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OFF-KILTEr CABARET:
"ORGAN RECITAL"
dates: june 16-19
VENUE: Tek Box, Cowles Center for Dance
Click the button below to access the online program notes for Off-Kilter: Organ Recital
Please note new location and dates!
Due to our previous venue’s inability to uphold our Covid standards, we have moved the performance to the Tek Box Theater at the Cowles Center, which has also necessitated new dates: June 16, 17, 18 and 19. Don’t miss this captivating exploration by 7 talented artists!
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE: off-kilter cabaret.eventbrite.com
Seven artists share their captivating takes on the theme "Organ Recital" in the Off-Kilter Cabaret! Using dance, storytelling, theater, spoken word, puppetry, and performance, artists with disabilities explore the theme in wildly different ways, ranging from hilarious and thought-provoking to heart-breaking and profound.
FEATURING
Braille
Atlas O Phoenix
Daniel Reiva
Amy Salloway
Pat Samples
Scott Sorensen
Young Dance
Performances:
DATES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, June 16, 17, 18 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, June 19 at 2:00pm.
Friday night performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.
LOCATION
Tek Box at the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts
528 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55403
ADMISSION is $5-30 sliding scale, suggested donation.
Tickets available at https://off-kiltercabaret.eventbrite.com
ACCESSIBILITY: The Tek Box at the Cowles Center is a fully accessible venue
Thursday, June 16 - audio description
Friday, June 17 - audio description, ASL
Saturday, June 18 - audio description, captioning
Sunday, June 19 - audio description, ASL
If you require an accommodation not listed here, please reach out to Off-Leash Area at offleash@offleasharea.org at least two weeks in advance of the show.
Fully accessible bathrooms are available on the first floor of the Cowles Center. Non-ADA compliant bathrooms that are somewhat accessible are also available on the second floor, as well as a fully accessible ADA-compliant single-stall gender neutral bathroom.
COVID PROTOCOLS: Audience will be required to show ID and proof of vaccination or negative Covid test within 48 hours at the door. We will provide physically distanced seating and require participants to wear masks as they are able, and otherwise follow CDC and State guidelines at the time of the performances.
PARKING and DROP-OFF ACCESS: Hennepin Ave is currently under construction. We recommend drop-offs at the corner of 6th St and Hennepin Ave (just South of Gluek's Bar), which is very close to the main entrance of the Cowles Center.
There is a paid parking lot immediately behind the Cowles Center, entered via 6th St. Metered street parking is also available, but limited. The Central Library parking lot is a more economically accessible option, located a few blocks away.
SHOW CONTENT: The first half of the show tends towards family-friendly material. The second half of the show contains works with mature themes or content.
FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
About Off-Leash Area:
Off-Leash Area is a Minneapolis-based dance and theater company with 23 years of creating original interdisciplinary performance works, including the Ivey Award winning Psst!, and designing unique community programs like the Neighborhood Garage Tour. Off-Leash Area champions independent, diverse, and distinct voices in local performing arts, artist-creators of original works, and conducts its collaborations with integrity, respect, and a commitment to high quality production. Throughout our history, Off-Leash Area has built strong, organic relationships within the disability community. From its collaboration with Blind Inc on its production, Now Eye See You Now Eye Don’t, to having created a fully accessible venue with the Off-Leash Art Box, Off-Leash Area has put individuals and organizations among the disability community at the center of its creative and organizational work.
About The Off-Kilter Cabaret:
Off-Kilter is Off-Leash Area’s new cabaret performance program designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities, and which makes space for and gives voice to artists with disabilities in the design and leadership of the program. The Off-Kilter Cabaret will be a 75-minute-long cabaret-style production, which will comprise of seven acts in any performing arts form, curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Group. In this inaugural year, it will be presented for four performances at the Tek Box at the Cowles Center on June 16-19, 2022. Our aim is that Off-Kilter becomes an annual event.
This year Off-Leash Area is excited to partner with Young Dance, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.
Off-Kilter Leadership Group:
Amy Salloway, Jon Skaalen, Sam Jasmine, and the Off-Leash Area co-artistic directors, Jennifer Ilse and Paul Herwig.
For this year's Off-Kilter Cabaret, Off-Leash Area is pleased to partner with Young Dance, transforming lives through movement.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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