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Join us at The O’Shaughnessy at Saint Catherine University for a heartfelt celebration honoring TU Dance Founder and Artistic Director Toni Pierce-Sands. These two vibrant performances – rooted in movement, memory, and community – will feature live works by Loyce Houlton, Alvin Ailey, and Ronald K. Brown, artists whose work inspired and held deep personal meaning for Toni. Interwoven throughout the evening will be storytelling and archival photos and videos that illuminate her illustrious life, career, and legacy.

Together, we will honor the energy, grace, and passion that define Toni’s enduring spirit—and celebrate the boundless ripples she has created in the dance world, inspiring generations to come.

Friday, April 24 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 25 at 7:30pm

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Join us for an informal gathering to connect and spend time with Dance/USA’s new Executive Director, Michele Kumi Baer. This meet-up is open to both members and the broader dance community. This gathering will take place in a happy hour-style setting. Attendees are responsible for purchasing their own food and beverages.

Friday, April 24 at 5:00pm
RSVP is required so we can share the event location with you. Location details will be provided upon RSVP.

If you have any questions, please contact the Interim Director of Member Services, Mark Travis Rivera, at MRivera@DanceUSA.org or call/text 404-933-0595.

Join DejaJoelle’s company, BLAQ, and DJ MxKenna in a Sacred Black Dance space. Come dance, commune and enjoy snacks as you build community! This is a Sacred Black Space and is built to be in faith and joy as we navigate our lived experiences as a Community. Pull up and bring a friend!! Let’s vibe.

Saturday, April 25
12:00-3:00pm
Sliding scale pricing: $0-$30

DejaJoelle is a Black-Centered Healing Artist, Choreographer, Director, and Cultural Healing Curator. She believes Dance serves as our connection to ourselves, our communities, and our overall Divinity. DejaJoelle creates intentional spaces for Black community to discover their own practices toward Healing using Dance, Body Reclamation, and other Healing practices. As the world experiences collective hurt and grief, DejaJoelle trusts that our greatest act of revolution and rebellion against hatred and corruption is Self-Love and Healing. Using the realms of reclaim, surrender and conjure, she focuses her art and energy on holding Healing spaces that re-introduces Black people to their Breath, Body, and Spirit.

American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) principal Skylar Brandt and soloist Jake Roxander to perform leads in Romeo & Juliet at the historic Fitzgerald Theater. The ballet is the most recognized romantic tragedy and celebrated love story of all time and will be beautifully staged as the original story unfolding in the Renaissance period of Verona, Italy.

Saturday, April 25 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 26 at 2:00pm
Location: Fitzgerald Theater
Tickets: $49-$129 (10% discount for students and seniors)

The partnership of Brandt and Roxander has already drawn comparisons to legendary ballet collaborations such as Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn—artists whose performances reshaped public engagement with ballet across generations. From leading roles in classical ballets to creating new characters, Brandt’s versatility and grace captivate audiences worldwide. Jake Roxander, a breathtakingly powerful rising star, is pushing the art form to new heights.

Skylar Brandt performed the role of Giselle last season at Northrop in a stunning performance with the Metropolitan Ballet. The Company is honored to have Skylar Brandt return as Juliet in this delightful and romantic production. From lead roles in classical ballets to creating new characters, Brandt’s versatility and grace captivate audiences worldwide. Jake Roxander, a breathtakingly powerful rising star, will perform as Romeo.

“ABT’s Jake Roxander is unstoppable”- Pointe Magazine, 2024
Brandt named to the renowned “Forbes 30 Under 30” list of most influential leaders and entrepreneurs (2022).

Catch their debut! Available for just two performances.
Romeo & Juliet is presented by the Metropolitan Ballet of the Twin Cities under the direction of Erik Sanborn.

Sacred Earth is a powerful, hour-long journey of movement and music that celebrates the beauty and vitality of the natural world. Performed as a continuous arc of high-energy dance and evocative poetry, the work unfolds like a living ritual.

Inspired by the ephemerality of the Indian art forms of kolam rice flour drawings, Warli wall paintings, and ancient Tamil Sangam poems, Sacred Earth reflects Artistic Co-Directors Aparna Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy’s singular vision of the delicate, interdependent relationship between humanity and nature. The performance becomes an invocation—reminding us that we are not separate from the earth, but deeply woven into its breath, rhythms, and fragile continuance.

Thursday, April 30 at 7:30pm
Location: Luminary Arts Center
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In celebration of the program’s 10th anniversary, Threads Dance Project presents Tapestries 10.0 – Anniversary Edition.

The Tapestries program has become an annual tradition—amplifying new choreographic voices, with a special emphasis on female-identifying and BIPOC creators. To honor this milestone, Tapestries 10.0 not only elevates two new emerging choreographers but also welcomes back two previous creators from the program’s 10-year run.

This year’s finalists, Lily Conforti and Brianna Johnson, have each been selected to create new works for the company. Returning choreographer Gabby Abrams remounts her work from Tapestries 6.0 – which was interrupted by the pandemic – while Rae Fox-Charles, a multi-year Tapestries alum, will share a new work.

Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 2 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Tickets: $22 students or groups of 10 or more, $25 seniors, and $30 general admission