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Friday and Saturday, November 3-4 at 7:30pm

Karim Nagi, Vanessa of Cairo, and Jawaahir Dance Company take you on a journey through Alwan Masr, The Colors of Egypt! This fun, family-friendly show gives you a taste of a country with diverse and unique dance styles. We showcase the beauty and distinctiveness of Arab dance.

Karim Nagi is a native Egyptian immigrant, a crossover artist uniting the Arab tradition with the global contemporary world. He has 14 CDs ranging from traditional Arab music to fusion and electronica, and has instructional videos for Arab percussive instruments and Arab dance styles. He currently resides in Chicago, IL.

Vanessa of Cairo, Artistic Director of Jawaahir, is an international performer, instructor, and award-winning choreographer who resided in Cairo for 12 years. She instructed private and group classes in all styles including many of the Egyptian folklore dances, and danced in daily nightclub shows, as well as dancing and acting in various plays through the Ministry of Culture in Egypt.

$20

Jordan is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from The College at Brockport and grew up in Albany, NY. He has collaborated with and performed for Beth Gill, Netta Yerushalmy, Tere O’Connor, Karl Rogers, David Dorfman Dance, Joanna Kotze, Catherine Galasso, Monica Bill Barnes, and Tammy Carrasco. His teaching practice has brought him to The American Dance Festival, Rutgers University, New York University, University of the Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Pageant and Mark Morris Dance Center. Most recently, he was listed on Dance Magazine’s 2023 ’25 to Watch’ list.

Free and open to the public!
Friday, November 3
4:30pm

About Cowles Visiting Artists
Since 1987, through the generosity of Sage and John Cowles, University of Minnesota Dance has annually hosted four to six dance professionals of international renown in residencies ranging from one to ten weeks. The guests teach, choreograph new dance work, rehearse repertory, and lecture in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, and the Twin Cities community at large.

The Cowles Land Grant Chair connects nationally and internationally recognized artists and scholars with dance students, exposing them to contemporary artistry, masterwork, and new thinking in dance studies. University of Minnesota Dance is unique for its extensive use of renowned professional artists in the education and training of students.

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!

Week Three: November 4–5
Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:00pm

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.

Combustible Company presents an updated staging of The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill’s classic expressionist work.

This new staging explores the connections between the rage of the working class, the need for belonging and the nihilism of MAGA world. O’Neill’s lyrical prose combined with Combustible Company’s powerful physical ensemble will transport you from the fiery bowels of a steamship in 1922 through time to our present day.

Performances run from November 10-18.

General admission tickets are $28 and a limited number of $15 economic accessibility tickets are available for each performance

Twin Cities Flamenco Collective inspires audiences through its passionate and soulful expressions of Flamenco music and dance along with special guest artists from Spain and the United States.

Sunday, November 12
5:00pm

$25 in advance
$30 at the door

This month only, the performance will be at Squirrel Haus Arts, not Icehouse MPLS.

Off-Leash Area presents its second annual Off-Kilter Cabaret, an ongoing community program designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities in the creation of original performance work. The 2023 Off-Kilter Cabaret explores the theme “Inside, Outside, Inside-Out,” which asks artists to center a performance work around their hidden self and perception of their personal identity in the larger world, and which will showcase seven unique artists from a range of artistic disciplines including dance, comedy, puppetry, musical composition, spoken word, and storytelling.

This year’s cabaret, curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Team, includes returning artists Braille, Scott Sorensen, and Young Dance and features AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa, Desdamona, Houa Moua, and Tessa Longshore for their Off-Kilter debuts. It will be emceed by returning artist Amy Salloway.

Off-Kilter Cabaret will occur November 17, 18, and 19 at the fully accessible TEK BOX Theater in the Cowles Center for Dance. The event includes accessibility accommodations such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, Audio Description, and Live Captioning.
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Off-Leash Area, under co-artistic directors Jennifer Ilse and Paul Herwig, has a 24-year history of presenting original interdisciplinary performance work. The Off-Kilter Advisory Group and Selection Panel from the disability community also include writer and storyteller Amy Salloway, multidisciplinary artist Gabriel Rodreick, arts accessibility consultant Jon Skaalen, and Sam Jasmine, host of the Disability and Progress program on KFAI. Off-Leash Area is excited to continue our partnership with Young Dance, whose mission is “transforming lives through movement.”

November 17, 7:30pm
November 18, 7:30pm
November 19, 2:00pm

Price: Suggested donation of $5-30

Join Concerto Dance for our annual performance and fundraiser event Swingin’ it Forward!

This evening features a one-hour performance of our favorite jazz dance works including a preview of our new work On Our Way and a swingin’ holiday classic!

Additionally, experience a dessert reception, 30-minute swing dance lesson, and social hour featuring a live jazz vocalist (included in the Saturday ticket). 100% of ticket sales go toward supporting our upcoming season.

November 18-19 at the Bloomington Center for the Arts, Black Box Theater.

Saturday, November 18, 7:00-9:00pm  
Includes performance and fundraiser event, with swing dance lesson, dessert reception and social dancing!
Tickets: $50

Sunday, November 19, 2:00-3:00pm
Encore performance only
Tickets: $25

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