Archive: Performances and Events

Young Dance Performs at Belwin Conservancy
15551 Division St., Afton, MN
Saturday, August 13 from 2:00–3:00pm
$10/car

Young Dance is excited to be partnering with Belwin Conservancy for their Music in the Trees program! 

Young Dance dancers from several classes have been developing their own choreography in response to issues around conservation, Indigenous land rights, stewardship, native plant species, and polyculture planting.

Spend the day listening to musicians high in the trees and end with a site-specific performance!

Dance to Transcend at DreamAcres

Long known for bringing world class performances to our area, DreamAcres Farm (near Wykoff, MN) welcomes dancer Tamara Nadel (founding member and long-time performer with Ragamala Dance Company) for a solo performance on Sunday, August 14 at 3:00PM.

Created for Tamara by choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy (her mentor and Founding Artistic Director of Ragamala), Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? uses the living language of Bharatanatyam (dance of South India) to illuminate the universal journey of a human soul longing for transcendence. Rooted in the writings of the Sephardic Jewish poets of southern Spain’s Golden Age—a period known for innovations in art and thought that emerged from the intermingling of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions—Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? is set to an original score by Cantor Basya Schechter, Lalit Subramanian, Vinod Krishnan, and Cantor Audrey Abrams that weaves together Jewish and South Indian Carnatic genres and instrumentation.

Free – no reservations required. Free-will offerings accepted.

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

 

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.

September 7 at 12:00pm

MIRAGE Performing Arts is thrilled to present our unique collaboration of classical music and ballet to celebrate VERANO (summer)!

Works by: Pärt, de Falla, Kapustin, Mayuzumi and Rachmaninoff

Choreographer, Dancer: Yuki Tokuda
Dancer: Jarod Boltjes
Musicians: Rie Tanaka, Jesse Nummelin

Two performances at two locations each:

Thursday, August 4, 4:00pm
Thursday, August 18, 12:00pm

at Xcel Energy Plaza
401 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401

This performance is part of Beyond the Box, a collaboration between Minnesota Fringe, Vibrant and Safe Downtown, and Downtown Improvement District. It is an artist incubation opportunity in public, outdoor performance. Artists engage with the diverse audiences of downtown Minneapolis and celebrate the reanimation, renewal, and changing relationship to public spaces and will take place at Xcel Energy Plaza on Nicollet Avenue.
https://www.fringefestival.org/events

Thursday, August 18, 6:00pm
Saturday, August 20, 2:00pm

at Peavey Plaza
1101 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

This performance is part of Peavey Plaza Performing Arts Series By Green Minneapolis.
https://www.greenminneapolis.org/peavey-plaza-performing…/

Join us as our dancers delight your senses with colorful costumes, spectacular music, and breathtaking performances of folkloric and contemporary dances from Egypt.

Performances at Center For Performing Arts:
Friday, August 5 – 7:00pm
Saturday, August 6 – 8:30pm
Tuesday, August 9 – 5:30pm
Friday, August 12 – 10:00pm
Saturday, August 13 – 2:30pm

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

THERMAL at Peavey Plaza
Presented in partnership with Green Minneapolis

Friday, August 5 at 6:00pm and 7:30pm
Free to attend!

Come out and enjoy this beautiful weather we are having! Have a picnic and enjoy some downtown green space. THERMAL is a dialogue – through movement, form and sound – centered on Earth’s changing environment. With the effects of climate change here, THERMAL invites viewers to slow down and take in one another and our natural surroundings to appreciate and care for the land and each other.

Live performances by ARENA DANCES with Dustin Haug, Javan Mngrezzo and Betsy Schaefer Roob.

Click HERE to learn more about THERMAL at Peavy Plaza.

Join dancers from Minnesota and beyond celebrating the remarkable life of Lirena Grisha Branitski on Sunday, August 7 from 1:00-4:00pm at Bryant Regional Park.

A special program will begin at 2:00pm featuring renowned dancers speaking about Lirena (born in Ukraine on April 7, 1940; died in Minneapolis on January 29, 2022), her career performing in the former Soviet Union and throughout the world, and her profound impact on generations of Minnesota dancers, and Minnesota companies, studios, directors and teachers.

The program will also feature photos and videos of Lirena performing, teaching and choreographing from her forty-year Minnesota career; and a chance to share stories as was well as participate in Lirena’s famous warm-up and reverence.

For directions to Bryant Regional Park go to: https://www.threeriversparks.org/location/bryant-lake-regional-park