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Young Dance Build-Your-Own Miniature Golf Course Gala

Come join the fun with Young Dance through building and playing miniature golf! On Saturday, March 25, everyone is invited to build their own miniature golf hole for Young Dance’s unique, one-day-only miniature golf course. We will gather and build at Lake Monster Brewing Company from 1:00–4:00pm. Once the course is complete, golfing will open at 4:00pm.

Pick your price to play! All proceeds go to Young Dance.

Participants can sign up to build and design the course as an individual or bring a group of friends.

This year, we will be building with the theme of Chocolate Factory. Materials like cardboard, pieces of gutter, tubes, wood, pallets, nails, screws, tape, and more will be provided, or you can bring your own supplies. Skilled construction workers will be in attendance to help make your Oompa Loompa- and golden ticket-building dreams come true.

Sponsored by: Ace Hardware – Bloomington Ave Minneapolis, The Arc Minnesota, Home Depot store #2806, No Mythic Robotics, Spire Bank, and Upstream Arts

Critical Conversations Series – Art of Business: Marketing

Marketing oneself whether it be for promoting an upcoming show, weekly workshops or just yourself as an artist is not an easy feat. Let’s come together to discuss tips and strategies with one another. Questions that will be addressed will include: How do you market your shows, classes and/or yourself as an artist? How can you make sure you’re reaching your target audience? How can we expand to a new audience? How do you control the tone in which you try to communicate? What are the tips and tricks around social media?

Join The Cowles Center in conversation as we gather to discuss how we talk about ourselves as artists and sell our “product”. This discussion will be open to all. Come to share your thoughts or just listen.

Art of Business: Marketing
March 26, 2023
2:00–3:00pm
At Hot House. Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.

Moderators
Jessi Fett, The Cowles Center Director of Programming & Education

Colin Edwards, Programs Coordinator and McKnight Artist Fellowship Programs Assistant for Dance and for Choreographers

Guest Speakers
Symone Wilson, Marketing Manager
Canaan Mattson, Marketing and Branding Manager
Rachel Doran and Laura Sukowatey, Hothouse and Crash Dance Co-Founders

Lemi Ponifasio: Love to Death (Amor a la muerte)

“There is a keen theatrical intelligence at work here, with moving intimations of the solitude of human existence and moments of dream-like intensity.” —The Guardian, on Ponifasio’s Requiem

Love to Death (Amor a la muerte) is a traditional yet radical work conceived and directed by internationally renowned Samoan artist Lemi Ponifasio, a champion of both the avant-garde and Indigenous people. This new work brings together Chilean artists Mapuche singer and composer Elisa Avaendano Curaqueo and contemporary flamenco dancer Natalia Garcia-Huidobro. The work was sparked by events detonated after the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, a Mapuche former student activist and farmer. Voices and bodies weave together in a ceremony revealing their own stories: two lives that reflect both Chile’s history and the search for its future. Touching on questions of identity, destiny, and nature, the work transcends conventional ideas of theater, dance, and activism.

Friday, March 31 at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 1 at 8:00pm
Sunday, April 2 at 8:00pm

Copresented with Northrop.

Kitchen Dances

Kitchen Dances is a dancing history exploring how women’s power of choice and agency over their own lives have evolved throughout various time periods and cultures. Witness the metamorphosis of the heart of the home from a place of duty to an experimental playground of possibilities. Dance styles featured in this production include contemporary ballet, flamenco, and modern as the Company of Ballet Co.Laboratory performs in collaboration with guest dance artists from around the Twin Cities.

Choreography by: Claire Davison

Performed by: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory with guest artists Nieya Amezquita, MonaLisa Berman, Susana di Palma, and Juliana Johnson

Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Tickets
Adults: $40
Seniors: $35
Children/Students: $30
Groups of 10+ to the same performance: $30

Learn More!

Hatch Dance Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Founded in 2017 by Choreographer and Dancer Helen Hatch, contemporary dance company Hatch Dance celebrates its first five years with vibrant performances showcasing the company’s collaborative spirit and expansive range.

Along with repertory favorites, this celebration features the world-premiere of Notjustmoreidlechatter, a new duet for Dylan Wald and Elle Macy, Principal Dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet, showcasing technical virtuosity and emotional vulnerability from two of ballet’s brightest stars.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance Presents: HERE LIES THE TRUTH at the Red Eye Theater

We are seeking a publicist to help us promote this exciting performance event.
Please contact Mariel Schneider at mgr@lcpdance.com for more information.

Madison, WI-based contemporary dance company, Li Chaio-Ping Dance, presents Here Lies the Truth at the Red Eye Theater in April 2023. This hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, visual artist Douglas Rosenberg, sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, and lighting designer John Frautschy.

Here Lies the Truth is an original performance featuring dancers of color on social inequity and the lies embedded in racial stereotypes. Here Lies the Truth has been presented at the Overture in Madison, the Asia Pacific Dance Festival in Honolulu, and at CounterPulse in San Francisco.

Tickets by donation – no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested General Admission: $24
Suggested Senior/Student: $18

April 13 at 7:30pm
April 14 at 7:30pm
April 15 at 3:00pm
April 15 at 7:30pm

Black Label Movement Presents Wreck

We’re officially in rehearsals for the 15th anniversary of Carl Flink and Mary Ellen Childs’ award-winning, evening-length work Wreck, which explores how a group of 13 people trapped in the last watertight compartment of a sinking ship respond to their harrowing situation. The work features our signature driving and deeply human choreography, Childs’ glorious and mysterious original score, and a live onstage musical ensemble led by Pat O’Keefe.

The 3-Women Project by TU Dance

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 at oshag.stkate.edu/events/ or contact The O’Shaughnessy Ticket Office at 651-690-6700.

Feldenkrais Series with Sarah Baumert: Posture Matters

Posture Matters
Change Your Posture, Change Your Mood!
An 8-week Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Series with Sarah Baumert
Beginning March 1, 2023

There is still time to join! If you missed the first lesson – once you sign up you will receive the link to the recording.

Everyone’s posture, or how they “use” themselves, isn’t always optimal, with the help of the Feldenkrais method, your postural habits can improve to make everyday movements more enjoyable and easy. Your posture, or, how you navigate being upright with gravity, profoundly affects not only your physical comfort, but your overall health and emotions too.

With awareness, specificity, and practice, we will free the muscles of the neck, shoulders, spine, and face. As one moves towards more freedom in the neck, lower back, and jaw, one also moves towards a more easy, elegant, and upright posture. Our aim is not a perfect posture, but a place of less tension and conflict in the body where our posture is fluid, not rigid.

Available to take via livestream on Zoom or using the self-paced recordings.

Classes begin March 1, 2023
Sundays, 4:00-5:00pm CT
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm CT

$175 for the 8-week series.
Pay-as-able available for this series.
For full scholarship, please inquire directly with Sarah.

MotionArt First Friday Improv Gathering

Several dancers in black clothing dance and make shapes in a studio

Friday, March 3, 2023
6:30–8:00pm
Center for Performing Arts, Studio 105w – next to 38th Street entrance.

This event is open to people of all ages and abilities. Enjoy being present in the moment, responding to other dancers, finding new ways of moving, and discovering form as it emerges during this fun evening of creative movement. We’ll begin with an informal warm-up, then improvise together based on movement ideas offered by participants.

Come to move, to dance, to observe, or some of each!
Suggested donation $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Masks required. Please see CPFA’s full COVID protocols at cfpampls.com.