Each year the SAGE Awards recognize exceptional work in the Minnesota dance scene. The 2014 winners are: Outstanding Dance Performance One with Others – Karen Sherman Rooted: Hip Hop Choreographers’ Evening – Maia Maiden Outstanding Dance Performer Jesse Neumann-Peterson – Under the Current (Sharon Picasso), The Student (Vanessa Voskuil), Azalea Nights (Christine Maginnis/Christopher Watson) Duncan Read more →
Ethnic Dance Theatre turns 40, an app which provides a portal to a new realm of art experiences, and fine furniture in Winona. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) A beautiful marriage of form, function and design is happening at the Winona County Historical Center, according to Vicki Englich, chair of River Arts Read more →
“It’s really about bringing international visionaries to the Twin Cities,” Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither said of the season he is announcing today. Read more →
This week, the emotional pull of puppetry in a Minneapolis garage, a revered Minnesota choreographer’s vision of hell, and the astonishing photographs of Vivian Maier. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Minneapolis mosaicist Lisa Arnold explains why the photographs of Vivian Maier, a mid-20th century amateur artist whose voluminous body of work was Read more →
This week, a painter who explores light using photographic materials, a dance company inspired by issues, and an ensemble devoted to today’s compositions. (Want to be an Art Hound? Sign up!) Music theory masters student Anna Nelson appreciates the gusto and rigor with which the Arditti Quartet tackles new music. The Arditti Quartet is performing Read more →
A new haven for arts and culture in south central Minnesota, a warm living room dance and a Kentucky poet who’s bringing Appalachia to a northern clime. Read more →
Art from a Montana-born Minneapolis artist, what it feels like to have schizophrenia, and St. Paul and Minneapolis show parallel exhibitions by the same New York artist. Read more →
Muted minimalist soundscapes, art that simultaneously shocks, pleases and tricks the eye, and accordion music the way dancers like it. Read more →
A one-man “Christmas Carol” in Mankato, a potent Minneapolis dance collaboration marks 20 years, and portraits and peace at the Southern Theater. Read more →
The Twin Cities has lost one its most generous arts supporters. Philanthropist Sage Cowles, the wife of the late John Cowles, died yesterday. She was 88. As a couple, Sage and John Cowles had a tremendous influence on the local arts scene. Through Sage, much of that generosity went to dance. Her legacy is reflected Read more →
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