St. Paul Ballet Presents – The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED
St. Paul Ballet is thrilled to announce our annual The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED for 2025! This production features our Youth Company and guest artists CAAM Chinese Dance Theatre, Ethnic Dance Theatre and pianist Joe Strachan. The magical journey begins at the Christmas Eve party, led by the gifted toymaker Uncle Drosselmeyer, who unveils a one-of-a-kind Nutcracker. Witness the Kingdom of Sweets come alive under the reign of the Sugar Plum Fairy.St. Paul Ballet’s Youth Company is a training program that focuses on the creative, social, personal, and technical skills needed by today’s ballet professionals. They share the stage with CAAM and EDT to wow audiences, inspire youth, and introduce a little more beauty into the world.This event is perfect for:Families with wiggly, excited, creative children!Wiggly, excited, creative, adults!Easing stress and increasing joy!All ages who want to feel inspired by the youth of today (our future artists!)A moving, inspiring, and impressive 75 minutes plus intermission.Take advantage of our Pay-As-Able ticketing to share this performance with all of your loved ones leaving you with memories of a magical holiday experience.Make time for joy this season! 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.
St. Paul Ballet Presents – The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED
St. Paul Ballet is thrilled to announce our annual The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED for 2025! This production features our Youth Company and guest artists CAAM Chinese Dance Theatre, Ethnic Dance Theatre and pianist Joe Strachan. The magical journey begins at the Christmas Eve party, led by the gifted toymaker Uncle Drosselmeyer, who unveils a one-of-a-kind Nutcracker. Witness the Kingdom of Sweets come alive under the reign of the Sugar Plum Fairy.St. Paul Ballet’s Youth Company is a training program that focuses on the creative, social, personal, and technical skills needed by today’s ballet professionals. They share the stage with CAAM and EDT to wow audiences, inspire youth, and introduce a little more beauty into the world.This event is perfect for:Families with wiggly, excited, creative children!Wiggly, excited, creative, adults!Easing stress and increasing joy!All ages who want to feel inspired by the youth of today (our future artists!)A moving, inspiring, and impressive 75 minutes plus intermission.Take advantage of our Pay-As-Able ticketing to share this performance with all of your loved ones leaving you with memories of a magical holiday experience.Make time for joy this season! 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.
St. Paul Ballet Presents – The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED
St. Paul Ballet is thrilled to announce our annual The Nutcracker: REIMAGINED for 2025! This production features our Youth Company and guest artists CAAM Chinese Dance Theatre, Ethnic Dance Theatre and pianist Joe Strachan. The magical journey begins at the Christmas Eve party, led by the gifted toymaker Uncle Drosselmeyer, who unveils a one-of-a-kind Nutcracker. Witness the Kingdom of Sweets come alive under the reign of the Sugar Plum Fairy.St. Paul Ballet’s Youth Company is a training program that focuses on the creative, social, personal, and technical skills needed by today’s ballet professionals. They share the stage with CAAM and EDT to wow audiences, inspire youth, and introduce a little more beauty into the world.This event is perfect for:Families with wiggly, excited, creative children!Wiggly, excited, creative, adults!Easing stress and increasing joy!All ages who want to feel inspired by the youth of today (our future artists!)A moving, inspiring, and impressive 75 minutes plus intermission.Take advantage of our Pay-As-Able ticketing to share this performance with all of your loved ones leaving you with memories of a magical holiday experience.Make time for joy this season! 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.
Warped Productions Presents: The Grinch
The approximate run time of the event is 90 minutes plus a 15 minute intermission. Warped Productions presents their rendition of “The Grinch,” a magical Christmas story that will leave you on the edge of your seat. This Aerial Circus performance is packed with laughter, breathtaking aerial feats, acrobatics and holiday cheer. As the Grinch attempts his hilarious Christmas heist, you’ll be swept up in a whirlwind of aerial silks, hoops, and trapeze acts that turn Whoville into a gravity-defying wonderland. Expect hysterical twists and turns as the Whos chase, outsmart, and even out-fly the Grinch in a series of aerial stunts that are sure to thrill audiences of all ages. With family-friendly humor, dazzling performances, and a heartwarming message, this show is the perfect holiday spectacle for everyone to enjoy! The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $20 – $40 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.
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.
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.
Chandreyee Basu Thakur Presents: Rhythms of Krishna
The approximate run time is 110 minutes with no intermission. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $10 – $15 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. Rhythms of Krishna is a celebration of devotion, story telling, and artistic grace expressed through the rich traditions of two exquisite Indian classical dance forms. Experience the elegance of Mohiniyattam from Kerala and the expressive dynamism of Bharatanatyam from Tamil Nadu, brought to life by renowned danseuse and choreographer Chandreyee Basu Thakur and her talented disciples. The performance pays homage to various facets of Krishna’s life through intricate gestures, varied expressions, and rhythmic footwork. Witness tradition come alive in a mesmerizing blend of music, movement, and myth, where every step tells a story. Rhythms of Krishna promises an unforgettable evening steeped in cultural richness and spiritual depth. One of the performances introduces Dasavatara, the ten primary avatars of Vishnu the Preserver. Krishna is one of the avatars and a major protagonist of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Each act brings to life the multifaceted persona of Lord Krishna: The Mischievous Infant, The Protector, The Friend, and The Divine Lover. The program ends with Dance of Divine Love or Raas Leela. This timeless act narrates the enchanting tales of Lord Krishna’s playful and divine interactions with Radha and the gopis (cowherd girls).
Phoenix Chinese Dance Academy Presents: May Breeze
The approximate run time of the event is 100 minutes plus a 15 minute intermission. The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $15.00 – $20.00 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. The Phoenix Chinese Dance Academy will present an exquisite repertoire of traditional, folk, and contemporary Chinese dance, while the Minnesota Huayue Music Ensemble accompanies with timeless classical melodies. Together, these accomplished artists will create a harmonious tribute to Chinese cultural heritage, welcoming spring’s arrival through their artistry. *Patrons who would like to control the volume of their listening experience, assistive listening devices and sensory ear plugs are available upon request at the Ticket Office. More info at: https://oshag.stkate.edu/accessibility*Patrons can book a wheelchair accessible seat online, but we encourage you to call the Ticket Office if you have any questions during the booking process.