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BCT presents ART

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:50:43 GMT

A simple white canvas. A 200,000 francs pricetag. The real cost: Decades-long friendships. This is the world of Yasmina Reza’s [i]Art[/i]. The story revolves around three friends who find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when one of them buys an expensive piece of abstract art. The play asks the question “What is art?” but this dramatic comedy is as much about friendship as it is about art. [i]Art[/i] is so powerful because there is something with which everyone in the audience can relate. The winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play and winner of the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Newsweek called it "…a nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art expressed in outbursts that sound like Don Rickles with a degree from the Sorbonne…”

Runs Friday, May 17^th through Sunday, June 9^th with performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm and Sunday afternoons at 2:00pm.

Special discounted performance on Wednesday, June 5^th at 7:30pm.

Talk Back with cast and crew after the performance on Sunday, May 19^th.

Sign Language Interpreted performance on Friday, June 7^th at 7:30pm.

Audio Description performance on Friday, May 31^st at 7:30pm.

Blithe Spirit

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:42:24 GMT

The funniest haunting that ever there was! When a seance in his home goes horribly awry, novelist Charles Condomine is caught between his naive current wife and his jealous-and ghostly-first wife, who is determined that he should join her in the afterlife.

image: BLITHE SPIRIT

On The Town

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:34:36 GMT

A classic American musical comedy, [i]On the Town[/i] is one of Broadway’s most energetic and inventive musicals. Three sailors come to New York City on a whirlwind, one day leave, [i]to [/i]seek adventures, embrace life and find a girl! Along the way they knock down a reconstructed dinosaur, visit Coney Island and have fun at some lively night clubs. Set against the backdrop of WWII and the sailors’ own uncertain futures, [i]On the Town[/i] is an exuberant and poignant comedy. [i]On the Town[/i] was Leonard Bernstein's first Broadway score. Experience this show the way it was meant to be: with full orchestration from BCT’s live orchestra, large, energetic dance sequences and amusingly innovative sets. Directed by Wendy Lehr.

A European Tour with Flying Forms

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:51:54 GMT

Join Marc Levine, baroque violin and Tami Morse, harpsichord in a special concert with world renowned guests Clea Galhano, recorder and Jin Kim, baroque violin. Presenting trio sonatas by Bach, Couperin, Handel, Telemann and Corelli.

image: Clea Galhano

A Doll's House

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:13 GMT

Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece gets a fresh adaptation by acclaimed Minnesota playwright Jeffrey Hatcher. A young wife is forced to make a shocking decision when a past misdeed threatens to destroy her perfect household.

image: A DOLL'S HOUSE

From Space to Place

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:09:03 GMT

Defined by human activities, places are ever-changing, ever-decaying, and always being reborn, often through collective action and collaboration. From Space to Place features projects from local, national and international artists and designers that reexamine place and one's relationship to it. The projects are a result of collaborative and individual efforts to interpret and investigate the phenomena of place and placemaking—the transformation of a space into that which has a distinct identity. Featuring CookKIT from 7pm-10pm outside Regis Parallel Hypothetical from 7pm-10pm at Rapson Hall Identity of the Moment, a live performance by Anna Carlson & Joey Crane at 8pm at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery Artists and Designers in the Exhibition: Susan Armington, Nicholaus Arnold, Bad News from Houston, Andrew Bergmann, Patrick Beseda, Susannah Bielak, Anna Carlson, Juan William Chávez, Tuia Cherici, Joey Crane, Federico Garcia Lammers, Murat Germen, Brita Hauser, Erin Garnaas-Holmes, Katie Hargrave, Lauren Herzak-Bauman, John Kallen, Rebecca Kallen, Caroline Kent, Sam Krahn, Kendra Larson, James Lynch, Minneapolis Art on Wheels, Sara Nichol, TJ Proechel, Angela Olson, Tyler Rush, Andrew Salveson, Nick Satinover, Emily Stover, Andy Sturdevant, The Think Tank that has yet to be named, Sergio Vucci, Aaron Westre and Ryan Wurst. Related Events CookKIT May 30, 7:00 - 10:00 pm Regis Center for Art Join us for a series of short outdoor events involving CookKIT—a mobile kitchen designed by Emily Stover, that serves as a platform for food-based community programming. Three different artist groups will use CookKIT to explore how cooking can be a performance, tell a story, and act as a memory-building vehicle. Parallel Hypothetical with MAW, Angela Olson and Aaron Westre May 30, 7:00 - 10:00 pm Rapson Hall, Courtyard, 89 Church Street SE, Mpls Join us for a mirror exhibition of From Space to Place, but in the virtual realm. This digitally duplicated exhibition raises questions about the value of art and the gallery/museum experience. Come explore how experiencing art through simulation can change the nature of how we see. Structures of Support Workshop with Think Tank June 1, 12:00 - 2:00 pm Regis Center for Art Develop a clearer understanding of how our support structures are created and maintained and how we might then work to build more resilient and robust support structures in the future. Join Think Tank as we explore support through visualizations, conversations and activities. Take the Structures of Support survey here: [url=http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wearethethinktank.org%2Fstructures-of-support-survey%2F&h=xAQHNPJ4W&s=1]http://www.wearethethinktank.org/structures-of-support-survey/[/url] Desire Lines Tour with Common Room June 5, 6:00 - 8:30pm Leaves from Regis Center for Art Andy Sturdevant and Sergio Vucci will lead a Common Room tour around Minneapolis, looking at desire lines around the city from the back of a vintage chartered bus. "Desire lines" are the informal paths created by foot traffic across public spaces not initially intended for foot traffic. Any time you see a dirt path across a patch of grass or up a hill between two sidewalks, or footprints in the snow leading from one place to another, that's a desire line. Looking at traditional desire lines, as well as expanding the idea beyond footpaths, we'll see how people create their own spaces, make shortcuts, defy authority, and carve out new path systems. To sign up for this event, please visit: [url=http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fspacetoplacecommonroom&h=NAQED0OY_&s=1]http://bit.ly/spacetoplacecommonroom[/url]. Perspectives on Placemaking June 6, 7:00 - 9:00pm Rapson Hall, Rm 100, 89 Church Street SE, Mpls This public panel will discuss their individual research and work in relation to place, stemming from radical architecture to neighborhood yards, public housing to socially engaged art. Panelists include: Ursula Lang, Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of Minnesota, Ross Elfline, Assistant Professor of Art History at Carleton College and Neeraj Mehta, director of community-based research at Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Susannah Bielak, artist, writer, cultural and content producer, will moderate the panel. Reverse Scavenger Hunt with Erin Garnaas-Holmes June 12, 6:00pm Leaves from Regis Center for Art The goal of the Reverse Scavenger Hunt is to reverse-collect things from the world around you. Instead of acquiring or consuming objects and experiences and bringing them back to home base, you create, cause, disperse and share them with your environment. You will journey with a team via bicycle into the city and combine items and interactions with places/people from a given list, while infusing life into your surroundings! A bicycle and camera are recommended for this event.

Whatever You Do, Don't See This Play

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:26:49 GMT

This modern play is dedicated to the students in all of us – the ones who are afraid to make friends, the ones who ace every test, the ones who hate the 6th grade and the ones who would give anything to be in the 3rd grade again. Through short poems, monologues and scene vignettes, young performers (grades 3 and up) explore the excitement, challenge, heartbreak, and surprises in every corner of the classroom. Created and directed by Anthony Neuman.

2012-13 Minneapolis Musical Theatre Season: Sunset Boulevard

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:26:57 GMT

[i]Sunset Boulevard[/i] opens with Norma Desmond, the fading silent movie star abandoned by the “talkies,” who longs for a return to big screen glory. Enter struggling Hollywood screenwriter Joe Gillis, and their ensuing passionate and warped affair leads to a volatile conclusion. The 1950 film, directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, including one for Best Music. In 1997, it ranked as #12 on the American Film Institute’s Best American Films of the 20th Century. The original Broadway production, directed by Trevor Nunn with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, won seven 1995 Tony Awards including Best Musical. As Time Magazine described it, “The show’s a hit. Lloyd Webber’s most shamefully and artfully constructed score. Radiant.” Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. Additional performance on Monday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday, June 23 performance will be at 2:30 p.m. instead of 5 p.m

Cantus presents Covers

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:51:03 GMT

Don’t miss the official start of summer as Cantus returns to The Cowles Center to cover more of your favorite pop hits. Always an audience favorite, Covers shows off a completely different side of Cantus.

White Cactus Documentary

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:57 GMT

In December 1991, my father, Jairo Enrique Arzayus, was arrested in Trenton, NJ, for the possession of twelve million dollars worth of cocaine. A judge called him a kingpin of the Cali Cartel, a major Colombian criminal organization that distributed cocaine all along the Eastern Seaboard. He was given a sentence of 20 years to life in federal prison. That night changed both of our lives and our family forever. A part of me was incredulous. “My dad was the head of the Cali Cartel,” I’d often repeat to myself. It was like finding out that your dad was Jessie James. Instantly, there was a constant media frenzy assaulting our daily lives. We were famous, but also poor once again. The FBI seized the restaurant, our two houses, and five cars.

[i]White Cactus[/i] is a documentary exploring a multitude of complex issues that arose from our abnormal family life and my father’s arrest.

This documentary has been shot in three primary locations – Minneapolis, New Jersey, and Colombia. It integrates my memories from the past with my new discoveries and experiences, illustrating the ever-shifting interplay between the lies and the reality of what actually occurred during my childhood.

We just launched our kickstarter campaign until June 20th 2013http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whitecactusmovie/white-cactus-daughter-of-a-colombia-drug-lord

Our website is WhiteCactusMovie.com

image: Kickstarter for White Cactus

White Cactus Documentary

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:42 GMT

[i]White Cactus[/i] is a documentary exploring a multitude of complex issues that arose from our abnormal family life and my father’s arrest.

We just launched our kickstarter campaign until June 20th 2013http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whitecactusmovie/white-cactus-daughter-of-a-colombia-drug-lord

Our website is WhiteCactusMovie.com

Chris Mann

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:45:48 GMT

Chris Mann, the classically based pop vocalist and 2012 finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” is touring in support of his first album, “Roads,” (October 2012), which shot to #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. His PBS special, “A Mann for All Seasons,” will air locally on Twin Cities Public Television in March. Featuring Martina McBride and jazz saxophonist Mindi Abair, it is a re-creation of the Elvis Presley ’69 Comeback Special with Mann performing in a boxing ring on a Sony soundstage.

JOB OPENING - Choreographer Vanessa Voskuil seeks COMMUNITY LIAISON for performance event

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:10:57 GMT

[b]JOB OPENING – COMMUNITY LIAISON[/b]

Independent choreographer/director Vanessa Voskuil seeks community liaisons for upcoming community inclusive performance event to premiere at the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium on the campus of St. Catherine’s University April 3-4, 2014, presented as part of the[i] Women’s of Substance Series.[/i] [b]Deadline: June 5, 2013[/b]

[b]Download description and application guidelines [url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6-T2rr5QeNwSjJZQ2pXaldVQ00/edit?usp=sharing]here.[/url][/b] ____________________________

[b]Summary:[/b] Independent choreographer/director Vanessa Voskuil seeks two community liaisons with knowledge of and connections within specific communities of Twin Cities metro area. The community liaison will serve as an ambassador for a community inclusive movement-based performance project. Each community liaison will utilize his/her community relationships to strategize and implement best methods to increase community participation in the performance event, in addition, to participating in the performance event. [b]The Community Liaison will:[/b]

Serve as the initial contact for community participants and organizational partners.

Strategize, devise and implement methods of recruitment.

Coordinate Meet the Artist events with partner organizations when appropriate.

Assist with and rally interest, excitement, and participation around IMPETUS, being presented by the Soap Factory, [b]August 21-24, 2013.[/b] IMEPTUS is a dance and performance art festival with exhibition style presentation. IMPETUS seeks to demystify the process of creating modern/contemporary dance and performance art through active engagement in that process. Breaking down the barriers to community engagement in post-modern work, IMPETUS encourages participants to explore and take risks in their experiences within the gallery.

Attend all rehearsals during [b]February and March 2014.[/b]

Participate/perform in the final work [b]April 3-4, 2014[/b]

[b]Qualifications:[/b]

Applicants have great enthusiasm for building community through the performing arts and possess the ability to work both collaboratively and independently, interacting effectively with a wide variety of people. Applicants do not need to have a background in the performing arts but must have a working knowledge and understanding for this unique, rewarding, and challenging work. Possible backgrounds may include marketing and public relations, communications, community organizing, music/dance/visual arts. Applicants need to own a computer and cell phone; are organized; have strong writing and communication skills and a working knowledge of social media. [b]Project Period: [/b] June 15, 2013 – April 15, 2014 [b]Working Hours: [/b]Flexible (roughly 4 hours per week) [b]Salary:[/b] Estimate $10 per/hr [b]Application Requirements:[/b] Send a cover letter and resume that includes relevant experience to Vanessa Voskuil at[url=mailto:vanessa@vanessavoskuil.org]vanessa@vanessavoskuil.org[/url]. Please title the email COMMUNITY LIAISON POSITION and include two PDF attachments titled “Name_Cover Letter” and “Name_Resume.”Please answer in your letter why you are interested in this position, your qualifications and how it will serve the position, and your understanding/perspective and/or philosophy of building community through the performing arts. [b]Interviews may be conducted the morning of June 8. [/b]Chosen applicants will be notified [b]June 9.[/b]

[b]Project Description:[/b] [i]The student[/i] is a large-scale, community-inclusive performance project directed and choreographed by Vanessa Voskuil. [i]The Student[/i] asks how innovative art making can be linked intrinsically to community building. The project’s overall goal is to serve the geographic community in which it is residing and generate a creative process that includes a community building component among its participants and audience as a method of healing in its questioning of societal problems and individual concerns. [i]The Student[/i] is about learning, about learners, about the process of learning. The work takes the position that in the process of learning, the student is always learning but not always knowing. This is the heart of [i]The Student[/i], awareness of the self. The student can learn, but does not always listen to itself and it is not always the self, but other than the self. [i]The Student [/i]is a story of becoming lost and found again. It is a story of knowing one is going to find one’s self again, if and when there is effort to create a pathway towards understanding. [i]The Student [/i]acts on all these different parts of learning. [b]Who can participate?: [/b] [i]The Student[/i] is open to anyone to participate as long as they consider themselves a student and are willing to say “yes” to a movement-based creative process. Performers will consist of community members, vocalists, student dancers, and a core group of dancers/actors. Recruitment efforts will primarily focus on the student/staff/faculty population at St. Catherine’s University and community members related or unrelated to any organizational community partners. [b]About Vanessa Voskuil: [/b][url=http://vanessavoskuil.org/]vanessavoskuil.org[/url] [b]Funding: [/b] [i]The Student is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation and is underwritten by the American Composers Forum’s Live Music for Dance Minnesota program in partnership with NewMusicUSA, with funds provided by the McKnight Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[/i]

[i]Vanessa Voskuil is a fiscal year 2013 recipient of an Artist Initiative 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. [/i]

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:55:06 GMT

In the heart of London, behind the impassive façade of a windowless house, some of Europe’s most powerful men gather to play a game. The game is murder. This is the Suicide Club, and they have a new member: Sherlock Holmes—brilliant, perceptive, the greatest detective in the English-speaking world. Does Holmes (Steve Hendrickson) wish to die? Will he have to kill? Can Dr. Watson save him? Regional Premiere!

20% Theater Presents "Changes in Time" by EB Boatner

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:13:28 GMT

CHANGES IN TIME

a world premiere by EB Boatner directed by Claire Avitabile [b]Performing May 11-25, 2013[/b] [url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=minneapolis+theatre+garage&hl=en&ll=44.963917,-93.288195&spn=0.009064,0.024784&fb=1&gl=us&hq=minneapolis+theatre+garage&hnear=minneapolis+theatre+garage&cid=0,0,4631418461496576790&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A]at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage: 711 W Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis[/url] Thursdays-Saturdays at 730pm, Sundays at 2pm, Monday 5/13 at 730pm We are all at the mercy of the social, psychiatric, medical, and technological constraints of our times. Rain was born before Christine Jorgensen made headlines with her 1952 sex change operation. The word "transgender" was not in the common vocabulary then, and not for awhile. [i]CHANGES IN TIME [/i]is made of three short snapshot plays - [i]Wishes[/i], [i]Dresses [/i]and [i]Changes [/i]- following the story of Rain/Lorraine/Laurence through his transition from the 1950s to the mid 1990s. Featuring Briana Zora Libby, Chava Curland, Heather Spear, Muriel Bonertz, Chris Little, and Dann Peterson. Production Team includes Carisa Anderson, Emma Squire, Miles Bard, Anita Kelling, Shannon Morgan, Sarah Salisbury, and Kaitlin Ziehr. Warning: Adult language/content - recommended for ages 15 and up. [url=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/343769]Tickets: $5-$25 Sliding Scale ($25-$100 for the Opening Night Gala)[/url] **Saturday 5/11 - Join us opening night for 20% Theatre's Annual Gala - Saturday 5/11 at 630pm - featuring a pre-show reception of delicious food and wine, fantastic silent auction, and a ticket to the opening night of CHANGES IN TIME at 730pm. Tickets for our Gala Opening Night start at $25. PLEASE NOTE: Excluding the Opening Night Gala, tickets for all other performances are a Sliding Scale of $5-$25. If you would like to purchase tickets online in advance, please choose one of the five suggested ticket prices. If you prefer to pay a different amount in the scale, you may do so at the door. To make a reservation, email tickets@tctwentypercent.org.