Archive: Performances and Events

A call to action for all Minnesota dance community members to organize!

Town Hall
Monday, March 4 at 6:30pm
Women’s Club of Minnesota – Ballroom
Calling: Anyone and everyone invested in the future of Minnesota dance, movement, and performance!
Please RSVP here.

Join us as we chart a path forward to ensure the resilience and vitality of our local dance scene. This meeting will be attended by Ben Johnson, Minneapolis Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and City officials. The purpose is for the dance community to provide directed options from the recently circulated survey findings to discuss supportive ways the city can in turn support the local dance community upon the news of The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts closure of the Goodale Theater and its Educational Outreach Programs.

If unable to attend in person, you are invited to participate via Zoom. A link will be provided at a later date. Your virtual presence is highly valued.

Thank you to Kevin Winge of The Women’s Club for the generous gift of the space to convene. The Woman’s Club is located near Loring Park. Please enter the building under the green canopy. An accessible entrance is located to the left of the main stairs. There is free parking in the lot adjacent to The Woman’s Club. Additional options for parking include street parking on Oak Grove and 15th Streets, a parking garage at Walker Art Center, and metered parking at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. Additionally, carpooling and ride-sharing with Lyft and Uber are encouraged.

Contempo Physical Dance premieres Indigo by guest choreographer Jaruam Xavier. The choreography becomes a ritual of remembrance that bridges the present and the remains of a distant past. Throughout whispers of otherworldly dreams, the dancers will embody physically and emotionally an abstraction of indigo blue.

Dancers: Mary Mailand Schlichting, Aneka McMullen, Jacob Nehrbass, Laura Osterhaus, Sean Scantlebury and Marciano Silva dos Santos

Saturday, March 9
Doors at 7:00pm
Show at 7:30pm

Purchase tickets.

Back by popular demand, Twin Cities Ballet’s groundbreaking hit show returns to the historic Fitzgerald Theater with live music by popular local band Momentary Lapse of Floyd. Based on Pink Floyd’s iconic 1979 rock opera, TCB’s The Wall: A Rock Ballet is an ingenious fusion of genres that will captivate ballet patrons, music fans, and the artistically curious alike.

TCB’s ballet interprets the original Pink Floyd rock opera’s music, themes, story arc, and lyrics on a personal, rather than political, level. It explores the life and various relationships with the main character, Pink, and follows his transformative journey of loss, isolation, insanity, and redemption. Through its insightful original interpretation of the emotion and power of Pink Floyd’s story and music, TCB brings this classic rock masterpiece to life like never before!

March 15 at 7:30pm
March 16 at 7:30pm
March 17 at 2:00pm

Tickets from $38.50-$53.50, available at twincitiesballet.org/tickets.

These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through an operating support grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

​AMP presents THE TWELFTH

Join Alternative Motion Project for our electrifying twelfth season featuring a thrilling collaborative performance with Winona State University dance students. Support local dance and experience this evening of dynamic, powerful, and highly physical contemporary dance with us!

Repertory Work
Body Watani – Noelle and Leila Awadallah
Joanna Lees

New Work
Jesse Schmitz-Boyd
Joanna Lees – features WSU performers

Performances​
Friday, March 15 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:00pm – Pay As You Are

Tickets
Student: $18 in advance; $20 at the door.
Child under 12: $18 in advance and at the door.
Adult General Admission: $22 in advance; $28 at the door.

AMP Performers 
Lily Conforti, Kendall Edstrom, Stephanie Flanagan, Laura K Johnson, Zoë Koenig, Joanna Lees, Rachel Lieberman, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith

WSU Performers 
Ana Boucek, Cameron Domnick, Abigail Donkers, Payton Hernandez, Catherine McBride, Sarah Nagle, Jillian Pino

Photo: Bill Cameron

Continental Ballet Company presents Coppelia at the Schneider Theater in the Bloomington Center for the Arts. 

This delightful ballet mixes razor-sharp story mime with bravura classical ballet. It tells a humorous story as a young man has a crush on a beautiful girl sitting on a balcony. His girlfriend is bit jealous and tries to meet the new girl. When she is unresponsive, a group of villagers sneak into the house and discover the truth. Much humor and confusion takes place but in the end, true love wins over. This ballet is a fresh, funny performance appropriate for all ages and a fun way to welcome spring!

Under the direction of Riet Velthuisen, the cast includes, Lily Griffith, Wesley Rocha, John Agurkis, Kacey Southwick, Keegan Eide, Maylu Perez,  Hope Easter, Claire Fahning , Adrienne Barrington, Alexia West, Joe Svihel, Callie Janzen, Jaime Casey, Amanda Arnaud and Alan Tse.

Tickets: $25 adults; $19 senior citizens and students; $13 for children under age 13.

BLACK HOLE researches and shares an odyssey where three Black performers create a trinity of vigor, Afrofuturism, and embrace. Engulfed in an evocative soundscape of original music, sound samples, and spoken word, the dancers embark on a demanding hour-long journey in which their tenacity and grace are emphasized by cinematic video projections and stark, monochromatic lights. Mesmerizing and hauntingly magical, BLACK HOLE constitutes the final installment of Shamel Pitts’s Black Trilogy—marking the initial meeting between this choreographer and the artists of TRIBE.

March 21-23
8:00pm

Concerto Dance presents On Our Way at The Southern Theater 
March 22-23 at 7:30pm
March 24 at 2:30pm

On Our Way features a mixed repertoire of modern and jazz dance works driven by musicality and virtuosity aiming to uplift the human spirit. The program includes new works by local guest artists Erinn Liebhard (Rhythmically Speaking Dance) and Darrius Strong (STRONGmovement) along with works by Artistic Director, Jolene Konkel, including the restaging of the 2020 dance film, Awakenings for a live audience and the premiere of Konkel’s new jazz dance work, On Our Way.

On Our Way is performed by Hunter Batterson, Addie Beck, Maila Craft, Peter Hoffman, Doug Hooker, Lydia Kantor, Sara Karimi, Helena Magalhães, Shannon Mulcahy, Betsy Nelson, Jake Nehrbass, and Sarah Steichen Stiles.
Run time approximately 90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.

Tickets
Adults: $30 + fees
Students/Seniors: $25 + fees
For tickets and more information visit www.concertodance.com/performances

A club-like atmosphere of daring ecstasy, collective revolt, and personal reclamations.

This year’s MERGE pairs Mathew Janczewski’s high-intensity, super-charged movements with Taja Will’s nuanced, emotive, and improvisational boldness. Their collaboration will culminate in an evening of performance, the premiere of a haunting new solo by Will, and Mathew Janczewski takes to the stage for the first time since 2017 for the premiere of a new duet with longtime ARENA DANCES company member, Dustin Haug. Semipermeable fluid inspires ideas that highlight the specific and present relationship of the two, allowing for each to move through together from a certain known history of ideas shared.

Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $35, fees included.

Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2:00pm
Tickets: pay as you are. Market value: $35, fees included.

Join Young Dance in building and playing miniature golf on Saturday, March 23 at Lake Monster Brewing Company. At this whimsical celebration of creativity, we share our passion for movement with the local community.

1:00-4:00pm
Everyone is invited to build a miniature golf hole with the theme of Alice in Wonderland. You can sign up to build and design the course individually or bring a group of friends. Materials like cardboard, pieces of gutter, tubes, wood, pallets, nails, screws, tape, and more will be provided, or you can bring your own supplies. Skilled construction workers will attend to help make your building dreams come true.

4:00pm
The course will open to the public, and players can choose their own price to play. The suggested donation price is $15 per person, and all proceeds go to expanding access to Young Dance’s programming and mission to transform lives through movement.

Since 1987, Young Dance has worked to transform lives through movement by fostering an inclusive community where creativity flourishes. Young Dance encourages peer-to-peer mentorship and collaboration in the making of dance. This year, we serve over 230 students, aged 1 to 18, at our studio hub in St. Paul and an additional 1,200 participants through community events and partnerships. Learn more about Young Dance at youngdance.org.

If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please reach out to info@youngdance.org or call 612-423-3064.

The 2024 Build-Your-Own Minature Golf Gala is sponsored by Blaze Credit Union, The Costume Collective, Home Depot: Store #2806, Lake Monster Brewing Co., The Makery, Metro Transit, No Mythic, Play It Again Sports St. Paul, Welna Ace Hardware: Store #7166, Urban Refurbishment, and Wilson Golf Group.