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Presented as part of The Great Northern.
With the support of Villa Albertine, in partnership with the French Embassy, Alliance Française, and The Cowles Center.

Dancer/choreographer Dimitri Chamblas’ Slow Show is a 20-minute intensive, collective dance whose movements are minute, precise, and concentrated—inspired by principal roots of trance, exultation, telepathy, and unconscious memories. In this iteration, 50 local participants will respond to their immediate environment on a frozen Como Lake, revealing the strength and vivacity of subtle movements with real-time sound accompaniment made of samples, live electronics, and guitar by artist Eddie Ruscha.

Two performances
Saturday, February 5
1:00pm and 2:00pm

Please note: Masks and social distancing are strongly encouraged during the performance.

Dancers Leslie O’Neill, Megan Mayer, Sarah Baumert, and Erika Hansen perform their site-specific, roving, durational movement scores across a three-acre site along West River Parkway as part of composer/director JG Everest’s immersive WINTER Sound Garden sound and performance installation event. With a parallel performance score by SuperGroup.

The roving movement scores will begin by 1:00pm and will come and go throughout the space until 3:00pm.

The fourth of four seasonal “pop-up” Sound Garden events along West River Parkway in 2021-22, the WINTER Sound Garden features layers of site-specific dance, music, poetry, and visual art among some of the oldest trees in Minneapolis, on the bluff above the Mississippi River.

Sound Gardens are designed as durational, self-guided experiences intended for audience to connect more meaningfully to a particular place and the natural world. The spatial sound score and live dance and musical elements are meant to accompany the sounds and physical elements that are already there – the birds, the trees, the wind, the shadows, the sunlight, the snow. Audiences are encouraged to both circulate and linger at their own pace, following their own impulses for what to pay attention to.

This event has been rescheduled from the original date of January 22.

Join TCB’s professional ballet dancers at the Lakeville Area Arts Center for a fun-filled interactive performance event designed for families and children ages preschool through eight. The programs are less than an hour long—the perfect length for busy schedules and curious minds.

Dance With Me highlights age- and ability-appropriate body movement using different forms of dance, and features unique monthly themes, short dance classes, optional audience participation, and short performance demonstrations in costume by TCB’s professional company dancers. You are welcome to enjoy one, many, or all of the programs!

Tuesday, February 8, 2022
10:30-11:30am
Tickets: $6. Purchase tickets online, or by calling 952-985-4640.

Upcoming dates: March 1 and April 12, 2022.

Paul Taylor molded the dance company that bears his name into one of the preeminent performing ensembles in the world, leading it until his death in 2018.

In this program, the company premieres a Northrop Centennial Commission by Peter Chu, paired with two classic Taylor works, the sublime masterpiece, Airs—hailed as “a  treasure” by The New York Times—and Promethean Fire, set to three keyboard works by Bach richly orchestrated by Stokowski.

Join us for the Sixth Annual Right Here Showcase, the community’s only annual juried program supporting Minnesota-based, mid-career performing artists who create original performance work.

Founding Artistic Producer Paul Herwig, 2008 McKnight Theater Fellow and 2005 City Pages Artist of the Year, steers the Showcase. Four artists are chosen through an annual public call and a panel review, to be awarded financial commissions plus technical and promotional support to present a new work of contemporary performance especially for the Showcase.

This year’s Right Here Showcase will occur February 24-27, at the Tek Box Theater on the second floor of the Cowles Center, with two artists performing each night.

Featuring these four powerhouse performance makers:

Benjamin Domask-Ruh– physical theater artist

Jess Forest – dancer, choreographer, and visual artist

Sam Johnson – performance maker

Queen DREA – musician and composer

Thursday, February 24: Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Jess Forest at 8:00pm
Friday, February 25: Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Jess Forest at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 26: Sam Johnson and Queen Drea Reynolds at 8:00pm
Sunday, February 27: Sam Johnson and Queen Drea Reynolds at 5:00pm

Tickets: $20

Stay tuned at righthereshowcase.weebly.com.

Covid Protocols: Proof of full vaccination required for attendance. Hard copy or digital copy of proof of vaccination must be presented at the door for entry. NO exceptions. Masks and physical distancing in the theater and lobby required at all times. Please, let’s all keep each other safe.

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.

Chitra Vairavan and Valerie Oliveiro offer two dances created through a year-long merging of energies, practices, conversation, ancestors, memories, breaths, places, sounds, and “Asian-nesses.” This performance brings the intentional and unintentional intersections of their diverse art forms to the surface.

Covid19: Effective September 1, 2021, all visitors to the Cowles who are attending a performance/event in our theater spaces are required to show either proof of a full course of COVID-19 vaccinations administered at least 14 days prior to the show or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the performance/event.

Masks are required throughout the Cowles. For more information about our health and safety guidelines and getting to The Cowles Center, click here.

This untitled work will share the joy of “beating the odds.” Lieutenant Sunnie and Herb Johnson III come from different backgrounds but have reached similar outcomes thanks to resilience and perseverance. Through adversity, they found focus, and each accomplished goals that led them to where they are currently.

Covid19: Effective September 1, 2021, all visitors to the Cowles who are attending a performance/event in our theater spaces are required to show either proof of a full course of COVID-19 vaccinations administered at least 14 days prior to the show or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the performance/event.

Masks are required throughout the Cowles. For more information about our health and safety guidelines and getting to The Cowles Center, click here.