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Cirque du Soleil: 'Twas the Night Before …


‘Twas the Night Before … is Cirque du Soleil’s first holiday show, based on the classic poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” by Clement Clarke ...

A Minnesota Nutcracker
A Minnesota Nutcracker
12/16 - 12/17/2025


By popular demand, Twin Cities Ballet's (TCB) acclaimed A Minnesota Nutcracker returns to Northrop! Experience the beloved holiday classic with a Minnesota twist. TCB's A ...

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo


Clamor no more, the “Trocks” are back! “The World’s Foremost Gender-Skewering Comic Ballet Company”—famed for performing polished parodies of classical ballet en pointe and en ...

Student Matinee: Martha Graham Dance Company


Recommended for Grades 5-12. Marking the 100th anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company, the legendary modern dance company presents a program curated especially for ...

Martha Graham Dance Company


Marking the 100th anniversary of Martha Graham Dance Company in 2026, the legendary modern dance company continues its three-year Graham100 tour with a celebratory mixed ...

Encore With The Joffrey Ballet


Experience Encore Delights: Dinner, Dance, Dessert!   Dinner. 5:30 pm Join us for an intimate and delightful pre-show dinner with the artistic leaders of The ...

Encore With The Joffrey Ballet


Experience Encore Delights: Dinner, Dance, Dessert!   Dinner. 5:30 pm Join us for an intimate and delightful pre-show dinner with the artistic leaders of The ...

The Joffrey Ballet: American Icons


In honor of their 70th anniversary, the beloved Joffrey Ballet revisits Northrop with American Icons, a tribute to four dance legends. Featuring iconic works that ...

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Marks of RED


For the final work in a three-year artistic partnership with Northrop and the Walker Art Center, MacArthur Fellow Shamel Pitts and multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater


Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Northrop with more dance The New York Times calls “transfixing, pulsating, and galvanizing.” Embarking on its next era ...

Student Matinee: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Featuring TU Dance


Immerse your students in the kinetic eloquence of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, joined by local trailblazer TU Dance . EVIDENCE aims “to promote understanding of the ...



Review: 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE...BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL at Northrop


by Jared Fessler - November 29, 2025

What did our critic think of 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE...BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL at Northrop?...

Photos: KO, Justin David Sullivan and More in Breaking the Binary Theatre 4th Annual Festival


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 27, 2025

You can now get a first look at photos from the Breaking the Binary Theatre's 4th annual festival which concluded on Sunday, October 26. Learn more here! ...

Review: ALL YOUR SHIMMERING GOLD at Rarig Stoll Thrust Theatre


by Jared Fessler - August 08, 2025

All Your Shimmering Gold is a striking and unexpected fusion of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold and the modern-day corporate world, presented by four employees of defense contractor Northrop Grumman. The show brings a fresh, almost absurdist lens to Wagner’s opera, examining themes of power, greed, a...

‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE By Cirque du Soleil Comes To Minneapolis For The Holidays


by A.A. Cristi - July 22, 2025

Hennepin Arts has announced that Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever Christmas production, ‘Twas the Night Before…, will play a two-week limited engagement at Northrop at the University of Minnesota from Wednesday, November 26 through Sunday, December 7, 2025. ...

VocalEssence Unveils Concerts For 2025-2026 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 17, 2025

VocalEssence has revealed the performances for its 57th concert season. The seven concerts in the 2025-2026 season show the global reach of VocalEssence as an organization. Learn more and see how to attend concerts!...

CHILDREN OF DHARMA Coming to Coppell Arts Center in April


by Josh Sharpe - March 21, 2025

Ragamala Dance Company's Children of Dharma is coming to Coppell Arts Center on Friday April 25 at 8 PM. The performance explores life—forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing—through three characters from the Hindu epic The Mahabharata....

Review: TWYLA THARP DANCE DIAMOND JUBILEE at NY City Center is Scintillating


by Marina Kennedy - March 14, 2025

Dance lovers and many more will be enraptured by the current performances of 'Twyla Tharp Dance Diamond Jubilee' at New York City Center...

The Santa Barbara Symphony to Present New Year's Eve Celebration


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2024

The Santa Barbara Symphony is inviting the community to ring in the new year at the 'biggest & best' musical New Year's Eve party. Learn more and see how to attend! ...

The Santa Barbara Symphony to Present New Year's Eve Celebration


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2024

The Santa Barbara Symphony is inviting the community to ring in the new year at the 'biggest & best' musical New Year's Eve party. Learn more and see how to attend! ...

Third Coast Percussion Releases First Single GLASS: AGUAS DA AMAZONIA


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 01, 2024

Third Coast Percussion released their first single from the album GLASS: AGUAS DA AMAZONIA and revealed an upcoming a national tour with Twyla Tharp Dance to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee....

Past Shows

Trisha Brown Dance Company With Merce Cunningham Trust


Step into a century of genre-blending creativity with Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) and Merce Cunningham Trust’s (MCT) Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham ...

Trisha Brown Set and Reset Workshop


Since her early years of creating dances with the Judson Dance Theater, Trisha Brown has been captivated by the infinite ways movements can be manipulated, ...

Encore With Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE & TU Dance


Experience Encore Delights: Dinner, Dance, Dessert!   Dinner. 5:30 pm Join us for an intimate and delightful pre-show dinner with the artistic leaders of Ronald ...

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Featuring TU Dance


Immerse yourself in the fluid eloquence and highly anticipated Northrop onstage debut of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE. For this 40th anniversary celebration honoring Ronald K. Brown, ...

Midwest Greek Step Show


Free for UMN students; 1 ticket per valid UMN student ID.   FaceTime proudly presents the Annual Midwest Greek Step Show (MGSS), included in the ...

Aszure Barton & Ambrose Akinmusire: A a | a B : B E N D


Choreographer Aszure Barton and award-winning composer Ambrose Akinmusire, two visionaries in their fields, created multidisciplinary, multidimensional A a | a B : B E N ...

Jazba 2025 A Bollywood-Fusion Dance Competition


Free for UMN students, faculty, and staff; registration required. One ticket per valid ID.  Celebrate Jazba Entertainment at the 11th-annual national Bollywood-Fusion Dance Competition, Jazba ...

Ragamala Dance Company: Children of Dharma


Described as “soulful, imaginative, and rhythmically contagious” by The New York Times, Ragamala Dance Company presents the world premiere of Children of Dharma, a Northrop ...

Student Matinee: Ragamala Dance Company Children of Dharma


In Children of Dharma, a Northrop Centennial Commission , Ragamala Dance Company creates a series of mesmerizing vignettes illustrated with poetic movement, lush visual imagery, ...

Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dance Theatre of Harlem
9/27 - 9/28/2024


A singular presence in the ballet world, Dance Theatre of Harlem presents a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century. This multiethnic company performs ...

10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography


A blossoming initiative to recognize and elevate Asian creatives working in ballet, this program of Asian and Asian American choreography—co-curated by Final Bow for Yellowface’s ...

Giselle
Giselle
3/23 - 3/24/2024


Celebrate 25 years with Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s own Metropolitan Ballet and experience the romance and beauty of Giselle—the classical tale of a young peasant ...

Jazba 2024: A National Bollywood-Fusion Dance Competition


Celebrate a decade of Jazba Entertainment at the 10th-annual national Bollywood-Fusion dance competition, Jazba 2024!   Jazba’s 10th anniversary hails teams from around the nation ...

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Dancing Beethoven


Les Grands Ballets Canadiens returns to Northrop for the first time since 2006, dancing two monumental masterpieces. The iconic four-note opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—said ...

Student Matinee: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Livestream)


Get inside a world-class dance experience with one of the most original forces in contemporary dance! Since 1977, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) has brought ...

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago


As The New York Times recently noted, “audiences haven’t seen Hubbard Street quite like this.” After 46 years, and under the leadership of newly appointed ...

Online Open Rehearsal with BalletMet & Yue Yin


Catch a glimpse into the creative process of professional artists during a livestreamed and on-demand rehearsal for Yue Yin's new work for BalletMet—a Northrop Centennial ...

Student Matinee: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago


Get inside a world-class dance experience with one of the most original forces in contemporary dance! Since 1977, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) has brought ...

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Deep River


Submerge yourself in this deeply soulful, powerful new work that fuses Black and Jewish spiritual music with stunning dance. Set to a score by jazz ...

Student Matinee: Step Afrika! Drumfolk (Livestream)


In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When ...

Step Afrika! Drumfolk


In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When ...

Student Matinee: Step Afrika! Drumfolk


In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When ...

Student Matinee: Step Afrika! Drumfolk


In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When ...

Ayodele Casel Rooted
Ayodele Casel Rooted
9/27 - 9/29/2023


Tap artists and jazz musicians share the stage with a seated audience for an interactive performance that elevates the rich history of tap dancing. Born ...

Community Roundtable with Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard


What creative challenges are you working through? What’s the big dream? Join tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel, and Director/Curator/Creative Producer, Torya Beard of Rooted ...

The State Ballet of Georgia


Concerto Barocco, George BalanchineMozartiana, George BalanchineSagalobeli, Yuri PossokhovFollowing a pandemic-induced postponement, and their gorgeous Northrop Centennial Commissioned film, Northrop is pleased to present the much-anticipated ...

Pilobolus: BIG FIVE-OH!


For their 50th anniversary celebration, Pilobolus returns to Northrop to question its own givens, turn its traditions sideways, and bring its past into the future. ...

Sensory Friendly Matinee: Pilobolus Rules @ Play


A sensory friendly show created by one of the worlds most creative dance companies. We usually view rules negatively, but Rules @ Play explores how ...

Student Matinee: Pilobolus Rules @ Play


Apr 14 - Recommended for Grades 3-5In-personA lively, interactive show created specifically for a youth audience by one of the worlds most exciting dance companies. ...

Student Matinee: Pilobolus Rules @ Play


Apr 13 - Recommended for Grades 6-12In-person / Livestream / On-demand through Apr 21A lively, interactive show created specifically for a youth audience by one ...

Lemi Ponifasio: Love to Death (Amor a la muerte)


Advisory Warning: Full frontal female nudityThe voices, language, and bodies of Chilean artistsnative Mapuche singer and composer Elisa Avendao Curaqueo, and contemporary flamenco dancer Natalia ...

Ashwini Ramaswamy: Invisible Cities


Bharatanatyam choreographer and dancer, Ashwini Ramaswamy (Ragamala Dance Company), deepens a choreographic methodology she began in 2019 with Let the Crows Comenamed Best of the ...

Ashwini Ramaswamy and Kevork Mourad: Invisible Cities


Bharatanatyam choreographer and dancer, Ashwini Ramaswamy (Ragamala Dance Company), deepens a choreographic methodology she began in 2019 with Let the Crows Comenamed Best of the ...

The Joffrey Ballet


SerenadeOf Mice and MenThe Times Are RacingThe Joffrey Ballet returns to Northrop with a dynamic program of three works: Serenadethe first ballet George Balanchine created ...

The Joffrey Ballet


SerenadeOf Mice and MenThe Times Are RacingThe Joffrey Ballet returns to Northrop with a dynamic program of three works: Serenadethe first ballet George Balanchine created ...

Limón Dance Company


In celebration of their 75th anniversary, Artistic Director Dante Puleio leads the company in a program that reveals aspects of Jos Limns life and honors ...

Student Matinee: Limón Dance Company


Recommended for Grades 5-12On-demand through Dec 2Celebrate 75 years of Limn Dance Company! Learn how legendary dancer and choreographer, Jos Limn, impacted the modern dance ...

Student Matinee: 61st Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert


On-demand Nov 29-Dec 23What Students Will See & HearLive musicIncludes commentary between pieces and a Q&ARecommended for Grades 3-12See and hear The Pride of Minnesota ...

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham


Requiem: Fire in the Air of the EarthVisionary Choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham and pioneering producer/electronic music composer Jlin have come together to create ...

PaviElle
PaviElle
9/21


PaviElle is an Emmy Award-winning, interdisciplinary artist hailing from Rondoa historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. Growing up in a family steeped in music, ...

Socaholix
Socaholix
9/14


The Socaholix is a high-energy Caribbean dance band that has been gracing Twin Cities stages since 2010. Members hail from the Caribbean, Africa, and the ...

Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue


The Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue (Precious Mother Earth) is a Kalpulli (learning community) of Indigenous people who perform traditional Aztec and Indigenous dances from Mexico. KetzalCoatlicue pursues ...

Nur-D
Nur-D
9/2


Voted Best New MN Artist and Best Live Concert (City Pages), Nur-D brings an explosion of energy every time he hits the stage. Headlining First ...

DeTrell Melodies


St. Paul-based singer/songwriter, DeTrell Melodies, writes and performs a mix of Soul, R&B, and Reggae music. Shortly after its release, his song Looking was played ...

Tango Society of Minnesota


The Tango Society of Minnesota is a member-supported, non-profit social club organized in 1999 to foster the genesis of Argentine Tango in the Twin Cities. ...

Funktion Junction


Funktion Junction is a dance band that specializes in recreating the sounds of the 70'severything from the Motown sound of the Temptations and Marvin Gaye ...

Amplifying Solidarity: LA Buckner & BiG HOMiE


Get ready to experience a historic blend of jazz, Gospel, hip hop, and avant-funk. Reaching the #1 iTunes Jazz position within 24 hours with BiG ...

Suzy Plays Guitar


Minneapolis-based musicians Kelsey Wyrd and Tricia Schweitzer formed Suzy Plays Guitar in 2018. Lead guitarist, Kelsey Wyrd, has a tenacious musical background in piano and ...

Annie Mack
Annie Mack
6/15


Visionary blues and roots artist Annie Mack branches out on her new EP, Testify, mixing folk, rock, and country gospel into her unique soulful sound. ...

ENCORE 2022


Join us for this celebratory event supporting Northrop Centennial Commissions for the creation of new dance works, elevating artists, and bringing extraordinary presentations to our ...

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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (12/9 - 12/28) Tracker
New Years eve with Chase and Ovation- The world's 19yr running, paramount tribute to PRINCE! in Minneapolis / St. Paul New Years eve with Chase and Ovation- The world's 19yr running, paramount tribute to PRINCE!
Hanifl Performing Arts Center (12/31 - 12/31)
Freddie: Break Free in Minneapolis / St. Paul Freddie: Break Free
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (4/10 - 4/12)
Giraffes Can't Dance in Minneapolis / St. Paul Giraffes Can't Dance
Stages Theatre Company (1/23 - 2/22)
SIX in Minneapolis / St. Paul SIX
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (6/17 - 6/28)
The Classic Nutcracker in Minneapolis / St. Paul The Classic Nutcracker
The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium (12/20 - 12/21)
Explorasaurus: A Dinosaur Adventure in Minneapolis / St. Paul Explorasaurus: A Dinosaur Adventure
Stages Theatre Company (8/5 - 8/23)
Ballet Tuesday in Minneapolis / St. Paul Ballet Tuesday
Landmark Center (4/21 - 4/21)
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