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Hatch Dance Seeks Performers for PARADISE

Director Jon Ferguson and Choreographer Helen Hatch seek performers for PARADISE, a new work produced by Hatch Dance that will premiere February 16-19, 2023 at The Southern Theater in Minneapolis.

Through an interdisciplinary collaboration (dance, theater, music and design) Hatch, Ferguson, cast and creative team will create an energetic, poetic and accessible dance-theater piece that explores the concept of discovering and cultivating personal “Paradise.”

Professional performers of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences are encouraged to apply. Applicants will be asked to participate in exercises led by Jon Ferguson, learn contemporary movement vocabulary led by Helen Hatch, as well as improvise. We are looking for individuals who are creative, collaborative, and expressive. 

Audition
Sunday, October 23, 2022 between 2:00-5:30pm

Call Backs
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 2:00-4:30pm

At St. Paul Ballet.

For more information and to register, please fill out this form by October 22, 2022

Threads’ Tapestries 7.0 Call for Proposals

Tapestries is an annual program from Threads Dance Project that serves emerging choreographers who are in need of production and creative support to further their careers. The program boasts a key focus on femme-identifying individuals and artists of color – reserving the majority of its coveted program slots for artists representing these populations.

Tapestries choreography invitations to apply are sent in early fall, and applications are accepted from all over the nation and world. If you would like to be considered for the Tapestries program, please contact Production Manager Karen Christ Aalgard at kchrist@threadsdance.org or access the application forms below.

Download: Tapestries 7.0 Application Details and Guidelines
Download: Tapestries 7.0 Choreographer Info and Proposal Form

Applications are due October 25 at 5:00pm CST.

Ananya Dance Theatre is Accepting Audition Applications

We invite artists who are ready for professional engagement to join our ensemble. Ideal company members demonstrate a commitment to training in a non-mainstream movement aesthetic and the rigor of a justice-informed creative approach, show up with maturity and consistency in their working process, and embody an ensemble-based working methodology.

Ananya Dance Theatre is a professional dance company of BIPOC women and femme artists working at the intersection of artistic excellence, contemporary dance theater, social justice, and transnational feminisms. Our physical facility, the Shawngrām Institute for Performance & Social Justice is located at 1197 University Ave West, St Paul, MN. Typically, the company presents at least one new, devised performance annually, and is engaged in touring, offering community-based experiences, workshops, classes, and site-specific public art works. The company prides itself on developing deep roots in our local community along with wide-spreading branches in our transnational relationships. Performing artists are employees with January-to-December contracts.

For more information about Yorchhā, our signature contemporary movement aesthetic, go to: https://www.ananyadancetheatre.org/philosophy/yorchha/

For more context about Shawngrām, our specific choreographic methodology, go to: https://www.ananyadancetheatre.org/philosophy/shawngram/

The audition process involves an initial submission of inquiry on this platform, followed by in-person auditions with the company ensemble.

Submission deadline: Monday, November 9, 2022

Katha Dance Theatre Seeks Diverse Dancers to Join Training Program

Katha Dance Theatre has been performing and educating in Kathak, the classical Indian dance form, since 1987. Kathak is a beautiful dance form that is grounded in a mixture of balletic lyrical movements and pirouettes as well as complex rhythmic footwork. Because it originated as a form of storytelling, the form also has a strong emotional component and evokes narratives through dancers’ gestures and facial expressions. KDT has been working for over 35 years to make the form accessible and inclusive through offering programs throughout the state of Minnesota (and beyond) and collaborating with multicultural artists on original work.

With that in mind, KDT is seeking dancers of diverse mediums and ethnic backgrounds to join their school on a track to eventually join the professional company. The organization has received grant funding that enables it to offer full scholarships to at least 5 dancers outside of its majority-South Asian community to begin Kathak training.

The training would begin ASAP, with current fall classes ongoing. Professional dancers of any kind are welcome, with male dancers being especially encouraged to join. To learn more about the upcoming session, go to our website and email info@kathadance.org if interested.

Watch an example of KDT’s work here.

Photo by Anjana Nair.

COLORES FLAMENCOS by Sachiko “La Chayí” Flamenco

2017 McKnight Dancer Fellow Sachiko “La Chayí” invites audiences to join her Southern Spanish tablao-style Flamenco in which music, voice and movement harmonize and create vibrant and nuanced colors of emotions.

The show features internationally recognized artists, singer Juan Pedro Jiménez from Cádiz, Spain and guitarist Juanito Pascual.

COLORES FLAMENCOS will take place from October 12-16 at three venues:
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center in New York Mills, MN – October 12
Zeitgeist Teatro Zuccone in Duluth, MN – October 13
Icehouse MPLS in Minneapolis, MN – October 16

Artists
Sachiko “La Chayí”, Dancer, Director
Juan Pedro Jiménez, Singer (Cádiz, Spain and New York City)
Juanito Pascual, Guitarist
Colette Illarde, Dancer (Minneapolis only)
Deborah Elias, Dancer (Minneapolis only)
Ross “El Vecino” Fellrath, Guitarist
Eva Makiko, Dancer, Singer

Chloe Nagle and Kym McDaniel – Red Eye Curated Rental

Work-In-Progress Showing

Within this work, dance artist Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel investigate how psychosomatic “diagnosis” are consistently used to dismiss women, queer, and nonbinary people’s pain and health concerns. The medical industrial complex often denies how the interconnectedness of mind-body affects our health. As the artists reflect on their creative collaboration process and individual healing journeys, it’s clear that cultural values of individualism and willpower prove counterproductive to healing. This project asks, how can we work in collaboration and create a new work that supports an imaginative and holistic future for disabled, chronically sick, and/or traumatized people?

This is their first attempt at generating an immersive feedback system of video and dance improvisation structures to create interactions among audience, projection, and dancer(s). The projection has the agency to transform the landscape and emotional weather, creating the illusion of spatial boundaries and belonging (or lack thereof). The relationship between projection and dancer acts as a psychological feedback loop, physicalizing ways in which we are interconnected and affected by pain and the environment. The work values choice over control by creating performance structures with elements of unpredictability, a metaphor for how pain shapes our interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment.

Tickets for all shows $7-$70. Suggested $20, pay as you are.

Zorongo Flamenco Studio Concert with Juan Pedro Jimenez

Zorongo Flamenco is thrilled to present Juan Pedro Jiménez as part of a Studio Series performance. Experience an intimate, informal concert by Juan Pedro Jiménez. His cante (song) will bring the power of his native Andalusia to our studio.

A native of Cádiz in the South of Spain, Juan Pedro was raised performing with the gypsy family Romeros de Vejer. A singer and guitarist, he studied music at the Royal Conservatory.

Recently, he has toured the Ferias in Sevilla, Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Sanlucar, Algeciras, and Cordoba, Spain. He has also played in El Rocio with the Hermandad de Jerez and in Peñas Flamencas and Festivals throughout the Province of Cádiz.

COVID-19 Policy – Please read carefully:
Zorongo requires proof of vaccination (for all those eligible to be vaccinated) plus masks while in the studio. Proof of vaccination includes bringing a physical card or showing a digital photo of your vaccination card at the door.

Young Dance Presents Fall Fling: A Party in the Parking Lot

Celebrate 35 years of Young Dance! Play and build community at the Fall Fling on Saturday, October 15 from 3:00–6:00pm.

This outdoor celebration is fun for the whole family! Enjoy performances and interactive demonstrations by Young Dance, CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, Ripple Effect Community Fitness, Smiling Drum, St. Paul Ballet, and Youth Performance Company. Visit the family-friendly makers’ market including Tough Cookies Art, addis/Decolonize Clay, The Munchies, StartseedUrban, Mrs. E’s Teacher Treats, and more. Play games, blow bubbles, make art, eat cake, dance, and more!

We will provide audio description and an ASL interpreter. Parking is wheelchair-accessible and seating will be available. Individuals with and without disabilities regularly engage with the organizations at the Fairview Business Center. We value access and continue working to improve our programming and space to better meet people’s needs. Please let us know if any other accommodations are needed to participate in this event.

Activities will be outdoors, but in the event of rain, the event will continue inside at each partner’s location. The schedule and more information can be found on the Facebook Event page.

The Fall Fling is free! 

Collide Theatrical Presents The Seven Deadly Sins

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 communal conversation and shared meal 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.