Rhythmically Speaking Presents The Cohort 2022: Stage

A reimagining of Rhythmically Speaking’s beloved and long-running annual August production of live dance works, The Cohort is built to support and share vibrant different perspectives through, on, and via jazz and American social dance ideas. This year’s stage production The Cohort 2022 features work by:

Rae Charles – Local Artist and Rhythmically Speaking Company Member
Kathleen Doherty – Visiting Artist from Halifax, NS, Canada
Erinn Liebhard – Rhythmically Speaking Artistic and Executive Director
Laura Ann Smyth – Visiting Artist from Los Angeles, CA

Charles’ new piece Learn.Leave.Love. uses the metaphor of falling in love to explore how we come to understand ourselves and one another, and visitor Kathleen Doherty has remounted her work BASSline, which takes inspiration from how prominent bass lines within music influence movement choices, rhythmic timing and shapes in the dancers’ bodies. Liebhard’s new work An Opening is a musing on the synergy of keeping it together and breaking apart, and visitor Laura Smyth has set her work Character A/Musings, using the jazz idiom to consider the way in which we invent and reinvent ourselves throughout our lifetimes.

Thursday, August 11 at 7:30pm
Friday, August 12 at 7:30pm – talk-back following the show
Saturday, August 13 at 2:00pm – pay as you are
Saturday, August 13 at 7:30pm

If you live out of town, cannot make it to the show, or are still avoiding live events due to Covid concerns, check out our on-demand option! Tickets are $20 in advance, $24 at the door, $18 for students and seniors, and name your price for “pay as you are.”

 

To learn more about this production, the film screening that is a part of The Cohort program, and Rhythmically Speaking, visit rhythmicallyspeakingdance.org. RSVP at the Facebook Event.

Hope to see you at the show!

Rituals for Nothing/prayers to no god: a Work-in-Progress Showing

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 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.

The Artist Citizen Ensemble Presents: Solace

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.

Saturday, August 20 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm

Tickets: $15. Group discounts available, contact julie.muskat@gmail.com.

For more info and to buy tickets, visit www.deeperwaterarts.org/solace

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.

Katha Dance Theatre Presents: Kathak Yatra at Paramount Center for the Arts

Katha Dance Theatre is excited to be performing Kathak Yatra – The Journey of Kathak Dance at Paramount Center for the Arts on August 20! The performance follows Kathak’s evolution through time, beginning with its inception in Hindu temples and culminating in its contemporary multicultural incarnations. It explores Kathak’s duality as both classic and modern.

August 20 at 7:30pm

Tickets:
Adults: $15
Students: $12

Photo by Anjana Nair.

Amplifying Solidarity: Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue

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.

Wednesday, September 7
12:00pm
Free!

Box Office: umntix@umn.edu

Ballet Co.Laboratory’s Fifth Anniversary Season

Ballet Co.Laboratory is thrilled to announce our Fifth Anniversary Season. 

Join us in 2022/23 for three world premieres and two expanded works that celebrate the transformative power of storytelling and honor the growth and resiliency of our organization over the last five years.

Productions include:

Dirty Dancing | A Benefit for Ballet Co.Laboratory
October 8, 2022 at Ballet Co.Laboratory Studio Theatre

The Snow Queen
December 2-4, 2022 at The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts

The Wild Rumpus
March 11-12, 2023 at Park Square Theatre

Kitchen Dances
March 31-April 2, 2023 at The Luminary Arts Center

Carmen in the 1920’s
May 19-21, 2023 at E.M. Pearson Theatre (Concordia University)

Tickets on sale now! Check out the full-season lineup and save your seats today.

Happy Hour Dance Party Fundraiser for Rhythmically Speaking

Like breweries? Like dancing? Want to support the work of Rhythmically Speaking, a Twin Cities-based dance company uniquely inspired by and dedicated to the ideas of the jazz movement continuum? Then come to our Happy Hour Dance Party Fundraiser at Urban Growler!

Thursday, July 28, 5:00-7:00pm

Join us for a summer dance party! Get your groove on and support Rhythmically Speaking by:

  • Tipping the DJs  – cash, Venmo, or Square
  • Requesting your favorite dance tune for $5 (or more!)
  • Buying a $5 raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes, including Rhythmically Speaking swag, Urban Growler gift cards, and tickets to our upcoming show – The Cohort 2022: Stage

RVSP to the Facebook event.

At Rhythmically Speaking, we believe in the power of moving and grooving together to connect us, and we look forward to sharing the joy with you at this event!

Live @ The Shed, Featuring “Au”

Image of the performance location: a large red metalic structure with an open concrete base

Back for the third consecutive summer, Live @ The Shed, produced by Hatch Dance and HoneyWorks, returns to the Lab Taproom, July 30-31, 2022, featuring the premiere of Au.

Twenty-six of the Twin Cities most vibrant dancers come together for an outdoor dance event choreographed by members of the cast along with artistic directors Berit Ahlgren (HoneyWorks) and Helen Hatch (Hatch Dance). Through analyzing each artist’s means of finding strength in the face of adversity, and considering the necessity for all forms of coping mechanisms, Ahlgren, Hatch and the ensemble contemplate how these behaviors shape who we are and how we show up for ourselves and others in trying times. A multi-talented and multi-generational cast bring their energies and experiences together in the creation of this new work. Program begins with works-in-progress presentations from members of the cast.

Featuring Berit Ahlgren, Helen Hatch, Hannah Benditt, Jeremy Bensussan, Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Nicole Brown, Morgan Cogley, Non Edwards, Elissa Fonseca, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Elena Hollenhorst, Alejandra Iannone, Gemma Isaacson, Juliana Johnson, Sarah Jordan, Kendall Kramer, Isaiah Langowski, Da’Rius Malone, Sarah McCullough, Kelli Miles, Jacob Nehrbass, Solana Temple Nelson, Sally Rousse, Tessa Russ, Hettie Stern, and Darrius Strong.

VERANO – Live Dance and Music Performance

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 each at two locations:

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. Performances 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-arts-series/