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This is my world: On Zenon Dance Company's 2009 fall season
It was hard to get to Zenon's Fall show at The Ritz. During their opening weekend I was attending the Dance/USA Board of Trustees meetings in Washington, DC. Friday night of their closing weekend I had a tech rehearsal for the Continental Ballet Nutcracker, and Saturday night I went to the Choreographers' Evening at The Walker, a one-time option. MORE »
Choreographers' Evening
Near the end of World War Two Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters recorded a hit tune entitled, "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin When The Yanks Go Marching In." No further explanation for this snippet of historical pop culture is needed. The title and the context say it all. The idea is to suggest that when the righteous good guys show up, some ass is going to get kicked. It was a triumphalist, self-righteous anthem. MORE »
Congratulations EDA!
Breaking news. The Minnesota Shubert Project and the Walker Art Center have good reason to pop the bubbly and stage a well-deserved celebration. Here's why, but you're going to have to bear with me through an explanatory setup.MORE »
Minnesota Opera's "The Pearl Fishers"
The Minnesota Opera has just wrapped a two-weekend run of "The Pearl Fishers," a 19th century grand opera by Georges Bizet. My wife and I spent the equivalent of 2.5 weeks of grocery budget to get two pleasantly surprising seats in the mid price range. Take note, grand opera is GRANDE, in the French sense of the word, meaning big, expensive, multi-disciplinary, long, and what you might call "spectacle-oriented."MORE »
"Solo: 1 x 2" documentary pre-screening at the Southern
This special pre-screening happened two weeks ago at the Southern Theater, so I'm slow and I'm regretful about being slow. But there were pressing matters. Life is what happens while you had other plans.MORE »
The 2009 Sage Awards for Dance
by John Munger | 9/25/09 • How does a nominee feel?MORE »
McKnight Choreography Fellowship Winners
by John Munger | 9/25/09 • It takes a village to make...a dance community. And it takes a dance community (among other things) to make a village worth living in.MORE »
Fringe fried
by John Munger | 8/10/09 • So after the parade has ended we all collect our wits, heave a sigh, and feel post-partum depression. Or relief. Or something. I was busy this year. I had a successful but not award-winning show (“My Body Made Me Do This” at the Ritz).MORE »













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