Performances and Events

Don’t miss your chance to see Cupcake Murders, a Ballet presented by Pacific Midwest Ballet at the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Three owners of a successful bakery receive a tempting cash offer to buy their small business. As soon as they decide to accept the money one of them is found dead the next morning. Investigators race to uncover the truth of who the murderer is, and the bakery struggles in the midst of tragedy. Will the mystery be solved before more damage is done? Dancing cupcakes and ghosts round out this playful murder-mystery.

Two remaining performances at Augsburg Mainstage:

Thursday, August 11 – 8:30pm
Saturday, August 13 – 4:00pm

Tickets available on the MN Fringe website for $15 + $3 reservation fee. Show run time is 50 minutes.

We are our own future archeologists. Trying to decipher past self, but the gifts from our past selves are gibberish. We are spellcasting, feeding ghosts, speaking to the dead, leaving artifacts along the path for ourselves like Hansel and Gretel, carrying stones and grief. We are priestesses and pilgrims. The Cosmos and the Reverse Cosmos are destinations. Traveling through geologic time, can our bones remember being the molten state of earth before they were someone else’s bones? Just read the list and let it be a stupid incantation.

Join us outside in Powderhorn Park for a work-in-progress of a new performance work by Monica Thomas and Theresa Madaus. Featuring Judith Howard, Krista Langberg, and Sylvan Madaus Derenne.

Friday, August 12
7:00pm
Powderhorn Park
Free to attend; RSVP requested

This is a short, semi-formal showing of an in-progress work.
Please email Theresa to let us know you are coming, and we’ll send you the exact location within Powderhorn.
We ask all audience members to wear masks. (Yes, even though it’s outside! We respect the highly contagious nature of the current Covid variants and don’t want to contribute to the spread.)

In case of rain, we will move to an indoor location (with masks required) and will email the address by 5:00pm on the day of the showing.

Thanks to HAIR+NAILS for rehearsal support.

Young Dance Performs at Belwin Conservancy
15551 Division St., Afton, MN
Saturday, August 13 from 2:00–3:00pm
$10/car

Young Dance is excited to be partnering with Belwin Conservancy for their Music in the Trees program! 

Young Dance dancers from several classes have been developing their own choreography in response to issues around conservation, Indigenous land rights, stewardship, native plant species, and polyculture planting.

Spend the day listening to musicians high in the trees and end with a site-specific performance!

Dance to Transcend at DreamAcres

Long known for bringing world class performances to our area, DreamAcres Farm (near Wykoff, MN) welcomes dancer Tamara Nadel (founding member and long-time performer with Ragamala Dance Company) for a solo performance on Sunday, August 14 at 3:00PM.

Created for Tamara by choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy (her mentor and Founding Artistic Director of Ragamala), Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? uses the living language of Bharatanatyam (dance of South India) to illuminate the universal journey of a human soul longing for transcendence. Rooted in the writings of the Sephardic Jewish poets of southern Spain’s Golden Age—a period known for innovations in art and thought that emerged from the intermingling of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions—Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? is set to an original score by Cantor Basya Schechter, Lalit Subramanian, Vinod Krishnan, and Cantor Audrey Abrams that weaves together Jewish and South Indian Carnatic genres and instrumentation.

Free – no reservations required. Free-will offerings accepted.

JumpstART 2022
AMP Game Night Fundraiser
In honor and celebration of Kristin Howe, Co-Director

August 18, 5:00-8:00pm
Lake Monster Brewing Company, St Paul

Tickets and Info: https://www.alternativemotionproject.org/818—jumpstart-2022.html

The event will take place in the designated indoor event area in Lake Monster Brewing Company. Weather permitting, some outdoor space may be available. Mask wearing will be optional and this policy is subject to change – you will be notified via email of any changes.

Join us in celebrating Kristin Howe’s tenure at Alternative Motion Project and help us raise money to JumpstART our 2022-23 Season. This casual game night includes delicious beers and appetizers, AMP trivia and Bingo, a silent auction, raffle, tributes, prizes, and MORE! All proceeds go toward supporting local dance artists and audiences through performance and education programs. Don’t miss Kristin’s final AMP event acting as Co-Artistic Director!
Additional food for purchase will be available on site from Samurai Teppanyaki Food Truck.

Schedule of Events
5:00pm – Event Begins and Silent Auction Opens, Outdoor Games (weather permitting)
5:30pm – Welcome
6:00pm – Trivia and Bingo – win prizes!
7:00pm – Tribute Video and Reflections by Joanna Lees and Kristin Howe
7:15pm – Silent Auction Closes
7:30pm- Silent Auction and Raffle Winners Announced
8:00pm – Event Concludes

TICKETS (not including processing fees)
$30 in advance | $35 at the door
$20 – children under 12

No refunds or exchanges. All sales are final. Alternative Motion Project is a 501c3 tax exempt organization.

More about the event and Alternative Motion Project can be found on our website here.
Can’t make the event, but would still like to contribute? Make your donation here.

PC: Bill Cameron

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 this spiritual, mental, and physical vocation with music from the sacred drum, conch shells, seeds, and other instruments. KetzalCoatlicue’s cultural learning center is located in South Minneapolis.

The dancers are rooted in cultural understandings of the environment weaving together the Nahuatl cosmovision and creation stories of Mexican ancestors. These presentations by Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue provide a basic understanding of the Nahuatl/Aztec representations of life through dance.

September 7 at 12:00pm