October 2023
The Distinguished Carlson Lecture: An Evening with Liz Cheney
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs' Distinguished Carlson Lecture series welcomes Liz Cheney, former Wyoming Republican congresswoman, for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion. A short Q&A moderated by Tane Danger, host of The Theater of Public Policy, will follow the lecture. Cheney is widely recognized for her commitment to fostering civil discourse and her vocal criticism of partisan divisions within her own party. The lecture will center on the significance of bipartisanship in today’s political climate, with a focus on…
Find out more »Student Matinee: Pilobolus Rules @ Play
Recommended for Grades 6-12 In-person / Livestream / On-demand through Apr 21 A lively, interactive show created specifically for a youth audience by one of the world’s most exciting dance companies. Throughout life, we all encounter rules, and we usually view them negatively. Rules @ Play explores how rules actually provide opportunities to solve problems and overcome challenges. They spark creativity, and in this case, give Pilobolus tools to make dances. Fun, engaging and accessible, Pilobolus dancers perform and analyze…
Find out more »Student Matinee: Step Afrika! Drumfolk
Northrop and Ordway Present Student Matinee: Step Afrika! Drumfolk Thu, Oct 12*; Fri, Oct 13, 10:30 am CT In-person / Livestream* On-demand through Oct 20 Carlson Family Stage Recommended for Grades 3-12 In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When the Stono Rebellion cost Africans the right to use their drums, the beats found their way into the body of the people—the Drumfolk.…
Find out more »Step Afrika! Drumfolk
Northrop Presents Step Afrika! Drumfolk Fri, Oct 13, 7:30 pm Carlson Family Stage In 1739, Africans enslaved in South Carolina used their drums to start a revolt—a little-known event that forever transformed African American life and culture. When the Stono Rebellion cost Africans the right to use their drums, the beats found their way into the body of the people—the Drumfolk. This led to some of our country’s most distinctive traditions like tap, the ring shout, and stepping. Journey with…
Find out more »Alcée Chriss III, Organ Recital
A featured star in the PBS documentary Pipe Dreams, Alcée Chriss III is an organist, composer, and conductor from Fort Worth, TX. The son of a minister, Chriss is known for incorporating gospel and jazz influences into his performance—having first learned jazz and classical on the piano before turning to the organ as a teenager. Winner of the 2017 Canadian International Organ Competition and the Bach prize, Chriss is widely regarded as one of the leading young organists of our…
Find out more »November 2023
Student Matinee: 62nd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert
What Students Will See & Hear Live music Includes commentary between pieces and a Q&A Recommended for Grades 3-12 Northrop’s most popular matinee! With over 320 members, enjoy seeing and hearing “The Pride of Minnesota” in this lively, joyful, and participatory indoor concert featuring halftime favorites, an appearance by Goldy Gopher, and more. One of the most exciting and highly visible organizations on campus, the University of Minnesota Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. Betsy McCann and Dr. John…
Find out more »Student Matinee: 62nd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert
What Students Will See & Hear Live music Includes commentary between pieces and a Q&A Recommended for Grades 3-12 Northrop’s most popular matinee! With over 320 members, enjoy seeing and hearing “The Pride of Minnesota” in this lively, joyful, and participatory indoor concert featuring halftime favorites, an appearance by Goldy Gopher, and more. One of the most exciting and highly visible organizations on campus, the University of Minnesota Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. Betsy McCann and Dr. John…
Find out more »62nd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert
An annual tradition for the entire family! With over 320 members, enjoy seeing and hearing “The Pride of Minnesota” in this lively, joyful, and participatory indoor concert featuring halftime favorites and more. One of the most exciting and highly visible organizations on campus, the University of Minnesota Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. Betsy McCann and Dr. John Leonard, provides enthusiastic support to the University’s athletic programs, and represents the University at events throughout the year.
Find out more »62nd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert
An annual tradition for the entire family! With over 320 members, enjoy seeing and hearing “The Pride of Minnesota” in this lively, joyful, and participatory indoor concert featuring halftime favorites and more. One of the most exciting and highly visible organizations on campus, the University of Minnesota Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. Betsy McCann and Dr. John Leonard, provides enthusiastic support to the University’s athletic programs, and represents the University at events throughout the year.
Find out more »All Hands on Deck: Dance, Metamorphosis, and Surreal Labor in Silent Cinema with Live Music featuring Dreamland Faces
Hands give us metaphors for the urgency of collective labor, but they also appeared as surreal and uncanny images across the silent film archive. In this playful program, laboring limbs fall in love, catch fire, metamorphose into toy animals, chop wood, cut films, smoke pipes (while pregnant!), hypnotize circus dancers, and build zoomorphic shelters from the storm—all accompanied by Dreamland Faces’ live original score that includes Northrop’s historic pipe organ. The seven films in this program include Stella Simon's rhythmic…
Find out more »December 2023
VocalEssence: Welcome Christmas
Feliz Navidad, Happy Christmas, God Jul, and Veselykh Svya—this year’s Welcome Christmas features music for all to enjoy. Experience the passion of all four VocalEssence ensembles on one stage presenting carols from around the world. Hear new and familiar favorites including the world premiere of three beloved Latvian carols by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds. Let the inspirational sounds of more than 200 voices, brass, and percussion, Northrop’s famous Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, and a rousing sing-along ignite your holiday spirit! Performers: VocalEssence…
Find out more »The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show
You better watch out, you better not cry, because “The Queens of Christmas” (Entertainment Weekly) are coming back to Minneapolis with a brand new edition of the internationally acclaimed The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show! Another holiday season brings another year of fabulous spectacle, whip-smart comedy, brand new songs, and annual favorites. Join the sugary DeLa and spicy Jinkx for an evening The New York Times says is “sure to lift your spirits and make you howl with laughter.” Please…
Find out more »January 2024
Student Matinee: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Get inside a world-class dance experience with one of the most original forces in contemporary dance! Since 1977, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) has brought artists, art, and audiences together in 19 different countries and across 44 US states. With their 46 years of history, you’ll see why “those dancers, the mighty Hubbard Streeters” (The Boston Globe) are renowned for their education program that enriches, engages, educates, and changes lives through the experience of dance. Sensory Friendly Lounge A Sensory…
Find out more »Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
As The New York Times recently noted, “audiences haven’t seen Hubbard Street quite like this.” After 46 years, and under the leadership of newly appointed Artistic Director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Hubbard Street continues to be one of the most original forces in contemporary dance—reflecting today’s leading choreographic voices. Since 1977, Hubbard Street has brought artists, art, and audiences together in 19 countries and across 44 US states. Their expansive repertory program includes dances by Aszure Barton, Rena Butler, Lar Lubovitch, and…
Find out more »February 2024
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Dancing Beethoven
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens returns to Northrop for the first time since 2006, dancing two monumental masterpieces. The iconic four-note opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—said to represent “Fate knocking on Man’s door”—inspired American choreographer Garrett Smith’s Complete. The late Uwe Scholz's choreography for Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 is considered his masterwork—displaying inventiveness and exceptional musicality. As the music races along at an irrepressible pace, these gorgeous artists convey the sheer joy of dancing to one of the most perfect symphonies…
Find out more »Student Matinee: Manual Cinema: Ada/Ava Featuring Aaron David Miller, organist
“To describe Manual Cinema as just a shadow puppet show is to say Pixar makes cartoons” (Chicago Tribune). The collective imaginatively combines shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects, and live organ music in a haunting performance like nothing you’ve ever seen. Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time until a carnival—and a visit to the mirror maze—plunges her into a gothic New England journey. The matinee will include a shadow puppetry Show & Tell and an…
Find out more »Manual Cinema: Ada/Ava Featuring Aaron David Miller, organist
Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, Ada marks time in the patterns of a life built for two, until a traveling carnival’s mirror maze plunges her—and you—into a journey set in the New England gothic landscape. “This Chicago troupe is conjuring phantasms to die for in an unclassifiable story of spectral beauty” raves The New York Times. Manual Cinema creates handspun cinema combining shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound—all in plain view. Aaron David Miller adds to this magical…
Find out more »April 2024
Anna Lapwood, Organ Recital
Organist of the Royal Albert Hall (London, UK), famous for her viral midnight rehearsals on TikTok, Lapwood brings humor and youthful joie de vivre to her instrument. Her program will include a suite from Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar and an exploration of the plethora of colors found on the Northrop organ—from the softest flutes in Debussy’s Clair de Lune to the most earth-shattering fortissimo in Philip Glass’s Mad Rush, plus Florence Price’s jazz-soaked organ music, masterpieces from Bach and Vierne, and…
Find out more »10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography
A blossoming initiative to recognize and elevate Asian creatives working in ballet, this program of Asian and Asian American choreography—co-curated by Final Bow for Yellowface’s Phil Chan—features The Washington Ballet, BalletMet, and Oakland Ballet Company. These performances celebrate the 75th anniversary of Singaporean choreographer Choo San Goh (1948-1987) who brought The Washington Ballet international acclaim, plus works by BalletMet’s Edwaard Liang—the first Asian Artistic Director for a major American ballet company, Phil Chan and Caili Quan for Oakland Ballet Company,…
Find out more »Encore Gala: Spring Cocktail Party with 10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography
Tickets: $55 ($15 donation is included in your ticket price) Expand your 10,000 Dreams experience—purchase a ticket to Northrop’s Encore Gala, an insider post-show cocktail party with the performers! Mingle under the chandeliers with artists and dancers from The Washington Ballet, BalletMet, and Oakland Ballet Company following their matinee performance on the Northrop Stage. Enjoy sumptuous hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and live music. Proceeds from this fundraiser support the creation of new works by preeminent artists through the Northrop Centennial Commissions…
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