CLASSICAL BALLET MINNESOTA
Akram Kahn Company to make its much-anticipated Minnesota debut
One of the highlights and must-see events of this dance season is the much-anticipated performance of “bahok” by the Akram Kahn Company at Northrop Auditorium on Wednesday evening .
P.D.Q Bach – Abduction of Figaro (vaimusic.com)
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25 Beethoven Favorites $1.32 … |
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The 25 Thunderous Classics $1.45 … |
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25 Children’s Favorites $2.47 … |
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Notes Alive! Nutcracker – The Untold Story [VHS] $14.98 Nutcracker: The Untold Story is an odd but satisfying mix of ballet, animation, and a symphony performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. The Minnesota Orchestra scores points for finding new ways to introduce symphonic music to youngsters (most notably On the Day You Were Born). This 40-minute presentation features animation of Maurice Sendak’s illustrations created for the Pacific Northwest Ba… |
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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston (Indigenous Americas) $23.58 While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the 1930s Hurston produced theatrical concerts that depicted a day in the life of a railroad work camp in Florida and featured a rousing Bahamian Fire Dance as the dramatic finale. In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the si… |
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Migrations of Gesture $24.97 Derived from the Latin verb “gerere”-to carry, act, or do-“gesture” has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production. Gestures migrate from body to body, from one medium to another, and between cultural contexts. Juxtap… |
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Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race In Motion $40.87 At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the “serious art” of such dancers as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Doris Humphrey. Across town, Hemsley Winfield and Edna Guy were staging what they called “The First Negro Dance Recital in America,” which Dance Magazine proclaimed “the beginnings of great and imp… |