Katha Dance Theatre Presents: Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge!
The approximate run time of the event is 90 minutes with no intermission. Katha Dance Theatre is excited to present the local premiere of Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! at the O’Shaughnessy. The 90-minute performance, which premiered earlier this year in Appleton, WI, was originally shown as a work-in-progress at the Cowles Center’s Fall Forward Festival in 2023.Nature’s Revenge portrays through Kathak dance a series of vignettes depicting what happens when human actions drive the five basic elements (or “Panchabhuta” – earth, water, fire, air, and space – which in Indian philosophy and Ayurveda are considered the fundamental building blocks of the universe and the human body) out of sync, and how we can work together to bring them back into harmony.Featuring new and expanded choreography by KDT Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi and music composed by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Sarat Srivastav, Rajeev Chakraborty and Jayanta Banerjee, the show is in keeping with KDT’s mission to propel the Kathak tradition into genre-bending spaces, including social justice and climate change advocacy. The work-in-progress version was named by the Minnesota Star Tribune as one of the 10 most memorable dance performances of 2023.Nature’s Revenge revels in nature’s beauty while shedding light on the importance of collectively fostering a relationship of mutual respect with the earth.Credit line:This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also funded in part by grants from the Hubbard Broadcasting Founation, RBC Foundation, & general operating support from the McKnight Foundation and Archie and Bertha Walker Foundation, as well as by the generosity of KDT’s private donors. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $10 – $30 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Katha Dance Theatre Presents: Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge!
The approximate run time of the event is 90 minutes with no intermission. Katha Dance Theatre is excited to present the local premiere of Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! at the O’Shaughnessy. The 90-minute performance, which premiered earlier this year in Appleton, WI, was originally shown as a work-in-progress at the Cowles Center’s Fall Forward Festival in 2023.Nature’s Revenge portrays through Kathak dance a series of vignettes depicting what happens when human actions drive the five basic elements (or “Panchabhuta” – earth, water, fire, air, and space – which in Indian philosophy and Ayurveda are considered the fundamental building blocks of the universe and the human body) out of sync, and how we can work together to bring them back into harmony.Featuring new and expanded choreography by KDT Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi and music composed by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Sarat Srivastav, Rajeev Chakraborty and Jayanta Banerjee, the show is in keeping with KDT’s mission to propel the Kathak tradition into genre-bending spaces, including social justice and climate change advocacy. The work-in-progress version was named by the Minnesota Star Tribune as one of the 10 most memorable dance performances of 2023.Nature’s Revenge revels in nature’s beauty while shedding light on the importance of collectively fostering a relationship of mutual respect with the earth.Credit line:This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also funded in part by grants from the Hubbard Broadcasting Founation, RBC Foundation, & general operating support from the McKnight Foundation and Archie and Bertha Walker Foundation, as well as by the generosity of KDT’s private donors. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $10 – $30 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ballet Minnesota Presents: The Classic Nutcracker
Total run time is approximately 150 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission. Ballet Minnesota’s 37th annual ‘The Classic Nutcracker’, returns to the O’Shaughnessy! Come celebrate this annual family holiday tradition!For novices to the ballet, this holiday story begins on Christmas Eve. We join a young girl, Clara, her mischievous brother, Fritz, and their family hosting a Christmas party. A latecomer to the party is Clara’s mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer. He presents her with a marvelous gift, a Nutcracker doll.As Clara goes to sleep that night, we are transported into her dream of the Rat King fighting the Nutcracker and his army of toy soldiers. The Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara through an enchanted snow-covered forest and on to his Kingdom of the Sweets where Clara accepts the throne from the Sugar Plum Fairy. Enjoy The return of this classic holiday favorite! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $20 – $47 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ballet Minnesota Presents: The Classic Nutcracker
Total run time is approximately 150 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission. Ballet Minnesota’s 37th annual ‘The Classic Nutcracker’, returns to the O’Shaughnessy! Come celebrate this annual family holiday tradition!For novices to the ballet, this holiday story begins on Christmas Eve. We join a young girl, Clara, her mischievous brother, Fritz, and their family hosting a Christmas party. A latecomer to the party is Clara’s mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer. He presents her with a marvelous gift, a Nutcracker doll.As Clara goes to sleep that night, we are transported into her dream of the Rat King fighting the Nutcracker and his army of toy soldiers. The Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara through an enchanted snow-covered forest and on to his Kingdom of the Sweets where Clara accepts the throne from the Sugar Plum Fairy. Enjoy The return of this classic holiday favorite! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $20 – $47 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ballet Minnesota Presents: The Classic Nutcracker
Total run time is approximately 150 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission. Ballet Minnesota’s 37th annual ‘The Classic Nutcracker’, returns to the O’Shaughnessy! Come celebrate this annual family holiday tradition!For novices to the ballet, this holiday story begins on Christmas Eve. We join a young girl, Clara, her mischievous brother, Fritz, and their family hosting a Christmas party. A latecomer to the party is Clara’s mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer. He presents her with a marvelous gift, a Nutcracker doll.As Clara goes to sleep that night, we are transported into her dream of the Rat King fighting the Nutcracker and his army of toy soldiers. The Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara through an enchanted snow-covered forest and on to his Kingdom of the Sweets where Clara accepts the throne from the Sugar Plum Fairy. Enjoy The return of this classic holiday favorite! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $20 – $47 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ballet Minnesota Presents: The Classic Nutcracker
Total run time is approximately 150 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission. Ballet Minnesota’s 37th annual ‘The Classic Nutcracker’, returns to the O’Shaughnessy! Come celebrate this annual family holiday tradition!For novices to the ballet, this holiday story begins on Christmas Eve. We join a young girl, Clara, her mischievous brother, Fritz, and their family hosting a Christmas party. A latecomer to the party is Clara’s mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer. He presents her with a marvelous gift, a Nutcracker doll.As Clara goes to sleep that night, we are transported into her dream of the Rat King fighting the Nutcracker and his army of toy soldiers. The Nutcracker Prince escorts Clara through an enchanted snow-covered forest and on to his Kingdom of the Sweets where Clara accepts the throne from the Sugar Plum Fairy. Enjoy The return of this classic holiday favorite! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $20 – $47 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers Presents: Nick Offerman: Little Woodchucks Book Tour
The approximate run time of the event is 60 minutes with no intermission. Join Emmy-winning actor, author, and accomplished woodworker NICK OFFERMAN on the Little Woodchucks book tour! A family friendly follow-up to his fan-favorite, hands-on woodworking guide Good Clean Fun (2016). In LITTLE WOODCHUCKS, Offerman focuses on real woodworking projects geared toward kids of all ages, mixing in hilarious personal reflections alongside practical instructions for his favorite projects. Offerman will be joined by co-writer Lee Buchanan, and the audience will have a chance to ask woodworking questions for Nick to answer live on stage! Perfect for fans of Offerman’s previous books, his beloved TV hits like Parks and Rec,Devs, as well as his over 3 million fans across social media, LITTLE WOODCHUCKS is great for holiday gift-giving or for anyone excited to connect with their kids in a new, hands-on way. Offerman and Buchanan bring all the fun, practical instruction to life for a new generation of woodworkers.All Single Admission tickets include a signed copy of Little Woodchucks. Child admission tickets for kids 15 and under can be purchased with a corresponding Single Admission ticket. Bring the whole family! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $15.38 – $49.45 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
The Double Tax: An Evening with Anna Gifty & Hope Walz
The approximate run time of the event is 60 minutes with no intermission. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher and writer. She is a postgraduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She is the youngest recipient for a CEDAW Women’s Rights Award by the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Her first book received widespread coverage from outlets like NPR, ESSENCE, TELEMUNDO, and The New York Times. Hope Walz is a Minnesotan through and through. She was born in Mankato, Minnesota, a town in the southern part of the state. She graduated from Mankato West high school and went on to attend the University of Minnesota and graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies. She currently lives in Bozeman, Montana and works overnights at a homeless shelter, ski instructs, and sometimes attempts to post on social media. Hope grew up around politics and is passionate about equity in all spaces. Growing up around national and state politics instilled in Hope a drive to serve others. Growing up and seeing the inner workings of American politics coupled with years of hands on experience working with different communities gives Hope a unique perspective on what change can look like. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $5 – $29 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ananya Dance Theatre Presents – Swapnō Jhnāp: Dream Jumping
The approximate run time of the event is 90 minutes with no intermission. The Friday evening performance will be ASL Interpreted. SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING faces the ongoing chaos and escalating destruction of our Common Life by bringing connectivity and liberation out of the dream world and into reality. As the dancers travel through portals that cross time cycles and spacescapes, they integrate vital medicine and patchwork a methodology of dreaming that literally brings the desired world closer. We discover wisdom and connectivities inside the depths of oceanic grief, in the shared rhythms of a dance club, in the hatching of mythical creatures, in the rubble of war-torn landscapes, and inside quantum entanglements of movement and breath. Dancing together opens portals to the future, drawing on the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping. 5 journeys, 5 portals, and 5 medicines birth the miracle of a deeply connected universe. Conceived and choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea, featuring the work of dramaturg/writer Dr. Nia O. Witherspoon (INYOSI Sebenzekhaya), composer Greg Schutte, stage director k.t. shorb, scenic designer Mina Kinukawa, costume designer Annie Cady, film designer Darren Johnson (Northern Dawn Media), and lighting designer Kevin Jones. Ananya Dance Theatre ensemble: Mariadela Belle Alvarez, Noelle Awadallah, Heaven Sha’Rae Calvert, Lizzette Chapa, Ananya Chatterjea, Kealoha Ferreira, Davente Gilreath, Juliet Irving, and Vy Nguyen. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $5 – $50 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
Ananya Dance Theatre Presents – Swapnō Jhnāp: Dream Jumping
The approximate run time of the event is 90 minutes with no intermission. The Friday evening performance will be ASL Interpreted. SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING faces the ongoing chaos and escalating destruction of our Common Life by bringing connectivity and liberation out of the dream world and into reality. As the dancers travel through portals that cross time cycles and spacescapes, they integrate vital medicine and patchwork a methodology of dreaming that literally brings the desired world closer. We discover wisdom and connectivities inside the depths of oceanic grief, in the shared rhythms of a dance club, in the hatching of mythical creatures, in the rubble of war-torn landscapes, and inside quantum entanglements of movement and breath. Dancing together opens portals to the future, drawing on the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping. 5 journeys, 5 portals, and 5 medicines birth the miracle of a deeply connected universe. Conceived and choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea, featuring the work of dramaturg/writer Dr. Nia O. Witherspoon (INYOSI Sebenzekhaya), composer Greg Schutte, stage director k.t. shorb, scenic designer Mina Kinukawa, costume designer Annie Cady, film designer Darren Johnson (Northern Dawn Media), and lighting designer Kevin Jones. Ananya Dance Theatre ensemble: Mariadela Belle Alvarez, Noelle Awadallah, Heaven Sha’Rae Calvert, Lizzette Chapa, Ananya Chatterjea, Kealoha Ferreira, Davente Gilreath, Juliet Irving, and Vy Nguyen. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $5 – $50 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. For accessibility information please click here.
