Archive: Performances and Events

Ballet Co.Laboratory rolls out the red carpet for our sixth annual benefit performance on Saturday, October 14.

Join us for an evening a cut above the rest as we celebrate the art of dance and fashion. Strut in style as you take in a fashion-inspired performance featuring the professional dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory while being treated to themed sips, bites, and other surprises. Supporting the arts is always in style so, “c’mon, vogue!”

Choreographed by: Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies
Performed by: The Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory 

Your evening designed beyond the ordinary will include:
· Hosted sips-n-bites, silent auction, and games
· Fashion-themed dance performance featuring The Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory
· Mix and mingle with company dancers and artistic staff

Tickets
Early Bird: $75
After September 22: $85

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.

Frankenstein, zombies, and characters of Edgar Allen Poe come to life in this family-friendly performance steeped in spooky delight and tragic majesty.

Anchoring the performance is a new choral ballet titled Unfashioned Creature, featuring Twin Cities beloved artists Timothy C. Takach (composer), Penelope Freeh (choreographer), and the MPLS (imPulse) choral ensemble. The work is poetically rooted in Shelley’s Frankenstein, and explores key aspects relating to personhood: otherness, abandonment, despair, and hopeful yearning. Music includes cello, percussion, and the stellar singers of MPLS who will perform a fractured libretto comprised of Shelley’s text.

Also on the program, remounts of two Sewell fall favorites: excerpts from “Takes on Poe” (2012); and “Grave Matters” (2011), which combines undead charm and morbid wit in a playful zombie ballet.

Saturday, October 28
2:00 and 7:30pm

Tickets: $5-34

“Dance that inspires, challenges, and entertains… from a variety of Minnesota choreographers and companies.” —Star Tribune

The Walker’s annual dance showcase celebrates Minnesota’s vibrant and diverse dance community with powerful performances by a roster of local choreographers and movement artists. This year’s program is curated by dancer, choreographer, and 2021 McKnight Fellow Darrius Strong, whose own work fuses ballet, hip hop, and more to tell universal stories.

November 25 at 4:00pm
November 25 at 7:00pm
Tickets start at $15. No additional fees.

Off-Leash Area, one of the longest-running and most recognized professional theatres in the Twin Cities, is thrilled to announce the 2023 Neighborhood Garage Tour – our grass-roots, out-of-the-box neighborhood performance program! For over seven years Off-Leash Area has been bringing original contemporary theater and dance to neighborhoods across the Twin Cities metro, delighting over 3,500 Minnesotans in over 40 diverse communities.

This year’s touring production is The Medicine Show of the 25th Century, where in the distant future we follow a troupe of A.I.-hybrid humanoids on a quest to find the mythical “perfect human being.” To fuel their quest, they travel from town to town, hawking a cure-all elixir to an audience desperate for solutions to the world’s toughest problems.

With The Medicine Show of the 25th Century, Off-Leash Area invites neighbors of all ages to a fun and imaginative tale told with both raucous comedy and whimsical beauty. Join us for a neighborhood gathering on a beautiful autumn evening in the most surprising and midwestern of venues – a two-car residential garage – where we prepare together to take off on an adventure of the imagination far, far into the future

Week 1: September 8-10, all shows at 7:00pm
Heather Zemien’s Garage
6240 Winnetka Ave N, Brooklyn Par

Sunday, September 10 – audio description

Week 2: September 15-17, all shows at 7:00pm
Queen Drea’s Garage with Co-Hosts Emily Kittleson and Nora Brand
886 Como Ave, St. Paul

Saturday, September 16 – ASL interpretation
Sunday, September 17 – audio description

Week 3: September 23-24, all shows at 7:00pm
Pat Sample’s Garage
7152 Unity Ave N, Brooklyn Center

Sunday, September 24 – ASL interpretation

Week 4: September 29-30, 7:00pm and October 1, 2:00pm
Jen and Steve Terry’s Garage
8850 Deer Ridge Lane, Bloomington

Reserve now and pay when you come!

Join us as we dance with plants at Frogtown Farm!

How can we center plants by dancing for, with and around them, while simultaneously inviting communities into the experience of observation and witnessing? How can we learn from the sounds, smells, shapes, tastes, and life cycles of the plants around us?

Join Aniccha Arts for our final performance gathering at Frogtown Farm. This event is the culmination of Prairie|Concrete, a project that brings visibility to plant cycles and growing practices through embodied listening and movement sessions with communities in Imnizaska (where the white rock bluffs form what we now call St. Paul, Minnesota).

This is an opportunity to continue re-patterning how we connect with our environment, moving collectively towards creating more ecologies of reciprocity.

At Frogtown Farm
Sunday, September 10
2:00-5:00pm
Come and go anytime!

What to bring: Bring lawn chairs and/or blankets. Consider wearing sunscreen and insect repellent.

These are kid friendly events.
An ASL interpreter will be at this event.

Aniccha Arts Team
Yasmin Abdi, Sayge Carroll, Shalini Gupta, Sequoia Hauck, Masanari Kawahara, José Luis, Cassandra Meyer, Sam Aros-Mitchell, Mankwe Ndosi, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Valerie Oliveiro, Dameun Strange, Jasmine Kar Tang, Alejandra (Tobar Alatriz), Claire Wilcox, Hui Wilcox, Lynn Wilcox, Pramila Vasudevan, Kira Vega, Judith Shuǐ Xiān.

Funders
This project is a commission of Public Art St. Paul with monies and support from the Joyce Foundation. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This project is also supported by Forecast Public Art through funding from The McKnight Foundation.

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
Reservations are open.
Limited seating.

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

I have been drawing dance for almost 30 years and need to clear out hundreds of drawings of locally, nationally, and internationally-known dance artists and companies. Thus, I’m drastically reducing prices and would love for the Twin Cities dance community to have a chance at purchasing and owning my work!

This is an invitation-only event. All you have to do is go to my website, sign up for my newsletter, and I will send you the invitation with details.

Saturday, September 16, 11:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, September 17, 1:00-3:00pm
Or by appointment if you can’t make it during those times. Let me know what time works for you!

Please join us as we come together at summer’s end to celebrate the beginning of a new season with James Sewell Ballet. Dancers will perform a sneak peek of the 2023-24 season.

Sunday, September 17 at 4:00pm
Performance begins at 5:00pm.
Wine and buffet supper to follow.
Mingling and merriment throughout!

New this year: two options for attendance:

“Garden Glory” Individual Ticket – $200, 4:00-7:30pm
Welcome to the full experience! Arrive to abundant appetizers and beverages, a reserved chair for the performance, and a scrumptious buffet dinner. Converse with JSB artists, collaborators, and other friends of the company. Catch one of the best sunsets in town!

“Dock n Dash” Individual Ticket – $55, 4:00-6pm
Enjoy some appetizers and a single beverage, mingling with guests and artists, and standing room (or floating room) only for the performance. Guests are welcome to join by way of lawn or lake!

The event happens on the southeast shore of Cedar Lake in Minneapolis – exact address provided in registration confirmation email.