The O’Shaughnessy has more than a 50-year legacy of support and partnership with local and regional professional arts organizations. Leaning into this legacy, we are introducing The O’Shaughnessy Dance Cohort. With an eye towards the future, this cohort aims to build partnerships to help accelerate audience development, enhance artistic experiences, and foster mutually beneficial partnerships amongst cohort member organizations and The O’Shaughnessy.
Ananya Dance Theatre
Michhil Amra | We Are the Procession.
Friday, September 22 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 23 | 7:30 p.m.
- Single Tickets:
- Pay What You Can: $5, $15, $25, $35, $45, $55 ($35 is default)
- St. Kate’s Students: $5
Can we build a new, more just world? We may chafe at interruptions of normal routine; but when structures of “normality” are built on systemic violence and oppression, disruptions can generate vibrant possibilities. Michhil Amra |We Are the Procession. draws on the energetic and experiential interventions of the Uprising provoked by George Floyd’s murder, the pandemic, and nearly 20 years of rigorous choreographic investigation, to embody intersecting energies of interruption: anger, fear, joy, relief, solidarity, and the strength and beauty of mutual liberation.
James Sewell Ballet
In the Shadows
Saturday, October 28 | 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
- Single Tickets:
- Adult: $34
- St. Kate’s Students: $5
Frankenstein, zombies, and characters of Edgar Allen Poe come to life in this family friendly performance steeped in spooky delight and tragic majesty. Anchoring the performance is a new choral ballet titled Unfashioned Creature, featuring Twin Cities beloved artists Timothy C. Takach (composer), Penelope Freeh (choreographer), and the MPLS (imPulse) choral ensemble.
Contempo Physical Dance
Contempo’s National Choreography Residency
Saturday, March 9 | 7:30
- Single Tickets:
- Adult: $29
- Student/Senior: $24
- Children: $19
- St. Kate’s Student: $5
Contempo Physical Dance emerged from Artistic Director Marciano Silva dos Santos’ hunger to create work that is artistically exceptional, riveting to watch, highly physical and that speaks to the cultural dynamics of his Afro/Indigenous-Brazilian ancestry. Through extensive research, Contempo has created a Brazilian contemporary dance aesthetic that is constantly evolving. Contempo’s National Choreography Residency welcomes a Latinx choreographer to share exhilarating movement fusions, new movement approaches and a stunning performance with audiences in Minnesota.
TU Dance
THREAT
Friday, April 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 27 | 7:30 p.m.
- Single Tickets:
- Adult: $40
- Student/Senior: $30
- St. Kate’s Student: $5
THREAT is a concert dance theater work that aims to provoke an interrogation of the roles we play as individuals and community in hierarchies. The work posits that hierarchies have the power to control our behavior and infiltrate our thoughts, even when no authority is present to enforce the rules. Using a physical language and soundscape that fuses multicultural traditions and styles of the West and the African Diaspora, this social exploration invites audiences into a modern narrative that speaks to the universal experience of authority, obedience, and rebellion.
