Performances and Events
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"Young Dance at Large" An evening of innovative dance and film investigating how we dance in non-traditional spaces. Audiences will experience adaptations of dances created under a bridge, on a snowy hill, in a pool, an atrium, and a school. Young Dance At large features works by internationally acclaimed artists including Body Cartography Project (Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad). Croi Glan Integrated Dance Theater, Marylee Hardenberg, Megan Flood, Miriam Colvin, Erin Thompson, and Skewed Visions (Charles Campbell and Gulgum Kayim).
All shows ASL interpreted

 

 

PERFORMANCE	TIME	TICKET PRICE	PURCHASE TICKETS
May 18	7:30PM	$12 Adult/ $6 Student or Senior	TAKING PHONE RESERVATIONS FOR THE FRIDAY SHOW ONLY AT THIS TIME.
May 19	11:30AM	All Seats $5	All Seats $5.00 Adult/Student/Senior $5.00 USD
May 19	2:00PM	$12 Adult/ $6 Student or Senior	Tickets- Choose Price Adult $12.00 USD Student $6.00 USD Senior $6.00 USD
May 19	7:30PM	$12 Adult/ $6 Student or Senior	SOLD OUT PERFORMANCE

 

2011-2012 Guest Artists
Body Cartography, Guest Artists, co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have created numerous dance, film and installation works. Their works range from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, short experimental films in national parks, to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video and sound in collaboration with scientists. Their work is fed by Body-Mind Centering®, an experiential study of anatomy and physiology. Their work extends from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, dance films in national parks, to highly complex works for site or stage amidst installations, video and sound. Their work has been produced across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. Recent highlights include a commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet and the premiere of their work Symptom with visual artist Emmett Ramstad at COIL Festival, Performance Space 122, NYC and Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis and 1/2 Life with a physicist, composer Zeena Parkins and visual artist Emmett Ramstad at Performance Space 122, NYC, the Southern Theater and Art of This Gallery in Minneapolis. Their upcoming performance work, Super Nature, will be co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 2011-2012.They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press titled Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces and are 2010 McKnight Fellows.

Megan Flood, Guest Artist, performed for thirteen years with Zenon Dance Company (MN), with Cindy Stephens’ In Situ Dance (MN, NY), with Bill Young and Dancers (NY), and was a founding member of Wynn Fricke’s Borrowed Bones Dance Theater (MN).  Performances with Cindy Stevens and with Bill Young included multiple site-specific and improvised performances, in locations ranging from the shores of Lake Calhoun (MN), to the Muir Woods (CA), to crumbling cathedrals and town squares (Hungary).  Megan has also collaborated and performed with a variety of independent choreographers, including Body Cartography, Mathew Janczewski, and HiJack. 
Megan began creating her own work, a blend of choreographed and improvised movement, in 1997.  She worked with her primary collaborator, musician/composer Dean Magraw, to create two evening length concerts for the Southern Theater, and multiple smaller pieces.  In 2005, Megan was awarded the McKnight Fellowship for dance performance.
        Megan has taught modern dance, improvisation, and contact improvisation to professional dancers, avocational dancers, and children, including deaf and hard-of-hearing dancers and mixed ability dancers, in classes held around the United States and in international locations including the Micronesian islands, Russia, and Hungary.  She has presented her teaching at dance festivals, improvisation festivals, in public schools, in community classes, at Zenon Dance School, and as an adjunct faculty member at Gustavus Adolphus College and Hamline University. Megan taught for Young Dance in 2005-2008 and choreographed two dances during that time, including Raven for the 30 person company. Megan is currently enrolled in the Global Somatics Practitioner training, an in-depth study of anatomy, developmental movement, and body systems created and taught by Suzanne River
Miriam Colvin, Guest Artist, is an independent dance artist based out of Smithers, a small northern town in British Columbia.  She has a BA from Wesleyan University in dance and psychology. She spent six years performing, teaching and creating dances in Minneapolis, MN before moving to Canada in 2004. She established Myriad Dance Projects in 2008 with the intention of creating a platform for launching performances, initiating residencies and inviting her local community into engagement with movement. She works to integrate dance in its many forms into community; collaborating to make meaningful art with dancers, visual artists, musicians and people who just love to move.  She has a passion for all avenues of improvisation and collective creation. Her dances has been presented in Washington, DC, Boston, MA, Minneapolis, MN, Ottawa, ON, Vancouver, BC and Smithers, BC. Her most recent project is Expanding Circles, a second stage Arts Based Community Development Project that is driving her to grow her dancing in her small community. While much of her dancing in Smithers bounces from a solo practice to working with non-dancers, she loves to travel and work with peers whenever possible.

Skewed Visions, Guest Artists, specializes in site-specific performance. Their performances respond to many aspects of a site and transform the experience of space: its physical characteristics, social context and history, its function and the people who use the site or happen to be there. Their mission is to change, with their works, the “landscape of daily life.”
Charles Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist who has created multiple pieces including videos, Skewed Visions’ new series of podcasts, and movement theater pieces. His 2009 piece He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Although Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead was an examination of global violence and domestic acceptance that took audiences through houses and streets of a quiet middle-class neighborhood. He was a finalist for the 2009 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, and recipient of the 2007 Electric Eyes: New Music and New Media Festival commission, the 2003 Intermedia Arts Naked Stages performance art commission, the Weisman Art Museum’s 2000 Temporary Public Art on Campus commission, and a 2001 Jerome Foundation Building Administrative Capacity grant. Normative education includes a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, study as a part of the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company and at the Classic Stage Conservatory in New York City. He has an MA and a PhD on Theater from the University of MN, where he continues to teach. Interested in exploring work that troubles disciplinary categories, he has recently taken a shine to the bountiful Twin Cities experimental dance community and has  twice been part of the award-winning work of choreographer, dancer and photographer, Megan Mayer. He recently was honored to lay the groundwork for an international residency for Skewed Visions with the experimental Iguan Dance Theater of St Petersburg.
Gülgün Kayim is an interdisciplinary theater artist, writer and teacher recognized for her work through numerous grants, awards and fellowships including a 2006 Creative Capital Foundation Grant, a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship (2004), Jerome Foundation Travel/study Grant (2002), a Minnesota State Arts Board Theater Fellowship (2001) and two MSAB Artist Assistance Grants (2004/2007) among others. Kayim’s work has been recognized and reviewed in local, national and international journals, newspapers and media and regularly appears on critics best of the year lists. Kayim was a 2006 Walker Art Center resident artist, as part of “Open Ended: The Art of Engagement” exhibition featuring installations by Ralph Lemon and Rikritrivanya. She regularly works independently with writers at the Minnesota Playwright’s Center, theater practitioners Phillip Zarrilli and Ludmila Ryba -an ensemble member of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2- and with local dancers and visual artists. She served as adjunct curator at Intermedia Arts’ Art Inside/Outside Space installation program (2003) and as director of the Minnesota Site-Specific Visible Fringe Festival (2004). She is an affiliate faculty member in the Dept of Theater Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota and holds an MFA in Theater Directing from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Theater Theory and Criticism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA (Hons) in Theater and Film from the University of Middlesex, London. She is the new assistant director for the Bush Artist Program.

Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company, Guest Artists, is a professional contemporary dance company based in Cork, Ireland, which performs work that includes both disabled and non-disabled dancers. Croi Glan was co-founded in December 2006 by Rhona Coughlan and Tara Brandel. Croi Glan highlights the cutting edge artistic value of creating performance with diverse bodies by producing high calibre work which tours nationally and internationally. Croi Glan also provides an educational program that offers integrated dance to people with and without disabilities, through introductory workshops; ongoing classes; and vocational training in integrated dance. They spent two weeks in Minneapolis in November, 2010 when they worked with Young Dance, St. Paul Conservatory of Performing Arts, Interact Center for the Performing and Visual Arts and Upstream Arts.
Tara Brandel, is a contemporary choreographer and performer originally from West Cork, Ireland. She trained at the Laban Centre, London and with Steve Paxton, Nigel Charnick and Lloyd Newsom. She studied Integrated Dance with Axis Dance Company and Alito Alessi, and in 2005 had a year's residency at Beaumont College, a college for people with disabilities in Lancaster, England,. Her work has been performed at Firkin Crane, Triskel Arts Centre, and Cork Opera House, Cork; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Stukke Theatre and Ponderosa Festival, Germany; 848 Community Space, Jon Sims Centre, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival, Sky Dancers, Dance Mission Theatre, and Performance Showcase, San Francisco; and Spring Loaded, The Place Theatre and Chisenhale Dance Space, London. She has danced for Ka Rustler (Berlin), Emilyn Claid, (London) Jo Krieter(SF), and Kim Epifano(SF) and has has won numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council, London Arts Board, Zellerbach Foundation and Theatre Bay Area. She was a Co-Director of 848 Community Space, San Francisco from 2002-2004.
Mary Nugent is a dancer with cerebral palsy and enjoys pushing her body beyond perceived limitations. She has been dancing with her wheelchair (the bat mobile) in Croi Glan since 2007.

Marylee Hardenbergh, Guest Artist, is the Artistic Director of Global Site Performance, and the Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Environmental Education at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dance Magazine has highlighted her work in two articles (1996 and 2008) with accompanying photos. She has been voted “Artist of the Year” twice in City Pages, a Twin Cities magazine. Her choreography constitutes a chapter in a book on site-specific performance, entitled Site Dance published by the University of Florida in 2009. Her goal is to use dance to transform the environment so that people experience it with renewed eyes and heart. She believes that the power of dance -- with its moving colors and harmonious rhythms -- deepens the audience's sense of place and how we humans fit into the landscape. She has choreographed large site-specific performances for the past twenty years and she has received many awards including a Fulbright Scholarship, an NEA fellowship, five McKnight Foundation fellowships and a Soros grant. She maintains a Dance Movement Therapy practice. Her performances range from the Mother's Day Dance honoring mothers and their daughters, to Dance for Peace in Bosnia in 1996 at the end of the war, that honored the healing of the place and the ethnic groups there, to Solstice River honoring the Mississippi River as a vital national resource. She creates opening ceremonies for conferences, being an expert in a form of movement, called a Movement Choir, where large groups of people move in synchrony; participants comment on the profound beauty and power of these ceremonies, how “life-affirming” her work is!

 

This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation., the COMPAS Travelers' Arts and Diversity Program and by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature. 

 

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