| Diane Aldis | Perpich Center for the Arts |
| Sarah Bellamy | Penumbra Theater |
| Maggie Bergeron | University of Minnesota, Dance |
| Jennifer Blagen | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Gary Briggle | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Steve Busa | Red Eye Theater |
| Steve Cardimone | University of Minnesota BFA Acting Program |
| Lisa Channer | University of Minnesota BA Theatre Program |
| Karen Charles | Threads Dance Project |
| Jeremy Cohen | The Playwrights’ Center |
| Andrew Cooke | Music Director, Chanhassen Dinner Theater |
| David Damschroder | University of Minnesota, Music |
| Annie Enneking | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Bradley Greenwald | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Michael Gruber | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Benjamin Hanna | Children’s Theatre Company |
| Mary Harding | Perpich Center for the Arts |
| H. Adam Harris | Penumbra Theater |
| Michelle Hensley | 10,000 Things Theater |
| Richard Hitchler | Theatre 55 and Mixed Blood Theatre |
| Sheena Janson Kelley | Children’s Theatre Company |
| Nora Jenneman | University of Minnesota, Dance |
| Anton Jones | Playwright, Climb Theatre |
| Michelle Kinney | University of MN, Instrumental Music |
| Heather Klopchin | St. Olaf College, Dance |
| Wendy Knox | Frank Theatre |
| Chuck Lazarus | Minnesota Orchestra |
| Peter Leggett | Walker West Music Academy |
| Wendy Lehr | SPCPA Artistic Director Emeritus |
| Bob Neu | Skylark Opera |
| Ron Peluso | History Theatre |
| Tod Petersen | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| Toni Pierce-Sands | TU Dance |
| Solomon Praham | Walker West Music Academy |
| Faye Price | Pillsbury House Theatre |
| Joe Price | University of MN/Guthrie BFA Theatre Program |
| Doug Orzolek | University of St. Thomas, Music |
| Jack Reuler | Mixed Blood Theatre |
| Randy Reyes | Theatre MU |
| Whitney Rhodes | Mixed Blood Theatre |
| Michael Robins | Illusion Theater |
| Peter Rothstein | Theater Latte Da |
| Uri Sands | TU Dance |
| Chris Schlichting | Freelance Choreographer |
| Luverne Seifert | University of MN, Theatre |
| Anat Shinar | Walker Arts Center |
| Audrey Stottler | A.S. Voice Studio/Met Opera |
| Steven Stucki | Skylark Opera |
| Laurie Van Wieren | Freelance Theatre Artist |
| David Walsh | Univeristy of MN, Opera |
| Dr. Betty Webb | Education Consultant |
| Dave Williamson | Minnesota Orchestra |
| Max Wojtanowicz | Catalysts Theatre |
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!
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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!
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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!
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What a dream!
Fantastic!!!
Soooooo great!
Absolutely LOVE the staff throwback happening with this one!! Yay Maggie and Nick!
Maggie Bergeron !!
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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
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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!
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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.
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