June 2018
Free classes with Ananya Dance Theatre, June 5-9
To celebrate the opening of our new dance and community facility in Saint Paul, Ananya Dance Theatre and the Institute for Performance & Social Justice will offer FREE classes…
Find out more »Summer Intensive with Ananya Dance Theatre
Calling all artists of color! Summer Dance Intensive with Ananya Dance Theatre Live music Pre-professional level Age Range: Young adults to adults Monday–Friday, June 11–29, 2018, 11am–2pm A 3-week…
Find out more »Open House: Ananya Dance Theatre in Saint Paul | Fri, June 29, 2pm-5pm
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Institute for Performance & Social Justice invite all members of the community to an open house of its new dance and community space in Saint…
Find out more »July 2018
July 2018 classes with Ananya Dance Theatre
Find rhythm, roundedness, and flow with Vinyasa Yoga and Introduction to Yorchha classes at Ananya Dance Theatre's Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice. No pre-registration or shoes necessary. Participate…
Find out more »August 2018
Free: Indigo Connection Series, August 1
We invite you to Ananya Dance Theatre's Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice as we launch a series of connective activities! Wed, Aug 1, 3pm-5pm: We invite you to…
Find out more »Free: Indigo Connection Series, August 3
We invite you to Ananya Dance Theatre's Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice as we launch a series of connective activities! Wed, Aug 1, 3pm-5pm: We invite you to…
Find out more »Free: Indigo Connection Series, August 4
We invite you to Ananya Dance Theatre's Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice as we launch a series of connective activities! Wed, Aug 1, 3pm-5pm: We invite you to…
Find out more »September 2018
Shaatranga Audience Empowerment Workshop
In this Audience Empowerment Workshop, ADT's dancers demonstrate excerpts from "Shaatranga," our new work about women weaving global connections, alternated with conversation about what it all might mean. The opportunity…
Find out more »Indigo Connections Workshop: Mapping Journeys Toward Liberation | Free
Artists, activists, and thinkers of color, please join us in a project of radical re-mapping, and re-imagination of mapping itself. Ananya Dance Theatre invites you to ruminate on the urgent…
Find out more »Conversation-Matrix: Ananya Dance Theatre & Public Functionary
This is the first of a two-part convening by Ananya Dance Theatre and Public Functionary, in which both organizations will host cross-disciplinary community dialogues with Twin Cities artists and cultural…
Find out more »REMAP: Twin Cities – Art Matrix with Marcus Young & Ananya Chatterjea
This two-day workshop, 3pm-6pm, Sunday-Monday, September 23-24, is part of the ArtChangeUS REMAP: Twin Cities, and requires advance registration here. How can we build spatial awareness and use sound and…
Find out more »REMAP: Twin Cities – Adda: Post-workshop reception
This reception is part of the ArtChangeUS REMAP: Twin Cities, and is open to all participants in REMAP events. Join in community with workshop participants for an informal evening of meandering…
Find out more »Shawngram Institute hosts: Trilogy Dancing Jailolo with Eko Supriyanto
Trilogy Dancing Jailolo: A Public Event with Cowles Visiting Artist/Scholar Eko Supriyanto Moderated by Professor Ananya Chatterjea Co-hosted by University of Minnesota Dance and Ananya Dance Theatre/Shawngram Institute for…
Find out more »Shawngram Institute presents: A talk by Dr. Arshiya Sethi
Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice presents a talk by Dr. Arshiya Sethi: Dance, Music and Theatre in the Sattras, the Medieval Monasteries of Assam in India: A Quiet…
Find out more »March 2019
RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for our second RadicalBliss party series invoking a transnational feminist community that is the inspiration for our new, 2019 work "Sutrajaal." We invite you to come together in…
Find out more »May 2019
RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for the Inaugural GloFFUC (Global Feminist Funk Underground Club) party, a series within our RadicalBliss DanceImprint party! Our music Magic-Weaver will be the Divine Sarah White! Imagine a…
Find out more »June 2019
Shawngram Summer Intensive with Ananya Dance Theatre
Click here to apply: http://bit.ly/2UbBK2Q A 3-week summer training program in St. Paul, Minnesota (3 hours a day, 5 days a week) will introduce Yorchha™, our unique movement aesthetic, in technique…
Find out more »Ananya Dance Theatre & the Shawngram Institute present Onurawnon/Vibration
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice present Onurawnon/Vibration, performances of choreography by Toan Thanh Doan and Brotherhood Dance/Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. & Ricarrdo Valentine.…
Find out more »RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for the next in our RadicalBliss party series invoking a transnational feminist community that is the inspiration for our new, 2019 work “Sutrajaal.” We invite you to come…
Find out more »A reading & performance by Gabrielle Civil: Experiments in Joy
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice host a reading and performance by Gabrielle Civil to activate her new performance memoir, Experiments in Joy, celebrating black…
Find out more »Notuner Dāk: New Voices calling/#Yorchhānextgen
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice are delighted to present New Voices Calling/#Yorchhānextgen artists trained in the aesthetic and methodology of the company, showing…
Find out more »August 2019
Shawngram presents: Master class with dance theater artist Michael Sakamoto
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice are delighted to present Body/Mind/Funk/Time: A master class with dance theater artist Michael Sakamoto. Butoh and hip-hop performance…
Find out more »GALA-Ish Celebration & Fundraiser for Sutrajāl
Join the movement for art and social justice! We invite you with open hearts to our GALA-Ish Celebration & Fundraiser on August 18! About this Event Ananya Dance Theatre presents…
Find out more »September 2019
Sutrajāl Audience Empowerment Workshop
Free Admission Time: 7pm-8:30pm Date: Tuesday, September 3 Ananya Dance Theatre | Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice 1197 University Avenue West, Saint Paul, MN 1.5 blocks west of…
Find out more »CircleFlow Adda: State of the Field
Ananya Dance Theatre continues its traditional, post-performance conversation with CircleFlow Adda*: State of the Field. Our artists will sit with our audiences and communities, on a rare Sunday morning when…
Find out more »December 2019
Event postponed to 2020: Decolonizing Public Art PART II: From Puerto Rico To Mauna Kea
Due to overwhelming demand and space limitations, this event has been postponed until 2020. Stay tuned to Forecast Public Art website and Facebook page for re-scheduling. Forecast Public Art and…
Find out more »Ananya Dance Theatre Audition
Ananya Dance Theatre invites skilled dancers and performers who are committed to • physical, intellectual, and emotional stamina • professional rigor, and • social justice choreography. An audition will…
Find out more »January 2020
ADT class schedule: January 18–May 30
Find rhythm, groundedness, and flow with dance classes at Ananya Dance Theatre's Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice. No pre-registration or shoes necessary. First class: Always free! Drop-in class:…
Find out more »March 2020
Collective Dance of Solidarity with many Shaheen Baghs
How do we respond when violence splinters our hearts? Join us at the Shawngrām Institute, where we will hold space to grieve, breathe, regroup, brainstorm about how to veer our…
Find out more »Event Postponed to a date TBD: Tracing Hmong Aesthetics
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE TBD. Hosted by Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice and Ananya Dance Theatre. “Tracing Hmong Aesthetics”: A dialogue between Koua Mai…
Find out more »April 2020
Postponed to a date TBD: Our Boat: Notes on Senegal
Hosted by Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice and Ananya Dance Theatre. Composer and Music Artist Dameun Strange will reflect on his recent journey to Senegal and share some…
Find out more »July 2020
Shawngram Summer Intensive
For registration link: bit.ly/ADTSummer2020
Find out more »June 2021
Altars of Our Sacred Geometries
Join us as we perform again In Response! A series of artistic rejoinders to urgent issues in BIPOC, women, womxn, and femme communities. Altars of Our Sacred Geometries explores…
Find out more »Ananya Dance Theatre’s 2021 Buniyaad Summer Intensive
BUNIYAAD SUMMER INTENSIVE WITH LIVE MUSIC! June 14-26, 2021 | Monday-Friday, 10am-1pm CT Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice, Saint Paul, Minnesota TWO WAYS TO PARTICIPATE (1) In-person,…
Find out more »April 2022
URBAN BUSH WOMEN: Creative Process Class @ The Shawngrām Institute
URBAN BUSH WOMEN @ The Shawngrām Institute Master Class & Creative Process Wednesday, April 20 6:30-8:00 Registration link: http://bit.ly/UBWatADT Shawngrām Insitute for Performance & Social Justice - 1197 University…
Find out more »June 2022
Ananya Dance Theatre’s 2022 Summer Intensive: Practices of Rejuvenation
When: June 13 - June 24 | Monday - Friday | 10:00 am-1:00 pm Community Showings on June 24th, 12:00 pm, 7:00 pm Where: Shawngrām Institute for Performance & Social…
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