TPT episode #4

We devote an entire half-hour to exploring the Twin Cities’ two major studio tours of local visual artists — the St. Paul Art Crawl and Minneapolis’ Art-a-Whirl. Tune into the MN Channel of Twin Cities Public Television 9 pm Saturday or 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday.

Ready, Set, Action: Part 3

In the final part of our series into the creative process of Live Action Set, 3-Minute Egg turns its lens on a run-through performance of My Father’s Bookshelf, which opened June 18 in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio. Performances continue through June 28.

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Episode #3 on TPT

This weekend’s televised episode of 3-Minute Egg features dance duets Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting, master’s thesis projects from art students at University of Minnesota, jazz from the Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis, prose from a collective of black writers and neighborhood-based theater from Charles Campbell.

Tune into or TiVo the MN Channel of TPT 9 pm Saturday or 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday.

Hijacking Mad King Thomas

Veteran dance duo Hijack asked emerging dance trio Mad King Thomas to choreograph pieces on each other for the Red Eye’s Isolated Acts series of new work. The results have become Maybe — on stage this weekend, and on screen here in this experimental Egg from 3-Minute Egg, which interviewed the groups separately and taped them together in a run-through rehearsal.

McKnight Photography Fellows

The 2007 McKnight Artist Fellows in Photography are showing off the fruits of their opportunities at Franklin Art Works. 3-Minute Egg met with three of the four artists — Peter Latner, Paula McCartney and Anthony Marchetti — at the opening reception. The fourth artist is Tom Wik, who didn’t want to be interviewed. The exhibition is on view through August 1.

Maria Isa’s Street Politics

Maria Isa grew up in a household on St. Paul’s West Side steeped in Puerto Rican culture, music and activism, yet Isa hasn’t lost sight of her Minnesota surroundings. Her music reflects that hybrid — a bilingual dose of soul, hip-hop and Latin rhythms supporting Isa’s uplifting lyrics and addictive delivery. 3-Minute Egg went to First Avenue for the release concert celebrating Isa’s second disc, Street Politics, and spoke with Isa days earlier, outside her office in Lowertown St. Paul.

Episode #2 on TPT

Don’t forget to watch or TiVo the next episode of 3-Minute Egg on the MN Channel of TPT: 9 pm Saturday, with repeats 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday.

We take you behind the buzz of the local sci-fi film Phasma Ex Machina, into a rehearsal with Shapiro & Smith Dance, a morning with local crime/mystery writers, an exhibition of drawing at St. Kate’s, composer Edie Hill with the Twin Cities Women’s Choir and the first Minnesota Spoken Word Awards.

You’ll find the MN Channel here: Comcast St. Paul (channel 243), Comcast Minneapolis (channel 202), Mediacom cable (channel 102) and Digital broadcast (channel 2-2).

Please spread the Egg to others in your circle, and have an Egg-tastic weekend!
- matt

New Works at the Red Eye

For 25 years, the Red Eye Theater has encouraged local creativity and exploration through its New Works festival. A handful of works-in-progress launched the latest rendition of the festival, as caught by the lens of 3-Minute Egg. New Works continues the next three weekends with work by Dominic Orlando, collaborative dance by Hijack and Mad King Thomas and more dance from Nicolas Lincoln. Look for an Egg next week probing the Hijack/MKT hybrid.

The Screen / The Thing

Justin Jones moved from New York to the Twin Cities only five years ago — he came here with Tere O’Connor on his dance resume — but he’s already carved a home for himself in the local avant garde movement scene (he was a 2007 McKnight Fellow, and City Pages named him Artist of the Year in 2008). 3-Minute Egg takes you to a rehearsal for Jones’ upcoming weekend at the Southern Theater, where he merges his curiosity in movement and his fascination with quantum physics.

Ready, Set, Action: part 2

Earlier this year, 3-Minute Egg brought you to the open-call auditions Live Action Set held for the new show it’s premiering through the Guthrie. In the second of our three-part series on Live Action Set’s creative process for this show, we take you to a rehearsal in the Ivy Building. The final part of our series will come from opening night of My Father’s Bookshelf, centered around the story of a man with Alzheimer’s Disease, June 19 in the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio.