Archive: Performances and Events

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Friday, April 19
8:00pm

Nic Lincoln, Gemma Isaacson, Venus de Mars

We’re back for another dance and music performance celebrating human rights. This performance dives into themes circulating around bodily autonomy, and community. Art! Conversation! Community! You’ll walk away inspired

Show runs approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Tickets will be “pay as able” with a suggested donation of $25-$35 per ticket.

A-Mill Artist Lofts
On street parking. Use the building entrance on Main Street – follow the signs. The show will take place in the Performance Hall on the main floor – walk to the right after entering the building. Our host will welcome you!

Join us for Reel Imaginings, a presentation of short films created by MotionArt director/choreographer Pam Gleason in collaboration with cinematographers Guy Wagner, Nate Gebhard, Adam Tapper, and the many multi-generational movers of MotionArt! Whether exploring humor in the mundane, suspending disbelief in unfolding absurdities, or meandering down a waterway, these films offer a fun and captivating viewing experience for people of all ages.

Total film time: 70 minutes. Informal reception following the films. Refreshments and special treats provided by Little Bettina’s.

Saturday, April 20
7:00pm – Doors open
7:30pm – Film showing: Evergreen, Last Chance, Currents, Afloat
Tickets

Sunday, April 21
2:30pm – Doors open
3:00pm – Film showing: Evergreen, Last Chance, Currents, Afloat
Tickets

Ticket Fees
General – $22
Seniors and Students – $17
Children – $12
Pay as you can is available by emailing us at info@motionartmn.org.

Join us at the Center for Performing Arts. Free on-street parking, and free parking in the lots of Lake Country School (3755 Pleasant Ave) and Venture Academy (3800 Pleasant Ave).

One weekend only! Collide Theatrical Dance Company presents Broadway Dancin’ at the Luminary Arts Center.

In this high-energy cabaret, Collide dancers will take you on a journey through a celebration of New York City and Broadway. The show will feature numbers from some of your favorite Broadway hits, including West Side Story, Sweet Charity, A Chorus Line, and more!

Join us as we explore some of the most influential dance musicals that helped shape Broadway’s history.

Saturday, April 20 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, April 21 at 2:00pm

Tickets range $34-$55 and are available online or by calling 651-395-7903, ext. 701. For group discounts and questions, please email Grace@collidetheatrical.org.

Experience a free dance performance at the National Eagle Center Amphitheatre in Wabasha MN!

Saturday, April 20
3:00pm

A collaborative project between local dance makers informed by the National Water Dance theme of “remembering waters way” and as a part of the National Water Dance festival, this is our chapter in the larger story of our watersheds and our place here in the Driftless area on Dakota territory.

April 22-27, 2024
At The Southern Theater.

The CANDY BOX Dance Festival is a week-long dynamic sampling of featured performances, master classes, and in-progress showings, hosted by ARENA DANCES and presented April 22-27, 2024 at The Southern Theater. The CANDY BOX Dance Festival features both emerging and established choreographers, Happy Hour work-in-progress performances, and dance class offerings.

Dance Classes – April 22-26, 4:00-5:15pm on The Southern Theater stage
Monday – Paula Mann
Tuesday- Sana Bangoura of Duniya Drum and Dance
Wednesday – jess pretty
Thursday – Tristan Koepke
Friday – Kaitlyn Hawkins
Tickets: $10 for single class or $25 for 5-class pass.

Happy Hour Showings – April 22-26, 5:30-6:30pm
Monday – Shannon Hartle Dolan, Kaitlyn Hawkins and Alicia Steeves
Tuesday – Kayla Schiltgen
Wednesday – Amez Dance
Thursday – Duniya Drum and Dance
Friday – Penelope Freeh
Tickets: Suggested $12 donation or $25 for pass to all Happy Hour showings; pay-as-able at door only.

Featured Artists Performances – April 25-27, 7:30pm
Tristan Koepke
Paula Mann/Time Track Productions
jess pretty

Tickets:
Before April 23: $20 online in advance; $18 student/senior.
After April 23: $27 online and at the door; $20 student/senior discount.
Saturday, April 27 at 2:00pm is pay-as-able, only at the box office.

As part of the development process of their new work Physical Prizes, join choreographer Zoë Koenig and composer Nora Nygard on Tuesday, April 23 from 12:30–1:30pm to discuss narratives of sacrifice in the signaling of artistic dedication, the role and forms of risk in performance and process, interpersonal tensions within rehearsal and performance spaces, and more. We welcome artists and art audiences of all disciplines. 

Register.

Additional upcoming events include an open rehearsal May 6 from 6:00–7:00pm at Threads Dance Nexus, and a work-in-progress showing on July 20 at 7:30pm.

Zoë Koenig is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Taja Will Ensemble presents:

Dearest Liberator, DISASTER! DISASTER! DISASTER! is a moment to metabolize climate catastrophe. Our queer Latine squad of contemporary avatars deliver a dark comedy, call to action, and awareness. We pack our “go bags” and practice all the survival strategies we’ve ever trained and retained. All the elemental energies are invited at once, WATER, AIR, FIRE, EARTH, moon, ghost, catastrophe, compost, restoration and diaspora ancestors. We call to action vibrational awareness of ecosystem solidarity, and elemental sovereignty.

Created and performed by Marisol Herling, Eric M.C. Gonzalez, Margaret Ogas and Taja Will

Performances
Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30
​Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 – ​with ASL interpretation
​Friday, April 26 at 7:30
Saturday, April 27 at 5:00 – Pre-sale tickets sold out. Tickets at the door/reach out directly for waiting list.
Doors open 20 minutes before performances.

Tickets
30 seats per performance: 20 seats on pre-sale, 10 at the door each night – they are going fast!
Our tickets ​have a sliding scale price of ​$15-50, with a suggested price of $25.

Email directly with access needs or purchase tickets and fill out questionnaire at the end with access and accomodation support.

We would like to invite the educators in our community and their students to attend this special event!

TU Dance is providing an educational performance featuring THREAT, a company project with choreography by Yusha-Marie Sorzano and other concepts and elements of the art form of dance. Our 10 dancers (including 5 dancers from TU Dance’s CULTIVATE, trainee program) welcome you to experience the connective power of dance. This educational performance is only available to students enrolled in schools throughout the district.

Thursday, April 25
10:30-11:25am
At The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University.
Cost: $3.50
For more information about THREAT and to register, click here.

TU Dance educational performance featuring THREAT is provided thanks to a generous grant provided by the Saint Paul Foundation and Bigelow Foundation.

THREAT is an evening-length work choreographed by TU Dance Guest Artist Yusha-Marie Sorzano.

THREAT is a concert dance theater work that aims to provoke an interrogation of the roles we play as individuals and communities in hierarchies. The work posits that hierarchies have the power to control our behavior and infiltrate our thoughts, even when no authority is present to enforce the rules. Using a physical language and soundscape that fuses multicultural traditions and styles of the West and the African Diaspora, this social exploration invites audiences into a modern narrative that speaks to the universal experience of authority, obedience, and rebellion.

Friday, April 26 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27 at 7:30pm

Purchase Tickets
Adult: $40
Student/Senior: $30
St. Kate’s Student: $5
Subscription information can be found here.

TU Dance is one of four dance companies participating in the pilot program The O’Shaughnessy Dance Cohort.