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Audition for Ballet Royale’s Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division

We are excited to announce auditions for Ballet Royale’s Pre-Professional and Professional Division programs. These programs offer rigorous and comprehensive training designed for students aspiring towards professional or post-secondary dance careers. They run from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 and include multiple performance opportunities within the school and in partnership with Twin Cities Ballet.

The Pre-Professional Program provides a demanding training schedule for students of all levels striving toward a professional or post-secondary dance career. This program builds on the success of our elite Professional Division program, expanding opportunities to students of all classes.

The Professional Division is an elite day training program for advanced, talented, and ambitious students. This program is designed for students at the highest technical and artistic level, preparing for a professional career. Select Professional Division students may be invited to dance as Student Trainees with the Twin Cities Ballet.

Audition is Saturday, June 1.

9:00-10:30am: Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division Audition
For current Ballet Royale dancers in Academy Intermediate I and higher, Pre-Professional Program 4A and higher, or dancers ages 11-21 with pointe.

11:00-11:45am: Pre-Professional Program Audition
For current Ballet Royale dancers in Introduction to Ballet Summer 2024, Preparation for Ballet, or dancers ages 6-9 with less than 2 years of Classical Ballet and no pointe.

11:00am-12:30pm: Pre-Professional Program Audition
For current Ballet Royale dancers in Academy Youth Ballet I, II, III, or IV, Pre-Professional Program 1A, 2A, or 3A, or dancers ages 8-13 with more than 2 years of Classical Ballet and no pointe.

Please sign up for the audition using this registration link.

We look forward to seeing you at the auditions and helping you take the next step in your dance journey.

The Legend of the Feathered Robe ー 羽衣伝説

Experience unique storytelling through ballet performance, choreography, solo piano and two-piano works, and the world premiere of an original composition. Award-winning choreographer Yuki Tokuda will showcase her choreography presented in a program inspired by Japanese folklore, “The Legend of the Feathered Robe – 羽衣伝説,” featuring a new work created especially for this project by internationally recognized composer Asako Hirabayashi.

Program

  • “The Legend of the Feathered Robe” by Asako Hirabayashi – world premiere
  • “The Firebird” by Igor Stravinsky
  • “Signes de Blanc” by Edison Danisov – presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners
  • “Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2” by Maurice Ravel

Artists
Choreographer: Yuki Tokuda
Dancers: Andrew Lester and Yuki Tokuda
Pianists: Rie Tanaka and Koki Sato

Saturday, June 1
2:00pm

This show is free to the public, but please register ahead of time for arts board verification of audience attendance.

Yuki Tokuda is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Floorwork: Community Advocacy Gathering

Saturday, June 1
12:00-2:00pm
Free. RSVP is appreciated.

This June Floorwork will continue the March 4, 2024 Dance Town Hall conversation with emphasis on creating a specific advocacy group for the dance community! Please come prepared with developmental needs and action steps in response to the recent survey, March 4 Dance Town Hall, and previous Floorwork discussions.

Floorwork: a communal conversation and shared meal. 
Conversation will be held over a communal meal – bring your own dish to share in our potluck! ARENA DANCES will supply beverages, plates, napkins, and utensils. Floorwork was developed to hold conversations, knowledge-sharing, and a supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move. Attendees are asked to fill out a new RSVP form for each monthly Floorwork event.

Can’t attend, but would like to join in the conversation?
Join us via Zoom
Meeting ID: 828 9636 5545
Passcode: 341960

Analog Dance Works Presents: The Awe Factor – On Demand

If you missed The Awe Factor, have no fear. Watch it from the comfort of your own home from June 1-15, 2024.

The Awe Factor, choreographed by Artistic Director, Brenna Mosser, interweaves single use plastic waste with the science of awe. In this fantastical and surreal world, 10 dancers examine how we access awe, what we do when we are confronted by it, and how we can harness this emotion to better our collective lives.

Portions of choreography presented in The Awe Factor were commissioned by Threads Dance Project for their Tapestries 7.0 program and by Alternative Motion Project for their 10th Season Performance.

EMBODY PALESTINE

EMBODY PALESTINE is a workshop by Leila Awadallah (Body Watani Dance) held in collaboration with Meryl Zaytoun Murman, 2024 McKnight International Choreographer. This workshop will guide participants through embodied explorations as a process of communal reflection on the range of emotions stirred by the genocide in Gaza.

Sunday June 2, 2024
3:00-5:00pm
Advanced registration required.
Recommended donation of $5-15 at event. 75% of the income will be donated.

To what extent can we use our bodies to connect with experiences we did not have, but learn about through media? How can the body respond and tend to the traumatic imagery in the news? Meryl will facilitate participants through movement and vocal explorations using gesture, mimicry, and embodiment as a practice of awareness and communication based on a desire to process the human suffering we are witnessing with physical understanding.

In collaboration, Meryl and Leila will share reflections on the interconnectedness of many crises in the region and ways they work within movement spaces to interweave complex solidarities across bodies. How do we resist together? What actions can we take towards a more healing-oriented future?

Dance experience is not necessary, and participants will engage at their own range of intensity.

TU Dance: “an experiment” with Leslie Parker and Collaborators

The public offering of an experiment is a live collaborative improvisation performance drawing from Blackness in experimental music, storytelling, visual art, and dance. This is a Twin Cities Jazz Festival event.

The Twin Cities Black Dance Improvisation Intensive 2024 is an extension of CtR methodology centering on Black, Native, Indigenous, and Artists of Color narratives. The focus is on creatives who are steeped in dance and performance practices to provide more opportunities to deepen awareness of improvisation. BDI Intensive 2024 is open to all bodies and ethnicities including artists, organizers, activists, and co-conspirators of varied dance experiences. All participants of the BDI Intensive are encouraged to perform.

In partnership with Northrop, Twin Cities Jazz Festival, The Cedar Cultural Center, TU Dance, and Barbara Barker Center for Dance. Performances by Black Dance Improvisation Intensive participants and Music Collaborative with Michael Wimberly, Farai Malianga, Dameun Strange, and DeCarlo Jackson. Produced by Leslie Parker Dance Project.

June 22, 2024
Free. At the Cedar Cultural Center.

Intensive Workshop Schedule
Leslie Parker Dance Project brings together improvisers in the Twin Cities who practice various models of improvisation from around the world to participate in three weeks of practice.

June 3-6, 2024
Workshop Session with Ishmael Houston-Jones
TU Dance Center, 2121 University Avenue West, Saint Paul, MN 55104

June 10-13, 2024
Workshop Session with Merián Soto
Northrop Dance Studio, 84 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

June 17-20, 2024
Workshop Session with Leslie Parker and Cynthia Olive
Barbara Barker Dance Center, 500 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

More information and registration.

Dance for a Cause | Jazz with Jennifer Glaws of Jagged Moves

Monday, June 3
6:30-8:00pm
Join in-person or on-demand!

Pick your price:$18, $28, $38, $65
Pay with cash, or Venmo @jaggedmoves.
Drop-in or email jagged9@hotmail.com to pre-register or for a link to the on-demand class.

Join Jagged Moves’ Artistic Director Jennifer Glaws in a donation-based Jazz class for mixed abilities in support of Soiled Dance Series.

Soiled Dance Series is a summer dance festival hosted by Jagged Moves dedicated to bringing awareness to radical dance and agriculture farming. Presented on a real working farm and the stunning grounds of Gale Woods Farm in Minnetrista, the inaugural series welcomed 30 performing artists, dancing works of 7 MN choreographers that energized the land and spoke towards the locations for where they were performed. All proceeds will go towards the artists and producing another SDS!

Let’s dance, move your Monday, and support a great event! 

Off-Leash Area Presents The Knave of Knives – The Duchess of Dawn

At once dreamlike, unsettling, and absurd, Off-Leash Area’s new show, The Knave of Knives – The Duchess of Dawn, introduces two strange and haunting figures from an otherworldly court who engage in a fantastical struggle for power over the multiverse. Taking place in an immersive installation surrounding both stage and audience, the show is performed with movement and music/sound, inspired (loosely) by string theory, and is populated with melancholy stuffed animals and mysterious trophies, dispersed among the fragile threads of a clandestine karmic history.

Created and performed by Jennifer Ilse and Paul Herwig, co-artistic directors of Off-Leash Area.

June 7-9, 7:00pm
Tickets on sale now.

Admission is by suggested donation between $10-$30. Seating is limited to approximately 40 seats and the garage fills up fast, so make your reservation early! You can also make your donation at the door by cash or card via Square.

Stick around afterward for popcorn, drinks, and conversation by the fire!

devoured: notes on love and enmeshment

devoured: notes on love and enmeshment is a meditation on codependency through three queer intimate relationships. Through text and movement, it explores complicated relationship dynamics between people who are struggling to love and be loved, but can’t help but hurt each other in the process. Run time: 60 minutes, no intermission.

Cast
Michelle de Joya, Josie Ramler, Antonio Duke, and Johanna Keller Flores

Creative Team
Liqing Xu, playwright/producer
Emma Y. Lai, director
Pedra Pepa, choreographer
Atim Opoka, composer/sound designer
Alice Endo, set designer/lighting designer
Calvin Friedman, props/set builder
C. Meaker, dramaturg
Erin Sondrol, stage manager
Vanessa Brooke Agnes, publicity

Tickets
$10: accessible/student/artist/senior. $15: general admission. $20: suggested admission.