraising, and community engagement.

Presented in partnership with the University of Minnesota.
Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:00am and 1:00pm
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, MN

Join us for THERMAL at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum with the special “Friends of ARENA DANCES” discount!

This $15 ticket ($35 regular price) not only allows you to experience two restaged, outdoor performances of ARENA DANCES’ critically acclaimed production of THERMAL: Meditations on Climate Change, but it also provides access to the entire MN Arboretum grounds, the local arts market “Art in the Gardens”, and entry to a performance by The Abiders, a local Blues/Americana band.

Pack a picnic and spend your Sunday filled with art and nature at the Arboretum!

Click here to learn more and get tickets for THERMAL at the MN Landscape Arboretum.

While the live show, performed August 11-13 at The Southern Theater in Minneapolis has now closed, you can still experience The Cohort 2022: Stage featuring work by Rae Charles (Local Artist and RS Company Member), Kathleen Doherty (Visiting Artist – Halifax, NS Canada), Erinn Liebhard (RS Artistic and Executive Director) and Laura Ann Smyth (Visiting Artist – Los Angeles, CA)On-Demand!

Online streaming of The Cohort 2022: Stage
Available to view online between August 25-31.
Tickets: $25.00 per household, available now!

How to Watch: Simply purchase a ticket! A streaming link and link to program information will be emailed to you.

This is a great option if you live out of town, missed the live show, or opted out due to Covid concerns. Tickets to the live version of this show were priced at $18.00-$24.00 per person: if you are able and would like to support beyond the $25.00 per family streaming price, we welcome and appreciate your donations, as they help us keep ticket prices accessible and offer competitive compensation to artists. To donate easily and securely online, visit our GiveMN page.

Thank you for your interest, and we hope you enjoy checking out The Cohort 2022: Stage – On-Demand!

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.

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.

Free and open to the public – suggested donation of $10

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

Saturday, September 24 at 7:30pm
at the DANCE CUBE Performance Space at Ballet Royale Minnesota

Don’t miss your chance to see Cupcake Murders, a Ballet presented by Pacific Midwest Ballet at the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Three owners of a successful bakery receive a tempting cash offer to buy their small business. As soon as they decide to accept the money one of them is found dead the next morning. Investigators race to uncover the truth of who the murderer is, and the bakery struggles in the midst of tragedy. Will the mystery be solved before more damage is done? Dancing cupcakes and ghosts round out this playful murder-mystery.

Two remaining performances at Augsburg Mainstage:

Thursday, August 11 – 8:30pm
Saturday, August 13 – 4:00pm

Tickets available on the MN Fringe website for $15 + $3 reservation fee. Show run time is 50 minutes.

We are our own future archeologists. Trying to decipher past self, but the gifts from our past selves are gibberish. We are spellcasting, feeding ghosts, speaking to the dead, leaving artifacts along the path for ourselves like Hansel and Gretel, carrying stones and grief. We are priestesses and pilgrims. The Cosmos and the Reverse Cosmos are destinations. Traveling through geologic time, can our bones remember being the molten state of earth before they were someone else’s bones? Just read the list and let it be a stupid incantation.

Join us outside in Powderhorn Park for a work-in-progress of a new performance work by Monica Thomas and Theresa Madaus. Featuring Judith Howard, Krista Langberg, and Sylvan Madaus Derenne.

Friday, August 12
7:00pm
Powderhorn Park
Free to attend; RSVP requested

This is a short, semi-formal showing of an in-progress work.
Please email Theresa to let us know you are coming, and we’ll send you the exact location within Powderhorn.
We ask all audience members to wear masks. (Yes, even though it’s outside! We respect the highly contagious nature of the current Covid variants and don’t want to contribute to the spread.)

In case of rain, we will move to an indoor location (with masks required) and will email the address by 5:00pm on the day of the showing.

Thanks to HAIR+NAILS for rehearsal support.