Calendar & Tickets

“Watch out Radio City Rockettes, Minnesota PerformDance’s Starettes are getting ready to high-kick their way across the big Cowles Center stage, which should prove an impressive sight.  “All Wrapped Up” features the five-year-old precision line-dance troupe in a family-themed yuletide extravaganza.  This crew is also fond of kicking up their heels with high-energy ballroom and jazz dancing.  To top it all off, singers will be on hand to croon some favorite festive tunes.  A complete holiday fix, all in one show.” – Caroline Palmer (Star Tribune 2011)

Each holiday season we celebrate age-old traditions and create new ones for future generations. In collaboration with Minnesota Center for Book Arts and author Patricia Kirkpatrick, Cantus presents a modern take on the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.

Love, war and revenge intertwine in one of Giuseppi Verdi’s most popular operas. Melody after melody soars through this romantic classic about a gypsy’s revenge, a son’s abduction, and a border-war in Northern Spain in the fifteenth century. Sung in Italian with piano, chorus and English surtitles.

Contempo Physical Dance presents Batuque, a new full-length work choreographed by Marciano Silva dos Santos that explores the African origins and rise of samba in Brazil.

Join James Sewell Ballet for the Ballet Works Project as choreographic innovators develop new work in the TEK BOX.

Expect plenty of virtuosity tempered with playful hijinks, a full-out embrace of beats of every kind, and sparks—no, make that fireworks—flying from tap shoes.

Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre seeks to expand the tradition of flamenco to encompass new forms and bring socially relevant art to the community.

Closing out its 17th season, Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES and composer/improviser Phil Fried will combine their artistic synergy to create a new improvisational work for the full company commissioned by the American Composer’s Forum. Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski will also bring back an excerpt of UGLY to original music by “ghost-box” pioneer Morton Subotnick.

Over the past 25 years, Shapiro & Smith Dance has become noted for creating works that run the gamut from poignant and provocative to the absurdly hilarious.  S&SD has earned an international reputation for virtuosity, substance, craft, and pure abandonment.

This program will feature fun excerpts from Lover and Your Move, making this performance a treat for all ages, including live music by The Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony. Come early for animal FACE PAINTING in the lobby before the show with make-up artists from the Jungle Theater.

The most beloved of Handel’s operas, this baroque tour de force sweeps us into Caesar and Cleopatra’s world of love, betrayal, war and heroic action during the Roman Empire’s war with Pompey in 48 b.c

Minnesota Dance Theatre shines the spotlight on women who create bold, breathtaking works for the stage from this and last century in Fierce/Feminine: Dance by Women Choreographers.

Psst! is a show that combines the zany rag-time of Betty Boop era animation, with the sensational expressionism of the classic silent film Metropolis.