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Directory of Twin Cities Dance Artists and Companies*
*This is our attempt to include everyone we could think of while acknowledging that this directory could never be complete. The dance community in the Twin Cities is abundant and expanding daily. Enjoy these teasers as a way to enter into our community and discover more than you can imagine!
- Host Committee of the Twin Cities’ Dance/USA 2014 Annual Conference
Alternative Motion Project (AMP)
Contact: Kristen Howe and Joanna Lees Email: [email protected] Online: alternativemotionproject.com
Alternative Motion Project (AMP) was founded in 2011 by local dance artists Kristin Howe and Joanna Lees when they recognized a need for more performance and educational opportunities for talented dance artists in the Twin Cities. AMP aspires to become a self-sustaining professional dance company that serves communities in the Twin Cities area and elsewhere lacking in arts education and performance exposure. AMP is committed to bridging the gap between the pre-professional and accomplished professional dancer by giving quality performance opportunities where each artist can further develop their skills. AMP also sets out to transform education systems to include kinesthetic learning while channeling and nurturing creative thinking. The AMP model can ultimately be used as a template for other cities that have similar dance performance and education needs. Ananya Dance Theatre
Contact: Ananya Chatterjea Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-486-2238 Online: ananyadancetheatre.org // facebook.com/pages/Ananya-Dance-Theatre/100361914765
Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT) is a Minneapolis-based company of artists of color who create and produce original works inspired by the lives and work of women around the world. ADT’s mission is to
work artistically at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice to create a virtuosic, emotionally charged dance experience. The dances reflect the stories of ordinary lives and extraordinary dreams and struggles to invoke broader commentaries about social justice and philosophy, galvanize strong communities, and generate strength and beauty. ADT was initiated as an ensemble in 2004 and received its nonprofit status in 2006. Anat Shinar
Email: [email protected] Phone: 515-708-5344 Online: vimeo.com/anatshinar
Anat Shinar is a choreographer, dancer, writer, and educator. Her work explores how dance and performance push social and political boundaries, and investigates how social constructs are imposed upon the body. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Art and is currently working towards her Master’s degree in Arts & Cultural Leadership. As a dancer, Anat has performed the works of Carl Flink, Shapiro & Smith, Joanie Mix, Lindsay Bullock, Christopher LaPlante, BodyCartography Project, Chris Schlichting, and more. As an educator and administrator, Anat has worked with a variety of organizations, including the performing arts department of the Walker Art Center, where she utilized archived Walker commissions to develop an online educational tool with ArtsConnectEd. Anat’s choreographic works, primarily solos, have been presented at venues throughout the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and the United States. Anda Flamenco
Contact: Kristina de Sacramento Phone: 952.545.0955 Online: andaflamenco.com
Anda Flamenco Company and School is one of the USA's top flamenco dance companies. Based in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota, the company has hosted performances of both traditional flamenco puro and innovative flamenco theater throughout the Midwest. K ristina d Sacramento, the flamenco choreographer and artistic director of Anda Flamenco, is a teacher Flamenco School as well. All classes are accompanied by flamenco guitar so that the dance students may have a complete learning experience.
Angharad Davies
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-275-4540 Online: angharaddavies.net
Angharad Davies makes New Dance works that embrace emotionality and straddle the line between the sincere and the synthetic. To create her dances, she gleans from a diverse set of tools including movement, improvisational scores, text, video, and music, and she collaborates with both professional and non-professional performers. She is pro-narrative, influenced by the fragmentation of collage and mash-ups, and captivated by the hard jump cuts of film, television, and comic book art. Angharad’s choreography has been presented at venues throughout the U.S. and Germany, including Danspace Project & Joyce SoHo (NYC), Ballhaus Naunynstrasse & Radialsystem (Berlin), Bryant Lake Bowl, Patrick’s Cabaret, Ritz Theater, & Ted Mann Concert Hall (MPLS), Cleveland Museum of Art (OH), ODC (San Francisco), and Yale. Aniccha Arts
Contact: Pramila Vasudevan Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-298-6782 Online: aniccha.org // facebook.com/pages/Aniccha-Arts/124766750885436?ref=hl
Aniccha, derived from the word “anicca” in Pali, refers to the permanence of change. Aniccha Arts (2004) is a performing arts group, founded by Pramila Vasudevan, that uses dance and electronic media to interrupt public space and invoke mass response. This sense of interruption, which involves an immersive atmosphere and interaction between audience members and performers, is conveyed through kinetic presence, a mode of artistic integration that simultaneously centers visual art, sound, and a movement aesthetic rooted in contemporary Indian dance and multiple dance forms.
April Sellers Dance Collective
Contact: April Sellers Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-558-8209 Online: facebook.com/aprilsellersdancecollective // aprilsellers.com
The April Sellers Dance Collective, formed by April Sellers, has developed a unique, emotive approach to modern dance. Her choreography transforms life’s mundane moments into physical expressions of the struggle to be human. Sellers creates dance that holds up a magnifying glass to raw emotions. Past works have explored such diverse topics as women’s sexual identity (In Her Place, 2000), cultural and personal rituals of loss (Unveiling Grace, 2003), vulnerability of the body (The V Project, 2007). Her work has been performed at the Walker Art Center, Southern Theater, and Red Eye Theater. Sellers is a recipient of The 2011 McKnight Fellowship for Choreography, a 2006 Sage Award for Outstanding Performance and a 2005 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Arena Dances
Contact: Mathew Janczewski Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-804-0238 Online: arena-dances.org // facebook.com/arenadances
Formed in 1995, ARENA DANCES has created over 30 shorter works and four evening-length works and has been presented by festivals and presenters nationally—most notably the Joyce SoHo; Bates Dance Festival; and internationally in St. Petersburg, Russia; Arkanghelsk, Russia and Budapest, Hungary. ARENA is a modern dance company made up of six of Minneapolis’ finest. Janczewski constantly seeks to ask questions with his work, to discover new ways of communicating through dance, and to make work that enriches the artists and provides paths of connection for audiences.
Ballet Minnesota
Contact: Cynthia Betz Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-222-7919 Online: summerdancecamp.com
Ballet Minnesota is a classical dance company in Minnesota, United States. Located in Saint Paul in the Arts Section of Lowertown, it has served the city of Saint Paul, the Twin Cities and Minnesota for over 20 years. Founded by Andrew and Cheryl Rist, Ballet Minnesota is dedicated to creating and sharing artistry in dance through public presentations and education. Ballet of the Dolls
Contact: Myron Johnson Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-327-3350 Online: ritzdolls.com
A full-time, professional company based in Minneapolis, Ballet of the Dolls was established in 1986. Founder and artistic director, Myron Johnson, sought to create conditions under which adventurous dancers could experiment freely and freshly with the conventions of their art, drawing on the languages of other performance disciplines and evolving a distinctive theatricality that would stimulate and entertain audiences across the broadest possible spectrum. B-Boy J-Sun
Contact: Jason Noer Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-707-6907 Online: mnoriginal.org/episode/506-the-okee-dokee-brothers-b-boy-j-sun/b-boy-j-sun
As a respected figure in the Twin Cities hip hop community, Jason Noer, a.k.a B-boy J-Sun, is committed to teaching younger generations both the cultural history of hip hop and the techniques behind hip hop dancing. Being a B-boy or a B-girl is not simply about the dancing or the music, J-Sun explains, but rather about understanding an entire foundation that includes the DJ, the MC/rapper and the graffiti artists. Known for his breakdancing, J-Sun has curated and performed in a trilogy of performances at The Cowles Center titled “Hip Hop.” Together with fellow hip hop artists Arturo Miles, AnnieUp, Dancin’ Dave, Nicki Cullinan, Suga Mama and StepChild, Hip Hop showcases the historically improvisation-based genre through the lens of contemporary choreography on the stage.
Black Label Movement
Contact: Carl Flink Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-812-3260 Online: blacklabelmovement.com
Black Label Movement (BLM) is a Minneapolis/St. Paul-based dance company dedicated to creating wildly physical, naturally virtuosic, intellectually and emotionally engaging art. Led by choreographer and 2012 McKnight Choreography Fellow Carl Flink, this collective of movement artists seeks to push the mind, body, and heart to the edge of what is possible and beyond. Blake Nellis
Email: [email protected] Phone: 920-559-0262 Online: facebook.com/blake.nellis
Dancer/choreographer Blake Nellis was called “one of the Twin Cities’ most exciting movement improvisers” by the Red Eye Theater. Blake is a freelance performance artist, teacher and improviser.
He graduated from Luther College with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Dance and has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S. Blake’s unique movement style is inspired by his experience with athletics, circus, acting, music, photography and film. BodyCartography Project
Contact: Olive Bieringa Email: [email protected] Phone: 917-463-9300 Online: bodycartography.org
As co-directors of the BodyCartography Project, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad investigate empathy and the physicality of space in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes through dance, performance, video and installation work. Our works range from intimate solos for the street or stage to large community dance works in train stations, from short experimental films in national parks to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video and sound. We have created numerous performance works, short films and installations across the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America including a commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet. Breaking Boundaries Dance Company
Contact: Deborah Johnson Email: [email protected] Online: breakingboundariesdanceco.com
Breaking Boundaries is a cutting-edge and innovative contemporary dance company based in Minneapolis, MN. Since its debut at the Southern Theater in 2010, Breaking Boundaries has quickly become one of Minnesota's hottest up and coming dance companies. The company's mission is to break the boundaries of traditional styles of dance and push the envelope in creativity, choreography, artistry and innovation. Breaking Boundaries is something new, fresh, and different from what the Twin Cities dance scene has to offer. The company features contemporary dance - a mix of jazz, ballet, modern, lyrical and hip-hop - creating a unique style of movement that dancers and non-dancers alike can appreciate and enjoy. The company's versatility, variety, and entertaining flair have received rave reviews from Minnesota audiences.
Buckets and Tap Shoes
Contact: Andy Ausland & Rick Ausland Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-336-9220 Online: bucketsandtapshoes.com
Founded in 2004 by brothers Rick and Andy Ausland, Minneapolis-based Buckets and Tap Shoes is an explosive, high-energy rhythmic experience. The multi-talented performers have astounded worldwide audiences with their dancing, and create music with plastic and metal buckets, tap shoes, guitars, drums, bass and keys. The New York Times called them “utterly brilliant.” Chris Schlichting
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-874-7598
Chris Schlichting won City Pages’ 2013 Choreographer of the Year for his piece Matching, a quartet that simultaneously serves as an ode to and a deconstruction of virtuosic (codified vs. vernacular) dance structure and form. The tightly wrought work, framed within a strikingly stark, flower-patterned set, was filled with fine character subtleties, intelligent movement choices, and the cleverest hints of subversion. Schlichting's dancers (Mary Ann Bradley, Krista Langberg, Dustin Maxwell, Laura Selle Virtucio, and Max Wirsing) dug deep into his choreographic choices to realize a completely original vision of a world wholly defined by the unsettling dichotomies between beauty and its opposites. This artist proved that a well designed, perfectly cast, and thoughtfully realized work does not need to be epic in scope to make a lasting impact.
Chris Yon
Email: [email protected] Phone: 347-546-5079 Online: chrisyon.net
Chris Yon, choreographer and performer was born in 1980 in Los Angeles. Based in Brooklyn through most of the ’00s, he currently lives and works in Minneapolis. As a performer, he has worked with and for Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Justin Jones, Karinne Keithley, David Neumann, Rudy Perez, Basil Twist, and Kristin Van Loon. Yon’s choreographies have been presented nationally and internationally at Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, La Mama, Symphony Space, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Gershwin Hotel, CBGB’s, The Knitting Factory, Walker Art Center, The Southern Theater, Bryant Lake Bowl, Philadelphia Dance Project, Velocity Dance Center, Highways Performance Space, Project Art Centre (Dublin), Tangente (Montreal), and CiteDanse (Grenoble). His work has been commissioned by four repertory companies: The Wooden Floor (Santa Ana), Statens Teaterskolen (Copenhagen), Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Dublin) and d9 dance collective (Seattle). Named a “Very Young Hot Shot” in The Village Voice and among “25 Dancers to Watch” in Dance Magazine. He has had residencies and space grants from The Yard, SILO and BAX.Co-founder of Ur, your neighborhood dance palace, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2003-2005. He is a recipient of the 2005 BESSIE Award for Performance, the 2009 SAGE Award for Choreography, and the 2011 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreography. Chris holds a BFA from New York University. Christopher Watson Dance Company
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-670-0839 Online: christopherwatsondance.org
The Christopher Watson Dance Company (CWDC) was established in 1991 to present the choreography of Artistic Director Christopher Watson. Its mission was originally to provide high quality, meaningful dance experiences to people of all ages through training, audience education and performance. It has expanded to include producing collaborative performances showcasing the work of many artists and companies.
COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company
Contact: Regina Peluso Email: [email protected] Phone: 646-436-8853 Online: collidetheatrical.org
COLLIDE is a performing arts company dedicated to creating new works that are rooted in classical Musical Theater Jazz Dance and inspired by the influences of Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse. We bring together Twin Cities dancers, musicians, vocalists, actors, spoken word artists, playwrights, choreographers and directors to create original Broadway-style theatrical works. Contempo Physical Dance
Contact: Marciano Silva dos Santos, Jenny Pennaz Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-619-4116 Online: contempophysicaldance.org // facebook.com/ContempoPhysical
Contempo Physical Dance aspires to be internationally recognized for its dynamic fusion of Afro-Brazilian dance, capoeira and contemporary dance. The company is dedicat research, the creation of vibrant new move- ment, and the performance of dance works that challenge human physicality and invigorate audiences everywhere. Founder, artistic director and choreographer, Marciano Silva dos Santos, is a native of Brazil and came to the United States after being recognized by the American Folkloric Society as a culturally diverse artist of exceptional merit. His rigorous approach to body-based research produces distinct Brazilian-imbued movement palettes and highly physical choreographic works.
Continental Ballet
Contact: Genevieve Spooner Email: [email protected] Phone: 952-563-8561 Online: continentalballet.com
Continental Ballet Company’s mission is to enrich the community by preserving the art of classical ballet through professional performances, dance development, and educational programs. Every effort is made to make the art of ballet accessible to a greater audience and to share knowledge and passion for the art of classical ballet. DANCEBUMS
Contact: Maggie Zepp Email: [email protected]
DANCEBUMS is made up of Kara Motta, Margaret Johnson, Karen Gullikson, Eben Kowler, and Maggie Zepp. They make rigorous dances based on themes of love, friendship, and partying. Duniya Drum and Dance
Contact: Whitney McClusky Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-338-5409
Online: duniyadrumanddance.org
Duniya Drum and Dance exists to build a diverse community in support of the arts of the African Diaspora, specifically drum and dance. Duniya strives to provide a platform for artists to offer educational opportunities to a broad audience in Minnesota, the Midwest and the United States. Eclectic Edge Ensemble
Contact: Karis Sloss Online: eclecticedgeensemble.com
Eclectic Edge Ensemble (EEE) is a contemporary jazz dance company with a diverse repertoire, collaborating with local musicians, choreographers, and other artists to create musically and theatrically inspired work. We present a fresh perspective on jazz dance in the Twin Cities by creating accessible performance experiences that connect to audiences through the joy of movement. Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dances
Online: catalystdance.com // facebook.com/emilyjohnsoncatalyst?v=wall // vimeo.com/channels/77404
Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Originally from Alaska, she is currently based in Minneapolis. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment—interacting with a place’s architecture, history, and role in the community. Her work is made and tours with support from National Dance Project, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Map Fund, and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. She is a 2012 Headlands Artist in Residence and Alpert/MacDowell Colony recipient. Her current work, Niicugni, is commissioned by PS122, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Northrop Concerts and Lectures, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Vermont Performance Lab, and TigerTail Productions.
Ethnic Dance Theatre
Contact: Donald LaCourse Phone: 763-545-1333 Email: [email protected] Online: ethnicdancetheatre.com
Ethnic Dance Theatre (EDT) is an award-winning company dedicated to the artistic performance and preservation of world music, song and dance. Since its founding in 1974, EDT has brought over 50 different cultures and traditions to life in colorful and spellbinding performances. EDT dancers perform to live music by the EDT Folk Orchestra, and the company’s extensive repertoire of folk dance and music includes such diverse countries as Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tibet, Turkey, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. . .to name but a few!
Fire Drill
Contact: Emily Gastineau & Billy Mullaney Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Online: fire-drill.org // facebook.com/firedrillperformance
Fire Drill is the artistic collaboration of Emily Gastineau and Billy Mullaney. They work along the disciplinary boundaries of dance, theater, and performance art, conducting experiments around the notion of contemporary and how art is meant to be watched. On Minnesota Playlist, Gastineau and Mullaney were named the "Best Number One Artists of All Time": "If you want to know where the future of [performance] art is going, hang out with Emily and Billy. They are committed to investigation, and they won't stop. Thank you for testing the water, and rocking the boat, and never looking for a life-vest." Emily's background is in dance, and extends to performance art, research and criticism. Billy's background is in theater, focusing on devised performance, physical theater, choreography, and experimental ritual.
Hijack
Contact: Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-229-0585 (Van Loon), 612-816-7934 (Wilder) Online: facebook.com/hijackdance
HIJACK is the choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder. Specializing in the inappropriate, our short-short dances are designed to deliver a sharp shock. We built our fan following by performing at parties and opening for bands and movies. In 1996, our Take Me To Cuba was the first dance concert at Bryant Lake Bowl. Fetish toured to Bates, Fuse Box, ODC, Velocity, PS122, caused an evacuation of the Philadelphia Airport, and was “one of my favorite dances of 2004” according to Tere O’Connor. We enjoy a long-term collaboration with po-mo hero Scott Heron with whom we recently toured. Hiponymous
Contact: Evy Muench & Renée Copeland Email: [email protected] Online: facebook.com/Hiponymous
Hiponymous is a newly founded crew of two, comprised of Renée Copeland and Evy Muench. The duo has created seven original works since June 2012. They have had the pleasure of performing in recent events such as Choreographer’s Evening at the Ritz, Pleasure Rebel at Bryant Lake Bowl, the Trash/Vogue Benefit Show, and Elements in Translation at Patrick’s Cabaret. With dynamic grit and an ever-evolving aesthetic, Hiponymous is committed to making work that values community, social justice, and queer/feminist representations.
Jaime Carrera
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-729-9124 Online: vimeo.com/jaimecarrera
Jaime Carrera is a self-taught, independent, multidisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, México. His work has been exhibited, screened and performed in various spaces, both nationally and internationally. Jaime self-funds his work with back-breaking labor. He has garnered a loving and devoted following due to his unpretentious and accessible approach to modern art. James Sewell Ballet
Contact: George Sutton Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-672-0480 (work); 612-840-1392 (cell) Online: jsballet.org
James Sewell Ballet creates and performs contemporary ballet. The ensemble performs in its home city of Minneapolis three times annually, and has toured to more than 300 domestic and international venues since its founding in 1990. The company seeks to lead by example, using its programming, communications, and organizational capacity to promote geographic, intellectual, and aesthetic accessibility.
Jawaahir Dance
Contact: Cassandra Shore Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-872-6050 Online: jawaahir.org
Based squarely in the Twin Cities and touring throughout the region and beyond, world-renowned Jawaahir is the only professional dance company in the entire Midwest that focuses solely on dance and music of the Arabic-speaking Middle East. Jawaahir is a leader in sustaining the broad diversity of arts experiences and cultural communities that enliven Minnesota’s quality of life. Jennifer Arave
Email: [email protected] Phone: 642-432-1512 Online: jenniferarave.com
Jennifer Arave is a conceptual choreographer who uses various modes: movement/dance, performing objects* and sound to create performance installation.** Her work has a “do-it-yourself” style, i.e. stripped-down, recognizable, and visible performance devices. Education: MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, Performance Theory, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, BFA Directing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. *An object wherein its form and representations hold specific meaning in relationship to the performer(s)/persona and therefore dictate the potential choreographic action. ** Work where environmental elements are either expanded beyond or reduced within to define and contain the performance as if it was installed within the environment.
Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum
Contact: Joe Chvala Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-825-4291 Online: flyingfootforum.com
Flying Foot Forum is a vibrant and bold percussive dance/theater company that fuses percussion and percussive dances with many other forms of music, dance and theater, telling unusual tales, creating a wild variety of characters, and exploring universal ideas in inventive and exciting new ways. Judith Howard
Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-245-5222 Online: 3minuteegg.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/judith-howard-reclaiming-her-art/
A Twin Cities based artist, Judith has also presented her work and workshops nationally and internationally. Judith is a somatics based choreographer and teacher whose early dance training included Erick Hawkins and Twyla Tharp. She has also studied BMC, Craniosacral Therapy, Laban Movement Analysis and Orthobionomy. Judith has received several Jerome Foundation Grants and a McKnight choreographic fellowship. She is a three-time nominee for the Sage Award for “Outstanding Dance Educator” and a recipient of the Sage Award for “Outstanding Performance.” Judith was selected “Best Choreographer” by the City Pages in 2005. She currently works independently with a pick-up “company” of like-minded dancers/ performers, leaning more towards experimental dance installation, combining formal structure, improvisation, and a preoccupation with fabric. She likes alternative spaces and traditional theater venues equally.
Justin Jones
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-770-5348 Online: mnartists.org/Justin_Jones // facebook.com/justin.jones.79069
Justin Jones is a choreographer, dancer and sound designer. His choreography has been seen in Minneapolis at Bryant Lake Bowl, Red Eye, the Southern Theater and Walker Art Center; in New York at The Thalia Theater @ Symphony Space, LaMama Etc., Sarah Lawrence University, EMPAC and three times as part of the CATCH series; and in Seattle at Velocity. He is the recipient of the 2007 McKnight Fellowship for Choreography and was awarded a 2003 NYFA Fellowship for Performance Art/Multidisciplinary work for his collaborative work with Chris Yon. Justin has danced in choreography by Chris Schlichting, Dylan Skybrook/Catherine Sullivan/Sean Griffin, Morgan Thorson, Karen Sherman, Chris Yon, and he was a member of Tere O’Connor Dance Co. from 2001–04. Justin creates sound design for his own choreography and for other dance makers, including Ivy Baldwin and Chris Yon. Jones is also the resident choreographer of Opera Povera, a multimedia opera collective based in Los Angeles, and he is the host/producer of TALK DANCE, a series of podcast interviews exploring Walker Art Center’s dance programming. Kaleena Miller Dance
Contact: Kaleena Miller Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-210-8270 Online: kaleenamiller.com // facebook.com/kaleenamillerdance
Kaleena Miller is a choreographer and performer based in Minneapolis. She makes percussive dance works with and without shoes. In 2011, she w as c work for their Momentum series. Additionally, she has received grants and funding from the Jerome Foundation. In Minneapolis, Kaleena hosts a live music in tap dance jam called The Cutting Board. She is a three-time Sage Award recipient, and holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota. As a performer, she has recently spent her time touring nationally and internationally with Rhythmic Circus’ Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!
Karen Sherman
Email: [email protected] Phone: 917-374-7627 Online: karenshermanperformance.org
Karen Sherman moved to Minneapolis from NYC in 2004. Her work has been presented by PS 122, Danspace Project, Walker Art Center, Fusebox Festival, Studio 303, ODC, and many others. She has received numerous awards for her w ork as a choreographer, perform er, and designer, including a 2007 Bessie Award for her performance in Morgan Thorson’s Faker, McKnight Fellowships in Choreography and Dance, a Bush Artist Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Movement Research Artist Residency, and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Liguria, Italy. She is also a sound and scenic designer, production manager, and singer. Her writing is featured in the upcoming Movement Research Performance Journal and a forthcoming poetry anthology from Off The Park Press. Katha Dance Theatre
Contact: Rita Mitra Mustaphi Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-533-0756 Online: kathadance.org Founded in 1987 by Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi, Katha Dance Theatre (KDT) is rooted in classical Kathak dance of north India. The Katha Dance Theatre Company and School promotes traditional Kathak and extends its boundaries with creative innovation. KDT performances are designed to educate with an emphasis on access, community, and audience development. The theatre’s repertoires embrace interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary productions as well as the collaboration of dance and live theater while including contemporary socially relevant themes.
Kenna Cottman
Online: kennacottman.com
I create contemporary dance work to explore ideas. I’m a kinesthetic learner, and I found that I investigate, ask questions, research and gain understanding by making dances. I’m really interested in Black dance forms: Jazz, Hip Hop, West African. I’m interested in questions about ancestry, and whether or not it is even important when it comes to the art we make. Laurie Van Wieren
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-501-2551 Online: laurievanwieren.com
Laurie Van Wieren’s dance work is noted for its attention to visual, wry humor, and idiosyncratic vocabulary. Her work considers the dancer as archivist, the stage as a visual and social landscape, and choreography as a lens to experience and distort art. Her work has been seen in Dancespace, DTW, Links Hall, Walker Art Center, Fabrik, Potsdam, Germany, and Art of Movement Festival-Yaroslavl, Russia. She is th Foundations. In 2011, she received a Sage Award for Dance, Outstanding Performance for her retrospective: Who Made These Video Tapes? Leralee Whittle/ F O R C E S
Contact: Leralee Whittle Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-642-1188 Online: leraleewhittle.com // facebook.com/leralee.whittle
Leralee Whittle / F O R C E S is an independent choreographer who creates contemporary performance and dance for stage and video. She works with “pick-up companies,” performs solo and in collaboration with composer Paul Sprawl, as well as collaborators working in other media. Her videos are created for live performance, festivals, galleries and on-line presentation. Leslie O’Neill
Online: facebook.com/lesliebrianne?fref=ts
An accomplished performer and a 2010 recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Dancers, Leslie O’Neill captivates audiences with astounding grace and a commanding stage presence. As a choreographer, she has been working primarily in solo form, creating such pieces as Trigger, which was mentioned in the Star Tribune’s “Top 5 Dance Events of 2009.” O’Neill is currently a member of Zenon Dance Company and was nominated for a 2009 Sage Award for her performances with Black Label Movement and Zenon. Leslie presented a new work, Fortress, in the 2013 Momentum Series at the Southern Theatre. Live Action Set
Contact: Noah Bremer Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-501-6614 Online: liveactionset.org
Live Action Set is a Minneapolis-based physical theater performance company founded in 2003 by four directors/choreographers/performers, Noah Bremer, Galen Treuer, Megan Odell, and Vanessa Voskuil. Committed to creating original, ensemble-driven performances that dissolve boundaries between artistic disciplines the company's productions have been widely hailed as "courageous", "beautiful" and "daring." Live Action Set believes in the power of collaboration to make a difference in their community. We attempt to achieve the impossible: to create visually poetic, wildly imaginative, and
intellectually accessible performance experiences that harness the indefinable power of the human spirit.
Lucas Daniel Dance Company
Contact: Luke Olson-Elm Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-554-2623 Online: lukeolsonelm.com
Olson-Elm’s work has an exceptional quality of individuality as he draws upon inspiration from multiple dance genres, ranging from classical ballet to hip hop. He creates work with the desire to move audiences as he strives to make a genuine connection. His movement quality can be described as energetic, flowing, sharp, isolated, expansive, robotic, smooth, powerful, explosive, languid, and involving. As an up-and-coming choreographer from Minneapolis, Olson-Elm has already been nominated for a SAGE Award for outstanding dance performance. He brings a new energy to the dance community, and he’s hoping to share his voice with the world. Mad King Thomas
Online: madkingthomas.com // facebook.com/madkingthomas // twitter.com/madkingthomas
Mad King Thomas is the choreographic collaboration of Tara King, Theresa Madaus and Monica Thomas. Through dance and performance, Mad King Thomas participates joyfully, deliberately and irreverently in the concerns of life. They make work to process the world, in all its beautiful glory and colossal failure, and to find and understand their place in it. They believe in muddying conventional narratives and expanding our shared sense of what is possible. They do this by mocking what is and questioning what was, hoping to shake up what will be. Their mission statement is: “Making things more awesome.” Founded in 2004, Mad King Thomas has received a 2008 SAGE Award, commissions from the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater, and fellowship support from Art(ists) on the Verge, Blacklock Artist Residency and Naked Stages.
Megan Mayer
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-203-8446 Online: meganmayer.com
Megan Mayer is a dance artist based in Minneapolis. Her dances resonate with audiences by fusing nuanced imagery gleaned from vulnerable situations with a strong sense of m and comic timing. She excels at revealing and showcasing performers’ distinctive personalities and characteristics in her dances. Mayer’s work has been generously supported by a 2012 residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in Tallahassee, FL through a pilot partnership with The McKnight Foundation in collaboration with Springboard for the Arts. Mayer is a recipient of a 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers, and a 2010 Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grant. Minnesota Dance Theatre
Contact: Lise Houlton Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-338-0627 Online: mndance.org
With a history spanning over half a century, Minnesota Dance Theatre & the Dance Institute is an acclaimed arts leader in our state, our region and in the nation. The mission of Minnesota Dance Theatre & the Dance Institute is to create masterful and provocative dance performances, which entertain and inspire audiences, and to foster talent by providing a comprehensive classical and contemporary training curriculum focused on the technical and artistic demands of a professional dance career. Minnesota Dance Theatre & the Dance Institute remains one of Minnesota’s cultural treasures with an eclectic international voice.
Minnesota Ballet
Contact: Robert Gardner Email: [email protected] Phone: 218-529-3742 Online: minnesotaballet.org
Since its founding in 1965, the Duluth-based Minnesota Ballet has aimed to preserve and advance the art of ballet, to increase access to ballet, and to use the Minnesota Ballet’s resources to serve the greater community. Morgan Thorson
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-221-3416
Morgan Thorson investigates movement and the body as a purveyor of culturally, socially and kinesthetically relevant life experience. Her stage productions combine movement, light, sound and objects; always considering the representation of the body, the work of her collaborators and her relationship to the history of the field. Her work is a form of itinerant labor that is crafted through the process of entering, sharing and leaving communities world-wide. Morgan is a 2011 USA Artists Friends Fellow. She has received many awards for her work including the Fused Program in 2011, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, The McKnight Fellowship in Choreography in 2009 & 2002, The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Fellowship in 2009 and 2011; and The Jerome Foundation from 1998-2007. In 2012, she was in residence at the Centre Choreographique National De Franche-Comte in Belfort, France, and a MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow. Morgan was “Best Choreographer” of 2010 awarded by the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Pages for her work, Heaven, commissioned by Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Performance Space 122 in New York and DiverseWorks in Houston. In 2007 she created the site-specific work Docudrama for which she received a 2007 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography and “Best Choreographer” of 2008 by the City Pages. Her work Faker, commissioned by Walker Art Center, received a 2006 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography as well. Other honors also include 2010 Dance To Go award; and The Bessie Schonberg Memorial Fellowship in 2004, and commissions from James Sewell Ballet and Zenon Dance Company.
Movement Architecture
Contact: Deborah Jinza Thayer Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-382-4843 Online: movementarchitecture.com
After spending her first six years in Japan and Southeast Asia, Deborah Jinza Thayer grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received an MFA in Dance from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, V of dance and theater in structured environments. She has presented approximately 60 original w Minneapolis, New York City, and the Washington D.C. metro region. Some of the awards include being a two-time semi-finalist for France’s Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet) in 1999 and 2001, and receiving a 2010 SAGE Award for Choreographic Concept and Design. Fellowships include a 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers, 2006 Associate Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a 2010 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship. She has received additional support from the Minnesota State Arts Board (1999, 2002, 2009), American Composers Forum (2006, 2011), and Jerome Foundation (2006). She currently teaches technique and composition at Zenon Dance Company and School in Minneapolis. Native Pride Arts
Contact: Larry Yazzie Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-414-8566 Online: nativepridearts.org
We celebrate the spirit and beauty of Indigenous peoples! We honor the uniqueness and history of First Nations including Sac and Fox Tribe of Meskwaki Nation, Lakota Nation of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Ojibwe, Dakota, Menominee, Cree, Ho-Chunk, Dine’(Navajo) and various other tribes. As individual artists, we join together as one! We honor our elders through many beautiful forms like music, dance and storytelling to reflect our rich cultural history and customs passed down from
generation to generation. We share the true history of bravery, fortitude, generosity and wisdom. We are passionately devoted to keeping our traditions alive. Our mission is to educate, inspire, motivate and empower diverse communities to bridge cultural gaps through Indigenous traditions. Nic Lincoln
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612.388.7721 Online: niclincoln.com // facebook.com/#!/nicolas.lincoln
Nic Lincoln is a dance artist and activist who views dance as an opportunity to inspire and inform. He insists on bringing innovative new work into direct conversation with contemporary thought and culture. As an advocate for the GLBT community, he uses his artistic voice as a way to heighten awareness. Driven by his desire to cultivate activism, he is able to resonate with audiences in an innovative way and pioneers emotionally infused art. He is an instinctive seeker of beauty through the creative expressions of dance and often uses pop-art as a mode of exploration for his unique voice. Off-Leash Area
Contact: Jennifer Ilse Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-724-7372 Online: offleasharea.org
Off-Leash Area is a design and movement collaboration between Jennifer Ilse (choreographer, dancer, director), and Paul Herwig (scenic designer, performer, director). With a playful disregard for artistic boundaries, OLA has created 25 full-length productions over 13 years.
Penelope Freeh
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-822-6395 Online: penelopefreeh.com
Penelope Freeh is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer. She has been making dances since 1999. While her work honors classicism and rigorous formality, she also has a thirst for manipulating them. Among her numerous awards are two McKnight Artist Fellowships for Choreographers (2010) and Dancers (1998), and a SAGE Award for Outstanding Performer (2010). Commissions include the Walker Art Center/Southern Theater’s Momentum (2004). Residencies include MANCC, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (2012). Penelope danced for James Sewell Ballet for seventeen years, serving as Artistic Associate from 2007–11. She is affiliate faculty at the University of Minnesota. Present State Movement
Contact: Tamara Ober Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-228-3405 Online: facebook.com/tamara.ober
Tamara Ober is a solo creator/producer/performer of multidisciplinary work. Her vision is most closely related to the work of Ralph Lemon and Cynthia Hopkins. Tamara’s mission is to create an honest, visceral experience, and insight into personal and social humanity and its evolution. Ragamala Dance
Contact: Louise Robinson Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-325-9348 Online: ragamala.net // facebook.com/ragamala
Acclaimed as one of the Indian diaspora’s leading dance ensembles, Ragamala Dance seamlessly carries Bharatanatyam into the 21st century. Informed by the echoing past and the fleeting present, Artistic Directors Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy’s evocative choreography defies chronology. They embrace the philosophy, spirituality, myth and mysticism of their heritage to create not works but worlds—visceral, universal experiences that use Indian art forms to express their contemporary point of view. Rhythmic Circus
Contact: Nick Bowman Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-242-2918 Online: rhythmiccircus.com/index.php
Rhythmic Circus is a troupe of internationally renowned artists. Since their early start at a small theatre in northeast Minneapolis, they have grown into an international sensation touring to over 100 cities worldwide. Although the company’s official inception was in 2007, the troupe's core members have been choreographing and performing together since 2000. No stranger to the spotlight, they were featured on Twin City Public Television's MN Original, collaborated with Vocal Essence in Witness: A Tribute to Duke Ellington at the Ordway Performing Arts Center and appeared in the Crash Bang Boom! Festival at the Minnesota Orchestra Hall. The company’s repute goes well beyond the sum of the dancer's talents; themed pieces include costume changes and musical segues that highlight the funky styling of a seven-piece band. With their combined and highly integrated talents, the dancers and musicians are known for leaving audiences on their feet and dancing in the aisles. Rosy Simas Danse
Contact: Rosy Simas Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-719-9605
Online: rosysimas.com
Native American contemporary choreographer Rosy Simas (Seneca) has been making and teaching dance for 20 years. Her work has been presented in Minnesota, Montréal, Wisconsin, New York and California. Simas views involvement in community as essential to living and art making. As well as presenting her own work, through Rosy Simas Danse, she is committed to creating opportunities for other dance makers and artists to present their work. Simas has received grants and commissions from the MN Women’s Fund, MRAC/McKnight Next Step, MN Dance Alliance, COMPAS, MSAB, Jerome/Intermedia Arts, the Loft Literary Center and Momentum (Walker Art Center/Southern Theater). Sally Rousse
Online: sallyrousse.com
Named “Artist of the Year” (City Pages), Rousse has performed as a leading dancer with Ballet Chicago, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and James Sewell Ballet. In addition to many roles in the classical and Balanchine repertoires, Sally has danced works by Maurice Béjart, Jiri Kylián, and more than 75 works created on her by contemporary choreographers. She received a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dancers (2001). Rousse's work as a choreographer has been supported by diverse venues and organizations: the Southern Theater, Walker Art Center, VocalEssence, Marshall Field's, Harvard's American Repertory Theatre, the Cartoon Channel, Nickelodeon, Omaha Ballet, James Sewell Ballet, 3-Legged Race, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the McKnight Foundation. She co-created the aerial/dance/theater pieces Floor Show (2003) with Homer Avila and Awedville (2004) with James Sewell. Trickpony (2002), her collaboration with Chelsea Bacon, headed the 2002 list of top ten dance events in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Recent grants include funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board to develop an independent artistic profile and a Jerome Travel/Study grant to Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany where Rousse will engage in an aesthetic dialogue about the state of ballet and her place in it. Samantha Johns
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-385-6298 Online: samanthajohns.carbonmade.com
Samantha Johns is a graduate from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Theater Arts. Johns divides her time between directing, acting, choreography, scenic designing and scenic painting. Johns has worked with such companies as Bedlam Theatre, Jungle Theater, History Theater, Penumbra Theater, Flaneur Theatre, Four Humors Theatre, CatFish, and Anagram Painting. Director of Dali's Liquid Ladies [#1 in Daily Planet's top ten productions of 2009], with playwright Savannah Reich, and co-creator of The Thing [#1 in Daily Planet's top ten productions of 2010] with George McConnell and crew. She is currently trying to find a future for this thing we call Theatre. Shapiro & Smith Dance
Contact: Joanie Smith Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-879-0863 Online: shapiroandsmithdance.org
Shapiro & Smith Dance has an international reputation for virtuosity, substance and pure abandonment. Its works go from provocative to absurdly hilarious. S&SD has been presented at the Joyce Theater (NYC), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), the Milan Festival (Italy), and ADF Korea. Commissions have come from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Phoenix Dance Company of Leeds, UK; PACT Dance Company of South Africa and Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago. S&SD Artistic Director Joanie Smith has received an NEA Fellowship in Choreography, and been named a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Helsinki, Finland, and a 2010 “Artist of The Year,” from City Pages (Minneapolis). St. Paul City Ballet
Contact: Zoé Emilie Henrot Email: [email protected]
Phone: 651-690-1588 Online: spcballet.org
SPCB maintains a repertoire of classical, neo-classical and contemporary works, ranging from full-length story ballets to original works by its own choreographers as well as those on the cusp of being discovered. Saint Paul City Ballet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to rejoice in the beauty and immediacy of dance with the widest possible audience and lift the human spirit through the art of ballet, to provide the finest dance education, reduce barriers to involvement in the art of dance, and perform a vibrant repertory with a passion for the highest level of excellence. Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Contact: Stuart Pimsler Email: [email protected] Phone: 763-521-7738 Online: stuartpimsler.com // facebook.com/SPDTPimsler
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater is an internationally recognized performance company founded by Suzanne Costello and Stuart Pimsler in New York City in 1979. SPDT has toured extensively throughout the U.S., including presentations at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow and the American Dance Festival among many others. Internationally, SPDT has been presented in Israel, Taiwan, Russia, Canada, and Bermuda. In 2012, SPDT will be one of two U.S. companies to perform at the Internationale Tanzmesse in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Mr. Pimsler will be a guest artist at the Beijing Modern Dance Festival in China. SuperGroup
Contact: Jeffrey Wells Email: [email protected] Phone: 646-498-7565 Online: supergroupshow.biz // facebook.com/pages/SuperGroup/124646850302?ref=hl
SuperGroup is a performance ensemble creating work that emerges from meticulous creation processes rooted in the body, using the fundamental tools of im prov
rigorously and playfully question the forms and content of performance making, revealing our processes in our w ork as a w Since our inception in 2008, SuperGroup has created four full-length works, three dance film shorts, and several other short pieces and structured improvisations. Our work has been produced and presented at venues around Minneapolis, including: The Southern Theater, The Red Eye Theater, The Bryant Lake Bowl, The Bedlam Theatre, and The Walker Art Center. SuperGroup was nominated for a Minnesota Sage Award for Outstanding Ensemble for our season of work during 2010–11. Taja Will
Email: [email protected] Online: tajawill.com
Choreographer, performer Taja Will creates work using the moving body to explore realities of social consciousness. She delves into images, emotions and ideas in the creative process, and her performances parallel everyday extremes. For Taja, the body is a vehicle by which to explore the experience of an individual within community. Her technique straddles the line between movement and voice; resulting with performances which uniquely marry the sonic and kinetic. Will's work uses techniques of structured improvisation, choreography and contact improvisation to manifest an aesthetic of agency and spontaneity. Ultimately, audiences will experience the mundane and extraordinary and recognize themselves as active spectators, muses and even performers. Threads Dance Project
Contact: Karen L. Charles Email: [email protected] Phone: 952-250-5965 Online: threadsdance.org
Threads Dance Project is a contemporary dance company that seeks to examine, expose and celebrate the threads that bind humans together.
Time Track Productions
Contact: Paula Mann Email: [email protected] Phone: 651-276-7982 Online: timetrackproductions
In 2003, choreographer Paula Mann and media artist Steve Paul formed Time Track Productions. Through the unique paring of these artistic mediums, Tim e Track continues an ambitious artistic agenda. The work has received support from prestigious funding organizations and has been presented by venues in New York and the Twin Cities including Dance Theater Workshop, the Southern Theater, and the Walker Art Center. Time Track Productions’ mission is to explore the relationship between media and humanity using movement and live performance as a foundation. We blend ideas about the past, present and future through the lens of contemporary technology and performance. TU Dance
Contact: Uri Sands and Toni Pierce Sands Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-605-1925 Online: tudance.org // facebook.com/pages/TU-Dance/103896154368
TU Dance, founded in 2004 by Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands, has become a Tw in C ities favorite, presenting “a blend of intelligence and beauty, rigorous structure and inventive choreography, and integrity of performance so singularly wrought that the work rips your expectations from their moorings.” The Minnesota-based company reaches across dance styles, drawing on a broad range of dance traditions from contemporary ballet to modern and traditional forms. TU Dance’s work aims to reveal the connective power of dance, celebrating a beautiful diversity on stage. TU Dance has premiered a compelling repertory of new works by choreographer Uri Sands, as well as by leading American choreographers such as Dwight Rhoden, Ronald K. Brown and Camille A. Brown.
Twin Cities Ballet of MN
Contact: Denise Vogt Email: [email protected] Phone: 952-452-3163 Online: twincitiesballet.org
Twin Cities Ballet ("TCB") is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit semi-professional dance company that augments its core group of Professional Dancers and Apprentices with dancers from local, national and international professional dance companies, area dance schools, and community residents. Zenon Dance Company
Contact: Linda Z. Andrews Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-338-1101, 612-408-1306 (cell) Online: zenondance.org // facebook.com/zenondance?ref=hl
One of the nation’s premier repertory dance companies, Zenon Dance Company captivates audiences with a rare and dynamic blend of modern and jazz. Working with talented emerging choreographers as well as internationally renowned masters, Zenon continually redefines and pushes dance standards in Minnesota. The Zenon dancers are recognized for their stylistic diversity, fearless physicality and emotional intelligence. Under the direction of Linda Andrews, one of the most powerful choreographic voices in Minnesota, Zenon continues to build its eclectic repertory by commissioning significant works from such acclaimed American choreographers as Bill T. Jones, Doug Varone, Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor, Danny Buraczeski, Andrea Miller, Morgan Thorson, and Kyle Abraham.
Vanessa Voskuil
Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-518-5592 Online: vanessavoskuil.org
Vanessa Voskuil is a choreographer, director, performer, designer, community organizer, teaching artist, and creator of dances, interdisciplinary performances and films. She has created more than 20 contemporary performance works ranging from large community-inclusive performance projects to ensemble and solo works for site-specific locations and theater settings. Voskuil does not settle in on a signature idiom but investigates vocabulary that will serve each piece and speaks in a language unique unto itself. Her work often explores physical, emotional, and psychological space, creating impressionistic textures of human experience that respond to the cultural environment and humanities emotional spectrum. Her work has been described as “visually arresting,” “a unique brand of wit and dramatic heft,” and “interlaced with surrealist sensibility and bracing intelligence.” We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic
Contact: Amirah “Amy” Sackett Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-850-3240 Online: facebook.com/amirah.i.khadijah
Amirah Sackett is a choreographer, dancer, curator, and teacher in the Tw in C it group We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic in 2011, as part of The JOINT Project, to educate the public about Muslim women and their modest style of dress called “hijab.” Her dancers are twin sisters Iman and Khadijah. The style of hip-hop dance they do is called “popping.” Since debuting Amirah’s piece last year, they have performed it at numerous events throughout the Twin Cities. Most recently, she combined forces w ith recording artist B Mourning in America in L.A.
Zorongo Flamenco
Contact: Susana di Palma Email: [email protected] Phone: 612-234-1653 Online: zorongo.org
Susana di Palma founded Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre in 1982. One of the few American Spanish dance companies that present both traditional flamenco programs as well as original theater flamenco works; the company is comprised of an ensemble of international artists, dancers and musicians who are renowned for bringing the power, passion and virtuosity of the art of flamenco to American audiences.
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