Archive: Performances and Events

Inspired: Journey to Varanasi with Ragamala Dance Company

Be transported to Varanasi, the City of Light. Follow the poetry of daily life in this ancient holy city along the Ganges River from sunrise to sunset as you watch the short film, Amazing Places on Our Planet, in the Northrop lobby. Experience an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy’s new work as they rehearse The Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim followed by a Q&A. Enjoy a taste of Indian culture during the post-program reception with traditional Indian music and catering by Hot Indian Foods.

“Varanasi is the India of your imagination. This is one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities, and one of the holiest in Hinduism. Pilgrims come to the Ganges here to wash away sins in the sacred waters, to cremate their loved ones, or simply to die here, hoping for liberation from the cycle of rebirth.” —Lonely Planet

Premiere: Prairie Woods Sound Garden – Near Spicer, MN

The premiere of composer / director JG Everest’s new site-specific performance installation, a new Sound Garden composed and designed specifically for the wooded Geer Island at the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in Spicer, MN. A truly immersive art and nature experience in a pristine nature preserve, two hours drive west of the Twin Cities.

Admission is free, and camping is available at Sibley State Park, a ten-minute drive away – reserve your sites soon.

Featuring a live roving movement score by dancers Leslie O’Neill, Sarah Baumert, and Erika Hansen, with live accompaniment by the Free Range Orchestra & Choir, and more.

Saturday, August 7
12:00-4:00pm
Free admission

Presented by Wavelets Creative in partnership with the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center.

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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 joy-ride full of whimsy, sweet optimism and goofy charm, undercut by 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.

Classical Music and Ballet by Mirage Performing Arts

Mirage Performing Arts will showcase a live performance at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to spread the joy and hope of the arts.

Thursday, July 1 at 6:00pm

Featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Cassado, Bach, Debussy and more.

Dance, Choreography – Yuki Tokuda

Piano – Rie Tanaka

Cello – Jesse Nummelin

Free to the public.

Concerto Dance Presents Girls in the Band!

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 a guest performance by Kaleena Miller Dance and KMD2.

All shows 7:00pm.

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

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. Please bring your own lawn chair/blanket and we ask guests to respect social distancing with others not in your group.

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

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)
White Swan pas de deux (July 10 at 8:00pm, July 11 at 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 White Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s classic 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.

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 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.

Fifth Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival – Performances, Master Classes, 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’ Performance, 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!

Inspired: Journey to Varanasi with Ragamala Dance Company

Be transported to Varanasi, the City of Light. Follow the poetry of daily life in this ancient holy city along the Ganges River from sunrise to sunset as you watch the short film, Amazing Places on Our Planet, in the Northrop lobby. Experience an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy’s new work as they rehearse The Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim followed by a Q&A. Enjoy a taste of Indian culture during the post-program reception with traditional Indian music and catering by Hot Indian Foods.