Saturday, November 16th, 7:30-8:30 pm Join us in the Sunroom studio for an evening of performance and conversation, featuring an open rehearsal of April Sellers Dance Collective’s newest work. April Sellers Dance Collective (ASDC) – in residence at cfpa from September 2019 through June 2020 – is
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Welcome to our Fall 2019 Resident Artists! cfpa is delighted to announce the three artists selected for our Fall 2019 New Works Residency: Morgan Holmes, David Means, and Kerry Parker. With the support of free rehearsal space, a mentor specifically chosen for this project, a public presentation, and audience
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Center for Performing Arts provides access for professional artists and inspired community members of all ages, experiences, and traditions to stretch their bodies and minds together. Cfpa will open the doors to our Sunroom Dance Studio from noon-4 pm on Saturday, August 24th, as part of Open
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For Creation of New Works in all performance modalities including theatre, dance, music, spoken word, community-engaged performance, and new (performance-based) media cfpa is looking for up to three Twin Cities-based artists at any stage in their careers to initiate a new piece of original performance work, and/or
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Alexandra Bodnarchuk is a Twin Cities theater artist, in residence at cfpa this spring as part of our Works in Process artist residency. Alexandra has continued work on her dance piece “The Nature of Cloth”, which investigates the human experiences of shame and conformity. Alexandra’s mentor for
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Saturday, April 20th and Saturday, April 27th, 7 pm Join us for the culmination of cfpa’s Spring 2019 Works in Process Residencies. With the support of free rehearsal space and a mentor specifically chosen for this project, three local performing artist have moved an existing work (and
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Beth Ann Powers is a Twin Cities theater artist, in residence at cfpa this spring as part of our Works in Process artist residency. Beth Ann has excavated her personal relationship with mental illness and recovery, and investigated how durational/endurance performance can create space for an audience to
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Nora Montañez Patterson is a Twin Cities theater artist, in residence at cfpa this spring as part of our Works in Process artist residency. Nora has used this residency to continue to work on her interactive, bilingual, multi-media storytelling experience, “Sabor a Mi,” which lays bare the human
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Florida playwright Gina Montet will be at cfpa this week for a workshop of her play, “Overactive Letdown.” Here she shares some thoughts about her hopes for the workshop and her writing process. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those solely those of the
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Saturday, March 16th, 7-9 pm Performing Motherhood: Confronting toxic myths and post-postpartum mental health with humor and truth-telling. An evening of performance and discussion, featuring the the world premiere of playwright Gina Montet’s script “Overactive Letdown” cfpa is delighted to host a workshop and performance of Gina
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