Composing for Women

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 May 1 and 2 at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, in Minneapolis.

St. Paul Art Crawl: Part Three

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.

St. Paul Art Crawl: Part Two

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.

St. Paul Art Crawl: First of three Eggs

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.

Ragamala counts to “Sthree”

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 mother and daughter during a rehearsal for their new work, Sthree — created with playwright and director Zarawaar Mistry — on stage at the Southern Theater April 30 through May 3.

Dali Dada

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 through May 2. After that, Reich’s Dali’s Liquid Ladies goes on a two-week tour by van.

Phasma Ex Machina

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 film’s leading actor, Sasha Andreev, during some touch-up scene work at a home in South Minneapolis. The film is now in post-production. A release date hasn’t been set.

Theater School

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.

Five times the speed, half the cholesterol

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 Egg runs on your ‘puter!

By the way, 3-Minute Egg took Monday off and returns Tuesday with a fresh Egg!

- matt

Flying Foot Forum

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 evening of duets. 3-Minute Egg went to a dress rehearsal for The Circus of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, running through April 26 at the Southern Theater.