Archive: Dance Writing, Reviews, and Podcasts

A Studio Stories special with one of CANDY BOX Dance Festival’s Featured Artists, jess pretty – Episode 151.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, jess pretty presents call and response:

“call and response is a methodology for building connection and community; a celebration and appreciation for black life; an archival tool; and a lens for embodiment. This work is personal and archival; calling on me to turn towards my own story, lineage, and memory as the site of choreographic creation. In looking at myself, I aim to build a black queer archive to provide proof of life (instead of the constant images of black death we experience) for future generations.”

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A Studio Stories and CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with featured artists Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk – Episode 150.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, Tristan and Benny will share There’s More Than One Bed. The second collaboration between the two inspired by the creative and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Instagram thirst traps, speculative masculinities, and romance novel tropes, Koepke, Olk, and their collaborators interrogate what devotion and commitment to love, longing, and process can look like when you make room for more than two.

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A Studio Stories and CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with featured artist Paula Mann – Episode 149 on Thursday, March 28 at noon.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, Paula Mann is sharing “Everything and Nothing,” a three-part series of dance performances that question and interrogate our understandings of our realities through movement. Performed by Leila Awadallah, Paula Mann, and Roxanne Wallace.

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Closing out Season 13 of Studio Stories is Margie Fargnoli with Episode 148 on Thursday, March 21 at noon.

Margie is a dancer who toured with Anna Sokolow upon graduating from Julliard. She moved to Minneapolis in 1978 and has been a teacher, choreographer, and the founder/artistic director of Whispers of America in the early eighties. Margie is now a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a Somatic Psychotherapist.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, March 14 at noon with Joe Chvala for Season 13, Episode 147.

Joe is a director, choreographer, writer, composer, performer, teacher, founder of the percussive dance/theater group Flying Foot Forum, and a 2023 McKnight Choreographer’s Fellow.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, February 22 at noon with Thern Anderson for Season 13, Episode 145.

Thern has been dancing, performing and teaching for 50+ years, working with several different companies and teaching many different groups of movers. They include professional dancers, adult beginners and children in studios and after school programs.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, February 22 at noon with Cathy Gasiorowicz for Season 13, Episode 144.

Cathy is a marketing writer, choreographer, mime, actor and dancer. Some may have seen or heard stories by her on The Moth, or her TedTalk. But many know here from the MN Opera, Chanhassen Dinner Theater or Children’s Theater Company or remember her as a mime or dancer with Ken DeLappe’s Ozone or Zoe Sealy’s MN Jazz Dance Company, and other independent choreographers.

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Studio Stories is back for its 13th season beginning with Maria Genné, Episode 143.

Maria is the founder and director of Kairos Alive, a national award winning dance company that creates interactive dance, music and story programs for intergenerational participants designed to tap into the artistry and creativity of older adults and invite them to be central collaborators in the artistic process of dance, music and storytelling.

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Join ARENA DANCES for our Studio Stories podcast, where we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history. This week, we finish out Season 12 with Rita Mustaphi for Episode 142!

Join ARENA DANCES for our Studio Stories podcast, where we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history. This week, we hear from Christian Burns for Season 12, Episode 141!

Christian Burns is a teaching artist, performer, and choreographer. His body of work is built upon interdisciplinary projects relating to the intersection of improvisation, choreography, and training. Some of his collaborators include Hope Mohr, Bobbi Jene Smith, Alessio Silvestrin, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Eric Beauschsne, Shinichi Lova-Koga, and Kirstie Simson among others. He was a guest artist with The Forsythe Company and a member of both Alonzo King Lines Ballet and James Sewell Ballet among others. He helped create burnsWORK, The Foundry, and Parsons Hall Project Space.

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