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Ballet Hispánico Latin Social Dance

Join dancers from Ballet Hispánico at the University of Minnesota Recreation and Wellness Center to learn popular Latin social dances! Participants of any age and skill level can enjoy taking a turn around the dance floor in this one-hour workshop. Wear shoes that you can move in safely and clothes that make you feel like dancing! Registration is first-come, first-served for the general public as well as participants from all of Nothrop’s Ballet Hispánico residency activities.

February 24 at 6:30pm

Christopher Watson Dance Company in RESURGENCE

Resurgence features dances by Christopher Watson, Becky Heist, Anne-Marie Wittenberg, Sarah LaRose-Holland, Jennifer Mack, Genevieve Waterbury and guest choreographers Thern Anderson and Erin Thompson.

The dances address themes of the intricacies of relationships, resilience in the face of challenge, and reconnecting in a world changed by the pandemic. Musical accompaniment includes selections from J.S. Bach, Handel’s Water Music, contemporary composers George Hurd and Kerry Muzzey, local music by singer/songwriter Matt Marka of Ada Jane, and music icons Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin and George Michael.

Tickets: $15 plus $5 venue fee.

Ballet Hispánico: Doña Perón

Critically-acclaimed Doña Perón is an explosive portrait of Eva “Evita” Perón, one of the most recognizable and controversial women in Argentinian history. The illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, Evita concealed this shameful past as she climbed the ranks from dancehall performer to Argentina’s First Lady. A voice for the people, or a deceitful actress? Latina choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores these diverging legacies while reclaiming the narrative of this iconic Latina figure in a “smashingly theatrical” (Chicago Sun-Times) evening-length work performed with exquisite live music.

February 25 at 7:30pm

Concerto Dance Presents Looking Back/Moving Forward

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Concerto Dance presents Looking Back/Moving Forward at the Southern Theater, March 10-12.

Looking Back/Moving Forward features a mixed repertoire of modern and jazz dance works from Artistic Director Jolene Konkel, including audience favorite Ode to Opus Jazz, along with two premieres choreographed by visiting guest artists Steve Rooks (formerly of the Martha Graham Company, NYC) and Cynthia Gutierrez Garner (Artistic Director of Company Movimiento, Eugene, OR).

Join us for an evening of vibrant concert dance that reflects on the past and looks forward with hopeful expectation – moving forward together!

Featuring Concerto Dance Company Members: Rachel Bonkoungou, Lydia Kantor, Sara Karimi, Helena Magalhães, Shannon Mulcahy, Betsy G. Nelson, Sarah Pieper, and Maddy Woodman. Along with Guest Artists: Rush Benson, Malia Craft, Brenda Nepsund and Doug Hooker; and Apprentices: Hunter Batterson and Kaitlyn Craven.

Friday, March 10 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 11 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 12 at 3:00pm

Purchase tickets: $25 plus fees.

James Sewell Ballet and Ahn Trio – EMBRACE

EMBRACE with the Ahn Trio

James Sewell Ballet reunites with the extraordinary Ahn Trio in a program featuring a reimagining of 2018’s Connections. Like the best embrace, there’s known comfort and new spark combined. The three sisters of the Ahn Trio – Lucia on piano, Angella on violin, and Maria on cello – were born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at the Juilliard School in New York City. These growing-up experiences in two cultures, along with their extensive international touring, infuse their celebration of 21st-century classical music with a particular flare and style.

Friday, March 17 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 18 at 2:00pm

This performance runs approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with one intermission.
Price: $5-35

Collide Theatrical Presents SKOL!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents its first dance musical with an original score:

SKOL! plays at the Southern Theater March 23–April 9, 2023

When a mysterious illness befalls a Viking clan, a young woman is called to fulfill her destiny as a great warrior leader in a battle for the cure with the Christian army. Inspired by the Norse gods, her journey tests the boundaries of her faith, shakes the ground of the relationships with the men dearest in her life, and causes her to question the definition of female strength.

Inspired by recent evidence of the grave of a female Viking holding the accoutrements and injury marks of a prestigious warrior, a discovery that cast a new light on gender roles in Scandinavian history. Collide explores this fascinating story with an original pop rock/rap score composed by Twin Cities musician Mike Michel (The Orange Goodness), with lyrics by vocalists Rush Benson (Ordway) and Katie Gearty (Dakota Jazz Club).

Created by Collide Artistic Director, Regina Peluso, the production stars Renee Guittar and Jarod Boltjes.

For tickets visit www.collidetheatrical.org/skol or call 651-395-7903.

Sensation and Imagination: Six-week Feldenkrais Series on Zoom

Sensation and Imagination:
A six-week Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement series

Co-taught by Krista Langberg and Jeffrey Wells on Zoom
Begins January 31 or February 2

This series starts with a question: What can I sense of myself? Followed by another: What can I imagine of myself? Visualize, pretend, rehearse. Feel your way. Slowly. Simply. Come back and feel your way again, anew. Through honing and merging your abilities to perceive what’s there and create what isn’t, you’ll begin to explore the expanding possibilities of moving your structure into action and your ideas to fruition.

Tuesday mornings, 10:00-11:15am
or
Thursday nights, 7:00-8:15pm

Registration
Register for Tuesdays, 10:00-11:15am CDT, January 31-March 7
Register for Thursdays, 7:00-8:15pm CDT, February 2-March 9

Once you’ve registered you will receive confirmation and reminder emails to the address you provided with the Zoom link for class as well as more class info, including instructions for payment. On the day and time of your class, click the link in your confirmation or reminder email to join.

Open to all levels and abilities. Email kristalangberg@gmail.com with any questions.

Zenon Dance School – Youth Jazz Workshop with Hannah Pierce

Hannah Pierce offers a great workshop series for new and continuing jazz dancers who love to move! Students will learn fundamental techniques and choreography while expanding their knowledge of rhythm and movement.

This class is a great foundation for any young dancer, age 7-10 years old. All levels of experience are welcome!

Youth Jazz Workshop – Sundays, 12:00-12:45pm
February 5
February 12

Single class drop-in: $15

In-person only; limited space available. Drop-ins welcome.

The Arena – Drop-in Moving Practice with Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله

Moving Practice is a weekly class series for professional dancers. Classes prioritize rigor, diversity of contemporary aesthetics, variety of class content, and commitment.

Leila Awadallah teaches Moving Practice in February:
Tuesdays, 10:00-11:30am

Professional-level dancers of all styles are welcome.
Pre-register here.

Suggested $17 per class; however, there is a pay-as-able option on all classes – we would rather you join us than not be able to attend due to financial limitations.

Class description: Body Watani (watani, homeland in Arabic) is 1) an improvisational movement practice and 2) a space for experimental Arabic-rooted dance research developed by Leila Awadallah in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah.

The improvisation time is a container with soft edges, where participants are called into movement research through reflective prompts and somatic / collective tasks that guide practitioners into exploring the terrain of their personal ‘body watani’. The work is currently guided with particular intentions around relationships to land and water, ancestral contemplations, bodily archives, and communal weavings.

Movement materials inspired from Arabic dance forms such as Dabke, Baladi, and Raqs Sharqi invite participants to engage in the rhythmicalities of traditional / experimental / current Arabic music. This part of the Body Watani practice conjures physicality rooted in an offering of contemporary dance that locates within contexts of cultural, social, and political content of Palestine, Lebanon, and the greater SWANA region.

Leila Awadallah  ليلى عوض الله (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Minneapolis and sometimes Beirut, Lebanon. Dancing with a body of Palestinian, Arab-American, Sicilian and diasporic Mediterranean ways and waves. Born near the Thick Wooded River (Sioux Falls, SD) she moved to Minneapolis, Mni Sota (2012) to pursue a BFA in Dance at the University of Minnesota, and found home in the Twin Cities.

Leila is the Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance (body-as-homeland) project/practice in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah. She has received fellowships celebrating her performance, research in Arab-rooted contemporary dance, and choreographies: McKnight Dancer (2022), Jerome Hill (2021-2023), Daring Dances (2019) and Springboard 20/20 (2018). Her newest work, TERRANEA received support from National Performance Network, MSAB, Arab American National Museum, Links Hall, and Goethe Institute. Leila was a member of Ananya Dance Theatre (2014-2019) and the Kelvin Wailey trio (2015-2019). She lives and works part time in Beirut where she’s a collaborator with Theater of Women of the Camp.

Winter Dance Experience at Young Dance

Join us on Monday, February 20, for a day of classes featuring a variety of fun styles! Spend your day off from school exploring new styles of dance with your friends! Classes include Family Dance, Creative Movement, plus a full-day or half-day Variety Camp.

Family Dance
Join us for a morning of dancing together. Children and caregivers will get a special start to their day, exploring movement and stories in a fun environment. Taught by family dance extraordinaire Julia Davidson.
Ages 1–6 with a Caregiver
9:15–10:00am
$15

Creative Movement
Your little one can explore the possibilities of movement with a focus on storytelling. From a personal experience to the depths of their imaginations, children will spend time expressing the stories that reside in their bodies and minds. In this fun-filled class led by Denise Gagner, children develop large and fine motor skills, rhythm, and listening skills as they go on their creative adventures.
Ages 4–7
10:00am–12:00pm
$25

Variety Dance Camp
Send your dancers to us for the whole day, or just the afternoon! In this camp, dancers will experience a variety of styles. Dance genres include Improvisation with Blake Nellis, Capoeira with Guerrerio, Modern with Kathleen, Afro-Latin with Belle Alvarez, Choreography with Judee Shui Xian, and more!
Ages 7–13 and 14–18
Full day, 9:30am–4:30pm – $110
Half day, 12:00–4:30pm – $70

Register