3-Minute Egg returns to the annual Renovate showcase of local choreography, this past weekend at the Ritz. We cram almost as much variety into this Egg as curator Lisa Conlin stuffed into her lineup.
Archive for May, 2010
19 May
Televised Eggs
3-Minute Egg is back on Twin Cities Public Television this summer. New half-hour episodes air on the MN Channel four times every weekend — 9 pm Saturday and 3 am, 9 am and 3 pm Sunday — beginning June 3. Set your TiVo! Meanwhile, we’re on a light production schedule for the next few weeks [...]
18 May
Improvised Choreography
Taja Will, a recent implant into the Twin Cities dance scene, constructs her choreography from a foundation of improvisation. 3-Minute Egg drops into Fallout Art Space to catch Taja’s work in progress. Taja and her ensemble are part of the mix this weekend in the annual Renovate showcase of local choreography at the Ritz Theater.
17 May
Art-a-Whirl: From the Thorp
In our only Egg from Art-a-Whirl 2010, we meet three artists lodged in the Thorp Building.
13 May
Brave New Musical, part 2
In the second of our two-part series, Brave New Workshop runs through and breaks down the process of creating its new musical, Toyota: The Runaway Musical Hit, which previews this weekend and opens May 21. Don’t miss the Egg that opened this series, which caught the cast at the script-writing table.
12 May
Brave New Musical
In this two-part series, 3-Minute Egg looks into the creative process of the Brave New Workshop, which has produced original sketch comedies in Minneapolis for a half-century. Today’s Egg drops into an early reading of proposed scripts and scenarios for a new musical. On Thursday, watch part of a run-through of Toyota: The Runaway Musical [...]
11 May
The Push and Pull of Dance Education
In our first Egg from a contributor, University of Minnesota journalism student Ashley Halbach checks out rehearsal and speaks with a few of the choreographers who created work for the U’s recent Push/Pull program that showcased dance department undergrads.
4 May
Egg-raising
3-Minute Egg is also devoting much of May to work funded by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council. Keep the Egg hatching on your work and those of other Twin Cities artists by giving now. If every artist featured in a 3-Minute Egg video since our inception gave just [...]
3 May
More Marimba: Mary Ellen Childs
We meet with composer Mary Ellen Childs in the second of our two Eggs inspired by the 2010 International Marimba Festival. In this 3-Minute Egg, we drop into a rehearsal of So Percussion, which premiered a Childs composition this past weekend at the Southern Theater. We also hear a piece of Propellor, an opera Childs [...]
