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Erased Steps Presented by ARENA DANCES

Erased Steps is an abstract dance theater work taking place at Union Depot in St. Paul. The work includes an original score, performed live by local composer Zack Baltich, alongside 15 dancers whose relationships are gradually revealed through the work’s deft abstraction, incorporating dance, visual symbolism, and imaginative staging. Shining a light on both personal and societal expectations, Erased Steps exposes themes of the past and the present; what things seem like on the surface versus what they might actually be.

“The Present and the Past entwine in lingering questions.”

Thursday, August 24 at 8:00pm
Friday, August 25 at 8:00pm

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$30 online and at the door. $20 student/senior discount.

Dancers for Erased Steps: Gabriel Anderson, Kendall Edstrom, Non Edwards, Annika Johansson, Dustin Haug, Isaiah Langowski, Javan Mngrezzo, Jake Nehrbass, Leslie O’Neill, Addie Reine, Betsy Schaefer Roob, and Laura Selle Virtucio; with Apprentices Gibran Murrieta, Maeve Seymour, and Allison Wheeler.
Composer/Musician: Zack Baltich
Voice Actors: Gabriel Anderson and Linnea Mohn
Lighting: Heidi Eckwall

Come early and enjoy dinner at Station 81 Drink and Eatery – an establishment that donates a percentage of sales to Appetite for Change (AFC) which uses food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. AFC brings people together to learn, cook, eat, and grow food, creating change that lasts.

Provide ample time to arrive, as the State Fair opens this same weekend. Parking information.

We look forward to sharing this work with you!

Rhythmically Speaking Presents The Cohort 2023: Stage – On-Demand

Experience The Cohort 2023: Stage, performed August 17-19 at The Southern Theater, on-demand!

Stream The Cohort 2023: Stage
Tickets – $30.00 per household
Tickets available for purchase now. Viewing available between August 24-September 4 only.

To watch, simply purchase a ticket. If purchased before August 24, a streaming link and program information link will be emailed to you by that date. If purchased between August 24 and September 4, your email will arrive upon purchase.

This is a great option if you live out of town or missed the live show, which featured vibrant jazz and American social dance-inspired works by visiting artists Cara Hagan (New York City, NY), Carlos R.A. Jones (Buffalo, NY), MN-local artist Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone and RS Artistic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard.

Tickets to the live version of this show were priced at $22.00-24.00 per person: if you are able and would like to support beyond the $30.00 per family streaming price, we welcome and appreciate (and could use!) your donations. Donations keep ticket prices accessible and offer competitive compensation to artists. To donate easily and securely online, visit our GiveMN page.

Thank you for your interest, and we hope you enjoy checking out The Cohort 2023: Stage – On-Demand!

TU Dance: Movement and Creativity for Adults 55+

Join TU Dance teaching artist Suzette Gilreath for Movement and Creativity for Adults 55+. This class will use a simple approach to movement based on dance and yoga practice allowing room for creativity to be explored and experienced while focusing on building community through individual expression and how it is shared with one another. The class is open to those who are hearing and to those who identify as a person with a disability, hard of hearing, and or D/Deaf individual.

Fridays from August 11-September 15
10:30am-12:00pm
No class on September 1.

Cost: Free

For more information and to register, please click here.

Improv Jam with Sabine Ibes, Charles Gorczynski, and James Sewell Ballet

Sabine Ibes leads a practice of connecting with others for all Peavey Plaza visitors. Relax your body and mind, trust the ripples in the water at your feet, and let the Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet and Sabine’s prompts guide you toward ease and confidence in this special shared experience. We encourage all Peavey Plaza visitors to jump in during this free event — all ages and abilities welcome!

Friday, August 25, 7:00-8:00pm

James Sewell Ballet Workshop Performance at Peavey Plaza

James Sewell Ballet company members, intensive students, and friends present samples from recent rehearsals of work taking shape for the 2023/24 season.

The event will include several surprises that spark the joy and wonder that dance can inspire!

Admission is free.
Saturday, August 26 at 6:00pm

Improv with Margaret Ogas at RESOURCE

Sounds for Dance: a movement and music workshop with Margaret Ogas at RESOURCE

Wednesday, August 30
6:00-7:30pm
RESOURCE – 512 E 24th St Minneapolis, MN 55404

Choreographer Margaret Ogas will lead a workshop focused on movement improvisation in conversation with music and other sounds. Participants will explore the relationship between their bodies and the rhythm, tone and textures of sound. Open to all levels of experience.

RSVP appreciated (link here), walk-ins welcome. Free to attend.

Margaret Ogas is a dance artist based in Saint Paul. Using an interdisciplinary approach informed by Chicana cultural sensibilities, her works tell surreal everyday stories through movement, text, and sound. She is a 2023 Jerome Hill Fellow.

James Sewell Ballet: Peavey Plaza Coordi™ Movement Class

James Sewell leads Coordi classes every Tuesday morning in September. Combine playful brain teasers and mindful motion in this movement-based class open to all abilities — no dance experience necessary. It’s a workout for brain, body, and spirit!

Tuesdays in September
10:00-11:00am

What is Coordi™? It’s a movement study based on multiple kinetic patterns happening at once. Physical brain teasers combine with ballet for unexpected pathways and alignments that challenge both your mind and body! Learn more about Coordi™ here.

Pilates Teacher Training at Paragon Pilates and Physical Therapy

Balanced Body® Movement Principles

September 8-10
Friday – 4:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday – 11:30am-4:00pm
Sunday – 9:30am-5:00pm

In person and online attendance options
Fee: $549 + $65 materials

Paragon Pilates and Physical Therapy offers Pilates teacher training through Balanced Body Education. The foundation of Balanced Body’s program, Movement Principles (16 hours) shows how to recognize, improve and teach fundamental movement. It is the prerequisite and sole entry point for the Balanced Body Pilates teacher training program.

This course is designed for both new and experienced instructors to refine their understanding of the body in motion. It provides the foundational knowledge necessary for you to understand fundamental movement and become a truly transformative instructor. Movement Principles is a program requirement for our Pilates Instructor Training and Integrated Movement Specialist certificate.

Instructors: Matthew Hodge-Rice and Ann-Marie Chesterfield, DPT

Prairie|Concrete

Aniccha Arts presents Prairie|Concrete on September 10

Prairie|Concrete – Join us as we dance with plants! How do we dance for, with, and around plants and invite our communities into that experience?  How can we learn to dance from the shapes, forms, and life cycles of the plants around us?

Join Aniccha Arts for a public performance gathering at Frogtown Farm. This gathering 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 a chance to re-pattern the ways in which we connect with our environment.

Frogtown Farm
946 Minnehaha Ave. W, St Paul, MN 55104
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Come and go anytime from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

These are kid friendly events. Feel free to bring lawn chairs, blankets, water bottles and snacks. Consider wearing sunscreen and insect repellent.

Check out a recently published essay written by lead artist Pramila Vasudevan, “My Practice of Repatterining My Art,” which speaks to the impulses behind Prairie|Concrete. Learn more about the project and events at www.prairieconcrete.org.

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.

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.

José A. Luis Presents: Desde Aquí

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 returning? 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.

Tickets: Donation-based, on sale September 1

Friday and Saturday, September 15-16
6:30pm: Doors open
6:55pm: Doors close
7:00pm: Performance
Ensemble: José A. Luis, Lizzette Chapa, and Margaret Ogas