“The Walker Art Center and Southern Theater both play unique
roles in the local art ecology. The Walker propels local artists onto the
international stage; the Southern programs the most consistently
excellent schedule of local dance. Their partnership, then, on the
Momentum: New Dance Works series creates a remarkable platform
for presenting local artists here but also nationally and internationally.”
–
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Providing a snapshot of Minnesota’s dance landscape,
Momentum illuminates the
skill and passion of the next generation’s most promising artists. Featuring two companies
each evening, Momentum showcases new voices and ideas that articulate the latest
combinations in dance while solidifying the Twin Cities as a hotbed of fresh, experimental
and under-the-radar talent.
Vanessa Voskuil
en masse
Vanessa Voskuil exercises her visceral and
interdisciplinary sensibility to re-imagine
the connections between dance, theatre,
visual art and architecture. Well respected
in her role as co-founder of Live Action
Set and collaborator on many diverse
performance projects, Voskuil’s new
independent work plumbs the depths of
the creative process to translate simple
movements into an impressionistic texture
of human experience.
Sachiko Nishiuchi
The Apple Tree
A member of Zorongo Flamenco Dance
Theatre and Ananya Dance Theater,
Sachiko Nishiuchi has appeared on many
Minneapolis stages. The Apple Tree,
loosely based on John Galsworthy’s 1916
romance novel, employs the riotous
lens of Flamenco to evoke the illusive
“springtime of life” and the tragedy of
how we classify, divide and separate one
another, despite our shared humanity.
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Sally Rousse
Paramount to My Footage
A 2001 McKnight Dancer Fellow, Sally Rousse performed as a leading dancer
with the Royal Ballet of Flanders and
Ballet Chicago before co-founding
Minneapolis’s James Sewell Ballet in
1990. Drawing from a wide palette of
movement and an appetite for extreme
theatrical moods, Paramount to My
Footage dives into historical fiction and
the worlds of celebrity and privacy.
Megan Mayer
I Could Not Stand Close Enough to You
From her curious site-specific bathroom
choreography to prestigious commissions
and performances around the Twin Cities
and beyond, Megan Mayer’s recent work
employs her dry wit with the nuance of
gesture. Her new work explores that fine
line between the risk of intimacy and the
comfort of companionship, where clumsy
first encounters meet the quiet splendor
of vulnerability.
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