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Making Climate Change Visible – Open Exhibition with Performance by RJDT

Ruby Josephine Dance Theater (RJDT) has been commissioned to create a durational performance reacting to and dancing within local textile artist Carolyn Halliday’s work. Halliday’s current exhibition titled Making Climate Change Visible is on display at the Kolman and Reeb Gallery where RJDT will perform on May 2 as a part of the Northrup King Building’s Open Thursdays.

This performance is an improvisation score about the beauty that can be contrastingly present within and despite destruction. Created by artistic director Ruby Josephine Smith in collaboration with the dancers, Kendall Kramer and Colin Myles Edwards (Bzychln), this cycling duet will weave around Halliday’s large woven sculptures in the gallery space and react to live music played by local cellist Rosa Vieirra Thompson.

Thursday, May 2
Performance from 6:00-6:30pm with an artist talk to follow at 7:15pm.
Free event.

More information about the exhibition.

Minnesota Dance Theatre Presents SPRING at The Southern

We’re going out with a bang! Don’t miss this opportunity to join Minnesota Dance Theatre for the company’s parting performances.

Witness the Minnesota premiere of And yet here we are, by Seattle-based choreographer Nia-Amina Minor. This piece, originally created on Pacific Northwest Ballet, lives in an imaginative space propelled by rhythm. Set to a soundscape that is both turbulent and reflective, this work urgently explores what is and the possibilities of what could be.

The performance is rounded out by world premieres from local choreographer Javan Mngrezzo, MDT company member Zachary Tuazon, and MDT Interim Artistic Director Elayna Waxse. With music from Chopin to jazz to indie rock, this program displays the diversity and power of our remarkable dancers.

Friday, May 3 at 8:00pm – pay as able
Saturday, May 4 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00pm
Friday, May 10 at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 11 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 12 at 2:00pm

Tickets: $32. Student: $20.

Tapestries 8.0 by Threads Dance Project

New work from Tapestries 8.0, Threads Dance Project’s annual showcase of emerging choreographic talents.

This year’s show commissions new works from three choreographers – Da’Rius Malone, Averie Mitchell-Brown, and Shoko Tamai. The show also features the repertory work CALL by Threads Dance Project’s Artistic Director, Karen L. Charles. CALL uses the African/American tradition of call and response to sculpt the often difficult relationship between the dancer and the dance.

Friday, May 3 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 4 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00pm

Tickets
$30 General Admission; $25 Seniors; $22 Students

Tapestries 8.0 celebrates diversity of thoughts and ideas through each choreographer’s varying style and movement stories. From hip hop to contemporary dance, the audience will experience dance artistry at its best.

About the Guest Performances
Inspired by “The Shadow-Work Journal” and “The Inner Work,” Da’Rius Malone embarks on confronting hidden hardships, healing their inner child, and breaking generational trauma through vulnerable movement creation with dancers’ stories intertwined.

Averie Mitchell-Brown explores groundbreaking dance performances celebrating Hip Hop social dances, street styles, and movements of the African diaspora. Set to revolutionary music, these performances foster dialogue, community, and transformative exploration of societal norms and perspectives.

Shoko Tamai invites you on a dance journey inspired by life’s transformations, from moon cycles to butterfly metamorphosis, exploring self-discovery, forgiveness, and intergenerational connections.

Mondays in May at Resource

Eva Mohn will host a performance event on Mondays in May at Resource. Each week will feature a different compositional proposal with a different theme. Each performance will last approximately 55 minutes.

Mondays, 5:00-6:00pm

May 6 – “song and dance”
May 13 – “a lap around a lake,” featuring guest performers Maggie Bergeron and Leslie O’Neil
May 20 – “radio show,” featuring guest performer Nora Jennemen
May 27 – “The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom,” originally performed by Deborah Hay (“reperspectived” by Eva Mohn in 2019)

$5-$20 sliding scale.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company Auditions

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is auditioning dancers for their eleventh season at the Luminary Arts Center. Seeking strong technical jazz dancers with excellent acting skills. All styles of dance – tap, hip-hop, etc. – are encouraged to apply. Season announcement will take place in early May. 

Audition
Friday, May 10, 10:00am-1:00pm at Collide 
Sign up for an audition appointment.

Callbacks
Tuesday, May 14, 10:00am-12:00pm at Collide

2024/2025 Schedule

  • Rehearsals are during daytime hours, usually 9:30am-3:30pm.
  • Show 1: Rehearses September 10-October 4. Tech October 8-11. Performances October 12-November 3.
  • Wonderland Tour: Rehearsals in October. Touring in November.
  • Residency: December 3-6.
  • Show 2: Rehearses January 7-31. Tech February 5-7. Performances February 8-March 2.
  • Show 3: Rehearsals March 4-28. Tech April 1-4. Performances April 4-27.

Positions Available

  • Company Dancers – Salaried employees on 28-week contracts from September 2024-April 2025. Must be available for all 28 weeks. Highest paying position within the company. $500-$800/week. Year-long free classes. 3-4 positions available.
  • Guest Artists – Hired on a per-show basis. $400/week. 3-6 months free class. All positions available.
  • Ensemble Dancers – Hired on a per-show basis. $300/week. 3-6 months free class. All positions available.
  • Apprentice Dancers – Unpaid performance and training opportunity in exchange for 3-6 months of dance education. All positions available. 

Email Grace@collidetheatrical.org with questions.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is an equal-opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including transsexual and inter-sexed), national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, status with respect to public assistance or veteran status, or other status protected by law.

Apply: Ballet Co.Laboratory’s 2025 Emerging Choreographer

Are you a Minnesota-based emerging choreographer with formal ballet training? Apply for our Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program for a paid opportunity to create a new, full-length, staged production performed by the upper-level students at The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory in March 2025!

The story that Ballet Co.Laboratory will be asking the 2025 emerging choreographer to draw inspiration from is the children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon – inspired by Harold going to the State Fair. Applicants who apply can choose to present this narrative as a classical or contemporary ballet. The selected choreographer will work alongside the Ballet Co.Laboratory artistic team in selecting the music, designing scenic elements, creating costumes, and casting roles.

Choreographers applying to this program are encouraged to think critically about how ballet can continue to evolve in becoming more inclusive and forward-thinking. Artists are asked to create a production with a storyline that sparks the imagination and challenges the audiences’ perception of what ballet is.

All applicants must live in Minnesota, have had formal ballet training, and consider themselves to be an emerging choreographer.

Applications close on May 10, 2024.

Balanced Body® Anatomy for Movement Professionals

Friday, May 10: 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, May 11: 11:30am-6:00pm
Sunday, May 12: 9:30am-4:30pm
In person or online.

Fee: $549 + $60 materials

Anatomy is the foundation of our work as movement professionals. The more you understand about how the body works, the better equipped you are to teach your clients how to move better. In this course you will receive an introduction to the major tissues, joints and muscles of movement. Muscle origin, insertion and action are covered along with movement experiences to help you understand and remember not just the individual muscles, but how they work in synergy to create functional movements. The course includes a manual and video support.

Instructor: Matthew Hodge-Rice

Doma Dance Theater – Film Premiere and Kickoff Event

Please join us for the premiere of our new dance film Mamko Moja L’uba at our Kickoff Event!

Featuring dancers Sarah McCullough and Amanda Sachs, this work explores our relationship with matrilineal lineage through the use of folk and contemporary dance vocabulary.

In addition to the film, Alexandra Bodnarchuk will premiere a new solo work-in-process.

Saturday, May 11
6:00-8:00pm
At Doma Dance Theater Studio. Limited capacity.

Social hour, light refreshments, and signature sodas provided.

Tickets: $12-50.
Artist rate: $12. Suggested ticket price: $35.

ARENA DANCES Fall 2024 Auditions

ARENA DANCES seeks experienced dancers with strong technical, artistic, and creative abilities for our twenty-ninth fall season.

Saturday, May 11, 11:00-2:00pm
The Arena in South Minneapolis
RSVP is required, please do so by 5:00pm, Thursday, May 9.

No callbacks. Decisions will be made by end of week, May 17.

The Project
Twenty-Ninth Fall Season: Monument – ARENA DANCES’ artistic director, Mathew Janczewski, and fellow collaborators Dustin Haug, Leslie O’Neill, and Laura Selle Virtucio seek dancers to remount several repertory works including a male-identified quartet (huddle), mixed quartet (Gershwin Suite), and mixed septet ensemble (Navigations), that will perform September 10-15, 2024 at Luminary Arts Center.

Professional dancers of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences who also have a knack for learning off video are encouraged to apply. Applicants will be asked to improvise, as well as learn phrase work. We are looking for diverse performers who are creative, collaborative, and expressive. Must be available starting mid-June to September 2024.

In-person auditions are given priority. If you are unable to audition in person, you may submit a short video (under 5 minutes) in your registration form. Please include improvisation as well as performance footage.

Rehearsal schedule to be determined amongst the ensemble.
Dancers are paid $20/hour for rehearsals and a flat tech week/performance run of $700.

Please contact Mathew at arenadances@gmail.com with questions.

Analog Dance Works Presents: The Awe Factor

Analog Dance Works presents: The Awe Factor

World Premiere!
May 16-19 at the TEK BOX Theater

This work, choreographed by Artistic Director Brenna Mosser, interweaves single-use plastic waste with the science of awe. In this fantastical and surreal world, 10 dancers examine how we access awe, what we do when we are confronted by it, and how we can harness this emotion to better our collective lives.

Portions of choreography presented in The Awe Factor were commissioned by Threads Dance Project for their Tapestries 7.0 program and by Alternative Motion Project for their Tenth Season Performance.

Thursday, May 16 at 7:30pm
Friday, May 17 at 7:30pm – post-show reception
Saturday, May 18 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 19 at 2:00pm – post-show talkback

Tickets: $15-$30, pay as able.

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.