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Twin Cities Ballet Presents Giselle

Join Twin Cities Ballet for the company premiere of Giselle, May 6–8 at Ames Center in Burnsville. Giselle is the haunting tale of a young peasant girl who is deceived by a disguised nobleman, and yet her love saves him from death despite his treachery. Tickets on sale now!

The production also includes a Sensory-Relaxed show, which enables children and people with sensory sensitivities to experience the art of ballet with relaxed theater rules and modified sensory elements to allow for increased comfort.  

Performances:
Friday, May 6 | 10:15am (Sensory-Relaxed Show)
Saturday, May 7 | 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Sunday, May 8 | 2:00pm

Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota (TCB) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional ballet company located in the Twin Cities’ South Metro. Our mission is to connect and enrich communities by making ballet approachable, relatable, and fun, through professional and original productions and educational outreach.

 These activities are 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.

Iridescent Blue by MIRAGE Performing Arts

We are thrilled to release our newest production, Iridescent Blue, featuring some of the most difficult solo piano works ever written, which are reimagined and transformed into continuous movements in complete sync with the music.

We will be depicting things that change – the color, shape, sound and even yourself, set in the music by Saint-Saëns, Liszt-Schubert, Somei Satoh, Ravel, and Gershwin.

Through our collaboration, we are continuing to develop our technique of bringing forth the original intentions of the composers as a direction in creating unique artistic expressions. Our hope is to create a performance where the audience can experience classical music and ballet with new light and deeper understanding.

Piano: Rie Tanaka
Choreography, Dance: Yuki Tokuda

Saturday, May 7 at 7:00pm | $20 general admission, $10 students (Tickets)

An Encore Showing of McKnight Fellowship’s SOLO: Six Dance Films

The McKnight Fellowships for Dancers’ biannual showcase event, SOLO, pairs six Minnesota dancers with renowned local, national, and international choreographers. We are happy to offer a FREE encore showing of the 2021 dance films outdoors at Silverwood Park.

Thursday, May 12 at 8:00pm (rain date: Thursday, May 26)
This outdoor showing is FREE to the public. Bring a chair or blanket for seating.

The six dancers are Renée Copeland, Yeniel “Chini” Perez Domenech, Sharon Mansur, Erin Thompson, Joseph “MN Joe” Tran, Elayna Waxse. Each are recipients of a McKnight Dancer Fellowship, an annual award given to three mid-career Minnesota dancers whose work demonstrates artistic excellence. In addition to a $25,000 unrestricted cash award, fellows received additional support and the commission of a new solo from a choreographer of their choosing. The 2021 collaborations range from innovative Hip Hop to contemporary Arab imaginings, to intimate site-specific explorations and more. SOLO will have Spanish and English captioning throughout the films.

For more information: www.silverwoodonstage.org

Sensible Existence: A Project Choreographed by Marcus Jarrell Willis

Join us as TU Dance returns with live performances at The O’Shaughnessy featuring the expanded, evening-length presentation of Sensible Existence, a TU Dance project originally choreographed by award winning choreographer Marcus Jarrell Willis in 2017. Sensible Existence is a dance work inspired by Descartes’ writings on Self and the World. The work explores the questions surrounding its namesake. Existence is the fact or state of living or having objective reality. Sensible is an adjective describing something that is done in accordance with wisdom or prudence. The new Sensible Existence will draw from its original production elements and will feature new writing compositions uniquely crafted to this work.

May 13 and 14, 2022 | 7:30pm
The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University
Adults $25, $30, $35 | Students $18 | Seniors $20
(includes $2 theater restoration fee)
651-690-6700

Young Dance Presents RESET and Spring Performance

Young Dance presents RESET, an outdoor dance concert featuring the Young Dance Performing Company and students, May 13–15, 2022, in the parking lot of the Fairview Business Center. In our school’s Spring Performance (May 13–14), students enrolled in our weekly classes will share their learning in two unique Spring Performances. Separately, RESET, features the Young Dance Performing Company members performing pieces exploring the concept of resetting, created in collaboration with professional choreographers Alexandra Beaumont, Theo Langason, Gretchen Pick, and Anat Shinar. 

Spring Performance:  May 13 at 7:00 p.m. and May 14 at 2:00 p.m*

RESET: May 14 at 7:00 p.m.* & May 15 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets purchased through the youngdance.org/tickets:
$12 General Admission
$8 Student/Senior Admission
$5 Child Admission (3-5 years of age), or free for those 2 and under

*$12 Virtual Livestream tickets for Friday or Saturday performances. Livestream purchases close one hour prior to the performance and the link will be emailed at that time. 

The Saturday, May 14, 7:00 p.m. show will be ASL interpreted. Additional ASL interpretation, or audio description, will be provided upon request to info@youngdance.org by May 6. 

Location: Fairview Business Center Parking Lot 655 Fairview Ave N. St. Paul, MN 55104

Analog Dance Works Presents Tellus

After postponing for two years due to the pandemic, Analog Dance Works presents its inaugural event, Tellus. Two premiere dance works bring the company’s commitment to the exploration of the intersection of dance and science to the pressing theme of climate change, moving from Minnesota backyards by means of whitetail deer to a broad look at the psychological effects of the global crisis. These choreographies are accompanied by an interactive exhibit from the University of Minnesota’s Outreach through Science and Art Group that reveals the science behind the art. The theater becomes a laboratory as Tellus embraces experimentation and play, investigating the rapid shifts shaping the world today.

May 13 – 7:30pm (post-show reception)
May 14 – 7:30pm
May 15 – 2:00pm (post-show artist talk)

Interactive Exhibit open 6:00–9:00pm, May 13 and 14; 1:00–4:00pm May 15.
Tickets: $5-$20, sliding scale in advance and at the door.

Photo credit: Bill Cameron

Riverside Park Sound Garden

Dancers Sarah Baumert, Suzette Gilreath, Erika Hansen, Megan Mayer and Leslie O’Neill perform in a new, site-specific Sound Garden installation at Riverside Park. This premier performance directed by composer JG Everest will also feature poetry by Chavonn Shen, Nimo Farah, Teresa Ortiz, Lisa Yankton, and many more.

The Riverside Park Sound Garden event is a free, family-friendly, self-guided event that features a sound installation of 50+ small, wireless speakers, distributed throughout a section of the park, with live accompaniment by roving musicians and dancers, and live poetry and site-specific visual art. Each small speaker is playing a different part of the whole piece of music, creating a unique, immersive experience that is described as “A Concert You Can Move Through”.

This activity is part of the Peoples Center & Clinics’ “Because Your Health Matters” community wellness initiative in partnership with Wavelets Creative.

Young Dance Board of Directors Present a Menu of Great Gatherings

As part of the spring fundraising campaign, the Young Dance Board of Directors will offer multiple events for donation. Select one – or many – of the gatherings from the menu to join in the fun!

Dance Celebration
May 15, 4:00–6:00pm
Following the final Young Dance Spring Performance, celebrate with an opportunity to dance together! Paul McCluskey will lead an Irish Ceili dance experience. Suggested donation $5-10/person

Virtual Cooking – Goat Cheese
May 21, 10:00-11:00am
Learn to make goat cheese from home with Soph Myers-Kelley! Impress friends and family with simple skills and in less than an hour. Zoom link sent upon registration. Suggested donation $20/person

Virtual Cooking – Sushi Making
May 28, 10:00-11:00am
Learn the basics of sushi making from home with Soph Myers-Kelley! Your new skills will save you money and you are guaranteed to laugh at how silly your first rolls look! Zoom link sent upon registration. Suggested donation $20/person

Register by emailing info@youngdance.org. Donations can be made online here, or by check to Young Dance, sent to 655 Fairview Ave North St. Paul, MN, 55104.

We are so excited to gather with you in 2022, and thank you for supporting Young Dance.

Ballet Co.Laboratory presents Firebird

Celebrate the soaring score of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird with a reimagined tale of a powerful bird whose spirit and magical feathers provide beauty and protection upon the earth. Performed by 100 dancers, this radiant tale will take you into the depths of an enchanted forest where virtuous and malicious forces hide. 

Choreography by: Flavia Garcia

Performed by: The Company Dancers of Ballet Co.Laboratory and Students of The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory  

Performances:
Friday, May 20, 2022 at 7:00pm
Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 2:00pm

Location:
E.M. Pearson Theatre
Concordia University Campus
312 Hamline Ave N | Saint Paul, MN 55104

Tickets start at $22 https://bit.ly/FirebirdBCL

The Cowles Center is Hosting a Dancer, Choreographer and Movement Artist Open House

Calling all Dancers, Choreographers, and Movement Artists! The doors to The Cowles Center are wide open and waiting for all dancers, choreographers, and movement artists to join the Programs & Advisory Committee and staff for a morning of connection. This is an opportunity to get to know the building, the people within it, and the programs that might be of interest to you.

We’ll have a light breakfast, give an overview of all the ways you can be engaged with The Cowles Center, hear from some artists, as well as demystify grant writing, intellectual property, and unions.

Translations are available onsite upon request. Feel free to come and go as your day permits. A $5 parking/transportation subsidy will be available.

Professional headshots

Local photographer, Canaan Mattson, will be joining us and taking free headshots for the first 20 artists who sign up. You’ll be entitled to one photo with no more than two retakes, and your headshot will be emailed to you at a later date.

More about Canaan Mattson at canaanmattson.com

Click this Link for more information!