Archive

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