Archive: Performances and Events

Young Dance Presents RESET and Spring Performance

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

Analog Dance Works Presents Tellus

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

Riverside Park Sound Garden

Dancers Sarah Baumert, Suzette Gilreath, Erika Hansen, Megan Mayer and Leslie O’Neill perform in a new, site-specific Sound Garden installation at Riverside Park. This premier performance directed by composer JG Everest will also feature poetry by Chavonn Shen, Nimo Farah, Teresa Ortiz, Lisa Yankton, and many more.

The Riverside Park Sound Garden event is a free, family-friendly, self-guided event that features a sound installation of 50+ small, wireless speakers, distributed throughout a section of the park, with live accompaniment by roving musicians and dancers, and live poetry and site-specific visual art. Each small speaker is playing a different part of the whole piece of music, creating a unique, immersive experience that is described as “A Concert You Can Move Through”.

This activity is part of the Peoples Center & Clinics’ “Because Your Health Matters” community wellness initiative in partnership with Wavelets Creative.

Young Dance Board of Directors Present a Menu of Great Gatherings

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.

Ballet Co.Laboratory presents Firebird

Celebrate the soaring score of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird with a reimagined tale of a powerful bird whose spirit and magical feathers provide beauty and protection upon the earth. Performed by 100 dancers, this radiant tale will take you into the depths of an enchanted forest where virtuous and malicious forces hide. 

Choreography by: Flavia Garcia

Performed by: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory and Students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory  

Performances:
Friday, May 20, 2022 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 2:00pm

Location:
E.M. Pearson Theatre
Concordia University Campus
312 Hamline Ave N | Saint Paul, MN 55104

Tickets start at $22 https://bit.ly/FirebirdBCL

The Cowles Center is Hosting a Dancer, Choreographer and Movement Artist Open House

Calling all Dancers, Choreographers, and Movement Artists! The doors to The Cowles Center are wide open and waiting for all dancers, choreographers, and movement artists to join the Programs & Advisory Committee and staff for a morning of connection. This is an opportunity to get to know the building, the people within it, and the programs that might be of interest to you.

We’ll have a light breakfast, give an overview of all the ways you can be engaged with The Cowles Center, hear from some artists, as well as demystify grant writing, intellectual property, and unions.

Translations are available onsite upon request. Feel free to come and go as your day permits. A $5 parking/transportation subsidy will be available.

Professional headshots

Local photographer, Canaan Mattson, will be joining us and taking free headshots for the first 20 artists who sign up. You’ll be entitled to one photo with no more than two retakes, and your headshot will be emailed to you at a later date.

More about Canaan Mattson at canaanmattson.com

Click this Link for more information!

Off-Leash Area Presents Off-Kilter Cabaret

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
  • Martha Bird
  • Atlas O. Phoenix
  • Daniel Reiva
  • Amy Salloway
  • Scott Sorenson
  • Young Dance

ABOUT the PROGRAM: 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.” This year Off-Leash Area is excited to partner with Young Dance, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.

Performances: June 9, 10, 11 at 7:30pm, June 12 at 2:00pm. Friday night performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Barbara Barker Center for Dance | 500 21st Ave S | Minneapolis, MN 55455

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

ACCESSIBILITY: All performances will have audio description available. Thursday, June 9 and Saturday June 11 will have captioning available. Friday, June 10 and Sunday, June 12 will be ASL-interpreted. Performances are held at the fully accessible Barbara Barker black box theater. 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 PROTOCOLS: Audience will be required to show proof of vaccination 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.

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.

Generic Specific at Red Eye Theater

Generic Specific is a contemporary dance work by Emily Gastineau, with Valerie Oliveiro, Anna Marie Shogren, J H Shuǐ Xiān that investigates the generic: the objects and ideas that saturate a culture until we become unable to see them. Everyone has a different idea of what is generic: your particular universal. Generics choreograph us, and yet specificity persists. How do you spot a norm on the cusp of materializing? How can we wade through the mess of the culture we have been given? How does a loop repeat over and over and over until it’s something else?

April 28-30, 2022 at 8 pm | Red Eye Theater | 2213 Snelling Ave Minneapolis, MN 55404

More info and tickets at redeyetheater.org.

Sensible Existence Showing at TU Dance Center

Please join us for an informal in-studio showing featuring Sensible Existence, a TU Dance project with choreography by Marcus Jarrell Willis. In anticipation for our live performances at The O’Shaughnessy of St. Catherine University on May 13 and 14 at 7:30pm, we invite you to attend this event and get an up-close and personal look into the creation of this work, and have the opportunity to meet the artists involved.

Sensible Existence Showing | April 28, 2022 | 5:30-6:30pm | TU Dance Center

This event is free and open to the public with a maximum capacity of 75 guest. First come, first served. RSVP required here! Please RSVP by noon on April 28th.