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A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire

by Amy Danielson
Published January 30, 2003

Director and choreographer Martha Clarke envisions a pre-World War I Vienna, Austria, in a wash of beauty and eroticism. In her dance-theater production, "Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited)," inspired by the...

It’s the Mann Show

by Nathan Hall
Published January 23, 2003

Face it. Watching a one-man show inevitably tends to be a tad surreal. Unless the individual on stage is overwhelmingly enthralling, entertaining and endearing, you are basically stuck with a chaotic stand-up...

The Daring Young Folks on the Flying Trapeze

by Amy Danielson
Published January 23, 2003

It seems natural that Theatre de la Jeune Lune, a company so devoted to physical theatrics, would incorporate aerialist performers in a production. The company's founders were trained in the circus arts...

Long Year’s Journey into Night

by Amy Danielson
Published December 12, 2002

The theater scene in the Twin Cities is constantly expanding, with new theater companies emerging at a rapid pace. At least once per week I get an e-mail or phone call from an artistic director, publicist...

What Are We Waiting For?

by Amy Danielson
Published December 12, 2002

Sure, you probably already have plans for your month away from the hectic drudgery that defines our lives as college students. I, for one, plan to spend oodles of time getting reacquainted with one of...

Fall from Grace

by Niels Strandskov
Published December 5, 2002

From the dramatic surprise entrance (which we will not ruin for you) to the final curtain call, Miss Richfield 1981's holiday extravaganza takes the audience virtually everywhere except the land where...

Actors Are the Opposite of People

by Amy Danielson
Published December 5, 2002

The Twin Cities' theater scene definitely has a future, and with any luck Nathan Keepers will stick around for it. The actor has made himself known for his adept physicality in multiple roles at Theatre...

Everything You Can Imagine Is Real

by Amy Danielson
Published November 27, 2002

Widely deemed to be ballet's greatest living choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich originally planned to stage his interpretation of "Swan Lake" for Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in 1969. But the Soviet Minister of...

Spirits with Dirty Faces

by Nathan Hall
Published November 21, 2002

I don't want you to get mauled," she explains as she ushers me to be seated on a 1950s Arco-deco style black leather couch located safely away from the ensuing chaos. Colleen Felicia Van Epps, 21, a senior...

Backseat Driver

by Monica LaBelle
Published November 21, 2002

An adult man and a teenage girl share the stage. He is teaching her how to drive and she is listening attentively. Their exchange seems to become flirtatious, but that just does not seem right since he...

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