Paul Taylor Dance Company
Esteemed for passionate expression and thrilling athleticism, Northrop-favorite Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to set the stage ablaze with energetic modern dance — accompanied by...
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Upcoming Shows
Emily Johnson / Catalyst: Overflow Radio
The creation of Catalyst director and choreographer Emily Johnson, Overflow Radio is a performance gathering — an immersive and transformative communal experience rooted in Johnson’s...
Limón Dance Company
Feel the gravitational pull of Limón Dance Company’s passionate modern dance radiating with the triumph of the human spirit. Highly acclaimed for dramatic expression and...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Without further ado, the highly anticipated return of the “Trocks” is on! “The World’s Foremost Gender-Skewering Comic Ballet Company” — famed for performing polished parodies...
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Take a spellbinding journey through the effervescent soul of Mexico, brought to life onstage with breathtaking dance, vibrant live mariachi music and dazzling traditional costumes...
Student Matinee: Complexions Contemporary Ballet
What does diverse, inclusive ballet look like? Complexions Contemporary Ballet will show your students in this engaging matinee — where impressive athleticism and artistry meet...
Encore Gala With Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Celebrate the shared passion and cultural investment that bring world-class performances to the Northrop stage at the Encore Gala — our annual fundraiser! This choreographed...
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
A globally celebrated leader in diverse and inclusive dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet brings three decades of “gamechanging” artistry to its Northrop debut — “forging a...
Kate Wallich & Perfume Genius: “The Lesson”
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) and choreographer Kate Wallich return to Minneapolis with an uncompromising new collaboration that reshapes the possibilities of role-playing in music and...
Review: SENSORY-FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE OF WICKED at Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis
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Review: MEGAN MORONEY - CLOUD 9 TOUR at Target Center Minneapolis
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Review: HILARY DUFF - THE LUCKY ME TOUR at Mystic Lake Amphitheater
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Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Guthrie Theater
Some things are timeless: art, architecture, human innovation, and even toxic exes, as evidenced in Noel Coward’s 1930’s classic Private Lives now on stage at the Guthrie Theater.…
Review: POPPY - CONSTANTLY NOWHERE TOUR at The Fillmore Minneapolis
Poppy's stop at the Fillmore Minneapolis delivered a lineup that showcased several sides of modern heavy music. LANDMVRKS opened the night with an aggressive metalcore set that got the crowd moving early, while Thousand Below followed with a blend of post-hardcore and melody that kep…
Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Duluth Playhouse
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Review: THE COTTAGE at Gremlin Theatre
Sandy Rustin's The Cottage tips its hat to the drawing-room comedies of Noël Coward while giving the genre a fresh spin. Set in an English country cottage in 1923, the story begins with Sylvia's decision to tell both her husband and her lover's wife about her affair.…
Review: CRUEL INTENTIONS THE 90'S MUSICAL at Mixfit Theatre
The late '90s gave us no shortage of teen dramas, but few have remained as deliciously watchable as Cruel Intentions. Mixfit Theatre's production of Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical, playing through July 24 at LUSH Lounge & Theater, captures the film's blend of privilege, manipulation, and guilt…
Review: THE PROM at Lyric Arts
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Review: DEREK HOUGH – SYMPHONY OF DANCE: ENCORE at State Theatre Minneapolis
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Past Shows
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...
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...
Encore With The Joffrey Ballet
Experience Encore Delights: Dinner, Dance, Dessert! Dinner. 5:30 pmJoin us for an intimate and delightful pre-show dinner with the artistic leaders of The Joffrey Ballet before...
The Joffrey Ballet: American Icons
In honor of their 70th anniversary, the beloved Joffrey Ballet revisits Northrop with American Icons, a tribute to three dance legends. Featuring iconic works that...
Jazba 2026 A Bollywood-Fusion Dance Competition
Jazba’s 12th season hails teams from around the nation to compete for qualifying points towards Legends, the Desi Dance Network’s Official Bollywood-Fusion Dance Championship. In...
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...
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 middle...
A Minnesota Nutcracker
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...
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...
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 pmJoin us for an intimate and delightful pre-show dinner with the artistic leaders of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE &...
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 University of...
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 2025!...
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, and...
Dance Theatre of Harlem
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
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 to compete...
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
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 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 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
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
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
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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Dirty Dancing: The Musical Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (8/12-9/06) |
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Kate Wallich & Perfume Genius: “The Lesson” Northrop (4/01-4/01) |
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The Unauthorized Hallmark(ish) Parody Musical Pantages Theatre (12/14-12/15) |
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The Songbook of Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt & Rosanne Cash Crooners Supper Club (8/19-8/19) |
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Cody Johnson Grand Casino Arena (8/29-8/29) |
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The Spitfire Grill Commonweal Theatre Company (7/11-10/24) |
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Student Matinee: Complexions Contemporary Ballet Northrop (3/19-3/19) |
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Wicked Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis (7/08-8/09) |
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The Who's Tommy Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis (3/30-4/04) |
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Limón Dance Company Northrop (1/30-1/30) |