Archive: Performances and Events

Join us for Pacific Midwest Ballet’s third appearance at the Minnesota Fringe Festival presenting Cupcake Murders, a Ballet.

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.

Performances at Augsburg Mainstage:

Thursday, August 4 – 10:00pm
Saturday, August 6 – 8:30pm
Monday, August 8 – 7:00pm
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 Little Debbie snack cakes to ghosts, speaking to the dead. 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. Also 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.

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. 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.)

Thanks to HAIR+NAILS for rehearsal support.

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

Find out more at https://paramountarts.org/event/kathadance_2022/

Photo by Anjana Nair.

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
12:00pm

The Tango Society of Minnesota is the face of Argentine Tango for tango dancers visiting the Twin Cities. It is a member-supported, non-profit social club committed to supporting the community of teachers, event promoters, DJs, and dancers, to grow a thriving  tango dance scene.

Wednesday, July 20
12:00pm
Free

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, a 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!

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…/

A reimagining of RS’ long-running annual August production, The Cohort is built to support and share different perspectives on and via the vibrancy of jazz and American social dance ideas, now through both staged and screened works. This year’s stage production The Cohort 2022 features work by:

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

Charles’ new piece Learning to Understand uses the metaphor of falling in love to explore how we come to understand ourselves and one another. Visiting Artist Kathleen Doherty is remounting her work BASS-line, 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 Visiting Artist Laura Smyth is setting her work Character A/Musings, using the jazz idiom to consider the way in which we invent and reinvent ourselves throughout our lifetimes. We are thrilled to return to our long-time summer home of the Southern Theater for the following show times:

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

To learn more about this production, the film screening that is a part of The Cohort program, and Rhythmically Speaking, visit rhythmicallyspeakingdance.org. See you at the show!