In the late 1970s, Elizabeth Erickson, Joyce Lyon and Sandra Menefee Taylor were among the founders of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, which fought to establish women into the faculties of the art departments of local colleges and universities. Today’s they’re considered pioneers as artists, instructors and mentors. 3-Minute Egg met the trio at [...]
Archive for March, 2010
29 Mar
The Awakening
An independent theater partnership has put movement and music to the Kate Chopin novel The Awakening — the tale of a woman in 1890s New Orleans who “awakens” to her own desires and impulses. 3-Minute Egg meets with the people behind this adaptation at a rehearsal for the production, which runs April 2-17 at St. [...]
25 Mar
Open Eye: Toy Theater
At a run-through of Open Eye Figure Theatre’s fourth Annual Toy Theatre, 3-Minute Egg focuses on three locals — sculptor/performer Irve Dell, marionette artist Kurt Hunter and the musically minded Liz Schachterle. The program runs the gamut of miniature puppetry — suitcase shows, paper marionettes, wearable theatre, table top cantastorias, shadow play and object animation. [...]
24 Mar
Saint Paul City Ballet
Lorant Andaházy and Anna Andrianova Andaházy founded Andaházy Ballet, in St. Paul, in 1947. The school eventually became (click on the comment above for correction). St. Paul City Ballet and has since thrived in the space in the Mac-Groveland neighborhood, but only a few years ago did the school expand into a full performance company. [...]
15 Mar
Breaking Eggs
3-Minute Egg is taking this week to explore art on the Left Coast. We’ll be back with fresh Eggs on Monday, March 22.
11 Mar
King and his court
Dave King is the Twin Cities’ most musical drummer and at the center of the Twin Cities’ avant garde jazz scene. This weekend the Walker Art Center is giving you double doses of King — nearly every band or project he performs with will be on stage. 3-Minute Egg is taking you somewhere the Walker [...]
10 Mar
The Vaudevillian
Lloyd Brant and Rosie Cole have been partners in life and work for more than 25 years, keeping schtick and slapstick through fairs, festivals and stages all over. Brant worked with Kevin Kling to develop the new Theatre of Fools show, The Vaudevillian: Spirit of the American Dream, which fills the Southern Theater this weekend [...]
9 Mar
Poetic Assassins
Verse and B.U.G.S. are local spoken word artists who operate outside the slam poetry scene, performing their brand of socially and politically conscious at colleges, coffeehouses and elsewhere — individually and as the tandem Poetic Assassins. 3-Minute Egg met the pair at the release party for their CD The Red D.O.T.T. (Death of the Truth).
8 Mar
Music Lovers
Alan Berks has penned and produced more than a half-dozen plays since moving from Chicago to the Twin Cities, but has all the while worked on one script close to his heart. During a rehearsal for Music Lovers, opening this week through the Workhaus Collective on the Playwrights’ Center stage, Berks discusses the root of [...]
