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Shá
Cage
MN Spoken Word Association
Sha Cage, one of the founders of the MN
Spoken Word Association (MNSWA), will MC an incredible evening
of spoken word, song, dance and excitement presenting a mixture
of youth and adult artists. Many of these performers are also community
workers, youth workers, and advocates for social justice.
This performance seeks to illuminate popular art
forms that youth enjoy (both traditional and contemporary). It moves
through the urban dance movements and aural forms of hip hop and
spoken word, and showcases song, drum, and music as well.
Performance content:
-Drumming
-Hip Hop Dance
-Indian Song in collaboration with storytelling
-Spoken Word
-Hip Hop Lyricism
-Afro Latin Funk Fusion band
-Native American spoken word
-Hmong Hip Hop /Pop group
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Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Theater for the Heart and Mind
Founded in 1978, Stuart
Pimsler Dance and Theater's work stands apart in the field of
contemporary performance for its vast emotional range, intellectual
provocations, and stunning visual environments. Dramatically powerful
and insightfully witty, this company's unique vision has been hailed
as theater for the heart and mind. Our mission is realized through
2 major program areas.
CREATION AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCES OF NEW
WORKS AND REPERTORY
SPDT creates and presents performance works with community casts
representing a broad socio-economic cross-section of the population,
including collaborations with healthcare professionals, parents
and children, high school athletes, senior citizens, and other groups.
Our work has been presented in more than 25 states as well as Canada,
Europe, Israel, Taiwan, and Russia.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PROGRAMS
SPDT has been at the forefront of the national arts-in-medicine
movement with the development of its Caring for the Caregiver. In
2001, SPDT presented its national, multi-year performance work Out
of This World/The Life after Life Project in the Twin Cities. This
project united 35 local artists and caregivers to focus on the ways
in which memories of the deceased influence the living. Other Community
Connections programs include Families in Motion workshops for children
and adults, Life Stories workshops for senior adults, Performance
Works for intergenerational casts, and Arts in Education programs
for students of all ages.
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