Thirty Years of Moving Dance: Zenon Dance Company Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Spring Concert

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Thirty Years of Moving Dance: Zenon Dance Company Celebrates
30th Anniversary with Spring Concert

 

Minneapolis, Minn. March 27 , 2013 – The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts is pleased to present Zenon Dance Company as they culminate their 30th Anniversary with a Spring Production in The Goodale Theater May 3–12. Tickets are $34-54 and can be purchased at www.thecowlescenter.org or by calling 612.206.3600. 

One dynamic company – three decades of modern and jazz dance performed with passion, perfection and panache. Zenon Dance Company has been a standard-bearer of artistic excellence in the Twin Cities for 30 years. One of the nation’s only professional modern- and jazz-dance repertory troupes, Zenon’s eclectic repertory showcases signature works by emerging and established choreographers—more than 50 regional, national and international dance artists to date. The Zenon dancers are renowned for their tremendous stylistic diversity, technical virtuosity and artistic integrity. They’re also a national favorite among critics and audiences for their fearless physicality and emotional intelligence. The peerless Zenon Dance Company has been described as “the dance company that can do it all” and “in a league of its own” by the Star Tribune.

Zenon will present two separate weekends of signature work featuring live music:


Weekend 1
World Premiere: Molten Substance by Luciana Achugar with live percussion by JT Bates
Hard Bargain by Seán Curran
Hotel Tango by Mariusz Olszewski
Hello, My Name is Catherine by Netta Yerushalmy.

Weekend 2
World Premiere: Mariana by Faye Driscoll
Wine Dark Sea by Wynn Fricke with live music by Peter O’Gorman
Hotel Tango by Mariusz Olszewski
The Four Luigis

 

When: May 3–4 & 10–11 @ 8pm
   May 5 & 12 @ 7pm
Where: The Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts, The Goodale Theater, 528 Hennepin Avenue, Downtown Minneapolis
Tickets: $34 - One Weekend, $54 - Both Weekends (all fees included)

 

The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts

The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts is the Twin Cities' newest arts center and the flagship for dance in Minnesota. Centrally located in downtown Minneapolis, The Cowles Center includes the newly refurbished 500-seat Goodale Theater; the Hennepin Center for the Arts, home to 20 leading dance and performing arts organizations; the state-of-the-art Target Education Studio, housing The Cowles Center’s distance learning program; and the new U.S. Bank Atrium. The Cowles Center fills the need for a place that is a catalyst for the creation, presentation, education, enjoyment and celebration of dance and the performing arts in the Twin Cities. The Cowles Center is a 501(c)3 status non-profit organization. The Cowles Center’s 2012/13 Season is presented by U.S. Bank with additional support from Ascent Private Capital Management and the Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank.

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