Archive: Performances and Events

Amplifying Solidarity: Tango Society of Minnesota

The Tango Society of Minnesota is a member-supported, non-profit social club organized in 1999 to foster the genesis of Argentine Tango in the Twin Cities. TSoM established a monthly milonga which it still hosts today. It also encourages the invitation of bona fide, tango-teaching talent from around the world.

It exists now as an umbrella organization committed to supporting the community of teachers, event promoters, DJs, and dancers, to grow a thriving tango dance scene. TSoM is the face of Argentine Tango for tango dancers visiting the Twin Cities and interested parties from the community at large.

Wednesday, July 20
12:00pm
Northrop Plaza
Free

Class of ’85 Returns, Save with Dance Community Deal

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents Class of ’85 – July 21-24, 2022

Summer school is back for one weekend!
Class of ’85 explores the secrets hidden behind high school stereotypes, while celebrating the need for inclusion, acceptance, and friendship.

Featuring dancers Jarod Boltjes (James Sewell Ballet), Renee Guittar (Chanhassen Dinner Theater), Patrick Jeffrey (Ordway Music Theater), Javan Mngrezzo (Black Label Movement), Grace Kidder, Megan Carver and Ben Siglin.

Created by Regina Peluso and assistant directed by Heather Brockman, the production runs for one weekend at St. Paul’s Gremlin Theatre.

Performances
Thursday, July 21 at 7:30pm
Friday, July 22 at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 23 at 7:30pm
Sunday, July 24 at 2:00pm

Saturday night costumes contest – dress in your favorite 1980s attire and win prizes!

Dance Community Deal: Use code “DanceCom” and save 10%!

Live @ The Shed, Featuring “Au”

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 Au.

Twenty-seven 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, Darrius Strong, and Yuki Tokuda.

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
Northrop Plaza
Free

Red Eye Theater Presents: New Works 4 Weeks Festival

A cornerstone of the Twin Cities performance landscape, the long-running New Works 4 Weeks Festival returns to live formats for the first edition in Red Eye’s new performance space in the Seward neighborhood. This process-driven, cohort-based incubator of new works culminates in a showcase of the freshest experiments from Minnesota’s most risk-taking performing artists.

June 16-18, 7:00pm: Kate Sutton-Johnson; Ritika Ganguly

$20-30, pay what you wish. More information and tickets at www.redeyetheater.org.

Concerto Dance Opens Girls in the Band Tomorrow

Concerto Dance by Jolene Konkel presents Girls in the Band at the Bloomington Center for the Arts June 16-18.

Join us for our full length premiere of Girls in the Band, an original jazz dance production illuminating the history and untold stories of female musicians and composers who paved the way for women in jazz from the 1930’s to today. Told through dance narration and film, Girls in the Band celebrates the “Ladies Who Swing the Band!”

Thursday, June 16 at 1:30 and 7:30pm
Friday, June 17 at 7:30pm
Saturday, June 18 at 2:30* and 7:30pm

Thursday, June 16 at 1:30 is now open to the public! Saturday, June 18 at 2:30 has “Pick your price” options available.

Your ticket also includes free admission to an all ages jazz dance class on Saturday, June 18 from 10:00-11:00am and the film screening of the full documentary film The Girls in the Band, directed by Judy Chaikin, on Saturday, June 18 at 4:30pm. Run time 90 minutes.

Tickets: $30 Adults, $22 Seniors/Students at blm.mn/bcatix or 952-563-8575.

Visit www.concertodance/girls-in-the-band for more info.

Off-Leash Area Presents Off-Kilter Cabaret at the Tek Box

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

Off-Kilter is Off-Leash Area’s new cabaret performance program designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities, which 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 is excited to partner with Young Dance this year, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.

Performances:
June 16, 17, and 18 at 7:30pm
June 19 at 2:00pm.
Friday, June 17 performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Admission is $5-30 sliding scale, suggested donation. Tickets available at https://off-kiltercabaret.eventbrite.com

Accessibility: All performances will have audio description available. Friday, June 17 and Sunday, June 19 will be ASL-interpreted. Saturday June 18 will have live captioning. Performances are held at the fully accessible Tek Box. If you require an accommodation not listed here, please reach out to Off-Leash Area at offleash@offleasharea.org at least two weeks in advance of the show.

COVID-19 Protocols: Audience will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative Covid test within 48 hours at the door. We will provide physically distanced seating and require participants to wear masks as they are able, and otherwise follow CDC and state guidelines at the time of the performances.

Acknowledgement: 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.

Young Dance All Abilities Dancing 2 Performs in Off-Kilter Cabaret

Young Dance’s All Abilities Dancing 2 is excited to be part of Off-Kilter Cabaret, where seven artists will share their captivating takes on the theme “Organ Recital”! 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. 

Please join us June 16-19 at the fully accessible TEK BOX Theater in the Cowles Center. 

Featuring Braille, Atlas O Phoenix, Daniel Reiva, Amy Salloway, Pat Samples, Scott Sorensen, and Young Dance. 

Tickets are available now: https://off-kiltercabaret.eventbrite.com

Reunion – A Duniya Drum & Dance Production

A performance not to be missed. Join us for an evening of rhythms and dances from Guinea West Africa.

Duniya Drum & Dance Company and special guest artists hit the stage Saturday, June 18 at 7:00pm.

After a three year hiatus from their annual performance and workshop “Fakoly” it is time for a REUNION. Fode Bangoura is bringing in his brothers from across the world as well as some of the greatest talent in Guinea drum and dance to celebrate this special moment of community, family and friends coming together again.

Reunited and it feels so good!

Tickets: Adults- $25. 12 and under- $15.

​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-Leash Area Presents Minotaur

Off-Leash Area presents Minotaur, in which we behead the patriarchy with dance, mask performance, live music, and live animated projection as we delve into the world of the violent and labyrinth-bound creature, half-bull half-man.

With Minotaur, OLA Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer Jennifer Ilse leads 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 the patriarchy is laid asunder, and after knowing nothing other than a labyrinthine system of oppression, how do we know when we are free of a hierarchical system’s seductive power?

Dancers Nieya Amezquita, Gabby Garcia, Jennifer Ilse, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, and Joseph Wurm will perform Minotaur with contemporary dance and mask performance. Accompanying the performers and immersing the entire audience will be a live music and sound score by Dameun Strange, and a live animated projection design by OLA Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig. All together, Off-Leash Area will take the audience to an otherworldly space where ancient myth, dreams of a future, and our urgent present collide.

Thursday-Sunday, July 14-17, 2022
All performances 7:30pm

Tickets: Admission is $10-30, sliding scale.

COVID-19 Precautions: Masks required; N95, KN95, or other high-filtration masks encouraged. Audience will be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours at the door.

Acknowledgements: 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.