Archive: Performances and Events

After postponing for two years due to the pandemic, Analog Dance Works presents its inaugural event, Tellus. Two premiere dance works bring the company’s commitment to the exploration of the intersection of dance and science to the pressing theme of climate change, moving from Minnesota backyards by means of whitetail deer to a broad look at the psychological effects of the global crisis. These choreographies are accompanied by an interactive exhibit from the University of Minnesota’s Outreach through Science and Art Group that reveals the science behind the art. The theater becomes a laboratory as Tellus embraces experimentation and play, investigating the rapid shifts shaping the world today.

May 13 – 7:30pm (post-show reception)
May 14 – 7:30pm
May 15 – 2:00pm (post-show artist talk)

Interactive Exhibit open 6:00–9:00pm, May 13 and 14; 1:00–4:00pm May 15.
Tickets: $5-$20, sliding scale in advance and at the door.

Photo credit: Bill Cameron

Young Dance presents RESET, an outdoor dance concert featuring the Young Dance Performing Company and students, May 13–15, 2022, in the parking lot of the Fairview Business Center. In our school’s Spring Performance (May 13–14), students enrolled in our weekly classes will share their learning in two unique Spring Performances. Separately, RESET, features the Young Dance Performing Company members performing pieces exploring the concept of resetting, created in collaboration with professional choreographers Alexandra Beaumont, Theo Langason, Gretchen Pick, and Anat Shinar.

Spring Performance: May 13 at 7:00 p.m. and May 14 at 2:00 p.m*

RESET: May 14 at 7:00 p.m.* & May 15 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets purchased through the youngdance.org/tickets:
$12 General Admission
$8 Student/Senior Admission
$5 Child Admission (3-5 years of age), or free for those 2 and under

*$12 Virtual Livestream tickets for Friday or Saturday performances. Livestream purchases close one hour prior to the performance and the link will be emailed at that time. 

The Saturday, May 14, 7:00 p.m. show will be ASL interpreted. Additional ASL interpretation, or audio description, will be provided upon request to info@youngdance.org by May 6.

Location: Fairview Business Center Parking Lot | 655 Fairview Ave N | St. Paul, MN 55104

As part of the spring fundraising campaign, the Young Dance Board of Directors will offer multiple events for donation. Select one – or many – of the gatherings from the menu to join in the fun!

Dance Celebration
May 15, 4:00–6:00pm
Following the final Young Dance Spring Performance, celebrate with an opportunity to dance together! Paul McCluskey will lead an Irish Ceili dance experience. Suggested donation $5-10/person

Virtual Cooking – Goat Cheese
May 21, 10:00-11:00am
Learn to make goat cheese from home with Soph Myers-Kelley! Impress friends and family with simple skills and in less than an hour. Zoom link sent upon registration. Suggested donation $20/person

Virtual Cooking – Sushi Making
May 28, 10:00-11:00am
Learn the basics of sushi making from home with Soph Myers-Kelley! Your new skills will save you money and you are guaranteed to laugh at how silly your first rolls look! Zoom link sent upon registration. Suggested donation $20/person

Register by emailing info@youngdance.org. Donations can be made online here, or by check to Young Dance, sent to 655 Fairview Ave North St. Paul, MN, 55104.

We are so excited to gather with you in 2022, and thank you for supporting Young Dance.

New choreographic works by artists: Dustin Haug and Chloe Nagle, plus Guests!

Zenon Dance School’s Zone Program will feature Zenon Dance School Instructors and local choreographers, Dustin Haug and Chloe Nagle performed by the Zone dancers!

Zone is an intensive adult dance program for all levels, ages, and dance backgrounds, who are looking to deepen their dance experience. The program offers two tracks and new students are selected by a brief & relaxed audition. Performance Group – for movers with a strong intermediate/advanced level of dance technique and who are looking for opportunities to perform; Technique Group – for movers looking to enhance creative and technical skills and explore different styles of dance.

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

Friday and Saturday, May 20 & 21 at 7:30pm (in-person, masks required)

On-Demand available May 23-June 5; registration required.

Tickets: Free/Pay-What-You-Wish; registration required.

LÍNEAS de SANGRE – A dance film by Choreographer Taja Will & Filmmaker Sequoia Hauck 

ON DEMAND VIEWING – You can watch from your home, couch, bed, with a sweetie, with your family, with your favorite snacks, at any time during the date range. LÍNEAS includes open captioning and runs 54 minutes.

TICKETS ON SALE : May 11th – June 5th; VIEWING : May 20th – June 5th

LÍNEAS de SANGRE is the third chapter in a trio of works that instigate from archetypal and ancestral work. This chapter defines itself through a devotion to plant ancestors and land sovereignty, to indigenous solidarity and decolonization in artistic practice. This dance film is the biomythology of bodies in Latine diaspora, Boricua, Chicana, Chilean. We journey with the archetypes which support/guide/mask/empower us, we are LOVER, VIRGEN, SHADOW, SERVANT, SIREN and ALCHEMIST. We are here now, and ancient, elders in training and millennials, we are stress, and meditation, we are tired and we are growing.

Artistic Team
Choreographer, Director, Performer: Taja Will
Director of Photography & Editing: Sequoia Hauck
Collaborative Authors of Movement & Performers: Marisol Herling & Margaret Ogas
Sound Design & Composition: Brandon Anderson Musser
Dramaturg: Lisa Marie Brimmer

On Saturday, May 21 Young Dance families, friends, and neighbors are invited to build their own hole to be part of our unique, one-day-only, miniature golf course. The course will be constructed at Newell Park in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul from 12:00–3:00 p.m. Participants can sign up to build and design the course as an individual or bring a group of friends.

Once the course is complete, golfing will open at 3:00 p.m. Pick your price to play! All proceeds go to Young Dance.

Food will be available for purchase from the KCM Eggrolls food truck. Smiling Drum will perform at 5 p.m.

The event is sponsored by: No Mythic Robotics; Home Depot – St. Louis Park Store #2806; Welna Ace Hardware: Store #7166 Minneapolis, Bloomington Ave; South High School Athletic Department; Southwest High School Athletic Department; and Smiling Drum.

This newly commissioned solo dance work by award-winning choreographer/performer Adam W. McKinney deals with his family heritage of his father’s American Blackness and his mother’s European Jewishness as synthesized through his dancer’s lens.

McKinney danced in the Alvin Ailey Dance Co, Lines, and other companies before embarking on his solo work, continuing to tour and create new works. He said recently, “in the Jewish calendar this is a Shmita year, a year of rest and release. It’s also a year in which my father died. I’ve asked myself, What does Shmita mean in terms of loss and ancestry? How does it translate in my own body and process into the experience of letting go? My goal for the new piece is to create a space that allows people to arrive and be in community, to participate in a community practice of art making.”

McKinney presents his work through his own DNAWORKS. Founded in 2006 with Daniel Banks, their DNAWORKS centers Global Majority and LGBTQQ2SPIAA+ voices to create more complex representations of identity, culture, class, and heritage in dance, theatre, film, and writing.  In addition to DNAWORKS, Rimon is co-hosting with Eydot Midwest, the Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity and Racial Justice Collaborative.

The Rimon Salon requires masks for those in attendance. The Salon is sponsored by The BrinIngber Salon Commission, funded from the Howard B. and Ruth F. Brin Jewish Arts Endowment Fund at the Minneapolis Jewish Community Foundation.

Celebrate National Tap Dance Day with Keane Sense of Rhythm! In celebration of our 25th Anniversary this year we have made some fantastic additions and would love to have you join us! 

Friday May 27: MN Tap Experience 

Join us Friday evening for a tap dance only competition with tap dance judges!  Tap and percussive dance, improv contest and specialty awards and prizes! 

Location: Celtic Junction 836 Prior Ave N, St Paul | Free for audience members!

Saturday May 28: Free Tappy Hour Class for beginning adults on stage 1-:45pm (some shoes provided)

Location: Como Park Lakeside Pavilion | 1360 Lexington Pkwy N, St Paul | Free for audience members!

NTTD Performances: (2:00PM – 5:00PM ) | 4:00PM – Drawing 

Location: Como Park Lakeside Pavilion |1360 Lexington Pkwy N, St Paul | Free for audience members!

Have a group that would like to perform? There will be tap performances, concessions, silent auction & raffle! Cannot wait to see you there!