Funding for BODY OF LIGHT, a 75-minute work of original choreography featuring movement, media, and music. Performances will take place at the Southern Theater in September and October 2011.
Funding for a collaboration with the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists to work with 15-20 of the arts high school’s students in all four grades to rehearse for and participate in TU Dance’s debut performances at the Ordway Center in May 2011.
Funding for a film production project for teenage girls that explores diverse perspectives of love. Fifteen girls will work with five adult artist mentors over six months beginning in May 2011.
Funding to present The Nutcracker, an original full-length production by Denise Vogt. Performances will take place at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center in December 2011.