Archive: Performances and Events

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company Presents Romance Candlelight Cabaret

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents the Romance Candlelight Cabaret, the second performance in their renovated performance space in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood.

This candlelight performance features intersecting love stories told through dance and music and features dancers Megan Carver, Heather Brockman, Ben Siglin, Brett Pederson, Rachel Seeholzer, Regina Peluso, and Javan Mngrezzo. Collide artistic associate, Renee Guittar, both dances and curates the production.

Remaining show dates and times:

  • Friday, February 18 – 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, February 19 – 7:30 p.m.

Purchase tickets at http://www.collidetheatrical.org or by calling 651-395-7903.

Ticket prices: $25-$45. Run time is one hour.

Health/Safety: All guests are required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. At this time, masks are required for all patrons.

AMP Hosts Open Rehearsal/Works-In-Progress Showing

We invite you into the studio with Alternative Motion Project for an open rehearsal that gives an inside look and sneak peek of our upcoming tenth season performance!

See works-in-progress of premiere works by:
Guest Artist Erinn Liebhard
Company Member Brenna Mosser
Co-Artistic Directors Kristin Howe + Joanna Lees

FREE. For all ages!
Sunday, February 20, 2:30-4:00pm  
Pre-registration through AMP’s website is highly encouraged as space is limited. Masks required at all times. All AMP personnel will be masked during the event. For questions or more information, visit AMP’s website or email alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

See the full performance of 10//X at The Southern Theater, March 18-20.

We look forward to seeing you!

Photo Credit: Bill Cameron

The Sixth Annual Right Here Showcase

Join us for the Sixth Annual Right Here Showcase, the community’s only annual juried program supporting Minnesota-based, mid-career performing artists who create original performance work.

Founding Artistic Producer Paul Herwig, 2008 McKnight Theater Fellow and 2005 City Pages Artist of the Year, steers the Showcase. Four artists are chosen through an annual public call and a panel review, to be awarded financial commissions plus technical and promotional support to present a new work of contemporary performance especially for the Showcase.

This year’s Right Here Showcase is presented February 24-27 at the Tek Box Theater on the second floor of the Cowles Center, with two artists performing each night.

Powerhouse performance makers include:

  • Benjamin Domask-Ruh– physical theater artist
  • Jess Forest – dancer, choreographer, and visual artist
  • Sam Johnson – performance maker
  • Queen DREA – musician and composer

Performance schedule:

  • Thursday, February 24, 8:00 pm: Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Jess Forest
  • Friday, February 25, 8:00 pm: Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Jess Forest at 8:00pm
  • Saturday, February 26, 8:00 pm: Sam Johnson and Queen DREA Reynolds at 8:00pm
  • Sunday, February 27, 8:00 pm: Sam Johnson and Queen DREA Reynolds at 5:00pm

Tickets are $20.

Stay tuned at righthereshowcase.weebly.com.

Covid protocols: Proof of full vaccination required for attendance. Hard copy or digital copy of proof of vaccination must be presented at the door for entry. NO exceptions. Masks and physical distancing in the theater and lobby required at all times. Please, let’s all keep each other safe.

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.

THERMAL: An Interdisciplinary Installation by ARENA DANCES

THERMAL is a dialogue – through movement, form and sound – centered on Earth’s changing environment. With the effects of climate change here, Thermal invites viewers to slow down and appreciate our natural surroundings while simultaneously delivering a sense of urgency to act along with anxiety for what might happen next.

Set in the historic Turnblad Mansion at The American Swedish Institute, Kim Heidkamp’s sculptural paper artwork sprawls from the ballroom stage across the floor, much like a creature from Norse mythology asleep in the landscape. Scores by composer Joshua Clausen and choreography by Mathew Janczewski of ARENA DANCES activate the work, drawing the viewer in.

This interdisciplinary installation is the culmination of a series of in-progress, outdoor showings by ARENA DANCES, with a month-long premiere February 25-March 19. The artwork, as well as video and content about the collaboration, will be on display in the Mansion throughout the course of the exhibition.

Performance information:

  • Dates: February 25-March 19
  • Friday and Saturday performances, 7:00 pm
  • Select matinees will take place on Saturday, March 12 and 19 at 1:00pm, during museum hours
  • Opening night – Friday, February 25 – to be followed by an artist’s talk
  • Live performances by Rachel Clark, Dustin Haug, and José A. Luis

Tickets on sale now: https://asimn.org/exhibition/thermal

Emily Michaels King Presents IN PERSON

In a companion piece to her acclaimed virtual performance, DIGITAL, Emily Michaels King brings her fearless vulnerability and inventive use of technology into the flesh.

IN PERSON is a multimedia performance that uses a complex network of devices to examine parasympathetic freeze, survival, and reclamation. This distorted and intricate mixture of device pairing, screen mirroring, choreography, and projection is an endoscopic plunge into one’s internal hard drives, digital and otherwise, for proof of life and who we are despite it all. Performed solo alongside machine companions, IN PERSON thrusts flesh against RAW file and wires the virtual to the human. 

Schedule:
All shows at 7:30PM.

Friday, February 25 – Opening
Saturday, February 26 – Talkback
Sunday, February 27
Monday, February 28 – PWYC/Talkback
Thursday, March 3
Friday, March 4 – Talkback
Saturday, March 5 – Closing

Covid protocol will be in place.

Ragamala Dance Company presents Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim

Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy present Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim.

Rooted in the expansive South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala Dance Company manifests a kindred relationship between the ancient and the contemporary. In their latest evening-length performance, Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim, eleven dancers conjure a realm where time is suspended and humans merge with the divine.

Award-winning creators Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy imagine a metaphorical crossing place that enters into a ritualistic world of immortality, evoking the birth-death-rebirth continuum in Hindu thought to honor immigrant experiences of life and death in the diaspora. This work is the culmination of a two-year partnership with Northrop that included a reimagined 2020-21 Ragamala Rooted residency with free monthly engagement activities.

This event will be captioned, with other accessibility services available upon request.

Lunar Lullaby – An Ode to Goodnight Moon

Take in the upper-level students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory in a nostalgic nod to the classic children’s story, Goodnight Moon. This contemporary ballet will follow bunny’s bedtime ritual of saying “goodnight” to the three little bears, cow jumping over the moon, kittens, and so many more in the great green room.

Choreography by Genevieve Waterbury, through the Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program

Performed by upper-level students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory

Saturday, February 26, 2022
2:00pm and 7:00pm

Tickets start at $20.

Twin Cities Ballet Presents Dance with Me at Lakeville Area Arts Center

Join Twin Cities Ballet’s professional ballet dancers at the Lakeville Area Arts Center for a fun-filled, interactive mini-show designed for families and children ages preschool through eight. The program is less than an hour, the perfect length for busy schedules and curious minds.

Dance With Me includes a short performance in costume by TCB’s professional company dancers and invites children to dance along with the performers. Highlighting age and ability-appropriate body movement using different forms of dance, each mini-show features a different theme and optional audience participation. Only two performances left! You are welcome to attend either or both!

Remaining performance dates:

  • Tuesday, March 1, 10:30-11:30 am
  • Tuesday, April 12, 10:30-11:30 am

Tickets are $6. Purchase tickets online or by calling 952-985-4640.

Kinetic Evolutions and Rushe Dance Project Present #pause: motion in pause

Kinetic Evolutions and Rushe Dance Project present #pause: motion in pause, a modern contemporary dance collaboration that began in late 2019. Rehearsals started but abruptly ended early spring 2020 when COVID-19 hit and Minnesota shut down. All rehearsals were cancelled; the performers went into a pause.

When rehearsing resumed, choreography was developed virtually and/or in outdoor environments. Recently, rehearsals have been held in person in a dance studio, where focus was put on interactions and developing different ways of connecting with each other. Partnering became a health risk, taboo; physical touch had to be rediscovered. The past couple of years have influenced the work and artistic choices. This performance hopes to offer space for everyone to pause from the heaviness of the world and to witness a shared experience.

Performance dates are:

  • Friday, March 4 at 7:00pm
  • Saturday, March 5 at 7:00pm

#pause: motion in pause features choreography by Sarah LaRose-Holland, Samantha Heggem, John Surber, and guest choreographer Sarah Hauss.

Performers include:

Kinetic Evolutions dancers: Sarah LaRose-Holland (Artistic Director), Sarah Hauss, Samantha Heggem, Catlin Murphy, Hai Dang Nguyen, John Surber.

Rushe Dance Project dancers: Samantha Heggem (Co-Director), John Surber (Co-Director), Kadie Habana.

Ticket Information:
Adults $20
Student $15
Ages 17 and younger $10

Payment options:

  • Venmo @kineticev. When using Venmo, please add your name and performance date in the comments section
  • Email laroseholland@gmail.com to reserve your ticket and pay cash or credit at the door

This is a COVID safe event. Masks and proof of vaccination and/or a negative test are required.

Merges in March Week One – Chitra Vairavan and Valerie Oliveiro

Chitra Vairavan and Valerie Oliveiro offer two dances created through a year-long merging of energies, practices, conversation, ancestors, memories, breaths, places, sounds, and “Asian-nesses.” This performance brings the intentional and unintentional intersections of their diverse art forms to the surface.

Covid19: Effective September 1, 2021, all visitors to the Cowles who are attending a performance/event in our theater spaces are required to show either proof of a full course of COVID-19 vaccinations administered at least 14 days prior to the show or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the performance/event. Masks are required throughout the Cowles. For more information about our health and safety guidelines and getting to The Cowles Center, click here.