Margaret Ogas Performance Project

Soulquakes

We're so excited to announce the first performance of our '24-'25 Performance Partnership Program!

Performance Dates
December 13th at 7:30PM (doors 7:00PM)

December 14th at 7:30PM (doors 7:00PM)*

*Dance party and DJ to follow performance

Performance Length
60 minutes with no intermission

SOULQUAKES, a new dance by Margaret Ogas, explores Nepantla - a term with Nahuatl origins, used by Chicanos to describe the sense of existing in between worlds. The liminal space of nepantla is a land of both pain and rebirth, of heartbreak and limitless possibility. 

Featuring a cast of five movement artists, this collaborative work asks how people of various diasporas navigate the grief and euphoria of existing in liminality. Through nonlinear storytelling, humor, and embodied improvisation, the cast explores heartbreak, belonging, and what it means to enter a constant state of becoming.  

SOULQUAKES is performed by Libby Herrmann, Ashembaga (Ashe) Jaafaru, Margaret Ogas, Judith Shuǐ Xiān, and Taja Will. 

Sound Design by Dameun Strange

Soulquakes Production Manager - Zhané Jackson

Stage Manager - Ansel Langmead

Margaret Ogas is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

This project is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.