Next week, The Red Eye Theater kicks off its annual New Works 4 Weeks Festival featuring new and developing projects by theater, dance, and performance artists. The event begins this weekend with Work...
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On their 21st production, after 13 years of working collaboratively, husband-and-wife team Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse have decided to create... More >>
Since the early 1980s, site-specific performance has grown in popularity as a way to specifically tailor a piece to a certain location. Locally,... More >>
This Saturday is your chance to see five spoken-word artists perform and discuss their work at the VERVE 2012 Spoken Word Showcase. Featuring VERVE grant winners Naadirah tha Great, Aimee Renaud, Rodr...
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Yesterday, the Walker Art Center announced its 2012-2013 performing arts season. It looks like it's going to be a fantastic year filled with a number of powerhouse women performers, political work, a ...
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There's something that can be said about technique. Pure and simple Kristie Bretzke, whose work is now on exhibition in "Eye of the Beholder" at XYandZ Gallery, has got technique in spades. Her painti...
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Tyler Olsen hopes to bring some smiles -- and some patrons -- to University Avenue, which has been hurting for customers ever since construction began on the Central Corridor. On Friday, Olsen's Happy...
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Theater artist Charles Campbell takes his audience to an abandoned market in St. Paul for his latest endeavor with Skewed Visions, a company known for its site-specific performances. Black Water explo...
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This evening, two acclaimed local poets will be giving a reading sponsored by BIrchbark Books at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Performance poet Bao Phi, author of Song I Sing, and Ed Bok Lee, winner of...
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Savannah Reich's latest creative endeavor, Us with Moustaches: A Performance Manifesto, is "intended as a love note to manifestos" she says. The project stems from the tradition of artists like Salvad...
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Wednesday marks the third installment of Michael Fallon and Andy Sturdevant's Every Hundred Feet film series at the Trylon microcinema. This time... More >>
What would it be like if we moved away from fossil-fuel dependency toward a sustainable futurer That's the crux of the "transition-town" movement, which has been gaining steam since the mid-2000s, tho...
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Leave it to interdisciplinary artist Jaime Carrera to continually wow us with hilarity and subversiveness. His newest evening at the Bryant-Lake... More >>
There's the underground art scene, and then there's the real underground art scene. For a primer on the latter, you would do well to check out "UNDR MPLS" this Saturday night. At the event, presented ...
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There has been a bit of a hullabaloo the past couple weeks on social networking sites and in the media over the announcement of the Guthrie Theater's 50th anniversary season. Criticisms have stemmed f...
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It's spring! Time to get naked. Well, not really, but at Cult Status's "Vital Flesh" show there will be plenty of nudity in art form to enjoy.... More >>
Scientists tell us that very soon there will be seven billion people on Earth. According to the New York Times, the first billion were added fairly slowly from the beginning of civilization through th...
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If you feel like you just don't have enough style in your life, you may want to head over to the Bryant-Lake Bowl this Sunday for a healthy dose of '80s glitz served up by performance artist Jaime Car...
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As part of its 50th-anniversary season, Minnesota Dance Theatre will present its critically acclaimed re-envisioning of the company's once controversial production of Carmina Burana. The piece was cho...
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Emily Lloyd is on a mission to gather six-word memoirs from Minneapolis residents. So far, she has collected about 750, but she knows that's just barely scratching the surface. The poet-turned-public-...
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SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this weekend with a performance featuring Minneapolis-based choreographer Angharad Davies and Allie Hankins from Seattle. T...
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"He taught us that you could have an unlimited imagination. You could do whatever you wanted."That's what poet and former Speedboat Gallery owner Paul Dickinson says of Daniel Kaniess, who passed away...
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Of the many ways to describe "Body Doubles: Work by Amy Toscani," currently exhibited at Soo Visual Art Center, aesthetically pleasing is not one of them. The kitschy amalgamations of transformed plas...
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Franconia Sculpture Park, located near Taylors Falls, has been offering a unique exhibition space, residency program, and workspace for artists since 1996. It also hosts a number of educational and ou...
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