Twin cities arts community

An important part of SPCPA’s purpose is to connect the students and the school to the Twin Cities professional arts community in a number of ways.

  1. SPCPA supports students who need to miss school to perform locally with professional and youth arts organizations.
  2. Each artistic discipline offers multiple master classes taught by guest artists. Local professionals are regularly invited to perform for and dialogue with students.
  3. Arts teachers are local professional artists and they connect the students to the organizations they represent.
  4. J-Term projects happen in local professional venues.
  5. SPCPA maintains an Arts Advisory Council composed of arts leaders in the community.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction icons

Get your tickets now to see current SPCPA 11th grader, MARS NIEMI, and current 10th grader, CASSIDY AICKIN, in the Youth Performance Company production of Little Women. It opens this Friday.

Tickets: youthperformanceco.org/on-stage/#lw

Have a great run, Mars and Cassidy!

#spcpacommunity #SPCPA #saintpaulconservatory #ArtsHighSchool
See MoreSee Less

Get your tickets now to see current SPCPA 11th grader, MARS NIEMI, and current 10th grader, CASSIDY AICKIN, in the Youth Performance Company production of Little Women.  It opens this Friday.  

Tickets:  https://youthperformanceco.org/on-stage/#lw

Have a great run, Mars and Cassidy!

#spcpacommunity #spcpa #saintpaulconservatory #artshighschoolImage attachment

We were thrilled to host MARIA BAUMAN for a Master Class for dance students this week. There is a performance on Sept. 29 that is free and open to the public – first come, first served-see the poster for details. Thank you Nora Jenneman and the University of Minnesota Dance Department!

#spcpaarts #spcpacommunity
See MoreSee Less

We were thrilled to host MARIA BAUMAN for a Master Class for dance students this week.  There is a performance on Sept. 29 that is free and open to the public - first come, first served-see the poster for details.  Thank you Nora Jenneman and the University of Minnesota Dance Department!

#spcpaarts #spcpacommunityImage attachmentImage attachment

J-Term Reveal #12: We are absolutely thrilled-over the moon, in fact-to announce that dance piece #4 (of 5) will be choreographed by SPCPA’s founding Dance Dept. chair, MAGGIE BERGERON. Not only will Maggie be joining us for this project, but so will her partner, NICK GAUDETTE, former SPCPA Instrumental Music chair. Nick will provide music for the piece. This project will also provide opportunity for a few symphonic students. Welcome back Nick and Maggie-we are super excited to have you with us in January!

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunity
See MoreSee Less

J-Term Reveal #12:  We are absolutely thrilled-over the moon, in fact-to announce that dance piece #4 (of 5) will be choreographed by SPCPAs founding Dance Dept. chair, MAGGIE BERGERON.  Not only will Maggie be joining us for this project, but so will her partner, NICK GAUDETTE, former SPCPA Instrumental Music chair.  Nick will provide music for the piece.  This project will also provide opportunity for a few symphonic students. Welcome back Nick and Maggie-we are super excited to have you with us in January!

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunityImage attachment

5 CommentsComment on Facebook

What a dream!

Fantastic!!!

Soooooo great!

Absolutely LOVE the staff throwback happening with this one!! Yay Maggie and Nick!

Maggie Bergeron !!

View more comments

J-Term Reveal #10: What was, what will be, and everything in between…

…is an exhibition that asks students to consider where we’ve been, where we are now, and how that informs the futures we dream of. As kids our reality is so heavily informed by what we are able to see in front of us and our wildest imaginations of the worlds that could be. How has the passage of time, the people, places and memories that we’ve experienced, shaped and molded the versions of ourselves that question, conjure, and desire what is next to come? This prompt asks you to view time as non-linear. How can we communicate the passage of time and co-occurrences into a single unified work? Pulling notes from the genre of Afrofuturism, how might you utilize history, science fiction, and fantasy to communicate your own personal experience with the passage of time? In 3 weeks we will dig into the process of conceptualizing from the basis of the prompt provided. We will consider how surface, material, and content can communicate the deeper messages you are exploring and we will round our course out with a group exhibition @Public Functionary Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis.

Maiya Lea Hartman is the project curator and is excited to work again with SPCPA students for J-Term – thank you Maiya!

Watch Maiya talk about Public Functionary in this video: publicfunctionary.org/pf-video
More info about PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: publicfunctionary.org/
More about Maiya Lea Hartman: maiyaleaartist.com/About

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunity
See MoreSee Less

J-Term Reveal #10:  What was, what will be, and everything in between...

...is an exhibition that asks students to consider where we’ve been, where we are now, and how that informs the futures we dream of. As kids our reality is so heavily informed by what we are able to see in front of us and our wildest imaginations of the worlds that could be. How has the passage of time, the people, places and memories that we’ve experienced, shaped and molded the versions of ourselves that question, conjure, and desire what is next to come? This prompt asks you to view time as non-linear. How can we communicate the passage of time and co-occurrences into a single unified work? Pulling notes from the genre of Afrofuturism, how might you utilize history, science fiction, and fantasy to communicate your own personal experience with the passage of time? In 3 weeks we will dig into the process of conceptualizing from the basis of the prompt provided. We will consider how surface, material, and content can communicate the deeper messages you are exploring and we will round our course out with a group exhibition @Public Functionary Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis.

Maiya Lea Hartman is the project curator and is excited to work again with SPCPA students for J-Term - thank you Maiya!

Watch Maiya talk about Public Functionary in this video: https://publicfunctionary.org/pf-video
More info about PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: https://publicfunctionary.org/
More about Maiya Lea Hartman:  https://maiyaleaartist.com/About

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunityImage attachment

Check out current SPCPA theatre teacher, Alex Barreto Hathaway, in the Pillsbury House Theatre and Exposed Brick Theatre production of PASSAGE! Theatre and Musical Theatre students are heading over to Pillsbury House Theatre next Wednesday, the 27th, to see the show on a field trip, but this looks to be one the rest of you will not want to miss. As a bonus, you will get to see the work of former SPCPA Theatre teachers/J-Term directors SUZY MESSEROLE, SIGNE V. HARRIDAY, AAMERA SIDDQUI, AND JAMES A. WILLIAMS. Have a great run, all!

#spcpacommunity
See MoreSee Less

Check out current SPCPA theatre teacher, Alex Barreto Hathaway, in the Pillsbury House Theatre and Exposed Brick Theatre production of PASSAGE!  Theatre and Musical Theatre students are heading over to Pillsbury House Theatre next Wednesday, the 27th, to see the show on a field trip, but this looks to be one the rest of you will not want to miss.  As a bonus, you will get to see the work of former SPCPA Theatre teachers/J-Term directors SUZY MESSEROLE, SIGNE V. HARRIDAY, AAMERA SIDDQUI, AND JAMES A. WILLIAMS.  Have a great run, all!

#spcpacommunity

J-Term Reveal #9: Amanda Sachs will choreograph one of the 5 SPCPA J-Term dance pieces this year!

Amanda grew up in New Jersey studying R.A.D. before moving to San Francisco for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. In 2014, Sachs joined The Francesca Harper Project in NYC and toured internationally with Metamorphosis Dance. In 2017 joined TU Dance in MN, where she performed Alvin Ailey’s solo Witness and Night Creature, Walking with Pearl: Africa Diaries by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and numerous other works. She is an original member of Come Through, produced by Liquid Music in collaboration with Grammy-winning musician Bon Iver and TU Dance. She is featured in Bon Iver’s Naeem and We lyric videos, and has performed at the Bonnaroo and Eaux Claires music festivals. In 2020, Sachs presented her first self choreographed solo Still for The Cowles 6 FEET/ 6 SOLOS. Sachs joined NW Dance Project in Portland in 2021,where she performed works by Ihsan Rustem, Yin Yue, Joseph Hernandez, Sarah Slipper, and Luca Veggetti and toured internationally. She has performed locally with Honeyworks and Hatch Dance for their Live @ The Shed series in 2021 and 2022. Sachs premiered in Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Invisible Cities as well as Cold Air Rises by Ben Frost as part of The Great Northern Festival in Minnesota. In 2023, she made her opera debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago this Spring in Carmen and joined PARA.MAR, performing original works by Helen Simoneau and Stephanie Martinez. Most recently, Sachs presented her first work Searching for Giants, co-choreographed with Elena Hollenhorst for MN Orchestra.

The dance concert will perform at the E.M. Pearson Theater at Concordia.

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunity #artshighschool #dance #spcpa
See MoreSee Less

J-Term Reveal #9:  Amanda Sachs will choreograph one of the 5 SPCPA J-Term dance pieces this year!

Amanda grew up in New Jersey studying R.A.D. before moving to San Francisco for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. In 2014, Sachs joined The Francesca Harper Project in NYC and toured internationally with Metamorphosis Dance. In 2017 joined TU Dance in MN, where she performed Alvin Ailey’s solo Witness and Night Creature, Walking with Pearl: Africa Diaries by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and numerous other works. She is an original member of Come Through, produced by Liquid Music in collaboration with Grammy-winning musician Bon Iver and TU Dance. She is featured in Bon Iver’s Naeem and We lyric videos, and has performed at the Bonnaroo and Eaux Claires music festivals. In 2020, Sachs presented her first self choreographed solo Still for The Cowles 6 FEET/ 6 SOLOS. Sachs joined NW Dance Project in Portland in 2021,where she performed works by Ihsan Rustem, Yin Yue, Joseph Hernandez, Sarah Slipper, and Luca Veggetti and toured internationally. She has performed locally with Honeyworks and Hatch Dance for their Live @ The Shed series in 2021 and 2022. Sachs premiered in Ashwini Ramaswamys Invisible Cities as well as Cold Air Rises by Ben Frost as part of The Great Northern Festival in Minnesota. In 2023, she made her opera debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago this Spring in Carmen and joined PARA.MAR, performing original works by Helen Simoneau and Stephanie Martinez. Most recently, Sachs presented her first work Searching for Giants, co-choreographed with Elena Hollenhorst for MN Orchestra.

The dance concert will perform at the E.M. Pearson Theater at Concordia.

#spcpajterm #spcpacommunity #artshighschool #dance #spcpa
LOAD MORE

ARTS ADVISORY

Current and former members:

Diane AldisPerpich Center for the Arts
Sarah BellamyPenumbra Theater
Maggie BergeronUniversity of Minnesota, Dance
Jennifer BlagenFreelance Theatre Artist
Gary BriggleFreelance Theatre Artist
Steve BusaRed Eye Theater
Steve CardimoneUniversity of Minnesota BFA Acting Program
Lisa ChannerUniversity of Minnesota BA Theatre Program
Karen CharlesThreads Dance Project
Jeremy CohenThe Playwrights’ Center
Andrew CookeMusic Director, Chanhassen Dinner Theater
David DamschroderUniversity of Minnesota, Music
Annie EnnekingFreelance Theatre Artist
Bradley GreenwaldFreelance Theatre Artist
Michael GruberFreelance Theatre Artist
Benjamin HannaChildren’s Theatre Company
Mary HardingPerpich Center for the Arts
H. Adam HarrisPenumbra Theater
Michelle Hensley10,000 Things Theater
Richard HitchlerTheatre 55 and Mixed Blood Theatre
Sheena Janson KelleyChildren’s Theatre Company
Nora JennemanUniversity of Minnesota, Dance
Anton JonesPlaywright, Climb Theatre
Michelle KinneyUniversity of MN, Instrumental Music
Heather KlopchinSt. Olaf College, Dance
Wendy KnoxFrank Theatre
Chuck LazarusMinnesota Orchestra
Peter LeggettWalker West Music Academy
Wendy LehrSPCPA Artistic Director Emeritus
Bob NeuSkylark Opera
Ron PelusoHistory Theatre
Tod PetersenFreelance Theatre Artist
Toni Pierce-SandsTU Dance
Solomon PrahamWalker West Music Academy
Faye PricePillsbury House Theatre
Joe PriceUniversity of MN/Guthrie BFA Theatre Program
Doug OrzolekUniversity of St. Thomas, Music
Jack ReulerMixed Blood Theatre
Randy ReyesTheatre MU
Whitney RhodesMixed Blood Theatre
Michael RobinsIllusion Theater
Peter RothsteinTheater Latte Da
Uri SandsTU Dance
Chris SchlichtingFreelance Choreographer
Luverne SeifertUniversity of MN, Theatre
Anat ShinarWalker Arts Center
Audrey StottlerA.S. Voice Studio/Met Opera
Steven StuckiSkylark Opera
Laurie Van WierenFreelance Theatre Artist
David WalshUniveristy of MN, Opera
Dr. Betty WebbEducation Consultant
Dave WilliamsonMinnesota Orchestra
Max WojtanowiczCatalysts Theatre