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THERMAL at Peavey Plaza
Presented in partnership with Green Minneapolis

Friday, August 5 at 6:00pm and 7:30pm
Free to attend!

Come out and enjoy this beautiful weather we are having! Have a picnic and enjoy some downtown green space. THERMAL is a dialogue – through movement, form and sound – centered on Earth’s changing environment. With the effects of climate change here, THERMAL invites viewers to slow down and take in one another and our natural surroundings to appreciate and care for the land and each other.

Live performances by ARENA DANCES with Dustin Haug, Javan Mngrezzo and Betsy Schaefer Roob.

Click HERE to learn more about THERMAL at Peavy Plaza.

Join dancers from Minnesota and beyond celebrating the remarkable life of Lirena Grisha Branitski on Sunday, August 7 from 1:00-4:00pm at Bryant Regional Park.

A special program will begin at 2:00pm featuring renowned dancers speaking about Lirena (born in Ukraine on April 7, 1940; died in Minneapolis on January 29, 2022), her career performing in the former Soviet Union and throughout the world, and her profound impact on generations of Minnesota dancers, and Minnesota companies, studios, directors and teachers.

The program will also feature photos and videos of Lirena performing, teaching and choreographing from her forty-year Minnesota career; and a chance to share stories as was well as participate in Lirena’s famous warm-up and reverence.

For directions to Bryant Regional Park go to: https://www.threeriversparks.org/location/bryant-lake-regional-park

You don’t want to miss this! Jawaahir and Amwaaj present an evening of dance and live Arab music.

This event is FREE and family friendly.

Sunday, August 7 at Frank Rog Amphitheater in Roseville
6:00-8:00pm

We are our own future archeologists. Trying to decipher past self, but the gifts from our past selves are gibberish. We are spellcasting, feeding ghosts, speaking to the dead, leaving artifacts along the path for ourselves like Hansel and Gretel, carrying stones and grief. We are priestesses and pilgrims. The Cosmos and the Reverse Cosmos are destinations. Traveling through geologic time, can our bones remember being the molten state of earth before they were someone else’s bones? Just read the list and let it be a stupid incantation.

Join us outside in Powderhorn Park for a work-in-progress of a new performance work by Monica Thomas and Theresa Madaus. Featuring Judith Howard, Krista Langberg, and Sylvan Madaus Derenne.

Friday, August 12
7:00pm
Powderhorn Park
Free to attend; RSVP requested

This is a short, semi-formal showing of an in-progress work.
Please email Theresa to let us know you are coming, and we’ll send you the exact location within Powderhorn.
We ask all audience members to wear masks. (Yes, even though it’s outside! We respect the highly contagious nature of the current Covid variants and don’t want to contribute to spread.)

In case of rain, we will move to an indoor location (with masks required) and will email the address by 5:00pm on the day of the showing.

Thanks to HAIR+NAILS for rehearsal support.

The pioneer cohort of the Artist Citizen Ensemble presents Solace, an immersive experience utilizing multiple art forms. Join us on August 20 to embrace comfort and cultivate safety together as artists, audiences, and community.

Saturday, August 20 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm

Tickets: $15. Group discounts available, contact julie.muskat@gmail.com.

For more info and to buy tickets, visit www.deeperwaterarts.org/solace

The Artist Citizen Ensemble is an application-based program for any creatively-minded person aged 14-18. It is built on a model of collaboration and mentorship, and provides the tools for a group of young artists to build an idea from the ground up, including production elements, fundraising, and community engagement.

Katha Dance Theatre is excited to be performing Kathak Yatra – The Journey of Kathak Dance at Paramount Center for the Arts on August 20! The performance follows Kathak’s evolution through time, beginning with its inception in Hindu temples and culminating in its contemporary multicultural incarnations. It explores Kathak’s duality as both classic and modern.

August 20 at 7:30pm

Tickets:
Adults: $15
Students: $12

Photo by Anjana Nair.

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.

Wednesday, September 7
12:00pm
Free!

Box Office: umntix@umn.edu