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This Sunday: Join AMP and Local Choreographers for Works-In-Process Showing

Join Alternative Motion Project in the studio for an open works-in-process showing that gives an inside look of our upcoming fall performance!

The event includes Q&A with the artists as well as a showcase of AMP’s newest works by our guest choreographers:
Nieya Amezquita
Alexandra Bodnarchuk
Rachel Lieberman
Body Watani – Leila and Noelle Awadallah
with Joanna Lees, AMP Director

Performers
Kendall Edstrom, Stephanie Flanagan, Laura K Johnson, Zoë Koenig, Joanna Lees, Julia Moser-Hardy, Brenna Mosser, Anna Pinault, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith, Joey Wurm

Sunday, September 18, 2:00-3:30pm
Free. For all ages.

RSVP/pre-registration through AMP’s website is encouraged but not required. Performers will be masked. Masks recommended for those attending. For questions or more information, visit AMP’s website or email alternativemotionproject@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you!

See the full performance of ViewPoints 2022 at The Southern Theater, October 28-30.

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 Credit: Bill Cameron

Paula Mann/Time Track Productions Present: Toward Utopia

Toward Utopia is a contemporary dance performance exploring the conflict between my needs and the greater good.

Five performers interrogate the dynamics of individual struggles and attempt to connect across a chasm of miscommunication and animosity with raw emotion and physicality.

The work explores the desire to create a more perfect world, charting the emotional struggles of individualism versus the group dynamic, seeking a common purpose toward an equitable future. What will it take to create systemic change?

Choreography by Paula Mann
Projection by Steve Paul
Sound score by Tarek Abdelqader
Performed by Leila Awadallah, Carmen Lucia Lincoln, Erika Martin, Johnathan Surber and Roxanne Wallace

Black Label Movement Presents Canary, Crimson then Emerald

This vibrant, technicolor, evening-length, experience explores the energies swirling before (Canary) and during (Crimson) the height of COVID lockdowns – then offers a vision (Emerald) of glorious reconnection and physical embrace as essential bridges to imagining and manifesting a renewed and recharged community on the other side of the pandemic.

James Sewell Ballet Open Rehearsal

Open rehearsal for James Sewell Ballet’s upcoming show Breathe on Friday, September 30 from 1:00-2:00pm!

Come see excerpts from upcoming new works by choreographers Michael Walters, Arimee Gambill and XINA as well as James Sewell’s work, Grey.

Masks required for visitors.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Q&A and mingling with the dancers and choreographers to follow the sneak peek.

Seating is limited and RSVPs are required. Please send a note to deirdre@jsballet.org to reserve your spot!

Ananya Dance Theatre’s Nün Gherāo at The O’Shaughnessy

Ananya Dance Theatre explores betrayal, dispossession, exile, and the desperate global resistance against great odds that fuels hope and survival in a new piece that premieres at The O’Shaughnessy, Friday-Saturday, September 30-October 1, at 7:30pm. ASL-interpreted on Friday, September 30.

Using the 1978-79 massacre of 10,000 refugees on the Marichjhapi Island in West Bengal, India, as its point of departure, Nün Gherāo: Surrounded by Salt tags and stimulates different sites of memory through meditations on dancing in salt water, where one’s tears meet the rising and warming oceans of our world.

Choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea and performed by the artists of Ananya Dance Theatre, Nün Gherāo (“noon ghey-raow”) becomes activated through shared breath and rhythms, practices of mourning, overlapping time cycles, ritualized movement, dances of liberation, and personal connection.

The choreographic language of Yorchhā employs movement principles of Odissi, Mayurbhanj Chhau, and Vinyasa Yoga to articulate a contemporary feminist consciousness and aesthetic.

This world premiere features the work of an exceptional team of collaborators, including sound artist Spirit McIntyre (performing live), stage director Marcus Young, lighting designer Kevin A. Jones, costume designer Annie Cady, scenery designer Chelsea Warren, properties designer Kezia Florence, writer Mimi Mondal, and filmmaker Darren Johnson.

Ananya Dance Theatre and The O’Shaughnessy are implementing Pay What You Can for these performances with a suggested ticket price of $30.

Learn more about Nün Gherāo.

Chloe Nagle and Kym McDaniel – Red Eye Curated Rental

Join choreographer Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel for a series of programs including performances, screenings, work-in-progress showings and a dance filmmaking workshop at the Red Eye Theater. Performances and screenings premiere October 7, 8, and 14 at 7:00pm, with a Dance Filmmaking Community Workshop on October 8 at 4:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm, tickets for purchase at the door. Cash, Venmo, and PayPal are accepted. For more information and to RSVP for the workshop, please visit: https://www.kymmcdaniel.com/red-eye-curated-rental-kym-mcdaniel-chloe-nagle 

October 7 at 7:00pm: Entrance and Exit Strategies 
Chloe Nagle and Kym McDaniel introduce themselves to the Minneapolis dance community in an evening of experimental film and improvisation scores. After developing debilitating chronic pain from a dance injury, McDaniel created the films entitled Exit Strategies. Over the course of five short films, she questions the intersection between trauma, chronic illness, and healing. Nagle’s improvisation score engages audience participation to explore individual and collective choice-making.

October 8 from 4:00-6:00pm: Dance Filmmaking Workshop
In this free workshop open to all ages and experience, participants collaborate in pairs to create a one-minute choreographic one-take video, highlighting the choreography of a body in motion. Final one-take projects will be screened at the beginning of The Language of Gesture! Participants also receive free entrance to the evening’s program. Register for workshop here.

October 8 at 7:00pm: The Language of Gesture 
The Language of Gesture is a hybrid film/dance touring program premiering in Minneapolis for the first time. Curated by Kym McDaniel, the films within the program explore artists who use movement and gesture as a means of communication. Featured film and movement artists include Chanelle Lajoie, Terrance Houle, Martine Syms, Ariana Gerstein, A.M. Baggs, and Chloe Nagle.

October 14 at 7:00pm: Work-In-Progress Showing
Kym McDaniel and Chloe Nagle premiere an immersive, multimedia collaborative work investigating boundary setting and the body’s relationship with trauma. By creating dance and video improvisation structures with elements of unpredictability, the artists seek to translate how pain shapes interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment. 

You’re Invited: The Cowles Center’s DecaDANCE Fundraiser

Join The Cowles Center on Friday, October 7 from 7:00–11:00pm for our annual dessert and dance party fundraiser to celebrate our wonderful education programs!

With Ricci Milan as the night’s emcee, enjoy the party by indulging in decadent drinks and desserts, showing off your beautiful smile at the photo booth, connecting with fellow dance lovers, funding our Arts in Education programs, and living it up at the late-night dance party led by Rhythm Street Movement.

7:00pm: Social hour with hosted bar and desserts from The Copper Hen
8:00pm: Program and performances featuring our fund-a-need for Arts Education programs
9:00pm: Dance party on stage, prizes, and fun led by Rhythm Street Movement

Learn more and get tickets here!

Dirty Dancing – A Benefit Performance for Ballet Co.Laboratory

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 Ballet Co.Laboratory’s Studio Theatre
Learn more or purchase your tickets here: https://bit.ly/BCL5thanniversaryseason

James Sewell Ballet – BREATHE

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.

TU Dance Center: Dance Innovation for Seasoned Adults 55+

Dance teacher Tamiko French has developed a program centered around revitalizing the creativity of storytelling with the building blocks of dance creation that infuses the visual and literary arts. See a video.

The 8-week workshop is designed to be sequential for participants, with each class building on the previous class. From a first class in which participants will use poetry, prose, dramatic writing, spoken word, or other writing as a stimulus to create movement, participants will learn about modern and jazz dance techniques and choreographic practice, collaborate and share results with others, study facilitated improvisation and play in dance, and refine their work for a sharing event for family, friends, and the community.

Thursdays, 10:00-11:30am
September 15-November 3 with a showing on November 3.
In-person only. $45 per workshop.

This program is for adults 55+. Pre-registration required as in-studio space is limited!

Proof of vaccination and masks are required at the door for all participants.
TU Dance will offer tuition and transportation subsidy upon request. Please contact us at education@tudance.org or 651-724-9708 to inquire.