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Family Day: Flamenco con Abuelita with Susana di Palma

Spend a week exploring Spanish culture and flamenco tradition with Teaching Artist Susana di Palma!

The Cowles Center has expanded upon the traditional Family Day offering to provide an easy-to-follow curriculum toolkit exploring flamenco, that culminates in an hour-long virtual dance class: Flamenco con Abuelita. We hear our puppet friends Toro and Carmencita will be there! Participants can follow along at our recommended pace, explore at their own pace, or simply show up to dance during Saturday’s class. This activity is designed for children in Kindergarten through second grade.

Register for the Saturday Flamenco Dance Class to receive our full toolkit. The toolkit is designed to be used from Monday, April 19 through Friday, April 23, ahead of Susana’s class, and includes fun activities such as coloring pages, DIY ideas, and more!

Registration closes at 8:00am on April 24.

Friday Morning Jazz: Spring Back In with Karla

Join Karla Grotting for another Friday Morning Jazz class this spring session!

Karla and Erinn Liebhard are thrilled to be in their sixth year of running the Friday Morning Jazz class through Zenon, a long-standing Twin Cities dance scene tradition. Their approach is body-friendly, history-infused, music-based and community-building: all are welcome to this class that skews intermediate-advanced, including drop-ins and first-time attendees!

Keep yourself groovin’ safely by joining us for this Zoom-based class: register at least ten minutes in advance of class at http://www.zenondance.org. Need help navigating how to join, or a discount? Email erika@zenondance.org.

Northrop Presents Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation)

Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation)
Wednesday, April 21, 6:30pm CDT
Streaming online.

Adil Hussain stars as Rajiv, an overworked businessman, who agrees to honor the final wish of his father, Daya, by accompanying him to the holy city of Varanasi. There, they check in to the Hotel Salvation, where residents are given just two weeks to live out their final days or return home.

2016
Not rated by the MPAA
1 hour, 42 minutes
In Hindi with English subtitles

This film is presented in conjunction with Ragamala Dance Company.
Co-artistic directors Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy’s work embodies the artistic and spiritual traditions of India while creating a dialogue about the contemporary human experience. Their new work, Fires of Varanasi, is a ritual for the stage where time is suspended and humans merge with the divine, expanding upon the birth-death-rebirth continuum in Hindu thought to illuminate immigrant experiences of life and death in the diaspora.

DYFIT Hosts Embodied Practice for Racial Healing

Don’t You Feel It Too? is the thirteen-year practice of moving our brave, honest, loving and ridiculous selves.

DYFIT addresses our present needs for racial healing and cultural change by offering parallel embodied practices of joy and belonging. Everyone is welcome in their respective caucus groups or to the Open Practice. No previous experience is necessary. In this new format the work will be more specific and authentic within and across groups.

Tuesday, April 6: 5:30PM-6:30PM – Open Practice in front of the Weisman Art Museum.

Collide presents WONDERLAND

A poster for Wonderland, showing legs in striped stockings on a checkerboard floor

Join us in WonderLand, a premier psychiatric hospital. Dr. Knight has the difficult task of treating a man who refers to himself as a “White Rabbit” and suffers from a severe anxiety disorder, a young woman named Alice with body dysmorphia, and a Queen figure suffering from narcissistic rage.

As the doctor digs deeply into the causes and roots of their disorders he begins to ask: what does “normal” really mean?
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Collide tells this story using its signature blend of high-energy dance styles set to a modern pop-rock soundtrack.
The dance theater experience, created to suit safety requirements of COVID-19, will take the audience on a 70-minute ride into a compelling story of friendship and acceptance.

The production takes place OUTSIDE at the James J Hill House and Mill City Museum.

For tickets visit, www.collidetheatrical.org

Featuring dancers Renee Guittar, Rush Benson, Heather Brockman, Chelsea Rose, Jarod Boltjes, Brian Bose, Miranda Shaughnessey

Limón Twin Cities with Black Label Movement – A Summer Intensive

The Limón Dance Company and Black Label Movement join forces to bring you a two-week summer intensive filled with powerful and compelling dance! Join Artistic Directors Dante Puleio and Carl Flink in celebrating the brilliant artistry of José Limón.

Experience one or two weeks of: classical and contemporary technique, repertory from both companies, conversations and celebrations of the Limón legacy, and learning about the dynamic Twin Cities dance scene.

The program offers top quality teachers comprised of current and former company members who are dedicated to the learning process and growth of each individual dancer.

Additional events will include evening sessions of improvisation, dance-making, and discussions designed to deepen participants’ embodied practice. The intensive concludes with the participants’ final showing on Saturday, July 31.

Sponsored in part by the University of Minnesota Dance Program.

Ballet Royale Minnesota 2021 Summer Intensives and Workshops

Ballet Royale is still accepting video auditions for our summer intensives. Master teachers will join our renowned faculty to provide incomparable summer experiences in a structured and focused setting.

June 7-25: “Spring into Summer” intensive, featuring Progressing Ballet Technique® cross-training regimen; intermediate/advanced to professional. AUDITION REQUIRED.

June 14-18: Male Dancer Intensive, ages ten through professional, multiple levels. AUDITION/PRE-APPROVAL REQUIRED.

July 5-23: July Summer Intensive for ages 8 through professional. Multiple progressive divisions. AUDITION REQUIRED for Division II and up (dancers 9+).

August 2-13: Grand Prix Variations Workshop. AUDITION REQUIRED. Ages nine and up, Pre-competitive, Junior, and Senior Divisions.

August 16-20: Youth Ballet August Jump-Start.

August 22-27: Pointe Preparatory workshop. Girls ages eleven and older.

Plus weekly evening classes July 5-August 12.

We would love for you to dance with us!

MotionArt Virtual Children’s Dance Classes

MotionArt focuses on nurturing children’s individual creativity while facilitating their understanding of the dance elements of space, time, and energy.

Ages 3-5 explore these elements through playful, structured activities allowing them to expand their movement vocabulary, develop body awareness and gain self-confidence. Ages 5-7 explore the dance elements while being introduced to new movement skills and the creation of their own dances. Ages 7-12 expand their creative and kinesthetic awareness while learning basic movement skills of modern dance.

We offer ways for children to dance during these uncertain times through Zoom and outdoor classes. Please go to motionartmn.org to sign up for classes. There are various options for payment/donations, and no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

Ages 3-5: Fridays, 12:00-12:30pm

Ages 5-7: Saturday, 10:00-10:45am
Zoom or outside, weather permitting. Contact Pam for info.

Ages 7-9: Saturday, 11:00-11:45am

Ages 10-12: Friday, 3:00-4:00pm

Application for McKnight Fellowships in Dance and Choreography

TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY FOR THE APPLICATION DEADLINE!

The final deadline is today, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at 3:00pm CDT.
Please plan to submit your application early.

The intent of this program is to recognize and support mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence.