Archive: Performances and Events

We have a License to Thrill! Our dancers will perform solos and duets with local musicians Phil Belknap, David Burk, John Croarkin, Rebecca Dudley, Laura Harada, Tim O’Keefe, and vocalist Laurie Etchen to re-imagine James Bond theme music! This fun show is returning to the Hook and Ladder Theater followed by an open dance party to the music of Amwaaj and Electric Arab Orchestra.

The Hook and Ladder Theater
3010 Minnehaha Ave | Minneapolis, MN

Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm, 21+, $15 in advance/$20 at the door.

More info at Hook and Ladder!

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 | 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!

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!

Virtual Pilates Mat Class
April 30, 10:00–11:00am
Join an all levels mat Pilates class led by Abby Frank Taylor! We will go through a series of gentle movements and build some heat as we go. Modifications and support will be provided throughout using things you can find around your house. Zoom link sent upon registration. Suggested donation $10-20/person

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.

Metamorphosis
Third Coast Percussion
Featuring choreography by Movement Art Is (Lil Buck and Jon Boogz)
Interpreted and performed by Cameron Murphy and Quentin Robinson

Grammy Award-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion and the groundbreaking choreography team Movement Art Is have joined forces to create an irresistible dance-music mashup that melds the captivating urgency of street dance with a fiery score of percussive invention and other-worldly electronic soundscapes.

Two disparate styles of street dance blend seamlessly with new music by Jlin and Tyondai Braxton, as well as Third Coast Percussion’s critically-acclaimed arrangements of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia.

This event will be captioned, with other accessibility services available upon request.
You can now purchase single tickets to ALL of Northrop’s 2021-22 Season events, along with flexible Choose Your Own season packages and group tickets.

We would like to officially invite you to ARENA DANCES’ upcoming celebration for the opening night of the 6th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, May 2-7, 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 7-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/Ticket | Drinks are available for purchase, no open bar.

Your ticket will include: 

• A pre-show celebration with appetizers provided
• The best available seats at The Southern Theater for opening night of CANDY BOX’s Featured Artist Performances

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!

THE MIXTAPE Collective consists of established and up-and-coming Hip Hop choreographers, dancers, electronic and instrumental musicians, and videographers and editors. Our mission is to push the boundaries of our art forms in an annual performance created through collaboration and mentorship.

MIXTAPE’s work reveals generative strategies for sharing power and access to resources by weaving together choreography, videography, and musical compositions. MIXTAPE 5G: The Sound of Movement promises to be our most expansive production yet.

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Masks are required throughout the Cowles. For more information about our health and safety guidelines and getting to The Cowles Center, click here.

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 that are 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

DATE:
Saturday, May 7 at 7:00pm

LOCATION:
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104

TICKETS:
General $20 | Student $10

https://iridescent-blue.eventbrite.com

The McKnight Fellowships for Dancers’ biannual showcase event, SOLO, pairs six Minnesota dancers with renowned local, national, and international choreographers. A repeat showing of the films that premiered in September 2021 will take place at Silverwood Park.

Thursday, May 12 at 8:00pm (rain date: Thursday, May 26)
This outdoor showing is FREE to the public. Bring a chair or blanket for seating.

The six dancers are Renée Copeland, Yeniel “Chini” Perez Domenech, Sharon Mansur, Erin Thompson, Joseph “MN Joe” Tran, Elayna Waxse. Each are recipients of a McKnight Dancer Fellowship, an annual award given to three mid-career Minnesota dancers whose work demonstrates artistic excellence. In addition to a $25,000 unrestricted cash award, fellows received additional support and the commission of a new solo from a choreographer of their choosing. The 2021 collaborations range from innovative Hip Hop to contemporary Arab imaginings, to intimate site-specific explorations and more. SOLO will have Spanish and English captioning throughout the films.

For more information: www.silverwoodonstage.org