Archive: Performances and Events

Composer / Director JG Everest returns to Grand Marais, MN to present his site-specific Spring Sound Garden sound and performance installation at Harbor Park on May 29 and 30 as part of the annual ART ALONG THE LAKE open gallery tour event. This self-guided, spatial “concert you can move through” was originally composed specifically for Harbor Park, and is being re-mounted to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of this special place with over 30 participating artists and collaborators.

The Spring Sound Garden features a temporary sound installation of 50 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park, each playing a different part of the larger piece of music, creating a multi-layered, immersive experience. The sound installation is accompanied live by the roving Free Range Orchestra & Choir, with a durational site-specific movement score by Minneapolis-based dancers Leslie O’Neill, Sarah Baumert, Megan Mayer, and Erika Hansen.

The Spring Sound Garden is the second installment of Everest’s four-part WATER SUITE: Four Seasonal Sound Gardens that first premiered in 2018, at four different outdoor locations around Minnesota. Each seasonal Sound Garden in the Water Suite was composed for one of the four seasons, and for a specific site that was on or adjacent to a significant body of water. As part of the SPRING Sound Garden event in 2021, Everest is also releasing a new album of the soundtrack, Harbor Park: A Spring Sound Garden, including site-specific stories and poems that were commissioned for the original event.

The Spring Sound Garden at Harbor Park is a family-friendly, free, outdoor event open to all ages and will take place from 12:00-5:00pm on Memorial Day weekend, both Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30, 2021.

The Spring Sound Garden celebrates the coming of spring, the sacredness of water, and the history, geography, and ecology of Harbor Park and Lake Superior, and includes oral histories and archival photos, spotlighting the community of local volunteers and community members who brought the park into being.

The event will also feature visual art elements by local artists such as plein air oil painter Neil Sherman, muralist Mila Horak, art students from Cook County Middle School, and stories by storyteller Staci Lola Drouillard. Presented by Wavelets Creative in partnership with the Cook County Historical Society, Grand Marais Park Board, and Art Along The Lake / Visit Cook County.

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.

https://jgeverest.com/spring-sound-garden/

10th Wave Chamber Music Collective is collaborating with choreographer and dancer Yuki Tokuda for a dance concert featuring music by Asian American composers.

Friday, June 4, 2021
7:00pm CST
Broadcast premiere on YouTube
Link here: https://youtu.be/vwyas-G9lAk

Live reception to follow premiere broadcast. Meet the artists over Zoom!

This program is free for public viewing between June 4-6.

Please consider donating the price of a concert ticket at 10thwave.org/support

Pop-up Performance Fundraisers for Mulier Dierum!

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.

Support the creation of this new women-led work, see excerpts from the upcoming evening length performance of Mulier Dierum, and enjoy a Covid-safe gathering and celebration of returning to in-person live performance!

Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6 from 4:00-4:30pm
Off-Leash Art Box
4200 E. 54th St, Minneapolis

Saturday and Sunday, June 12 and 13 from 7:00-7:30pm
Keg and Case Market
​928 7th St W, St. Paul

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.

 

Sway through the streets of 1950’s Paris with Ballet Co.Laboratory in Peter Davison’s An American in Paris. Inspired by the iconic Gene Kelly musical, this production will have you tapping your toes to George Gershwin’s jazzy and recognizable score.

An American in Paris tells the story of Jerry, an aspiring American artist who meets Lise, the girl of his dreams, while exploring the City of Lights. What he doesn’t know is that Lise, the local beauty with all the charm, has already promised her heart to another. Can Jerry convince her that their love is here to stay?

An outdoor engagement!
Performed by the Company & School of BCL

Performances:
Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 7:00pm
Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 2:00pm

Grab your tickets or learn more here: http://bit.ly/ParisBCL

The SOTA Movement is a three-day festival dedicated to connections, dance, and culture. Featuring the award-winning ROOTED: Hip Hop Choreographers’ Evening; dance workshops with some of the most talented choreographers from Minnesota and across the country; and the highly anticipated Krump battle, Uprizing; The SOTA Movement is an all-ages event you won’t want to miss.

Join us June 11-13, 2021, as supporters, artists, and creators from Minnesota for this one-of-a-kind event.

Brought to you by Maia Maiden Productions & Uprizing creators Herb “FairWarning” Johnson III & Ololade “O” Gbadamosi-Alashe.

For more information, go to www.thesotamovement.com

Come celebrate the Grand Opening of the Threads Dance Nexus as we officially open our doors to the community!

Thanks to your support, we are in our new home in the Focus Arts Building and cannot wait to thank each of you for helping us make this dream possible.

We will be offering staggered tours of the space, sample dance classes, and a chance to view our custom glass Donor Wall, where capital campaign contributors can find their name.

We invite everyone who supports the work we do to come celebrate with us!

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.
To follow local guidelines and ordinances, mask wearing will be mandatory.

June 19: 3:00pm and 7:00pm
June 20: 3:00pm and 7:00pm

On The Verge
Live outdoor performances at The Shed

Tickets on sale soon: $17-$20*
Seating is limited. Reservations strongly encouraged.
*No one turned away for lack of funds. Email AMP for any financial requests or general questions.

https://www.alternativemotionproject.org/619–620—on-the-verge-outdoor-performance.html

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.

Mark your calendars!

The final production of Mulier Dierum 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 the voices of all 40 members 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 physical distanced audience. You won’t want to miss it!

Tickets available soon!

What, or who would you sacrifice to achieve eternal greatness? Critically acclaimed Vox Medusa with Infiammati FireCircus breathes new life into this time honored dilemma with EURYDICE – 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 provocative contemporary dance by Vox Medusa, powerful original electronic music by Jeremy Christensen and moving vocal score by Emily Colay, potent spoken word by Desdamona Ross, breathtaking fire performance by Infiammati FireCircus, stunning video environments and dynamic light design by Tony Biele, and cinematic film debut by Jeremy Christensen and Vox Medusa.

Experience live performance once again! EURYDICE is created by a cast of 20 performers led by Grace Fredell (Eurydice), Leviticus Martin (Orpheus), Rah Diavola (Hades), Emily Colay (Persephone), and Desdamona Ross (Oracle), as they take you on an ethereal and visually stunning journey guided by muses, goddesses and creatures of the Underworld.

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.

Free. Online.
Short video responses to a long year.

Featuring work by Akiko, Leila Awadallah, Pedram Baldari, Zoe Cinel, Lauren Coleman, Masanari Kawahara, Ifrah Mansour, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Pedro Pablo, Sharon Picasso, Kim Schneider, Moheb Soliman, Truely Squires, Chitra Vairavan, J H Shuǐ Xiān, and Jaylin Z.

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In 2009-2010, Skewed Visions presented a series of short online videos meant to be watched at work. Called Cubicle, it was a way for Art to steal back some time from Work. The next series, Cubicle 2: on the internet, nobody knows, began to explore the intersection of the internet and identity in 2010-2011.

Ten years later, so much has changed.
In the midst of a global pandemic, work and the internet have both changed. Also, thanks to the heroic efforts of activists and organizers there is growing attention to racial injustice and white supremacy, and the relations between identity and the internet inhabit a fundamentally changed space.

In the middle of this turbulence, we present Cubicle3: Work. Now.
We have requested short videos inspired by these changes and our new circumstances. We present these here as a marker of that time a very long year ago when the pandemic became a serious reality for many.