Archive: Performances and Events

Join TCB’s professional ballet dancers at the Lakeville Area Arts Center for a fun-filled, interactive mini-show designed for families and children ages preschool through eight. The programs are less than an hour long—the perfect length for busy schedules and curious minds.

Dance With Me includes a short performance in costume by TCB’s professional company dancers, and invites children to dance along with the performers. Highlighting age- and ability-appropriate body movement using different forms of dance, each mini-show features a different theme and optional audience participation. Last performance for this season!

Tuesday, April 18
10:30-11:30am
Tickets: $6. Purchase online, or by calling 952-985-4640.

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.

This edition will be an interesting one! We have Reka Leeaphon and April Sellers performing, and we have one (or two) empty slots open for a spontaneous performance. Will one of the hosts do some improvising? Will a last-minute guest arrive? Will it be you? Who knows what will happen. Come and witness the joy of creation, and let yourself be surprised.

Come early if you want to get some yummy food and drinks.

April 18
Price: $5-15

With love,
Zoe and Kendall

ARENA DANCES presents the seventh annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, Minnesota’s only dance festival with a dynamic sampling of great dance artists featuring performances, master classes, and public showings wrapped all in one week. This year’s festival features the work of local Twin Cities artists Berit Ahlgren of HoneyWorks and Megan Mayer, with a warm welcome to Chicago-based artist J’Sun Howard with a National Performance Network co-commission to headline.

CANDY BOX Dance Festival is a unique celebration of dance, packed with a wonderful assortment of various renowned choreographers, accomplished dancers, and fresh movement styles all perfectly packed into one sweet week. It is an opportunity for diverse emerging and established artists to share the performance stage, with the addition of selected artists leading intimate workshops to offer a welcoming space for communal movement education, and in doing so gathering a range of tastes for varied audiences.

Featured Artist Performances
Thursday, April 27 at 7:30pm
Friday, April 28 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 29 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 29 at 2:00pm – Pay-As-Able pricing option available, at the door only.

Get your tickets:
Purchase before April 23: $21; $18 student/senior
After April 23: $25 online and at the door; $18 student/senior discount with inquiry.

Happy Hour Artists
Monday-Friday, 5:30-6:30pm
Monday, April 24 – Nic Lincoln
Tuesday, April 25 – Cheng Xiong and Javan Mngrezzo
Wednesday, April 26 – Shane Larson and Rachel Lieberman
Thursday, April 27 – Laurie Van Wieren
Friday, April 28 – Lily Conforti

Tickets: $12 per show or $25 for five-show package.
Walk-ins welcome. Cash/check/card accepted at the door.
All Happy Hour ticket income and donations go directly to the artists.

Master Classes
Monday-Friday, 4:00-5:15. See our post under Workshops!

More information!

Concerto Barocco, George Balanchine
Mozartiana, George Balanchine
Sagalobeli, Yuri Possokhov

Following a pandemic-induced postponement, and their gorgeous Northrop Centennial Commissioned film, Northrop is pleased to present the much-anticipated return of The State Ballet of Georgia. The company has soared under the bold artistic direction of international ballet star Nina Ananiashvili (former prima ballerina with Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre) who leads these stunning dancers in a program that includes two works by the great Georgian-American, George Balanchine, and the company’s signature work, Sagalobeli, by Yuri Possokhov—all accompanied by a live orchestra with Music Conductor, Gavriel Heine.

April 26 at 7:30pm

Katha Dance Theatre is proud to present a classic Kathak dance work in the vein of those performed for kings and emperors in eighteenth-century India. Kathak E-motion embodies the grandiosity and opulence of Hindu and Islamic royal courts while also exemplifying the art form’s integral expression of emotions, known as Abhinya. Using Kathak’s complex rhythms, intricate footwork, graceful movements, pirouettes, and gestural storytelling, Kathak E-motion epitomizes the form in breathtaking style.

Featuring live music and a guest dance performance by world-renowned artists Kousic Sen, Chandrachur Bhattacharjee, Pankaj Mishra, Pooja Goswami Pavan, Anirban Bhattacharyya, and Souvik Chakraborty. Choreography by Rita Mustaphi.

Friday, April 28 at 7:00pm
Saturday, April 29 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 30 at 2:00pm (ASL-interpreted)

Tickets: $30 general admission.
Seniors age 62+ use code SEN for $5 off.
Students and children under 18 use code STU for $14 off – please note that this code is only for students/children and not their parents.

A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $70! Perks include:

• Front-row seats for the performance
• Invitation to attend an informal rehearsal on April 22 at KDT’s studio, to be followed by refreshments and a meet-and-greet with the artists
• Invitation to attend a post-show Q&A, private reception, and meet-and-greet
• Small thank-you gift from KDT

Photo by Suchit Nanda.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and thanks to a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also supported in part by St. Paul Cultural STAR, the McKnight Foundation, the RBC Foundation, the Archie and Bertha Walker Foundation, and the generosity of KDT’s private donors.

Floorwork: a communal conversation and shared meal.

Every first Saturday! Floorwork was developed to hold conversations, knowledge sharing, and supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move.

The next Floorwork is:
Saturday, May 6
3:00-5:00pm
RSVP by Thursday, May 4.

This May Floorwork will focus on artist residencies (April’s “snow blizzard check”) – conversation assisted by April Sellers of April Sellers Dance Collective, Liz Engelmen of Tofte Lake Center, and Sharon Mansur, an Arab/SWANA American experimental dance and interdisciplinary artist who will be joining us via Zoom. Conversation will be held over a communal meal – bring your own dish to share in our potluck! ARENA DANCES will supply beverages, plates, napkins, and utensils.

Dance into the next chapter of hip-hop!

Cypherspace is a place of unlimited possibilities that allow for the reshaping of reality through various embodiments. The MIXTAPE Collective travels to the future through cyberspace to offer multiple perspectives on the next millennium. MIXTAPE’s work reveals generative strategies for sharing power and access to resources by weaving together choreography, videography, and musical compositions.

Saturday, May 6 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm
Price: $30

Sunday, May 7 performance includes Pay As You Are ticketing!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents Our Stories, Chapter 2: The LGBTQIA+ and Non-Binary Experience.

Landmark Center on May 7, 2023
75 W 5th St
St. Paul, MN 55102

Collide Cabaret from May 12-14, 2023
Collide Theatrical
755 Prior Ave N
Suite 235H
St. Paul, MN 55104

Join us for an evening of original dance storytelling centered on the non-binary and LGBTQIA experience that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain audiences of all ages.

Enjoy dance theater in an intimate setting with cabaret-style seating.
Directed by Jarod Boltjes and featuring Mistress Ginger.

For tickets visit our website or call 651-395-7903, ext. 701. Group rates available; click here for more information.

An evening of tap dance, with new and classic choreography by Leon Collins (as taught and shared by Dianne Walker and Lia Spirka), Naomi Funaki, Kaleena Miller, Bobby Hamilton, and Tony van de Light, as well as KMD2 Company Members. The show will also feature Random Motions in Nature and Dance, a very special collaboration with UMN Civil Engineering Professor Vaughan Voller that illuminates the patterns that emerge from random motions.

With performances by KMD2 Company Members Leah Chamaty, Anna Curtler, Evan Guffey, Grace Fabienke, Anika Kachmarek, Shelby Lee, Nina Maxwell, Delaina Thill, Ruby Thill, and Allie Wing and KMD Apprentices Bobby Hamilton, Abby King, Emma Parker, and Tony van de Ligt.

KMD2 Company Members and KMD Apprentices are pre-professional, creative incubation groups for emerging tap dance talent in the Twin Cities.

Thursday, May 11 at 7:30pm
Friday, May 12 at 7:30pm

Get tickets here.