The St. Paul native became a world-recognized dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the 1980s, and has taught ...

The photo is black-and-white: Toni Pierce-Sands and her sister, both young children, are sitting on a stoop at their grandparents’ farmhouse in rural South Dakota. Her sister looks shy, turned inward.

During her nearly 11 years as a Minnesota State University adjunct faculty member in dance, Allison Doughty has added two ...

It’s been a rough year for dance with the Cowles Center closing, Minnesota Dance Theatre pausing its performance company and James Sewell Ballet announcing it will sunset in March of 2025. Yet the ...

One of Minnesota’s most elegant standard bearers of dance has fallen. Toni Pierce-Sands, a featured soloist in some of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s most iconic suites and a co-founder of ...

Hmong New Year at RiverCentre; a group exhibit at Hair +Nails and a community archiving event in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood.

In recent years, Penumbra has been making music more the focus of its “Black Nativity” productions, which combine Langston Hughes’ adaptation of the Christmas story with carols traditionally sung in ...

I won’t even think about getting out on the dance floor without four tequila shots and very dim lighting. For me, dancing is a spectator sport — and there’s nowhere better to practice it in the Twin ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Hip-hop is for all ages - and no one knows this better than Shapeshift Dance Company in Minneapolis. The dance troupe performs for young students, including those at Mississippi ...

We have a list of locations of 2025 performances of The Nutcracker in the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota – plus ...