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Work with BCL – Seeking Accompanist Artists

Ballet Co.Laboratory is seeking an experienced accompanist, skilled in piano, to play for ballet classes. This is a part-time position, for which candidates must have at least 1-3 years experience accompanying ballet classes, as well as hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in music or equivalent experience.

The ballet accompanist selects and plays appropriate music for ballet technique classes. The accompanist shall choose and play at a moment’s notice music to match the tempo, meter, musicality, and length of various ballet exercises; and/or must be able to spontaneously compose/improvise to the movement appropriately. If you are primarily a reader, you should have some improvisational skill to accommodate instructions, extended endings and to edit/alter music (possibly in real time) to meet phrasing needs of given exercises.

This position is part-time, starting at $25/hr.

To learn more, head to our website: https://www.balletcolaboratory.org, or contact us at info@balletcolaboratory.org.

Black Label Movement Premieres Riding The Maelstrom

Two dancers suspend a third dancer leaping toward the camera

Come see the Black Label premiere of Riding The Maelstrom during the third weekend of The Cowles Center’s Fall Forward Festival.

Riding The Maelstrom is a non-linear work that visualizes the dynamic energies released from the poisons of chemotherapy during Flink’s mother’s fight with cancer. This work, commissioned for St. Louis’ MADCO, had a 2020 postponement/2021 premiere in Missouri – and we’re eager to share this work in our community this fall.

Fall Forward Festival at The Cowles Center

Images of flamenco, contemporary, and modern dancers

The Fall Forward Festival is a month-long festival of shared evening performances celebrating the incredibly talented and robust Minnesota dance community. New dance audiences will experience a sampler of genres in one sitting, while avid dance-goers will see their favorite artists alongside equally stellar new-to-them artists. Each weekend features a new roster and a variety of experiences from new work commissions and Cowles stage debuts to community favorites and Cowles Center veterans.

Week Three: November 12-13
Black Label Movement Artistic director Carl Flink’s thrilling movement poem reflects the volatile energies released into his mother during chemotherapy. A prologue to Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” Crash Dance Productions extrapolates what happens when the private rites of teenagers get misinterpreted by the eyes of adults – to disastrous ends. As the birds of the world unite to choose a leader, Zorongo Dance Theatre unites with Hip Hop master Darrius Strong and composer Juanito Pascual to begin a magical journey.

Week Four: November 19-20
Featuring Aparna Ramasawmy and HIJACK

In-person tickets are $25. Click here to learn more about each weekend and get tickets!

VERANO – Sunday Matinee Concert

Poster for Verano, with images of all four performers

MIRAGE Performing Arts will bring their performance titled Verano, a program of music for lovers.

Pianist Rie Tanaka and cellist Jesse Nummelin will play a diverse music selection while ballet dancers Yuki Tokuda and Jarod Boltjes perform Tokuda’s theatrical, narrative choreography.

Sunday, November 13
3:00pm
Hastings Arts Center

Concerto Dance Performance and Fundraiser Event this Sunday

Poster for Concerto Fall Fundraiser, featuring an image of two swing dancers

Join Concerto Dance for a night of dancing, drinks, and dessert!

This Sunday, November 13 from 6:30-8:30pm at Creo Arts and Dance.

The evening includes an hour-long performance program featuring excerpts from new works as well as company rep, followed by a social hour with drinks, dessert and a 30-minute swing dance lesson taught by Corey and Betsy Mills. All ticket sales for our fall fundraiser will go toward supporting our dance artists and presenting our upcoming performance at the Southern Theatre in March – featuring two new premieres by visiting guest artists Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner and Steve Rooks, along with repertory by Artistic Director Jolene Konkel.

Can’t make it to the fundraiser event but would like to support the work of Concerto Dance? Consider making a tax deductible donation during Give to the Max day on November 17! Contribute to Concerto through GiveMN.

Concerto Dance is a fiscally sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts, a MN non-profit arts service organization.

TU Dance Informal Showing

Two dancers one a dark stage perform deep lunges in dramatic lighting

Informal Showing at TU Dance Center

Join us for the opportunity to watch excerpts of the works to be performed by our CULTIVATE and Level 4 and 5 dancers at the Winter Showcase. During this event attendees will be able to meet the dancers and choreographers Alanna Morris and Gregory Dolbashian and have an up-close and personal experience before attending the public performance.

November 16, 2022
5:30-6:30pm

Space is limited. Please RSVP here!

Limited parking is available in front of TU Dance Center. Additional parking is available in the lot located in the north side of the TU Dance Center building which is accessible through Vandalia Avenue.

Threads Fall Performances – Abolition in Evolution (Part 1)

Threads Dance Project concludes its 11th year with the commissioned premiere of Abolition in Evolution (Part 1) as part of the Cowles Center Fall Forward Festival Week 2. Choreographer Karen Charles explores the potentialities of a new embodied abolitionist movement and the idea that one person/one act can change things for the common good. If abolition can be defined as radical imagining, where would that radical imagining take us and how do we manifest that place physically? What would be eradicated if we could all move towards instead of away from one another?

An encore performance of Abolition in Evolution (Part 1) will be part of a longer program at the Bloomington Center for the Arts that includes Threads repertory that further asks us to reflect on how we can move towards a new abolitionist movement to eradicate the ills that prevent us from fully realizing our humanity.

At Bloomington Center for the Arts
November 17 at 7:30pm
November 18 at 7:30pm

Limón Dance Company

In celebration of their 75th anniversary, Artistic Director Dante Puleio leads the company in a program that reveals aspects of José Limón’s life and honors his Mexican-American legacy. The evening includes the Northrop Centennial Commission, Migrant Mother, by Raúl Tamez; the reimagination of Limón’s first major solo and partially lost work, Danzas Mexicanas; and co-founder Doris Humphreys’ timeless Air for the G String. The Limón modern dance classic Psalm (featuring student performers from UMN’s Dance Department) will include the original score not heard by audiences in decades.

November 18 at 7:30pm

ENCORE: Limón Dance Company Cast Party

November 18 at 9:30pm
Tickets: $55

Celebrate with the dancers of Limón Dance Company following their performance! Join us for the ENCORE: Limón Dance Company Cast Party, an insider event including drinks, live music, delicious bites, and a meet and greet with dancers—plus remarks from Limón Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Dante Puleio.

These celebratory 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 about art, self-expression, and communication through discussions with artists, inspiring the community and young people

Ragamala Dance Company’s Aparna Ramaswamy at The Cowles Center

In a suite of solos, acclaimed Bharatanatyam soloist Aparna Ramaswamy (Co-Artistic Director, Ragamala Dance Company) explores her layered aesthetic to bring together lineage, rigor, cultural wisdom, and imagination. Sharing the evening, HIJACK experiments with cohabitation, living in a garden of animated artificial plants created by sculptor Rachel Youn, dancing with the flowers and for them.

“[Aparna Ramaswamy] preserves ancient dance forms with stunning virtuosity and expressivity to create a living tradition that is resonant for modern times.” – The Boston Globe

Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 2:00pm

The Fall Forward Festival will take place in The Cowles Center’s Goodale Theater
Reserve tickets and find more information here.