Archive: Performances and Events

Join us for this celebratory event supporting Northrop Centennial Commissions for the creation of new dance works, elevating artists, and bringing extraordinary presentations to our stage. Featuring an exquisite performance of José Limón’s Chaconne with a soloist from Limón Dance Company, your evening will also include delicious food and drinks, live music, dancing, and special guests. Plan to attend with friends—you can help ensure that artists’ creative works are seen by audiences and youth in our community for years to come. 

$75 All-inclusive Ticket OR $125 VIP Ticket
VIP ticket includes backstage Meet and Greet Artist Reception with Limón Dance Company soloist, along with Artistic Director, Dante Puleio.

Katha Dance Theatre is pleased to announce the upcoming revival of one of its classic repertory works, Black Candle. The new production is set to premiere at the Southern Theater June 3 – 5, 2022.

Based on the award-winning poetry of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and featuring all-new choreography by Rita Mustaphi, Black Candle combines the elegant medium of Kathak dance with text and music to evoke female joy, love, pain and resilience. Telling stories of triumph and bravery, it pays tribute to the strength and tenacity shown by the women of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan in the face of adversity such as sexism, misogyny and repressive cultural norms.

Tickets on sale beginning May 9 at southerntheater.org.

Performances:
Friday, June 3 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 4 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 5 at 2 pm (ASL-interpreted; post-show discussion)

Learn more about the production at https://kathadance.org/black-candle-announcement/

We need your support for AMP’s Step Into Spring Online Fundraising Event: May 2 – 7, 2022

Help us put some SPRING in our STEPS as we continue to celebrate AMP’s 10 years with Step into Spring! Our goal is to raise $6,000 over six days. Every dollar raised will be matched (up to $3,000) and will directly support our our personnel in our spring and summer events.

We are taking our gratitude for your support ONE SPRING-FUL STEP FURTHER! To thank you, we are offering a plethora of content at every giving level including links to past performances and behind the scenes content!

Your support helps our people! 
We continue to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic and to celebrate our 10th year. Any donation gets us ONE STEP CLOSER to our goal of equitable and competitive compensation for our personnel’s work. We cannot stress how impactful your contributions are for our community as we offer Spring and Summer events:

• Choreographer Open Call (May)
• AMPLIFIED Summer Workshop (June)
• Open Auditions (June)
• AMP Weekly Movement Practice (May)
• JumpstART Fundraiser + Co-Director’s Kristin Howe Celebration Event (August)

What does it mean to move big?

Move BIG is more than a tagline- it is AMP’s philosophy. Move BIG means more than the large and virtuosic movement that AMP is known for. Move BIG is advancing the art form of dance in any way we can. Whether it is through our choreography and performances, collaborations with other artists, engaging audience members, or education and exposure to those in need, we can come together as a community and acknowledge a purpose greater than ourselves.

Thank you for your continued support!

More information at our website alternativemotionproject.org. Direct any questions to alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

PC: Bill Cameron

CANDY BOX, presented by Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES is an annual, eclectic gathering of performances, masterclasses, and work-in-progress showings. This year’s festival features a range in levels of experiences, aesthetics, and choreographic voices to offer a diverse array of treats!

Featured Artists Performances:

Thursday, May 5 at 7:30pm – Dine-n-Dance special event on May 5, 6:30-7:30pm, at the Courtyard by Marriott Minneapolis Downtown.  More information on Dine-n-Dance here!

Friday, May 6 at 7:30pm

Saturday, May 7 at 2:00pm – Pay-As-Able pricing option is available for the May 7, 2:00pm performance. At the door only.

Saturday, May 7 at 7:30pm – Pre-show discussion with the Featured Artists on May 7, 6:00-7:00pm, in The Southern Theater Lobby

Tickets: $25 online and at the door; $18 student/senior discount with inquiry.

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Happy Hour Artists, 5:30-6:30pm
Wednesday, May 4 – Ayumi Shafer
Thursday, May 5 – Alexandra Bodnarchuk
Friday, May 6 – Emily Michaels King

Tickets: $12 per show.
Walk-ins welcome. Cash/check/card accepted at the door.
Additional $12 suggested donation – all donated funds go directly to the artist.
Purchase Happy Hour Artist tickets here.

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Master Classes, 4:00–5:15pm
Wednesday, May 4 – Ayumi Shafer
Thursday, May 5 – Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs
Friday, May 6 – Laura Selle Virtucio/Shapiro & Smith Dance

Tickets: $10 per class.
Walk-ins welcome. Cash/check/card accepted at the door.
Purchase masterclass tickets here.

We would like to officially invite you to ARENA DANCES’ upcoming celebration for the opening night of the 6th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival 2022 at The Southern Theater.

This celebration, Dine-n-Dance, is a special event to usher in the opening night of CANDY BOX’s exciting Featured Artists performances and commemorate another triumphant year of the festival. On Thursday, May 5, make your evening complete with tasty appetizers, communal gathering, and the celebration of opening night, hosted by The Southern Theater’s Seven Corners neighbor, Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Minneapolis. Plus, join us in wishing our very own Mathew Janczewski a happy birthday!

Thursday, May 5, 6:00–7:30pm

• 6:00–7:30pm: Enjoy exclusive appetizers and communal celebration at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Minneapolis
• 7:30pm: Experience opening night of CANDY BOX’s Featured Artists performances with Body Watani, Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs, and Shapiro & Smith Dance

$40: Your ticket will include a pre-show celebration with appetizers provided and the best available seats at The Southern Theater for opening night of CANDY BOX’s Featured Artist Performances. Drinks are available for purchase, no open bar.

Please RSVP by Monday, April 25 to reserve your tickets. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out mdarenadances@gmail.com. We hope to see you there!

Join Twin Cities Ballet for the company premiere of Giselle, May 6–8 at Ames Center in Burnsville. Giselle is the haunting tale of a young peasant girl who is deceived by a disguised nobleman, and yet her love saves him from death despite his treachery. Tickets on sale now!

The production also includes a Sensory-Relaxed show, which enables children and people with sensory sensitivities to experience the art of ballet with relaxed theater rules and modified sensory elements to allow for increased comfort.  

Performances:
Friday, May 6 | 10:15am (Sensory-Relaxed Show)
Saturday, May 7 | 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Sunday, May 8 | 2:00pm

Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota (TCB) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional ballet company located in the Twin Cities’ South Metro. Our mission is to connect and enrich communities by making ballet approachable, relatable, and fun, through professional and original productions and educational outreach.

 These activities are 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.

We are thrilled to release our newest production, Iridescent Blue, featuring some of the most difficult solo piano works ever written, which are reimagined and transformed into continuous movements in complete sync with the music.

We will be depicting things that change – the color, shape, sound and even yourself, set in the music by Saint-Saëns, Liszt-Schubert, Somei Satoh, Ravel, and Gershwin.

Through our collaboration, we are continuing to develop our technique of bringing forth the original intentions of the composers as a direction in creating unique artistic expressions. Our hope is to create a performance where the audience can experience classical music and ballet with new light and deeper understanding.

Piano: Rie Tanaka
Choreography, Dance: Yuki Tokuda

Saturday, May 7 at 7:00pm | $20 general admission, $10 students (Tickets)