Archive for April, 2009
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Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Egg Whites. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Choral Music, Edie Hill, Mary Bussman, matt peiken, minneapolis, Twin Cities Women's Choir. 2 Comments
Twin Cities composer Edie Hill has created everything from solo pieces to symphonies. Her latest is a short work for the Twin Cities Women’s Choir — Thaw, inspired by a poem of the same name by Lola Ridge. 3-Minute Egg met with Hill and the choir’s artistic director, Mary Bussman, during a rehearsal for performances [...]
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Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Scrambled Eggs, Sunny Side Up, The Yolk. Tagged: Carly Beseman, Jeffrey Hansen, Lowertown, Matt Peiken. 3-Minute Egg, Matt Riggs, st. paul, st. paul art crawl, Susan Forever Moore, Upright Egg Theatre, Visual Art. 1 Comment
In our final installment from the spring St. Paul Art Crawl, 3-Minute Egg mines the Tilsner Building for installation art, some 2-D work and an Egg-ish theater troupe.
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28
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Sunny Side Up. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Carleton Artist Lofts, Dow Building, Gwen Hauser, Karen Searle, Lowertown, Martha Rast, matt peiken, Mia Jennings, st. paul, st. paul art crawl, Visual Art. Leave a Comment
In the second of our three-part series from the St. Paul Art Crawl, 3-Minute Egg rolls through the Carleton Artist Lofts and Dow Building to meet four women artists coming from diverse places in their work. Our series from the Spring 2009 Art Crawl wraps up Wednesday.
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27
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Sunny Side Up. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Carleton Artist Lofts, Dow Building, Gary Wolfe, Joshua W. Murray, Lowertown, matt peiken, Megan Rheault, Pat Garrahy, Shawn Dalsen, st. paul, st. paul art crawl, Tilsner. 1 Comment
3-Minute Egg divided its time at the St. Paul Art Crawl between one tried-and-true locale, the Tilsner in Lowertown, and two relative newcomers to the Art Crawl fray — the Carleton Artists Lofts and the nearby Dow Building. This is the first in our three-part series that continues Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in The Yolk. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Aparna Ramaswamy, Dance, matt peiken, minneapolis, Ragamala, Ranee Ramaswamy, southern theater, zaraawar mistry. 1 Comment
Ranee Ramaswamy founded Ragamala Music and Dance Theater in the early 1990s to perform and promote classical Indian movement. Ranee and her daughter, Aparna Ramaswamy, have evolved their work over the years, working with a number of modern choreographers, tackling contemporary subject matter and injecting layered storylines into their work. 3-Minute Egg caught up with [...]
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23
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in The Yolk. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Alberta Mirais, Allison True, Bedlam Theater, Ben Egerman, Bethany Simmons, George McConnell, Heather Wilson, Jason Vogen, Johann Hauser-Ulrich, John Bueche, Jon Mac Cole, Kait Sergenian, Katie Melby, Laura Leffler-McCabe, Mark Rehani, matt peiken, Mindi Monroe, minneapolis. Leave a Comment
Bedlam Theater is community theater in the literal sense — a community of actors, directors and playwrights just as apt to be serving beer or cleaning the bathrooms as performing on stage. Two of those people have written and directed two new, short works in an evening Bedlam is calling Dali Dada – on stage [...]
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22
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Sunny Side Up. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Adam Honzi, Emily Fradenburgh-Becca, Film, Matt Osterman, matt peiken, minneapolis, movie, Sasha Andreev, sci-fi. 1 Comment
Local filmmaker Matt Osterman wanted to make a low-budget, high-concept sci-fi supernatural genre film. Still in the making, Phasma Ex Machina — about someone who invents a machine that can make contact with ghosts — has already captured an international buzz on the Net through an enticing, well-made trailer. 3-Minute Egg met Osterman and the [...]
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21
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in The Yolk. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Ali Rose Dachis, Allison Schaffer, Emily Eve Shain, guthrie, Iman Nahzingah Milner, Joanna Harmon, Judy Bartl, matt peiken, Max Polski, Michael Mercier, minneapolis, Skyler Nowinski, Stuart Gates, Theater, University of Minnesota. 1 Comment
Students in the University of Minnesota’s Actor Training Program have new work commissioned and produced for them in collaboration with the Guthrie. 3-Minute Egg went to the premiere of Peter Gil-Sheridan’s What May Fall, one of three works the university’s theater students are performing in rotation through April 26 in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio.
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20
Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in Eggstra! Eggstra!. 1 Comment
If you haven’t tuned in lately, our videos load and run MUCH faster than they used to. We’re using a new compression software that makes the files run without the stalls and hiccups that plagued our early Eggs. So if you haven’t watched in a while, tune in now and let me know how the [...]
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Apr
Posted by Matt Peiken in The Yolk. Tagged: 3-Minute Egg, Dance, Flying Foot Forum, Joe Chvala, Karla Grotting, matt peiken, minneapolis, southern theater. 1 Comment
Joe Chvala got into dance to become a more versatile theatrical performer, but dance soon became central to his own art. Karla Grotting was one of the founding members when, in the early 1990s, Chvala formed his Flying Foot Forum dance-theater company. Chvala and Grotting are detouring from the full company to produce their first [...]
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