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James Sewell Ballet Company Dance Intensive

Personalized Instruction in a Company Atmosphere
Geared toward pre-professional and young adult dancers with intermediate/advanced technique who are:

  • Interested in experiencing a week in the life of a professional dance company.
  • Getting back into practice before the school year begins.
  • Looking for a “friendly dance boot camp.”

Class Schedule
Monday through Friday, 9:00am-4:00pm
Offering classes in Ballet, JSB Repertoire, new Choreography, Conditioning, and more.

World Class Faculty
Train with dancers, choreographers, and movement experts who value personal growth and agency. We combine rigor with playfulness to foster each student’s best potential.

Price: $450

The McKnight Fellowship Program Informational Webinars

The McKnight Fellowship for Dancers and for Choreographers Intent to Apply form is now open. Deadline is Wednesday, September 6 at 11:59 pm.

Choreographers
Dancers

We will be offering two webinars via Zoom for all interested applicants.
Tuesday, August 16: 6:00–7:00pm
Wednesday, August 17: 12:00–1:00pm

These sessions, led by Program Director Dana Kassel, will be accessed via Zoom.

RSVP to mckfell@thecowlescenter.org with the date you wish to attend, and you will be sent a link to enter the webinar by internet browser on a computer, iPad or smartphone.  

Twin Cities Flamenco Collective in Mankato

Twin Cities Flamenco Collective inspires audiences through its passionate and soulful expressions of Flamenco music and dance featuring award-winning artists.

Thursday, August 17, 2023
Doors at 7:00pm; Show at 7:30pm
90 minutes with intermission.
No age restrictions – all ages venue.

General Admission: $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Artists
Eve Makiko – TCFC, Flamenco dancer
Kristofer “El Cuervo” Hill – Special guest guitarist
Molly Kay Stoltz – Special guest dancer
Sachiko “La Chayí” – TCFC, Flamenco dancer
Ross “El Vecino” Fellrath – TCFC, Flamenco guitarist

For more information and inquiries, email tcflamencocoll@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/twincitiesflamenco.

The Cohort 2023: Stage & Screen – 15 Years of Rhythmically Speaking

Rhythmically Speaking presents The Cohort 2023: Stage and Screen

A reimagining of RS’ long-running annual August production, The Cohort is built to support and share different perspectives on and via the vibrancy of jazz and American social dance ideas, now through both staged and screened works.

Stage
Thursday, August 17 at 7:30pm
Friday, August 18 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 19 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 19 at 2:00pm

Screen
Saturday, August 19 at 4:00pm

The Southern Theater
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The Cohort 2023: Stage & Screen marks our fifteenth annual summer show – yes, 15 years! – and second year including a film screening. This production features the following artists/ works:

Stage:
Cara Hagan – Visiting Artist, New York City, NY
Carlos R.A. Jones – Visiting Artist, Buffalo, NY
Erinn Liebhard – RS Artistic and Executive Director
Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone – Local Artist

Hagan’s new piece is a whirlwind ride through grooves in different tempos and meters, with all the audio and visual provided by body percussion, and Jones’ new work, Groove: A Communal Love invites everyone from dancer to observer to sit in the pocket of the music and ride the joy of feeling the funk. Liebhard’s revisited piece Feist(meist)er is a lively romp exploring the cacophony of everyone in the room wanting to be the leader, and the harmony that can be found when that role gets shared, and Osterhaus Rosenstone’s new work what time is an embodied exploration of how we define, track, and relate through time, asking questions such as how do we experience time as individuals/a collective, and how can we find agency and freedom within that?

Screen:
Nadav Heyman – Los Angeles, CA
Erinn Liebhard – RS Artistic and Executive Director
Taylor Madgett – Denver, CO
Anthony Morigerato – New York City, NY
Yusuf Nasir – Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Olwell – Staunton, VA
Alexis Robbins – New Haven, CT

Heyman’s Old Man at the Corner Store follows an elderly man crossing paths with neighborhood mischief, and Liebhard’s RadioBody is a wintery romp exploring the toil and triumph embedded in the work of pioneering alt-electronic band Radiohead. Madgett’s Tenets is a fusion of Afro dance, House and Hip-Hop dance styles seeking to establish American street dance as a direct extension of West African culture, and Morigerto’s To: Everything I Love tracks a young woman falling in love who enlists her personal A.I. system to decide if the relationship is worth it. Nasir’s Regret to Inform You follows a difficult day in the life of a performer becoming undone after one too many rejections and retreating into a dance fantasy to combat the reality of a society that has no place for him. Olwell’s Oh, Excuse Me features two dancer-clowns exploring eccentricity, compromise, agreement and disagreement, and the ever-human desire to be seen, and Robbins’ Deconstructed navigates tap rhythms with and sans shoes.

Our mission is to spark vibrancy and connectedness through jazz and American social dance ideas, and this show always delivers – we hope you’ll join us to experience this joy through jazz!

A Night In Andalusia – Flamenco Show in Minneapolis and Lanesboro

Award-winning dancer Sachiko “La Chayí” and Twin Cities Flamenco Collective invite audiences to join their Southern Spanish, tablao-style flamenco which celebrates the Gitano spirit.  The show features internationally renowned artists from Spain and the United States.

Friday, August 18, 7:00pm – The Mane Theatre, Lanesboro, MN
Sunday, August 20, 7:30pm – Icehouse MPLS, Minneapolis, MN

For more information, visit sachikolachayi.com/upcoming.

Momentary Certainties Dance Performance Opportunity

The Eagan Art House invites you to submit original choreographic works to be performed as part of the opening event of Momentary Certainties 2023, an outdoor visual art installation that examines the intertwined themes of ephemerality and permanence and is part of the Eagan Art Block 2023 celebration of art and community.

Works should reflect on the themes of the exhibition:

  • On ephemerality: The nature of performance is ephemeral, “something that lasts a very short time.” Can you consider impermanence in your movement? How do you represent fragility or decay? What does it mean to perform in a landscape which is ever-changing?
  • On permanence: In these unpredictable times, how do the ideas of steadiness and strength inform your work? How can dance be a stabilizing presence? Consider constancy (of love, of nature) in your movement.

Works should be 5-20 minutes long and will be performed one to two times over the course of the event. The performance location is outside, on the grass lawn of the Eagan Art House. Site-specific works are encouraged and can be accommodated in consultation with Art House staff.

Performance date: September 9, 2023, 1:00-3:00pm (arrival at noon)
Location: Outside, on the grounds of the Eagan Art House
Compensation: $100-$300 (dependent on the number of performers)

Please email the following information to artexhibits@cityofeagan.com by August 24 to be considered:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Short description of the original choreographic work that you will be performing
  • Number of performers
  • Link to video of a representative piece of your work

Please contact us with questions! We are looking for a diverse range of vision and a wide representation of identity. Call 651-675-5524 or email artexhibits@cityofeagan.com.

ARENA DANCES Presents Erased Steps

Erased Steps
August 24 and 25 at 8:00pm
St. Paul Union Depot
“The Present and the Past entwine in lingering questions”

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 works’ 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.

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

Get Tickets
Before August 20: $25 online. $20 student/senior discount.
After August 20: $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 / Laura Selle Virtucio; with Apprentices: Gibran Murrieta / Maeve Seymour / Allison Wheeler

Composer/Musician: Zack Baltich
Voice Actors: Gabriel Anderson / Linnea Mohn
Lighting: Heidi Eckwall

Come early and enjoy dinner at Station 81 Drink & Eatery, which 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 info.

We look forward to sharing this work with you!

The McKnight Fellowship Intent to Apply is Now Open

The McKnight Fellowship Intent to Apply is now open. Deadline: September 6

The Intent to Apply step for the 2024 McKnight Dancer and Choreographer Fellowships is due by Wednesday, September 6, 2023. The final application is due in spring 2024.

The Intent to Apply form is now open. To start your the first step of this application, visit one of these links:

Choreographers
Dancers

The McKnight Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers awards $25,000 fellowships to Minnesota-based dancers and choreographers who are beyond the emerging stage of their career, and have created substantial body of work over a period of time. For more information visit our website.

The Intent to Apply is a simple and easy process. If you plan to apply for a McKnight Fellowship this year, it is important that you submit an Intent to Apply by September 6.  Please contact us with any questions: mckfell@thecowlescenter.org 

Off-Leash Area’s 7th Neighborhood Garage Tour

Off-Leash Area, one of the Twin Cities’ longest-running and most recognized professional theatres, 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 Park

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

Week 3: September 23-24, all shows at 7:00pm
Pat Sample’s Garage
7152 Unity Ave N, Brooklyn Center

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!

Collide Theatrical Apprentice Program

2023/2024 Apprentice Program, September 2023–May 2024

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program is a professional training and rehearsal program for advanced professional-track dancers. The program provides the skills needed to pursue formal positions within the Collide company and in the world of theater dance.

Apprentice dancers will take technique class with the company 3 days a week, have an opportunity to perform in a Collide show, and, for those who commit to the full 9-month program, participate in an apprentice showcase at the end of the year.

The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, but also include tap, acting for dance, and hip hop. Apprentice dancers will also have an opportunity to participate in monthly master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals.

This is a tuition-based program.
Scholarships are available for underrepresented artists.
Enrollment is competitive and audition based.
Video submissions accepted.

For more information, please visit www.collidetheatrical.org/apprentice-program.