Alternative Motion Project Presents
Move to the Max:Virtual Edition
A Give to the Max Day Performance Event.
Get moving and celebrate Give to the Max Day with a vibrant and eclectic movement event. Alternative Motion Project presents Move to the MAX: Virtual Edition, featuring Alternative Motion Project, Analog Dance Works, Ballet Co.Laboratory, Concerto Dance, Crash Dance Productions, DanceBARN Collective, Jagged Moves, Ragamala Dance Company, Rhythmically Speaking, and Sparkle Theatricals.
These organizations combine forces for an exciting and special event celebrating movement in Minnesota. Enjoy compelling content from the comfort of your own home that includes a variety of distinct performances and films by each company. Join us for the Great Minnesota Give Together to support these companies’ great work.
WHEN
Friday, November 20th | 7:00pm
------PLEASE NOTE: The day AFTER Give to the Max Day
WHERE
Online Via Zoom (link sent to attendee directly)
TICKETS
Entry to the event requires a 100% tax-deductible donation in any amount to at least one of the performing companies for Give to the Max Day.
Donations can be made to any participating organization. Each organization will send the Zoom link directly to its GTMD patrons. If you have NOT received the Zoom link and have donated, contact the organization directly.
Suggested minimum donation $25 per person.
MORE INFO AND QUESTIONS
Direct questions to [email protected]
Visit alternativemotionproject.org for more information.
These organizations combine forces for an exciting and special event celebrating movement in Minnesota. Enjoy compelling content from the comfort of your own home that includes a variety of distinct performances and films by each company. Join us for the Great Minnesota Give Together to support these companies’ great work.
WHEN
Friday, November 20th | 7:00pm
------PLEASE NOTE: The day AFTER Give to the Max Day
WHERE
Online Via Zoom (link sent to attendee directly)
TICKETS
Entry to the event requires a 100% tax-deductible donation in any amount to at least one of the performing companies for Give to the Max Day.
Donations can be made to any participating organization. Each organization will send the Zoom link directly to its GTMD patrons. If you have NOT received the Zoom link and have donated, contact the organization directly.
Suggested minimum donation $25 per person.
MORE INFO AND QUESTIONS
Direct questions to [email protected]
Visit alternativemotionproject.org for more information.
MORE ABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS...
Alternative Motion Project
Website: alternativemotionproject.org
Alternative Motion Project (AMP) is a professional modern dance company founded in 2011 and passionately striving to create accessible, entertaining, and meaningful dance work throughout the Twin Cities area. Since 2011, AMP has produced 12 full-length shows and 40 original works with over 50 local artists. Whether it is through our choreography and performances, collaborations with other artists, engaging audience members, or education and exposure to those in need, we can come together as a community and acknowledge that we serve a purpose that is greater than ourselves.
Photo Credit: V. Paul Virtucio
Website: alternativemotionproject.org
Alternative Motion Project (AMP) is a professional modern dance company founded in 2011 and passionately striving to create accessible, entertaining, and meaningful dance work throughout the Twin Cities area. Since 2011, AMP has produced 12 full-length shows and 40 original works with over 50 local artists. Whether it is through our choreography and performances, collaborations with other artists, engaging audience members, or education and exposure to those in need, we can come together as a community and acknowledge that we serve a purpose that is greater than ourselves.
Photo Credit: V. Paul Virtucio
Analog Dance Works
Website: https://www.facebook.com/analogdanceworks
Analog Dance Works is committed to exploring the intersections between dance and science through high-quality dance works and roundtable discussions.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Website: https://www.facebook.com/analogdanceworks
Analog Dance Works is committed to exploring the intersections between dance and science through high-quality dance works and roundtable discussions.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Concerto Dance
Website: concertodance.com
Concerto Dance by Jolene Konkel is a technical movement company driven by musicality and athleticism seeking to balance innovation with tradition in a context of community and hope. Our work draws upon and expands rooted codified forms of movement across genres of American dance including jazz and modern dance to express the vibrant and compelling nature of musicality. Additionally, we aim to explore work that seeks to open a door to the human spirit, strengthen and uplift hearts and minds, and connect communities through artistically compelling and entertaining concert dance that engages a broad audience.
Photo Credit: Bethany Jackson
Website: concertodance.com
Concerto Dance by Jolene Konkel is a technical movement company driven by musicality and athleticism seeking to balance innovation with tradition in a context of community and hope. Our work draws upon and expands rooted codified forms of movement across genres of American dance including jazz and modern dance to express the vibrant and compelling nature of musicality. Additionally, we aim to explore work that seeks to open a door to the human spirit, strengthen and uplift hearts and minds, and connect communities through artistically compelling and entertaining concert dance that engages a broad audience.
Photo Credit: Bethany Jackson
Crash Dance Productions
Website: crashdanceproductions.com
Crash Dance Productions is a Minneapolis-based company that presents contemporary dance as a creative collective. Crash Dance Productions conceives and performs interdisciplinary dance works that seam philosophy and science through a dynamic, visceral, and technical aesthetic. Since 2007, CDP has staged 15 original full-length contemporary dance works, undertaking themes that intersect objective human realities with observational commentary. Company artists are predominantly- and proudly- homegrown, uniting their various artistic pathways by contributing to their beloved Twin Cities through performance and outreach.
Photo Credit: Tim Knox
Website: crashdanceproductions.com
Crash Dance Productions is a Minneapolis-based company that presents contemporary dance as a creative collective. Crash Dance Productions conceives and performs interdisciplinary dance works that seam philosophy and science through a dynamic, visceral, and technical aesthetic. Since 2007, CDP has staged 15 original full-length contemporary dance works, undertaking themes that intersect objective human realities with observational commentary. Company artists are predominantly- and proudly- homegrown, uniting their various artistic pathways by contributing to their beloved Twin Cities through performance and outreach.
Photo Credit: Tim Knox
DanceBARN Collective
Website: www.dancebarncollective.org
DanceBARN Collective is a nonprofit organization committed to building community by connecting dancers, educators, choreographers, and community members through rural-based programming, events, festivals, camps, residencies, and classes.
Photo Credit: Rosanna Yerke
Website: www.dancebarncollective.org
DanceBARN Collective is a nonprofit organization committed to building community by connecting dancers, educators, choreographers, and community members through rural-based programming, events, festivals, camps, residencies, and classes.
Photo Credit: Rosanna Yerke
Jagged Moves
Website: jenniferglaws.org/jagged-moves
Jagged Moves creates dance experiences that explore athleticism and conceptual depth, that engage, open dialogue, and challenge perspective. We aim to produce immersive, interactive, performance experiences that push notions of space, time, and human connection. Our research topics are driven by the activating belief of the social and developmental rewards of the arts evident in our pursuits in performance, audience engagement, and arts education.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Website: jenniferglaws.org/jagged-moves
Jagged Moves creates dance experiences that explore athleticism and conceptual depth, that engage, open dialogue, and challenge perspective. We aim to produce immersive, interactive, performance experiences that push notions of space, time, and human connection. Our research topics are driven by the activating belief of the social and developmental rewards of the arts evident in our pursuits in performance, audience engagement, and arts education.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Ragamala Dance Company
Website: www.ragamaladance.org
Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy's Ragamala Dance Company is the embodiment of an immigrant story. We are a woman-led, family-run organization driven by a quest for artistic excellence. Through the South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala’s work—on stage, in the community, and educating the next generation—exemplifies the intercultural identity of millions. At home in the Twin Cities and on tour worldwide, we welcome challenging modern dialogues that lead to a shared sense of humanity. Ragamala is committed to the idea that, while history is time bound, the stories we tell each other—through emotions and imagination—are timeless.
Photo Credit: David Johnston
Website: www.ragamaladance.org
Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy's Ragamala Dance Company is the embodiment of an immigrant story. We are a woman-led, family-run organization driven by a quest for artistic excellence. Through the South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala’s work—on stage, in the community, and educating the next generation—exemplifies the intercultural identity of millions. At home in the Twin Cities and on tour worldwide, we welcome challenging modern dialogues that lead to a shared sense of humanity. Ragamala is committed to the idea that, while history is time bound, the stories we tell each other—through emotions and imagination—are timeless.
Photo Credit: David Johnston
Rhythmically Speaking
Website: rhythmicallyspeakingdance.org
Rhythmically Speaking is a dance company that sparks vibrancy and connectedness through staged works inspired by jazz and American social dance ideas. Grooving together creates danced understanding and appreciation of our differences and similarities, because rhythm is at our human core. This vision guides our performance and education-based work. We support exploration within not only jazz, but also tap, hip-hop styles like house and popping, and many other approaches to dance. The work we create and present is united by a core of rhythmicity and shares the elements of groove, interaction and improvisation that are present in all American social dance. Since our founding in 2008, we’ve endeavored to support and nurture enthusiastic idea exchange with other passionate people locally, nationally and internationally who share these interests.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Website: rhythmicallyspeakingdance.org
Rhythmically Speaking is a dance company that sparks vibrancy and connectedness through staged works inspired by jazz and American social dance ideas. Grooving together creates danced understanding and appreciation of our differences and similarities, because rhythm is at our human core. This vision guides our performance and education-based work. We support exploration within not only jazz, but also tap, hip-hop styles like house and popping, and many other approaches to dance. The work we create and present is united by a core of rhythmicity and shares the elements of groove, interaction and improvisation that are present in all American social dance. Since our founding in 2008, we’ve endeavored to support and nurture enthusiastic idea exchange with other passionate people locally, nationally and internationally who share these interests.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron