Archive: Performances and Events

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!

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 pre-sale ends at 5:00pm each day of the show.
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.

Every month from March through December 2021, Threads Dance Project will release some of Artistic Director Karen L. Charles’ top dances available pay-as-able from $1, $10, $100, or even $1,000 to view Karen’s selected works!

June’s works include Anger Amplified, Do-Over Effect, and Chaotic Beauty (2017).

Here is what Karen says about these works:

“These excerpts from the larger work Uncertain Reality illustrate two aspects of Chaos that I wanted to share with the audience – the manifestation of chaos in society via discord, fighting and war and later the beauty of chaos as seen in nature via fractals and repetition. This entire piece was one of my most ambitious to date. I worked with visual projection designer Miko Simmons to make one of the most visually beautiful works I have ever created.” –Karen L. Charles, Artistic Director.

Each release will be 20-30 minutes in length.

Once registered, you will receive a private link and password that will allow you to view these works through June 27, 2021.

Don’t miss out on these works that started it all!

Join Alternative Motion Project for a delicious beverage as we return to live performance with the premiere of On The Verge. A cast of 9 movers enter a turbulent world to experience the multiverse of limits, possibilities, and connections of the body, space, and identity. Choreographed by Kristin Howe and Joanna Lees with original composition and performance by award-winning Sound Artist, Dameun Strange.

Safety precautions for COVID-19 will be observed.

Saturday, June 19 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, June 20 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm

On the Verge
Live outdoor performance at The Shed, part of the Lab Brewery and Tap Room

Tickets: $17-$20*
Seating is limited. Reservations strongly encouraged.
*No one turned away for lack of funds. Email AMP for low/no cost options.

With permission, a portion of our ticket sales will be donated to JUXTAPOSITION ARTS in honor and in celebration of Juneteenth.

Learn more!

Primavera 
Classical music and ballet collaboration by MIRAGE Performing Arts

MIRAGE Performing Arts is thrilled to present our unique collaboration of classical music and ballet to celebrate Primavera (spring), bringing back live performances after a long winter.

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

Dance, Choreography – Yuki Tokuda
Piano – Rie Tanaka
Cello – Jesse Nummelin

Dates
Wednesday, June 23 at 7:00pm
Friday, June 25 at 7:00pm

Rain or shine!

Fair Weather Location
Veterans’ Memorial Amphitheater
3700 Monterey Drive
St. Louis Park, MN 55416

Rain Location
ROC – Recreation Outdoor Center
3700 Monterey Drive
St. Louis Park, MN 55416

Free to the public.

This program is part of St. Louis Park Summer Concert Series. Made possible by St. Louis Park Arts and Culture Grant.

https://www.stlouispark.org/our-city/summer-concerts

https://www.yukitokuda.com/performance/primavera-live-classical-music-and-ballet

Tickets are now available for the final production of Mulier Dierum, which will be presented live under the stars at the center of a beautiful oak grove woodland on the gorgeous outdoor stage at Caponi Art Park in Eagan, MN on June 25 and 26 at 9:00pm.

The final production will feature all the voices of  See Change Treble Choir mixed into a gorgeous sound score, a small live vocal ensemble, and eight dancers, all bathed in multi-layered projected imagery and staged on a multi-platform set emphasizing a safe and physically distanced audience. You won’t want to miss it!

Mulier Dierum (Chronicles of Woman) is an epic project that mirrors the strength of cumulative generations of women. Mulier Dierum faces our fears and fulfills desires with ferocity and vulnerability, sharing generational wisdom and wildness of women and femme power. The voices of forty choral singers and the bodies of eight dancers affirm together: Women build, honor, persevere, and flourish.

Directed and choreographed by Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Ilse, Mulier Dierum is being created in collaboration with See Change Treble Choir under the direction of Allyss Haecker, singing an original score by Linda Kachelmeier, with performances by dancers Gemma Isaacson, Christine McGinnis, Parisha Rajbhandari, Julie Warder, Heather Klopchin, Rachel Lieberman, Jennifer Mack, Esther Ouray, and Jennifer Ilse; with Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig‘s immersive live animation projection design and sound design, edited and mixed by Reid Kruger.

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.

https://waveletscreative.org/four-seasonal-sound-gardens-on-west-river-parkway/