Archive: Performances and Events

Kitchen Dances is a dancing history exploring how women’s power of choice and agency over their own lives have evolved throughout various time periods and cultures. Witness the metamorphosis of the heart of the home from a place of duty to an experimental playground of possibilities. Dance styles featured in this production include contemporary ballet, flamenco, and modern as the Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory performs in collaboration with guest dance artists from around the Twin Cities.

Choreographer: Claire Davison.

Performers: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory with guest artists Nieya Amezquita, MonaLisa Berman, Susana di Palma, and Juliana Johnson.

Tickets:
Adults: $40
Seniors: $35
Children/Students: $30
Groups (10+ tickets to the same performance): $30

Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:00pm
Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:00pm

“There is a keen theatrical intelligence at work here, with moving intimations of the solitude of human existence and moments of dream-like intensity.” —The Guardian on Ponifasio’s Requiem

Love to Death (Amor a la muerte) is a traditional yet radical work conceived and directed by internationally renowned Samoan artist Lemi Ponifasio, a champion of both the avant-garde and Indigenous people. This new work brings together Chilean artists Mapuche singer and composer Elisa Avaendano Curaqueo and contemporary flamenco dancer Natalia Garcia-Huidobro. The work was sparked by events detonated after the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, a Mapuche former student activist and farmer. Voices and bodies weave together in a ceremony revealing their own stories: two lives that reflect both Chile’s history and the search for its future. Touching on questions of identity, destiny, and nature, the work transcends conventional ideas of theater, dance, and activism.

Copresented with Northrop.

Founded in 2017 by Choreographer and Dancer Helen Hatch, contemporary dance company Hatch Dance celebrates its first five years with vibrant performances showcasing the company’s collaborative spirit and expansive range.

Along with repertory favorites, this celebration features the world-premiere of Notjustmoreidlechatter, a new duet for Dylan Wald and Elle Macy, Principal Dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet, showcasing technical virtuosity and emotional vulnerability from two of ballet’s brightest stars.

Sunday, April 2 performance includes Pay As You Are!

TERRANEA: hakawati of the sea is a dance performance searching for memories inside diasporic bodies to reflect on notions of home while simultaneously asking, “what does the water of the Mediterranean Sea remember?”

In blurring researched realities and mythology-making, TERRANEA examines Palestinian experiences of occupation, refugee crisis (of land and sea), and politics around movement and nation within this body of water; only to depart into dream. A sea spirit, Terranea, emerges as mother for those lost in waves — welcoming souls of migrants into a fluid and mythical shared space, world-making endeavors towards imagining a collective home.

Conceptualized and choreographed by Leila Awadallah in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah and the Body Watani Dance Project artists joining them: Nakita Kirchner, Sharitah Nalule, Emma Marlar and Erica Jo Vibar Sherwood. Original music by Renée Copeland featuring Amal Kaawash singing Palestinian / Levantine folk songs, percussive and more by PJ Roduta and oud by Clarissa Bitar.

We are seeking a publicist to help us promote this exciting performance event.
Please contact Mariel Schneider at mgr@lcpdance.com for more information.

Madison, WI-based contemporary dance company, Li Chaio-Ping Dance, presents Here Lies the Truth at the Red Eye Theater in April 2023. This hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, visual artist Douglas Rosenberg, sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, and lighting designer John Frautschy.

Here Lies the Truth is an original performance featuring dancers of color on social inequity and the lies embedded in racial stereotypes. Here Lies the Truth has been presented at the Overture in Madison, the Asia Pacific Dance Festival in Honolulu, and at CounterPulse in San Francisco.

Tickets by donation – no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Suggested general admission: $24. Suggested senior/student: $18

AMP presents ELEVEN, an engaging evening that embodies and offers a wide range of physical perspectives within contemporary dance.

Experience four dynamic new works that explore the relationship between human and machine, the connections between the body and enjoyment, the storytelling in music and movement, and the imaginative universes within dream states and black holes. Join us for our 11th Season!

New works by:
Khary Jackson
Brianna Rae Johnson
Zoë Koenig, Company Member
Joanna Lees with Dameun Strange, Sound

​Friday, April 14 – 7:30pm
Saturday, April 15 – 7:30pm
Sunday, April 16 – 2:00pm

Master classes will also be held and taught by the show’s choreographers from April 14-16.

Tickets:
General Admission – $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Senior – $18 in advance, $22 at the door
Student/Children under 12 – $18 in advance and at the door

The April 16 show includes a Pay As You Are option, Post-Show Q&A, and ASL Interpreted (Greg Waletski, Interpreter).

Pre-Opening Night Happy Hour and Mingle Event:
6:30-7:00pm – Friday, April 14 only
The Southern Theater Upstairs Lobby
$40 in advance, $45 at the door
Price includes ticket to ELEVEN on April 14, one beverage, and first access to the theater (see here).

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.

Photo: Bill Cameron

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Flink’s masterwork Wreck, which explores the depths of physical and psychological endurance and human fortitude in the face of impending and inevitable destruction. The show features Mary Ellen Childs’ glorious original score and a live onstage musical ensemble led by Pat O’Keefe.

Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 2:00pm
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 2:00pm

Tickets to all performances are “Pay as You Are,” with tickets as low as $5.

A fool’s errand is defined as “a task or activity that has no hope of success.”

This production presents two different dance works which question the consequences of exploring our world through contradictions between nature and technology, internal self and presented self, relationships and isolation.

This show is a collaborative production between Milo Sacshe-Hofheimer and Allison Wheeler for their Dance BFA Senior Capstone. A Fool’s Errand will be performed at the Red Eye Theater:

April 21 at 7:00pm
April 22 at 7:00pm
April 23 at 2:00pm

Pay as able, minimum $10.

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

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 five-show package.
Walk-ins welcome. Cash/check/card accepted at the door.
All Happy Hour ticket income and Happy Hour donations goes directly to the artists.

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