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Tickets: $100 (A $35 donation is included in your ticket price.)
April 26 at 5:00pm

Celebrate dance prior to The State Ballet of Georgia performance! The exclusive ENCORE: The State Ballet of Georgia Dinner includes a social hour and silent auction in the Northrop Atrium, a sumptuous catered dinner, and live music. Plus special guest, The State Ballet of Georgia’s Artistic Director, Nina Ananiashvili.

These celebratory fundraising events support Northrop Centennial Commissions to create new dance works, elevate artists, and bring extraordinary presentations to our stage. You can be part of ensuring that artists’ creative works will be seen by audiences and youth in our community for years to come.

In this decade, leading up to Northrop’s 100-year anniversary in 2029, the Northrop Centennial Commissions project helps create new dance works to ensure that there will be amazing performances far into the future.

With your support, Northrop’s Centennial Commissions program provides:

• The creation and presentation of exquisite new works.
• Opportunities for students, youth, and communities to experience transformative arts.
• Connections through art that will be shared for generations.
• Arts programming for youth arts and education programs.
• A deeper understanding and insight into art, self-expression, and communication through discussions with artists, inspiring the community and young people.

Katha Dance Theatre is proud to present a classic Kathak dance work in the vein of those performed for kings and emperors in eighteenth-century India. Kathak E-motion embodies the grandiosity and opulence of Hindu and Islamic royal courts while also exemplifying the art form’s integral expression of emotions, known as Abhinya. Using Kathak’s complex rhythms, intricate footwork, graceful movements, pirouettes, and gestural storytelling, Kathak E-motion epitomizes the form in breathtaking style.

Featuring live music and a guest dance performance by world-renowned artists Kousic Sen, Chandrachur Bhattacharjee, Pankaj Mishra, Pooja Goswami Pavan, Anirban Bhattacharyya, and Souvik Chakraborty. Choreography by Rita Mustaphi.

Friday, April 28 at 7:00pm
Saturday, April 29 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 30 at 2:00pm (ASL-interpreted)

Tickets: $30 general admission.
Seniors age 62+ use code SEN for $5 off.
Students and children under 18 use code STU for $14 off – please note that this code is only for students/children and not their parents.

A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $70! Perks include:

• Front-row seats for the performance
• Invitation to attend an informal rehearsal on April 22 at KDT’s studio, to be followed by refreshments and a meet-and-greet with the artists
• Invitation to attend a post-show Q&A, private reception, and meet-and-greet
• Small thank-you gift from KDT

Photo by Suchit Nanda.

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, and thanks to a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also supported in part by St. Paul Cultural STAR, the McKnight Foundation, the RBC Foundation, the Archie and Bertha Walker Foundation, and the generosity of KDT’s private donors.

Threads’ annual Tapestries series introduces Twin Cities’ communities to three local emerging choreographers. Tapestries 7.0 features new and reprised works showcasing the perspectives and talents of this year’s selected choreographers: Erinn Liebhard, Julie Warder, and Brenna Mosser and Artistic Director Karen L. Charles.

Charles is remounting her piece, Uncertain Reality (2017), which explores the concept of Chaos Theory as it relates to the world we live in. Complexity and the beauty of chaos through movement and interactive technological imagery, in collaboration with projection artist Miko Simmons.

May 5 at 7:30pm – Pay as able, minimum $10
May 6 at 7:30pm
May 7 at 2:00pm

General: $25
Students: $20

Experience a rare, unparalleled performance by the legendary Bharatanatyam dancer/choreographer Padma Bhushan Smt. Alarmél Valli, guru to Ragamala Dance Company’s Artistic Directors Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy since 1983. Ms. Valli is widely recognized as one of India’s greatest living masters and practitioners. Ranee and Aparna’s training with Ms. Valli has formed the foundation of their aesthetic and has been fundamental to the work of the Ragamala, now celebrating its thirtieth season.

Presenting an evening of diverse poems in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Alarmél Valli’s dance is uncompromisingly classical but is, at the same time, an undeniable language of self-expression. Her work blurs the boundaries between tradition and individual talent, inheritance, and invention. A sublime evening of dance by one of the world’s greatest soloists, this is an experience not to be missed.

“Alarmel Valli is that rare thing – the solo performer who puts all others out of mind” (The New York Times).

May 6, 7:30pm
Price: $25

Dance into the next chapter of hip hop!

Cypherspace is a place of unlimited possibilities that allow for the reshaping of reality through various embodiments. The MIXTAPE Collective travels to the future through cyberspace to offer multiple perspectives on the next millennium. MIXTAPE’s work reveals generative strategies for sharing power and access to resources by weaving together choreography, videography, and musical compositions.

Saturday, May 6 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm*
Price: $30

*Sunday, May 7 performance includes Pay As You Are ticketing!

Floorwork: a communal conversation and shared meal.

Every first Saturday! Floorwork was developed to hold conversations, knowledge sharing, and supportive space for dance artists and people who like to move.

The next Floorwork is:
Saturday, May 6
3:00-5:00pm
RSVP by Thursday, May 4.

This May Floorwork will focus on artist residencies – conversation assisted by April Sellers of April Sellers Dance Collective, Liz Engelmen of Tofte Lake Center, and Sharon Mansur, an Arab/SWANA American experimental dance and interdisciplinary artist who will be joining us via Zoom. 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.

Come see a special collection of solos, duets, trios and student choreography from Hopkins Dance Company!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents Our Stories, Chapter 2: The LGBTQIA+ and Non-Binary Experience

May 7 at the Landmark Center, 75 W 5th Street, St. Paul, MN 55102
May 12–14 at Collide Theatrical‘s Cabaret, 755 Prior Ave N, Suite 235H, St. Paul, MN 55104

Join us for an evening of original dance storytelling centered on the non-binary and LGBTQIA experience that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain audiences of all ages. Enjoy dance theater in an intimate setting with cabaret-style seating.

The production, directed by Jarod Boltjes, will be emceed by local cabaret diva Mistress Ginger. Our Stories Chapter 2 features Grace Kidder, Javan Mngrezzo, Michael Mossucco, Ben Siglin, and Connor Simone.

For tickets visit https://www.collidetheatrical.org/our-stories-chapter-2 or call 651-395-7903, ext. 701.

The 3-Women Project will feature choreographic works from a group of three internationally renowned black female artists who will each work individually within their own creative processes while simultaneously seeking to explore and discover synergistic and unifying themes throughout the process. The project will incorporate educational opportunities and culminate in live, in-person performances in May 2023.

The choreographers include Stephanie Batten Bland, Alanna Morris, and Yusha-Marie Sorzano. TU Dance seeks to create artistic space for these three dynamic and award-winning dance artists to share their distinctly strong voices in choreographic work and their deep investment and investigations into their own artistic practice and identity as black women. TU Dance looks forward to engaging with our community to share and celebrate the perspectives of these three women through this exciting and ambitious project.

May 12 and 13, 2023 at 7:30pm (CST)
Ticket price: $35. Discounts for students and seniors.

Tickets can be purchased online here or by contacting The O’Shaughnessy Ticket Office at 651-690-6700.

Ballet Minnesota is thrilled to present the 34th Minnesota Dance Festival at E.M. Pearson theater at Concordia University May 13-14.

MDF will feature the classic ballet Paquita restaged by Cheryl Rist, Andrew Rist’s new work “Friends,” and performances by many guest artists including CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, Elena Hollenhorst, Eva Igo, Jim Lieberthal, Juliana Johnson, Kala Vandanam, Keane Sense of Rhythm, Kendall Kramer, O’Shea Irish Dance, and Universal Dance Destiny.

You won’t want to miss this eclectic show!