Open Eye Figure Theatre opens up its stage to a variety of local and visiting puppet theater artists through a series called Toy Theatre After Dark. In addition to work from veteran Chicago artists and Open Eye impresario Michael Sommers, the latest evning featured work from local artists Daniel Polnau and Liz Schachterle — both [...]
Archive for March, 2009
27 Mar
Ethnic Dance Theatre turns 35
Donald LaCourse grew up in a German folk dancing family, and those folk dances never left his blood. He formed Ethnic Dance Theatre 35 years ago, in Minneapolis, to introduce the Twin Cities to the folk dances of Europe and elsewhere. LaCourse’s company is still thriving, staging dances from cultures and countries from virtually everywhere [...]
26 Mar
Writer to Writer
Years ago, SASE: The Write Place developed a mentorship program to provide more intimate, comfortable and focused settings and relationships for emerging writers to further their craft. Writer-to-Writer is still going strong under the roof of Intermedia Arts, which merged with SASE two years ago. 3-Minute Egg met with a mentor, a couple of mentees [...]
25 Mar
Playwright in the making
Graham Gremore spent much of his teens on the stage of SteppingStone Theatre. Even then, he wrote his own plays. Now a college student in Los Angeles, Gremore returned home a couple weeks ago for the premiere of Streetcar! — the second show he authored for SteppingStone — a musical penned with a Los Angeles [...]
24 Mar
Choreographers Renovate
Two years ago, Lisa Conlin auditioned for the Walker Art Center’s Choreographers’ Evening but wasn’t chosen. Undaunted, Conlin built a choreographers’ evening of her own. The second running of Renovate, at the Ritz Theater, featured work from more than a dozen Twin Cities dance makers. 3-Minute Egg met with several of them and peeked into [...]
23 Mar
April Sellers: Beyond Nudity
While teaching her final class of the 2008 spring semester at St. Cloud State University, April Sellers slipped on the dance floor and fell over a bench, separating her left shoulder. The injury was so severe that she had to have her shoulder immobilized for months. She couldn’t dance or teach, and a specialist told [...]
15 Mar
Eggs on the shelf / Take a poll
3-Minute Egg is taking this next week off and will return with fresh Eggs Monday, March 23. In the meantime, please take a moment — literally, a moment — to answer this informal single-question poll. It’ll help us get a little better picture of the Egg’s audience. Thanks, and we’ll see you next week!
13 Mar
Experimental and Media Art at the U
More than 20 faculty, grad students and alum of the Experimental and Media Art program of the UofM’s art department show off their takes on the here and now in a new exhibition at the Nash Gallery. 3-Minute Egg takes a peak and talks with associate professors Diane Willow and Ali Momeni about the state [...]
12 Mar
Made at MCAD
Last Friday brought about a schizophrenic evening at Minneapolis College of Art and Design — the openings of four separate exhibitions under one roof. 3-Minute Egg met up with two honored artists in the annual Made at MCAD exhbition and caught up with former Low bassist Zak Sally, who left the band to focus on [...]
