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Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will create, produce, and present new work and repertory in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota. The company's artistic directors will create at least one new work each season. Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre used a number of methods to evaluate the achievement of this outcome, including audience numbers, our Talk Piece post-performance audience/performer dialogue following each performance, electronic feedback through Facebook and email, follow-up discussions with presenters, and press response. Twin Cities Public Television produced a special on the company's performance and community-inclusive work for the Minnesota Originals program, which aired both before and after the company's Cowles Season. In addition, Classical Minnesota Public Radio was an official media sponsor for our 2012/13 season. Audience comments include: I am very appreciative that this performance by Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater was made possible by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board. 'Total Surrender' was very powerful. Cued by the production date, I felt the emotions of 9/11. My main impression was the change from the imprinted images of the exterior of the Twin Towers being hit and crumpling to your interior view of what it may have felt like to be inside. Great art! 2: Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater will continue to expand its community inclusive, healthcare, and education programs. These community programs will reach out to people of all ages, ethnicities, and abilities, helping to weave the arts into everyday life. The company will continue to create dance/theater projects for diverse populations. For our Community Connections programs, we utilize a number of different tools to evaluate outcomes. These include: daily assessment meetings between participating teachers and company staff, student evaluations, teacher evaluations, staff feedback, parent responses, participant evaluation forms, selected individual interviews, audience feedback, exit interviews with partner agency staff, electronic surveys. Recent feedback includes: The company taught a vast range of classes, created a new work on our student dancers, and presented a rich and thought provoking concert for our college and local community at the end of the residency. Every member of the company was caring, creative, energetic, and rigorous in their work with the students. Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater is continuing to have a very positive impact upon the dancing and personal lives of our students. The movement portions were wonderful. I found value in sharing our own experiences! I also valued the mixture of patient-caregivers and staff caregivers. It was perfect! I hope you can come back to Essentia Health!!
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's very successful 2012/13 season included performances at the Cowles Center in Minneapolis as well as throughout the state. At the Cowles, we premiered a new work, Walking, Singing, and Other Habits, by Stuart Pimsler, as well as presenting company repertory. Walking celebrates the happenstance, exploring everyday lives as a collection of smaller moments and realizations. It features the entire company, with costumes by Sonya Berlovitz and lighting by Karin Olson. The company was also presented in performance at Vermilion Community College Theater in Ely, Weber Music Hall in Duluth, Saint Olaf Studio Theater in Northfield, Capri Theater in Minneapolis, and Historic Holmes Theater in Detroit Lakes. Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater also mounted a gallery exhibition, Art in the Everyday, at the Kolman Gallery in Minneapolis. In anticipation of our 35th anniversary next year, the exhibition featured scenic elements, props, and costumes from throughout our history which have helped to create the company's distinctive performance aesthetic. 2: Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater continued our Community Connections programs throughout the year, engaging people of all ages, ethnicities, and abilities. At each performance venue, we helped the presenters connect further into their community by offering arts and education workshops, arts and healthcare programs, and other community activities. Examples include: movement workshop for youth ages 5-16, Caring for the Caregiver workshop for staff from North Woods Hospice in Duluth, master classes for dance and theater students from University of Minnesota-Duluth, Caring for the Caregiver workshops for staff from Essential Health and Saint Luke's Hospital in Northfield, master classes and seminars for Saint Olaf dance and theater students, movement/story workshops for senior residents of Millstream Commons, Community Movement workshops for members of PuraVida class.
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