Archive: Performances and Events

Save the date for the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival!

April 22-27, 2024
At The Southern Theater.

The CANDY BOX Dance Festival is a week-long dynamic sampling of featured performances, master classes, and in-progress showings, hosted by ARENA DANCES and presented April 22-27, 2024 at The Southern Theater. The CANDY BOX Dance Festival features both emerging and established choreographers, Happy Hour work-in-progress performances, and master class offerings.

Happy Hour Artists – 5:30pm
Monday, April 22 – Shannon Hartle Dolan, Kaitlyn Hawkins and Alicia Steeves
Tuesday, April 23 – Kayla Schiltgen
Wednesday, April 24 – Amez Dance
Thursday, April 25 – Duniya Drum and Dance
Friday, April 26 – Penelope Freeh

Featured Artists
Featuring works by Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk, Paula Mann/Time Track Productions, and jess pretty.
Thursday, April 25 – 7:30pm
Friday, April 26 – 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27 – 2:00pm

Tickets
Purchase before April 23: $20 online in advance; $18 student/senior
After April 23: $27 online and at the door; $20 student/senior discount
Pay-as-Able pricing option available at the door only on Saturday, April 27, 7:30pm

We extend a special thank you to our Season Sponsors and event donors: MartinPatrick3, The Southern Theater, and generous individual contributions. This festival is also made possible with the support of the McKnight Foundation.

TU Dance is one of four dance companies participating in the pilot program The O’Shaughnessy Dance Cohort. THREAT is an evening-length work choreographed by TU Dance Guest Artist Yusha-Marie Sorzano.

THREAT is a concert dance theater work that aims to provoke an interrogation of the roles we play as individuals and communities in hierarchies. The work posits that hierarchies have the power to control our behavior and infiltrate our thoughts, even when no authority is present to enforce the rules. Using a physical language and soundscape that fuses multicultural traditions and styles of the West and the African Diaspora, this social exploration invites audiences into a modern narrative that speaks to the universal experience of authority, obedience, and rebellion.

Friday, April 26, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27, 7:30pm
Purchase tickets here!

Tickets
Adult: $40
Student/Senior: $30
St. Kate’s Student: $5
Subscription information can be found here.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents C.L.U.E. at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis now through March 10.

Welcome to Mystery Mansion, where murder and blackmail are on the menu for this evening’s dinner party. Was it the butler in the bedroom with the knife? Or perhaps the maid in the parlor with the candlestick holder?  

Get ready as Collide brings its unique blend of dance theater to a murder mystery. Only this time you – the audience – get to choose the ending! Who will it be? Where? With what weapon? The verdict is in your hands. 

Tickets available online or by calling 651-395-7903, ext. 701.
For group discounts and questions, please email Grace@collidetheatrical.org.

Rising
Choreographed by Cowles Guest Artist Eva Mohn and UMN Dance students. Directed by Joanie Smith.

Friday February 23 at 7:30pm
Saturday February 24 at 3:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday February 25 at 2:00pm

Tickets
$20 General Public
$15 U of M Faculty/Staff/Alumni/Retirees
$10 Students – any college or under 18
$8 Groups of 10+

Celebrate a decade of Jazba Entertainment at the tenth annual national Bollywood-fusion dance competition, Jazba 2024!

Jazba’s tenth anniversary hails teams from around the nation to compete for qualifying points towards Legends, the Desi Dance Network’s Official Bollywood-Fusion Dance Championship.

In addition to providing a grand spectacle of culture and entertainment, Jazba is proud to honor a decade-long partnership with Women In Need (WIN) — their organizational nonprofit partner in Nagpur, India who works toward empowering and rehabilitating women in India suffering from conditions such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, leprosy, sexual assault, mental illness, neglect, and more.

Come join us for a night you will never forget, all for this meaningful cause!
Saturday, February 24 at 6:00pm

Jazba 2024 Performing Acts
ATL Tanishq – Atlanta, GA
Gator Udaya – Gainesville, FL
GT Qurbani – Atlanta, GA
Purdue Chaiyya – West Lafayette, IN
Texas Mohini – Austin, TX
UC Dhadak – Cincinnati, OH
UCLA Nashaa – Los Angeles, CA
UIUC Fizaa – Champaign, IL
UT Saaya – Austin, TX
UTD Laksh – Dallas, TX

Christopher Watson Dance Company (CWDC) presents ALIGHT, a showcase of modern concert dance.

Guest artists include Kinetic Evolutions Dance Company, KASM Dance Collective, Ray Terrill Dance Group, Thern Anderson, and Erin Thompson. Accompaniment for the dances includes selections from Antonin Dvorak, Gabriel Faure, Yo-Yo Ma, J.S. Bach, local singer/songwriter Matt Marka of Ada Jane, “punk poet laureate” Patti Smith, and poetry by Muriel Rukeyser. 

CWDC embraces the diverse and multigenerational composition of its artists whose ages range from 20-something to 70-something. This is the company’s 33rd season of performances.

Friday, March 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 2 at 2:00pm
Saturday, March 2 at 5:00pm

Immigrants: Dancing Our Stories is a performance that represents some of the stories that have had a large impact on the North American scene, individually and collectively. The show brings forward our culture, our influence, our work. We all came with a dream and a vision for a better life. This project is in the process of collecting videos, interviews, and performances of featured artists who are immigrants to the United States. This is the first in a series of events. Stay tuned for upcoming calls for artists (dancers, visual artists, musicians, singers…) and performances. Come see what it’s about!

Friday, March 1 at 7:30pm
Purchase tickets online.

See you there! – Ginga da Bahia

VASTNESSESS is an evening-length dance work by performance maker Valerie Oliveiro. Conceived during unprecedented time, the piece searches for possibility. The dance finds support through, and relishes in, deep patterning—while accepting the sometimes bizarre coexistences of our current experiences. Techniques are passed down for centuries, birds migrate over great distances over thousands of years, dances move through thousands of bodies on the internet, and there are habitual ways to get off.

The choreography explores vastness at many scales—from durations that span beyond a single lifetime, to the feeling of expansion that may arise from the smallest places in the body. In VASTNESSESS, vernaculars may pass by, get picked up, come apart, walk alongside, or arrive at the same time. Form sets, then resets. Simultaneously we witness the beauty, the labor, and the journey of grief. Dance is devotion, dance is loss, and then—dance is stunningly available.

March 1-9

Choreography, lighting, sound design: Valerie Oliveiro
Created with and performed by: Sam Johnson, Judith H Shuǐ Xiān, and Pramila Vasudevan
Guests: Emily Gastineau and Jennifer Monson
Environmental treatment and fabrication: Jess Kiel-Wornson
Liminal space technician: matt regan
Writing vectors: Emily Gastineau (on devotion), Rachel Jendrzejewski (on deep pattern), Marcela Michelle (on queer versatility), and aegor ray (on grief)

Tickets: $25. No one turned away for lack of funds. If cost is a barrier, please email boxoffice@redeyetheater.org for discount ticket options.

It’s only a matter of time before they all fall down, one by one.

Growing tension stacks onto high drama as the visceral ensemble blindly selects who among them undertakes the role of The Con. When identities collide, the 13 unique personalities clash as a story of hierarchy, vulnerability, and influence develops in real time. Anyone could be the villain. No one knows who it will be. And every performance will be different.

Saturday, March 2, 7:30pm
Tickets: $35, fees included.

Sunday, March 3, 2:00pm
Tickets: Pay-as-you-are. Market value: $35, fees included.

Everyone’s favorite charismatic cat pounces off the page and onto the stage for a balletic re-imagination of Puss in Boots. Adventure with our fearless feline in an attempt to get a paw up in the world.

Puss in Boots is specially created for our youngest audience members – toddlers and preschoolers. With a pre-show craft, 45-minute performance, post-show movement class, and a chance to meet a few kittens from Feline Rescue, it’s the purrrfect event for the entire family.

Warning – tomfoolery guaranteed!

Choreographed by: Anna Betz, part of Ballet Co.Laboratory’s Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program
Performed by: The upper-level students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory

March 2–3 and 9–10
Saturdays, March 2 and 9 at 2:00 and 6:00pm
Sundays, March 3 and 10 at 2:00pm

Tickets
Adults: $30
Seniors: $28
Children/Students: $25
Groups of 10+ to the same performance: $25