Arts Tour Minnesota
Arts Tour Minnesota
Flying Foot Forum will tour French Twist, a fantastical mélange of hyperkinetic dancing, rapid-fire rhyming, wildly inventive percussion and live onstage music to greater Minnesota communities with accompanying outreach activities.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Kim Christianson: Cochair of Marshall Area Fine Arts Council performance committee; Trisha Kirk: Director of marketing and communications, Guthrie Theater; Delon Lyren: Professor of high brass and jazz, Bemidji State University; also assistant festival director, JENerations Jazz Festival; Katie Marshall: Executive director, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids; Nicole Mulder: Executive director, Theatre L'Homme Dieu; Sennami Onwubuya: Political organizer; Rebecca Petersen: Director of development, West Central Initiative; former executive director of Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
ACHF Arts Access
Greater Minnesotans will have a unique experience by engaging with Flying Foot Forum's wildly comic percussive performance and experiential workshops. Post-show discussions; Audience/workshop attendee responses at each event; Responses from local media, emails and posts on social media; Interviews with presenters during the tour and in follow-up.
Audiences in greater Minnesota had a unique artistic experience by engaging with Flying Foot Forum's distinctive sense of humor and style of percussive dance. To evaluate the outcome we used: feedback from post-show discussions; box office records; feedback from workshop participants; emails and posts on social media; and follow-up interviews with presenters.
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