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Off-Kilter is Off-Leash Area’s new cabaret performance program designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities both on stage and in the leadership of the program. Through Off-Kilter, Off-Leash Area makes space for and gives voice to artists with disabilities in the design and leadership of the program.

Curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Group, the inaugural year is organized around the theme “Organ Recital.” Off-Leash Area was excited to partner with Young Dance, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.

Tickets are $5-30 sliding scale, suggested donation. Get your tickets online at OffKilterCabaret.eventbrite.com.

When you purchase a ticket, you’ll be emailed a link to the filmed performance of Off-Kilter Cabaret, which you can watch anytime between now and September 30 from the comfort of your own home! No matter what date you buy the ticket for, you can watch any time you choose before it closes at the end of September.

Seven artists share their captivating takes on the theme “Organ Recital” in the Off-Kilter Cabaret. Using dance, storytelling, theater, spoken word, puppetry, and performance, artists with disabilities explore the theme in wildly different ways, ranging from hilarious and thought-provoking to heartbreaking and profound.

Featuring the following artists: Braille, Atlas O Phoenix, Daniel Reiva, Amy Salloway, Pat Samples, Scott Sorensen, Young Dance

Acknowledgment: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

If you missed the opportunity to see Minotaur in person, here’s your chance to catch what some audience members are calling “our best work yet.”

Buy a virtual ticket for an online viewing of the performance film, and you will get the link to the video, which you can watch anytime you choose between now and September 30. No matter what date you buy the ticket for, you can watch any time you choose before it closes at the end of September.

With Minotaur, Off-Leash Area Co-Artistic Directors, choreographer Jennifer Ilse and production designer Paul Herwig, lead a gender-diverse, multi-generational, and fiery cast to take audiences on a thoroughly interdisciplinary and utterly imaginative journey exploring the possibilities laid bare by the metaphorical beheading of the patriarchy. With this production, the artists ask: Once we’ve chopped off this monster’s head, can we really avoid its seductive power and finally be free of this labyrinthine system of oppression?

Dancers Nieya Amezquita, Gabby Garcia, Jennifer Ilse, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, and Joseph Wurm perform Minotaur with contemporary dance and mask performance. Accompanying the performers and immersing the entire audience is live music and sound score by Dameun Strange, and a live animated projection design by OLA Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig, with costume design by long-time OLA collaborator, Kym Longhi.

Altogether, Off-Leash Area takes the audience to an otherworldly space where memories of ancient myth, our urgent present, and dreams of an uncertain future collide.

Online now through September 30
Tickets: $10-$30 sliding scale

Get your tickets online at Off-LeashAreaMinotaur.eventbrite.com.

Acknowledgment: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue (“Precious Mother Earth”) is a Kalpulli (“learning community”) of Indigenous people who perform traditional Aztec and Indigenous dances from Mexico. KetzalCoatlicue pursues this spiritual, mental, and physical vocation with music from the sacred drum, conch shells, seeds, and other instruments. KetzalCoatlicue’s cultural learning center is located in South Minneapolis.

The dancers are rooted in cultural understandings of the environment weaving together the Nahuatl cosmovision and creation stories of Mexican ancestors. These presentations by Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue provide a basic understanding of the Nahuatl/Aztec representations of life through dance.

Today at 12:00pm – free!

THE SHOW, a new contemporary performance by E/D, is a glitter bomb of feminine force that rips off the bandaid of pretense and lets the mess flow. Featuring E/D’s signature combination of journey, abstraction, and unforgettable imagery, THE SHOW is inspired by the angst of girlhood, the women we’ve always wanted to be, and how ugly things are always ugly, even when you cover them in sequins.

It’s loud. Unapologetic. Undeniably exciting. And is proudly made by women artists for everyone.

About E/D
E/D is the collaboration of Emily Michaels King and Debra Berger that creates provocative and visually stunning performance centered on the female experience. E/D is by women for everyone.

All tickets to THE SHOW are Pay What You Choose.

Join us to celebrate the opening of the outdoor exhibition Momentary Certainties which examines the intertwined themes of ephemerality (something that lasts a short time) and permanence (something that remains unchanged). This outdoor exhibition is installed along walking paths and throughout the lawns, meadows, and native grasses and will be punctuated by dance performances throughout the day inspired by the same themes. Come and see how visual and dance artists grapple with themes of ephemerality, permanence, nature and change in the landscape.

September 10 from 1:00-3:00pm
This is a free event.

1:15pm – Mary Willmeng, Wave  

Wave is a solo piece based on the qualities of water. Water embodies the qualities of the theme chosen for this performance, ephemerality and permanence. It is constantly moving and changing. It has the power to calm and cleanse, but also has the ability to crash and overpower. Water transforms but is a constant. It is present in our bodies and in the world around us.

1:30pm – Julie Marie Muskat, Healing Herman Hesse 

Healing Herman Hesse is a poem about the complicated inner life of a famous author and a dance that shares both this story and an original one for the dancer. The piece premiered in 2014 and has taken on many lives since in both outdoor and indoor landscapes. As I return to this work, I am reminded by the Heraclitus observation: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” The work is both permanent and ever-changing, and my experience with it this time is as a totally different person from my exploration before.

2:00pm – Analog Dance Works, Serve Id 

Serve Id catapults us into Minnesota’s natural environment. The title takes inspiration from Cervidae – the taxonomic name for the deer family – and the concept of the Id – one of the three selves defined by Sigmund Freud as the animalistic instinctual self. In the work, we joyfully, selfishly, and wholeheartedly dance to “serve our id” through the seasons. This dance is an ode to our climate in Minnesota as we know it before it slips through our fingers into memory because of climate change.

2:30pm – Julie Marie Muskat, Healing Herman Hesse 

2:45pm – Mary Willmeng, Wave

Patrick Scully, Mark Wojahn and friends invite you to a Filmmaker’s Celebration and Fundraiser to complete their new documentary

The Dance is Not Over: The Patrick Scully Story

at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis on Wednesday, September 14.
The event is free, with a suggested minimum donation of $65. Reservations required.

An evening of performance, auction, film, hors d’oeuvres, drinks, dancing and red carpet to raise the final funds to complete the next Mark Wojahn film.

Happy Hour: 6:00-7:00pm
Entertainment: 7:00-9:00pm

The Dance is Not Over documents and celebrates the life and work of Minneapolis’ well-known gay dancer, performance artist, storyteller, and activist. Patrick’s story chronicles the events of a generation and is critically important to document for future generations.

Scheduled to appear on the rooftop or in The Woman’s Club Theater:
Susana Di Palma
Prudence Johnson
Eyenga Bokamba
Patrick Scully
DJ Cyn Collins
Laura Stone-Jeraj

The finalé of lineup will be a clip from the film The Dance is Not Over, introduced by Director Mark Wojahn and Director of Photography Greg Winter. In addition to screening a section from The Dance is Not Over, we will also screen Joe Chvala’s Flying Foot Forum short film Cookaphony.

An evening of six world premieres.

Each year three exceptional Minnesota dance artists receive the coveted honor of a McKnight Dancer Fellowship. To celebrate their artistry, we commission a solo dance from a choreographer of their choice. The 2020 and 2021 dance fellows have selected an outstanding group of local, national, and international dance artists who will bring their choreographic imaginations into new works expressly tailored for each fellow. The result is an evening of world premieres ranging from innovative hip hop to rhythmic Chicago footwork to Brazilian contemporary choreographic explorations and more.

SOLO Dancers and Commissioned Choreographers
Melissa Clark (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Alhassane Bangoura (Guinea/MN), John ‘Boodilla’ King (IL), René Thompson (Cuba/MN)
Alexandra Eady (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Maria Bauman (NY)
Non Edwards (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Anna Shogren (MN)
Hassan Ingraham (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Norbert De La Cruz III (NY)
Marciano Silva dos Santos (2020 Dancer Fellow) and Gil Mendes Coelho (Brazil)
David Stalter Jr. (2021 Dancer Fellow) and Sheopatra (CA)

Friday and Saturday, September 16-17
In-person and live streamed.
Live stream tickets are pay-as-able!