Archive: Performances and Events

It’s back! Let’s generate some light and warmth in the darkness of winter. Join us for an elegant benefit in support of the company, sure to warm your toes and your hearts. Featuring a performance by James Sewell Ballet dancers, scrumptious victuals, and lively conversation with friends old and new. Click here to learn more.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

5:00pm
Reception hour with appetizers, wine/sparkling water, and mingling with friends

6:00-8:15pm
Song and dance from JSB artists and our evening’s special emcee Emily Tyra
Elegant buffet dinner and dessert
Limited live auction* and fundraising

8:15-9:00pm
Continue to mingle, sip, and dance the night away!

Tickets: $150 per person
Tables of 8 available.
RSVP by February 8.

*Auction items include a special LA getaway, a unique chef experience, and fun ways to engage with the JSB artists!

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens returns to Northrop for the first time since 2006, dancing two monumental masterpieces. The iconic four-note opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—said to represent “Fate knocking on Man’s door”—inspired American choreographer Garrett Smith’s Complete. The late Uwe Scholz’s choreography for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is considered his masterwork—displaying inventiveness and exceptional musicality. As the music races along at an irrepressible pace, these gorgeous artists convey the sheer joy of dancing to one of the most perfect symphonies ever written.

Saturday, February 17 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 18 at 2:00pm

Sensory Friendly Lounge
A Sensory Friendly Lounge equipped with sensory supports and staffed by trained volunteers will be available to all guests who are seeking a safe and soothing atmosphere during this and other select performances. Learn more on the Accessibility Services page.  

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
6:00pm

Jazba 2024 Performing Acts
ATL Tanishq – Atlanta, GA
Gator Udaya – Gainesville, FL
GT Qurbani – Atlanta, GA
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

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, 2024
Saturdays, March 2 and 9 at 2:00pm and 6:00pm
Sundays, March 3 and 10 at 2:00pm

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

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 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27 at 7:30pm

Purchase tickets here!

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

As The New York Times recently noted, “audiences haven’t seen Hubbard Street quite like this.”

Thursday, January 25 at 7:30pm

After 46 years, and under the leadership of newly appointed Artistic Director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Hubbard Street continues to be one of the most original forces in contemporary dance—reflecting today’s leading choreographic voices. Since 1977, Hubbard Street has brought artists, art, and audiences together in 19 countries and across 44 US states. Their expansive repertory program includes dances by Aszure Barton, Rena Butler, Lar Lubovitch, and Kyle Abraham.

Sensory Friendly Lounge
A Sensory Friendly Lounge equipped with sensory supports and staffed by trained volunteers will be available to all guests who are seeking a safe and soothing atmosphere during this and other select performances. Learn more on the Accessibility Services page.

Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) will bring audience favorite Carmina Burana to the Luminary Arts Center January 26 – February 4, 2024.

Carmina Burana features Loyce Houlton’s masterful choreography reimagined as a total theater experience by MDT Artistic Director Emerita Lise Houlton, with Dominique Serrand. 

Set to Carl Orff’s scenic cantata, this tour de force performance draws inspiration from the silent songs of 13th century vagrant monks’ poetic homage to passion. Carmina Burana brings the human pangs of love and lust, mixed with the earthly rumblings of fortune and fate, to a fully expressive celebration in a hedonistic romp of bodies, music, and movement.

The production presents a spectacular display of Twin Cities artistry, showcasing a dynamic mix of MDT dancers with the Minnesota Chorale, vocalists Anthony Potts, Linh Kauffman, and Gary Ruschman, and musicians Bob Adney, Barbara Brooks, David Hagedorn, and Tom Linker.

“[A] thrilling production… a dense explosion of passionate art.” – Star Tribune

Fridays, January 26 and February 2 at 7:30pm
Saturdays, January 27 and February 3 at 7:30pm
Sundays, January 28 and February 4 at 4:00pm

Tickets: $50, $45, and $40
Online at my.luminaryartscenter.com/events
Phone: 612.333.6669

Ruby Josephine Dance Theater (RJDT) is thrilled to unveil it’s debut full-length performance as a new company.

Friday, February 2 at 7:00pm – Reception to follow
Saturday, February 3 at 2:00pm
Sunday, February 4 at 7:00pm
The Southern Theater

Imagining what happens when the veils between our material world and the spirit world drop, we follow 8 explorers through this dramatic, intimate and soul-shifting adventure. Each section of the piece takes us through different layers of this revealed space; an exterior awakening in Veils, an interior meditation in Veins, and facing the great eternal unknown in Void.  The atmosphere of this journey is given immersive depth through a full original music score, composed by artist Cooper Lee Smith. Come along with our dancers as feelings resonate, revelations emerge, and questions remain beautifully unanswered.

Direction and choreography: Ruby Josephine Smith
Dancers: Brenna Mosser, Colin Myles Edwards, Jake Nehrbass, Laura Sukowatey, Karen Christ-Aalgaard, Kendall Kramer, Sara Karimi, Shannon Hartle-Dolan
Original Music: Cooper Lee Smith

Tickets: $25/general admission, $20/students.
Reserve your tickets now.

Join us for an evening celebrating the work of Ballet Co.Laboratory’s Performance Ensembles!

This performance will showcase excerpts from Les Sylphides, Peter Davison’s Bella Luna, original choreography by Genevieve Waterbury, new works by Trainees Liv Young and Charlotte Tracy (as part of BCL’s Choreographic Mentorship Program), and more.

Friday, February 2, 2024 at 6:30pm