Archive: Performances and Events

Live @ The Shed, Premiering LDV

Back by popular demand, Live @ The Shed, produced by Hatch Dance and HoneyWorks, returns to the Lab Taproom, August 7-8, 2021.

26 of the Twin Cities most vibrant dancers come together for an outdoor dance event featuring the world premiere of LDV, co-choreographed by Berit Ahlgren and Helen Hatch. Inspired by and set to the soundtrack of Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita; Ahlgren, Hatch and the ensemble embark on a non-linear joyride full of whimsy, sweet optimism and goofy charm, undercut by the sinister and cunning moments that ultimately color life. A multi-talented and multi-generational cast bring their energies and experiences together in the creation of this new work. Program begins with works-in-progress presentations from members of the cast.

Featuring Berit Ahlgren, Helen Hatch, Hannah Benditt, Jeremy Bensussan, Judith Brin Ingber, Nicole Brown, Zhauna Franks, Stephanie Grey, Alejandra Iannone, Gemma Isaacson, Juliana Johnson, Jennifer Mack, Samantha Meryhew, Kelli Miles, Da’Rius Malone, Blake Nellis, Yolanda Pauly, Amanda Sachs, Tristen Sanborn, Connor Simone, Rhapsody Striggers, Joe Tennis, Lauren Vasilakos, Elliana Vesely, Genevieve Waterbury, and Scott Willits.

August 7 at 5:30pm
August 7 at 8:00pm
August 8 at 3:00pm
August 8 at 5:30pm
August 8 at 8:00pm

Northrop Presents The State Ballet of Georgia

Back by popular demand, The State Ballet of Georgia’s original film gets an encore on Northrop’s plaza in a special outdoor screening. Created specifically for Northrop audiences, this peek at the Georgian ballet company features gala-style excerpts of ballet repertory, interviews with Artistic Director Nina Ananiashvili and featured dancers, and breathtaking views of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre and the city of Tbilisi. The film’s featured ballet repertory includes clips from a number of ballets including Laurencia, premiered in 1939 by Vakhtang Chabukiani; Sagalobeli, a 2007 ballet choreographed to Georgian folk melodies by Yuri Possokhov; Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, which was the first full version choreographed to Prokofiev’s score; and a taste of The State Ballet of Georgia’s Giselle.

Before the film, live music by Four Voices String Quartet will set the scene for an evening of beauty and art. The ensemble, all members of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, are frequent performers in the Northrop Dance Series. An accomplished classical ensemble, they have collaborated extensively across genres and are currently focusing on works of living female composers.

The film will be subtitled in English, with other accessibility services available upon request.

The Garden: A Refuge – the Film Final Week Pay-as-Able

The Garden- A Refuge: The Film!
A filmed play by Storydance Theatre, written by Cia Sautter, Ph.D

Available on Vimeo July 4-11, 2021 for pay-as-able, though we appreciate donations of $10-$20.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-garden-a-refuge-pay-as-able-days-tickets-154709956645

The project is grounded in Earth-based creation [Art], re-interpreting the Wisdom story of Job through this lens.The ancient tale deals with when bad things happen to good people, and the surprising “solution.” There is dance, flamenco music and flamenco-inspired dance, storytelling, poetry, and acting.

Performers include:

Cialuna(Sautter), Vickijoan Keck, Ross Fellrath, Emily Jarrett Hughes, Dagmara Gutman, Diana Viteri

Filmed by Jenny Zander

FFI: Contact Cia at cialuna13@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/cialunastorydance/

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. This project was also made possible in part with the support of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation.

Concerto Dance and Kaleena Miller Dance/KMD2 Performing This Weekend

Concerto Dance by Jolene Konkel presents a special preview performance of our new work Girls in the Band! Join us for our Summer Bandshell Tour July 8-10, featuring guest performance by Kaleena Miller Dance/KMD2.

All shows 7pm.

July 8: Central Park, Roseville.
July 9: Town Green Park, Maple Grove.
July 10: Lake Normandale Bandshell, Bloomington.

Approximate run time 1 hour. Please bring your own lawn chair/blanket.All performances are outdoors and open to the public. No ticket required. Suggested donation $20. Cash, venmo@concerto-dance, or visit our website to donate.

Performances will be rescheduled if inclement weather. Check our website or Facebook page for updates.

Join us as we celebrate the “Ladies Who Swing The Band!”

Pop-Up SUMMER Sound Garden on West River Parkway

Dancers Leslie O’Neill, Megan Mayer, Sarah Baumert, and Erika Hansen perform their site-specific, roving, durational movement scores across a three-acre site along West River Parkway as part of composer/director JG Everest’s immersive SUMMER Sound Garden sound and performance installation event.

The roving movement scores will begin by 1:00pm and will come and go throughout the space until 4:00pm.

The second of four seasonal “pop-up” Sound Garden events along West River Parkway in 2021, the SUMMER Sound Garden features layers of site-specific dance, music, poetry, and visual art among some of the oldest trees in Minneapolis.

Sound Gardens are designed as durational, self-guided experiences intended for audience to connect more meaningfully to a particular place and the natural world. The spatial sound score and live dance and musical elements are meant to accompany the sounds and physical elements that are already there – the birds, the trees, the wind, the leaves. Audiences are encouraged to both circulate and linger at their own pace, following their own impulses for what to pay attention to.

Saturday, July 10
12:00-4:00pm
Free admission, but reservations required, with limited capacity.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Arts Project Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Northrop Presents ABT Across America

Mixed Repertory program including:

La Follia Variations
Let Me Sing Forevermore
Indestructible Light
Don Quixote pas de deux (July 10 and 11, 5:00pm)
Swan Lake, Act II pas de deux (July 10 at 8:00pm and July 11, 2:00pm)

American Ballet Theatre will take to the road this summer, traveling by bus and truck to eight U.S. cities including Minneapolis, Minnesota. Northrop will present ABT Across America for four outdoor performances at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

In addition to the opportunity to see America’s National Ballet Company® in this breathtaking outdoor performance, your ticket purchase will include free parking and all-day admission to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Named the Best Botanical Garden in North America by USA Today readers in 2017 & 2019, the Arboretum is known for its beautiful display gardens, award-winning tree collections, and extensive hiking and walking trails.

About ABT Across America

ABT Across America builds on ABT’s history of cross-country tours in the 1940s and 1950s. 20 ABT dancers and 28 support crew will travel across 14 states, for a total of 3,100 miles, performing outdoors. These unique performances will take place on a custom-built 40’ x 76’ stage that folds out of an 18-wheeler truck.

Each 50-minute show will be performed without an intermission. Repertory for ABT Across America will feature Lauren Lovette’s La Follia Variations, a work for eight dancers set to music by Francesco Geminiani, Jessica Lang’s Let Me Sing Forevermore, a pas de deux blending ballet and jazz vocabulary set to songs sung by Tony Bennett, Darrell Grand Moultrie’s Indestructible Light, a celebration of American jazz music, and the high-spirited, energetic pas de deux from the full-length ballet Don Quixote alternating with the pas de deux from Act II of  Swan Lake. Dancers scheduled to participate in the ABT Across America tour include Lauren Bonfiglio, Jacob Clerico, Michael de la Nuez, Carlos Gonzalez, Kiely Groenewegen, Sung Woo Han, Catherine Hurlin, Anabel Katsnelson, Kanon Kimura, Melvin Lawovi, Tyler Maloney, Joseph Markey, Abbey Marrison, Hannah Marshall, Betsy McBride, Duncan McIlwaine, João Menegussi, Chloe Misseldine, Cory Stearns, and Devon Teuscher.

Neighborhood Dances

Neighborhood Dances is a series of mini dance concerts performed in public spaces inviting community participation. We teach parts of the dances to anyone who wants to join in. ASL signing included and options for limited mobility. Offered as a way to respond to the difficulties of this past year, we aim to spread joy, blessings and healing through dance while acknowledging God as our higher perspective and hope.

Saturday, July 10, 7:00pm
River of Life Church (map)
4294 Hodgson Road
Shoreview, MN 55126
Join us in the grassy area near the parking lot.
Please bring a chair or blanket if you’d like to sit.
In case of rain, we will meet inside the church building.

Other upcoming dates:

Thursday, July 29, 7:00pm*
Lauderdale Community Park Event
2328 Roselawn Ave W
Lauderdale, MN 55113
South side of the playground area.
*We’ll be performing during the band’s break around 7:00 p.m. Come at 6:45 so you don’t miss us.

Saturday, July 31, 2:00pm
B.F. Nelson Park
434 Main St. NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Greenspace northeast of Boom Island Park.

Fith Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival – Performances, Masterclasses and More

CANDY BOX Dance Festival is an annual, eclectic gathering of performances, work-in-progress showing, master classes, and choreographic discussions. A one-of-a-kind event in the Twin Cities, the fifth annual festival features a range of aesthetics and choreographic voices to offer a diverse array of treats! The Festival’s three main features include Featured Artists’ Performances, Happy Hour Artists’ Showings, and Master Classes.

Featured Artists – Shared bill featuring the works of HIJACK, Viva la Pepa, Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān

Happy Hour Artists – Works-in-Progress by Slo Dance Company, Annika Hansen and Abigail Whitmore, HoneyWorks, Body Watani, and Borealis Dance Theatre

Master Classes with Annika Hansen and Abigail Whitmore, Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān, Pedro Pablo (Viva la Pepa), Slo Dance Company, and HIJACK

July 12-16
at PAIKKA

Visit https://www.arena-dances.org/candybox2021-live-dance-festival/ to learn more!
Tickets on sale now!

EURYDICE presented by Vox Medusa with Infiammati FireCircus

Critically acclaimed Vox Medusa with Infiammati FireCircus breathes new life into this time honored dilemma with their EURYDICE.

EURYDICE is a three-night outdoor production forged in music, dance, fire, and video and film environments set at the beautiful Target Stage on Harriet Island on the banks of the Mississippi in St. Paul.

What, or who would you sacrifice to achieve eternal greatness?

EURYDICE is a reimagining of the Orpheus myth from his mysterious wife’s viewpoint of her harrowing journey. Follow Eurydice’s epic odyssey over land and sea, through true love, death and a fiery underworld in order to discover herself not just as a muse of Orpheus, but as her own inspiration for rebirth.

EURYDICE is a collaborative creation born of Vox Medusa’s provocative contemporary dance choreographed by Kristin Freya, powerful original electronic music by Jeremy Christensen and moving vocal score by Emily Colay, potent spoken word by Desdamona Ross, breathtaking fire performance of  Infiammati FireCircus choreographed by Rah Diavola, stunning video environments and dynamic light design by Tony Biele and cinematic film debut by Jeremy Christensen and Vox Medusa.

Show Dates and Times: 
Friday, July 16 at 9:00pm
Saturday, July 17 at 9:00pm
Sunday July 18 at 9:00pm
Doors open at 8:30pm each night for check-in at the ticket table to find your seating area.

Tickets:
Pre-Sale Eventbrite Tickets: $15 adult, $10 ages 12 and under.
Eventbrite Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/154159261501
Day of show tickets can be purchased at Target Stage, $20 day of show for all ages.

Social Distanced Outdoor Seating
Ample audience area for socially distanced seating is available on both flat ground for chairs and raked hillside for blanket seating. Please note: All audiences should bring their own blankets or camp chairs for personal seating.

Parking and Restrooms
Two ample parking lots are located next to the Target Stage. Restrooms in close walking distance.

TCB Summer Carnival Fundraiser

Join Twin Cities Ballet for an evening of food, games, and fun!

We are hosting an in-person, outdoor carnival with a bouncy castle, snow cones, outdoor games like limbo and giant Jenga, face painting, and more!

PLUS, enter to win two free tickets to Twin Cities Ballet’s 2021 production of A Minnesota Nutcracker at Ames Center!

Friday, July 23: 4:00pm-8:00pm

Tickets and unlimited activities wristbands will be for sale at the event
All are welcome!