Archive: Performances and Events

Young Dance invites you to celebrate community at the 3rd annual Fall Fling!

Saturday, October 14
2:00–6:00pm

This outdoor celebration is fun for the whole family! Enjoy a dance party followed by performances and interactive demonstrations by Young Dance, The ARC Minnesota, Auntie Bec’s Boutique, CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, Element Gym, Ripple Effect Community Fitness, Smiling Drum, St. Paul Ballet, St. Paul Pilates and Fitness, Youth Performance Company, and other Fairview Business Center tenants. Visit the family-friendly makers’ market, play games, make art, dance, and more!

The event is free!
Can’t make it but still feel passionate about Young Dance? Donate here!

We will provide audio description and an ASL interpreter.
Parking is wheelchair-accessible, and seating will be available.
Please let us know if any other accommodations are needed to participate in this event. 

The event will continue inside at each partner’s location in the event of rain. 

Schedule of Events:
Coming soon – check the website for the most up-to-date information.

Fall Fling Organizations: 
Young Dance
The Arc Minnesota
Auntie Bec’s Boutique
CAAM Chinese Dance Theater
Element Gym
Ripple Effect
Smiling Drum
St. Paul Ballet
St. Paul Pilates and Fitness
Youth Performance Company

Minnesota International Dance Festival is featuring México as their 2023 Guest Country. Friday and Saturday night MNIDF presents Los Colores de México, a vibrant performance that brings together many voices of Mexican culture. Join us for the closure of the MNIDF workshops with a unique performance by the workshop participants and an artist panel with featured choreographers during the Saturday matinee. Celebrate the vast diversity that Mexico has to offer through all dance styles from pre-Hispanic to contemporary. We invite you to join us and enjoy the talented voices of local and international artists with roots in México.

Celebrating nine different dance artists across three fantastic weekends
Talents collide onstage as our diverse dance community showcases an assortment of genres across this momentous festival. Each weekend features a new roster and a variety of experiences from percussive footwork to physical feats to modern expressions and more!

Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm

Week One: October 21–22
Concerto Dance‘s Ode to Opus Jazz navigates the challenges of an explosive and turbulent world through resilience, friendship, and young love utilizing vernacular and classic jazz dance with theatrical flair. Kaleena Miller Dance premieres an interplay of minimal maximalism that abstracts inherent footwork patterns in response to the intricate sonic landscape. Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music, and Arts Company’s Ti Sonson and the Power of the Drums, extracted from the trilingual children’s book of the same name, is a bright spark, highlighting joy and resilience in Haitian culture.

Week Two: October 28–29
Ballet Folklorico Mexico Azteca’s celebration of Día de los Muertos unites the past and present by honoring the departed and the vitality of life with a hint of contemporary dance. Discover STRONGmovement’s unique dance and art philosophy through three original works spanning recent years: You Think You Know, Kwôren,tēn, and a new solo, The Artist. Yuki Tokuda presents a ballet based on Japanese folklore called Yuki-Onna (The Snow Woman) with Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt, played by Rie Tanaka.

Week Three: November 4–5
Katha Dance Theatre’s PRAKRITIR PRATISODH – Nature’s Revenge depicts the natural forces that are now threatened due to humanity’s choices and the hope to conquer these challenges and move forward with harmony! Shapiro & Smith Dance’s Burning Air tells of the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. Ominous skies are again in front of our eyes as today’s fires foretell what’s to come in a world of continued inaction on climate change. In We Are Cosmic, Alternative Motion Project connects black holes, dream states, multiverses, and theta waves through stunning visuals, rigorous physicality, and sound by Dameun Strange.

A new evening-length work by José A. Luis through a Red Eye Curated Rental.

In brief: The start of National Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration of Mexican Independence Day. Three Mexican-identifying/rooted dance artists. The weight of history, identity, and intuitive yet construct of communal events permeates this new work. Departure gave urgency to this new creation and departure challenges the tangibility right now, and inevitably thereafter. This is a dance reckoning with time.

In personal: What does it mean to gather one group of people, under one vision? How do you make space for histories, stories, uncertainties, departures, and returns? Emerging from a history of solo works revolving around my own experiences, I have struggled to find a clear way of welcoming other stories to co-exist with mine. The urgency to share more of my work with my family while striving for personal growth layers my approach to this piece. What vision I had is now in a state of acceptance; an echo of where I am. I fall back on the memory of where it started and how I lead, desde aquí.

Ensemble: José A. Luis, Lizzette Chapa, and Margaret Ogas
Visual art by: Alondra M Garza and Maria del Mar Villalvazo Mendoza

Reservations
Online reservations closes Thursday at 7:00pm.
Limited seating.

Friday and Saturday, September 15-16
6:30pm: Doors open/Small Gallery/Conversation
6:55pm: Doors close
7:00pm: Performance

The Neighborhood Garage Tour is off to a fantastic start, with full houses – er, garages – in Brooklyn Park!

Come and see our new all-ages show:
The Medicine Show of the 25th Century

The Neighborhood Garage Tour is Off-Leash Area’s grass-roots arts access program, creating original all-ages work, and bringing it directly into metro neighborhoods. This year’s tour features an all abilities cast of dancers and movement actors, and numerous access services throughout the tour.

The next location on the tour:
Queen Tolson’s Garage!
886 Como Ave, St. Paul
with Co-Hosts Emily Kittleson and Nora Brand
Al shows at 7:00pm
Friday, September 15
Saturday, September 16 – with ASL interpretation
Sunday, September 17 – with audio description

And the Tour continues later this month:

September 23-24, all shows at 7:00pm
Pat Sample’s Garage!
7152 Unity Ave N, Brooklyn Center
Sunday, September 24 – ASL interpretation

September 29-30 at 7:00pm; October 1 at 2:00pm
Jen and Steve Terry’s Garage!
8850 Deer Ridge Lane, Bloomington

In collaboration with dancers Amanda Sachs and Elena Hollenhorst and set to the music of local artist Kid Villain, HoneyWorks Artistic Director Berit Ahlgren has created a new 30-minute work as a reflection on the emotional bonds between groups, partnerships, and one’s relationship to self.

River’s Edge is a performance series where local artists share their work in a backyard garden in South Minneapolis. HoneyWorks will share the event with local poet Deborah Keenan, who will share from her latest book, The Saint of Everything. For more information, please email either Berit or Sher to receive information about the location and RSVP for a place. The event is free to attend, but reservation is requested due to the intimate nature of the event and limited capacity.

Berit: bcahlgren@gmail.com
Sher: rivers.edge.create@gmail.com

Sunday, September 17 at 4:00pm

Sally Rousse offers two opportunities to gather and talk about site responsive/site specific work:

Sunday, September 17 at 5:00pm and
Friday, September 22 – time TBA

This is a chance to get together with others who are creating in a similar realm to share resources, celebrate/vent, support, connect — and more, or nothing at all. Perhaps just to recognize that we are working in this way and are not alone.

This is very informal. If you are interested, please contact me directly.