Cirque Zuma Zuma
- Saturday, September 29, 2012
- 7:30 p.m., Edson Auditorium
Finalists in the 2011 America’s Got Talent competition, this amazing troupe will bring a Kenyan-inspired spectacle to Edson stage with–
- African acrobatics and tumbling, dance and percussion
- Chair balancing
- Limbo dancing
- Rope skipping
- Human pyramids
There will definitely be audience oohing and aahing during this performance!
James Sewell Ballet Dance Macabre
- Friday, October 19, 2012
- 7:30 p.m., Edson Auditorium
Beauty and the dark side—an early celebration of All-Hallows’ Eve.
Performing Arts Extra
- Ballet Master Class
- free and open to the public
- Thursday, October 18
- 4–5:30 p.m.
- HFA Room 125
Neos Dance Theatre has cancelled their tour of Count–the Legend of Dracula. As a replacement, Morris will present James Sewell Ballet’s program Dance Macabre, a new work inspired by Edgar Allan Poe—animating some of his most intriguing tales such as “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The Bells” –and featuring music by Lou Reed, Nine Inch Nails, and Nichole Teemant. The program also includes a new take on the Giselle Pas de Deux, the original ghost ballet, and the revival of Sewell’s Grave Matters, featuring the music of Gabriel Prokofiev with remixes by DJ Yoda and Jules Buckley.
Improvised Shakespeare
- Friday, November 16, 2012
- 7:30 p.m., Edson Auditorium
Performing Arts Extra
- Improv Workshop
- Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:30–5 p.m., HFA Room 125
- Free and open to the public
Improvised Shakespeare Company spontaneously crafts each play based on an audience suggested theme, then acts it out in Shakespearean style. Each of the players has brushed up on his “thee’s” and “thou’s” to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare.
True to improv form, the troupe’s onstage silliness is hilarious, but the group also takes pleasure in fashioning dramatic or even tragic moments alongside the laughs. Their plays are filled with power struggles, sword-play, asides, insults—all that we’ve come to expect from the Great Bard himself.
“...mind-blowing...”
“It was one of the funniest, most amazing things I've ever seen.”
—The Charleston City Paper Online
Sō Percussion
- Saturday, January 26, 2013
- 7:30 p.m., HFA Recital Hall
Well known for its use of unusual and exotic instruments—including toy pianos, hammers, a glockenspiel, even an amplified cactus—an evening with Sō Percussion promises to be an evening you won’t forget!
Since 1999, the group has been creating music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous, and heartfelt. Called an “experimental powerhouse” by the Village Voice and “brilliant” by the New York Times, the Brooklyn-based quartet’s innovative work with today’s most exciting composers and their own original music has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career.
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, and Will Clipman
- Saturday, March 9, 2013
- 7:30 p.m., Edson Auditorium
The Nakai, Eaton, Clipman Trio brings the soaring melodies of the flute, the vibrant tones of the lyraharp guitar, and world beat percussion together to create music which is at once ethereal and earthy. Twenty-five years ago, a friend gave R. Carlos Nakai a Native American flute to see what the former jazz trumpeter could do with it. Nakai took the challenge and became the world’s premiere performer of this soothing, evocative instrument. He’s taken the indigenous flute into new musical realms, from European classical to electronica. The trio’s album, Feather, Stone & Light, spent thirteen weeks on the Billboard charts and was a PULSE! pick for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.
