ARENA DANCES kicks off the season with Monument, an evening of repertory works at the Luminary Arts Center at the Luminary Arts Center, September 12-14, 2024. This showing features audience favorites like Huddle and, for the first time, remounts Navigations, a work Mathew set on Zenon Dance Company in 2003, along with a few other works to round out the evening. Tickets on sale now!
9th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival: Celebrating its ninth year, the festival will offer master classes, happy hour performances, panel discussions, and more. April 21–26, 2025 at The Southern Theater. More information and tickets released in January.
Only the perverse fantasy can still save us – A major new work from Minnesota-based choreographer Mathew Janczewski interrogates the gender binary and asks how creative repression changes us. After receiving a diagnosis of leukemia, Janczewski learned that his condition was caused by the mutation of a single chromosome. For him, the experience brought new resonance to artist Matthew Barney’s epic five-film Cremaster cycle (1994–2002), which considers the embryonic stages of sexual differentiation—another biologically determined process that shapes our lives.
Only the perverse fantasy can still save us takes inspiration from Barney and features a score by Minnesota-based composer Joshua Clausen. at the McGuire Theater at the Walker Art Center, May 16–17, 2025. Tickets on sale now!