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16 Feet: Perceptions Noted

A multi-artist collaboration of independent choreographers from around the Twin Cities, giving their voice and visions.

October 19-21
7:30pm
Tek Box Theater

Featuring:
Davente Gilreath – Healing • Love  |  Gerry Girouard – Honest • Energetic  |  Alarica Hassett – Weird • Liberated |  Jim Lieberthal – Mystical • Dynamic  |  Jennifer Mack – Creatively Resilient  |  Christine Maginnis – Swashbuckling-Swan  |  Alys Ayumi Ogura – Appropriately Inappropriate   |  Rebecca Tanner – Embodied • Collaborative  |  Julie Warder – Influenced • Supported  |  Mary Willmeng – Devoted • Magnetic

Tickets: $20 for general admission, $15 for students, seniors and children under 12.
Get your tickets!

MNIDF Presents Los Colores de México

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.

Performances
October 20 at 7:30pm – Los Colores de México
October 21 at 1:30pm – Informal Showcase and Artist Panel – pay-as-able

October 21 at 7:30pm – Los Colores de México

Tickets

Public Admission: $25
Students: $15

Fall Forward Festival at The Cowles Center

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.

Fall Sound Garden at Wargo Nature Center

Amidst the fall colors and falling leaves, dancers Sarah Baumert, Suzette Gilreath, Erika Hansen, and Leslie O’Neill perform in the site-specific Fall Sound Garden performance installation along the wooded trails at Wargo Nature Center in Lino Lakes, MN. Nestled amidst the Rice Creek chain of lakes, not far upstream from where the Fall Sound Garden first premiered in 2018.

This year’s Fall Sound Garden is part of Wargo’s annual Fall Fest, which also features a cider press, storybook trail, a Dakota language scavenger hunt, and fall games.  Directed by composer JG Everest, the Fall Sound Garden will also feature embedded sculpture and poetry throughout the site, with live storytelling by poet / storyteller Lisa Yankton, and live roving musical accompaniment by members of the Free Range Orchestra & Choir.

The Fall Sound Garden event is a free, family-friendly, self-guided event that features a sound installation of 60+ small, wireless speakers, distributed throughout the park, with live accompaniment by roving musicians and dancers. Each small speaker is playing a different part of the whole piece of music, creating a unique, immersive experience that is described as “a concert you can move through.”

Event is free, but registration requested in order to send weather updates and possible program changes.

Concerto Dance Performs Weekend One of the Fall Forward Festival

Concerto Dance shares the stage with Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts Company, and Kaleena Miller Dance in the Cowles Center Fall Forward Festival Weekend One!

October 21 and 22
Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts Company promotes Haitian cultural heritage through dance, songs in Creole and French, and live drumming. Utilizing jazz and modern expressions, Concerto Dance creates vibrant dance works driven by musicality and virtuosity aiming to uplift the human spirit. Kaleena Miller Dance creates tap dance works that invite performers and viewers to participate in deep listening.

Concerto Dance will be performing our signature work Ode to Opus Jazz, inspired by Jerome Robbins’ work Opus Jazz, Ode to Opus Jazz navigates a threatening and explosive world through resilience, friendship, young love, and the “coolness” of classic jazz.

Tickets on sale now: Get tickets

Join Threads Dance Project for a Monster Mash Bash

Come out to Threads Dance Nexus for some family-friendly Halloween fun!

Our annual fall fundraiser will take place Saturday, October 21 from 3:00-5:00pm at Threads Dance Nexus. Come dressed in your Halloween best for festive games, a costume contest, treats, and of course, dancing! This year’s event will support Threads’ NextGen/Youth Dance Project and General Operations.

Saturday, October 21
3:00-5:00pm

Tickets: $10/advance, $15/day-of, free for kids under 5

James Sewell Ballet: In the Shadows

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
2:00pm and 7:30pm

Tickets: $5-34

Ragamala Dance Company: Paid Dancer Position

Ragamala Dance Company is seeking trained Bharatanatyam dancers for a paid, one-year contract position as a Company Dancer or Apprentice.

Ragamala tours extensively at major venues in the U.S., India, and internationally. Qualified applicants should be able to adapt to Ragamala’s aesthetic and be able to train in either Los Angeles or Minneapolis and attend company rehearsals in Minneapolis.

Please complete the application at www.ragamaladance.org/audition, and send a résumé and video links to raneeramaswamy@gmail.com.

Erin Thompson Teaches Advanced Contemporary Classes in Person and on Zoom

Erin’s advanced-level contemporary dance class at Zenon Dance School includes floor work, standing warm-ups, and phrase work, all designed to enhance the healthy use of joints and muscle groups as dancers release their weight fully into the support of the ground. Experiential awareness, body mapping, improvisation, and creative work are included as dancers channel their own expressive artistry within the movement. The incredible Dean Magraw will accompany on guitar.

Thursday mornings, 9:30-11:00am

Registration is open through Zenon’s MindBody portal.
See you soon!

Modern Dance Class with Thern at Tapestry

Dancing and finding pleasure in movement is for everyone of any age!

I’ve taught dance for all ages and experience levels for over fifty years. In my weekly session of modern dance classes, we’ll be working with somatic movement, structured improvisation, and floor work to build strength, flexibility, and ease of movement. You’ll learn patterns that move through space in community with other dancers, encouraging spatial and group awareness.

Mondays, 12:00-1:30pm
Drop in: $15-20. Cash or check made out to Kathryn Anderson.

Free parking in the lot south of Tapestry.