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Dance

Cirque de Petrouchka

James Sewell Ballet plans to add a dash of circus antics to this creepy Russian classic.

January 2009

by Lightsey Darst

Dance: A still from Admittance

Collateral Damage

Matthew Smith’s Admittance is a moving, jarring mix of the living and the mechanical, and it is an exploration of the consequences of denial.

December 2008

Dance: Ballet of the Dolls's Born to Be Alive

Disco Dolls

Ballet of the Dolls’s Born to Be Alive seeks to reveal the human interior of the 1980s disco scene, particularly the sadness that pervaded disco lyrics and dance floors.

November 2008

Indoor/Outdoor Flamenco Romeria/Marchita

Indoor/Outdoor Flamenco

Romeria/Marchita offers a seemingly contradictory mix: a flamenco stage production that mixes site-specific video with literary sources to portray a contemporary environmental drama.

October 2008

Forward Momentum

Forward Momentum

Get your Momentum going, and check out these new choreographers!

July 2008

Citizens of Dance

Citizens of Dance

With powerful dance, Ananya Dance Theatre resists environmental injustice—and moves forward.

June 2008

Passage from India

Cultural fusion and fierce dancing help bring Ragamala Music and Dance Theater’s style to life.

May 2008

Flying Foot Forum's French Twist

Faux-French Fun

Fun is the theme at French Twist, the newest production of the Flying Foot Forum.

May 2008

A Step Forward

Shapiro & Smith Dance company performs Miniatures--a series of heightened, intimate vignettes.

April 2008

A Physical Wreck

A Physical Wreck

Black Label Movement artistic director Carl Flink's new piece, "Wreck," is a rough, dangerous work that imagines what it's like to be trapped in an ore boat sinking to the bottom of Lake Superior.

January 2008

Ballet dancer

Fantastically Nutty

Behind the scenes, a lot happens in this forty-three-year-old Nutcracker production that you would never guess from watching the show.

December 2007

Zenon Dance Company

Crazy Energy

Zenon Dance Company has survived for twenty-five years by knowing who is going to be hot in modern dance well before the rest of us.

November 2007

Ugly, Big, and Beautiful

Ugly, Big, and Beautiful

Local dancer Mathew Janczewski’s ambitious “Ugly” examines our country’s ingrained attitudes toward beauty and behavior.

October 2007

Deep Dance

Deep Dance

New works by Deborah Jinza Thayer and Vanessa Voskuil explore the meaning and fragility of life.

September 2007

Festival of Lies

Festival of Lies

African dancer Faustin Linyekula caps off his performances with a six-hour marathon of movement.

September 2007

Houston Ballet

Fall Arts: More Dance

From ethnic to ballet to traditional, dance is all over the Twin Cities this fall.

September 2007

Hip-Hop with Heart

Hip-Hop with Heart

It’s that time of year: The Minnesota Fringe Festival is August 2–12.

August 2007

Artistic Alchemy

Artistic Alchemy

Ideas and artists collide to push the limits of collaboration in Momentum: New Dance Works.

July 2007

Collaborative Chemistry

Husband-and-wife creative team Paula Mann and Steve Paul meld dance and multimedia in their upcoming show.

June 2007

Circus or Art?

Xelias aerial performers push their physical and artistic limits in a new collaboration.

May 2007

Minnesota Dance Theatres Sam Feipel

Starting Over

Minnesota Dance Theatre lost several standout dancers, but gained young talent.

April 2007


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