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Join us Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 4:00-7:00pm at the Ballet Co.Laboratory studios for our first performance of the 2022/23 season, Dirty Dancing – a benefit performance for Ballet Co.Laboratory.

You’ll have the time of your life at Ballet Co.Laboratory’s fifth annual benefit performance and celebration. Take in a Dirty Dancing-inspired performance that will make you want to sway your body and move those hips. Proceeds will directly benefit the company dancers, students, and outreach efforts of Ballet Co.Laboratory.

Enjoy a performance by dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory, themed sips and bites, as well as mix and mingle with the company of Ballet Co.Laboratory.

Saturday, October 8, 2022
4:00-7:00pm
At the Ballet Co.Laboratory Studio Theatre

Learn more or purchase your tickets here: https://bit.ly/BCL5thanniversaryseason

Sidekick Theatre opens its season with the Twin Cities debut of Dancing Lessons, a celebrated play by Mark St. Germain at the Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center in Bloomington from October 12-November 6.

A wonderful combination of comedy and drama, Dancing Lessons tells the story of a geoscience professor and a professional dancer who live separate, solitary lives in the same New York City apartment building. Impaired with an injury that threatens her career and identity, Senga is surprised when her socially awkward neighbor, Ever, knocks on her door in desperate need of dancing lessons. He is determined, and offers to pay an exorbitant fee. These two mismatched souls engage in a series of funny and poignant dance lessons that quickly lead both out of their comfort zones.

“Dancing Lessons is the perfect play for this moment in time,” says director Tim Stolz, “and a delightful antidote to the feeling of isolation many have experienced during COVID. It’s about two people who have been living remote lives to learning how to connect with each other in ways that are surprising. Charming, touching, funny and life-affirming, you’ll find yourselves laughing and moved – often in the same moment in this tender-hearted sweet comedy.”

October 12-November 6
$27-38
Box Office

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 (New York Mills, MN), Zeitgeist Teatro Zuccone (Duluth, MN), and Icehouse MPLS (Minneapolis, MN).

Artists:

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

Launching CAAM Chinese Dance Theater’s 30th anniversary season, Artistic Director Jinyu Zhou brings together her original choreography, CAAM CDT dancers, and live music by Gao Hong – internationally award-winning Pipa virtuoso with the Carleton Chinese Instrumental Ensemble – in a world premiere performance.

Also included are dance performances by Aloe Liu, CAAM CDT’s newest professional and 2022 Walker Art Center Choreographer’s Evening artist, in a live collaboration with Gao Hong.

Special guest dance performances by Katha Dance and St. Paul Ballet round out this special celebratory program. These performances should not be missed!

Saturday, October 15
7:30pm
$5-25

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 meet people’s needs better. 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: https://fb.me/e/2AaJ7G8xX

The event is free! 

The Seven Deadly Sins
October 21-November 6

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.

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.

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, we’ve worked with SSF 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 MN this month!

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

More information and tickets!

Two of our filmmakers – Rick Perry and Jody Oberfelder – 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!

This work makes up the new screen component of The Cohort 2022, 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!

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.

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

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). The program will include two pieces created in response to the war in Ukraine – Tribute to Peace by the company’s Artistic Director, Ivan Kozlov, and Ekaterina Kozlova, set to music by Edward Elgar, and Thoughts by company dancer, Vladyslav Dobshynskyi. Step out in welcome and solidarity.

October 26 at 7:30pm