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Collide Theatrical Presents The Seven Deadly Sins

A light-skinned dancer walks through a red door frame, smoke hovers around her

The Seven Deadly Sins
October 21–November 6, 2022

Wall Street investment trader Laura Oxford has spent most of her life in pursuit of power and wealth. Reaching a tipping point, she stumbles through a series of doors illuminating her path through The Seven Deadly Sins.

Enjoy our immersive dance theater performance told through a variety of dance styles and popular music.

Audience members will be seated in a cocktail table–style setting surrounded by haunted house elements. Enjoy your favorite guilty beverage while nibbling on sinful treats provided.

ARENA DANCES’ Floorwork – Dance and Community in the Twin Cities

Floorwork was developed by Mathew Janczewski and ARENA DANCES to hold conversations and knowledge sharing spaces for creatives. Join ARENA DANCES’ Founder and Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski, for a shared meal and communal conversation on the culture and climate of dance today in the Twin Cities.

Saturday, October 22, 12:00-2:00pm
RSVP here by Wednesday, October 19.

The eighth Floorwork will focus on Dance and Community in the Twin Cities. We will ask these questions together:

  • How do we “show up” for one another within the dance community?
  • What needs to change in the Twin Cities presently to support a dedicated career in dance?
  • What does the landscape of being a dance artist in the Twin Cities look like today?

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.

SSF + RS Jazz at TCFF: A Jazz Dance Films Screening

Rhythmically Speaking is thrilled to share SFF + RS @ TCFF with Twin Cities audiences! What are all those acronyms, you say? RS is, of course, Rhythmically Speaking. SSF is Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO), one of the longest-running and most reputable of screendance organizations, and TCFF is the Twin Cities Film Fest (MN), our area’s premiere film screening organization!

This year, Rhythmically Speaking has worked with Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO) to curate a collection of jazz and American social dance-inspired short films, which screened at the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop (CO) in July and will be screening here in Minnesota this weekend!

The Cohort 2022: Screen – SFF+RS Jazz @ TCFF
Sunday, October 23, 12:15-1:45pm
At the Minneapolis Showplace ICON Theater through Twin Cities Film Fest.

More information and tickets!

One of our filmmakers – Jody Oberfelder (NYC) – will be in attendance at the screening: catch our red carpet interview at 11:45am before our screening, and stick around for our Q&A immediately following!

Jody will also be teaching a workshop at Zenon on Friday (see the Friday Morning Jazz announcement in this week’s newsletter), and will also be performing a site-specific dance at the Stone Arch Bridge on Saturday while she is in town.

This event is part of the new screen component of The Cohort, our long-running and recently reimagined annual summer program that supports and presents new work by local choreographers while providing opportunities for artists based outside of Minnesota to show their work here. 2022 marks our first year of offering both stage and screen components of this program.

We hope you can join us to view this delightful, thought-provoking and vibrant collection of films!

You’re Invited – Join ABDP for a Space Warming and Fundraiser Event

Join the Alexandra Bodnarchuk and the artists of ABDP for an afternoon at their new space in the Cowles Center!

Event will include a short performance, refreshments, and mementos.

Sunday, October 23
2:30pm

All proceeds will support the premiere of their new work, Rock, Paper, Scissors, at The Southern Theater in March 2023.

Kyiv City Ballet

Be a part of history when Kyiv City Ballet comes to Northrop on its first United States tour.

“We are honored to share the beauty of ballet with US audiences, through Ukrainian artists,” said Ivan Kozlov, Artistic Director, “touring the States for the first time with a range of ballets makes an important global statement. It demonstrates the resilience of the Ukrainian people” (Broadway World). Kyiv City Ballet will perform three works: Ivan Kozlov and Ekaterina Kozlova’s Tribute to Peace, a neoclassical work set to familiar music themes by composer Edward Elgar; Pavlo Virsky’s Men of Kyiv, showcasing traditional folk dance with a competitive force; and Classical Suite: a trio of wedding pas de deux from such famed classical ballets as La Bayadère and Don Quixote. Step out in welcome and solidarity.

in the silence of the night

The Performing Institute of Minnesota Arts High School presents in the silence of the night.

Experience Edgar Allan Poe like you never have before. PiM Arts High School dance department presents an evening of thrills and chills on stage with “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Masque of the Red Death” told through dance theatre.

Two nights only!

AMP Presents ViewPoints ’22 Featuring Local Choreographers

Alternative Motion Project returns to the Southern Theater for a dynamic and captivating evening of newly commissioned works performed by AMP’s talented company of movers. Each distinct world premiere explores the multi-faceted concept of identity, reflecting the unique perspectives of each artist that threads the eclectic evening together. Don’t miss it!

New Works
Body Watani – Leila and Noelle Awadallah
Nieya Amezquita
Alexandra Bodnarchuk
Rachel Lieberman

Repertory Work
split – Joanna Lees, Artistic and Executive Director

Master classes taught by each choreographer will also be offered as part of ViewPoints ’22. More information coming soon.

Performances
Friday, October 28 – 7:30pm
Saturday, October 29 – 7:30pm
Sunday, October 30 – 2:00pm – Pay What You Can (door only); ASL Interpreted; Post-Show Q&A

Tickets
General Admission – $20 in advance; $25 at the door
Senior – $18 in advance; $22 at the door
Students/Children under 12 – $18 in advance and at the door
Online remote viewing options will also be available. More information coming soon.

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.

Photo Credits: Bill Cameron

Rhythmically Speaking at the Cowles Center’s Fall Forward Festival

Rhythmically Speaking is thrilled to be making our Cowles Center debut as a part of their inaugural Fall Forward Festival!

As a company inspired by jazz and American social dance styles, forms with African roots and European influences, we are excited to share a bill on the first weekend with Duniya Drum & Dance and Twin Cities Ballet. We will be sharing a segment of our RadioBody film in preview of an evening-length premiere in February 2023 featuring original jazz renditions of the music of Radiohead, as well as a segment of BASSline, a recent guest work by Kathleen Doherty (Halifax, NS Canada) and a company rep piece.

Saturday, October 29 at 7:30pm
Sunday, October 30 at 2:00pm
Tickets

From the Cowles: “This month-long festival of shared evening performances celebrates the incredibly talented and robust Minnesota dance community. New dance audiences will experience a sampler of genres in one sitting, while avid dancegoers 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.”

We hope you’ll join us for our weekend and for other weekends!

Fall Forward Festival Opens Next Week at The Cowles Center

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 One, October 29-30
Featuring Duniya Drum and Dance Ensemble, Twin Cities Ballet, and Rhythmically Speaking

Week Two, November 5-6
Featuring Threads Dance Project and Atlantis13

Week Three, November 12-13
Featuring Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre, Black Label Movement, and Crash Dance Productions

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

In-person tickets are $25. Purchase a ticket to all four weekends and receive 20% discount. Click here to learn more about each weekend and get tickets!

James Sewell Ballet – BREATHE

A light-skinned dancer is suspended in a jump

As we continue to innovate in the field of dance – the art form of touch and breath – James Sewell Ballet shares a program with breath and exchange at its center. Take it in and let it fill you up.

Special guest Xina combines her dance and music savvy to co-create a piece blending art-pop and spiritual sensibilities – no formula, just boundless creativity. Michael Walters returns with brand new choreography after astonishing and energizing audiences with his JSB New Works Project ’22 premiere. Arimee Gambill, in her fifth season as a company dancer, debuts a work that combines rapture with decay.

What happens at the intersection of total rhapsody and utter nihilism? Rounding out the program is a restaging of Sewell’s Grey (2018), with mesmerizing moves swirling to selections from Ukrainian world-music quartet DakhaBrakha.