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DANCEBUMS DANCE: A 4 SHOW APRIL RESIDENCY WITH SPECIAL GUESTS GAY HENRY + HIJACK
$8 IN ADVANCE / $10 AT THE DOOR
9:30PM DOORS / 10PM SHOWTIME
21+
DANCEBUMS DANCE IS A FOUR WEEK RESIDENCY JAM-PACKED WITH MUSIC, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE. JOINED BY KEYBOARDIST/VOCALIST ERIC MAYSON AND PERCUSSIONIST TOBY RAMASWAMY, DANCEBUMS IS A BAND THAT MAKES DANCES - A CROWD PLEASING PERFORMANCE IMBUED WITH HUMOR, GROOVE, EXERTION, AND EXTREME BLISS. EACH WEEK FOCUSES ON A FACET OF DANCEBUM-NESS, WITH AN ALL STAR LINE UP TO MATCH.
DANCEBUMS
DaNCEBUMS is a group of five making dance collaboratively and non-hierarchically in Minneapolis. Dubbed the best dance party in town, their work straddles the arty and the party as they knowingly move between precise technique and casual pop sensibility. In a search for radical joy, they embrace the awkward, conjure nostalgia, and contemplate bright futures. Their crowd-pleasing performance is imbued with humor, groove, exertion, and extreme bliss.
Margaret Johnson, Kara Motta, Eben Kowler, Maggie Zepp, and Karen McMenamy met as students in the University of Minnesotas dance department, and have collaborated in various configurations since 2011. Tightly bonded by friendship, they lived together at 601 Broadway St NE. During their two-year residency in this home, they produced a trio of original dance-rock-operas in their single-car garage. Since 2013, DaNCEBUMS has been performing thoughtful and provocative dance work in the Twin Cities. Their collaboration is based on mutual love and respect for each other, systems of support, and togetherness. They have presented work at the Walker Art Center (One-Move-Dance), Red Eye Theater (New Works 4 Weeks 2014, 2015), The Southern Theater, and the Bryant Lake Bowl (WOW, in collaboration with 6ix Families). Their webseries, moves4u2do, allows fans to take their choreography off the stage and into their lives with simple instructional videos.
Currently, DaNCEBUMS is realizing their dream of becoming a dance band - taking their work out of the theater and into bars, music venues, and parties. Joined by keyboardist/vocalist Eric Mayson, and percussionist Toby Ramaswamy, they have performed at 7th St Entry, ICEHOUSE, Kitty Cat Klub, Public Functionary,The Swedish Institute, and on live television as part of TPTs Takeover Series.
GAY HENRY:
performance, music.
HIJACK
HIJACK is the 23-year, Minneapolis-based, choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder. HIJACK actively questions where and for whom dance is performed by choosing unconventional venues and projects. Specializing in the inappropriate, they toy with audiences expectations through their interpretation of venue. They perform dances in both social and theatrical spaces, and the dances wear the imprint of the spaces theyve been.
HIJACK has taught and performed at over 100 locations; in NYC (DTW, PS122, Here ArtCenter, Catch Series, Movement Research Festival, La Mama, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Studios for Dance), Russia, Ottawa, Chicago, Colorado, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, Iowa, at Bates, Fuse Box and SFDI Festivals.
HIJACK has been supported by McKnight, Bush and Jerome Foundations, as well as FORECAST Public ArtWorks and numerous NPN Creation Fund Commissions and Performance Residencies. They have received commissions from colleges, ballet companies, puppet theaters. In 2013 Walker Art Center celebrated HIJACKs 20th anniversary by commissioning "redundant, ready, reading, radish, Red Eye". In 2014, Contact Quarterly published the chapbook "Passing For Dance a HIJACK reader". In 2015, HIJACK used their second MANCC residency for a laboratory with Lisa Nelson to bounce their own choreographic strategies off of her Tuning Scores. This season HIJACK is engaging in a consentual occupation of Walker Art Center's Mediatheque.
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LocationIcehouse (View)
2528 Nicollet Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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