Dance classes in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ananya Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company founded in 2004 that works at the intersection of artistry, justice and community, creating work by and about BIPOC women and femmes within the global arts and social justice movement. Its home is the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice at 1197 University Ave W, St. Paul, Minnesota, where the company trains, rehearses, holds workshops and community events, teaches weekly classes and hosts an annual Summer Intensive. Classes center on Yorchha, the company's trademarked contemporary technique blending vinyasa yoga, the Indian classical form Odissi and the martial art Chhau, reinterpreted through transnational-feminist values. The weekly schedule also includes African Diasporic movement, an intergenerational family dance class drawing on Dabke, traditional Vietnamese dance and AfroLatin social dance, yoga, and open company training in mobility and pilates. Most classes run on a sliding scale from $0-$25 and no one is turned away for lack of funds.
Ananya Dance Theatre, an ensemble of transnational feminist professional dance artists, marks the climax of its 20th season of disruptive, powerful, and urgent Contemporary Dance with the world premiere of SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: Dream Jumping.
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded $2,000,000 through the National Dance Project (NDP) to support the creation of 20 new dance projects that will be shared across the United States.
Ananya Dance Theatre, a company of BIPOC women/femmes, will llaunch its 19th Season of disruptive, powerful, and urgent Contemporary Dance with the world premiere of ANTARANGA: Between You and Me.
Theater Mu’s 2024/25 mainstage season, entitled “the Depths of Us,” focuses largely on queer and South Asian stories.
The Doris Duke Foundation has announced the finalists for its inaugural Performing Arts Technologies Lab, recognizing innovative projects at the intersection of arts and technology.
The Sledgehammer Series releases new play anthologies featuring work by Yale Windham Campbell Prize’s Sharon Bridgforth and Helen Merrill Award-winning Migdalia Cruz.
NEFA's National Dance Project has announced $2 million in production grants to fund the creation of 20 new dance projects that will be shared across the United States.
Ananya Dance Theatre, a company of BIPOC women/femmes, launches its 18th Season of disruptive, powerful, and urgent Yorchhā dance with the world premiere of Michhil Amra | We Are The Procession.
In the third week of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2023, Germany-based Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart will return to Jacob’s Pillow, July 12-16.
Following a milestone anniversary year, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will celebrate its 91st season this summer.
Ananya Dance Theatre explores betrayal, dispossession and exile, and the desperate global resistance against great odds that fuels hope and survival in a new piece that premieres at The O'Shaughnessy Friday-Saturday, September 30-October 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute collaborates with The Brick to present the sixth annual Queer Butoh 2022, available online from June 1-30, 2022 and in-person from June 28-30, 2022 at 8pm at The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn.
Jacob’s Pillow has announced eight artist residencies this winter and spring at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work.
Today, The Breath Project—a new theatrical initiative formed by Artistic Director and Co-Founder Gamal Abdel Chasten and Co-Founder Marieke Gaboury in response to the current global spotlight on racial injustice against Black people—announced the line-up for the inaugural The Breath Project…
In partnership with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and 23 other theater companies across the country, The Breath Project has announced the lineup for its inaugural virtual festival being held on October 24 and 25.
